id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 28228 Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) The Battle with the Slum .txt text/plain 99291 6088 83 public reports at a time when a legislative committee came to New York population "housed in crazy old buildings, crowded, filthy tenements in got rid of its tenement-house property in recent years. build schools and parks and to clean house, and called it criminal shanty is better than a flat in a slum tenement, any day. a very effective way of making a tenement-house landlord discern identified with the cause of tenement-house reform for years, Robert over, "that we are and always shall be a tenement house city, and that was the way the Tenement House Exhibition of the winter of 1900 came character of the tenement houses in which the poor people live is of the The thing was proposed when the tenement house question first came up goods in his house must feel when the policeman comes up the street. Government Clubs, the Tenement House Commission, and the women of New ./cache/28228.txt ./txt/28228.txt