ABSTRACT
People with an ephemeral interest in the social order and some who are only seeking new thrills are prone to look upon the East Side as presenting a picturesque and alluring field for experimentation, and they are, at times, responsible for the confused conception of the neighborhood in the public mind. In the Roman Catholic churches the change is most marked by the dwindling of the large Irish congregations and the coming of the Italians. A large proportion of the young people who come to the settlements are attracted to the independent political movements, and are likely to respond to appeals to their civic conscience. The Russian revolution owes much to the valorous women who from the formation of the Tschaikowsky circles in the early’70s have worked as comrades for the cause, and this is well known to the “intellectuals” of the East Side.
