CONTENTS.

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Introduction,1
CHAPTER I.
Genesis of the Tenement,[7]
CHAPTER II.
The Awakening,[15]
CHAPTER III.
The Mixed Crowd,[21]
CHAPTER IV.
The Down Town Back-alleys,[28]
CHAPTER V.
The Italian in New York,[48]
CHAPTER VI.
The Bend,[55]
CHAPTER VII.
A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives,[71]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Cheap Lodging-houses,[82]
CHAPTER IX.
Chinatown,[92]
CHAPTER X.
Jewtown,[104]
CHAPTER XI.
The Sweaters of Jewtown,[120]
CHAPTER XII.
The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking,[136]
CHAPTER XIII.
The Color Line in New York,[148]
CHAPTER XIV.
The Common Herd,[159]
CHAPTER XV.
The Problem of the Children,[179]
CHAPTER XVI.
Waifs of the City’s Slums,[187]
CHAPTER XVII.
The Street Arab,[196]
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Reign of Rum,[210]
CHAPTER XIX.
The Harvest of Tares[217]
CHAPTER XX.
The Working Girls of New York,[234]
CHAPTER XXI.
Pauperism in the Tenements,[243]
CHAPTER XXII.
The Wrecks and the Waste,[255]
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Man with the Knife,[263]
CHAPTER XXIV.
What Has Been Done,[268]
CHAPTER XXV.
How the Case Stands,[282]