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an invasion of privacy. I must say I felt they were right about that. The reason for making them take off all their clothes and having their clothes put into the steam vat was lice, bed bugs and infections of various sorts. But, of course, it left them in the morning without the very basic things about a human being. He'd been deprived of his clothes, his personality and his little things. They'd been deprived of them, they'd been steamed and when got them back, they didn't look like their own things. It would have been a violation of the integrity of their personality. They felt it bitterly and deeply. That was the first things.

Then they made you do a number of things. You had to be interviewed. You had to say who you were and where you worked. Of course you could lie about that, but it was an impertinence to ask you. Then you were urged to work - saw wood, mop the floor or something. That was an impertinence - not that they minded working, but they did object to being told to work.

So that there was a great crowd of these people who landed on the Bowery and around, who, if they had the money, would go to a Bowery lodging house and pay the quarter. But when they didn't have the money, they just had no place to go. They wouldn't go to a municipal lodging house.

Also in every one of these groups there were people