. Town and city. nywhere elsein the world. Since that sort of crowding must be woefully uncom-fortable, we wonder why yet other people are willingto increase the crowd by going to that particular spotto live. The truth is that, as a rule, when a man goes to acity to carry on his work he cannot afford either to buya house or to build one; still he must find a home forhimself and his family somewhere, and for the sake ofsaving time and car fare he hires rooms as near hiswork as possible. Then, too, other men who are huntingfor work go to the same region. They also hire roomsthere; and at any poi
. Town and city. nywhere elsein the world. Since that sort of crowding must be woefully uncom-fortable, we wonder why yet other people are willingto increase the crowd by going to that particular spotto live. The truth is that, as a rule, when a man goes to acity to carry on his work he cannot afford either to buya house or to build one; still he must find a home forhimself and his family somewhere, and for the sake ofsaving time and car fare he hires rooms as near hiswork as possible. Then, too, other men who are huntingfor work go to the same region. They also hire roomsthere; and at any point in a city where those twostreams of people meet, there the houses are tallest, thestreets narrowest, the rooms darkest. Not only this, but multitudes of these men and womenknow nothing about the advantages of fresh air, cleanli-ness, and ventilation. They must also economize all theycan. When, therefore, they have all they can do to buyfood and clothes for the family, and when they find that P|irfTTfTj • -.;. An Air Shaft Twenty Inches Wide and Six Stories Deep 8 TOWN AND CITY they can save four or five dollars a month on rent byliving in dark, close sleeping rooms, they are almostsure to do it. Generally the consequences of overcrowding are dark-ness, unclean houses, unclean air, and unclean microbes are sure to follow; and wherever theygo the history is the same, for disease and death travelwith them. On the other hand, in every city there are thousandsof homes with room enough around them to give grass,flowers, and children a chance; and each home of thatsort raises the health standard for the entire city. Wide,clean streets full of sunshine do the same thing; yet themost beautiful home in the most beautiful city is indanger when, in another part of the same city, narrowstreets and crowded blocks are filled with men andwomen who live in the midst of uncleanness, impureair, and disease. CHAPTER IIRESULTS OF OVERCROWDING No owner of tenement houses in a cro
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