The Poor in great cities
Subtitle: their problems and what is doing to solve them
By: by Robert A. Woods and others.
Contributors: Woods, Robert Archey, 1865-1925.
Edition: [1st Garrett Press ed.]
Series: The Social history of poverty: the urban experience
Publisher: Garrett Press; Infobase Holdings, Inc.
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Poor -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Other titles: Scribner's magazine.
Notes: Reprint of the 1895 ed., with a new foreword by Sol Cohen; contains essays originally published in Scribner's magazine during the years 1891-1893.
Table of contents: title: The social awakening in London, by R. A. Woods.; title: Life in New York tenement-houses as seen by a city missionary, by W. T. Elsing.; title: The children of the poor, by J. A. Riis.; title: The story of the fresh-air fund, by W. Parsons.; title: Boys' clubs in New York, by E. J. Wendell.; title: The work of the Andover House in Boston, by W. J. Tucker.; title: Among the poor of Chicago, by J. Kirkland.; title: A riverside parish, by Sir W. Besant.; title: A school for street Arabs, by E. R. Spearman.; title: The poor in Naples, by J. W. Mario.; title: Agencies for the prevention of pauperism, by O. Craig.; title: The New York tenement-house evil and its cure, by E. Flagg.