CHAPTER V

Eaening a Living — Business and
THE Professions

If we walk west on Fifty-ninth Street,
at Eighth Avenue, we come upon one of the
colored business sections of New York.
Here, for a block's length, are employment
and real estate agents, restaurant keepers,
grocers, tailors, barbers, printers, express¬
men, and undertakers, all small establish¬
ments occupying the first floor or basement
of some tenement or lodging house, and with
the exception of the employment agency all
patronized chiefly by the colored race.
Another such section and a more prosperous
one is in Harlem, on West One Hundred
and Thirty-third, One Hundred and Thirty-
fourth, and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth
Streets. From the point of view of the whole
business of the city such concerns are insig¬
nificant, but they are important from the

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