That to the height of this argument

I may assert eternal Providence

And justify the ways of God to men.

—Milton

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Introductoryxi
IMy Itinerary and Working Plan[3]
IIThe Welcome in the City Beautiful to its Builders[8]
IIIChicago—A Landlord for Its Homeless Workers[28]
IVThe Merciful Awakening of New York[42]
VHomeless—In the National Capital[48]
VILittle Pittsburg of the West and Its Great Wrong[57]
VII“Latter-Day Saints” Who Sin Against Society[62]
VIIIKansas City and Its Heavy Laden[71]
IXThe New England “Conscience”[82]
XPhiladelphia’s “Brotherly Love”[95]
XIPittsburg and the Wolf[104]
XIIOmaha and Her Homeless[117]
XIIISan Francisco—The Mission, the Prison, and the Homeless[123]
XIVExperiences in Los Angeles[136]
XVIn Portland[144]
XVITacoma[160]
XVIIIn Seattle[164]
XVIIISpokane[172]
XIXMinneapolis[178]
XXIn the Great City of New York[183]
XXINew York State—The Open Fields[197]
XXIIThe Laborer the Farmer’s Greatest Asset[207]
XXIIIAlbany—In the Midst of the Fight[218]
XXIVCleveland—The Crime of Neglect[223]
XXVCincinnati—Necessity’s Brutal Chains[244]
XXVILouisville and the South[256]
XXVIIMemphis—A City’s Fault and a Nation’s Wrong[279]
XXVIIIHouston—The Church and the City’s Sin Against Society[288]
XXIXSan Antonio—Whose Very Name is Music[296]
XXXMilwaukee—Will the Philosophy of Socialism End Poverty?[305]
XXXIToledo—The “Golden Rule” City[310]
XXXIISpotless Detroit[314]
XXXIIIConclusion[318]
XXXIVVisions[328]
Appendix[339]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Author—As Himself and “Broke”Frontispiece
PAGE
A half-frozen young outcast sleeping in a wagon-bed. He was beaten senseless by the police a few minutes after the picture was taken[3]
A familiar scene in a Western city. The boy is “broke” but not willing to give up[8]
A Municipal Lodging House. An average of seventy men slept each night in the brick ovens during the cold weather[16]
At a Denver Employment Office. Many of these men slept in the brick ovens the night before[24]
“Stepping up a little nearer to me he drew more closely his tattered rag of a coat”[32]
Huddled on a stringer in zero weather[32]
Just before Thanksgiving, 1911, leaving the Public Library, Chicago, after being ejected because of the clothes I wore[40]
Municipal Lodging House, Department of Public Charities, New York City[42]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Registering Applicants[48]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Physicians’ Examination Room[64]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: “Now for a good night’s rest”[64]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Favorite Corner, Female Dormitory[80]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Men’s Shower Baths[96]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Female Showers and Wash Room[96]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Men’s Dining Room[112]
“The small dark door leads down under the sidewalk and saloon.” San Francisco Free Flop of Whosoever Will Mission[128]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Women’s and Children’s Dining Room[144]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Male Dormitory[184]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Female Dormitory[184]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Fumigating Chambers—loading up[192]
Municipal Lodging House, New York City: Fumigating Chambers—sealed up[192]
“I would have continued to ride on the top as less dangerous, if I had not been brutally forced on to the rods”[268]
“I finally reached a point where I was hanging onto the corner of the car by my fingers and toes”[268]
Riding a Standard Oil car[272]
“After becoming almost helpless from numbness by coming in contact with the frozen steel shelf of the car I stood up and clung to the tank”[272]
A sick and homeless boy with his dog on guard. He is sleeping on a bed of refuse thrown from a stable, with an old man lying near him[288]
Waiting to crawl into a cellar for a free bed, unfed, unwashed. Fully clothed they spend the night on board bunks, crowded like animals[320]