INDEX

Adams, Maude, 87

Adolescence, problems of, and settlement work, 170-179, 189-199

Anarchism, 274-279

Archer, William, 272

Bellevue Hospital, 28, 59

Bialystok massacre, 230

Breshkovsky, Katharine, 238-248

Brewster, Mary, 8, 10, 16, 45, 48, 78, 113

Budget of a working-girl, 194;

her “two jobs,” 211

Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, 273-275

Child Hygiene, Bureau of, 53, 57, 59

Child labor:

Children who work, 135-151;

conditions in New York City, 135-137,

—in Pennsylvania and the South, 144, 145;

National Committee on, 144, 146;

New York Committee on, 137, 144, 148, 150;

newsboys, 146-149;

obstacles to measures for protection of children, 149;

scholarships to aid children, 138-142;

statistics for Greater New York, 158;

sweatshops and children, 153-156;

typical employment record, 143;

Washington Conference on, 146

Clubs and classes in the settlement, 179-184

Columbia University creates Department of Nursing and Health, 64

Committee of Fifteen (New York), inquiry of, 174

Comte, 274

Continuation Schools, necessary for young workers, 160

Convalescents, country house for, 88

Crosby, Ernest, 234, 235, 280

Davis, Katherine, 268

Defectives:

Responsibility of society for, 122;

special classes instituted, 117-120

De Leon, Daniel, 262

Diseases of children and home treatment, 38-40

Dock, L. L., 266

Doukhobors, the, 233-235

Drama:

As a social force, 270-273;

dramatic instinct of Jewish child, 184;

marionette theater, 272;

Neighborhood Playhouse, 185;

pageants and plays, 184-187, 226;

Yiddish plays, 270-272

Ducey, Father, 280

Dunsany, Lord, 188

Education:

Bureau of vocational guidance proposed, 160;

continuation schools necessary, 160;

educational ideals and the settlement, 133;

effects of disorganized tenement life on, 110-113;

Federal Children’s Bureau, 57, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168;

foreign press as Americanizing influence, 307;

hardships endured for, 99-103;

institutional life and the child, 124-132;

necessity for early care and training, 133;

responsibility for defectives, 122;

scholarships, 138, 141, 150;

special training for defectives instituted, 117-120;

study-rooms at the settlement, 103

(see also Public Schools)

Educational Alliance, The, 308

Empress of Austria, assassination of, 275

Factory law (New York) amended, 210

Farrell, Elizabeth, 117, 120

Federal Children’s Bureau, 57, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168

Forward Association, The, 264

Gapon, Father, 230

Gershuni, 238

Gordin, Jacob, 270, 271

Greeks of New York give “Ajax,” 226

Henry Street:

Instruction in home nursing begun in old building on, 3;

its links with city’s past, 169;

physical changes of twenty years, 308

Home and School Visitor, The, 110

Hospitals:

Children’s diseases and, 38-40;

first school for midwives in Bellevue, 59;

large numbers of city sick unable to avail themselves of, 28

Housekeeping centers, 108, 109

Hughes, Charles Evans, 259, 293

Ibsen, Henrik, 188, 272

Illiteracy, 113, 114

Immigrants:

Bureau of Industries and Immigration created, 293;

conditions of, in labor camps, 294-297;

contributions of, to national life, 305, 306;

dangers and early trials of, 286-293;

discrimination against, 300-302;

further restriction of immigration contrary to American institutions, 290, 304;

land and the, 298-300;

positive governmental action and constructive social measures needed, 291;

postal savings banks and, 298

Industrial conditions:

Programmes of betterment, 25;

unemployment in 1893-1894, 17;

wretched conditions impress Henry Street workers from the beginning, 25;

youth and trades unions, 201-215

(see also Child Labor and Sweatshops)

Industrial Workers of the World, 278

Infant mortality:

Federal Children’s Bureau report on, 57;

social disease, 54

Institutional life, disadvantages of, for children, 124-132

Italians:

Ancient customs preserved among, 69;

celebration of saints’ days, 252;

daily newspaper publishes Constitution, 308;

marionette theaters, 272;

preyed upon by quack doctors, 37;

tragic experience of Italian immigrant, 286-288

“Jephthah’s Daughter,” 186

Jews:

Cycle of Hebrew festivals at Henry Street, 184;

difficulties of, in complex new world, 252-254;

dramatic instinct of Jewish child, 184;

Talmud-Torah Schools and Chedorim, 253;

value put upon education by, 97-100;

wedding customs, 216-219;

Yiddish plays, 270-272;

Yiddish press, 307;

Zionism, 254

Kant, 274

Kelley, Florence, 144

Kellor, Frances, 293, 294

Kennan, George, 238, 239

Kindness of poor to each other, 17-20, 70

Kishineff massacre, 229

Knights of Labor, 263, 281

Kropotkin, Prince, 222, 234, 235, 238, 276

Land, The, and the immigrant, 298-300

Lathrop, Julia, 166

Lawrence strike, The, 278, 279

Le Moyne, Sarah Cowell, 188

Life insurance and nursing service, 62

Literacy test for immigrants, 304, 305

Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 14

McGlynn, Edward, 280

McRae, Mrs., 13-17

Maude, Aylmer, 233

Mazzini, 208

Medical etiquette:

And nursing service, 30-36;

its analogies with the “closed shop,” 34

Metropolitan Museum of Art, petition for Sunday opening of, 80

Midwives, 57-60

Milk stations, 55, 56

Morbidity, statistics of, 37, 38

Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 144

National Organization for Public Health Nursing, 64

National Playground Association, 81

Negroes:

“Lincoln House,” 162;

peculiar problems of, 162, 163;

restricted opportunities for, in industry, 162

Neighborhood Playhouse, The, 185

Nursing service:

Co-operation with Board of Health, 45;

co-ordination with educational institutions, 63;

Department of Nursing and Health at Columbia University, 64;

development of, throughout country, 44, 60;

division into districts, 42;

effect of new basis, 27, 28;

etiquette of, 27;

honored by Mt. Holyoke degree, 65;

life insurance company and, 62;

new era in development of, 60, 61;

nurses for public schools, 51-53;

post-graduate training in settlement, 63;

principles of, 26, 27, 29;

professional etiquette and, 30-36;

Public Health Nursing, division of, created in New York State, 46

—department of, in Columbia University, 64

—National Organization for, 64;

staff of settlement increased, 41, 42

Outdoor Recreation League, 85, 86

Pageants, festas, and street dances, 184, 214, 215, 226, 252

Picnics and day parties, 77-79, 89

Play, children and, 66-96

Playgrounds:

In Henry Street Settlement’s back yard, 81-84;

movement throughout country in favor of, 96;

Outdoor Recreation League, 85, 86;

playgrounds “at no matter what cost,” 96;

public schools used for, 87;

Seward Park, 86

Postal savings banks and the immigrant, 298

Pouren, Jan, 236-238

Protocol established in cloakmakers’ strike, 284, 285

Prudhon, 276

Public Health Nursing, division of, created in Columbia University, 64;

in New York State, 46;

National Organization for, 64

Public schools:

Cooking instruction in, 107;

doctors appointed for, 49-51;

first class for ungraded pupils in, 117-120;

infectious diseases and, 46-53;

opened as recreation centers, 87;

Penny Lunches for, 109;

responsibility for defectives, 114-123;

settlement seeks to co-operate with and supplement, 105;

stronghold of democracy, 133;

trachoma in, 50;

trained nurses in, 51-53

Quack doctors and the poor, 36, 37

Red Cross (American):

An agency providing “moral equivalents for war,” 61;

Department of Town and Country Nursing, 61

Riis, Jacob, 67

Roosevelt, Theodore, 125, 164, 166, 236, 237

Russian freedom:

Case of Jan Pouren, 236-238;

Friends of, in New York, 235;

Katharine Breshkovsky, 238-248;

Russian visitors at Henry Street, 231-233;

Russia’s struggle our struggle, 248;

spiritual force of, on East Side, 229;

woman suffrage and, 268

Russian Revolution, 229, 230;

New York Committee, 231, 236

Scholarships for children who work:

“Alva Scholarship,” 150;

chart showing statistics of, 141;

Henry Street system, 138;

New York Child Labor Committee Scholarship, 150

Settlements:

Adherents of all creeds work together in, 254;

birth of idea, 2;

developments and opportunities for service, 309, 310;

College Settlement (New York), 10;

Union Settlement, 58;

University Settlement, 137

Sex hygiene, instruction in, 198

Shaw, George Bernard, 188

“Shepherd, The,” 185

Shirt-waist strike, The, 209, 210

“Silver Box,” The, 185

Social forces:

Drama, 270-273;

politics, 255-272;

radicalism, 276-279;

religion, 249-254;

socialism, 262-266;

social reform, 279-285;

woman suffrage, 266-269

Social halls and meeting-places:

Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, 273-275;

Clinton Hall, 185, 225, 227, 260;

need for, 219;

Social Halls Association, 225, 226

Socialist movement in America, 262-266

Social Reform Club, 279

Southern Educational Conference, 104

Spahr, Charles B., 280

Spinoza, 274

“Spoken Newspaper, The,” 263

Study-rooms and libraries in the settlement, 103, 104

Sukloff, Marie, 238

Summer scenes on the East Side, 69-71

Sweatshops:

Conditions in, 152-155, 281;

conferences on, 282;

protocol of 1910, 284;

restriction of, 157-158

Taft, William Howard, 166

Tammany Hall, 256-258

Terry, Ellen, 188

Thoreau, Henry D., 277

Tolerance, religious, instances of, 21-23

Tolstoi, Leo, 233-235, 276

Trades unions:

Difficulty of organizing women and girls, 203;

early organizations of girl workers, 203-206;

shirt-waist strike, 209;

Women’s Trade Union League, 206, 207;

Youth and, 201-215

Triangle fire and investigation, 208, 209, 212

Tschaikowsky, N., 238, 268

Tuberculosis, system of care and instruction of patients, 53, 54

Vacation houses and camps, 90-94

Vocational Guidance and Industrial Supervision, proposed Bureau of, 160

Waring, Colonel, 4

Wedding customs, 216-219

White House Conference on Children, 125

“Whither,” by Morris Rosenfeld, 200

Whitman, Walt, 276

Widows’ pensions, the first in Henry Street, 124

Wilson, Woodrow, 305

Woman suffrage, 266-269

Women’s Trade Union League, 206, 207