THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR

BY

JACOB A. RIIS
AUTHOR OF “HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES”

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1908

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PREFACE

To my little ones, who, as I lay down my pen, come rushing in from theautumn fields, their hands filled with flowers “for the poor children,” Iinscribe this book. May the love that shines in their eager eyes nevergrow cold within them; then they shall yet grow up to give a helping handin working out this problem which so plagues the world to-day. As to theirfather’s share, it has been a very small and simple one, and now it isdone. Other hands may carry forward the work. My aim has been to gatherthe facts for them to build upon. I said it in “How the Other Half Lives,”and now, in sending this volume to the printer, I can add nothing. The twobooks are one. Each supplements the other. Ours is an age of facts. Itwants facts, not theories, and facts I have endeavored to set down inthese pages. The reader may differ with me as to the application of them.He may be right and I wrong. But we shall not quarrel as to the factsthemselves, I think. A false prophet in our day could do less harm than acareless reporter. That name I hope I shall not deserve.

To lay aside a work that has been so long a part of one’s life, is likelosing a friend. But for the one lost I have gained many. They have beenmuch to me. The friendship and counsel of Dr. Roger S. Tracy, of theBureau of Vital Statistics, have lightened my labors[Pg vi] as nothing elsecould save the presence and the sympathy of the best and dearest friend ofall, my wife. To Major Willard Bullard, the most efficient chief of theSanitary Police; Rabbi Adolph M. Radin; Mr. A. S. Solomons, of the Baronde Hirsch Relief Committee; Dr. Annie Sturges Daniel; Mr. L. W. Holste, ofthe Children’s Aid Society; Colonel George T. Balch, of the Board ofEducation; Mr. A. S. Fairchild, and to Dr. Max L. Margolis, my thanks aredue and here given. Jew and Gentile, we have sought the truth together.Our reward must be in the consciousness that we have sought it faithfullyand according to our light.

J. A. R.

Richmond Hill, Long Island,
October 1, 1892.

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CHAPTER I.
The Problem of the Children,		1

THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR