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Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
The belief that every man's experience ought to be worth something to-the community from Which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest work, made me begin this book. With the result before him, the reader can judge for himself now Whether or not I was right. Right or wrong, the many and exacting duties of a newspaper man's life wtmld hardly have allowed me to bring it to an end but for frequent friendly lifts given me by Willing hands. To the President of the Board of Health, Mr. Charles Gr. Ivilson, and' to Chief Inspector Byrnes of the Police F orce I am indebted for much kind ness. The patient friendship of Dr. Roger S. Tracy, the Registrar of Vital Statistics, has done for me What I never could have done for myself; for I know nothing of tables, statistics and percentages, while there is nothing about them that he does not know. Most of all, I owe in this, as in all things else, to the womanly sympathy and the loving companionship of my dear Wife, ever my chief helper, my wisest counsellor, and my gentlest critic.
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The belief that every man's experience ought to be worth something to-the community from Which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest work, made me begin this book. With the result before him, the reader can judge for himself now Whether or not I was right. Right or wrong, the many and exacting duties of a newspaper man's life wtmld hardly have allowed me to bring it to an end but for frequent friendly lifts given me by Willing hands. To the President of the Board of Health, Mr. Charles Gr. Ivilson, and' to Chief Inspector Byrnes of the Police F orce I am indebted for much kind ness. The patient friendship of Dr. Roger S. Tracy, the Registrar of Vital Statistics, has done for me What I never could have done for myself; for I know nothing of tables, statistics and percentages, while there is nothing about them that he does not know. Most of all, I owe in this, as in all things else, to the womanly sympathy and the loving companionship of my dear Wife, ever my chief helper, my wisest counsellor, and my gentlest critic.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Jacob A. Riis
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780265354933
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
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ISBN - 9781331844785
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 320
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