Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . and intimate power of entwining themselves intoour tenderest memories, before even the residents ACTIVITIES AND INVESTIGATIONS 283 of Hull-House can understand their own earlyenthusiasm for the removal of these boxes and theestablishment of a better system of refuse collec-tion. It is easy for even the most conscientious citizenof Chicago to forget the foul smells of the stock-yards and the garbage dumps, when he is living sofar from them that he is only occasionally madeconscious of their existence but the residents ofa Settlement are
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . and intimate power of entwining themselves intoour tenderest memories, before even the residents ACTIVITIES AND INVESTIGATIONS 283 of Hull-House can understand their own earlyenthusiasm for the removal of these boxes and theestablishment of a better system of refuse collec-tion. It is easy for even the most conscientious citizenof Chicago to forget the foul smells of the stock-yards and the garbage dumps, when he is living sofar from them that he is only occasionally madeconscious of their existence but the residents ofa Settlement are perforce constantly surroundedby them. During our first three years on HalstedStreet, we had established a small incinerator atHull-House and we had many times reported theuntoward conditions of the ward to the cityhall. We had also arranged many talks for theimmigrants, pointing out that although a womanmay sweep her own doorway in her native villageand allow the refuse to innocently decay in theopen air and sunshine, in a crowded city quarter,if the g
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