| 单词 | tenement house |
| 例句 | There were lots of common little shops like grocery stores or poultry markets and wooden tenement houses, some four stories high, into which the poor demons crowded. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I was looking at a tenement house to our right and it just seemed to shudder and then collapse. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It seemed to have a little more character than the tenement houses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And above me, on the back landing of the tenement house next door, I saw a half dozen boys begin to shout. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I was to find out later that he lived in the tenement house next door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked as a janitress and kept three tenement houses clean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The tenement houses had the same odd, flat faces and the same drab colors, making them look all the same, as if they had been hatched in the same brood. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “It aims at the palatial and attains the sham-palatial,” the anonymous reviewer wrote, describing the projecting cornice as “huge, umbrageous, unmeaning, irrelevant” and characteristic “of the cheapest and vulgarest kind of tenement houses.” Streetscapes: Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue 2013-08-01T21:28:06Z But it also includes precise reconstructions of working-class life off the job, from a typical tenement house in the early 1900s to street life in the 1950s. Social democracy and the dignity of work: The U.S. must learn from Scandinavian “utopias” for Bernie’s revolution to move forward 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z In several respects, the new five- or six-story tenement houses that became a defining architectural feature of European cities between 1860 and 1900 began to extend and diversify the image of the house. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z “Newspapers of the time reported about the dozen crates that were downloaded and piled outside tenement houses,” said Simone Cinotto, a scholar and author of the book “The Italian American Table.” The Winemaker of Avenue C 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z They lived in crowded tenement houses and cramped apartments with terrible ventilation and substandard plumbing and sanitation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In another clip, a sign saying “Quarantined” was stuck on the door of what looked like a tenement house where Reverend Kim said people with possible symptoms were kept. North Korea Claims No Coronavirus Cases. Can It Be Trusted? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z A wealthy young man causes a stir within his family when he decides to purchase a tenement house in the ghetto. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Stone also built tenement houses in Washington’s Swampoodle neighborhood, north of today’s Union Station. Perspective | Good to the last drop: The drinking straw was invented in Washington 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z The chimney heads on Glasgow's tenement houses were a particular problem. The day of Scotland's most deadly storm 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z By one 1900 estimate, in the New York City borough of Manhattan alone, there were nearly fifty thousand tenement houses. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Inexpensive "commuter" transportation that allowed residents of tenement houses to move further away in modest homes. The Great American Single-Family Home Problem 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “That means an obligation to the coal-miners and sharecroppers, the migratory workers, the tenement house dwellers and farmers who cannot make a living.” What Would Eleanor Roosevelt Tell Us? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Bender lived in a tenement house in Brooklyn, New York, as a child before moving north to a farm outside Albany. In good company: Retirement community boasts 6 centenarians 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z People lived in tenement houses equipped with filthy hallways and outside toilets. Little Syria: New York preservationists fight for remains of historic cultural hub 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The photographs of these tenement houses are seen in Jacob Riis’s book, How the Other Half Lives, discussed in the feature above. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In early 1900s, our country had solved the problem of affordable housing for lower-income households -- tenement houses. The Great American Single-Family Home Problem 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The photographs prompted the State Legislature the next year to prohibit the making of dolls and children’s clothing, among other items, in tenement houses. India Ink: Christmas Ornaments, Child Labor 2012-12-26T05:25:38Z I was walking along a rather poor part of the city when I saw a number of children gathered in a group in a little side yard of a tenement house. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z It has been removed from its original location, and is now occupied as a tenement house, yet, notwithstanding the vicissitudes it has undergone, it is extremely well preserved. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z “Two women and a man from the tenement house district brought the allegations against him, claiming they suffered for months from the indecent overtures of the pastor,” Ms. Barnett wrote in her paper. City Room: Expelled as a Disturber, Now Honored as a Reformer 2012-03-11T20:12:01Z Only in London and a few other towns do blocks of large tenement houses of the continental type exist, and even there they are comparatively few. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The interior is now a stable, and the old walls of the college have been used for the construction of a modern cheap tenement house. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z They all followed the little boy who had caught the canary just in time into the tenement house. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z She was brought up in a tenement house. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z The tenement house is the enemy of modesty, the enemy of virtue, the enemy of patriotism. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The dwellings erected are classified as lodging-houses, block dwellings, tenement houses, cottage flats and cottages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Model tenement house building is now proving daily that such houses can be built safer and better every way for less money than the double-decker, by crossing the lot line. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z They grow in immense numbers, and they crowd one another more than people do in the tenement houses in our great cities. How We are Fed A Geographical Reader 2012-02-07T03:00:10.237Z There were people in the big tenement house quite as poor as the Kenways themselves. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z In their former home—a city more pretentious in many ways than picturesque Milton, their present home—the Kenways had lived in what, literally, was a tenement house. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z The rents are much higher than in Liverpool; in the tenement houses the mean weekly rent is about 6d. per room more than in Liverpool. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z To the Good Government Clubs fell the task, as already set forth, of compelling the enforcement of the existing tenement house laws. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z Naturally Teano went to the address given him—that of a tenement house a long way east of Fifth Avenue. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Now! we didn’t have to worry about tenement house property, and the quarrels of the tenants, when we lived on Essex Street in Bloomingsburg.” The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z Within a year the writer was walking with a group of women, two of whom were housekeepers in tenement houses. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z The great majority are in tenement houses of three storeys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The death rate does not sound the depths of tenement house evils, but it makes a record that is needed when it comes to attacking property rights. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z It seems like living in a tenement house, but I s’pose lots of men have to. Ned Wilding's Disappearance or, The Darewell Chums in the City 2011-10-11T02:01:05.260Z The two older Kenway girls started home feeling that they had accomplished something worth while at the Meadow Street tenement house. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z This plan is the usual plan in houses altered from residences for one family to a tenement house. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z I believe it is done in Eighth Avenue and Avenue A, when they give parties in little rooms of tenement houses and hire a fiddler to speed the dance. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z The general infant death rate for the whole tenement house population that year was 88.38. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z Ned ran across the open space and into the other tenement house. Ned Wilding's Disappearance or, The Darewell Chums in the City 2011-10-11T02:01:05.260Z The window looked out upon a wilderness of chimneys and grimy tenement houses. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z The careless and apparently malicious destruction of property by tenants is not appreciated by those who touch this question of tenement houses superficially. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Oh, what joy it was to these little toilers in courts and slums and foul tenement houses! In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z The tragedy of that is of a kind that comes too close to the every-day life of tenement house people to be omitted. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z Members of this class commonly wear second-hand clothes, and live in tenement houses, originally built for a wealthier section of the community. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z And thereupon everything around him—the rows of gigantic tenement houses, the hum and buzz of the scurrying pedestrians, the jingling horse cars—all suddenly grew alien and incomprehensible to Jake. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z These women insisted that there never would be quarrels in tenement houses were it not for these two causes. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z On certain streets on the East Side below 14th Street and in Harlem there are a number of cider “stubes” in the basement of tenement houses. Commercialized Prostitution in New York City 2011-06-25T02:00:18.937Z They were selected tenants as to trustworthiness and desirability on that score, but they were all of the tenement house class. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z He was the pastor in a tenement house district so he had plenty of opportunity for such exertion. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Yosselé was sound asleep in the lodgers' double bed, in the smallest of the three tiny rooms which the family rented on the second floor of one of a row of brand-new tenement houses. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z This is the moral doctrine with which we inoculate our newly made citizens, and under which the children of our overcrowded tenement houses grow up. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Five single young men and 3 single young women over 16 also live in this tenement house. Commercialized Prostitution in New York City 2011-06-25T02:00:18.937Z I spoke of the instinct for the crowd in the tenement house boy as evidence that the slum had got its grip on him. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z There are 63 tenement houses to accommodate the laborers. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Supper had been despatched in a hurry, and the teeming populations of the cyclopic tenement houses were out in full force "for fresh air," as even these people will say in mental quotation marks. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z The handsome old residences have become tenement houses, overcrowded, uncared for, occupied by people now at the level of former despised neighbors. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z It was past midnight when the muffled figures of Papa and Mamma Francoise emerged stealthily from the tenement house, and took their way toward the river. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Model tenement house rents are lower, if anything, than those of the double-decker, with more space and better accommodations. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z A boarding house dubbed the "Barlow House," another the "Soap Grease Exchange," and a few small tenement houses, constituted the village. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z He had given her the year before a model tenement house, built after the most approved principles, on the site of Richetts’ Court, previously occupied by one of the worst tenement houses in the city. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z In 1878 a conference was called by the State Charities' Aid Association to consider the condition of the tenement houses in this city. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z A few days later, dressed in light mourning, Shirley Bloodgood for the second time in her life wended her way to a certain tenement house not far from the East River. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z The suggestion was made when the tenement house question first came up for discussion, thirty years ago, but it was rejected then. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z I've just got settled in my same old tenement house, the Olympia, but the club is my best address. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z They had taken a room in a tenement house, and the mother had obtained some work, scrubbing offices and cleaning windows. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z There are tenement houses that have reputations as positive as individuals. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z She knew that the latter lived poorly, in poor quarters, crowded tenement houses, or shabby little frame cottages or cabins of two or three rooms. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z A big "order" on his house is a very effective way of making a tenement house landlord discern political truth on the eve of an important election. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z Ella lives in a double tenement house, having one room and a small kitchen. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z “They are living in one of the worst tenement houses in Mulberry Bend,” said Adelaide. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z On her way to the mission she counted nineteen liquor saloons on three blocks; in every case they were on the lower floor of a tenement house. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z This was a family domicile and not a community or tenement house. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z The employment of women in match factories and tenement house sweating shops is growing. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It was purely accidental like the last time,” answered Billie, and they explained how they happened to wander into the tenement house, and take refuge in that room. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Our Homestead Commission was established to investigate defective housing conditions and study building and tenement house laws. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z The kitchens of the tenement houses built in these later years are a marvel of inconvenience. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z For instance, the city warehouse filled with highly inflammable goods of great weight requires very different protection from the tenement house of the suburbs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Experience in New York and elsewhere has shown that improvement in tenement houses produces decided decrease in the number of dram shops in tenement-house neighbourhoods. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z She lost her head completely, stabbed the man, and in the tumult that followed, managed to get away through the hall of a tenement house. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Mrs. Albion Fellowes Bacon, of Indiana, practically single-handed, secured the first tenement house laws of value for Evansville and Indianapolis. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z Signs outside of tenement houses renting suites of four rooms for twenty and twenty-five dollars per month announce: "Burlaped halls; parlors in white and blue;" or, "Tiled halls, open gas grates, fancy chandeliers." The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Farther on, rows of unpretentious dwellings, ending at last in unmistakable tenement houses, stamped themselves on his mind, with half-tidy women, men in their shirt sleeves, and little children crowding the doorways. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z Mr. Stelzle was born in a tenement house district in New York City. The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer 2011-02-23T03:00:32.690Z A reading room, social hall, and gymnasium may constitute the church a home for young men whose dwelling places may be in close tenement houses. Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals 2011-01-25T03:00:24.873Z Look here," Lady broke in, "here's a bird's-eye view of the tenement house, with—no, it's an X-ray view, the walls are transparent. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z Rarely is there a corner to which they are welcome in the tenement house; often even where there is love and gratitude there may not be space. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Yet all who have followed the recent rent strike on the East Side, know that the tenement houses there are in large part owned by men as poor as those who live in them. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z At present it is a tenement house, and liable to destruction by fire at any moment through the carelessness of its occupants. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z Until the mid-1870s the new “French Flats” were categorized with private houses under “First Class Dwellings,” even though they were technically tenement houses. | Fifth Avenue and East 28th Street: Apartment Houses: The Early Story 2010-12-30T21:36:07Z It was at least three miles away that she entered a building which stood in a row of worn tenement houses. Zula It is destined to extend the borders of the city and to increase the number of small farms at the expense of flats and tenement houses. The Future of Road-making in America Victims were found who have put all their savings into these tenement houses, leaving the larger part of the purchase on mortgage. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z I have never been in a tenement house and I am so anxious to see one. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z They say she takes in sewing, and lives in a dreadful tenement house away over by the East River—and with dear Mrs. Liston-Darcy here and everything! Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir "May I ask why you find it necessary to rent a room in that tenement house?" Cinderella Jane I found him at the top of a tenement house in the Rue St. Jacques, sitting in an easy chair, his bad leg swaddled in many bandages. The Trembling of the Veil He was a common figure in the streets and lived in some shabby neighbourhood of tenement houses where there were hens and chickens among the cobble stones. Reveries over Childhood and Youth Even the last dazzling gleam of the sun could awaken no sparkle from the bleared windows of the hideous tenement houses that reared their blank and disfigured walls toward the west. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life It was not the first time such notes had come to the tenement house—not the first time they had been accepted. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir In a queer sort of place, a tenement house down on——You ought to know who I am. Cinderella Jane A lady friend of mine who visits the poor of her district once called at a tenement house to inquire after a poor woman who was ill. Her Royal Highness Woman It flourishes—an insidious paradox—where men meet nose to nose in Subway rushes and live layer on layer in thousand-tenant tenement houses. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole "She was in the large tenement house that burned first; that is her child whose loss she is mourning." The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life In one of the tenement houses in New York City a doctor was sent for. Moody's Stories Incidents and Illustrations She was not ashamed of the little room in the tenement house, where she had spent so many hours. Cinderella Jane My dear, if I had fretted over tenement houses the way you have, I should be a broken man. Ewing\\'s Lady Small, vile, cobbled with great stones, the alley ran between lines of two-storied frame buildings, tenement houses which were the home of the railroad employes. Fairfax and His Pride Of the life of the plebs who thronged the high tenement houses and narrow streets of Rome we know very little. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. He sent him to work at Eleventh Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, in a workroom situated in the cellar, and his bedroom, like those in most tenement houses, had no outside window. The Children of the Poor Their message went into every tenement house home. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half The money I bring is used to hire nurses to go down into the crowded city districts to care for the poor consumptives crowded in the tenement houses. Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks She had always been afraid of fire, and it had been ever in her mind since they moved into this big tenement house. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks We have no railway kings, no oil kings, no silver kings, but we have no tenement houses, no Unions, no Work-houses. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things They were later removed to a white frame house which served as a tenement house for the Barbour estate. A History of the Town of Fairfax With long avenues of stately mansions, marble-like and colonnaded, and exquisitely designed courtyards, there are unpaved thoroughfares with an open sewer in the mid-roadway, flanked by tenement houses with a family in each room. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 The word is also used, particularly in Scotland, of the entry or passage, including the common staircase, of a block of tenement houses, and in architecture for the precincts of a cathedral or abbey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" The card printed in the corner included the number of Trimble Avenue right next to the big tenement house in which the Brays had lived before coming here to Hillcrest. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks At 2130 Armour Avenue, Chicago, stands an old tenement house filled with girls—girls from all over the United States—a beautiful ruined girl from Georgia, girls from Europe. Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls The tenement house, now owned by Mrs. Douglas Murray, boasts a concealed attic room, hidden behind a closet. A History of the Town of Fairfax The architecture of a city tenement house is to blame for the silent but certain transformation of the home into a sty. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency The people lived together in joint tenement houses, much larger, and of more advanced architecture, than the long houses of the Iroquois. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy The Crowley's home consisted of two rooms in a rickety old tenement house around which everything rattled and flapped as the wind raged. The Daughter of a Republican He was just in time to see two men issue from a tenement house carrying what looked like the corpse of a third between them. The Deaves Affair Another of the fires was started in a six-story tenement house, endangering the lives of hundreds, but fortunately injuring no one but the incendiary. Violence and the Labor Movement As has been elsewhere suggested, the garbage question in the tenement house needs study and must be solved by a practical housewife. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency She seemed not quite the sort of child you would expect to find in a tenement house. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge There is no record of a single landlord who refused to pocket the great gains from the ownership of tenement houses. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times He hesitated and then continued up the alley-way, upon which a number of dirty, dingy tenement houses were situated. The Missing Tin Box or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds In one of the tenement houses in New York city, a doctor was sent for. Men of the Bible The tenement house mother who has only one pan for all her needs and one broken pitcher for all fluids does not readily understand why she must keep her milk bottle for milk only. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency It isn't what you'd call a tenement house," she said; "the man who owns it has made it into flats. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge It is not merely business sections which the Rhinelander family owns, however; they derive stupendous rentals from a vast number of tenement houses. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times It stood, dense, ugly, vulgar, stolidly intent, gazing at the windows of the house opposite—a poor tenement house. The Story of a New York House This in a world in which the majority of people live in cheap cottages, villa residences and tenement houses, read halfpenny newspapers and wear ready-made clothes! New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism They had left the sleigh and had walked around a number of mills and tenement houses which were situated in that locality. Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune One of these was Buffington, the other two were Hamilton Schuyler and Jack Minton, the nephew of old Mrs. Mack, who lived in the same tenement house in New York with his mother. Mark Mason's Victory It is now covered with stores, buildings and densely populated tenement houses. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times "But just think of all that row of tenement houses." Trading Who, better than the mother who has tried to bring up six or seven children in one room in a dark tenement house, knows the needs of a proper building? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V There was overcrowding in ill-built tenement houses; and long hours for women and children in the factories. The business career in its public relations I simply left the old tenement house because I could not bear my father's entreaties to hurry up the approaching marriage between the man I hated—Jasper Wilde—and myself. Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife From these palaces it is but a step, as it were, to gaunt neighborhoods where great parts of the population are crowded in the most inhuman way into wretched tenement houses. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times It was not in a tenement house either; but in a little dwelling owned by an Irishman and his wife who seemed decent people. Trading From crowded tenement houses came swarming an excited, terror-stricken stream of tenants. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure If you do not understand what a story over a top story is, you must remember that there are no limits to human greed, and2734 hardly any to the height of tenement houses. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 At length, almost exhausted, for he was unused to climbing, this haughty, aristocratic young doctor found himself on the sixth floor of the tenement house, and he knocked at the first door he came to. Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife Such is the character of a vast number of tenement houses, especially in the lower part of the city and along the eastern and western border. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times It was not far off, a few blocks only; in one of a tall row of tenement houses, grim and dismal, confronted by a like row on the other side of the street. Trading You've got to clean out some of the rotten tenement houses which some of your big churches own. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure From 'Short Sixes' When the little seamstress had climbed to her room in the story over the top story of the great brick tenement house in which she lived, she was quite tired out. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 As soon as he had finished his breakfast, he hurried to the Canal Street tenement house. Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife Another, and a very preponderate part, came from tenement houses. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times But it is a delightful place compared to Mrs. Binn's tenement house. Trading Your mother’s father used to have a family in his tenement house on this place, and they were all very fond of her when she was a girl. Rose O'Paradise A. In a garret under the roof of a tenement house which my father and his comrades built.—Q. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals I lived in the tenement house on Canal Street that has just been burned down. Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife Here was this army crowding into the great city, packed away in noisome tenement houses, ignorant, blind, stupid, incompetent in every fibre, and yet there as factors in the problem no man has yet solved. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad I studied the theories of tenement houses and hygiene, and became a leading spirit in several charitable organizations. A Romantic Young Lady The answer to that is the reply, too, to the wail that goes up from the speculative builder every time we put the screws on the tenement house law. The Battle with the Slum He had endued himself in somewhat seedy clothes, and had visited 37 Raven Street, Blackfriars, which he found to be merely a tenement house. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator When the post office came to stand at the corner, the King's Head became a tenement house; afterwards a ruin. Highways and Byways in Surrey In tenement houses with five water-closets or more, not less than five inches. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) When she got within the shelter of the doorway of the tenement house she was well-nigh exhausted, and it was half a minute before she could begin the arduous climbing of the stairs. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York We acquired tenement house laws, and the process of education that had begun with the foraging ground of the swine was extended step by step to the citizen's home. The Battle with the Slum The great city lay not very far away, sweltering with its crowded tenement houses under stifling heat; and she could picture the toilers who herded there, gasping for air. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter In the near neighborhood of Christ Church were new offices, factories, and boarding houses, and at the distance of one block began the tenement houses where lived the poor and underprivileged. Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati The three persons who had just emerged from the tenement house began to hasten to it, but Billy intercepted them. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code The tenement houses are harmless boxes of lucifers as long as none is ignited. An Anarchist Woman Half the tenement house population—and I am not sure that I ought not to say the whole of it—is everlastingly on the move. The Battle with the Slum Madge was completely fascinated at the spectacle of a fat, frowsy woman holding a baby by its skirt on the sill of a six-story tenement house. Madge Morton's Victory It must utter its protest against overcrowded and unsanitary tenement houses, not because it considers its function to be the censorship of buildings, but because such conditions breed immorality among the boys and girls. Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati She slipped her hand in Helen’s and bore her off to the tenement house in which Helen had had her first adventure in the great city. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City He and his mother occupied three rooms in a tenement house, at a rental of ten dollars a month. The Erie Train Boy The thing was proposed when the tenement house question first came up for discussion, but was dropped then. The Battle with the Slum "This is where I live," said Mr. Brown, pausing before a large and dilapidated-looking tenement house of discolored brick. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets She would no longer be the occupant of a miserable tenement house, but would live in a nice quarter of the city. Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready Helen waited for her friend to return, just inside the tenement house door. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City They have given their tired readers a new sensation; they have stimulated gossip in a thousand tenement houses; justice may fall in ruins so long as they sell another edition. American Sketches 1908 The fire-chief thought that every tenement house should be fireproof, but he warned the commission that such a proposition would "meet with strong opposition from the different interests, should legislation be requested." The Battle with the Slum "You don't live here alone, do you?" inquired Sam, who was not used to crowded tenement houses. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets No doubt the new government would have turned Mary's palace in Buda Pesth into a tenement house if it had not still been a hospital. Black Oxen For square after square, tenement houses, tall, grimy, and repulsive, alternated with groggeries, flaunting, flashy, and reeking with iniquity. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia Refrigerator waste pipes, except in tenement houses, and all safe-waste pipes, must have brass flap valve on the lower ends. Elements of Plumbing Every tenement house plan was the subject of hot debate between the Health Board and the builder, or his architect. The Battle with the Slum By dirty ways we slink to dirty tenement houses to hide ourselves—where disloyalty is the air we breath, discomfort our bed, and robbery our experience—robbed by the very friends who preceded us. The Return of Blue Pete They were located on Pearl street, not far from Centre, and were more spacious and well furnished than any in the burned tenement house. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant To be sold, small holding, well stocked with fruit trees, good double tenement house on good road and close to station, good outer buildings. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 She has been made librarian for the tenement house by the visitor, and is proud of the distinction. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers But the majority of the mansions had been turned into Italian tenement houses. Still Jim He spent only $108 a year for clothing for his family of nine, and only $72 a year for rent in a close tenement house, where they slept in rooms without windows or closets. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 The house was quite respectable in appearance, far more so certainly than the burned tenement house. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant The one to the left will be a tenement house, with shops and apartments. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Modern inhabitants of tenement houses are constrained in their customs by the same limitation, and the effect is seen in their folkways. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals There would presently be factories and tenement houses. The Girls at Mount Morris Remember that every hollow tree is a tenement house of the woods. Woodland Tales "I mean the tenement house in which we lodged was burned down." Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant In twenty minutes after locking the office he found himself in front of a large tenement house, which was occupied by a great number of families. Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune An acquaintance of the writer owns six tenement houses in different parts of New York City, the ground floors of which are occupied by small stores. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles She named her address, a wretched little row of tenement houses some ten score yards away. Despair's Last Journey She lives alone, in a tenement house, poor and friendless, having been driven from her home by her relatives because she has become a Protestant. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. In a room on the third floor of a miserable tenement house in Centre street two men were sitting. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant He was not partial to poor people or tenement houses, and he was glad to get away. Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune A great many others take refuge in tenement houses. The Task of Social Hygiene The people were poor and the palaces were reduced to tenement houses. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Visiting lately in a tenement house, a woman came out, telling me that I would never go to Heaven, and using other insulting language. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. Half that sum would have obtained them shelter in a poor tenement house, but both Paul and his mother had become fastidious, and felt that such economy would be out of place. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant Yet all of these things and many others like them I have known to be done by people who live in the tenement houses of this great city. The Essentials of Spirituality We point with horror, and rightly, to the slum tenement house, but forget that it is a more sanitary human habitation than even the houses of the nobility in the Elizabethan age. Preventable Diseases “Was it about that tenement house she owns, and the rents from which comes part of her income?” continued Tom, quick to make a guess, for he knew something about the affairs of Carl’s folks. The Boy Scouts of Lenox You are on the top floor of a tenement house, and there are no tenants except on the first floor. The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences The last is one of the most wretched streets in the city, lined with miserable tenement houses, policy shops, and second-hand clothing stores. Fame and Fortune or, The Progress of Richard Hunter Our hero managed to keep him in view and saw him spring up the steps of a dilapidated tenement house. Randy of the River The Adventures of a Young Deckhand He passed through and found himself on a narrow and dirty street, at the upper end of which were a number of tenement houses and saloons. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle Occasionally a tenement house is found on the larger farms, where a laborer lives with his family, and either rents a portion of the farm or cultivates it on special contract with the landlord. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Nothing but the bare tenement house wall, broken here and there with other windows. The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences In the pearl-misty morning, in the ruby-red evening, I was empress of all I surveyed from the roof of the tenement house. The Promised Land There were tenement houses, which from attic to basement swarmed with filthy, ragged, repulsive human life. Three People Presently they came in sight of a large tenement house, although Ralph, being a country boy, did not recognize it as such. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle One of the clerks in our office staked me with carfare to Atlanta, where I got a job collecting tenement house rents. Torchy, Private Sec. To the rear was the electric light plant, and on either side, the yards of other tenement houses. The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences It had tenement houses with swarms of squalid children playing in the open doorways, its shops offered East End food—mussels and whelks, "two-eyed steaks," reeking fish-and-chips, and horsemeat for the cheap foreign element. The Hand in the Dark It was an old dwelling overtaken by the flood of tenement houses, which spread north, south, east, and west of it. Marriage à la mode A woman might not plan a public building well, but her help is needed in all our homes, and especially in tenement houses. Girls and Women It would be far stranger were it to fail of effect even on so unimpressionable a thing as a six-story red-brick tenement house. White Ashes Leaving his lariat dangling, he made a dash for the alley and soon found himself in front of the tenement house, where he had so recently been a prisoner. The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences Suppose again that the money was devoted to building tenement houses that would be fit for human beings to live in, look at the wonderful good that could be done. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail She knew the ways of this tenement house well. Sue, A Little Heroine Some can sew for the poor, some can cook, some can manage tenement houses as Octavia Hill has done. Girls and Women Once in New York the special chap whom he was following walked up Twenty-third street to First avenue, then he turned down and finally entered a low tenement house. Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field The lofty tenement houses seemed to be crowded as the streets. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York The tenement houses in the poorer sections of any great city are a disgrace to modern civilization, but a Chinese tenement house is as much worse than any of these as can be imagined. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson This would give an average population of eight families or twenty persons to each tenement house in the city. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Near this ruined mill stands a row of tenement houses fast falling to pieces and one large house where some of the operatives were boarded. Confessions of Boyhood He had come from his home in a tenement house, not far from the fire, and his eyes glistened when he saw so many toys out on the street. The Story of a China Cat Seating herself upon a doorstep she was passing,104 Jane shifted the baby to a more comfortable position and leaned her head against the rough woodwork of the tenement house. The Alchemist's Secret Arriving here, he settled on Rosey the income of a small sum, and procured her apartments in a modest tenement house in East Thirtieth street. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It is now one of the most wretched tenement houses in the city. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Thirteen cents for fine custom-made pants, manufactured for a wealthy firm, which repeatedly asserts that its clothing is not made in tenement houses! The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Mosha Kronberg lived on the ground floor of his own tenement house on Madison Street, and to say that Aaron Kronberg worshipped the ground his uncle walked on would be to utter the literal truth. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter But no, mother would not have it so; Richard might come back some day and how could he find them if they moved away from the old home in the tenement house? The Alchemist's Secret As they walked on it grew narrower and dirtier, and the houses became tenement houses only. Gypsy's Cousin Joy The tenement houses of the upper wards, however, were constructed for the uses to which they are put. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City At length they reached the tenement house—Florence’s humble home—and went in. Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World It was nearly nine o'clock when Morris and Minnie groped along the dark hallway of a tenement house in Park Avenue. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter It was an ordinary tenement house of the poorest class, exactly like its neighbors, which lined both sides of the dingy street. The Alchemist's Secret The path through the ragged, unkempt garden in front of the tenement house was so trodden that the snow was packed and hard. John Ward, Preacher One of them shall serve as a description of the average tenement house. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City But the idea of receiving in my house an inmate of a tenement house! Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World To the edge of the tenement houses farthest from our own church building it is a mile and three-quarters. The Crucifixion of Philip Strong Only two people had known the truth, the man now sitting by the stove in the tenement house kitchen and the friend who had suffered in silence rather than betray him. The Alchemist's Secret That tenement house is like a summer hotel—people coming and going all the time; and every time a tenant moves yet I got to pay for painting and repapering the rooms. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures The tenement houses are afflicted with a terrible mortality. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City I shrink from poverty, for I have been reared in luxury, but I will sooner live in a hovel—” “Or a tenement house,” interjected Curtis, with a sneer. Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World This court was reached by an arched tunnel through tenement houses. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital The same street, the same tenement house, but grown even uglier and dingier with the passing of the years. The Alchemist's Secret Sure, I know," he said, "like this here tenement house proposition you was talking to me about, Mawruss. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Among the employés of a certain Israelitish manufacturer of straw goods in New York was a poor French woman, who, with her three small children, occupied apartments in a rear tenement house in Mulberry street. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City “Yes, or a tenement house, than become the wife of one I loathe.” Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World The speculator whose tenement houses were without roof, hurriedly closed them in, and so let them stand. Added Upon A Story He turned into the dirty, narrow alley in which he lived, opened the door of a tenement house, and, running quickly up a flight of stairs, entered Mrs. Dempsey's kitchen. The Alchemist's Secret A tenement house this year is like a tenement house last year, Abe, also the year before. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures The most wretched tenement houses are to be found in the Five Points. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City She is not willing to receive a governess from a tenement house.“ Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World Watch her move along hurriedly, till she comes to a narrow alley and stops in front of a wretched tenement house. Bohemian Society A tenement house in this sense is as "natural" as a bird's nest, a peapod or a crystal. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries All you do when you got a tenement house, Abe, is to go round and collect the rents, and when you got a customer for it you don't have to draw no report on him. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Their earnings are regular, but small, and they prefer the life of this street to the misery of the tenement house. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City A detective testifies that he went with her into a tenement house on Seventeenth Street west of Sixth Avenue. The Man in Court One stormy night a woman found her way to one of the wretched tenement houses, bearing in her arms a tiny burden. Bohemian Society The immediate answer was the enactment of a tenement house law prescribing in great detail the size of the rooms, the air space, the light and the sanitary arrangement for all new buildings. History of the United States If you want to build tenement houses, Mawruss, you got my permission; but you could leave me out. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Within this section there are about 13,000 tenement houses, fully one-half of which are in bad condition, dirty and unhealthy. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City They may live neither in a tenement house nor in a disreputable house. The Man in Court All about were big tenement houses of a substantial kind. Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire Last winter a woman visiting the East Side of New York City saw another woman coming out of a tenement house wringing her hands. The Art of Public Speaking And when at length she drew up before a dingy brick tenement house, of a type the most unpromising, King discovered that her "friend" was one of these very people. Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular The section of the city embraced in the wards we have named is filled with a class of buildings called tenement houses. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Also it suggests the courtyard of a tenement house, an alleyway or something shut in and confined. The Man in Court He soon found himself going up the stairs of the tenement house, and presently reached Retto's door. Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire On and after the above date, all tenants soever residing within the tenement house known as Mulligan's are warned that all rents will be reduced by fifty per cent. The Definite Object A Romance of New York Arrived on the fourth floor of the big tenement house, Polly was at once called upon to praise the new quarters. Polly of the Hospital Staff The law classes all dwellings containing three or more families as tenement houses, but the true tenement house is an institution peculiar to New York. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Here were located a number of factories and mills, with several tenement houses and low groggeries between. The Rover Boys on the River The Search for the Missing Houseboat In the close room at the top of the old tenement house little Lucy lay wasting away with a relentless disease. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories They require that tenement houses shall be properly built, drained, etc. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls They were at the door of a tenement house with steep stairs leading into darkness. The Christmas Angel The best of the tenement houses are uncomfortable. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Asiatic cholera was striding over Europe, and the tenement house of America was a resting place for it here. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him One of the greatest disadvantages in urban life is the overcrowding in tenement houses Probably the first consideration in selection is likely to be whether the home is to be permanent or merely temporary. Vocational Guidance for Girls I've done enough tenement house work to know that the babies certainly survive extraordinary treatment, but these babies here are so delicate that they ought to have the most careful diet. Ethel Morton at Rose House Gradually the tenement house faded and became a blur before Miss Terry's eyes. The Christmas Angel The evils of the tenement house system are almost incalculable. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The tenement house became a menace to cleanliness. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him The girl is born and reared in a tenement house full of children. Democracy and Social Ethics When it was decided to build a number of tenement houses, the judge said, "The men will not come to the 'raising' unless they can have their gin." The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The miserable, overcrowded tenement houses repelled me, yet I dreaded that there should not be room among them for one more bread-winner to lodge. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls It is the experience of all nations that barrack life is demoralizing, and the tenement house is but a barrack without p. 697the rigid discipline of a military establishment. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Thousands herded together in tenement houses and received a daily wage of from twenty-five to sixty cents, the day's labor being often sixteen hours long. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future It is certainly genuine, for it induces an occasional charity visitor to live in a tenement house as simply as the other tenants do. Democracy and Social Ethics What I want to do is analogous to what the authorities of the city of Glasgow did with tenement houses. The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People With this letter in his hand, he waited until the street was quiet and the halls of the tenement house deserted, and then crept up the long staircase with trembling knees. The Redemption of David Corson The tenement houses every year send many girls into the ranks of the street walkers, and a greater number of young men into the ranks of the roughs and thieves. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The cheapest board in dark stuffy attics or tenement houses is $3.00, fuel and washing extra; and no woman can pay doctor's bills and maintain a respectable appearance on what remains. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future He says they had lured the kids off with candy and popcorn, and would hold 'em in a tenement house for ten thousand dollars, to be left on a certain spot at twelve P.M. Somewhere in Red Gap She felt she would be less of a stranger in a New York tenement house, among her relatives and friends who had already emigrated, than in another part of County Galway. Ireland In The New Century Arriving at length at the door of a wretched tenement house, the blind man and his dog entered. The Redemption of David Corson Nearly all the domestic murders occurring in the city are perpetrated in the tenement houses. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The huge modern apartment house, the huge modern tenement house, are part first of the urban movement and second of that movement away from housekeeping which has been sketched in the Introduction. The Nervous Housewife The second large house of the parish is apparently of the same date, but the broad garden in which it formerly stood has been built over with mean tenement houses. As We Are and As We May Be At Rome too, efforts were made by various emperors to limit the height of the large tenement houses which there formed the 'insulae'. Ancient Town-Planning I find some of them with no second coat, some of them in huts and tenement houses, not one earthly comfort afforded them; and yet they are as happy as happy can be. New Tabernacle Sermons He may live in a tenement house, and his expenses will still be disproportioned to the return received. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The address proved to be a shabby tenement house hedged by saloons. Mince Pie It carried them a long distance, past miles of tenement houses and vacant lots, and at last into a sort of country. True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office At last the Sabbath-school superintendent learned that Pete was born and had lived all his life in a tenement house in a great city. The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls I have no doubt that even to-day this same young lady supposes that there are porcelain baths in every tenement house. The "Goldfish" Now one or two rooms on the upper floor of some tenement house constitute his habitation. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City They were "tenement houses," large blocks let out in rooms and flats, and it was natural that landlords should make haste to run them up and to increase the number of their stories. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul It was a cheap and dirty tenement house. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways It is therefore piled up with very fine apartment houses for the rich, or tenement houses for the poor to more stories than the ancient buildings on the Canongate of Edinburgh. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography The Association had erected two long buildings, one for a tenement house and the other for a dining hall. Thirty Years in the Itinerancy The tenement houses are occupied mainly by the honest laboring population of New York, who receive fair wages for their work. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City He slept in the cellar of one of its poorest tenement houses, and lived in the gutters. Two Little Knights of Kentucky Plenty of tenement houses crowded about it but four hundred and sixteen was surely the warehouse. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways What do the dwellers in the by-streets and the tenement houses need? Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography At the end of Pollard's Row—a squalid street of tenement houses—she suffered indeed a terrible scare. True Tilda There are two classes of tenement houses in the city. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Right above us was the straggling town looking very much like the rear view of tenement houses at home. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China Later, the prohibition of the manufacture of intoxicating or malt liquors, and the regulation of tenement houses at the orders of the Board of Health. Popular Law-making Some dancing academies, even in tenement house quarters, are reputable institutions, but to most of them the lowest of the low, both men and women, resort. What eight million women want Over and above the activities mentioned on his business card, he was a landlord, and owned a considerable amount of cottage property, including a whole block of tenement houses hard by The Plain. True Tilda In the older quarters of the city, many of the old time residences are now occupied as tenement houses. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Like Peabody, she has transformed some of the most degraded portions of London by her improved tenement houses for the poor. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous For modern homes for the most part are not sanitary dwellings in the country, but single floors or parts of floors in huge tenement houses in great cities. Popular Law-making The dance hall occupied a big, low-ceiled basement room in a building which was a combination of saloon and tenement house. What eight million women want They lived on the sixth floor in a tenement house crammed with tenants of every degree of squalor. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Their homes are the most wretched tenement houses, and they are compelled to dwell among the most abandoned and criminal part of the population. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Here the children can romp from morning till night, instead of living in the stifled air of the tenement houses. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous A license may be denied to any tenement house if the records show that it is liable to any infectious or communicable disease or other unsanitary conditions. Popular Law-making On the third floor of a tenement house, a missionary, Mr. B., found a comely, intelligent young English woman in great distress. The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer Just now some of us are interested in getting our people out of these wretched alleys and crowded tenement houses into the larger, freer air of the country. Trial and Triumph They live in the poorer class of tenement houses, and are surrounded with discomfort of every kind. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The Bonheur family had moved to the sixth story of a tenement house in the Rue Rumfort, now the Rue Malesherbes. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous But these mediaeval churches were invariably surrounded by miserable hovels compared to which a modern tenement house stands forth as a luxurious palace. The Story of Mankind It was a large, ancient wooden mansion, very elegant in an old-fashioned way within, but situated in a quarter that had long since become undesirable for residence, from its invasion by tenement houses and manufactories. Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Mother hasn't cared about living since we had to give up our little home and become tenement house people. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Well, the Avenue mansions have their skeletons, as well as the east side tenement houses. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The woman floundered about in the lower hall of the tenement house and finally stumbled up the stairs. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Certainly no tenement house woman could be lazier, emptier of head, more inane of life than her sister Martha. The Conflict Of course, from the standpoint of fashionable ambition, seventeen thousand a year in New York is but one remove from tenement house poverty. The Grain of Dust Just like the rest of these filthy tenement house animals. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise It is in this section that the “tenement houses,” or buildings containing from five to twenty families, are to be found. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Perhaps so, if you don't live in a tenement house. Cast Upon the Breakers Enfeebled by sickness, I was able to earn but little, but we lived in a wretched room in a crowded tenement house. The Cash Boy He had one room in a large tenement house, where the friends found him partially dressed and reading a sporting paper. The Mystery of the Four Fingers Although intelligence, indeed, virtue of every kind, is expected of tenement house people—and is needed by them beyond any other condition of humanity—they are unfortunately merely human, are tainted of all human weaknesses. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Laws for better tenement houses, more room and more windows, better air, cleaner streets, room for grass and flowers, pure milk and meat, and less crowding and dirt. Lo, Michael! Pa objects to my going to tenement houses. Cast Upon the Breakers From the Flats—from the tenement houses—from the homes of the laborers, they come, these children, to this beautiful woman who loves them all and who calls them, somewhat fancifully, her "jewels of happiness." Helen of the Old House She was gazing with the eyes of faith at the small beginning of Gloria's model tenement house. Gloria and Treeless Street Susan shook her head, went to the window and gazed into the snowy dreary prospect of tenement house yards. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Gold medal New York city, tenement house department, Lawrence Veiller, collaborator. New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission There is no more inspiration in them than there would be in a row of tenement houses in the city. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays A week ago, a family may have been living in a tenement house. The Secrets of the Great City Just children and children and children and tenement houses. Gloria and Treeless Street And the world over, tenement house life is an excellent school for the life of the streets. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Those in Hatters' Square occupied a room in a large tenement house and "here the accommodations, and probably the audience, were of a humbler character than elsewhere." Unitarianism in America An old Irish woman in a tumble-down tenement house once said to me: 'Ye'll have no chance to work out your salvation doing for me.' The Puritans A change is instantly made from the tenement house to a mansion on Fifth or Madison Avenue. The Secrets of the Great City As Mr. Scott left the tenement house he buttoned his thick overcoat about him, and shivered as he thought of Theodore's bare cot, with not a pillow or a blanket even. The Bishop's Shadow With the most frightful words in tenement house vocabulary pursuing her she fled into the street, and did not pause until she was within a few yards of the Bowery. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise There was a crowd of people of all sorts outside the tenement house when Glory returned to Brown's Square, and even the stairs were thronged with them. The Christian A Story The afternoon was already darkening into dusk one day late in January when Philip Ashe stood in the hallway of a squalid tenement house, looking out into a dingy court. The Puritans A poor sewing girl, whose only riches consisted of a "wealth of hair," died in a tenement house in one of the most wretched quarters of the city. The Secrets of the Great City There was another big tenement house opposite, and on its steps sat a girl of ten or eleven with a baby in her lap. The Bishop's Shadow The rents in the tenement houses are reduced even more notably than those in the apartment-houses, so that now, with the constant increase in wages, the tenants are able to pay their rents promptly. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance The stone stairs to the tenement house were thronged with women. The Christian A Story Presently they came into a dusky court, and crossing it, found themselves at the door of an ill-smelling tenement house. The Puritans The attics of the lowest class of tenement houses are no better than these cellars. The Secrets of the Great City It was in one of the better class of tenement houses. The Bishop's Shadow They passed bits of common with cows and a stray horse, also a little rural cemetery; but London suddenly began again parish after parish, the same blue roofs, the same tenement houses. Esther Waters It was a tenement house, fronting to one facade of St. Jude's, and Aggie's room was on the second story. The Christian A Story "It isn't a cheerful day to go poking about alone among the tenement houses." The Puritans You will see all classes of people in these tenement houses, and, amongst others, persons who have known wealth and comfort. The Secrets of the Great City They went on and on, away from the wide streets and handsome houses, into the tenement house district, and finally into an old building, where many families found shelter—such as it was. The Bishop's Shadow Moreover, they were occupied as joint tenement houses. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines As she crossed the court to her room in the tenement house they heard her "Oh, oh, oh!" The Christian A Story You know she owns a big property in tenement houses and other buildings where she lives. Samantha on the Woman Question The "Old Brewery" was used as a tenement house, and contained one thousand inmates, and a viler, and more wretched set of people was not to be found in the great city. The Secrets of the Great City At the door of the tenement house Mr. Scott left Theo, who hurried eagerly up the stairs. The Bishop's Shadow They constructed joint tenement houses of adobe bricks and of stone, usually more than one story high. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines He would not emigrate to the provinces, as Englishmen have done to Canada and Australia, but instead went to the cities, where he led a hand-to-mouth existence in a type of tenement house. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization He was the owner of six tenement houses—models of their kind, and the "Cawthorne." Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks Now one or two rooms on the upper floor of some tenement house constitute his habitation. The Secrets of the Great City The only way in which the vast populations of the old cities could be crowded into spaces so small was by packing them like sardines in tenement houses. Equality It was also a joint tenement house of the aboriginal American model, indicating a plan of life not well understood. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines She finds it—a tall tenement house in a close street, smelling of breweries, and she ascends a long flight of carpetless stairs, and knocks at a door on the upper landing. A Terrible Secret A crowd of men standing before a tenement house started to run toward him. Marching Men A friend of mine, seeking for objects of charity, got into the room of a tenement house. Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer It was the scout trail that took me to that tenement house and if you follow a scout trail you're safe. Roy Blakeley Was it a plan of building modern tenement houses along scientific and sanitary lines? Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others "Well," he explained, "I got on your tracks quick enough when you skipped from the Waldorf and blossomed out in a second-rate tenement house as Merton Ware." The Cinema Murder He talks kind of crazy sometimes, but that's because he lived in a tenement house and didn't have enough to eat. Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp "Some of those tenement houses are fierce," he said thoughtfully. The Prince and Betty "It's funny, isn't it, how it brings the three of us together here in this tenement house." Roy Blakeley On the former site of Victoria Square were miserable tenement houses. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor I took the pseudonym which he had carefully prepared for himself and hid for a time in a small tenement house. The Cinema Murder Her glorious beauty, even her life, might pass away in Le Grand Hotel as surely as in a tenement house. Barriers Burned Away It was his tenement houses that attracted my attention chiefly. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Have tenement houses moral resources that can be trusted to keep her safe from this temptation? The Making of an American A big Boston tenement house means from four to ten cabins on a floor, and from three to six floors under one roof. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Mr. Allen's elegant, costly home was literally an unguarded fold, many a laborer, living in a tenement house, doing more to shield his daughters from the evil of the world. What Can She Do? And now, Miss Winthrop, this city is full of all sorts of horrid people, living in alleys and tenement houses. Barriers Burned Away When he sent men to wash over the tenement houses, and the good wives trembled for the roses. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland And the house has been rented in the meantime to a great many families, it is technically a tenement house. Little Miss By-The-Day We are really in one room of a big cellar stretching under a crowded tenement house over our heads. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Now, at the end of five years, they were living in a tenement house, a crowded, filthy place, ruled by a miserly, relentless landlord, whose gold was his god. Her Weight in Gold Reaching the spot they saw, at the foot of the alleyway, a couple of tenement houses. The Rover Boys on the Ocean Or, a chase for a fortune The door was low and narrow—up on the fifth floor of one of the huge tenement houses in the Rue Jolivet in the Montmartre quarter of Paris. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel He kept a small laundry in Mud Lane, where his name was painted perpendicularly on a light of glass in the basement window of a tenement house. The Stillwater Tragedy The power of the liquor traffic, and all the other kindred vices that cluster about it, is constantly re-enforced by the social conditions of the neglected tenement house. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor One night last winter—over on Avenue A, snow on the ground, mind you, and cold as Greenland—a row broke out on the third floor of a tenement house. Felix O'Day Suddenly he let it go and it shot high up in the air on the roof of a tenement house. Guy Garrick Can you ask a poor girl like me, born in a tenement house, but with tastes and ambitions such as are usually only given to those who can gratify them? Agatha Webb Why, in the past ten days, I have gone over a cliff, rescued two women from a burning tenement house, climbed a rope hanging from a burning balloon, and fallen off a moving freight car. The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds I give you these instances to show you how false is the idea that poverty and enforced residence in a miserable tenement house are a badge of sin or wrong-doing. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor The first thing I can remember is living in a tenement house in New York, where I had to sleep three in a bed with the two Morrisey boys. Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will Without delay, Mrs. Marshall hurried out on her mission of charity, and tarried not until she stood confronting a low, miserable looking tenement house on Market street. Leah Mordecai "What do you think of that house, there?" asked Mrs. Hardwick, pointing out a tall, brick tenement house. Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life But I got on his trail easily enough, and it led me to a strange old place in the Trastevere, an ancient crevassed black palace turned tenement house, and fluttering with pauper clothes-lines. Tales of Men and Ghosts Nothing will help us more than the abolition of the neglected tenement house, and the provision for a healthier, cleaner shelter for the people. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor An accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought. American Fairy Tales The carriage, passing the open drains and mounds of rippedup roadway before the tenement houses, lurched round the corner and, swerving back to the tramtrack, rolled on noisily with chattering wheels. Ulysses They passed out of the little tenement house they inhabited into the dark cold street,—and the door closed with a loud bang behind them, shut to by the angry wind. The Master-Christian The decision blocked tenement house reform in New York for twenty years, and was one more item in Roosevelt's political education. Theodore Roosevelt In the first place, we want an almost infinitely better system of inspection of tenement houses. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor The six-storied tenement house where she had last seen her mother's face, and kissed her in final farewell, had been demolished to make room for a new furniture warehouse. At the Mercy of Tiberius We want more men with garden homes instead of tenement houses. Letters of Franklin K. Lane A suit of armor ain't no tenement house, it's only meant for one. Happy Hawkins The property, mostly neglected apartment and tenement houses, was in an almost equally bad way whether one regarded it from the standpoint of sanitation, comfort, or cold financial returns. Children of the Whirlwind For instance, there is a court off North Street, reached by a tunnel such as I have described, where the tenement houses are three deep from the street. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor If it is, we have a tenement house next door; isn't that clothing- place on the corner? Marm Lisa Shamrock Jolnes and his client went to the tenement house where Mary Snyder had lived, and the detective demanded to be shown the room in which she had lived. Sixes and Sevens He'd come to town an' buy a tenement house 'at wouldn't rent, because it was haunted; an' he'd tear it all down except the rooms 'at had been most popular to commit murder in. Happy Hawkins There is a class who cannot afford to pay much, yet suffer a great deal from being obliged to stay in noisy, dirty, crowded places like tenement houses and cheap lodgings. Rose in Bloom In one of these large tenement houses there is no family which occupies more than one room. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor When I heard that phrase "in the orchard," I felt a curious sensation, for I know they live in a tenement house; but I said nothing, and went to visit them. Marm Lisa A bill was introduced in the Assembly in those earlier days to prohibit the manufacture of cigars in tenement houses in New York City. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times The law says a tenement house is a building occupied by more than two families. Psmith, Journalist After that had been passed he became like a raging cyclone in a tenement house, and storm-cellars were much in demand. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up The party first visited the tenement houses of South Boston, occupied for the most part by the fishermen and their families, and the poorer classes of the Irish population. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor The men on the roof stopped work, not caring for the moment whether they saved the tenement house or not, since a human life was hanging in the balance. Marm Lisa He went down into the tenement houses to see for himself. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Somehow or other those tenement houses had got to be cleaned up. Psmith, Journalist Mr. Gregson and I ran him to ground in that big tenement house, and there's only one door, so he can't slip us. The Adventure of the Red Circle Often in entering an old rear tenement house, where filth and misery held riot, I have been astonished at the splendidly carved ornaments over the doorways, and the still-to-be-traced carving on the balustrade. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor In a quiet side street of the market town in which Mr. Holcroft was accustomed to dispose of his farm produce was a three-story tenement house. He Fell in Love with His Wife She turned into the cross-street, darkened with the shadows of some low suburban tenement houses, and he boldly followed. In a Hollow of the Hills He owns what, when the improvements are completed, will be the finest and most commodious tenement houses in New York. Psmith, Journalist There was a complete physical breakdown, and the renowned agitator was removed to the "Bohemian Republic"—a large tenement house which derived its euphonious appellation from the fact that its occupants were mostly Bohemian Anarchists. Anarchism and Other Essays It is not a very large house, as tenement houses go, yet the missionary who is with me assures me that he has found as many as thirty families stowed away under its roof. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Not a word more was uttered until we stopped before a shabby, old-fashioned tenement house in the Seventh Avenue, not far above Twenty-third Street. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American George glanced hastily up at the house and then said, as he seized me impatiently by the arm: "It's a tenement house; come on, the chase is not up yet; we, too, must go in!" The Darrow Enigma He wouldn't go to the mansions Where the charitable live; He'd come to the tenement houses Where we ain't got nothing to give. Many Voices Now the youth looked out upon a typical city street, the dwellings on either side being four and five story tenement houses, occupied by artisans and mechanics. Hiram the Young Farmer A wrong, uncared for in a North End tenement house will avenge itself, sooner or later, on Beacon Hill or Commonwealth Avenue. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor It is a troublesome rent to collect, but on the other hand there is no expenditure for repairs or sanitation, which are not considered necessary in tenement houses. An Unsocial Socialist Many of these tenement houses were known as ``fever nests''; through many of them small- pox frequently raged, and from them it was constantly communicated to other parts of the city. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 One of the most discouraging features about the present system of tenement houses is that many are owned by sordid and ignorant immigrants. Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes He glanced sharply around him; and, by the side of the tenement house now that bordered on the alleyway, with a curious, swift, gliding motion, he seemed to blend into the shadow and darkness. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Only a few weeks since, I called, with a brother minister, on a family of Maine people in a miserable tenement house in the North End. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Under the gateway of the extremely ugly tenement house, which hides the Pavilion and the garden from the street, the wife of the porter was waiting with her arms akimbo. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes He stood in front of a gloomy tenement house. Martin Eden But these workingmen are not organized socially; although lodging in crowded tenement houses, they are living without a corresponding social contact. Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes We go up three narrow flights, steep and dark, for space is as important in a low-class Boston tenement house as in a sardine box. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor To the first part of this question, relating to the roof of this bad tenement house, I answer frankly: Yes, no roof is better. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Suddenly I looked up and saw the old woman with her distaff, sitting in the sun on the steps of a tenement house. Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes |
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