Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
Addams, Miss J., Chicago work, 365, 395 |
Adler, Professor F., reform work, 71–72, 371, 402 |
Air-shaft in tenements, tenants’ uses and peril of, 93 |
Alfred Corning Clark buildings, 129, 130 |
Allen Street—Children seeking “the commissioner” for justice, 59–60 |
One-room houses, beginnings of, 97 |
School building, 354, 357 |
Anderson, Mrs. A. A., bath gift to city, 282 |
Armenian Christmas tree, contribution of poor children, 218 |
Association for improving condition of the poor—Baths, public, 282 |
Housing reform movement, 128 |
Work of, 285 |
Athletic meets, Crotona Park, 366 |
Bacillus of the slum, 62 |
Balkan peninsula, immigration from, 202 |
Bands, roof playgrounds, 389–395 |
Barney of Cat Alley, 333–339 |
Baron Hirsch Fund, see Hirsch Fund |
Baths, public—Anderson, Mrs. A. A., gift, 282 |
Association for improving condition of poor, work of 282 |
Free river baths, 282 |
Hamilton Fish Park, Tammany use of, 149–152 |
Baths, public—Lack of public baths scandal, 281 |
Mott Street bath, 282 |
Plans for system of municipal baths, 282–283 |
Rivington Street, 281 |
Shower-baths for public schools, 283 |
Battle Row—Gang, Easter service, 251–252 |
Improvement, 135 |
Baxter Street “dens of death,” 14, 20 |
Beds, Mills Houses, 159 |
Beginning of the battle, 1–4 |
Bellevue, scandal during Tammany government, 66 |
Bend, see Mulberry Bend. |
Ben Wah, Mrs., and her parrot, story of, 441–449 |
Beresheim, Jacob—Arrest for murder, 227 |
Birth in tenement, 228 |
Law-breaking, 234 |
Life and environment, 227–236 |
Schooling neglected, 231 |
Berlin death-rate, 124 |
Big Flat, Mott Street—Carriage factory in place of, 32 |
Instance of reform still-born, 27 |
Blacksmith, Patrick Mullen, 413–414 |
Bleeker Street house, see Mills Houses. |
B’nai B’rith “removal plan,” 215 |
Bone Alley, destruction, 279–281, 285 |
Boss, character of, 420–429 |
Bottle Alley, Whyo gang headquarters, 272, 308 |