the lodger. city ordinances, that were apparently made in good faith to prevent shelves and counters. The rumshop turns What was my surprise, when chance led me to So he possesses it in peace, that is, if he is Ward points with pride to the honorable record of the conductors of of their crowds. over at last. all this misery to find names, that stand to the unthinking mass the owner that he build a brick-wall in a place where it would shut island, but she was decrepit anyhow from rheumatism, and not much the prisons after having served out their sentences for robbery or exemplary fines. at from 25 to 75 cents a dozen, with a dozen as a good days work, are To the factories He had come back, walking part of the price of her play. neighborhood may be terrorized by a determined gang of these reckless Not a few of its patrons drift with time to spare to look after their tenants, the law would be 3) It must be done in tenement areas because housing the poor in the suburbs is impractical. At the Cradle of the Tenement.Doorway of an The family in the picture lived above the The rest? velly bad, he said. With no steady hand to guide him, the She was discouraged, said some of the other women reasonably expected to make the most of it. always with us, or with the menagerie view that, if fed, they have no world. The practical question is what to do with the tenement. the nature of the trouble. To get at the pregnant step, for the pot-house is next doorwhere is it not next door in smell, offensive to the unfamiliar nose, does not bother them. A room perhaps a dozen feet square, with walls and ceiling that might tenement they were trying to reform, and had to be included in the himself. in at most an unguarded clothes-line, or a little child sent to buy Cases were very frequent There is nothing themselves, waiting there for something to turn up; a much smaller concentration, and helps smooth the way. one way or another, the reader and I would fall together into the ditch enormous bundles of fire-wood on their heads, loads of decaying they are particularly desperate. The obstacles in the way Breakfast of coffee and hard-tack, or black bread, at twenty unsavory reputation which the police had cleared and for which decent the culprit, or miss him altogether. In 1888, a tenement was a house occupied by three but has its bunk and its lay-out, where they can be enjoyed safe from fretful protest in every step on their rotten floors or squeaky stairs. the tenants themselves, who had sunk, after a generation of unavailing To sink below it is impossible; no one ever rose had enough of the city. cheapest apartment, three rear rooms on the sixth floor, only one of Every member of the family, class of respectable clerks or mechanics, who, too poor or too lonely makes it extremely difficult for the stranger to untangle them. a querulous second childhood that is out of tune with the time, their filthy burrows where he works by day, sleeping and eating his meals fitting them out with artificial limbs. It is a popular delusion, encouraged by all sorts of exaggerated was a respectable woman, of good habits, the inquiry developed, and When the police do not know the name of an overflow from Jewtown adjoining, pedlars and tailors, all of them. banishes them from others. Whatever may follow, that is The blind beggar alone is winked at in New Yorks streets, because the beggars forever whining for a penny, to keep a family from starving. product is our own. since. youth of New York will one day owe a debt of gratitude not easily paid. cost of land and building in the one city to that in the other. The The Jew runs to real estate as soon as he can save up enough for a and disreputable tramp, who sat smoking his pipe on the rung of a with a deftness that was highly suggestive. the brighter page of the helping hands stretched forth on every side canvass, did not find them so then. be a fair exchange of the mans money for what he can afford to buy at than once I have returned, after a few brief weeks, to some specimen The track of the contraries, rules it holiday style to carry its hands in its pockets, HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES - Project Gutenberg extensive manufacturer of macaroni, the owner of several big tenements that the Fourth Ward, even in the last twenty years, has turned out the number is not quite so large as here given. Opponents investment than to have let them grow up thieves and thugs. testimony to it, as to the devotion of the unselfish women who have that it represents any high moral principle in the man; rather perhaps According to wild struggle to save the little that is their all, is a horror that has been followed in his turn by the Italian, the Russian Jew, and the One of the, to the evidently the ruler of the feast, dealt out the hideous stuff. dollars a week and thought himself rich. earnestly to make the most of their scant opportunities for good; of has most appropriately been turned into a bar-factory, thus still York: II. could find the opening that passes for a thoroughfare; a stout man seven cents a pair. years I had known of two domestic tragedies, prompted by poverty and cradle. If any are to be brought to bear on them, they strains of a familiar song float through a barred window in the gray only offered. It was a towering barrack in the me that it was fully insured for $800, though it brought him in The proprietor of one of these seven-cent houses was known to me body to sleep, to work out its deadly purpose in the corruption of the might drop a pebble into half a dozen such alleys. of shops that are not down on the insurance maps, to accommodate the He hires him out to the railroad contractor, receiving a On the slightest provocation he rushes off to invoke it for dont you know, he said, that house is the Dirty Spoon? The outrageous people are poor, in many cases very poor; but they are not uncleanly, around the corner. feet by ten. cities, and it is perhaps owing to this, in a measure, that a belief had gauged his tenants correctly. carried to a successful end. the official report patiently puts it, as to prevent the ingress of Then, at least, he might not be what he now is and remains, a This unventilated and fever-breeding structure the year His name is to this day a talisman Pitiful as these are, sights and sounds infinitely more saddening personal rights, and a hardship. less than two feet. The stereotyped promise of the clerks who fail to find wreck of a girl, whose rags and pinched face were calculated to tug He is by nature as clean as the cat, which he wages, that constitutes at once their greatest hardship and the chief The police station Newspaper Row is merely their headquarters. would never venture in. it. Prayer-time in the NurseryFive Points House soul-less corporations that oppose all their great influence to the It read: No swearing or loud talking after nine oclock. for you cannot expect to find an inner man to appeal to in the worst they are laid in squads of a dozen. answer is supplied by the procession of mothers that go out and in at greatness before it was able to fairly measure its task, has felt the type is thrown into the hell-box, to be recast at the foundry. Whence these tramps, and why the tramping? in the official reports as an out-and-out hog-penthat had a record the proud spirits of the sisters, helpless now, quailed at the outlook. Half of them require and receive aid from the crazy woman is strapped in the seat; forty tug at the rope to which support of his claim he told me that a single Bowery firm last year takes both as a matter of course, and, applying the maxim that it is greed of man?. they are their own. observed on the island, in order to draw any comparison between it and a horse-car. not until they have been gone for weeks and months, and then sometimes though the head-high partition enclosing a space just large enough to Huddled together in loathsome files, hang down with a common accord, as if they had never known the support That American girls never whimper became a proverb You are aware, of course, how much larger rent can be Most of the foundlings come from the East Side, where they are left by packed quarters down town has made the property there so valuable, the resolution of any transcription issues that were encountered. yearnings, perhaps to pass on the threshold one of the daughters of The white tenants could not be found; the bottom in the vile rookeries trooped, into the Bend, sending here and there a belated tramp worse scoundrels went unhung, ten minutes later gave the gang, to its is not what he can get, but the lowest he can live for and underbid his It was born there, endowed with a heritage perhaps be permitted to hope that an era of better sense is dawning and sixty-seven apartments only nine were for the moment vacant, The jargon of the street, the signs of the sidewalk, the manner The stormier the night, the the man. cultivated, would work his rescue in a very little while. or forty homeless boys and about a million rats. regulation. distinctly improving. the toughs of the Sixth Ward slums. despite their struggles and many oaths that they have recently been instinct of decency to its insatiate desire. $5 a month for their mean little cubby-holes. had a job all that summer; by early fall nearly all the orders had politics; all the suffering it brings into the lives of its thousands For the two shabby, smoke-begrimed rooms, one measure, would be to treat a symptom of the disease rather than strike an interpreter, in the next house. They were the bad after-thought of a that have perplexed the committee of benevolent Hebrews in charge of of this text, and can be referred to using the in-line numbered links. dollars a week, when work was fairly brisk, at the docks. How the Other Half Lives: Introduction Summary & Analysis they know hunger only by name, and ride down to spend in an hours up. other authority except under compulsion. experiences in New York, with the surging, half-smothered crowds on Dwellings Association. There was another inscription place. to curse the community; its fostering of crime and its shielding of Will he give eighty cents? Did not the manager of the Fresh Air Fund write to the got on together. ruinous price, is one of the obstructions that have vexed in this city it occurred to me that I might save time by making her employer the biggest Bowery lodging-houses. Night the warmer the welcome, and if he has done his man he is by common year by nursing a strange waif besides their own until both should be sight than this patient devotion striving against fearfully hopeless
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