Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
Italian criminals, nest of, 204–205 |
Night scenes, 173 |
Old Church tenements, 16 |
Park—Appropriation lost, 40 |
Completion and opening, 266 |
Cost, 18 |
Dedication, 267–268 |
“Keep off the grass,” 267 |
School building reform, 355 |
Whyó gang headquarters, 272, 308 |
Mullen, Patrick, story of, 413–414 |
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, 239–240 |
Weeks, L. S., 156 |
National Consumers’ League, work of, 196–201 |
Naturalization papers, fraudulent, 186, 190, 207 |
Neckties, Poverty Gap, 51 |
Negroes—Character as tenants, 110 |
Model tenements for, 134 |
Neighborliness, need of, 398–403 |
Nero, enactment as to height of buildings, 11 |
New Jersey, Jewish colonies, 212–215 |
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, 83–86 |
Double-deckers as cause of, 102 |
Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection, 99–102 |
Overcrowding— |
Increase statistics, 81–83 |
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, 165–166 |
Parkhurst disclosures, 41, 66 |
Park Street, cellars, 20 |