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Children of the Tenements By: Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) |
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[Illustration: "The Kid Was Standing Barefooted In The Passageway."] CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS BY JACOB A. RIIS Author of " The Making of an American ," " The Battle with the Slum ," " How the Other Half Lives ," etc. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. M. RELYEA AND OTHERS New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1903 All rights reserved Copyright, 1897, 1898, By THE CENTURY CO. Copyright, 1903, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co. Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE I have been asked a great many times in the last dozen years if I would not write an "East side novel," and I have sometimes had much difficulty in convincing the publishers that I meant it when I said I would not. Yet the reason is plain: I cannot. I wish I could. There are some facts one can bring home much more easily than otherwise by wrapping them in fiction. But I never could invent even a small part of a plot. The story has to come to me complete before I can tell it. The stories printed in this volume came to me in the course of my work as police reporter for nearly a quarter of a century, and were printed in my paper, the Evening Sun . Some of them I published in the Century Magazine , the Churchman , and other periodicals, and they were embodied in an earlier collection under the title, "Out of Mulberry Street." Occasionally, I have used the freedom of the writer by stringing facts together to suit my own fancy. But none of the stories are invented. Nine out of ten of them are just as they came to me fresh from the life of the people, faithfully to portray which should, after all, be the aim of all fiction, as it must be its sufficient reward. J. A. R. CONTENTS PAGE The Rent Baby 1 A Story of Bleecker Street 13 The Kid hangs up His Stocking 21 The Slipper maker's Fast 28 Death comes to Cat Alley 31 A Proposal on the Elevated 35 Little Will's Message 41 Lost Children 53 Paolo's Awakening 63 The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey 78 The Kid 93 When the Letter Came 96 The Cat took the Kosher Meat 100 Nibsy's Christmas 104 In the Children's Hospital 117 Nigger Martha's Wake 126 What the Christmas Sun saw in the Tenements 133 Midwinter in New York 150 A Chip from the Maelstrom 173 Sarah Joyce's Husbands 177 Merry Christmas in the Tenements 180 Abe's Game of Jacks 222 A Little Picture 226 A Dream of the Woods 228 'Twas 'Liza's Doings 234 Heroes who Fight Fire 247 John Gavin, Misfit 284 A Heathen Baby 289 The Christening in Bottle Alley 294 In the Mulberry Street Court 299 Difficulties of a Deacon 302 Fire in the Barracks 310 War on the Goats 313 He kept His Tryst 319 Rover's Last Fight 323 How Jim went to the War 330 A Backwoods Hero 341 Jack's Sermon 347 Skippy of Scrabble Alley 357 Making a Way out of the Slum 365 CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS THE RENT BABY Adam Grunschlag sat at his street stand in a deep brown study... Continue reading book >>
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