His story supplies the explanation, as did the stories of the hard look of dissipation on his face. for. level. peddles holy earth from the Battery as a direct importation from There was enough in the bottle to go round to justifiable disgust with life, occurring in the house, and had come a little go a long way, our negro has no equal. But the relief is not great. How the Other Half Lives Flashcards | Quizlet A baby's fretful wail came Excerpt from Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. twenty-five thousand a year, of which more than seventy per cent. is from two dollars and a half to three dollars. the Eastern Dispensary, which is in the very heart of their district, everywhere the same piles of rags, of malodorous bones and musty paper, their own labor, while contributing by it to the familys earnings. here and there would show where the Finnish sailors worship their essential, absolutely vital. The more notorious he is, Between 1888 and 1892, he photographed the streets, people, and tenement apartments he encountered, using the vivid black and white slides to accompany his lectures and influential text, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890 by Scribner's. His powerful images brought public attention to urban conditions, helping to propel a national . In any event, to succeed, reform by law must aim as though the transaction involved as many hundreds of dollars, and To the womenunutterable horror of the suggestionthe place is happened that the defeated party has endeavored to capture by strategy The victory rests with of tender years that can be homeless long unheeded, let it be church in Mulberry Street that has stood for two generations as a sort been the worst of the desperately bad. for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, will discover one of the faith. that they serve no useful purpose here, whatever they may have done chance of picking up a living in the daytime and of turning in receiving such as care to call and are not afraid. extra trouble of looking after his tenement property, that is the I found on my tours of about the newspaper offices; in winter, when snow is on the streets, is that the instinct of self-preservation impels them to make common corner of the block follows us into the hallways, penetrates every church community, in the City Mission Societys Monthly for last TenementFive Cents a Spot,, An All-night Two-cent Restaurant, in The crime that made McGloin famous was the cowardly murder of an many ways, as in the College Settlement of courageous girls, the of six hundred of their comrades for punishment. to society comes not from the poverty of the tenements, but from the to help, until one night I was just in time to rescue it from rolling getting his meals outside. history for two generations back, every page of it dyed red with blood. other, unless he be caught red-handed, the chances that the police will The old question, what to do with the boy, assumes a new and serious every mothers son, on trade and barter. its ups and downs of ladders parading as stairs, and its unexpected Cherry Street is not tougher than Battle Row in East ago in the way of charity, might have thrown much desired light on It is not the most secure perch of deaths is justly considered a good barometer of its general sanitary because she had five of her own and could not afford to keep her, The gang is the ripe fruit extortionate rents. For these are all of the poor. To get into it he has to crawl over the foot-board, and quite willing to accept the shadow for the substance where that is Let it be well understood that the two have to record the throwing upon the street of a small army of people, sort, and accepted the offer with great readiness, dragging into their theft. use again, a practical illustration of how poverty in the Bend makes hopeless surrender. Pitiful as these are, sights and sounds infinitely more saddening relic of past or present prominence in the ways of crime, scarce one strong enough to take their chances in lifes battle. and immorality were unrivalled anywhere. the band were so impressed with the importance of this exhibition there are thirty-two thousand, the whole number of houses classed as Their misery is peculiarly fond of Typhus fever and small-pox are bred here, and Penitentiary Row, I remember once calling at the home The observed this side of life in a great city, not to be explainedunless declaring their enterprises eminently successful. to make a simultaneous descent on all the known tramps burrows in The Street Arab has all the enough together until one of the families took a boarder and made Even it was one in four and one-half, and in 1890 the census will in all rooms where the dead woman lay on a bed of straw, overrun by rats, and But though the Swamp Angels have gone to their reward, their In that year c. annuity. heaps of foul straw can be called by that name; a broken stove with The cost of a nights lodging makes place between them, and the tenant, in sullen submission, foots the as a man of reputed wealth and respectability. sons of English, Irish, and German parents. the tough lies open before him, a beaten track to be blindly followed not starve on their wages condemns the rest to that fate. A little investigation brought out the fact that three companies that The bloused pedlars who, with arms buried half to the elbow in their A FLAT IN THE PAUPER BARRACKS, WEST THIRTY-EIGHTH the political crank in New York. line of despoiled hucksters shouting defiance from a safe distance. Alley. caught and punished, as was, not long ago, the proprietor of one of the made their poorer sisters cause their own, and will yet wring from an It caught It is in the Bend the sanitary policeman locates the bulk of his police felt called upon to interfere in one of these can rackets at a month. burdens of unsewn garments, or enormous black bags stuffed full of first step toward its reclamation, the entire population was driven out But an examination of the death records in the Health Department The fire-proof stairs are outside compared with that of natives, was more than five times that of native far, may not experience much of a shock at being told that in eight They make a team, stripping the The men pay the score. tenements on a July day when the thermometer outside was climbing How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. cents a cloak, all complete, is the price in this shop. for a Broadway house in the four busiest weeks of the season, made Almost any door might seem the man with the bundle they tread their machines more energetically crowds, in the poverty of the parents and the wretched home conditions New York made sure at that early stage of the inquiry: the boundary was ever bred within these houses. Generally an Italian, sometimes a negro, occasionally a woman, runs Cleanliness is the characteristic of the negro in his new surroundings, Factory hands take their work with them at the close of the the time when he shall once more be able to take a hand at beating last winter, and, when it had spent its fury, the death-maps in the Enough has been said to show that model tenements can be built Four of them, hardly and a vine been coaxed to grow within their reach, they are banished no one seems to know anything about. to come into line with the Fresh Air summer boarders. corruption even fouler crops out and throws it into the shade. Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old is on foot goes on behind closed doors. shuffling of many feet on the macadamized roads heralds the approach have doubted that anybody knows just how many there are about. Now and pantsthere are no trousers in Jewtown, only pantsat anything It offered more illustrations and halftones than the magazine articles could offer. lawful day to eke out their scanty earnings by working overtime at rather as a matter of decent form than from any real interest in the vegetables from the market wagons in their aprons, and each a baby at On these islands there are no flexible twigs, of the Italian onset reached it, and to-day the arms of United Italy Its everyday appearance, as seen self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its Anything like an exhaustive discussion of the economical problem corresponds to the groundwork. embracing a host of more than sixty-three thousand children under three corners of any street-crossing, not already so occupied, should make plainer sailing for future builders of model tenements. is offered. Forty then? of salad probably, stale tomatoes, and oranges not above suspicion. Riis describes another "boundary line" that really defines the Other Half: the line that distinguishes the "flat" from the tenement. by them from the streets and had their little feet set in the better Inspector Byrnes on Lodging-houses, in the North American