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 York or any other large city is anything but easy, I offer here the actual report of two girls who made some investigations at my request. Their first step was to insert an advertisement in a Sunday paper, as follows:

"Wanted, by two young women, one or two furnished rooms, with privilege of light housekeeping."

Their report runs thus:

"Being employed near Madison Square, we wanted rooms within walking distance of that point.

"Mrs. G, on East Twenty-eighth Street, off Lexington Avenue, had written that she had one furnished room big enough for two at one dollar and seventy-five cents per week. She was not in. I was relieved. One glance down the dirty, dark hall of a cheap tenement was quite enough for me without the interview.

"Mrs. G, No. 2, on Twenty-fifth Street, between Second and Third Avenues, paused in the act of lighting a fire in a cook stove, which promised to smoke out every occupant of the tenement house, to tell me that she had the cleanest rooms on the block. She then showed me the rooms. The front apartment contained only a bed, with linen furnished to the last lodger, unwashed and piled upon it. The back room, a regulation tenement kitchen, contained a filthy dish closet and a few broken dishes, also