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Laundries of model tenement houses,136.Law, enforcement,47,223,235,415,418.League for Political Education, reform work,247.Leipziger, Dr., evening classes,403.Lexow disclosures,5,41,66.Libraries—Free library system, erection of buildings,397.Home libraries in the tenements,382-383.Licensing of tenements,153.Lights in halls of tenements, non-enforcement of law,90-92.Lodging houses—Competition of Mills Houses,161.East River barge, winter lodgings, 1896,170-172.Mills Houses,see thattitle."Nurseries of Crime,"54,156.Police station lodging rooms,48-50,169-170.Problem of,159.London—British Museum exhibit, warning message,111-112.Green Dragon yard,26-27.Ragged school, factory nuisance incident,117.Seven Dials, reformation, "druv into decency,"113-114.Long Island—Homewood plan,137-138.Stewart house, failure of,165-166.Lost children, tagging proposed,92.Low, Mayor—Election,75.Reform government, school erections,44.Roof playgrounds,389.M'Carthy, Mrs., of Cat Alley,316.Mahoney, Miss, of Cat Alley,319.Market, Colonel Waring's scheme,273.Marriages in Cat Alley,325.Massachusetts—Demolition of dangerous houses,123.Tenement labor, registry system,200.Massachusetts, U.S.S., cost of,346.Medical inspection of schools, fight for,357.Menu, Mills House,160.Meyer, D., thief,238.Meyer, F., murderer,98.Mike of Poverty Gap,239-240.Mills, D. O.,seeMills Houses.Mills Houses—Beds,159.Business management,158.Erection of hotels,128.Fame and success of,162,165.Housing capacity,161.Menu,160.Privileges of,159.Thieves, safety from,162.Mississippi River town, reservation of vacant land,17.Model tenements, erection and success of,128-137.Mooney, William, founder of Tammany, character of,64.Mortality rates,seeDeath-rates.Mott Street—Barracks—Death-rate,123.Destruction,118,120-124.Legal proceedings,120,123.Bath, public,282.Big Flat,see thattitle.Cat Alley scrap,320-322.Trilby, gang in pursuit,332.Mulberry Bend—Bottle Alley,see thattitle.Description,39-40.Destruction,39-41,51.Campaign difficulties,272-276.Cost of,275.Wrecked square—Accident to children,270.Nuisance,276.Effect of reform,307-309.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,seeParks 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.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.Parks and playgrounds—Advisory committee, action,287-291.Chicago,304-305,410,439.Crotona Park, athletic meets,366.East River Park, sacred grass,301.Effect of,288-289,307-309.Essex Street, attempt to establish park,294.Gilder law,276,279.Graveyard as playground,302.Hamilton Fish Park,see thathamiltonfishpark.Hebrew Institute, roof garden,305-307.Holy Terror Park,302."Hudson-bank,"see thattitle.Mulberry Bend,see thattitle.Naming of,374-375.Outdoor Recreation League,see thattitle.Poverty Gap playground,302.Proportion of park area down-town,279.Recreation piers,292,296,299.Rivington Street, attempt to establish park,293.Roof playgrounds,see thattitle.School playgrounds,seeSchools.Seward Park,see thattitle.Small Parks law,see thattitle.Tammany neglect,67,309.Tenement plots,107,108.Thieves' Alley site,286.Parrot of Mrs. Ben Wah, story of,441-449.People's Club, work of,381.People's Institute, educational work,380.People's University Extension Society, work of,381.Piers, recreation piers,292,296,299.Playgrounds,seeParks and playgrounds.Play piers,292,296,299.Police Board conspiracy,417.Policemen, candidates' examination papers,220-221.Police station lodging rooms,48-50,169-170.Policy swindle,418.Polish capmaker, home in Stanton Street tenement,76-80.Political Education League, reform work,247.Political meetings in school buildings proposed,407-408.Political tenements,149,152.Poor, improvement,seeAssociation for improving condition of the poor.Population—Cat Alley,314-316.Census,see thattitle.Charity of the poor, instances of,216-222,322-325,445.Death-rate,see thattitle.Foreign population,see thattitle.Increase statistics,81-83.Inquiry by United States government, disclosures,175.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Movement,133.Overcrowding,see thattitle.Sweating,see thattitle.Potter, Bishop—Arraignment of Tammany corruption,70-73.Pro-Cathedral, Stanton Street,72,182.Religious organizations,182.Poverty Gap—Improvement,51-52.Mike, of Poverty Gap,239-240.Neckties,51.Playground,302.Prague, picture of city, incident,204.Prison,seeTombs.Prostitution, Tammany organization,69-74.Public baths,seeBaths.Public Education Association, reform work,371,372,378.Public schools,seeSchools.Push-cart men, Colonel Waring's market scheme,273.Quaker, builder of Gotham Court,25.Rear tenements,seeTenements.Recreation piers,292,296,299.Recruiting thief,156,164.Reformatory report on weak character of boys,244.Reform by humane touch,411-440.Reform effects in thirteen years,42-54.Reform programme,283-285.River baths, free,282.Riverside tenements built by A. T. White,135,140.Rivington Street—Bath-house,281.Mills Houses,see thattitle.Park, attempt to establish,293.Robberies—Great Robbery, city treasury,4-5,285.Meyer, D., thief,238.Recruiting thief,156,164.Tweed, thief,4-5,285.Robbins, Dr. Jane E., woman doctor in the slums,205-206.Rome, slums of,9-11.Roof gardens—Educational Alliance building,388.Hebrew Institute,305-307.Roof playgrounds, public schools,291,342.Brass bands,389-395.Fight for,385-389.Hester Street school,342,359-360.Success of,389-439.Roosevelt, Theodore—Election as Governor,56.Law enforcement,47,235,415,418.Reform administration,50,414-418.Tenement House Commission appointed,1900,147.Roosevelt Street tenement, demolition of,124.Roses, Hester Street school,364.St. Andrew's Brotherhood, school children excursion schemes,362.Saloons—Cheer and social life of tenements,419-420.Club room for boys provided,372.Fight with Roosevelt, record of week of crime,418.Sandwiches—brick sandwiches,224.San Francisco, kindergarten record,245.Santa Claus in the slums,310-311.[See alsoChristmas trees.]Scarlet fever epidemic traced to public school,358.Schools, public—Allen Street building,354,357.Appropriation for new schools,44,346.Barrel and hog punishments,341-342.Board of Education, work of,365-366.Bronx primary school, 1895, condition of,348.Building, perfection of Snyder schools,353.Census,349.Charges and facts,342-345.Clubs, classroom opened for,372-374.Compulsory education law, non-enforcement,231.Control, abolition of ward trustee, etc.,347,348.Cooking classes,367-368.Excursion schemes,362.Experimenting,403-410.Eyes inspection,358-359.Fourth Ward, examination of girls,355-357.Hester Street,see thattitle.Immigrants, school as means of enrolment,211,212.Kindergartens, benefit of,365-367.Lack of schools,43,186.Medical inspection fight,357.Mental befogment results,230.Nature lessons,361-364.Neighborhood purposes,387,398-410.Number and naming of schools,374,375.Playgrounds—Advisory committee report,290-291.Roof playgrounds,see thattitle.Political meetings in, suggested,407-408.Public Education Association, reform work,371,372,378.Punishments in Madame Bruin's school,341-342.Recreative purposes,361.Reform fight,44-45,283,345-371.Scarlet fever epidemic traced to public school,358.Seats, "dead-line,"408-409.Shower-baths,283.Social movement, use of the public school,398-410.Sunday opening proposed,399-403.Teachers' attitude to reform,369-371."Three H's" and "Three R's,"368,387.Tombs, school for boys awaiting trial,378,379.Tompkins Square lodging house evening classes,226.Truant school,241,242,349,350.Woman's work in reform,371,377,379.Schwab, Mr., summer excursions for boys,405-406.Settlement,seeUniversity Settlement.Seven Dials reformation, "druv into decency,"113-114.Seward Park—Crowds at play,302-304.Delay in promised park,295.Gymnastics,302-303.Work started on,296.Sheds, tenants in,98.Shower-baths for public schools,283.Silver campaign, Irish laborer story,217.Slaughter houses, rear tenements condemned as,37,105,116.Slovak immigration,202.Slums—Bacillus of the slum,62.Beginning of the battle,1-4.Chicago outlook,17.Clubs,see thattitle.Crime,see thattitle.Democratic government imperilled by,6."Druv into decency,"113-114.Funeral show,109.Inquiry by United States government,61,97,175.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Making of the slum,1.Military band,252,255.Parks,see thattitle.Population,see thattitle.Rome,9-11.Schools,see thattitle.Sensations and shows,109.Stroll through tenement-house neighborhood,86-108.Sweating,see thattitle.Tammany,see thattitle.Tenements,see thattitle.Tuberculosis,194-196,300.Small parks law,287.Advisory committee action,287-291.Lost appropriation,40.Origin of,274.Smallpox epidemics,29,34,64,67.Snyder, builder of schools,353.Soap factories prohibited below Grand Street,107.Social halls scheme,420.Social movement, use of the public school,398-410.Soup—end of free soup,47.Stanton Street—Polish capmaker, home of,76-80.Pro-Cathedral,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 thattitle.Tammany—Boss, character of,420-429.Campaign of 1901 against,63-75.Croker, R.,see thattitle.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,seePopulation.Tenement House Commission—Appointment, 1900,147.Gilder,see thattitle."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.Tenements—Air-shaft, tenants' uses and peril of,93.Alfred Corning Clark buildings,129,130.Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment,20-21.Building Department supervision,104.Children,see thattitle.Christmas trees,see thattitle.Citizens' council of hygiene, report, 1866,19.City and Suburban Homes Company,see thattitle.City control of building proposed,152.Death-rate,see thattitle."Dens of death,"14,20.Destruction,seeDemolition."Discretion" clause in building laws,88,105,107,148.Disease—disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition, 1900,143-147.Double-deckers,see thattitle.Factory tenements, disapproval of,134.Filthy condition, landlord's excuse,13.Fires,see thattitle.First chapter in story of,11.Gilder Commission, work of,88,105,108,116,228,276,279,281.Halls, unlighted,90-92.Health board fights,30,37.Height and jerry-building,11-13.Home libraries,382-383.Increase in population and overcrowding,81-83."Infant slaughter houses,"37.Irish people,see thattitle.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Kerosene stove, odor of,92.Landlord's profits,90.Licensing,153.Model tenements, erection and success of,128-137.Negroes,see thattitle.One-room house, beginnings of,97.Open spaces,seeParks.Opposition to improvement,30-31.Overcrowding,see thattitle.Parks,see thattitle.Plans for improvements,37.Political tenements,149,152.Population,see thattitle.Rear tenements—Condemned as "slaughter houses,"37,105,116.Death-rate scandal,115-116.Demolition,114.Report of select committee of assembly,1857,12-13.Rome,11.Standard of space for adults and children,97.Sunlight, assessment of value,94.Sweating,see thattitle.Tenants,seePopulation.Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of,142,148,149.Up-town and down-town,109-111.Water supply, lack of,181.[See alsoSlums.]Thieves,seeRobberies.Thieves' Alley demolition,285,286.Tombs—Demolition, proposed preservation of gates,5.School for boys awaiting trial,378,379.Tweed, thief in,4.Tompkins Square—Beresheim, Jacob,see thattitle.Evening classes failure,226.Tracy, Dr. R. S., mortality records,116.Tramp vote, Tammany's use of,48.Trilby of Cat Alley,331-333.Trinity Church, opposition as tenement-house landlord,30.Truant school, fight for,241,242,349,350.Truck farming on site of Stryker's Lane,366.Trucks, street obstructions, disappearance,45-46,269-270.Tuberculosis in the slums,194-196,300.Tweed, thief,4-5,285.Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of,142,148,149.

Laundries of model tenement houses,136.Law, enforcement,47,223,235,415,418.League for Political Education, reform work,247.Leipziger, Dr., evening classes,403.Lexow disclosures,5,41,66.Libraries—Free library system, erection of buildings,397.Home libraries in the tenements,382-383.Licensing of tenements,153.Lights in halls of tenements, non-enforcement of law,90-92.Lodging houses—Competition of Mills Houses,161.East River barge, winter lodgings, 1896,170-172.Mills Houses,see thattitle."Nurseries of Crime,"54,156.Police station lodging rooms,48-50,169-170.Problem of,159.London—British Museum exhibit, warning message,111-112.Green Dragon yard,26-27.Ragged school, factory nuisance incident,117.Seven Dials, reformation, "druv into decency,"113-114.Long Island—Homewood plan,137-138.Stewart house, failure of,165-166.Lost children, tagging proposed,92.Low, Mayor—Election,75.Reform government, school erections,44.Roof playgrounds,389.

M'Carthy, Mrs., of Cat Alley,316.Mahoney, Miss, of Cat Alley,319.Market, Colonel Waring's scheme,273.Marriages in Cat Alley,325.Massachusetts—Demolition of dangerous houses,123.Tenement labor, registry system,200.Massachusetts, U.S.S., cost of,346.Medical inspection of schools, fight for,357.Menu, Mills House,160.Meyer, D., thief,238.Meyer, F., murderer,98.Mike of Poverty Gap,239-240.Mills, D. O.,seeMills Houses.Mills Houses—Beds,159.Business management,158.Erection of hotels,128.Fame and success of,162,165.Housing capacity,161.Menu,160.Privileges of,159.Thieves, safety from,162.Mississippi River town, reservation of vacant land,17.Model tenements, erection and success of,128-137.Mooney, William, founder of Tammany, character of,64.Mortality rates,seeDeath-rates.Mott Street—Barracks—Death-rate,123.Destruction,118,120-124.Legal proceedings,120,123.Bath, public,282.Big Flat,see thattitle.Cat Alley scrap,320-322.Trilby, gang in pursuit,332.Mulberry Bend—Bottle Alley,see thattitle.Description,39-40.Destruction,39-41,51.Campaign difficulties,272-276.Cost of,275.Wrecked square—Accident to children,270.Nuisance,276.Effect of reform,307-309.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,seeParks 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.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.Parks and playgrounds—Advisory committee, action,287-291.Chicago,304-305,410,439.Crotona Park, athletic meets,366.East River Park, sacred grass,301.Effect of,288-289,307-309.Essex Street, attempt to establish park,294.Gilder law,276,279.Graveyard as playground,302.Hamilton Fish Park,see thathamiltonfishpark.Hebrew Institute, roof garden,305-307.Holy Terror Park,302."Hudson-bank,"see thattitle.Mulberry Bend,see thattitle.Naming of,374-375.Outdoor Recreation League,see thattitle.Poverty Gap playground,302.Proportion of park area down-town,279.Recreation piers,292,296,299.Rivington Street, attempt to establish park,293.Roof playgrounds,see thattitle.School playgrounds,seeSchools.Seward Park,see thattitle.Small Parks law,see thattitle.Tammany neglect,67,309.Tenement plots,107,108.Thieves' Alley site,286.Parrot of Mrs. Ben Wah, story of,441-449.People's Club, work of,381.People's Institute, educational work,380.People's University Extension Society, work of,381.Piers, recreation piers,292,296,299.Playgrounds,seeParks and playgrounds.Play piers,292,296,299.Police Board conspiracy,417.Policemen, candidates' examination papers,220-221.Police station lodging rooms,48-50,169-170.Policy swindle,418.Polish capmaker, home in Stanton Street tenement,76-80.Political Education League, reform work,247.Political meetings in school buildings proposed,407-408.Political tenements,149,152.Poor, improvement,seeAssociation for improving condition of the poor.Population—Cat Alley,314-316.Census,see thattitle.Charity of the poor, instances of,216-222,322-325,445.Death-rate,see thattitle.Foreign population,see thattitle.Increase statistics,81-83.Inquiry by United States government, disclosures,175.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Movement,133.Overcrowding,see thattitle.Sweating,see thattitle.Potter, Bishop—Arraignment of Tammany corruption,70-73.Pro-Cathedral, Stanton Street,72,182.Religious organizations,182.Poverty Gap—Improvement,51-52.Mike, of Poverty Gap,239-240.Neckties,51.Playground,302.Prague, picture of city, incident,204.Prison,seeTombs.Prostitution, Tammany organization,69-74.Public baths,seeBaths.Public Education Association, reform work,371,372,378.Public schools,seeSchools.Push-cart men, Colonel Waring's market scheme,273.

Quaker, builder of Gotham Court,25.

Rear tenements,seeTenements.Recreation piers,292,296,299.Recruiting thief,156,164.Reformatory report on weak character of boys,244.Reform by humane touch,411-440.Reform effects in thirteen years,42-54.Reform programme,283-285.River baths, free,282.Riverside tenements built by A. T. White,135,140.Rivington Street—Bath-house,281.Mills Houses,see thattitle.Park, attempt to establish,293.Robberies—Great Robbery, city treasury,4-5,285.Meyer, D., thief,238.Recruiting thief,156,164.Tweed, thief,4-5,285.Robbins, Dr. Jane E., woman doctor in the slums,205-206.Rome, slums of,9-11.Roof gardens—Educational Alliance building,388.Hebrew Institute,305-307.Roof playgrounds, public schools,291,342.Brass bands,389-395.Fight for,385-389.Hester Street school,342,359-360.Success of,389-439.Roosevelt, Theodore—Election as Governor,56.Law enforcement,47,235,415,418.Reform administration,50,414-418.Tenement House Commission appointed,1900,147.Roosevelt Street tenement, demolition of,124.Roses, Hester Street school,364.

St. Andrew's Brotherhood, school children excursion schemes,362.Saloons—Cheer and social life of tenements,419-420.Club room for boys provided,372.Fight with Roosevelt, record of week of crime,418.Sandwiches—brick sandwiches,224.San Francisco, kindergarten record,245.Santa Claus in the slums,310-311.[See alsoChristmas trees.]Scarlet fever epidemic traced to public school,358.Schools, public—Allen Street building,354,357.Appropriation for new schools,44,346.Barrel and hog punishments,341-342.Board of Education, work of,365-366.Bronx primary school, 1895, condition of,348.Building, perfection of Snyder schools,353.Census,349.Charges and facts,342-345.Clubs, classroom opened for,372-374.Compulsory education law, non-enforcement,231.Control, abolition of ward trustee, etc.,347,348.Cooking classes,367-368.Excursion schemes,362.Experimenting,403-410.Eyes inspection,358-359.Fourth Ward, examination of girls,355-357.Hester Street,see thattitle.Immigrants, school as means of enrolment,211,212.Kindergartens, benefit of,365-367.Lack of schools,43,186.Medical inspection fight,357.Mental befogment results,230.Nature lessons,361-364.Neighborhood purposes,387,398-410.Number and naming of schools,374,375.Playgrounds—Advisory committee report,290-291.Roof playgrounds,see thattitle.Political meetings in, suggested,407-408.Public Education Association, reform work,371,372,378.Punishments in Madame Bruin's school,341-342.Recreative purposes,361.Reform fight,44-45,283,345-371.Scarlet fever epidemic traced to public school,358.Seats, "dead-line,"408-409.Shower-baths,283.Social movement, use of the public school,398-410.Sunday opening proposed,399-403.Teachers' attitude to reform,369-371."Three H's" and "Three R's,"368,387.Tombs, school for boys awaiting trial,378,379.Tompkins Square lodging house evening classes,226.Truant school,241,242,349,350.Woman's work in reform,371,377,379.Schwab, Mr., summer excursions for boys,405-406.Settlement,seeUniversity Settlement.Seven Dials reformation, "druv into decency,"113-114.Seward Park—Crowds at play,302-304.Delay in promised park,295.Gymnastics,302-303.Work started on,296.Sheds, tenants in,98.Shower-baths for public schools,283.Silver campaign, Irish laborer story,217.Slaughter houses, rear tenements condemned as,37,105,116.Slovak immigration,202.Slums—Bacillus of the slum,62.Beginning of the battle,1-4.Chicago outlook,17.Clubs,see thattitle.Crime,see thattitle.Democratic government imperilled by,6."Druv into decency,"113-114.Funeral show,109.Inquiry by United States government,61,97,175.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Making of the slum,1.Military band,252,255.Parks,see thattitle.Population,see thattitle.Rome,9-11.Schools,see thattitle.Sensations and shows,109.Stroll through tenement-house neighborhood,86-108.Sweating,see thattitle.Tammany,see thattitle.Tenements,see thattitle.Tuberculosis,194-196,300.Small parks law,287.Advisory committee action,287-291.Lost appropriation,40.Origin of,274.Smallpox epidemics,29,34,64,67.Snyder, builder of schools,353.Soap factories prohibited below Grand Street,107.Social halls scheme,420.Social movement, use of the public school,398-410.Soup—end of free soup,47.Stanton Street—Polish capmaker, home of,76-80.Pro-Cathedral,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 thattitle.Tammany—Boss, character of,420-429.Campaign of 1901 against,63-75.Croker, R.,see thattitle.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,seePopulation.Tenement House Commission—Appointment, 1900,147.Gilder,see thattitle."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.Tenements—Air-shaft, tenants' uses and peril of,93.Alfred Corning Clark buildings,129,130.Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment,20-21.Building Department supervision,104.Children,see thattitle.Christmas trees,see thattitle.Citizens' council of hygiene, report, 1866,19.City and Suburban Homes Company,see thattitle.City control of building proposed,152.Death-rate,see thattitle."Dens of death,"14,20.Destruction,seeDemolition."Discretion" clause in building laws,88,105,107,148.Disease—disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition, 1900,143-147.Double-deckers,see thattitle.Factory tenements, disapproval of,134.Filthy condition, landlord's excuse,13.Fires,see thattitle.First chapter in story of,11.Gilder Commission, work of,88,105,108,116,228,276,279,281.Halls, unlighted,90-92.Health board fights,30,37.Height and jerry-building,11-13.Home libraries,382-383.Increase in population and overcrowding,81-83."Infant slaughter houses,"37.Irish people,see thattitle.Italians,see thattitle.Jews,see thattitle.Kerosene stove, odor of,92.Landlord's profits,90.Licensing,153.Model tenements, erection and success of,128-137.Negroes,see thattitle.One-room house, beginnings of,97.Open spaces,seeParks.Opposition to improvement,30-31.Overcrowding,see thattitle.Parks,see thattitle.Plans for improvements,37.Political tenements,149,152.Population,see thattitle.Rear tenements—Condemned as "slaughter houses,"37,105,116.Death-rate scandal,115-116.Demolition,114.Report of select committee of assembly,1857,12-13.Rome,11.Standard of space for adults and children,97.Sunlight, assessment of value,94.Sweating,see thattitle.Tenants,seePopulation.Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of,142,148,149.Up-town and down-town,109-111.Water supply, lack of,181.[See alsoSlums.]Thieves,seeRobberies.Thieves' Alley demolition,285,286.Tombs—Demolition, proposed preservation of gates,5.School for boys awaiting trial,378,379.Tweed, thief in,4.Tompkins Square—Beresheim, Jacob,see thattitle.Evening classes failure,226.Tracy, Dr. R. S., mortality records,116.Tramp vote, Tammany's use of,48.Trilby of Cat Alley,331-333.Trinity Church, opposition as tenement-house landlord,30.Truant school, fight for,241,242,349,350.Truck farming on site of Stryker's Lane,366.Trucks, street obstructions, disappearance,45-46,269-270.Tuberculosis in the slums,194-196,300.Tweed, thief,4-5,285.Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of,142,148,149.


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