How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

CHAPTER VIII.

THE CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES.

When it comes to the question of numbers with this tramps' army, another factor of serious portent has to be taken into account: the cheap lodging-houses. In the caravanseries that line Chatham Street and the Bowery, harboring nightly a population as large as that of many a thriving town, a home-made article of tramp and thief is tu...