Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
| Drunkards and slum homes, 23 |
| “Druv into decency,” 113–114 |
| Dwellings of the poor, see Tenements. |
| Eagle, Ellis Island, 202–204 |
| East River barge, winter lodgings, 1896, 170–172 |
| East River Park, sacred grass, 301 |
| Education, see Schools. |
| Education Board, work of, 365–366 |
| Educational Alliance—Roof garden, 388 |
| Work among Jews, 382 |
| Eldridge Street tenement, unlighted halls, 91–92 |
| Eleventh Ward, overcrowding statistics, 82 |
| Elizabeth Street—Giant, 331 |
| Midnight inspection of tenements, 99–102 |
| Sewing “pants” at thirty cents a day, 183 |
| Elliot, Dr., subscriptions for guild house, 402 |
| Ellis Island eagle, 202–204 |
| Elsing, Mr., children of Sunday-school, contribution to Armenian Christmas tree, 218 |
| Emigration, see Immigration. |
| Enforcement of the law, necessity of, 47, 223, 235, 415, 418 |
| Essex Street, attempt to establish park, 294 |
| Excursions, Mr. Schwab’s proposition, 405–406 |
| Exhibition, tenement house, 1900, effect of, 143–147 |
| Experimenting with the school, 403–410 |
| Eyes inspection, public school children, 358–359 |
| Factory tenements, disapproval of, 134 |
| Farming—Farm colony for young vagrants, 127, 172, 350 |
| Jewish farming abilities, 215 |
| Truck farming on site of Stryker’s Hill, 366 |
| Fat boiling in tenements, cause of fires, 88 |
| “Fat One” of Cat Alley, 326, 329 |
| Federal Government slum inquiry, 61, 97, 175 |
| Fifteenth Assembly District, see Church Federation. |
| Fire-engine horses, fate of, 425 |
| Fires in tenement houses—Airshaft, danger of, 93 |
| “Cruller fire,” 88 |
| Nonenforcement of law as to fireproof material, 87–89 |
| First Ward deathrate, 116 |
| Five Points—Mortality rate, 16 |
| Wiping out in 1850, Wisconsin farmer’s work, 14 |
| Flag, flying, value of, 209–211 |
| Foreign population—Child labor and education, 185–186 |
| Italians, see that title. |
| Jews, see that title. |
| Proportion, 175–176 |
| Forest, R. W. de, chairman of Tenement House Commission of 1900, 147 |
| Forsyth Street tragedies, 86 |
| Foster, R., fight with tenement landlords, 124 |
| Fourth Ward, examination of girls’ school, 355–357 |