Footnote 20: That was, however, a reduction of 236 since 1898, when the census showed 2379 rear houses.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 21: Report of Gilder Tenement House Commission, 1894.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 22: "Municipal Government in Continental Europe," by Albert Shaw.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 23: Report of the Tenement House Committee of 1900. The secretary of that body said: "Well might those maps earn for New York the title of the City of the Living Death."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 24: Report of Tenement House Commission of 1900.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 25: "The Making of an American."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 26: Since reading this proof I have been over and verified my diagnosis. The trouble must have been with me. The soup and the mutton and the pie had each its proper savor, and the cook is all right. So is the lunch. There is no fifty-cent lunch in the city that I know of which is better.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 27: Superintendent Maxwell in Municipal Affairs, December, 1900.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 28: According to the register of the United Hebrew Charities, between October 1, 1884, and June 1, 1902, the number was 539,067, and it is again on the increase. The year 1902 will probably show an increase in this class of immigration over 1901 of quite 15,000.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 29: The following is the declaration of principles of the National Consumers' League:—