"Broke" The Man without the Dime

About this eBook

Author

Brown, Edwin A., 1857-1946

Title

"Broke," The Man Without the Dime

Credits

Produced by KD Weeks, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Unemployed -- United States

Category

Text

eBook-No.

45412

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45412

Release Date

April 16, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Transcriber’s Note — “BROKE” THE MAN WITHOUT THE DIME
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.INTRODUCTORY
6. 6.CHAPTER I My Itinerary and Working Plan
7. 7.CHAPTER II The Welcome in the City Beautiful to its Builders
8. 8.CHAPTER III Chicago—A Landlord for Its Homeless Workers
9. 9.CHAPTER IV The Merciful Awakening of New York
10. 10.CHAPTER V Homeless—in the National Capital
11. 11.CHAPTER VI The Little Pittsburg of the West and Its Great Wrong
12. 12.CHAPTER VII “Latter-day Saints” Who Sin Against Society
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII Kansas City and Its Heavy Laden
14. 14.CHAPTER IX The New England “Conscience”
15. 15.CHAPTER X Philadelphia’s “Brotherly Love”
16. 16.CHAPTER XI Pittsburg and the Wolf
17. 17.CHAPTER XII Omaha and Her Homeless
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII San Francisco—The Mission, the Prison, and the Homeless
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV Experiences in Los Angeles
20. 20.CHAPTER XV In Portland
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI Tacoma
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII In Seattle
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII Spokane
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX Minneapolis
25. 25.CHAPTER XX In the Great City of New York
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI New York State—The Open Fields
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII The Laborer the Farmer’s Greatest Asset
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII Albany—In the Midst of the Fight
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV Cleveland—The Crime of Neglect
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV Cincinnati—Necessity’s Brutal Chains
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI Louisville and the South
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII Memphis—A City’s Fault and a Nation’s Wrong
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII Houston — The Church and the City’s Sin Against Society
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX San Antonio — Whose Very Name is Music
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX Milwaukee—Will the Philosophy of Socialism End Poverty?
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI Toledo—The “Golden Rule” City
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII Spotless Detroit
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII CONCLUSION
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV Visions
40. 40.APPENDIX Municipal Emergency Homes vs. Charitable Lodging Houses — THE FIRST STEP. — THINGS TO AVOID. — A PROTECTION TO SOCIETY. — ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS. — USE OF APPROPRIATION. — CO-OPERATION OF THE PUBLIC. — RELATION TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. — PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. — CO-OPERATION OF THE CITY. — EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC. — THE PROBLEM IN OTHER COUNTRIES. — A WOMAN’S QUESTION. — THE HISTORICAL VIEW. — THE LEGAL ASPECT. — THE MORAL DUTY. — WHAT A TWENTIETH CENTURY MUNICIPAL EMERGENCY HOME SHOULD BE
41. 41.Transcriber’s Note

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