CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Merry Christmas in the Tenements | [1] |
| ’Twas Liza’s Doings | [47] |
| The Dubourques, Father and Son | [60] |
| Abe’s Game of Jacks | [67] |
| A Little Picture | [71] |
| A Dream of the Woods | [73] |
| A Heathen Baby | [80] |
| He Kept his Tryst | [86] |
| John Gavin, Misfit | [91] |
| In the Children’s Hospital | [96] |
| Nigger Martha’s Wake | [106] |
| A Chip from the Maelstrom | [114] |
| Sarah Joyce’s Husbands | [118] |
| The Cat Took the Kosher Meat | [122] |
| Fire in the Barracks | [126] |
| A War on the Goats | [129] |
| Rover’s Last Fight | [135] |
| When the Letter Came | [142] |
| The Kid | [147] |
| Lost Children | [151] |
| The Slipper-maker’s Fast | [162] |
| Paolo’s Awakening | [166] |
| The Little Dollar’s Christmas Journey | [182] |
| A Proposal on the Elevated | [199] |
| Death Comes to Cat Alley | [205] |
| Why it Happened | [210] |
| The Christening in Bottle Alley | [213] |
| In the Mulberry Street Court | [219] |
| Spooning in Dynamite Alley | [223] |
| Heroes who Fight Fire | [229] |
PREFACE
Since I wrote “How the Other Half Lives” I have been asked many times upon what basis of experience, of fact, I built that account of life in New York tenements. These stories contain the answer. They are from the daily grist of the police hopper in Mulberry street, at which I have been grinding for twenty years. They are reprinted from the columns of my newspaper, and from the magazines as a contribution to the discussion of the lives and homes of the poor, which in recent years has done much to better their lot, and is yet to do much more when we have all come to understand each other. In this discussion only facts are of value, and these stories are true. In the few instances in which I have taken the ordering of events into my own hands, it is chiefly their sequence with which I have interfered. The facts themselves remain as I found them.
J. A. R.
301 Mulberry Street.