Ban Homes Company; and upon these was erected the first block of
tenements. This is the neighborhood toward which the population has
been setting with ever increasing congestion. Already
in 1895 the Twenty-second Ward contained nearly 200,000
souls. I gave figures in the previous chapter
that showed a crowding of
more than 1100 persons per acre in some of the blocks here where
the conditions of the notorious Tenth Ward
are certain
to be reproduced, if indeed they are not exceeded. In the Fifteenth
Assembly District, some distance below, but on the same line, the
first sociological canvass of the Federation of Churches had found
the
churches, schools, and other educational agencies marshalling a
frontage of 756 feet on the street,
while the saloon fronts stretched themselves over nearly a mile; so
that, said the compiler of these pregnant facts, "saloon social
ideals are minting themselves on the minds of the people at