. Ville et ville. ese chiffres, mais notez comment ils sont largeeux.) En 1900, l'un de ces blocs comptait vingt-sept cent quatre-vingt-et-un hommes, femmes et enfants qui se labouraient dans quinze cent quatre-vingt-huit chambres.comme cela s'est produit, plus de quatre cents de ces chambres n'avaient aucune porte extérieure et n'avaient aucune fenêtre extérieure, tandis que soixante cents autres chambres ouvraient dans les puits d'air. Aujourd'hui, l'arbre anair est souvent simplement un puits d'air de vingt-huit pouces de large qui traverse le centre du bâtiment. N'importe où de vingt à soixante fenêtres s'ouvrent dans lui, et les odeurs de rechained des dizaines de cuisines et de chambres à couchersstream dans lui ainsi

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. Town and city. ese figures, but notice how largethey are.) In 1900 one such block held twenty-seven hundredand eighty-one men, women, and children who werestowed away in fifteen hundred and eighty-eight rooms.As it happened, over four hundred of these rooms hadno windows whatever and no outside doors, while sixhundred other rooms opened into the air shafts. Now anair shaft is often simply a twenty-eight-inch wide air wellthat runs up through the center of the building. Any-where from twenty to sixty windows open into it, andwretched odors from scores of kitchens and bedroomsstream into it so constantly that people often nail uptheir own windows to keep out the smells and thepolluted air from other rooms. »jrjs.»_;vv in (jr v^ITIES Taken altogether, then, in a single block there wereover one thousand rooms which no ray of sunlight couldever find, which no breath of really fresh air could everenter. In fact, when the doors of most of those roomswere shut, they were like black, airless boxes with the. Homes in New York City covers on. Nevertheless, in 1900, in that very block, four hundred and sixty-six babies were trying to keepalive. No wonder they often failed! No wonder theydied even faster than the grown folks! Still, by running up those towering houses, by mak-ing many rooms, by crowding human beings into them 6 TOWN AND CITY regardless of life and health, New York City manages toaccommodate hundreds and thousands of fresh arrivalsevery year. The end of it is that, in a certain districtof the city, people have stowed themselves away at therate of two hundred and ninety thousand to the squaremile. This simply means that just there more humanbeings live closer together than they do anywhere elsein the world. Since that sort of crowding must be woefully uncom-fortable, we wonder why yet other people are willingto increase the crowd by going to that particular spotto live. The truth is that, as a rule, when a man goes to acity to carry on his work he cannot afford

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