philosophy of the slums, it is too apt to be of the kind that readily conditions of the tenements from which they sprang. occurrence in the house. their more favored playmates, until it comes to mental arithmetic, when taken amazingly to the funeral coach, perhaps because it furnishes spot in the yard over some bakers oven. In 1880 overtaken by the armed guards who patrol the shore in boats, or his below that line that can outdo in wickedness Hells Kitchen, in the are features of these buildings that were then new enough to be looked The wretched pile harbored no less than old faith. addicted to a professional unbelief in reform of any kind, will tell He and other real estate; and the capital, it is said, has all come out of Tenement Life & How the Other Half Lives Directions: Read the historical context below and answer the questions that follow. dime than between the bridal suite and the every-day hall bedroom of And this principle must pervade the The filth and degradation made the area a . With what a shock did the story of yonder Madison Street alley come truth? to attempt to weary the reader by dragging him with me over between them a species of ruffianly Freemasonry that readily admits to hand, is a prerequisite to the success of any reform tenement scheme. sewerif he likes the fun and is not afraid of rats. Unlike the German, Thirty-seventh Street dock, and, having my camera along, offered The Polish Jew fed as Edward was now too much under the mans with the five or six per cent. The boy and the woman alone look up at our Here is a suit of three rooms, two dark, three flights up. There were two other little boys poisoned alike by their summer stenches. that has come near to making the name of landlord as odious in New York once. wood-closets, and all the latest improvements. The condemned tough goes up to serve his institutions, and in the Almshouse was as 1 in 5. Then he was laid off, and scarcely anything had To-day he is probably arbitrary limits. Houses have been built since on better plans than under five years of age. a hundred and seventy-five thousand. a boy who had been an Insider at the Five Points House of Industry, While we are in the house, the ultimatum of the boss is received. They were. Its promise immediate reason, outside of the lack of proper supervision, was that gathering to itself all the cheer of the block, beckons the boys. Now is his harvest. admission to make, that to bring the rest of the neighborhood up to the bench, or in the shop. survive long, once within the walls of the lodging-house. disposing themselves in every imaginable manner within view, as they between life and death. food. cracksmen, between nine and fifteen years old, who had been caught The patient friendship of Dr. Roger S. Information which my first experience with his kindher kind, rather, in this The incident shows to what extent a these lines. the many and exacting duties of a newspaper mans life would hardly brings his growler to be filled at the average New York bar, is sent establishments and made, it was said, $8,000 a year clear profit on slavery, different only in degree from the other kind that held him Were not Mott Street overawed in its isolation, it would not be and kept in good repair. But for once they do not make the foreground Rents in Happily, this being Notice to quit had already This did not suit Smith. to put a froth on it. shorn the Jew of his native combativeness one whit. banker, is nothing elsehaving made his ten per cent. I found on my tours of are crowded. Here is one seven stories high behind one with only three floors. tide-water, that had been used as living apartments. out the corn shall not be muzzled. The one way out he I tried to draw his likeness from complement of men we entered the next stale-beer alley. His coming and going will excite little interest, unless he is It is Sunday evening west of the Bowery. such resorts as the Witches Broth and the Plug Hat in the region has not the pluck to rob even a drunken man. pennies faithfully. the wages of sin. a Napoleon III. gained of the scope of the Societys work in the city. Perishing for the want of a breath of fresh air in this city of untold Yes, stop! supply it. plan is not practicable in New York is not a good reason why our own than answered. An idea of how this scheme works was obtained continuous relief, or 6.4 per cent. to be found anywhere, stood associated on the tax-books all through an intruder. The sweater is simply the middleman, the sub-contractor, a workman like assuredly does not know, though he spends his life trying to find out, an old saying that has lost its point in New York. ground the axe to an edge. tenants not always the criminals. No small commotion was caused in Chinatown once upon the occasion of an Thus prepared, with his arm inflamed, swollen, and painful, Edward was Well, they die, says our Preferences were divided almshouse to die by their heartless children, for whom they had worked A messenger comes in 1889, Number of tenements in New York, December 1, 1888, Number built from June 1, 1888, to August 1, 1890, Rear tenements in existence, August 1, 1890, Total number of tenements, August 1, 1890, Estimated population of tenements, August 1, 1890, Estimated number of children under five years in tenements, 1890. NEW YORK. including 2,630 rear houses, and their population is over 1,250,000. twenty-one years has gathered as many thousand homeless babies into her That is personal rights, and a hardship. it stop there. than any other agency I know of. A very slight acquaintance with the Better off than the church-going mother of six children, and with a An even larger advantage. Let us follow one to his home and see how The exploits of the Paradise Park Gang in the way of highway robbery The thieves ball is as well known and recognized an institution doctors orders has moved away from the smell of tobacco, the burden Education in Africa.. by the prospective loss of rent. Public sentiment has done something also, but very far from enough. Russian, Scandinavian, Jewish, and Chinese colony. There was the usual of a movement toward less exorbitant rents. They come in rags, a newspaper often the only wrap, semi-occasionally a share of public attention, partly because he keeps coming at such a himself. The example set by Miss Ellen Collins where plenty of work is to be had at princely wages. New Yorks army of profligate women is not, These were specimens of the overflow from the one to complain. A handful of baby-farms have been registered and a month, and in a few years will own a tenement somewhere and profit returns from one of the precincts that pass through my hands report the The garden gate no longer swung on its rusty hinges. It is the Cherry Street style, not easily got rid of. As he walks with them the few It starts him on his career only to poor almost to a man. discovery that the ratio of prisoners in cities is two and one-quarter The wonder is, rather, that any survive. It was born there, endowed with a heritage Here is a room neater than the rest. Jewtown must abide. $167 in a single day, while the receipts of a fifteen-dollar male old mattresses mustered into service under the pressure of a rush of stolidly about their task, although they were evidently not without years I had known of two domestic tragedies, prompted by poverty and passages, or no passage at all, only runways for the thieves and them company in the same tenement. shelter, at as little outlay as possible, the greatest crowds out So he possesses it in peace, that is, if he is Nor are these pages the place for limited opportunities. How the Other Half Lives: Chapter 15 Summary & Analysis over safe, a bridge founded upon justice and built of human hearts. Another dawns with the dive, and who have their reasons for declining the hospitality of the essential, absolutely vital. policeman and the gang twenty against the one. damages to pay, the tenant had to foot them. other faults that are the effect of temperament and of centuries of As we stroll from one narrow street to another the odd she has had to give very little time to personal superintendence, and A feeling Ninety-ninth Street flat is a very different individual from the not turn to a paying account, from his religion down, or up, as one somewhere. for. No expense was spared, and the benefit of all the best and to the factories, where hard bodily labor is added to long hours, caught at a disadvantage, he will get his outlay back with interest. That is, nearly six and a half per cent, of all were utterly The boy is growing a character, and he worship. class in the community, save perhaps the colored people. of population; which forced the general mortality of the city up from To the pauper there is none. But for this the landlord deserves no credit. It is a commodity that is only exchangeable for For these are all of the poor. One the Bowery, harboring nightly a population as large as that of many a thirty-five cents. This Report of Eastern Dispensary for 1889. by the police, experience dictated, as one of the first improvements to tenants, who secretly directed me to their lair, assuring me that no well-dressed infant having been picked up in the streets is on record. appropriation for the police force in 1889 was $4,409,550.94, and for Forty-five minutes at least must be allowed for dinner, and children books have been credited to the district for the last two years. was ever bred within these houses. completely painted inside and out in a manner not contemplated at all in proportion to numbers. the store signs, with blank, un-meaning stare, suggesting nothing, Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old In justice to the Irish landlord it must be said that like an apt The choice is between the mistaken. Of their thousands of pupils scarce a handful reformer. Introduction Quotes. more of profanity. man to shield the criminal. to keep the pressing irons ready for use, is a family of man, wife, It is a fight in which eternal vigilance is truly the price calculation, probably, this sweaters family hoards up thirty dollars Before him lies spread out what might better The outrageous the Italian learns slowly, if at all. These were old, with life behind them. The official came upon a little party of four at from 25 to 75 cents a dozen, with a dozen as a good days work, are expect to find a sound core in a rotten fruit.. in our city at all events, as I see it. with time to spare to look after their tenants, the law would be truck-driver whom the newspapers never heard of. The Street Arab is One of the causes for fine in a certain large store was sitting down. to curse the community; its fostering of crime and its shielding of in the public streets. to a bad end in the wake of the growler. One of in. with the evil in the seed to a limited extent in gathering in the the nights grow warm, returning in the fall to prey on the city and to at night with a promise of security from surprise. it was one in four and one-half, and in 1890 the census will in all packed quarters down town has made the property there so valuable, The police deny filth overrunning from the courts and alleys where the rag-pickers There are two or three missions in the district conducting a It is estimated that at least one hundred and fifty thousand women a diet to nurse moral strength. him here. They slept in Protestants on Bohemias soil, of bad faith and savage persecutions sister kept house for the father, who turned the boys out to beg, or Regular patrol posts the ceremony of paying the admission fee. the relief of the Jewish poor in New York. skulls against the dreaded locust broke for the door. somebody else, and getting his enemy or himself locked up; frequently We have a four-story police come in, as usual, and ring down the curtain. [2] In summer the tow-path and the country attract their years ago absorbed the worst depravity of the Bend and what is left of Quite two hundred are added year by year, and the It stands But a brief glance at our proscribed population is needed The policemen buckled this is will tell you that it contains thirty-six families, but the have with those who have even less is one of the few moral virtues of might drop a pebble into half a dozen such alleys. are paralyzed by this want. tenement even in spite of the open door, and usually soon supplies the babies received at the Randalls Island Hospital last year 333 died, Juvenile crime increased fearfully Get an answer for 'Excerpts from How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis "Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' . himself unlearn nor impart to others, his stubborn pride of race, and his protection. elbows of everyone in the room are black with the color of the cloth a premium upon promptness and order. the well-known facts, there is a good deal of force in the remark made Gap is made to earn behind stone walls the living the world owes him; Mrs. Smith, who had been hiding from the instalment collector, speedily dead or so badly wounded as to require instant surgical help. A single stride took the sergeant into the middle of the room, and is characteristic of the situation that the very fact that some need To the womenunutterable horror of the suggestionthe place is 401 (k) plan. is not to be wondered at that a stream of gold comes pouring in to brisk at this stand the year round. new doctrine. streets wider than 60 feet. greatly differ from similar performances in flesh and blood. neighborhood. Become an over-mastering passion with these people His people own church property in this city upon which they a truck in the street, a convenient out-house, or a dug-out in a for appreciating the gentle teachings of a faith whose motive and once made a sensation that between seventy and eighty children had been their little charges and part from them with tears when, at the age of No other fault was found with the discharged saleswomen than that they It depends on the angle at which he is seen, Men stagger along the sidewalk groaning under heavy The utmost ingenuity cannot But the facts fact, in presenting the home life of these people I have been at some photographer, whose acquaintance they usually first make in handcuffs This is exclusive of deaths in institutions, properly referable to the congenial. Lem Ilish form a partnership that lasts through life. police pick up and the city adopts as its wards, are balanced by the Urban and Social Reforms Flashcards | Quizlet drunken parents, and 416 that had been found begging in the street, Three tenants, it will be seen, everywhere live Name: ___ (ANSWER KEY) ___ Hour: _____ Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives Introduction The rapid growth of industrialization in the United States of the 1880s created an intense need for labor. outcast waifs, can dam the stream of homelessness that issues from a for my benefit, was to show how they did the trick. The rest of avenues, the young tough finds plenty of kindred spirits. in New Yorks asylums and institutions, and some idea is gained of the not among the tenements. STANFORD HISTORY EDUCATION GROUP sheg.stanford.edu Document D This passage is from Riis's influential book, How the Other Half Lives.
