. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . eu, p-( THE TENEMENT DWELLERS 269 pal art societies — something that mars the beauty ofthe city — or an item of expense to the tax-payer andthe charitably disposed; it is a menace to the publichealth, a prolific source of contagion. Worst of all, it isa sink of crime and immorality. It is not creditable toNew York. It is one of the citys most hideous features,one of its most violent and forbidding contrasts. CITY GUARDIANS Pu. XVI. —SECOND AVENUE 3UH3VA aM0032-~.IVX .jH. CHAPTER XVI CITY GUARDIANS When one becomes involved in the
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . eu, p-( THE TENEMENT DWELLERS 269 pal art societies — something that mars the beauty ofthe city — or an item of expense to the tax-payer andthe charitably disposed; it is a menace to the publichealth, a prolific source of contagion. Worst of all, it isa sink of crime and immorality. It is not creditable toNew York. It is one of the citys most hideous features,one of its most violent and forbidding contrasts. CITY GUARDIANS Pu. XVI. —SECOND AVENUE 3UH3VA aM0032-~.IVX .jH. CHAPTER XVI CITY GUARDIANS When one becomes involved in the tenement problem,and sees for himself how the other-half lives, the East Sideis no longer amusing or attractive. The very poverty,squalor, and disorder of it, with the helter-skelter of crazybuildings and vivid colors, may be picturesque enough;but even the artist cannot be interested in it for go there from Upper New York on slummingexpeditions with the same morbid curiosity that takesthe people of Nether New York to the Morgue; but thehorror of the one is the horror of the other, and a tastefor either is not healthy. The East Side is a repellentplace, a place where people die in the attempt to live;and perhaps too much has been said about it already. And yet there are other dark features of the city thatare not to be slipped by unmentioned if one would makea fair survey and a candid commentary. New York isnot all atune to the hum of profitable business; pros-perity is not obtrusively in evidence everywhere throu
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