Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
| Bowery lodging houses, see Lodging houses. |
| Boxing match, 430 |
| Boys—Clubs, see that title. |
| Crime, see that title. |
| Farm colony for young vagrants, 127, 172, 350 |
| Fathers’ authority lost, 237–238 |
| Future of—effect of political influences, 225–226 |
| Gangs, see that title. |
| Increase of child crime, 225, 240–242 |
| Military spirit, 247, 255 |
| Play, necessity of, 233 |
| Summer excursions, Mr. Schwab’s proposition, 405–406 |
| Type of East Side boy, see Beresheim, Jacob |
| “Weakness not wickedness,” reformatory verdict, 244 |
| Brass bands, school roof playgrounds, 389–395 |
| Brick sandwiches, 224 |
| British Museum, stone arm exhibit, message of warning, 111–112 |
| Bronx—Crotona Park athletic meets, 366 |
| Primary school 1895, condition, 348 |
| Brooklyn—Riverside tenements, 135, 140 |
| Weeks, L. S., murder, 156 |
| Bruin, Madame, school punishments, 341–342 |
| Buck, Miss W., management of boys’ clubs, 373, 383 |
| Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment, 20–21 |
| Building Department, supervision of tenement lighting, etc., 104 |
| Byrnes, Inspector—lodging houses as nurseries of crime, 54, 156 |
| “Cadets,” Tammany organization, 74 |
| Capmaker, Polish, home in Stanton Street tenement, 76–80 |
| Cat Alley—Barney, 333–339 |
| Charity of the Alley, 322–325 |
| Children of the Alley, 330–331 |
| Cosmopolitan population, 314–316 |
| Dago eviction, 314 |
| Deaths and funerals, 325–330 |
| Demolition, 337–340 |
| Description and occupation, 312–313 |
| “Fat One,” 326, 329 |
| French couple, 315–316 |
| Irish population, 314, 316–320 |
| Marriages, early, and second marriages, 325 |
| Mott Street scrap, 320–322 |
| Name, mystery as to origin, 312 |
| Tragedy averted, 323 |
| Trilby, 331–333 |
| Walsh, Mrs., funeral, 329–330 |
| Widows, 325–326 |
| Catherine Street, condition before destruction, 119 |
| Cellars, Park Street, 20 |
| Census—Death-rate, see that title. |