LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[Colonel George E. Waring, Jr. ]Frontispiece
[Police Station Lodging Room on East Side ]18
[The Mott Street Barracks ]74
[Alfred Corning Clark Buildings—Model Tenements of City and Suburban Homes Company ]84
[Evening in one of the Courts of Mills House No. 1 ]94
[Bone Alley ]134
[Mulberry Bend Park ]180
[Letter H Plan of Public School No. 165 (showing front on West 109th Street) ]214
[Playground on Roof of New East Broadway Schoolhouse (area 8,348 square feet) ]220
[A Tammany-swept East Side Street before Waring ]242
[The Same East Side Street when Colonel Waring wielded the Broom ]248
[Theodore Roosevelt ]262

A TEN YEARS' WAR

I

THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM

The slum is as old as civilization. Civilization implies a race, to get ahead. In a race there are usually some who for one cause or another cannot keep up, or are thrust out from among their fellows. They fall behind, and when they have been left far in the rear they lose hope and ambition, and give up. Thenceforward, if left to their own resources, they are the victims, not the masters, of their environment; and it is a bad master. They drag one another always farther down. The bad environment becomes the heredity of the next generation. Then, given the crowd, you have the slum ready-made.