West Side Studies

INDEX

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INDEX

Abbott, Edith: The Delinquent Child and the Home, cited, 130

Adenoids: found on examination of girls, 83

Adolescence: and poverty, 32;

and self-assertion, 48

Agnes: the friend of Annie Brink, 31

Alcoholism: in families of girls, 129. See also Drinking

Amelia: the case of, 52

American Female Guardian Society School on West Side, 33

Americanization among Italians: signs of, 110, 117

Angelina and Nick, 96, 97, 113-115

Anthony, Katharine: Mothers Who Must Earn, cited, 23

Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor: families of girls having records with, 121

Attinger, Mrs.: on her Lizzie's marriage, 73, 74

Ayres, Leonard P.: Laggards in Our Schools, cited, 37

"Baby's" Housekeeping, 35, 36

Bachman, Frank P.: Report on Promotions and Non-Promotions, etc., cited, 133

Basket-weaving: as a club occupation, 4

Bedford Reformatory: superintendent of, quoted, 15;

treatment of girls at, 18

Belsito, Adelina: and her absence from school, 102, 103

Birth Rate and Death Rate of West Side, 23

Blondi, Zappira: and her mother, 105, 106

Boys: and the girls' club, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9;

idleness among, more common than among girls, 51;

school attendance of, compared with that of girls, 132-134

Brass Work: as a club occupation, 4

Breckinridge, S. P.: The Delinquent Child and the Home, cited, 130

Brink, Annie: story of, 30, 31

Bureau of Social Research: study of school attendance by, 132

Burial Expenses, 23, 129

Business Enterprises: conducted by Italian families, 106, 107

Carney, May: case of, 85, 86, 87

Carney, Mrs.: on May's marriage, 86

Cartwright, O. G.: Historical Survey of the West Side, cited, 76

Charitable Aid: received by families of girls, 122, 123, 124. See also Relief Records

Charitable Societies: Italians and the, 108

Charity among Italians, 107, 108

Charity Organization Society: families of girls having records with, 121

Childhood: influence of tenement life on, 81, 82

Children: school attendance of, 132-134

Children's Aid Society School on West Side, 33

Christ Presbyterian Church: supervisor from, in charge of playground at club, 3

Church: aid to family given by, 121

Cleary and Maggie: affair between, 79, 80

Cleaver and Doran, 9, 10

Clinic, Psychological: examination of girls in a, 85

Clinic, Weekly: at club, 84

Cliques among Girls, 60, 61

Clothes, Pretty: the girls' longing for, 59, 60

Clothing, Protective: the girls' lack of, 60

Club House at 471 Tenth Avenue: aim and origin of, 1, 2;

equipment and activities of, 3, 4;

only outbreak against a leader at, 10, 11;

razed to give place to a factory, 14;

relations with fellow tenants at, 5, 6;

relations with neighborhood boys at, 6, 7, 8, 9;

total number of girls studied at, 14;

West Side girls, how far represented at, 15, 16

Clubs and Settlements: use of, by West Side girls, 67

Colletti Family: and their home, 98

Colletti, Lucy: references to, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 109, 111, 114

Colletti, Mary: references to, 95, 96, 98, 99

Conjunctivitis: case of, discovered in physical examination of girls, 83

Cooking: as a club occupation, 4

Cook Stove: essential to equipment of girls' club, 4

Costa, Angelina: and her interpretation of Lincoln's birthday, 112

Craven, Mamie: case of, 60

Cull, Christina: truancy of, 38, 39, 40

Daley's Marriage to May Carney, 86, 87

Dance Halls: and the occasional ball, 69;

campaign for control of, 16, 17;

etiquette of, 69, 70;

grades of, 70

Dances, Public: conduct of, 71

Dancing: enthusiasm of girls for, 4, 67

Dark Rooms in Homes of Girls, 24, 127

Davis, Dr. Katherine B.: quoted, 15

Death Rates. See Mortality

Defects, Physical: found in club girls, 83

Denley, Clara: and her faction, 12

Department Stores: preference of some girls for, 43. See also Stores

Derks, Emma: and her raffle, 32

Devine, Edward T.: Misery and Its Causes, cited, 124

Distel, Mr.: as a neighbor, 6

Donovan, Sissy: first job of, 41, 42

Doran's Tale of a Gang, 9

Drake, Carrie: case of, 88-90

Drink: girl does not take to, 32;

mothers who take to, 27, 29

Drinking: excessive, on the part of parents of girls, 29, 129, 130

Drunkenness: habitual, distinguished from "excessive drinking," 129

Earnings of Girls, 47

East Side: West Side compared with, as to stability of population, 75

Economic Condition: of the families of girls, 121-131

Education, Compulsory: period of, 33

Egan, Barbara, and Louisa Storm: quarrel between, 12

Eighth Avenue: as a promenade, 66

Eleventh Avenue: case of one family on, 24-26

Employment Certificate. See Working Papers

Estimate and Apportionment Board's Committee of School Inquiry, 132, 133

Examination, Physical: of club girls, 82, 83, 84

Eyes of Girls: not cared for, 83

Factories: and the West Side girl, 43, 44;

wages of the girl in, 47;

work of Italian girls in, 110, 111

Families: large, on West Side, 22

Families of Girls: classified on basis of prosperity or poverty, 130, 131;

economic conditions of, 121-131;

housing of, 126, 127, 128;

how constituted, 125;

which received charitable aid, study of, 122, 123, 124

Family, Limitation of Size of: almost unknown on West Side, 23

Family Protection: general breakdown of, on West Side, 75-94;

maintained in the case of the Italian girl, 108, 111, 112

Fathers: occupations of, 126

Festivals, Italian, 112

Fleming, Sadie, and Maggie Tracy, 12, 13

Fuller, Carrie: case of, 84, 85

Funeral Expenses: in families of girls, 129

Galaxy Moving Picture Show, 67

Gang Spirit of Tenth Avenue, 13

Gangs. See Boys; Gopher Gang; "Hell's Kitchen" Gang

Gas Plants: odors of, on West Side, 75

Gate: as a bone of contention, 3, 4

"Gentleman Friends" and "Lady Friends," 61

Gibson, Annie: truancy of, 37, 38

Girls, West Side: aim and methods of study, 1;

attitude of, toward assumption of family burdens, 49, 50, 51;

demand for "good times" by, 51;

difficulty of knowing, in their own homes, 2;

education, in neighborhood immorality, 75-81, 87-93;

familiarity with poverty and its effect, 21, 29, 32;

fondness for dancing and music, 4, 67, 68, 69;

homes and street corners as places of meeting with boy friends, 61-63;

how far represented in clubs, 15, 16;

idealism of, 68;

immoderate pace of living among, 83;

marriage, how regarded by, 73, 74;

occupations of, 43, 44, 45, 46;

physical inheritance and health of, 82, 83, 84, 85;

relations with their families compared with those of boys, 19;

relations with their mothers often strained, 53, 54, 55;

school attendance of, compared with that of boys, 132-134;

schooling of, 33-42;

social relations among, contrasted with those among boys, 60, 61;

surest way to help, 94;

wages earned by, amount and disposition of, 47, 48. See also Italian Girl

Gopher Gang: gossip about, 6, 9, 10, 13, 76

"Gopherettes": proposed as name of club, 10

Hannick and Maggie, 62

Health, Board of: family under care of, 121

Health of Club Girls, 82, 83, 84, 85

"Hell's Kitchen" Gang: and its influence, 76

Hickman's Moving Picture Show, 67

Holidays, American: among the Italians, 112

Home: men friends of girls not welcomed in the, 61, 62;

need of strengthening of best elements in the, 94;

wage-earning and new relations at, 43-56

Home Work: Italian girls not engaged in, 110

Home-work Investigator: quoted, on Italian girls, 111

Housing of Families of Girls, 24, 126, 127, 128

Hyland, Winnie, and Carrie Drake, 88

Idealism among Girls, 67

Illegitimate Births: common on West Side, 79

Immorality among Girls, 79, 80, 85-93

Industrial Histories of Girls, 45, 46, 47

Insurance, Life: in families of girls, 23, 128, 129

Italian Girl: claims of school upon, 102, 103;

eagerness of, to go to work, 109;

family's protection of, 108;

kinds of work done by, 110, 111;

pleasures prohibited and permitted to, 111, 112;

semi-Americanization of, 116, 117;

separate study made of, 1, 95

Italians of West Side: Americanization of names among, 110;

characteristics of family life among, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112;

eagerness of parents for arrival of fourteenth birthday of daughter, 109;

festivals among, 112;

length of residence in United States, 109;

mutual helpfulness and charity among, 107, 108;

occupations of, 106, 107, 110;

sympathy the keynote of the community, 101;

wedding parties among, 113-116

Jennie. See Polini, Jennie

Josie: and the dance halls, 72

Kersey, Mrs., and "Baby," 35

Kneeland, George J.: Commercialized Prostitution in New York City, quoted, 71

Kohlberger's Candy Factory, 95

"Lady Friend": significance of title, 61

"Laggards" among Girls, 37

Langan, Father: aid of, enlisted by Mrs. Mullarkey, 91;

and the "Gophers," 12, 13

Larkey, Emma: schooling of, 36

Lawlessness of West Side, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 75, 76

Lincoln's Birthday: as interpreted by Angelina Costa, 112

London Slums: compared with Middle West Side District, 82

Louisa: the case of, 54, 55

McClusky Family: as co-tenants of the club, 4, 5, 6

McKeevers: Thanksgiving party at home of, 64-66

Maggie: the case of, 62

Martha and Sarah: trachoma cases, 83, 84

Mattie and Cleary: affair between, 79, 80

Marriage: as an adventure, 73;

following irregular relationship, how regarded, 79;

found to be a sobering event, 74;

of May Carney, 85-87. See also Weddings

Marro, Angelina: her wedding party, 113-116. See also Angelina and Nick

Mayhew, Fanny: and the "Gopherettes," 10

Meehan, Jennie: marriage of, 80

Meehan, Mrs.: on the size of her family, 22

Mental Ability: of girls tested in a psychological clinic, 85

Mercer, Addie: and her father, 80, 81

Middle West Side. See West Side

Misery and its Causes: in families of girls, 124

Money: importance of control of, to working girls, 59

Moral Conditions on Middle West Side, 77-81

Moresco, Filamina: an Italian rebel, 112

Morelli, Rose: and her family, 99, 100, 101, 111

Mortality among Children on Middle West Side, 23

Mother: and daughter, strained relations between, 53;

as the mainstay of the family, 26

Mothers of Girls: wage-earning, 125;

who take to drink, 27, 29

Moving Picture Shows, 66, 67

Mullarkey, Mrs.: and her search for Fannie, 90-92

Mullens, Fanny: and her reason for leaving the Excelsior Laundry, 46

Murphy, Mrs.: and her daughter Katie, 2

Music: appeal of, to girl, 67. See also Songs, Popular

Names: changes in, among Italians of West Side, 110

New Machiavelli, The: quotation from, 66

Nick and Angelina, 96, 97, 114

"Nickel Dump," 72. See also Moving Picture Shows

O'Brien, Julia: and the young woman from the ranks, 11

O'Brien, "Tootsie": and her first job, 44

O'Callahan, Mrs.: her tale of the Gophers, 13

Occupations: of girls studied, 44, 45;

of fathers of girls, 126;

of mothers of girls, 125;

Of West Side Italians, 106, 107, 110

Parental Surveillance over Italian Girls, 111. See also Italian Girl

Parents: hostility of, toward men friends of girls, 62;

excessive drinking on the part of, 29, 129, 130

Patsy: the case of, 92

Pay Envelope: family customs regarding, 47, 48, 49

Petie's Mother Dispossessed, 27, 28

Philanthropic Agency: families of girls having records with some, 121. See also Relief Records; Charitable Aid

Physical Inheritance: and condition of girls, 82, 83, 84, 85

Piano: essential to equipment of girls' club, 4

Play: the will to, 57-74

Playground in Back Yard of Club House, 3

Polini, Jennie: and her choice of a fellow, 96, 97, 99, 112

Population of Middle West Side: more stable than that of East Side, 75

Potter's Field: burial in, how regarded, 129

Poverty: in families of girls, 20-32, 130, 131

Precocious Development of Girls, 93

Prosperity: families of girls classified by degree of, 130, 131

Prostitution: case of, among girls known at club, 88

Psychological Clinic: examination of girls in, 85

Pupils. See Children

Quarrels between Club Members, 12

Reformatory: as a cure for truancy, 38, 39

Reilly, Mamie: and her responsibilities, 50, 51

Reilly, Mrs.: on births and deaths, 23

Relief Records: of families of girls, 20, 121, 122, 123, 124

Rentals Paid by Families of Girls, 24, 128

Retardation among Girls Studied, 36, 37

Reynolds, Stephen: quoted, 15

Roche, Josephine: author of chapter on the Italian girl, 95

Ruletti, Mrs.: and her foster-child, 103, 104

Ryan, Mrs.: quoted, 77

Sabbio, Mrs.: and the family saloon, 106

Sadie and Petie's Mother Dispossessed, 27, 28

St. Vincent de Paul Society: families of girls having records with, 121

Saloon, Corner: and its influence, 81, 82

Sarah and Maggie: trachoma cases, 83, 84

School Attendance on the Middle West Side, 132-134

School Enquiry, Committee on: of Board of Estimate and Apportionment, 132, 133

Schooling, Compulsory: period of, 33

Schools: absence from, among Italians, 102, 103;

choice of, open to West Side girl, 33;

evasions of law by early leaving of, 40, 41, 42;

retardation of girls in, 36, 37;

truancy of girls in, 38, 39, 40;

use of transfers in the, 34, 35, 36

Settlements and Clubs: use of, by girls, 67

Sewing: as a club occupation, 4

Sexual Abuse: among girls, 84, 85

Sheridan, Martie: and her machine, 45

Sherin, Nellie: and her work, 46

Sipp, May: desire for home visit expressed by, 3

Slaughter Pens: odors from, on West Side, 75

Social Relations: among girls contrasted with those among boys, 60, 61

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: families of girls having records with, 121;

interference of, where mother drinks, 130

Songs, Popular: fondness of girls for, 4. See also Music

Spinal Curvature: cases of, discovered on examination of girls, 83

Stark, Pauline: a "rover," 45

Stertle, Mamie: on going home at night, 77

Stevens, Kitty: on Jennie Meehan's marriage, 80

Stores: wages of girls starting in, 47. See also Department Stores

Storm, Louisa, and Barbara Egan: quarrel between, 12

Street Corners: as places of rendezvous, 62, 63

Strumpf, Anna, and Mamie Taggart: quarrel between, 12

Taggart, Mamie, and Anna Strumpf: quarrel between, 12

Teeth of Girls: neglect of, 83

Tenth Avenue: gang spirit of, 13

Thanksgiving Party at the McKeevers', 64-66

Throats of Girls: not cared for, 83

Toilet, Open: dangers of, 81

Tonsils, Enlarged: found on examination of girls, 83

Toohey, Sadie: on the restaurant keeper's past, 78

Trachoma: cases of, among the girls, 83, 84

Tracy, Maggie: faction headed by, called "tough," 12, 13

Trade-union Organizer: quoted, on Italian girls, 111

Transfer Privileges in the Schools: use of, 34

Truancy among Girls, 37, 38, 39

Truant Officer: and the transfer privilege, 35

Truant School Needed for Girls, 40

Tuberculosis: cases of, among girls, 84

Tuzolli, Laura: as a mother's helper, 104, 105

Undertakers' Bills, 129

United States: length of residence of Italian families in, 109

Vaudeville: popularity of, 67

Venereal Disease: cases of, among girls, 84;

in Europe, 82

Violence: tales of, 76. See also Lawlessness

Vision, Defective: cases of, found on examination of girls, 83

Wade, Lizzie: on factory work, 43

Wage-Earning and New Relations at Home, 43-56

Wages: small on Middle West Side, 22

Wages of Girls: in Italian families, customs regarding, 109;

who attended club, 47.