Richmond Hill,
August 27, 1902.
CONTENTS
- Page
- Introduction. What the Fight is about [1]
- CHAPTER
- Battling against Heavy Odds [9]
- The Outworks of the Slum taken [36]
- The Devil's Money [63]
- The Blight of the Double-decker [76]
- "Druv into Decency" [113]
- The Mills House [154]
- Pietro and the Jew [175]
- On whom shall we shut the Door? [202]
- The Genesis of the Gang [227]
- Jim [256]
- Letting in the Light [264]
- The Passing of Cat Alley [310]
- Justice to the Boy [341]
- The Band begins to play [385]
- "Neighbor" the Password [396]
- Reform by Humane Touch [413]
- The Unnecessary Story of Mrs. Ben Wah and Her Parrot [441]
- Index [451]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Theodore Roosevelt [Frontispiece]
- Page
- One of the Five Points Fifty Years Ago [12]
- The "Old Church" Tenement [15]
- An Old Wooster Street Court [17]
- A Fourth Ward Colony in the Bad Old Days [18]
- Dens of Death [21]
- Gotham Court [24]
- Green Dragon Yard, London [26]
- A Flagged Hallway in the "Big Flat" [28]
- Jersey Street Rookeries [32]
- The Survival of the Unfittest [33]
- The Rear Tenement grows up [38]
- Professor Felix Adler [39]
- A Cellar Dive in the Bend [41]
- It costs a Dollar a Month to sleep in these Sheds [46]
- Mulberry Street Police Station. Waiting for the Lodging to open [49]
- Night in Gotham Court [52]
- A Mulberry Bend Alley [55]
- "In the hallway I ran across two children, little tots, who were inquiring their way to the 'Commissioner'" [58]
- "With his whole hungry little soul in his eyes" [78]
- One Family's Outlook on the Air Shaft. The Mother said, "Our daughter does not care to come home to sleep" [93]
- The only Bath-tub in the Block. It hangs in the Air Shaft [103]
- The Old Style of Tenements, with Yards [106]
- As a Solid Block of Double-deckers, lawful until now, would appear [106]
- Richard Watson Gilder [117]
- The Mott Street Barracks [122]
- R. Fulton Cutting [128]
- Alfred Corning Clark Buildings [131]
- The Riverside Tenements in Brooklyn [141]
- A Typical East Side Block [146]
- Robert W. de Forest [147]
- Plan of a Typical Floor of the Competition in the C. O. S. Plans of Model Tenements [150]
- Plans of Tenements [151]
- A Seven-cent Lodging House in the Bowery [155]
- They had a Mind to see how it looked [157]
- Doorway of the Mills House, No. 1 [159]
- Evening in One of the Courts in the Mills House, No. 1 [163]
- Lodging Room in the Leonard Street Police Station [168]
- Women's Lodging Room in Eldridge Street Police Station [169]
- A "Scrub" and her Bed—the Plank [171]
- What a Search of the Lodgers brought forth [173]
- Bedroom in the New City Lodging Houses [177]
- "Are we not young enough to work for him?" [179]
- The Play School. Dressing Dolls for a Lesson [189]
- Label of Consumers' League [197]
- Josephine Shaw Lowell [198]
- One Door that has been opened: St. John's Park in Hudson Street, once a Graveyard [203]
- Dr. Jane Elizabeth Robbins [205]
- One Way of bringing the Children into Camp: Basket-weaving in Vacation School [210]
- The Children's Christmas Tree [219]
- Jacob Beresheim [229]
- Heading off the Gang. Vacation Playground near Old Frog Hollow [237]
- Craps [242]
- Children's Playground. Good Citizenship at the Bottom of this Barrel [245]
- The Gang fell in with Joyous Shouts [253]
- "Oh, mother! you were gone so long" [261]
- Keep off the Grass [266]
- Colonel George E. Waring, Jr. [269]
- A Tammany-swept East Side Street before Colonel Waring's Day [272]
- The Same Street when Colonel Waring wielded the Broom [273]
- The Mulberry Bend [277]
- Bone Alley [280]
- Mulberry Bend Park [289]
- Roof Playground on a Public School [291]
- Kindergarten on the Recreation Pier at the Foot of East 24th Street [297]
- The East River Park [301]
- The Seward Park [303]
- The Seward Park on Opening Day [305]
- In the Roof Garden of the Hebrew Educational Alliance [306]
- Bottle Alley, Whyó Gang's Headquarters [308]
- The First Christmas Tree in Gotham Court [312]
- The Mouth of the Alley [317]
- The Wrecking of Cat Alley [327]
- Trilby [331]
- Old Barney [334]
- The Old and the New [343]
- Public School No. 177, Manhattan [347]
- Letter H Plan of Public School No. 165 [352]
- Public School No. 153, The Bronx [356]
- Girls' Playground on the Roof [360]
- The New Idea: a Stairway of Public School No. 170 [363]
- Truck Farming on the Site of Stryker's Lane [367]
- Doorway of Public School No. 165 [370]
- Main Entrance of Public School No. 153 [375]
- Superintendent C. B. J. Snyder [381]
- "The fellows and papa and mamma shall be invited in yet" [392]
- The "Slide" that was the Children's only Playground once [394]
- A Cooking Lesson in Vacation School [401]
- "Such a ball-room!" [408]
- Teaching the Girls to swim [411]
- Athletic Meets in Crotona Park [415]
- Flag Drill in the King's Garden [437]
- Mrs. Ben Wah [444]