Chapter 12

Addams, Miss J., Chicago work,365,395.Adler, Professor F., reform work,71-72,371,402.Air-shaft in tenements, tenants' uses and peril of,93.Alfred Corning Clark buildings,129,130.Allen Street—Children seeking "the commissioner" for justice,59-60.One-room houses, beginnings of,97.School building,354,357.Anderson, Mrs. A. A., bath gift to city,282.Armenian Christmas tree, contribution of poor children,218.Association for improving condition of the poor—Baths, public,282.Housing reform movement,128.Work of,285.Athletic meets, Crotona Park,366.Bacillus of the slum,62.Balkan peninsula, immigration from,202.Bands, roof playgrounds,389-395.Barney of Cat Alley,333-339.Baron Hirsch Fund,seeHirsch Fund.Baths, public—Anderson, Mrs. A. A., gift,282.Association for improving condition of poor, work of,282.Free river baths,282.Hamilton Fish Park, Tammany use of,149-152.Lack of public baths scandal,281.Mott Street bath,282.Plans for system of municipal baths,282-283.Rivington Street,281.Shower-baths for public schools,283.Battle Row—Gang, Easter service,251-252.Improvement,135.Baxter Street "dens of death,"14,20.Beds, Mills Houses,159.Beginning of the battle,1-4.Bellevue, scandal during Tammany government,66.Bend,seeMulberry Bend.Ben Wah, Mrs., and her parrot, story of,441-449.Beresheim, Jacob—Arrest for murder,227.Birth in tenement,228.Law-breaking,234.Life and environment,227-236.Schooling neglected,231.Berlin death-rate,124.Big Flat, Mott Street—Carriage factory in place of,32.Instance of reform still-born,27.Blacksmith, Patrick Mullen,413-414.Bleeker Street house,seeMills Houses.B'nai B'rith "removal plan,"215.Bone Alley, destruction,279-281,285.Boss, character of,420-429.Bottle Alley, Whyó gang headquarters,272,308.Bowery lodging houses,seeLodging houses.Boxing match,430.Boys—Clubs,see thattitle.Crime,see thattitle.Farm colony for young vagrants,127,172,350.Fathers' authority lost,237-238.Future of—effect of political influences,225-226.Gangs,see thattitle.Increase of child crime,225,240-242.Military spirit,247,255.Play, necessity of,233.Summer excursions, Mr. Schwab's proposition,405-406.Type of East Side boy,seeBeresheim, Jacob."Weakness not wickedness" reformatory verdict,244.Brass bands, school roof playgrounds,389-395.Brick sandwiches,224.British Museum, stone arm exhibit, message of warning,111-112.Bronx—Crotona Park athletic meets,366.Primary school 1895, condition,348.Brooklyn—Riverside tenements,135,140.Weeks, L. S., murder,156.Bruin, Madame, school punishments,341-342.Buck, Miss W., management of boys' clubs,373,383.Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment,20-21.Building Department, supervision of tenement lighting, etc.,104.Byrnes, Inspector—lodging houses as nurseries of crime,54,156."Cadets," Tammany organization,74.Capmaker, Polish, home in Stanton Street tenement,76-80.Cat Alley—Barney,333-339.Charity of the Alley,322-325.Children of the Alley,330-331.Cosmopolitan population,314-316.Dago eviction,314.Deaths and funerals,325-330.Demolition,337-340.Description and occupation,312-313."Fat One,"326,329.French couple,315-316.Irish population,314,316-320.Marriages, early, and second marriages,325.Mott Street scrap,320-322.Name, mystery as to origin,312.Tragedy averted,323.Trilby,331-333.Walsh, Mrs., funeral,329-330.Widows,325-326.Catherine Street, condition before destruction,119.Cellars, Park Street,20.Census—Death-rate,see thattitle.School census,349.Charity of the poor, instances of,216-222,322-225,445.Charity Organization Society, tenement reform movement,143,147.Chicago—Church, basement dwellers in neighborhood of,181.Hull House kindergarten, harvest picture incident,365.Parks,410.Playground,304-305,439.School excursions,362.Slums, outlook,17.Child labor, East Side,43-44,185,186.Children—Boys,see thattitle.Cat Alley,330-331.Clubs,see thattitle.Increase of child crime,225,240-242.Landlords of tenements, Greenwood story,96.Neglect of,225-226,233.Schools,see thattitle.Tagging lost children proposed,92.Tenements as "infant slaughter houses,"37.Children's Aid Society—Report as to condition and neglect of children,225.Rescue of boys,245.Cholera panic,1866,4,29.Christmas trees—Armenian, contribution of poor children,218.Gotham Court,311.Santa Claus in the slums,94,310-311.Church Federation, Fifteenth Assembly District—Baths, investigation,281.Educational agencies and saloons,129-130,292.Churches—Movement up-town,232.Neglect of the young,232.Reform movement attitude,399,435-437.Citizens' council of hygiene, report 1866,19.City and Suburban Homes Company—Erection of model tenements,129-137.Homewood plan,137-138.Management,136.City History Club, work of,379.Cleaning the streets, Colonel Waring's work,45-46,268-272,415.Clubs—Buck, Miss W., work of,373,383.East Side boys' demand for club room,372.Gangs,see thattitle.Good Government Clubs,see thattitle.Jackson Pleasure Club, School No. 160,374-377.Meeting, management of Miss W. Buck,373.People's Club, work of,381.Saloon room,372.School classroom plan,372-374.Willard, D., work of,378-379.College settlement,seeUniversity settlement.Colored people,seeNegroes.Committee of Fifteen, evidence of Tammany corruption,74.Consumers' League, work of,196-201.Convalescents' home, gift for,396.Cooking classes, advantages of,367-368.Cooper Institute, educational work,380.Cottages, Homewood plan,137-138.Crime—Boys,see thattitle.Child crime, increase of,225,240-242.Gangs,see thattitle.Italian criminals discovered in Mulberry Street,204-205.Lodging houses as "nurseries of crime,"54,156."Weakness not wickedness," reformatory verdict,244.[See alsoMurdersandRobberies.]Croker, R.—Abdication,75.Election of 1900,73.[See alsoTammany.]Crotona Park athletic meets,366.Crowding,seeOvercrowding."Cruller fire," tenement house,88.Cutting, R. F., erection of homes for working people,129.Dalmatia, immigration from,202.Dancing, school roof playgrounds,392-793.Death-rates—Berlin,124.Double-deckers, lowest mortality,114-115.First Ward,116.Five Points "dens of death,"16.Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance,125-126.Mott Street barracks,123.Rear tenants scandal,115.Reduction, council of hygiene's judgment,19.Reform effects on,125-126.Deaths in Cat Alley,325-330.Death's Thoroughfare, Old Church tenements,16.Democratic government imperilled by existence of slum,6.Demolition of dangerous property,114,116-125,140,272-280,310-311,337-340."Dens of Death,"14,16,20.Destitution encouraged by free lunch, lodging, etc.,170,172.Destruction of property,seeDemolition.Devil's money—campaign against Tammany,1901,63-75."Discretion" clause, tenement building,88,105,107,148.Disease—disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition,1900,143-147.Dispossessed tenants, rehousing,286-287.Doctor, woman doctor, Dr. J. E. Robbins,205-206.Dog, Trilby of Cat Alley,331-333.Double-deckers—Cause of overcrowding,102.Description and condemnation by Tenement House Commission,102-103.Doom of,82-85,148,149.Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection,99-102.Mortality rate, lowest,114-115.Solid block,105.Drunkards and slum homes,23."Druv into decency,"113-114.Dwellings of the poor,seeTenements.Eagle, Ellis Island,202-204.East River barge, winter lodgings,1896,170-172.East River Park, sacred grass,301.Education,seeSchools.Education Board, work of,365-366.Educational Alliance—Roof garden,388.Work among Jews,382.Eldridge Street tenement, unlighted halls,91-92.Eleventh Ward, overcrowding statistics,82.Elizabeth Street—Giant,331.Midnight inspection of tenements,99-102.Sewing "pants" at thirty cents a day,183.Elliot, Dr., subscriptions for guild house,402.Ellis Island eagle,202-204.Elsing, Mr., children of Sunday-school, contribution to Armenian Christmas tree,218.Emigration,seeImmigration.Enforcement of the law, necessity of,47,223,235,415,418.Essex Street, attempt to establish park,294.Excursions, Mr. Schwab's proposition,405-406.Exhibition, tenement house, 1900, effect of,143-147.Experimenting with the school,403-410.Eyes inspection, public school children,358-359.Factory tenements, disapproval of,134.Farming—Farm colony for young vagrants,127,172,350.Jewish farming abilities,215.Truck farming on site of Stryker's Hill,366.Fat boiling in tenements, cause of fires,88."Fat One" of Cat Alley,326,329.Federal Government slum inquiry,61,97,175.Fifteenth Assembly District,seeChurch Federation.Fire-engine horses, fate of,425.Fires in tenement houses—Air-shaft, danger of,93."Cruller fire,"88.Non-enforcement of law as to fireproof material,87-89.First Ward death-rate,116.Five Points—Mortality rate,16.Wiping out in 1850, Wisconsin farmer's work,14.Flag, flying, value of,209-211.Foreign population—Child labor and education,185-186.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Proportion,175-176.Forest, R. W. de, chairman of Tenement House Commission of 1900,147.Forsyth Street tragedies,86.Foster, R., fight with tenement landlords,124.Fourth Ward, examination of girls' school,355-357.Fourth Ward slum,16.Fraunces' Tavern, historical association,380.Free lunch, lodging, etc., vagrancy encouraged by,170,172.French couple, Cat Alley,315-316."Frills," Hester Street roof playground,342,359,360,403.Funerals—Cat Alley,329-330.Slum interest and excitement,109.Gambling, characteristic of Italian immigrant,186.Gangs—Battle Row, Easter service,251-252.College settlement work, success of,248-249.Genesis of, environment of boy's career,235-247.Hook gang,288.Long Island story,250.Whyó gang headquarters,272,308.Women's work and success,251.[See alsoBoys.]Gehegan, Mrs., of Cat Alley,319.Genesis of the gang, environments of boy's career,236-247.German destitution and charity, story of,217-218.Giant, Elizabeth Street,331.Gibbon, quotation from Vitruvius as to height of dwellings,11.Giddings, Professor F. H., child labor investigation,185.Gilder Tenement House Commission, work of,88,105,108,116,228,276,279,281.Golden Gate Association, kindergarten record,245.Good Government Clubs—Tammany condemnation of,126.Work of, 1896-97,127,128,279,371,372.Gotham Court—Beginnings of reformation,23-27.Christmas tree,311.Destruction of dangerous property,118,119.Gould, Dr. E. R. L., president of company for erection of homes for poor,129,133,138,139.Government by the people imperilled by existence of slum,6.Government slum inquiry,61,97,175.Grand Street, soap factories prohibited below,107.Grant, Mayor, reform work,45-46.Graveyard as playground,302.Great Robbery, city treasury,4-5,285.Green Dragon yard, London,26-27.Gun-maker Patrick Mullen,413-414.Hamilton Fish Park—Restoration,296.Uselessness of,149-152,295.Health Board—Tammany negligence,64,67.Tenement landlords, fights with,30,37.Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance,125-126.Hebrew Institute—Educational Alliance work,382.Roof garden,305-307.Hebrews,seeJews.Hell's Kitchen—Improvement,51-52.Negro possession, desolate appearance,110.Helvetia House demolition,285.Hester Street—School—Club room,373.Nature studies,363-364.Roof playground,342,359-360.Wheat lesson,363.Street-cleaning,45.Hewitt, A. S.—Chairman of Advisory Committee on Small Parks,287.Neglect of the children,233.Ten years reform theory,287.Hirsch Fund—Educational work in Hebrew Institute,382.New Jersey, aid to Jewish colonies,213.Holy Terror Park,302.Home libraries in the tenements,382-383.Homes—Homewood cottage scheme, failure of,137-138.Lack of home-life—Need of neighborliness,398-403.Warning,111-112.New Jersey, Jewish colonies,212-215.New Orange, scheme abandoned,214.Rallying points of civilization,80.Slum an enemy of,7.Homewood cottages, failure of scheme,137-138.Hook gang,288.Horses, fire-engine, fate of,425.Hotels—Mills Houses,see thattitle.Stewart, A. T., failure of hotel,29,165-166.Woman's Hotel for working women, need of,166-168.Housing of the poor,seeTenements."Hudson-bank" park—Success of,292.Truck farming on site of Stryker's Lane,366.Hudson Guild, subscriptions for guild house,402.Hull House Kindergarten, Chicago, harvest picture incident,365.Immigration—City destination, mistake of,207-208.Distribution necessary,208,212.Ellis Island eagle,202-204.Inspection before embarkation at foreign port,206,207.Italian statistics and incidents,176-181.Jewish,191-192.Naturalization papers, fraudulent,186,190,207.Restriction, enforcement of law,206.School as means of enrolment,211,212.Shutting the door problem,204-206.Tammany slum politics,186-191,211.Irish people—Cat Alley tenants,314,316-320.Eviction in tenements,110-111.Italians—Cat Alley, Dago eviction,314.Charges of dirtiness and ignorance,181-183.Child labor,185.Criminals discovered in Mulberry Street,204-205.Elizabeth Street tenements inspection,100-101.Gambling,186.Home scene—sewing "pants,"184.Immigration statistics and incidents,176-181.Naturalization papers, fraudulent, and illegal registration,186-191.Politics of the slum,186-191.Underbidding the Jew,183.Jackson Pleasure Club, School No. 160,374-377.Jerome, W. T., campaign of 1901,74.Jersey Street, clearance and factory erections,32-34.Jews—Charges against, at citizens,192.Educational work among,382.Farming abilities,215.Glazier, story of,384.Hebrew Institute,see thattitle.Immigrants,191-192.Material for good citizens,192-193.New Jersey colonies,212-215.Orchard Street, dwelling under stairs,95."Removal plan" started by B'nai B'rith,215.Roof garden, Hebrew Institute,305-307.Sweating,194.Tailors' quarrel,183.Jim and his mother, story of,256-263.Juvenile Asylum for burglars and truants,349.Kelly, Mrs., and Jim, story of,256-263.Kerosene Row demolition,285.Kerosene stoves, odor of tenements,92."Kid"—Battle Row gang, Easter service,251-252.Kindergarten record, San Francisco,245.Kindergarten system, benefit of,365-367.Klotz, Madame, of Cat Alley,316.

Addams, Miss J., Chicago work,365,395.Adler, Professor F., reform work,71-72,371,402.Air-shaft in tenements, tenants' uses and peril of,93.Alfred Corning Clark buildings,129,130.Allen Street—Children seeking "the commissioner" for justice,59-60.One-room houses, beginnings of,97.School building,354,357.Anderson, Mrs. A. A., bath gift to city,282.Armenian Christmas tree, contribution of poor children,218.Association for improving condition of the poor—Baths, public,282.Housing reform movement,128.Work of,285.Athletic meets, Crotona Park,366.

Bacillus of the slum,62.Balkan peninsula, immigration from,202.Bands, roof playgrounds,389-395.Barney of Cat Alley,333-339.Baron Hirsch Fund,seeHirsch Fund.Baths, public—Anderson, Mrs. A. A., gift,282.Association for improving condition of poor, work of,282.Free river baths,282.Hamilton Fish Park, Tammany use of,149-152.Lack of public baths scandal,281.Mott Street bath,282.Plans for system of municipal baths,282-283.Rivington Street,281.Shower-baths for public schools,283.Battle Row—Gang, Easter service,251-252.Improvement,135.Baxter Street "dens of death,"14,20.Beds, Mills Houses,159.Beginning of the battle,1-4.Bellevue, scandal during Tammany government,66.Bend,seeMulberry Bend.Ben Wah, Mrs., and her parrot, story of,441-449.Beresheim, Jacob—Arrest for murder,227.Birth in tenement,228.Law-breaking,234.Life and environment,227-236.Schooling neglected,231.Berlin death-rate,124.Big Flat, Mott Street—Carriage factory in place of,32.Instance of reform still-born,27.Blacksmith, Patrick Mullen,413-414.Bleeker Street house,seeMills Houses.B'nai B'rith "removal plan,"215.Bone Alley, destruction,279-281,285.Boss, character of,420-429.Bottle Alley, Whyó gang headquarters,272,308.Bowery lodging houses,seeLodging houses.Boxing match,430.Boys—Clubs,see thattitle.Crime,see thattitle.Farm colony for young vagrants,127,172,350.Fathers' authority lost,237-238.Future of—effect of political influences,225-226.Gangs,see thattitle.Increase of child crime,225,240-242.Military spirit,247,255.Play, necessity of,233.Summer excursions, Mr. Schwab's proposition,405-406.Type of East Side boy,seeBeresheim, Jacob."Weakness not wickedness" reformatory verdict,244.Brass bands, school roof playgrounds,389-395.Brick sandwiches,224.British Museum, stone arm exhibit, message of warning,111-112.Bronx—Crotona Park athletic meets,366.Primary school 1895, condition,348.Brooklyn—Riverside tenements,135,140.Weeks, L. S., murder,156.Bruin, Madame, school punishments,341-342.Buck, Miss W., management of boys' clubs,373,383.Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment,20-21.Building Department, supervision of tenement lighting, etc.,104.Byrnes, Inspector—lodging houses as nurseries of crime,54,156.

"Cadets," Tammany organization,74.Capmaker, Polish, home in Stanton Street tenement,76-80.Cat Alley—Barney,333-339.Charity of the Alley,322-325.Children of the Alley,330-331.Cosmopolitan population,314-316.Dago eviction,314.Deaths and funerals,325-330.Demolition,337-340.Description and occupation,312-313."Fat One,"326,329.French couple,315-316.Irish population,314,316-320.Marriages, early, and second marriages,325.Mott Street scrap,320-322.Name, mystery as to origin,312.Tragedy averted,323.Trilby,331-333.Walsh, Mrs., funeral,329-330.Widows,325-326.Catherine Street, condition before destruction,119.Cellars, Park Street,20.Census—Death-rate,see thattitle.School census,349.Charity of the poor, instances of,216-222,322-225,445.Charity Organization Society, tenement reform movement,143,147.Chicago—Church, basement dwellers in neighborhood of,181.Hull House kindergarten, harvest picture incident,365.Parks,410.Playground,304-305,439.School excursions,362.Slums, outlook,17.Child labor, East Side,43-44,185,186.Children—Boys,see thattitle.Cat Alley,330-331.Clubs,see thattitle.Increase of child crime,225,240-242.Landlords of tenements, Greenwood story,96.Neglect of,225-226,233.Schools,see thattitle.Tagging lost children proposed,92.Tenements as "infant slaughter houses,"37.Children's Aid Society—Report as to condition and neglect of children,225.Rescue of boys,245.Cholera panic,1866,4,29.Christmas trees—Armenian, contribution of poor children,218.Gotham Court,311.Santa Claus in the slums,94,310-311.Church Federation, Fifteenth Assembly District—Baths, investigation,281.Educational agencies and saloons,129-130,292.Churches—Movement up-town,232.Neglect of the young,232.Reform movement attitude,399,435-437.Citizens' council of hygiene, report 1866,19.City and Suburban Homes Company—Erection of model tenements,129-137.Homewood plan,137-138.Management,136.City History Club, work of,379.Cleaning the streets, Colonel Waring's work,45-46,268-272,415.Clubs—Buck, Miss W., work of,373,383.East Side boys' demand for club room,372.Gangs,see thattitle.Good Government Clubs,see thattitle.Jackson Pleasure Club, School No. 160,374-377.Meeting, management of Miss W. Buck,373.People's Club, work of,381.Saloon room,372.School classroom plan,372-374.Willard, D., work of,378-379.College settlement,seeUniversity settlement.Colored people,seeNegroes.Committee of Fifteen, evidence of Tammany corruption,74.Consumers' League, work of,196-201.Convalescents' home, gift for,396.Cooking classes, advantages of,367-368.Cooper Institute, educational work,380.Cottages, Homewood plan,137-138.Crime—Boys,see thattitle.Child crime, increase of,225,240-242.Gangs,see thattitle.Italian criminals discovered in Mulberry Street,204-205.Lodging houses as "nurseries of crime,"54,156."Weakness not wickedness," reformatory verdict,244.[See alsoMurdersandRobberies.]Croker, R.—Abdication,75.Election of 1900,73.[See alsoTammany.]Crotona Park athletic meets,366.Crowding,seeOvercrowding."Cruller fire," tenement house,88.Cutting, R. F., erection of homes for working people,129.

Dalmatia, immigration from,202.Dancing, school roof playgrounds,392-793.Death-rates—Berlin,124.Double-deckers, lowest mortality,114-115.First Ward,116.Five Points "dens of death,"16.Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance,125-126.Mott Street barracks,123.Rear tenants scandal,115.Reduction, council of hygiene's judgment,19.Reform effects on,125-126.Deaths in Cat Alley,325-330.Death's Thoroughfare, Old Church tenements,16.Democratic government imperilled by existence of slum,6.Demolition of dangerous property,114,116-125,140,272-280,310-311,337-340."Dens of Death,"14,16,20.Destitution encouraged by free lunch, lodging, etc.,170,172.Destruction of property,seeDemolition.Devil's money—campaign against Tammany,1901,63-75."Discretion" clause, tenement building,88,105,107,148.Disease—disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition,1900,143-147.Dispossessed tenants, rehousing,286-287.Doctor, woman doctor, Dr. J. E. Robbins,205-206.Dog, Trilby of Cat Alley,331-333.Double-deckers—Cause of overcrowding,102.Description and condemnation by Tenement House Commission,102-103.Doom of,82-85,148,149.Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection,99-102.Mortality rate, lowest,114-115.Solid block,105.Drunkards and slum homes,23."Druv into decency,"113-114.Dwellings of the poor,seeTenements.

Eagle, Ellis Island,202-204.East River barge, winter lodgings,1896,170-172.East River Park, sacred grass,301.Education,seeSchools.Education Board, work of,365-366.Educational Alliance—Roof garden,388.Work among Jews,382.Eldridge Street tenement, unlighted halls,91-92.Eleventh Ward, overcrowding statistics,82.Elizabeth Street—Giant,331.Midnight inspection of tenements,99-102.Sewing "pants" at thirty cents a day,183.Elliot, Dr., subscriptions for guild house,402.Ellis Island eagle,202-204.Elsing, Mr., children of Sunday-school, contribution to Armenian Christmas tree,218.Emigration,seeImmigration.Enforcement of the law, necessity of,47,223,235,415,418.Essex Street, attempt to establish park,294.Excursions, Mr. Schwab's proposition,405-406.Exhibition, tenement house, 1900, effect of,143-147.Experimenting with the school,403-410.Eyes inspection, public school children,358-359.

Factory tenements, disapproval of,134.Farming—Farm colony for young vagrants,127,172,350.Jewish farming abilities,215.Truck farming on site of Stryker's Hill,366.Fat boiling in tenements, cause of fires,88."Fat One" of Cat Alley,326,329.Federal Government slum inquiry,61,97,175.Fifteenth Assembly District,seeChurch Federation.Fire-engine horses, fate of,425.Fires in tenement houses—Air-shaft, danger of,93."Cruller fire,"88.Non-enforcement of law as to fireproof material,87-89.First Ward death-rate,116.Five Points—Mortality rate,16.Wiping out in 1850, Wisconsin farmer's work,14.Flag, flying, value of,209-211.Foreign population—Child labor and education,185-186.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Proportion,175-176.Forest, R. W. de, chairman of Tenement House Commission of 1900,147.Forsyth Street tragedies,86.Foster, R., fight with tenement landlords,124.Fourth Ward, examination of girls' school,355-357.Fourth Ward slum,16.Fraunces' Tavern, historical association,380.Free lunch, lodging, etc., vagrancy encouraged by,170,172.French couple, Cat Alley,315-316."Frills," Hester Street roof playground,342,359,360,403.Funerals—Cat Alley,329-330.Slum interest and excitement,109.

Gambling, characteristic of Italian immigrant,186.Gangs—Battle Row, Easter service,251-252.College settlement work, success of,248-249.Genesis of, environment of boy's career,235-247.Hook gang,288.Long Island story,250.Whyó gang headquarters,272,308.Women's work and success,251.[See alsoBoys.]Gehegan, Mrs., of Cat Alley,319.Genesis of the gang, environments of boy's career,236-247.German destitution and charity, story of,217-218.Giant, Elizabeth Street,331.Gibbon, quotation from Vitruvius as to height of dwellings,11.Giddings, Professor F. H., child labor investigation,185.Gilder Tenement House Commission, work of,88,105,108,116,228,276,279,281.Golden Gate Association, kindergarten record,245.Good Government Clubs—Tammany condemnation of,126.Work of, 1896-97,127,128,279,371,372.Gotham Court—Beginnings of reformation,23-27.Christmas tree,311.Destruction of dangerous property,118,119.Gould, Dr. E. R. L., president of company for erection of homes for poor,129,133,138,139.Government by the people imperilled by existence of slum,6.Government slum inquiry,61,97,175.Grand Street, soap factories prohibited below,107.Grant, Mayor, reform work,45-46.Graveyard as playground,302.Great Robbery, city treasury,4-5,285.Green Dragon yard, London,26-27.Gun-maker Patrick Mullen,413-414.

Hamilton Fish Park—Restoration,296.Uselessness of,149-152,295.Health Board—Tammany negligence,64,67.Tenement landlords, fights with,30,37.Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance,125-126.Hebrew Institute—Educational Alliance work,382.Roof garden,305-307.Hebrews,seeJews.Hell's Kitchen—Improvement,51-52.Negro possession, desolate appearance,110.Helvetia House demolition,285.Hester Street—School—Club room,373.Nature studies,363-364.Roof playground,342,359-360.Wheat lesson,363.Street-cleaning,45.Hewitt, A. S.—Chairman of Advisory Committee on Small Parks,287.Neglect of the children,233.Ten years reform theory,287.Hirsch Fund—Educational work in Hebrew Institute,382.New Jersey, aid to Jewish colonies,213.Holy Terror Park,302.Home libraries in the tenements,382-383.Homes—Homewood cottage scheme, failure of,137-138.Lack of home-life—Need of neighborliness,398-403.Warning,111-112.New Jersey, Jewish colonies,212-215.New Orange, scheme abandoned,214.Rallying points of civilization,80.Slum an enemy of,7.Homewood cottages, failure of scheme,137-138.Hook gang,288.Horses, fire-engine, fate of,425.Hotels—Mills Houses,see thattitle.Stewart, A. T., failure of hotel,29,165-166.Woman's Hotel for working women, need of,166-168.Housing of the poor,seeTenements."Hudson-bank" park—Success of,292.Truck farming on site of Stryker's Lane,366.Hudson Guild, subscriptions for guild house,402.Hull House Kindergarten, Chicago, harvest picture incident,365.

Immigration—City destination, mistake of,207-208.Distribution necessary,208,212.Ellis Island eagle,202-204.Inspection before embarkation at foreign port,206,207.Italian statistics and incidents,176-181.Jewish,191-192.Naturalization papers, fraudulent,186,190,207.Restriction, enforcement of law,206.School as means of enrolment,211,212.Shutting the door problem,204-206.Tammany slum politics,186-191,211.Irish people—Cat Alley tenants,314,316-320.Eviction in tenements,110-111.Italians—Cat Alley, Dago eviction,314.Charges of dirtiness and ignorance,181-183.Child labor,185.Criminals discovered in Mulberry Street,204-205.Elizabeth Street tenements inspection,100-101.Gambling,186.Home scene—sewing "pants,"184.Immigration statistics and incidents,176-181.Naturalization papers, fraudulent, and illegal registration,186-191.Politics of the slum,186-191.Underbidding the Jew,183.

Jackson Pleasure Club, School No. 160,374-377.Jerome, W. T., campaign of 1901,74.Jersey Street, clearance and factory erections,32-34.Jews—Charges against, at citizens,192.Educational work among,382.Farming abilities,215.Glazier, story of,384.Hebrew Institute,see thattitle.Immigrants,191-192.Material for good citizens,192-193.New Jersey colonies,212-215.Orchard Street, dwelling under stairs,95."Removal plan" started by B'nai B'rith,215.Roof garden, Hebrew Institute,305-307.Sweating,194.Tailors' quarrel,183.Jim and his mother, story of,256-263.Juvenile Asylum for burglars and truants,349.

Kelly, Mrs., and Jim, story of,256-263.Kerosene Row demolition,285.Kerosene stoves, odor of tenements,92."Kid"—Battle Row gang, Easter service,251-252.Kindergarten record, San Francisco,245.Kindergarten system, benefit of,365-367.Klotz, Madame, of Cat Alley,316.


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