New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-14
FRUITS. OF REFORM RULE.
TREATNENT RECEIVED BY THE DWELLERS IN THE
TENEMENTS UNDER TAMlIANY And
UNDER LOW.
THE TENEMENT HOUSE DEPARTMENT.
T.4Mlf4NY'S RECORD.

Peso-s the new charter there was no Tenement
House Department The ole Health Board had
.hs-re o. the sanitary conditions IN the tenement
Sr-cts and therefore facAlculable distress, misery
sn6 crime were prevalent The inspectors grated
ron TIE landlorLs and agents. who Il turn took
!. on O. their miserable tenants Those unoertu-
rates poor ignorant. most OF them foreigners, had
70 redress. an6 il characteristic % the city
,,5e- re forces then n control that they should
80 none Houses were allowed 10 fall into
s-a-e of utter 6llaDidaton. with cellars filed with
use and o1aI. SIMS broken and leaky decently
,jssr closets unknown. while Light rooms and
hsth,ubs t,ings once heard CO. perhaps, but
never within the experience even % the usre pros
pe-ous tenement cIssses. TO al these evils the
EOor hz6 % submit
vo-se perhaps, IL its bHghting effect them
.ns- hose physical lis was the moral stencil II
v-hi-h taey were forced 70 live Prostitution made
81 abo6e IN the teneuents OF the East Side Il the
.eG = ght district. that sewer o. moral degrade
.o- mere lived hundreds OF families n the sane
tenenerts where 6is0rde-ly women carried On their
business Move they could not. the landlords would
ro- make the prostitutes move. the city cd not
care u one police precinct not more than a ME
so.a-e ne Committee q Fifteen found sixty well
known .s-z 5.ishmenIs'' tenement houses, while
Il Us wo- l. accumulated evidence as 70 more than
-h-ee hundred separate 6isorderly apartments II
teuene--s.
-rz-s are more than 600 tenement houses in the
civ which shelter more than 25O0co0 people, about
-
IL. conditions I'D which they lived before the Tene-
rne1- House Department took Up its work some Of
me letters u complaint received IL the early Gays
W. SHOW
Too the Board:
lesr -. PEAS and call at-w. 81. WHARF the
s-n-- Po-k=s ~e-- al spring the houses ana IA.
d-- ----L ------ool 90 Li-e s---ASs sc 49,
from -aeIl very oad and Z ROT sect 10 ! fear
.01 ~. LAY Jle same k4se soon again Pleas and
es-sare uhe rooms -hlre are 3 q chl-cre1 -
-. ftl-ls f--ich . tllnh Is sIa0 sian sc 20
,---e- Ia -t ---s-A-eper SAGE she W. not lei tie
4 ,--s, -- .-- 1-r relate Is soon as yoG get this
bes--e -lt 10 5e-lre her you WI bee 70 you meas
Lei ne Sc ! All not bav 10 spak Of this any
Dear S-r. Please come and investigate tank and
ce---s - Aos- - aHc - ". 5Jth It these houses
are q -sr--ll= CONDITION have nothing but the
EeEe- and a-e- closets O. else every Ody viii be
sck "-- maria -eVer there is plenty o. room
Gear u. ,z-k ana lie smell : something terrible
please --r--l-er -le-e are - families have 10 90
III. those -lsecs and OILY one tank please se1d 4
hoaes- Inspector taaL Wiz 1or let himself be tipped
a-c t-- has feeling I0r the poor lei HIM lnEesti-
ga through Al all sou RlI mo an rlenL ms
Nil -r-.-- al old tenants Plumbers we're here to-
caE a--- and perhaps -ley N-l oe here FOR z few
A. ~ ae-lh q held Of = CITY OF NeNyork. Fl
: d Le-1-.ss J5seder 5eot Is pepei and der IS
Eklezs. or resDklfer
De- GEM: }. Desser citizen Of the r United
j shop ware EHeIn run the mashineery and
N .--.-lns which contains from me story
= & -e- aae r9e Blidtng Wot . II IS a frame one
I6a-s rers- - s'- ''--' --'' ---1's DEssER.
T me Board of Health Department
Please look after the house al I. Nth street i
.1-E men 5-izsing N TIE rags in the cellars and
tel- = IS shame 1lease looE 49, IL = "a 80
sst-- q there are children AZ xeTy s-ek ana a-5
ne sinks are broken IL good many -yeparl =
s-1 Ea-ar is leaking and has The hole house II
Pesss o5.ige the tenants and the MAJORS o. the
~ W. - Il tenants OF The house one on TIE
second foCr front West size the other toP nooI
-rCrt East side this e. the third note they sent you
re.r ls-5-s reF- 90 SUNDAYS and al threw the
week r Is q nuH 10 bring Sickness 10 any ialnlIy
Gt.se 7na sesore moor front west side.
r-sre--ia-s made By the department men. too,
showed The most 5ful conditions existing No
regard was PAID &c Ordinary cleanliness. "ili-e
modern i6eas as 10 sanitary Cunning mad never
pe1e.-re6 70 the districts. Even where the tenants
had s-Daled 20 the landlords or agents. little vas
ever done until the department went cunning 'or
ne landlords
Az ~ 81 F5o-atto-st a saloon and Raines law
Erte u.r-e found ir a tenement house f1Ch % 1iie
Saloon WIS n auarrrneur occupied by woman ana
be- rrrs n, -rfs ararrrnent the only entrance ia
Use was through the saloon toilet room ne No-i-a
nd 1g ef-k ia her rooms anc tllls-s = = a.
emulate ri The cellar beneath On the sec - eIt
sene he lodgers rooms TIC s,ei ,base rooms was
ogs-rov-e-.-e u was Ike the Tamulany steIl -ll
On - go 90 ne rCorn which was han Govern
va l-rsF s1rh smiled from a vessel lay a 1I " -. .
Egr sree- The arartuents upstairs ~
cean and decent condition. and the lo-zT9tf -
ard te-s--e corarlsfre bitterly Of the con-
re rz-+ - enc house over which tneN nae ~ -
frrl after orders had been issued 70 It1l-e1s
concirl0re sink was supplied Lor ne III 81
Eqzr-rrlrt and me hole IL the MOOR W. l--t---
TIE lati0rls % foul water and eaIo1es -
FeFnCvls f~-rr fe cellar and the second story rol-
were rcrlilbec and dis-nfected and lAe "@--7
painted -
fhe va-s long hopper closets was hslf nice VIZ
Foul u-ese~ e~F fecaI matter from leakage ln
80 -s-e 49, --a~ Tfe tenants declared mat y had
lorR te~ r. nat condition They had reported i 10
~ 60 - aeerf hut nothing had been cone.