Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-lvwk9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-10T10:13:56.111Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Domesticating the Nineteenth-Century American City*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Get access

Extract

In 1916, Mary Beard, the historian and progressive activist, advanced the thesis that women shared an equal role with men in directing the great social forces that determined the quality of life in cities. In a compendium of Woman's Work in Municipalities, she demonstrated that every action supported by women's clubs and groups, ranging from improved wages and working conditions to vice control, was a part of an effort to make the city a viable environment for carrying on family life. In describing the process that led women to take an active role in sanitation reform Mary Beard wrote:

Woman's historic function having been along the line of cleanliness, her instinct when she looks forth from her own clean windows is toward public cleanliness. Her indoor battle has been against the dirt that blew in from outside, against the dust and ashes of the streets, and the particles of germladen matter carried in from neglected refuse piles. Ultimately she begins to take an interest in that portion of municipal dusting and sweeping assigned to men; namely street cleaning.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

NOTES

1. Beard, Mary, Woman's Work in Municipalities (New York: D. Appleton, 1916), pp. vivii ff.Google Scholar

2. Ibid., p. 84.

3. Examples are Haber, Samuel, Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era, 1890–1920 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964)Google Scholar; Callahan, Raymond E., Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces that Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1962)Google Scholar; Lubove, Ray, The Professional Altruist: The Emergence of Social Work As a Career, 1880–1930 (New York: Atheneum, 1969)Google Scholar. On the relationship between business and reform see Wiebe, Robert, The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (New York: Hill & Wang, 1967)Google Scholar; Weinstein, James, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State: 1900–1918 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968)Google Scholar; Lubove, Roy, Twentieth Century Pittsburgh: Government, Business and Environmental Change (New York: Wiley, 1969).Google Scholar

4. Hays, Samuel P., “The Changing Political Structure of the City in Industrial America,” Journal of Urban History, 1 (11 1974), 1625CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hays, Samuel P., “The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 55 (10 1964), 157–69Google Scholar; Hays, Samuel P. “Political Parties and the Community Society Continuum,” in The American Party Systems: Stages of Political Development, eds., Chambers, William N. and Burnham, Walter D. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967), pp. 169–73, 177–78.Google Scholar

5. Wortman, Marlene Stein, “The Mugwump Movement in New York, 1865–1884: A Study of the Culture and Institutions of Reform,” Diss. Univ. of Chicago, 1966.Google Scholar

6. Glaab, Charles N. and Brown, Theodore, A History of Urban America (New York: Macmillan, 1976), pp. 4465.Google Scholar

7. Quoted in Belcher, Wyatt W., The Economic Rivalry between St. Louis and Chicago, 1850–1880 (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1947), p. 23.Google Scholar

8. Glaab, and Brown, , Urban America, pp. 5258.Google Scholar

9. Chapin, Charles V., “History of State and Municipal Control of Disease,” in A Half Century of Public Health, ed., Ravenal, Mayzick P. (New York: Arno Press, 1970), pp. 135–36Google Scholar; Palmer, George, “What Fifty Years Have Done for Ventilation,”Google Scholar in Ravenal, , Public Health, p. 335Google Scholar; Cassedy, James, “The Flamboyant Colonel Waring,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 36 (03 and 04 1962), 163–76Google Scholar; Waring, George, “Essay on Sanitary Science,” American Architect, 2 (11 10, 1877), 359–60Google Scholar; Olmsted, Frederick L., Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (Cambridge, Mass., 1870), pp. 4, 1011, 1518, 2125Google Scholar; Smith, Stephen, “Ventilation: A Remedy for Summer Heat of Cities,” Popular Science Monthly, 54 (02 1899), 444–46.Google Scholar Smith as health commissioner in 1872 recommended legislation that the park department be given power to plant and cultivate trees, shrubs, plants, and vines in all streets, avenues, and public places, which is exactly what local improvement societies in the progressive era did.

10. This report is summarized in Smith, Stephen, The City that Was (New York: F. Allaben, 1911), pp. 6566, 7182, 109112, 140–43, 5960, 101, 125–27, 131.Google Scholar

11. Ibid., p. 101.

12. Brace, Charles Loring, The Dangerous Classes of New York and Thirty Years of Work among Them, 3rd ed. (New York, 1880), p. 55.Google Scholar

13. Smith, , The City that Was, pp. 144–50Google Scholar. Earlier examples of this literature are: Foster, George G., New York by Gas-Light: with here and there a streak of sunshine (New York: Dewitt and Davenport, 1850)Google Scholar; New York in Slices, by an experienced carver; being the original slices published in The New York Tribune (New York, 1849).Google Scholar

14. Jeffry, Kirk, “The Family as Utopian Retreat from the City: The Nineteenth Century Contribution,” in The Family, Communes and Utopian Societies, ed., Teselle, Sallie (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), pp. 2141.Google Scholar

15. For examples of the way architects incorporated the domestic ideal in their plans and used the idea to sell them see: Downing, Andrew Jackson, Cottage Residences (New York, 1842), pp. iiiivGoogle Scholar. Downing wrote here the cottage fosters peace by “striving to shut out whatever bitterness or strife may be found in the open highway of the world.” In Downing, Andrew Jackson, The Architecture of Country Houses (New York, 1850), p. viGoogle Scholar, he wrote, “And much of the feverish unrest and want of balance between the desire and fulfillment of life, is calmed and adjusted by the pursuit of tastes which result in making a little world of the family home, where truthfulness, beauty and order have the largest domain”; Fowler, Orson S., A Home for All; or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building (New York, 1853), p. 97.Google Scholar

16. Warner, Sam Bass Jr., “If All the World Were Philadelphia: A Scaffolding for Urban History, 1774–1930,” American Historical Review, 74 (10 1968), 2646.CrossRefGoogle Scholar For an example of the notion that the city would be simply a context for business see the statement of George Fisher in 1859 that “before long, town life, life in close streets and alleys, will be confined to a few occupations, and cities will be mere collections of shops, warehouses, factories, and places of business.” Quoted in Jackson, Kenneth, “Urban Deconcentration in the Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Inquiry,” in The New Urban History: Quantitative Explorations by American Historians, ed., Schnore, Leo (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1975), p. 117.Google Scholar

17. Welter, Barbara, “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860,” American Quarterly, 18 (Summer 1966), 151–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

18. Beecher, Catherine and Stowe, Harriet Beecher, The American Woman's Home: or Principles of Domestic Science (New York, 1869), pp. ixii ff.Google Scholar

19. Quoted in Wishy, Bernard, The Child and the Republic: The Dawn of Modern American Child Nurture (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1972), p. 12Google Scholar; Sunley, Robert, “Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature on Child Rearing,” in Childhood in Contemporary Cultures, eds., Mead, Margaret and Wolfenstein, Martha (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1963), pp. 151–53.Google Scholar

20. Demos, John, “Developmental Perspectives on the History of Childhood,” in The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays, eds., Rabb, Theodore K. and Rotberg, Robert I. (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), pp. 131–39Google Scholar; Morgan, Edward, The Puritan Family (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), pp. 143–44.Google Scholar

21. Farber, Bernard, Guardians of Virtue: Salem Families in 1800 (New York: Basic Books, 1972), pp. 111200.Google Scholar

22. Quoted in Sunley, , “American Literature on Child Rearing,” p. 152.Google Scholar

23. Wishy, , The Child and the Republic, pp. 2122, 2441.Google Scholar

24. Welter, Barbara, “The Feminization of American Religion, 1800–1860,” in Clio's Consciousness Raised, eds., Hartman, Mary and Banner, Lois W. (New York, Harper & Row, 1974), pp. 137–57.Google Scholar

25. Jackson, Kenneth, “Urban Deconcentration,” pp. 126–28Google Scholar. In this article Jackson shows that the relative shift in residential status occurred between 1830 and 1860 in metropolitan cities such as New York and Philadelphia; see pp. 110–42.

26. Teaford, Jon C., The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650–1823 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1975)Google Scholar; Blake, Nelson, Water for the Cities (New York: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1956)Google Scholar; Richardson, James F., The New York Police; Colonial Times to 1901 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970)Google Scholar; Duffy, John F., A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625–1866 (New York: Russell Sage, 1968)Google Scholar; Calhoun, Richard C., “From Community to Metropolis: Fire Protection in New York City, 1790–1875,” Diss. Columbia Univ., 1973Google Scholar; Kaestle, Carl, The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York, 1783–1850 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1973)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Warner, Sam Bass Jr., The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1968), pp. 99124Google Scholar; Mohl, Raymond, Poverty in New York, 1783–1825 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1971).Google Scholar

27. Warner, , The Private City, pp. 109–10.Google Scholar

28. Ford, James, Slums and Housing: With Special Reference to New York City (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1936), I, pp. 122204.Google Scholar Numerous investigations showed that tenement house owners resisted putting in water for domestic purposes because such housing was the most profitable; see p. 191. Blake, , Water for Cities, pp. 265–81Google Scholar; Cassedy, James H., “The Flamboyant Colonel Waring,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 36 (0304 1962), 163–76Google Scholar; Tarr, Joel, “Urban Pollution—Many Long Years Ago,” American Heritage, 22 (10 1971), 6569.Google Scholar For a description of the resistence of tenement owners to link up with sewerage in Chicago see Rauch, John H., A Report to the Board of Health of the City on the Necessity of an Extension of Sewerage of the City (Chicago, 1873), pp. 122Google Scholar; Chicago Board of Health, Report of the Board of Health of the City of Chicago, for 1867, 1868 and 1869; and a Sanitary History of Chicago, from 1833 to 1870 (Chicago, 1871), pp. 75, 99, 231, 266–68.Google ScholarMandelbaum, Seymour, Boss, Tweed's New York (New York: Wiley, 1965), pp. 1314.Google Scholar

29. Duis, Perry, “The Saloon and the Public City: Chicago and Boston, 1880–1920,” Diss. Univ. of Chicago, 1975Google Scholar; Richardson, , The New York Police, pp. 57, 110, 154–56, 182–88.Google Scholar

30. Tyack, David, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1974), pp. 4548, 5054, 8182.Google Scholar

31. Beecher, Catherine, Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education (Hartford, 1829), p. 45Google Scholar; Child, Lydia, The Mother's Book (Boston, 1831), p. 10.Google Scholar

32. Mann, Horace, Lectures on Education (Boston, 1850), pp. 142, 327.Google Scholar

33. Tyack, , The One Best System, pp. 5964.Google Scholar

34. Walker, James Blaine, Fifty Years of Rapid Transit (New York: Arno Press, 1970), pp. 141Google Scholar, discusses the early proposals for subways and why they failed; Robinson, Asa P., Report Upon the Contemplated Metropolitan Railroad of the City of New York (New York: N.P., 1865)Google Scholar is the engineering study that justified the need for a subway, which was defeated. Randall, John Jr., The Elevated Railway and Its Appendages for the City of New York (New York, 1848)Google Scholar is an example of an early elevated plan that demonstrated a consciousness about environmental matters absent in later proposals. Tweed's viaduct plan, which failed to be carried out is the ultimate expression of a plan that disregards the environment of the built up sections of the city. Wilcox, Delos, Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions upon which Private Corporations Enjoy Special Privileges in the Streets of American Cities (New York: McGraw Hill, 1911) IIGoogle Scholar, is a compendium which shows that early concerns with protecting the public interest disappear as preoccupation with peripheral (suburban) development intensifies, that is until the progressive era. Tarr, Joel, “From City to Suburb: The ‘Moral’ Influence of Transportation Technology,” in American Urban History: an interpretive reader with commentaries, ed., Callow, Alexander B. Jr., 2nd. ed. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 202–27Google Scholar, shows that suburbanization was early viewed as a means of resolving the problems of the city; Warner, Sam Bass Jr., Street Car Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900 (New York: Atheneum, 1962), pp. 1535Google Scholar, provides insight into the way public policy supported this process. For arguments in behalf of public improvements on the periphery see Martin, William R., “The Financial Resources of New York,” North American Review, 127 (1112 1878), 427–43Google Scholar, and Martin, William R., “Rapid Transit in the Metropolis,” Harper's Monthly, 57 (09 1878), 624–26.Google ScholarMandelbaum, , Boss, Tweed's New YorkGoogle Scholar, chaps. 6–11, is useful for understanding the conflict between uptown (suburb) and downtown property owners on the issue of public improvements.

35. Fein, Albert, Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition (New York: Braziller, 1972), pp. 1821Google Scholar; Olmsted, Vaux & Co., Observations on Improvements in Street Plans with Especial Reference to the Parkway Proposed to be Laid Out in Brooklyn (Brooklyn, 1868), p. 18Google Scholar; Olmsted, Frederick Law, Public Parks and the Enlargement of TownsGoogle Scholar; Mandelbaum, , Boss, Tweed's New York, p. 17Google Scholar; Cranz, Galen, “Models for Park Usage: Ideology and the Development of Chicago's Public Parks,” Diss. Univ. of Chicago, 1971, pp. 172.Google Scholar Opponents of Jackson Park in Chicago noted that the health and safety of the city would be better served by using the money for sewers, hospitals, police, and schools. See Chicago Tribune, 03 20, 1869, pp. 2, 3, 4Google Scholar; March 22, 1869, p. 4; March 23, 1869, p. 2; Chicago Times, 03 20, 1869, p. 8Google Scholar, March 21, 1869, pp. 4, 8, March 22, 1869, p. 4, and March 23, 1869, p. 4. See “Annual Report of the Central Park Commission, 1868” in New York Times, 02 15, 1869, pp. 12Google Scholar, for an example of the way these commissions served as agencies to plan and regulate residential development in peripheral areas.

36. One alternative to a policy orientation of encouraging private entrepreneurs to use the new technology to export family life and of using parks on the periphery as a magnet was to institute changes in land use in the built-up sections and to allocate more resources to inner city improvements. In 1856, the city inspector of New York suggested just such a policy when he recommended removing buildings on many streets and replacing some streets with squares and free spaces that could be used for recreation and to increase light and air in certain districts. He also recommended more street cleaning and the diffusion of information on the principles of hygiene. This prefigured the solution of domestic reformers in the progressive era. Ford, , Slums and Housing, II, p. 128.Google Scholar This would have required important legal changes, not feasible in the prevailing political environment. The failure of the courts and the political system to support such changes constituted a decision, in this case, to view the city primarily in the context of economic rather than domestic life. See Bachrach, Peter and Baratz, Morton S., Power and Poverty: Theory and Practice (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970)Google Scholar for a discussion of the theory of nondecision making.

37. Melder, Keith, “Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women Benevolence in Early Nineteenth Century America,” New York History, 48 (07 1967), 231–54Google Scholar; Banner, Lois W., “Religious Benevolence as Social Control: A Critique of an Interpretation,” Journal of American History, 60 (06 1973), 3941CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Rosenberg, Carroll Smith, Religion and the Rise of the American City: The New York Mission Movement, 1812–1870 (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1971), pp. 96124.Google Scholar

38. Rosenberg, , Religion and the Rise of the American City, p. 122.Google Scholar

39. Quoted in Dubois, Ellen, “The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement,” Feminist Studies, 3 (Fall 1975), 65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

40. Ibid., pp. 65–67.

41. Quotes and description from “Maternity and the Ballot,” The Agitator(05 15, 1869), 5.Google Scholar

42. Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia and Register of Important Events for 1870 (New York, 1871), X, pp. 392–93.Google Scholar

43. Croly, Jennie C., The History of the Women's Club Movement (New York, 1898), p. 1.Google Scholar

44. Frank, Henrette Greenbaum and Jerome, Amalie Hofer, compilers, Annals of the Chicago Woman's Club for the First Forty Years of Its Organization (Chicago: Chicago Woman's Club, 1916), p. 16.Google Scholar

45. Official Register of Woman's Clubs, City of Chicago and Suburbs, 1913 (Chicago: Linden Brothers & Harry H. De Clerque Printers, 1913), pp. 6162Google Scholar; for a description of the membership of the Chicago Woman's Club see Powers, Dorothy E., “The Chicago Woman's Club,” Diss. Univ. of Chicago, 1939, pp. 5563.Google Scholar

46. O'Grady, John, Catholic Charities in the United States (Washington, D. C.: National Conference of Catholic Charities, 1930), pp. 324, 326–35Google Scholar; Solomon, Hannah G., Fabric of My Life (New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1946), pp. 7990, 92108Google Scholar; Baum, Charlotte, Hyman, Paula, Michel, Sonya, The Jewish Woman in America (New York: Dial Press, 1976), pp. 165–85Google Scholar; Duster, Alfreda M., ed., Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 120–24, 257308Google Scholar; Lindsey, Elizabeth, “The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs” (Chicago?: [n.p.], /1922?/)Google Scholar; Spear, Allen H., Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890–1920 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1967), pp. 101103.Google Scholar

47. Powers, , “The Chicago Woman's Club,” pp. 117–18Google Scholar; Nester, Agnes, Woman's Labor Leader (Rockford, Ill.: Bellvue Books, 1954), p. 117Google Scholar; Dye, Nancy Schrom, “Creating a Feminist Alliance: Sisterhood and Class Conflict in the New York Women's Trade Union League, 1903–1914,” in Our American Sisters: Women in American Life and Thought, eds., Friedman, Jean E. and Shade, William G. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1976), pp. 283–98.Google Scholar

48. Official Directory of Chicago Woman's Club, 1913, pp. 5052, 3347, 193–94Google Scholar; Wood, Mary I., The History of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (New York: Norwood Press, 1912)Google Scholar; Houde, Mary Jean, The Clubwoman (Chicago: Hewitt Brothers, 1970)Google Scholar; Lambert, Belle Short, “The Women's Club Membership in Illinois,” Transactions, 9 (1904), 314–29.Google Scholar

49. Dillon, Mary Earhart, “Francis Willard” in Notable American Women (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1971), III, pp. 613–19Google Scholar; for Willard's view of Evanston see Willard, Francis, A Classic Town: The Story of Evanston (Chicago, 1891), p. 135Google Scholar; Wheeler, Adada with Wortman, Marlene, The Roads They Made: Women in Illinois History (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1977), pp. 64, 85.Google Scholar

50. Conway, Jill, “Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870–1930,”Google Scholar in Friedman, and Shade, , Our American Sisters, pp. 301–12.Google Scholar

51. Davis, Allen F., Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890–1914 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967), pp. 3217Google Scholar; Davis, Allen F., American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 52197.Google Scholar

52. Davis, , American Heroine, pp. 6869Google Scholar; Beard, , Woman's Work in Municipalities, p. 39.Google Scholar

53. The spatial and physical changes taking place in Chicago's suburban rings after 1885 is a good example of this process. See Mayer, Harold M. and Wade, Richard C., Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 176, 186, 206, 250, 252.Google Scholar For statistical data on changes in the distribution of Chicago's population by mile zones and in population densities in mile belts see Hoyt, Homer, 100 Years of Land Values in Chicago, 1830–1933 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1933), pp. 383–84.Google Scholar A review of the debate over annexation in the suburbs showed that the need for improved services was one of the main reasons why villages and towns such as Hyde Park, Lake, Lake View and Jefferson, voted for annexation. Most improvements after 1889 took place in the newly annexed territories and not in the older and poorer sections of the city. See Studenski, Paul, The Government of Metropolitan Areas in the United States (New York: National Municipal League, 1930), pp. 69, 114–15, 127–29, 136–39, 154–55, 106.Google Scholar For a good example of complaints in suburbia centering on the domestic environment see Chicago Tribune 05 28, 1887, p. 15.Google Scholar For information on the lack of parks in heavily populated peripheral areas in 1903 see Cranz, , “Models for Park Usage,” pp. 7273.Google Scholar

54. Peterson, Jon, “The City Beautiful Movement: Forgotten Origins and Lost Meanings,” Journal of Urban History, 2 (08 1976), 421–23CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hofer, Amalie, compiler, Neighborhood Improvement In and About Chicago (Chicago: Newell B. Stiles and Co., Printers, 1909), pp. 35.Google Scholar

55. Peterson, ibid., pp. 323–26; Hofer, ibid., pp. 3–17; Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, pp. 298–99.Google Scholar

56. McDowell, Mary, “The Struggle for an American Standard of Living,” in Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping: A Symposium, compiler, Hill, Caroline M. (Chicago: Miller Publishing Company, 1937), p. 66.Google Scholar

57. Ehrenreich, Barbara and English, Deirdre, “The Manufacture of House work,” Socialist Revolution, 5 (1012 1975), 18.Google Scholar

58. Quoted in Hill, , Mary McDowell, p. 67.Google Scholar

59. Ibid., p. vi.

60. “Report of the Special Committee on Home Economics in Elementary and Secondary Schools,” in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Home Economics (Lake Placid, N. Y., 1901), p. 3Google Scholar; “Report of Committee on Courses of Study in Home Economics in Colleges and Universities,” in ibid., p. 23; for examples of the social vision of home economics see Talbot, Marion and Breckinridge, Sophonsiba, The Modern Household (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1912).Google Scholar The authors link a community standard of health to the housewife's role as consumer. Through organization the housewife can influence the proportion of the city's resources spent on city comfort and well-being.

61. Ford, , Slums and Housing, I, pp. 217–23Google Scholar, for description of the 1901 New York law which became a model for other cities and was notable for its enforcement procedures, which earlier laws lacked. For Chicago's New Law Tenement Code of 1902 see Abbott, Edith, The Tenements of Chicago, 1908–1935 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1936), pp. 5973.Google Scholar Since the new laws were directed at regulating new housing being constructed, they regulated building in the annexed territories, had little impact on existing slums, and were meant to prevent a recurrence in new areas of the urban experience. The New York law differed from most in that it also required older buildings to introduce some improvements. It also should be noted that room overcrowding was synonymous with the so-called lodging evil which led to moral corruption of girls. Veiller, Lawrence, “Room Overcrowding and the Lodger Evil,” Housing Problems in America (Philadelphia: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Housing, 1912), p. 60.Google Scholar

62. McDowell, Mary, “City Waste”Google Scholar in Hill, , Mary McDowell, pp. 110Google Scholar; Powers, , “The Chicago Woman's Club,” pp. 331–34Google Scholar; Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, pp. 63, 8490.Google Scholar

63. Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, p. 294Google Scholar; for a good description of the difference in concept between the traditional large park and the small park see Cranz, , “Models for Park Usage,” pp. 1123.Google Scholar

64. Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, p. 168Google Scholar, chaps. III and IV on Social Evil and Recreation; Haller, Mark, “Urban Vice and Civic Reform: Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century” in Cities in American History, eds., Jackson, Kenneth T. and Schultz, Stanley K. (New York: Knopf, 1972), pp. 290305Google Scholar; Addams, Jane, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, rpt. 1909 ed. (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1972).Google Scholar

65. Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, p. 159.Google Scholar

66. For the connection between changes in park usage and settlements see Zueblin, Charles, American Municipal Progress (New York: Macmillan, 1916), p. 304.Google Scholar

67. Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, pp. 163–69Google Scholar; Carbaugh, Harvey C., Human Welfare Work in Chicago (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917), pp. 89112.Google Scholar

68. Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, pp. 1011, 2427, 39, 4344, 5356Google Scholar; Powers, , “The Chicago Woman's Club,” pp. 161–68, 171–72, 183–85Google Scholar; Davis, , Spearheads for Reform, pp. 5556.Google Scholar

69. “The Chicago Public School Art Society, Organized 1894,” typescript, n.d., pp. 12, 5Google Scholar in Papers of the Chicago Public School Art Society, Box 2, Univ. of Illinois, Circle Campus Special Collections, Chicago, Illinois. I would like to thank Eileen Boris for sharing her material from her forthcoming study, “Art and Labor: The Impact of John Ruskin and William Morris in America, 1876–1916,” (Diss. Brown Univ., expected date of completion, 1977).Google Scholar

70. Dewey, John, Democracy and Education (New York: Macmillan, 1961), p. 43Google Scholar; John, and Dewey, Evelyn, Schools of Tomorrow (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1915)Google Scholar, chap. 8; Davis, , Spearheads for Reform, pp. 4351Google Scholar; Hofer, Amalie, “Social Settlement and the Kindergarten,” National Educational Association, Proceedings, 1895, pp. 514–25Google Scholar; McManus, John T., Ella Flagg Young: And a Half-Century of the Chicago Public Schools (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916), pp. 119–20.Google Scholar

71. The School Arts Book, 3 (05 1904), 412–19Google Scholar; 6 (May 1906), 663–68; “Report of the Special Committee on Home Economics in Elementary and Secondary Schools,” Proceedings of the Third Conference on Home Economics, 1901; McManus, , Ella Flagg Young, pp. 194–97.Google Scholar

72. Counts, George, School and Society (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1928), pp. 6568, 107–13Google Scholar; Herrick, Mary J., The Chicago Schools: A Social and Political History (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1971), pp. 9495Google Scholar; Tyack, , The One Best System, pp. 126–46.Google Scholar

73. Tyack, , The One Best System, pp. 97, 147–76Google Scholar; McManus, , Ella Flagg Young, pp. 96, 197–98.Google Scholar

74. Herrick, , The Chicago Schools, pp. 95111Google Scholar; Haley, Margaret, “My Story,” typescript, 1911 version, pp. 130, 65Google Scholar in Papers of The Chicago Teachers' Federation, Box 32, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois. The autobiography is very useful for capturing the mood; Chicago Teachers' Federation, Bulletin, 3 (12 13, 1903), 45Google Scholar; 3 (December 18, 1903), 3; 5 (April 6, 1906), 1–5; 4 (June 2, 1905), 5; 1 (November 7, 1902), 2; 6 (April 12, 1907), 4.

75. Platt, Anthony M., The Child Sauers: The Invention of Delinquency (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 7576; 9092, 98100, 134–36Google Scholar; Abbott, Edith and Breckinridge, Sophonsiba, Truancy and Non-Attendance in Chicago Schools (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1917)Google Scholar; Breckinridge, and Abbott, , The Delinquent Child and the Home (New York: Survey Associates, 1916).Google Scholar

76. Platt, , The Child Savers, p. 130.Google Scholar

77. Ibid., pp. 137–45; Jeter, Helen Rankin, The Chicago Juvenile Court (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1922).Google Scholar

78. Platt, , The Child Savers, pp. 7980, 6166Google Scholar; Powers, , The Chicago Woman's Club, pp. 235–38; 254–57Google Scholar; Beard, , Women's Work in Municipalities, pp. 261–75.Google Scholar

79. Hill, , Mary McDowell, pp. 4950.Google Scholar

80. Davis, , Spearheads for Reform, pp. 103147Google Scholar; Beard, , Women's Work, pp. 223, 250–55.Google Scholar

81. Davis, , Spearheads for Reform, pp. 148–70Google Scholar; Addams, Jane, Democracy and Social Ethics (New York, 1902)Google Scholar, ch. 7 for a description of politics and reform.

82. Glaab, and Brown, , Urban America, pp. 239–44Google Scholar; Davis, , Spearheads for Reform, pp. 7374.Google Scholar

83. Filene, Peter G., Him, Her, Self: Sex Roles in Modern America (New York: New American Library, 1976), p. 32.Google Scholar See Jensen, Richard, “Family, Career and Reform: Women Leaders of the Progressive Era,” in The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective, ed., Gordon, Michael (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973), pp. 267–80Google Scholar, for a quantitative analysis that shows that suffragism correlates positively with involvement in women's clubs, temprance, and the range of civic and humanitarian movements described in this paper.