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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE TENEMENT HOUSE COMMISSION AND SECOND EUROPEAN SOJOURN I894-I896 "very much to my surprise," my father wrote in May, 1894, "I found myself the other day appointed by the Governor to the Committee of Investigation in regard to the tenement houses of New York. Had I known that he intended appointing me, I should certainly have suggested some more expert person than myself. But I was not consulted in the matter, and since then I have been furthermore weighted with responsibility by being made chairman of the committee. It is a very painful duty, but one which I cannot shirk even in hot weather." In this way my father's service on the New York Tenement House Commission of 1894 began. He was at first almost overwhelmed by the difficulties of the task before him, for it seemed to him that he was not properly equipped with the special knowledge and experience that such an undertaking required. It would mean spending the coming summer months in arduous and unaccustomed labor outside the realm of his already too numerous duties. "I feel very deeply the responsibility of membership in this important commission," he wrote to Governor Flower, "and I accept the same both as a public duty and a personal honor." With his election to the chairmanship he lost no time in organizing the work. Mr. Edward Marshall was made secretary of the commission, the other members of which were Dr. Cyrus Edson, Messrs. Roger Foster, Solomon Moses, George B. Post, John P. Schuchman, and W. D'H. Washington. The first step taken was to collect, as far as possible, the data and information already on record and to get in touch with the various city departments, the records or the work of which bore on the investigation. The next step was to lay out a...
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Excerpt from Letters of Richard Watson Gilder In the following pages will be found, expressed in his letters or set forth in the connecting narrative of his daughter, the full current of the life of one of the most vital and variously influential Americans of his time. But since the record is largely a story of the inner life, of ideals, ambitions, and impulses to literary or civic achievement, of fruitions and friendships, it may not be out of place to say a word here concerning the outer and objective man, Richard Watson Gilder. So the reader may meet him as one met him in life, receiving first the startling visual impression of him, and then gradually learning through repeated meetings and continuing correspondence how uncommonly his vivid person expressed the range of his temperament and the variety of his mind. The impression made by Mr. Gilder at a first meeting can perhaps be no better conveyed than in the following passage taken from a letter written by Miss Cecilia Beaux, in which the sensitive perceptions of the portrait painter find expression in words: "I shall never forget the first time I saw Mr. Gilder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.