The Trinity Vermin
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Nelly Bly started out to see if the Trinity corporation really was cheating people out of their money for the facilities they got and the price that they paid for them each week. By chance the first one she visited was No. 4 Grand Street. All the houses on the street were small red brick houses that took on a respectable appearance. Except for the one at the very end of the street it was a small dilapidated frame two-story and attic. This was the Trinity house. The front of the house was very dirty completed with an overflowing and retched smelling ash can on the front porch. There didn’t appear to be a number on the house, but as she looked closer at the dirty door she could faintly make out a poorly drawn 4. She …show more content…
The one in the basement has two rooms and costs five dollars a week. The basement is not in very good condition it is dark, filthy, and damp. There are two rooms on the first floor the front room cost two dollars and fifty cents a week and the back room costs three dollars. The second floor has the same prices for its two rooms as the first floor and the hall room costs one dollar and twenty-five cents a week. There are two rooms in the attic which tenants must pay six dollars a month for.The only water for the whole so called apartment building was in the backyard. A tiny, filthy, wretched smelling place. Filled with pools of stagnant water. On the same floor that Nellie found the sick man she realized that there was a partially paralyzed woman living in the front room, which cost her two dollars and fifty cents a week. She lived off of her daughter who worked from 7 A.M until 6 P.M and only earned four dollars a week, but her daughter was laid off more than half the week. Leaving the poor, old, paralyzed woman with little to nothing to live off of. None of the other rooms in the building were any better than these. They were all retched smelling, drenched with water, covered in mold, and were vermin
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Nelly Bly started out to see if the Trinity corporation really was cheating people out of their money for the facilities they got and the price that they paid for them each week. By chance the first one she visited was No. 4 Grand Street. All the houses on the street were small red brick houses that took on a respectable appearance. Except for the one at the very end of the street it was a small dilapidated frame two-story and attic. This was the Trinity house. The front of the house was very dirty completed with an overflowing and retched smelling ash can on the front porch. There didn’t appear to be a number on the house, but as she looked closer at the dirty door she could faintly make out a poorly drawn 4. She …show more content…
The one in the basement has two rooms and costs five dollars a week. The basement is not in very good condition it is dark, filthy, and damp. There are two rooms on the first floor the front room cost two dollars and fifty cents a week and the back room costs three dollars. The second floor has the same prices for its two rooms as the first floor and the hall room costs one dollar and twenty-five cents a week. There are two rooms in the attic which tenants must pay six dollars a month for.The only water for the whole so called apartment building was in the backyard. A tiny, filthy, wretched smelling place. Filled with pools of stagnant water. On the same floor that Nellie found the sick man she realized that there was a partially paralyzed woman living in the front room, which cost her two dollars and fifty cents a week. She lived off of her daughter who worked from 7 A.M until 6 P.M and only earned four dollars a week, but her daughter was laid off more than half the week. Leaving the poor, old, paralyzed woman with little to nothing to live off of. None of the other rooms in the building were any better than these. They were all retched smelling, drenched with water, covered in mold, and were vermin