- Adams, Maude, 87
- Adolescence, problems of, and settlement work, 170-179, 189-199
- Anarchism, 274-279
- Archer, William, 272
- Bellevue Hospital, 28, 59
- Bialystok massacre, 230
- Breshkovsky, Katharine, 238-248
- Brewster, Mary, 8, 10, 16, 45, 48, 78, 113
- Budget of a working-girl, 194;
- her “two jobs,” 211
- Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, 273-275
- Child Hygiene, Bureau of, 53, 57, 59
- Child labor:
- Children who work, 135-151;
- conditions in New York City, 135-137,
- —in Pennsylvania and the South, 144, 145;
- National Committee on, 144, 146;
- New York Committee on, 137, 144, 148, 150;
- newsboys, 146-149;
- obstacles to measures for protection of children, 149;
- scholarships to aid children, 138-142;
- statistics for Greater New York, 158;
- sweatshops and children, 153-156;
- typical employment record, 143;
- Washington Conference on, 146
- Clubs and classes in the settlement, 179-184
- Columbia University creates Department of Nursing and Health, 64
- Committee of Fifteen (New York), inquiry of, 174
- Comte, 274
- Continuation Schools, necessary for young workers, 160
- Convalescents, country house for, 88
- Crosby, Ernest, 234, 235, 280
- Davis, Katherine, 268
- Defectives:
- Responsibility of society for, 122;
- special classes instituted, 117-120
- De Leon, Daniel, 262
- Diseases of children and home treatment, 38-40
- Dock, L. L., 266
- Doukhobors, the, 233-235
- Drama:
- As a social force, 270-273;
- dramatic instinct of Jewish child, 184;
- marionette theater, 272;
- Neighborhood Playhouse, 185;
- pageants and plays, 184-187, 226;
- Yiddish plays, 270-272
- Ducey, Father, 280
- Dunsany, Lord, 188
- Education:
- Bureau of vocational guidance proposed, 160;
- continuation schools necessary, 160;
- educational ideals and the settlement, 133;
- effects of disorganized tenement life on, 110-113;
- Federal Children’s Bureau, 57, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168;
- foreign press as Americanizing influence, 307;
- hardships endured for, 99-103;
- institutional life and the child, 124-132;
- necessity for early care and training, 133;
- responsibility for defectives, 122;
- scholarships, 138, 141, 150;
- special training for defectives instituted, 117-120;
- study-rooms at the settlement, 103
- (see also Public Schools)
- Educational Alliance, The, 308
- Empress of Austria, assassination of, 275
- Factory law (New York) amended, 210
- Farrell, Elizabeth, 117, 120
- Federal Children’s Bureau, 57, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168
- Forward Association, The, 264
- Gapon, Father, 230
- Gershuni, 238
- Gordin, Jacob, 270, 271
- Greeks of New York give “Ajax,” 226
- Henry Street:
- Instruction in home nursing begun in old building on, 3;
- its links with city’s past, 169;
- physical changes of twenty years, 308
- Home and School Visitor, The, 110
- Hospitals:
- Children’s diseases and, 38-40;
- first school for midwives in Bellevue, 59;
- large numbers of city sick unable to avail themselves of, 28
- Housekeeping centers, 108, 109
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 259, 293
- Ibsen, Henrik, 188, 272
- Illiteracy, 113, 114
- Immigrants:
- Bureau of Industries and Immigration created, 293;
- conditions of, in labor camps, 294-297;
- contributions of, to national life, 305, 306;
- dangers and early trials of, 286-293;
- discrimination against, 300-302;
- further restriction of immigration contrary to American institutions, 290, 304;
- land and the, 298-300;
- positive governmental action and constructive social measures needed, 291;
- postal savings banks and, 298
- Industrial conditions:
- Programmes of betterment, 25;
- unemployment in 1893-1894, 17;
- wretched conditions impress Henry Street workers from the beginning, 25;
- youth and trades unions, 201-215
- (see also Child Labor and Sweatshops)
- Industrial Workers of the World, 278
- Infant mortality:
- Federal Children’s Bureau report on, 57;
- social disease, 54
- Institutional life, disadvantages of, for children, 124-132
- Italians:
- Ancient customs preserved among, 69;
- celebration of saints’ days, 252;
- daily newspaper publishes Constitution, 308;
- marionette theaters, 272;
- preyed upon by quack doctors, 37;
- tragic experience of Italian immigrant, 286-288
- “Jephthah’s Daughter,” 186
- Jews:
- Cycle of Hebrew festivals at Henry Street, 184;
- difficulties of, in complex new world, 252-254;
- dramatic instinct of Jewish child, 184;
- Talmud-Torah Schools and Chedorim, 253;
- value put upon education by, 97-100;
- wedding customs, 216-219;
- Yiddish plays, 270-272;
- Yiddish press, 307;
- Zionism, 254
- Kant, 274
- Kelley, Florence, 144
- Kellor, Frances, 293, 294
- Kennan, George, 238, 239
- Kindness of poor to each other, 17-20, 70
- Kishineff massacre, 229
- Knights of Labor, 263, 281
- Kropotkin, Prince, 222, 234, 235, 238, 276
- Land, The, and the immigrant, 298-300
- Lathrop, Julia, 166
- Lawrence strike, The, 278, 279
- Le Moyne, Sarah Cowell, 188
- Life insurance and nursing service, 62
- Literacy test for immigrants, 304, 305
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 14
- McGlynn, Edward, 280
- McRae, Mrs., 13-17
- Maude, Aylmer, 233
- Mazzini, 208
- Medical etiquette:
- And nursing service, 30-36;
- its analogies with the “closed shop,” 34
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, petition for Sunday opening of, 80
- Midwives, 57-60
- Milk stations, 55, 56
- Morbidity, statistics of, 37, 38
- Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 144
- National Organization for Public Health Nursing, 64
- National Playground Association, 81
- Negroes:
- “Lincoln House,” 162;
- peculiar problems of, 162, 163;
- restricted opportunities for, in industry, 162
- Neighborhood Playhouse, The, 185
- Nursing service:
- Co-operation with Board of Health, 45;
- co-ordination with educational institutions, 63;
- Department of Nursing and Health at Columbia University, 64;
- development of, throughout country, 44, 60;
- division into districts, 42;
- effect of new basis, 27, 28;
- etiquette of, 27;
- honored by Mt. Holyoke degree, 65;
- life insurance company and, 62;
- new era in development of, 60, 61;
- nurses for public schools, 51-53;
- post-graduate training in settlement, 63;
- principles of, 26, 27, 29;
- professional etiquette and, 30-36;
- Public Health Nursing, division of, created in New York State, 46
- —department of, in Columbia University, 64
- —National Organization for, 64;
- staff of settlement increased, 41, 42
- Outdoor Recreation League, 85, 86
- Pageants, festas, and street dances, 184, 214, 215, 226, 252
- Picnics and day parties, 77-79, 89
- Play, children and, 66-96
- Playgrounds:
- In Henry Street Settlement’s back yard, 81-84;
- movement throughout country in favor of, 96;
- Outdoor Recreation League, 85, 86;
- playgrounds “at no matter what cost,” 96;
- public schools used for, 87;
- Seward Park, 86
- Postal savings banks and the immigrant, 298
- Pouren, Jan, 236-238
- Protocol established in cloakmakers’ strike, 284, 285
- Prudhon, 276
- Public Health Nursing, division of, created in Columbia University, 64;
- in New York State, 46;
- National Organization for, 64
- Public schools:
- Cooking instruction in, 107;
- doctors appointed for, 49-51;
- first class for ungraded pupils in, 117-120;
- infectious diseases and, 46-53;
- opened as recreation centers, 87;
- Penny Lunches for, 109;
- responsibility for defectives, 114-123;
- settlement seeks to co-operate with and supplement, 105;
- stronghold of democracy, 133;
- trachoma in, 50;
- trained nurses in, 51-53
- Quack doctors and the poor, 36, 37
- Red Cross (American):
- An agency providing “moral equivalents for war,” 61;
- Department of Town and Country Nursing, 61
- Riis, Jacob, 67
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 125, 164, 166, 236, 237
- Russian freedom:
- Case of Jan Pouren, 236-238;
- Friends of, in New York, 235;
- Katharine Breshkovsky, 238-248;
- Russian visitors at Henry Street, 231-233;
- Russia’s struggle our struggle, 248;
- spiritual force of, on East Side, 229;
- woman suffrage and, 268
- Russian Revolution, 229, 230;
- New York Committee, 231, 236
- Scholarships for children who work:
- “Alva Scholarship,” 150;
- chart showing statistics of, 141;
- Henry Street system, 138;
- New York Child Labor Committee Scholarship, 150
- Settlements:
- Adherents of all creeds work together in, 254;
- birth of idea, 2;
- developments and opportunities for service, 309, 310;
- College Settlement (New York), 10;
- Union Settlement, 58;
- University Settlement, 137
- Sex hygiene, instruction in, 198
- Shaw, George Bernard, 188
- “Shepherd, The,” 185
- Shirt-waist strike, The, 209, 210
- “Silver Box,” The, 185
- Social forces:
- Drama, 270-273;
- politics, 255-272;
- radicalism, 276-279;
- religion, 249-254;
- socialism, 262-266;
- social reform, 279-285;
- woman suffrage, 266-269
- Social halls and meeting-places:
- Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, 273-275;
- Clinton Hall, 185, 225, 227, 260;
- need for, 219;
- Social Halls Association, 225, 226
- Socialist movement in America, 262-266
- Social Reform Club, 279
- Southern Educational Conference, 104
- Spahr, Charles B., 280
- Spinoza, 274
- “Spoken Newspaper, The,” 263
- Study-rooms and libraries in the settlement, 103, 104
- Sukloff, Marie, 238
- Summer scenes on the East Side, 69-71
- Sweatshops:
- Conditions in, 152-155, 281;
- conferences on, 282;
- protocol of 1910, 284;
- restriction of, 157-158
- Taft, William Howard, 166
- Tammany Hall, 256-258
- Terry, Ellen, 188
- Thoreau, Henry D., 277
- Tolerance, religious, instances of, 21-23
- Tolstoi, Leo, 233-235, 276
- Trades unions:
- Difficulty of organizing women and girls, 203;
- early organizations of girl workers, 203-206;
- shirt-waist strike, 209;
- Women’s Trade Union League, 206, 207;
- Youth and, 201-215
- Triangle fire and investigation, 208, 209, 212
- Tschaikowsky, N., 238, 268
- Tuberculosis, system of care and instruction of patients, 53, 54
- Vacation houses and camps, 90-94
- Vocational Guidance and Industrial Supervision, proposed Bureau of, 160
- Waring, Colonel, 4
- Wedding customs, 216-219
- White House Conference on Children, 125
- “Whither,” by Morris Rosenfeld, 200
- Whitman, Walt, 276
- Widows’ pensions, the first in Henry Street, 124
- Wilson, Woodrow, 305
- Woman suffrage, 266-269
- Women’s Trade Union League, 206, 207
About This Book
A personal account traces the founding and growth of a settlement on the East Side, describing the establishment of a visiting-nurse service and its integration with community programs for children, youth, and families. The narrative documents pedagogical and recreational initiatives—kindergartens, playgrounds, clubs, and social halls—methods for assisting working and handicapped children, and cooperation with labor and reform movements. Interwoven are reflections on immigrant neighborhoods, public-health practice, organization-building, and the social forces shaping urban life, emphasizing communal responsibility, practical aid, and the settlement’s evolving role in education, welfare, and civic engagement.