p. 16 | How the Slum Came In

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 20.

How the Slum Came In.

—Jacob A. Riis, in the Sunday School Times of May 3, well says: “Neighborhoods died when the new industry came in the past century, and drove men apart. Up to that time the poor man and his well-to-do neighbor had often enough lived under one roof, and they knew one another naturally. Now they moved into different parts of the town and became strangers. When the cobbler was sick, his landlord, who lived in the fine rooms upstairs, no longer asked after him; he did not know, and to the uneasy conscience there came, by and by, the wish not to know. Then the estrangement became complete. In the gap the slum grew.” It did, and those who have bridged it are not the “upper ten” in the avenue, but the poor of the tenements. The article ought to be read by all.