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on. That house is now the property of the Philadelphia Museum. It was a great French merchant's house. Second Street is higher than First Street and overlooked the water front, the ships, the landings. Within a week or two I told it to an architect friend of mine who was a very distinguished architect, a friend of all those painters - Thomas Eakins, Ramsey, and all that group, with whom I became acquainted while I was there in one way or another. I told this architect that I had never seen anything so beautiful.

He said, “Where is it?” He was down there within a week and he came back raving. The architects hadn't known about it. I stumbled onto it as a social worker investigating lodging houses for women. It was really very beautiful and has been preserved.

That was just the picturesque part of my job. You began to realize what people lived on when they earned four dollars a week and how they got on. There were basement rooms which two girls shared. They were both immigrant girls and both working in a clothing factory. They each earned about five dollars a week. They were paid piece work. They paid for this room, I think, two dollars and a half a week rent, which was very economical, but out of ten dollars, which the two had, it was quite a sum. They were such enthusiastic nice young girls - pleased with life and