Document Library: Text Info

Publishing Information

They took a census of the floating unemployed on the East Side, which covered the homeless men. In the Municipal Lodging House, in the missions and shelters, in flop-houses and speakeasies where a man can stay all night, sleeping on sawdust, if he buys a drink, they took a census. >>more...>>

Title: School for Bums
Author: Vorse, Mary Heaton
Date: April 29, 1931

Type: Article

Listed Under:
Economic Conditions

New York City

Notes: Originally published in The New Republic (April 29, 1931).