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(bookmark) CHAPTER XX. THE WORKING GIRLS OF NEW YORK

- tender-hearted men and women are busying themselves with the socs and the hereafter of well-fed little Hottentots thousands of miles away."

-she couldn't afford to keep her, could not remember ever having been in church or Sunday-school, and only knew the name of Jesus through hearing people swear by it. [...] These were specimens of the overflow from the tenements of our home-heathen that are growing up in New York's streets today, while -

"[The boy's] only bed was a heap of dirty straw on the floor, his daily diet a crust in the morning, nothing else. Into the rooms of the Children's Aid Society were led two little girls whose father [kicked them out on the street after their mother died]. Another was turnd out by her step mother because [...] -"

Down Went McGinty (song)

So the negroes are cleaner, steadier and overall better tenants and they're still charged 50% more than the white European tenant for the same property. "Once a negro occupied property, always a negro occupied property".

"There was another inscription overhead [on a wall in a shrine] that needed no interpreter. In familiar English letters, copied bodily from the trade dollar, was the sentiment: “In God we trust.” The priest pointed to it with undisguised pride and attempted an explanation, from which I gathered that the inscription was intended as a diplomatic courtesy, a delicate international compliment to -