The Children of the Poor

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The Children of the Poor is by Jacob A. Riis. The preface says that the book is inscribed to little ones who come rushing in from the autumn fields, their hands filled with flowers for the poor children. The preface also says that the aim has been to gather the facts for them to build upon. The text says that the worst old rookeries fall everywhere in this city to the share of the immigrants from Southern Italy.

The text says that humanity is the religion of the Children's Society, which proposes to labor in the interest of no one religious denomination. A list of day nurseries gives entries such as the Silver Cross Day Nursery, for children from 2 weeks to 10 yrs, and another list is headed Kindergartens.

About the author

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob August Riis (1849-1914) emigrated from Ribe, Denmark, to New York in 1870 and spent several years in poverty before finding work as a police reporter, first for the Tribune and later for the Evening Sun.