Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
| Social movement, use of the public school, 398–410 |
| Soup—end of free soup, 47 |
| Stanton Street—Polish capmaker, home of, 76–80 |
| ProCathedral, 72, 182 |
| Stroll through neighborhood, 86 |
| Staten Island, summer excursions for boys, Mr. Schwab’s proposal, 405–406 |
| Stewart, A. T., hotel, failure of, 29, 165–166 |
| Street cleaning, Colonel Waring’s work, 45–46, 268–272, 415 |
| Stryker’s Lane, truck farming, 366 |
| Sullivan Street, condition before demolition, 119–120 |
| Sunlight in tenements, assessment on, 94 |
| Summer, 1896, power of resistance of heat, 125–126 |
| Sunday opening of schools proposal, 399–403 |
| Sweating—Consumers’ League, work of, 196–201 |
| Fight against, 196 |
| Growth of, 31 |
| Home work in tenements, 183–184, 194–196 |
| Italian underbidding Jews, 183 |
| Jews, complaint against, 194 |
| United Garment Workers of America, compact, 1892, 198 |
| Swine and the cholera panic, 1866, 4, 29 |
| Tagging lost children proposed, 92 |
| Tailors—Jewish quarrel, 183 |
| Sweating, see that title. |
| Tammany—Boss, character of, 420–429 |
| Campaign of 1901 against, 63–75 |
| Croker, R., see that title. |
| Election, 1897, 425–426 |
| Election night, slum scenes, 58 |
| Good Government Clubs condemned by, 126 |
| Hamilton Fish Park, use of people’s baths, 149–152 |
| History of corruption and peculation, 5, 60, 64–74 |
| Immigrants claimed by slum politics, 186–191, 211 |
| Italian immigrant vote, 187–191 |
| Mooney, William, character of, 64 |
| Parkhurst and Lexow disclosures, 5, 41, 66 |
| Playgrounds policy, 309 |
| Prostitution organization, 69–74 |
| Reform failures, 65 |
| Smallpox epidemics during government, 64, 67 |
| Tramp vote, 48 |
| Teachers, school reform attitude, 369–371 |
| Tenants of the slums, see Population. |
| Tenement House Commission—Appointment, 1900, 147 |
| Gilder, see that title. |
| “Infant slaughter houses,” 37 |
| Tenement House Committee, volunteer, formation and work of, 143 |
| Tenement House Department, creation of, 147–148 |
| Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, effect of, 143–147 |