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Jacob A. Riis 1849–1914. The Battle with the Slum. 1902.

Subject Index

Bowery lodging houses, see Lodging houses.

Boxing match, 430

Boys—Clubs, see that title.

Crime, see that title.

Farm colony for young vagrants, 127, 172, 350

Fathers’ authority lost, 237238

Future of—effect of political influences, 225226

Gangs, see that title.

Increase of child crime, 225, 240242

Military spirit, 247, 255

Play, necessity of, 233

Summer excursions, Mr. Schwab’s proposition, 405406

Type of East Side boy, see Beresheim, Jacob

“Weakness not wickedness,” reformatory verdict, 244

Brass bands, school roof playgrounds, 389395

Brick sandwiches, 224

British Museum, stone arm exhibit, message of warning, 111112

Bronx—Crotona Park athletic meets, 366

Primary school 1895, condition, 348

Brooklyn—Riverside tenements, 135, 140

Weeks, L. S., murder, 156

Bruin, Madame, school punishments, 341342

Buck, Miss W., management of boys’ clubs, 373, 383

Buddensiek, tenement builder, imprisonment, 2021

Building Department, supervision of tenement lighting, etc., 104

Byrnes, Inspector—lodging houses as nurseries of crime, 54, 156

“Cadets,” Tammany organization, 74

Capmaker, Polish, home in Stanton Street tenement, 7680

Cat Alley—Barney, 333339

Charity of the Alley, 322325

Children of the Alley, 330331

Cosmopolitan population, 314316

Dago eviction, 314

Deaths and funerals, 325330

Demolition, 337340

Description and occupation, 312313

“Fat One,” 326, 329

French couple, 315316

Irish population, 314, 316320

Marriages, early, and second marriages, 325

Mott Street scrap, 320322

Name, mystery as to origin, 312

Tragedy averted, 323

Trilby, 331333

Walsh, Mrs., funeral, 329330

Widows, 325326

Catherine Street, condition before destruction, 119

Cellars, Park Street, 20

Census—Death-rate, see that title.