PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS THE RENT BABY
A STORY OF BLEECKER STREET
THE KID HANGS UP HIS STOCKING
THE SLIPPER-MAKER'S FAST
DEATH COMES TO CAT ALLEY
A PROPOSAL ON THE ELEVATED
LITTLE WILL'S MESSAGE
LOST CHILDREN
PAOLO'S AWAKENING
THE LITTLE DOLLAR'S CHRISTMAS JOURNEY
THE KID
WHEN THE LETTER CAME
THE CAT TOOK THE KOSHER MEAT
NIBSY'S CHRISTMAS
IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
NIGGER MARTHA'S WAKE
WHAT THE CHRISTMAS SUN SAW IN THE TENEMENTS
MIDWINTER IN NEW YORK
A CHIP FROM THE MAELSTROM
SARAH JOYCE'S HUSBANDS
MERRY CHRISTMAS IN THE TENEMENTS
ABE'S GAME OF JACKS
A LITTLE PICTURE
A DREAM OF THE WOODS
'TWAS 'LIZA'S DOINGS
HEROES WHO FIGHT FIRE
JOHN GAVIN, MISFIT
A HEATHEN BABY
THE CHRISTENING IN BOTTLE ALLEY
IN THE MULBERRY STREET COURT
DIFFICULTIES OF A DEACON
FIRE IN THE BARRACKS
WAR ON THE GOATS
HE KEPT HIS TRYST
ROVER'S LAST FIGHT
HOW JIM WENT TO THE WAR
A BACKWOODS HERO
JACK'S SERMON
SKIPPY OF SCRABBLE ALLEY
MAKING A WAY OUT OF THE SLUM
[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling has been maintained.
Hyphen have been removed from God's-acre.
The two types of Thought Breaks used in the book have been used in this project as well, type 1: 2 blank lines, type 2: line of asterisks.]
CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS
The Kid was standing barefooted in the passageway.
"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.
