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Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.

Subject Index

Social movement, use of the public school, 398410

Soup—end of free soup, 47

Stanton Street—Polish capmaker, home of, 7680

ProCathedral, 72, 182

Stroll through neighborhood, 86

Staten Island, summer excursions for boys, Mr. Schwab’s proposal, 405406

Stewart, A. T., hotel, failure of, 29, 165166

Street cleaning, Colonel Waring’s work, 4546, 268272, 415

Stryker’s Lane, truck farming, 366

Sullivan Street, condition before demolition, 119120

Sunlight in tenements, assessment on, 94

Summer, 1896, power of resistance of heat, 125126

Sunday opening of schools proposal, 399403

Sweating—Consumers’ League, work of, 196201

Fight against, 196

Growth of, 31

Home work in tenements, 183184, 194196

Italian underbidding Jews, 183

Jews, complaint against, 194

United Garment Workers of America, compact, 1892, 198

Swine and the cholera panic, 1866, 4, 29

Tagging lost children proposed, 92

Tailors—Jewish quarrel, 183

Sweating, see that title.

Tammany—Boss, character of, 420429

Campaign of 1901 against, 6375

Croker, R., see that title.

Election, 1897, 425426

Election night, slum scenes, 58

Good Government Clubs condemned by, 126

Hamilton Fish Park, use of people’s baths, 149152

History of corruption and peculation, 5, 60, 6474

Immigrants claimed by slum politics, 186191, 211

Italian immigrant vote, 187191

Mooney, William, character of, 64

Parkhurst and Lexow disclosures, 5, 41, 66

Playgrounds policy, 309

Prostitution organization, 6974

Reform failures, 65

Smallpox epidemics during government, 64, 67

Tramp vote, 48

Teachers, school reform attitude, 369371

Tenants of the slums, see Population.

Tenement House Commission—Appointment, 1900, 147

Gilder, see that title.

“Infant slaughter houses,” 37

Tenement House Committee, volunteer, formation and work of, 143

Tenement House Department, creation of, 147148

Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, effect of, 143147