Stories of brotherhood; a book for boys and girls . all thepeople throughout the city and nation should beso stirred with anger that laws would be passedand enforced, compelling these selfish landlordsto change their ways. So he carried a cameraand took pictures of the dirty streets and tum-ble-down houses and the pale, sickly, starvingboys and girls. He wrote a book, telling of whathe had seen and showing the pictures he hadtaken. The book was called How the OtherHalf Lives, from the well-known proverb,Half the world does not know how the Otherhalf lives. People read the book and read Mr. Eii
Stories of brotherhood; a book for boys and girls . all thepeople throughout the city and nation should beso stirred with anger that laws would be passedand enforced, compelling these selfish landlordsto change their ways. So he carried a cameraand took pictures of the dirty streets and tum-ble-down houses and the pale, sickly, starvingboys and girls. He wrote a book, telling of whathe had seen and showing the pictures he hadtaken. The book was called How the OtherHalf Lives, from the well-known proverb,Half the world does not know how the Otherhalf lives. People read the book and read Mr. Eiissarticles in his paper, and they became fightingmad.* They determined to do something tomake life sweeter and happier for these boysand girls. One of the worst of the places whichMr. Riis had described was Mulberry Bend inthe lower part of New York. A bill was intro-duced in the New York legislature to buy theland and buildings on this street, giving thelandlords a fair price for the property, and toturn the whole place into a park. Of course the. 6 STORIES OF BROTHERHOOD landlords did not want this law passed, and theyhad friends in the legislature. Year after yearit was delayed for one excuse or another. Mean-while Mr. Riis kept writing his stories and tak-ing his pictures. And at last, ten long yearslater, the law was passed, and the foul oldshacks were torn down. To-day, instead of thetenements of Mulberry Bend, there is MulberryPark, with grass and trees, and children play-ing in the sunshine. Also, largely through Mr. Riiss influence, anew tenement house law was passed in the stateof New York, which required that all tenementhouses be built in such a way that each flat orapartment should be open to the sunlight andair. In New York City to-day tenements areclassed as old-law or new-law houses. The new-law houses are safer and more healthful inevery way, than those which were built beforethe law was passed. Similar laws have been passed or are beingpassed in many states. T
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