Word: tenementation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wish to remind the University of Mr. Richard Watson Gilder's address to be delivered tonight at the invitation of the Student Volunteer Committee. As chairman of the New York Tenement House Commission Mr. Gilder has done a great deal during the past few months to procure the passage of a bill in the New York Legislature providing for improved tenement houses and open air parks in the crowded districts of New York City. In his address he proposes to show the influence of public opinion and good citizenship in bringing about these results. Mr. Gilder is well known...
...Heard in the Other Tenement, S. R. Wrightington...
...76th street, New York city. The building itself is a roomy old country mansion. It stands on a bluff extending from 75th to 76th streets and overlooks the East River. The house and grounds probably afford the largest free breathing space that there is anywhere in the east side tenement district. One could hardly find a more pleasant spot from which to study and work in the slums...
...present tenement-house system is disgraceful; Rus, How the Other Lives. - (a) It is dangerous to life and health: A. T. White, Improved Dwellings for the Laboring Classes, p. 7; Scribuer's XI. 697. - (b) It is immoral: J. B. Russel, Life in One Room, p. 10-13; Nineteenth Century, XVII. 927. - (c) It is costly; ibid...
...take our places, but to the University, to do our part to help along the plan of the Appalachian Club. A strong expression of feeling from the University might aid materially in preserving the banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...