Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.

ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...

Genesis of the tenement -- The awakening -- The mixed crowd -- The down town back-alleys -- The Italian in New York -- The Bend -- A raid on the stale-beer dives -- The cheap lodging-houses -- ...