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Jacob A. Riis. The Battle with the Slum
The Battle with the Slum
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM
WHAT THE FIGHT IS ABOUT
CHAPTER I. BATTLING AGAINST HEAVY ODDS
CHAPTER II. THE OUTWORKS OF THE SLUM TAKEN
CHAPTER III. THE DEVIL'S MONEY
CHAPTER IV. THE BLIGHT OF THE DOUBLE-DECKER
CHAPTER V "DRUV INTO DECENCY"
CHAPTER VI. THE MILLS HOUSES
CHAPTER VII. PIETRO AND THE JEW
CHAPTER VIII. ON WHOM SHALL WE SHUT THE DOOR?
CHAPTER IX. THE GENESIS OF THE GANG
CHAPTER X. JIM
CHAPTER XI. LETTING IN THE LIGHT
CHAPTER XII. THE PASSING OF CAT ALLEY
CHAPTER XIII. JUSTICE TO THE BOY
CHAPTER XIV. THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY
CHAPTER XV "NEIGHBOR" THE PASSWORD
CHAPTER XVI. REFORM BY HUMANE TOUCH
CHAPTER XVII. THE UNNECESSARY STORY OF MRS. BEN WAH AND HER PARROT
INDEX
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Jacob A. Riis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Professor Felix Adler.
The story shocked the town into action. Plans for a better kind of tenement were called for, and a premium was put on every ray of light and breath of air that could be let into it. It was not much, for the plans clung to the twenty-five-foot lot which was the primal curse, and the type of tenement evolved, the double-decker of the "dumb-bell" shape, while it seemed at the time a great advance upon the black, old packing-box kind, came with the great growth of our city to be a worse peril than what had gone before. But what we got was according to our sense. At least the will was there. Money was raised to build model houses, and a bill to give the health authorities summary powers in dealing with tenements was sent to the legislature. The landlords held it up until the last day of the session, when it was forced through by an angered public opinion, shorn of its most significant clause, which proposed the licensing of tenements and so their control and effective repression. However, the landlords had received a real set-back. Many of them got rid of their property, which in a large number of cases they had never seen, and tried to forget the source of their ill-gotten wealth. Light and air did find their way into the tenements in a half-hearted fashion, and we began to count the tenants as "souls." That is another of our milestones in the history of New York. They were never reckoned so before; no one ever thought of them as "souls." So, restored to human fellowship, in the twilight of the air-shaft that had penetrated to their dens, the first Tenement House Committee[11] was able to make them out "better than the houses" they lived in, and a long step forward was taken. The Mulberry Bend, the wicked core of the "bloody Sixth Ward," was marked for destruction, and all slumdom held its breath to see it go. With that gone, it seemed as if the old days must be gone too, never to return. There would not be another Mulberry Bend. As long as it stood, there was yet a chance. The slum had backing, as it were.
