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

Subject Index

Italian criminals, nest of, 204205

Night scenes, 173

Old Church tenements, 16

Park—Appropriation lost, 40

Completion and opening, 266

Cost, 18

Dedication, 267268

“Keep off the grass,” 267

School building reform, 355

Whyó gang headquarters, 272, 308

Mullen, Patrick, story of, 413414

Mullen’s Court, purchase for destruction, 119

Murders—Beresheim, J., 227

Forsythe Street tragedy, 86

Lodging houses, murders traced to, 156

Meyer, F., 98

Mike of Poverty Gap, 239240

Weeks, L. S., 156

National Consumers’ League, work of, 196201

Naturalization papers, fraudulent, 186, 190, 207

Neckties, Poverty Gap, 51

Negroes—Character as tenants, 110

Model tenements for, 134

Neighborliness, need of, 398403

Nero, enactment as to height of buildings, 11

New Jersey, Jewish colonies, 212215

New Orange, home-building attempt abandoned, 214

“Nurseries of crime,” lodging houses as, 54, 156

Old Church tenements, 16

One-room houses, beginnings of, 97

Open spaces, see Parks and playgrounds.

Orchard Street—Jews dwelling under stairs, 95

One-room houses, beginnings of, 97

Outdoor Recreation League—

“Hudson-bank” park, 292

Organization and object, 300

Seward Park gymnastic apparatus, 302

Overcrowding—

Battle against, 8386

Double-deckers as cause of, 102

Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection, 99102

Overcrowding—

Increase statistics, 8183

Promoters of, high rents and low wages, 96

Paddock, Rev. R., evidence against Tammany evil-doers, 72

Palmerston, Lord, advice as to checking an epidemic, 34

Park Avenue hotel for working girls, failure of, 29, 165166

Parkhurst disclosures, 41, 66

Park Street, cellars, 20