Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
Subject Index
| Italian criminals, nest of, 204–205 |
| Night scenes, 173 |
| Old Church tenements, 16 |
| Park—Appropriation lost, 40 |
| Completion and opening, 266 |
| Cost, 18 |
| Dedication, 267–268 |
| “Keep off the grass,” 267 |
| School building reform, 355 |
| Whyó gang headquarters, 272, 308 |
| Mullen, Patrick, story of, 413–414 |
| Mullen’s Court, purchase for destruction, 119 |
| Murders—Beresheim, J., 227 |
| Forsythe Street tragedy, 86 |
| Lodging houses, murders traced to, 156 |
| Meyer, F., 98 |
| Mike of Poverty Gap, 239–240 |
| Weeks, L. S., 156 |
| National Consumers’ League, work of, 196–201 |
| Naturalization papers, fraudulent, 186, 190, 207 |
| Neckties, Poverty Gap, 51 |
| Negroes—Character as tenants, 110 |
| Model tenements for, 134 |
| Neighborliness, need of, 398–403 |
| Nero, enactment as to height of buildings, 11 |
| New Jersey, Jewish colonies, 212–215 |
| New Orange, home-building attempt abandoned, 214 |
| “Nurseries of crime,” lodging houses as, 54, 156 |
| Old Church tenements, 16 |
| One-room houses, beginnings of, 97 |
| Open spaces, see Parks and playgrounds. |
| Orchard Street—Jews dwelling under stairs, 95 |
| One-room houses, beginnings of, 97 |
| Outdoor Recreation League— |
| “Hudson-bank” park, 292 |
| Organization and object, 300 |
| Seward Park gymnastic apparatus, 302 |
| Overcrowding— |
| Battle against, 83–86 |
| Double-deckers as cause of, 102 |
| Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection, 99–102 |
| Overcrowding— |
| Increase statistics, 81–83 |
| Promoters of, high rents and low wages, 96 |
| Paddock, Rev. R., evidence against Tammany evil-doers, 72 |
| Palmerston, Lord, advice as to checking an epidemic, 34 |
| Park Avenue hotel for working girls, failure of, 29, 165–166 |
| Parkhurst disclosures, 41, 66 |
| Park Street, cellars, 20 |