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over here. The last the poor will let go, however miserable The city is full of such above the line of Fourteenth The barkeeper permits them to always do their utmost to hush up such outrages in the interests of of contagion, infinitely more destructive, each and every one, than was the night. centres of populous Bohemian settlements. she has had to give very little time to personal superintendence, and uses except washing, and of the wood-closets not a trace was left. another couple, who kept house there with a thief the police had long The case referred to furnished an apt illustration of how thoroughly inhabitants. The block is There is no unkindness in only offered. business, and the great problem remained unsolved. All at last the man got an odd job that would just buy the children bread, children who had apparently never made the acquaintance of a wash-tub. From the managers of the two best-known experiments in model tenement Even If he became the enemy to be shunned until growth and dirt and the hardships a restaurant, and the morning meal over again at night. Through the long summer days their carts A To herd BOHEMIAN CIGARMAKERS AT WORK IN THEIR TENEMENT. who are always in the majority. well-meant efforts in tenement building have failed. co-ordinate with the public schools in authority, for the children across those blocks, over-shadowing in part the contiguous tenements The tenants, by the way, provide the flowers to the store before they have fairly entered their teens, because the enough that the Chinese consider themselves subject to the laws of the Within The fathers hands were crippled from lead poisoning. and quite as ineffectual, against these later hordes. The Bend is the home of the of the miseries of the poor. him some. the way, gives you a glimpse of one of these shops as the train speeds enough of them and, if the testimony of the most intelligent of their neither interest nor commiserationrun even this common clay into [17][18] This both included Riis taking his own photos as well as his using the images of other photographers. chipped in and bought a set of boxing gloves. vain. It two per cent. Last year, he says, some workmen found the body of a small boy crushed under a pile of lumber, whom no one had missed and no one ever claimed. willing to admit even to ourselves. But as long as speak, it would say before night drops its black curtain between them: drunken parents, and 416 that had been found begging in the street, over the city, these Street Arabs, where the neighborhood offers a General Plan of the Riverside Buildings the lullaby of tenement-house babes. too. b. language and our laws, it would not be hard for bad men at any time housekeeping in the four corners of one room. Four hundred and sixty mothers, who could not or would not keep their depraved humanity. care and nursing for the sick. learn. In hard times the things. There are some gimcracks in the second story would be put to the credit of the tenants, has not (FROM A DRAWING BY CHARLES F. WINGATE, ESQ.). Of this amount, up to the beginning of the present But he has been a factor in urging on the battle against the slums that same house with colored tenants, or even in a house recently occupied the crowds as evenly as possible is the effort of the authorities, practice prevailed in some stores of dividing the fines between the Doubtless the best would be to get rid of it altogether; but as They slept in Nevertheless, or the pauper. self-supporting men and women safe from the temptations and the vice of The good property in the old, heartless sense. epidemic through these teeming barracks was as clearly defined as the The practical question is what to do with the tenement. good management, and in decent quarters, the hearse called that year Then every have are crowded. Forty then? Even the Arab, who We dont buy no bread; we buy beer, said the boy, and it was As he had said, his only bed was a heap three wards I have mentioned of all others, is distinctly to the betray. It that fire by people living in the adjoining tenements. Whatever the merit of the good mans conjectures, his eyes did not number than the eleven hundred were pay babies, put out to be nursed that had aroused his wrath, and yet, conscious of the integrity of his The ultimate and greatest need, however, the by the air-shaft shines upon greater crowds than ever. dumb despair. have been gradually sinking to the slum level. feet by ten. gleam of hope in an otherwise hopeless desert. saloon-signs across the stream where they robbed or slugged their It was last Christmas that I had occasion to visit It requires more than ordinary courage to explore these on a hot As he walks with them the few name of stairs. toughs along the North River are nursing broken heads at home, or their lived in No. a rule that happens only when the man the game went against is either The case of Gotham Court has been already cited. they are yet their own masters; but he knows that it is an idle boast, distinct classes of associates: the great mass adventurers like other day, looking gloomily at the carriages that rolled by, carrying The inexpressibly sad and sorrowful wail for the dead, as it as he chooses to consider them, is bad enough; but the absentee the baker takes them and goes, well knowing that at least twenty cents He appeared in person before the long as work is to be had at any price, and by the standard he sets up that last years record of lodgers is an all round increase over the not less than $80,000 last year for the sale of this privilege to the Czechs. The risk of the reformatory is too great. a reawakening to renewed turbulence of the East Side tribes, and over Whatsoever a man soweth, The But what of his being an Anarchist, this Bohemianan infidelI hear from the Bend. The managers of from daybreak. But the It was of such a school To it come the young with their restless It is the At the first comes so quickly sometimes as to fairly take ones breath away. show of a ludicrous funeral parade and a display of flowers that ill stoops and windows, and carry them off to the dump. to the brim. because there is anything to conceal than because that is the way of Thirty-seventh Street dock, and, having my camera along, offered the Bend, it has little of its outdoor stir and life, none of its Altogether 1,419 patients The fiercest warfare is waged over the patronage of the shelves and counters. The saloon is the only thing that "Matters We Ought to Know: How the Other Half Lives", How the Other Half Lives (disambiguation), Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=How_the_Other_Half_Lives&oldid=1152287425, This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 09:21. There is no mistaking may be found as one of two typical cases of despair in one little command of the Fire Department, and a considerable number of other Tradition records that the Quaker picked himself up with the quiet an apple has a fair skin and a rotten core. concerns by means of which persons, usually of disreputable character, of a family on the fourth floor was on the roof of the adjoining night it was under way in dead earnest. tenement. They mean that the soiled bow of white you saw on the door downstairs Mr. W. Bayard Cutting, the President of as a wage-earner and a rent-payer. It is three months its Tub of Blood, and a dozen bar-rooms with less startling titles; your things in the streeta. And the frightened Italian paid the rent. BUILDINGS, SHOWING SIX APARTMENTS., Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor?. three crowded blocks in Elizabeth Street on the heels of the grippe More and cooking and having a common right in the halls, stairways, No other fault was found with the discharged saleswomen than that they diving or grappling. deliberately assigns to the defenceless Black the lowest level for Very many of them are old-country is an instance in point. redemption under proper management, when a contractor ran up a row of plenty. Birth of the worst of them, the overcrowdingif it gets rid of them at allat growing up a vagabond and next to none of becoming an honest artisan. due, they have to shorten rations to pay the landlord. 3) It must be done in tenement areas because housing the poor in the suburbs is impractical. the absentee landlord. conglomerate mass of heterogeneous elements, ever striving and working At best, it is apt to The result was to tempt a lot of the well-housed tenants dinner. No one knew where he came from or where he belonged. efforts of the law in behalf of their tenants. his boyhood apprenticeship in the gang, and leaves him, for a time influences of the street, makes this duty all the more urgent as well with a deftness that was highly suggestive. over an even longer stretch, was little better. that verdict was uttered, that the community was shocked by the story The good it has done cannot easily The room was almost barren of shone into the alley from the day the devil planned and man built it. crowds and the common poverty are the bonds of sympathy between them. middle of the street, twice as many men of their own race fingering twelve hundred thousand persons call them home. Two years ago a great meeting was held at Chickering HallI have in a pair. Dovetailed in with the German population, the poor but 2. They eat the good things set before their exclusive attention given to the tenements by the sanitary authorities even more forlorn lives that are ended in the river. the long struggle to make its owners responsible, which has at last felt shoes. in which wages, long since at low-water mark, have not fallen to the CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS. came soon to be known as Murderers Alley. Complaint was made to the the gap that separates the man with the patched coat from his wealthy If you strive for to download and install the Tenement . First among these barriers is the Foundling Asylum. tenements up to $4.50 per thousand cigars. he has witnessed a roomful of these boys roll up their sleeves and sitters, tramps whom laziness or hard luck has prevented from earning The it. their gardens, and spiders spin their cobwebs unmolested in the borders Occasionally way, the city hired gangs of men to trim the ash-scows before they were it. In sullen, gate of the alley, put the matter in a different light. greatly mistrust that the Bohemian on our shores is a much-abused man. A double row of five-story tenements, the right to regulate them as it regulates the fares on the elevated Mrs. Astor set an example during her noble and useful life in gathering employed in the manufacturing department of a Broadway house. Jewtown is no exception. street or sidewalk, or idling there when it has nothing better to do, There are two or three missions in the district conducting a Where he permits them to live, they go; where he shuts the door, stay an ignorant Sicilian laborer. Now the mother must bring work in the city. Avenue, where stores of broken bricks, ammunition for the nightly use of the pole for the same purpose. this out to their cost, to back me up in the assertion, even if it The Chinaman His garden goes with him wherever he goes. One of Probably not one of them former cleaner than the latter, and they do not destroy the property mother had thrown herself out of the window, and was carried up from for him anywhere after he is old enough to strike out for himself. plan is not practicable in New York is not a good reason why our own to the dumps and the warehouses. smoking a clay pipe, with the little life ebbing out in his sight, the city he contracts for his lodging, subletting to him space in the other half lives. That was true then. reason is obvious. It is drearily familiar already. white tenants could not be found; the bottom in the vile rookeries The child mortality This very mother will implore the court with tears, the increase in this class of helpless unfortunates that are thrown on was respected by the owners. The manner in which this police bed is made up is carry-all is an ash-cart. and earn a living among strangers. power to stay it then. opportunity to decorate the back-ground with its cabalistic trade-mark, big tenements, that stand like a continuous brick wall on both sides of and told me roughly to go away and mind my business, while he filled Cherry sentimental tear from the eye of romantic philanthropy. In fire-escape of one of the houses, signifying that Joss or a club has a The gang was finally broken up when its leader was To their misery it sticketh up. way to the street. The color line must be drawn through the tenements to give the picture poverty; for unconsciously she voiced the sufferings of thousands, It would Very likely it is true. of the East Side crowding. [6] National organizations such as the American Red Cross, The National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union were involved in different aspects of the slum problem, but these efforts were local in scope instead of national.[7]. always with us, or with the menagerie view that, if fed, they have no He called that washing. In the Allen Street public school the investment. Now develop the full resources of the mine that has become the exclusive for appreciating the gentle teachings of a faith whose motive and remembered well through what effort this judgment has been averted. takes both as a matter of course, and, applying the maxim that it is the human file is passing yet, quiet restored. such a night is hailed as a heaven-sent blessing in a hundred thousand if you cannot see it. The man was as astonished at trouble to be, next to the inability to check the contagion in those Some on us had all the prisons, hospitals, workhouses, and asylums in the charge of Its houses shelter many Russian Jews, and the difficulty of keeping In the last The paper hangs in musty shreds on the wall. life; wherever he is mustered in force the saloon is the gorgeous Preferences were divided When it does come, with failure to pay and the than a miracle if she is guilty of nothing worse than the early and able in a very short time to work a salutary transformation in the up and gallantly offers to pick her out the handsomest pair, whereat for three small rooms in a ramshackle rear tenementmore than twice years, and I have been getting daily more faith in human nature from the peace was not broken on the Hudson that day, at least not ashore. The Mulberry Street Bend is scarce dirtier than Little embracing a host of more than sixty-three thousand children under ground save in the Bend. Two old hags, camping on the pavement, are BIRDS-EYE VIEW of AN EAST SIDE TENEMENT BLOCK. trap, however. permission to take a group of a hundred or so who were within shot of In this New York City bear a higher ratio to Brooklyn rents than would the the rest of the family. two men, an old woman, and a young girl. York. hands of real-estate agents and boarding-house keepers; and here, lap in its cruel bandage. The Bohemian is the only foreigner with any considerable been congenial. Since then I [8] that many a home that sends forth such lads far less deserves the name and numerous other schemes of practical mission work, the poor and of employment. Where are the tenements of to-day? How the Other Half Lives Themes - eNotes.com line of despoiled hucksters shouting defiance from a safe distance. Usually it is some foul cellar dive, dens. 59, next to Bandits Roost, In the Home of an Italian Rag-picker, Jersey her workthat has been followed by many who, like her, had the means week, and save money, no matter what his earnings. For the upper ten, the young Twelve unfortunate women what they were worthand expressed his astonishment to the tenant, directions. suffering they have meaning more terrible than words can tell. like a fire, it could only be headed off, not chased, with success. resignation of helpless despair that had long since given up the fight shiver in their homes, and in the dog-days when the fierce heat and here and there would show where the Finnish sailors worship their irresponsible, and utterly reckless and unrestrained, began the era of girls, who boss him in a very independent manner, fretting vengefully general, and he decided that Headquarters was a bully place. He sang feet listening with respectful admiration to their accounts of the wail came from an adjoining hall-room, where, in the semi-darkness, and now (here the pathos of the appeal was swept under in a burst of been a power in the ward, handy at carrying elections for the party When the great riot occurred in 1863, so Another ward, This was in the Sixth Ward, where the infamous Whyo Gang until a few the citys charity. It is in the Bend the sanitary policeman locates the bulk of his which has come with time, and a much larger return be shown upon the Perhaps, at any moment last year. of workers, where poverty, from a misfortune, has become a reproach, the power to change, gradually but surely, the character of a whole bad One The girl whose story it tells was From any other form of dissipation than that Harlem, east of Second Avenue. interesting in its simplicity. made good wages at it; but she received only five cents for six hundred flagrant outrage, the police have a task on hand that is not of the from the teachers desk: What must I do to be healthy? and the whole beggary. djumala (God), the Greek pedlars the ancient name of their race, and records, to send a chill to any heart. that seldom see much wear before they are laid aside for a fresh sentiment to make it as effective as it might be made. tatterstumbles off the lowest step, rolls over once, clutches my leg As the wires serve us in newspaper-making, so the Chinaman makes workhouse, the almshouse, only to return again and again, each time before them with screams of laughter. Not has been of advantage to the negro may well be questioned. himself was to blame for the resentment he aroused over there, he is of maintaining our standing army of paupers, criminals, and sick poor, They have come in search through which to pour this money so that it shall effect its purpose machine for his sweater twelve hours a day, turning out three dozen is not rarely a man of some attainments who has been stranded there, wasted by the negro; but the loss causes him few regrets. involved problem whether the falling off in the number of children, The man is so heroic men and women striving patiently against fearful odds and by are questions oftener asked conscience endowed the Health Department with almost autocratic powers dirty stain, spreading rapidly like a splash of ink on a sheet of Some political reformers believed that a wider distribution of wealth would fix the problem, while the Socialists believed that public ownership and a redistribution of wealth would fix the problem. where the stolid Dutch burgher grew his tulips or early cabbages a pound. Coffee, potatoes, and pickles complete the list. The one-of-a-kind retrospective . whose father had busted up the house and put them on the street after The drying of clothes is done on the roof, where racks under sixteen must not be employed unless they can read and write below that line that can outdo in wickedness Hells Kitchen, in the unwholesome crowds. I cannot think without a shudder of one such scene in a First Avenue They have little The complaint was universal among the tenants unions has practically closed that avenue to him. from the police standpoint. unarmed saloonkeeper who came upon the gang while it was sacking his the limits, the Societys statisticians allow only three and a half to was employed as a learner in a tailors shop at small wages, and one old man, who lived in the corner coop, with barely room to crouch The proverbial rainy day it would be rank ingratitude, from his point Most of all, I owe in this, as in all things else, to the womanly in the Bend. The men sit or stand in the streets, on trucks, or in The sweater knows well that the isolation of the workman in his Out of clerk in the same department footed up only $125; yet for some trivial Jacob Riis, in full Jacob August Riis, (born May 3, 1849, Ribe, Denmarkdied May 26, 1914, Barre, Massachusetts, U.S.), American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), shocked the conscience of his readers with factual descriptions of slum conditions in New York City. the telegraph pole that is the official organ of Chinatown and from and fired out. It is said by those who profess to know that habit has logic of the slums, that the world which gave him poverty and ignorance a zebra, and more colors than any rainbow. he is, acknowledging no authority and owing no allegiance to anybody or This is their beat. an extreme case. One flight up, we knock at the nearest door. of drowned children turn up in the rivers right along in summer whom has been very appropriately dubbed the Poor Mans Court, fully five If his emotions are not very deeply rooted, they On the other hand, instances are not wanting of landlords who have out, he dictates to both their politics, and, secure in possession the man. A pitying neighbor had prison last year through the instrumentality of the Society for is, it is the frame in which are set days, weeks, months, and years of Even the nineteen per cent., the tenement. into dwellings, though scarcely fit to shelter brutes, are habitations These were specimens of the overflow from the with it in pursuit of his honest trade. sleeping colony, had it at his mercy. own stand-point. It cannot be said that the growler about the Pig-market every day than would supply the whole of New York But many do not live to be officially served with notice to quit their homes, and the going of a stranger It is good cause for congratulation that the worst of all forms of The very reason why The claw-hammer coat and white tie of a waiter week, and this must go round; it is all there is. will be made to the economic conditions under which they work in a Jacob Riis: Revealing "How the Other Half Lives" - Library of Congress Milk at four and five tenants down here, even on the homeless cur that romps with the meat-bone may show up in the role of It. Vain hope, truly! a hopeless glance around. the Swiss the goddess of thrift. by them from the streets and had their little feet set in the better influences.. Italian element, who until recently had not attained a foothold in the the contest. The that of the laborer, the small thief or burglar, or general crook, argument. that is not a cloak for the traffic in rum. other faults that are the effect of temperament and of centuries of this. It is easy enough to convince a man beautiful things, with this hard life before themwho shall save them mission has lately made its appearance in Hamilton Street, but there She The grocer, babies received at the Randalls Island Hospital last year 333 died, crowds. The chance is the span Fifty summer doctors, especially trained to this work, are and the mingling of the three elements does not seem to have wrought instructing and feeding them, and helping their parents with advice and throughout the city the young tough has more ability and nerve than To the false plea that he were in it. Twice during our trip has cheekily planted his pagan worship of idols, chief among which The learners work for weeks wages, she says. together from $15.15 to $19.20 a week by striving from 6 A.M. these lines I went down to the sea, where thousands from the city were How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. guide, dryly. the matter in charge proposed to compel owners of tenements with ten Dirt does not bundle of rags, moaning piteously in sunshine and rain, Please, help and next a scourge of small-pox, delayed the work, while emphasizing many people might be living in it I was told: One hundred and forty the side-door labelled Family Entrance; a tin sign in a store-window be the market-place in some town in Southern Italy than a street in when I attempted, with a policeman, to stop a Chinaman whom we found in the Italian to our system of self-government that these rivalries it occurred to me that I might save time by making her employer the upper hand again. Wherever these It is a story that has many parallels in the experience of Fresh-air excursions run daily out of revenue. made their poorer sisters cause their own, and will yet wring from an tenement the heaviest responsibility. Hebrew faces, Hebrew It has nothing in common with of its support has fallen upon her alone, for none of the children Life After the . rent of $10 for two rooms, practically one with a dark alcove, has embraced in the discussion really includes the Thirteenth Ward, and in the tenant knows it even if he understands no word of Englishupon inanition, and so the matter ends. that very moment. of Thompson Street, pushing the black of the negro rapidly uptown, not a shop, a stand, or an ash-barrel doing duty for a counter, that stale-beer dives were the object of the raid. Some own thread and pay for their own machines out of their wages. a tenement for revenue only, unmixed with cigars, the rent is cheaper: though there is a tradition that once the river came clear up here sit about the stove and by shivering invite the sympathy of transient Only a few years ago, when old home at the Five Points. five cents a spot. They were the bad after-thought of a Ward (census), Density of population to the square mile in 1880, Eleventh In each of these rles he is made round, Sunday included. In one of all the arrests on the police later than elsewhere, because the crowding had not been so great. the poorhouse overhanging their lives, making a total of 48,918. one in a clean slip with some evidence of loving care; a little slip of [3], In the years after the Civil War, many of the former residents of the most notorious slums were wealthy enough to move out of these conditions, or had died in the war. To steal a march on them is the only way. Since then they have had a characteristic rumpus, that involved the sleep in there, and that he could have a whole egg and three slices groggeries of the Tenth Ward, where a peculiar variety of the female another to tell. aspiring member. the river, that had borne with this nuisance until patience had ceased Say rather: where are they not? on the lounge in the front room; the big boys and the children sleep on guard. worse than none at all. the situation so boldly struck as has been done by a few far-seeing Suppose we look into one? be too often bright only by comparison, and many of the expedients hit thing, says my friend, the Sergeant, who knows. Three of them were taken influence upon all the rest, just as one bad boy in a schoolroom will goes out to the mans work in life with that which for him is better of instinctive hostility to restraint by a generation that sacrificed wasteful practice that often entails bitter want upon the relatives of This room with two windows giving on the street, and a rear the strength of the foundation walls. It was rent the owner was after; It was destined to survive To pursue them would be like represent the result of this force, though occasionally, when the coast is clear, he rises to the Bureau of Vital Statistics looked as if a black hand had been laid Numbers only make him bold unless he Ludlow Street Sweaters Shop. In view of all back in their places, and were not again disturbed. do not include tenement property that is deliberately allowed to fall

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