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Title: Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Subjects: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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a visit from the warden of Toynbee Halland his wife, as they were returning to Englandfrom a journey around the world. They had livedin East London for many years, and had beenidentified with the public movements for its better-ment. They were much shocked that, in a newcountry with conditions still plastic and hopeful,so little attention had been paid to experimentsand methods of amelioration which had alreadybeen tried; and they looked in vain through ourlibrary for blue books and governmental reportswhich recorded painstaking study into the condi-tions of English cities. They were the first of a long line of Englishvisitors to express the conviction that many thingsin Chicago were untoward not through paucityof public spirit but through a lack of politicalmachinery adapted to modern city life. Thiswas not all of the situation but perhaps no casualvisitor could be expected to see that these mattersof detail seemed unimportant to a city in the first ACTIVITIES AND INVESTIGATIONS 293
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--^ 294 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE flush of youth, Impatient of correction and con-vinced that all would be well with Its future.The most obvious faults were those connectedwith the congested housing of the Immigrantpopulation, nine tenths of them from the coun-try, who carried on all sorts of traditional activi-ties in the crowded tenements. That a group ofGreeks should be permitted to slaughter sheep ina basement, that Italian women should be allowedto sort over rags collected from the city dumps,not only within the city limits but In a courtswarming with little children, that immigrantbakers should continue unmolested to bake breadfor their neighbors in unspeakably filthy spacesunder the pavement, appeared Incredible to visitorsaccustomed to careful city regulations. I recalltwo visits made to the Italian quarter by JohnBurns^ — the second, thirteen years after the first.During the latter visit It seemed to him unbeliev-able that a certain house owned by a rich Italianshould have

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