SICK MAN IN UNDER-GROUND APARTMENT ([SEE NOTE]).
PORTUGUESE WIDOW AND THREE CHILDREN ([SEE NOTE]).
WIDOW AND TWO CHILDREN IN UNDER-GROUND TENEMENT ([SEE NOTE]).
EXTERIOR OF A NORTH END TENEMENT HOUSE ([SEE NOTE]).
Among the places we visited were a number of cellars or burrows. We descended several steps into dark, narrow passage-ways,[4] leading to cold, damp rooms, in many of which no direct ray of sunshine ever creeps. We entered a room filled with a bed, cooking stove, rack of dirty clothes and numerous chairs, of which the most one could say was that their backs were still sound and which probably had been donated by persons who could no longer use them. On the bed lay a man who has been ill for three months with rheumatism. This family consists of father, mother, and a large daughter, all of whom are compelled to occupy one bed. They eat, cook, live, and sleep in this wretched cellar and pay over fifty dollars a year rent. This is a typical illustration of life in this underground world.
