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NEIGHBORS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
“LITTLE LOUISA’S FINGERS WERE NIMBLER THAN HER MOTHER’S.
SHE WAS ONLY EIGHT, BUT SHE SOON LEARNED TO TIE A PLUME.”
NEIGHBORS
LIFE STORIES OF THE OTHER HALF
BY
JACOB A. RIIS
AUTHOR OF
“HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES,” “THE MAKING OF
AN AMERICAN,” “CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS,”
“HERO TALES OF THE FAR NORTH,” ETC.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1914
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1914,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914. Reprinted
December, 1914.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
PREFACE
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my ownexperience, others from settlement workers, still others from the recordsof organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive withvital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother sothat it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For goodreasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here.I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if Icould. For it is as pictures from the life[Pg vi] in w