The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-29
JACOB iris IS
tDEAQ;FANED
lS0GI0l0G|ST

York-Proclaimed by Theodore
Roosevelt as Most Useful citi-
zen in Gotham.
BARRE, Massachusetts,, May s6.-
(Assoeisted Press by Federal Wire
less -,Jacob Riis, former newspaper
Imam and later one 81 the most prom
incnt sociologists and slnm workers IN
the United states, passed away here
today after brief illness, supcrinduetd
| by heart disease,
Several years ago, whom Theodore
Roosevelt WINS governor Of the Slate
of New York. he gave 20 the world
letter Of Introduction Of which the fol-
lowing Is an extract:
al commend to your courtesy Mr.
Jacob A. Riis Of New York, the boaror
Of this letter. Mr.. Riis is my warm
personal friend, and Is q man whose
services 70 the public have been such
as TO make him on the whole the most
valuable citizen In New York. =
Who then was this Hmost valuable
citizen Of New York; Was ne a grad
uate Of one Of our great universiticbl
Was he descendant Of the Puritana,
or Of the Cavaliers; OF Of the old Hol'
land stock which peopled Manhattan
Islandl No. Only stray-away from
Denmark, who recently told the story
Of his life In the Outlook; and u il q
story that should to read in every
school
i Poor Danish Boy.
He was a poor Danish boy who had
learned the trade Of carpenter in
Denmark For the love Of maid, he
crossed the seas in the steerago and
faced an alien and the most intelligent
race of the earth. He drifted about the
(. country; worked in the iron mines Of
Pennsylvania; became recruit, IN the
! city Of New York, Of the French army
I lin 1871, because he hated Germany for
/ despoilina his fatberland. but did not
leave as the Franco-G ormsn war ended;
he sees Dana Of the New York Sun and
Is given 4 quarter for meal, sleeps
! Ion door steps and under wagons; Il
glad TO get old bread rolls and tones
from the refuse OF Dolmonicois kitchens;
Is cold and hungry, sleeps in a station
, house and is robbed Of the lockct which
. holds the picture Of his girl who h be-
! yond the ocean: does odd jobs Tor food (
Z goes Wost ana sells extension tables
Z ard fails in that business; sells 1aI
Z irons and Is a good fdrummcr; il
: always learning the English languages
} and also saves a little money
Becomes Newspaper Reporter.
Then he becomes reporter on a
|, Long Island paper; leaves that occuna'
4 ton and is a book pedler: becomes a
.spS;,ssf ~ ~ .,a,,s,.. ~.
snd sestless n new, her;n \. y. ~ b,.vs
enu $1,000 y ~ $3.50. s.. ~ ~ =. '
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Nv 80 a,vss,s Ia .,s ~; T.,
$500 a'.sii's i.,...'.''... I,
pon.e 1890 rI Nv; ~ y, Ia
thnro', ~ ,nathads ~ , ',s. y. 4 M; sn
Tbongh only 4 repoTter. he soon hc
COMES n man with a mission a. inform
The World ~ The misery that l;es n Il
anil ~ aoes "a tr,,fhf,,llv ana brarcIv,
49,, ,,--s.,. u -. 49,. .|'
n .,oee.''oo $500 30
lie publishes a book. How tho
Other Half Lives, AMI his mission he,
comes known 70 the best people Of the
eity. These slowly gather around MN,
especially wen bred women and wealthy
men. lie begins crusade fqy Little
parks IN the crowded pan T.. ei f,y,
and inethis fammany ~ q at AIM
We holds up 20 ekeeratlqn the miset-