Contents

I.Our Sins in the Past[11]
II.Our Fight for the Home[65]
III.Our Plight in the Present[117]
IV.Our Grip on the To-morrow[155]

List of Illustrations

LECTURE II

At the Old Five Points[90]
The “Old Church Tenements”[92]
Gotham Court[94]
Midnight in Gotham Court[94]
The Alderman’s Tenements[96]
Little Susie[98]
Tenement Where a Home was Murdered[100]
A “Drunken” Flat[102]
In a Baxter Street Yard[104]
Shanty Dwellings in a Tenement Yard[104]
Washing in an Italian Flat; the Tea Kettle Used as a Wash Boiler[106]
Pietro and his Father[108]
Sister Irene and her Little Ones[110]
The Open Trench in the Potter’s Field[112]
“The Way Out”—Bedtime in the Five Points House of Industry Nursery[114]

LECTURE III

A Typical Tenement House Block[126]
The Only Bathtub in the Block[128]
The Riverside Tenements[130]
Lodgers at “Five Cents a Spot”[132]
They “Lived Nowhere”[136]
Joining “the Club”[138]
Hell on Earth[140]
The City and Suburban Homes Company’s Model Tenements; The Alfred Corning Clark Block[142]
The “To-morrow”[144]
It is Five Years Since the Bend Became a Park[146]
In the Public School of To-day[150]
Saluting the Flag[152]