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The Peril and the Preservation of the Home

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LECTURE II

At the Old Five Points 90

The “Old Church Tenements” 92

Gotham Court 94

Midnight in Gotham Court 94

The Alderman’s Tenements 96

Little Susie 98

Tenement Where a Home was Murdered 100

A “Drunken” Flat 102

In a Baxter Street Yard 104

Shanty Dwellings in a Tenement Yard 104

Washing in an Italian Flat; the Tea Kettle Used as a Wash Boiler 106

Pietro and his Father 108

Sister Irene and her Little Ones 110

The Open Trench in the Potter’s Field 112

“The Way Out”—Bedtime in the Five Points House of Industry Nursery 114

LECTURE III

A Typical Tenement House Block 126

The Only Bathtub in the Block 128

The Riverside Tenements 130

Lodgers at “Five Cents a Spot” 132

They “Lived Nowhere” 136

Joining “the Club” 138

10Hell on Earth 140

The City and Suburban Homes Company’s Model Tenements; The Alfred Corning Clark Block 142

The “To-morrow” 144

It is Five Years Since the Bend Became a Park 146

In the Public School of To-day 150

Saluting the Flag 152

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