A Ten Years War An Account of the Battle With the Slum in New York
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The policeman's story rambled among the days when things were different. Then it was dangerous for an officer to go alone there at night.
Around the corner there came from one of the side streets a procession with ban- ners, parading in honor and aid of some church charity. We watched it pass. In it marched young men and boys with swords THE TENEMENT: CURING ITS BLIGHT 69 and battle-axes, and upon its outskirts skipped a host of young roughs so one would have called them but for the evidence of... their honest employment who rattled collection boxes, reaping a harvest of pennies from far and near. I looked at the battle-axes and the collection boxes, and thought of forty years ago. Where were the Seven Dials of that day, and the men who gave it its bad name ? I asked the policeman.
"They were druv into decency, sor, " he said, and answered from his own experience the question ever asked by faint-hearted phi- lanthropists. " My father, he done duty here afore me in '45. The worst dive was where that church stands.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The policeman's story rambled among the days when things were different. Then it was dangerous for an officer to go alone there at night.
Around the corner there came from one of the side streets a procession with ban- ners, parading in honor and aid of some church charity. We watched it pass. In it marched young men and boys with swords THE TENEMENT: CURING ITS BLIGHT 69 and battle-axes, and upon its outskirts skipped a host of young roughs so one would have called them but for the evidence of... their honest employment who rattled collection boxes, reaping a harvest of pennies from far and near. I looked at the battle-axes and the collection boxes, and thought of forty years ago. Where were the Seven Dials of that day, and the men who gave it its bad name ? I asked the policeman.
"They were druv into decency, sor, " he said, and answered from his own experience the question ever asked by faint-hearted phi- lanthropists. " My father, he done duty here afore me in '45. The worst dive was where that church stands.
What to read after A Ten Years War An Account of the Battle With the Slum in New York?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 to read onlineMoreLess
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