Show JACOB RIIS DEAD author and social worker who warred against wretchedness 13 bijarro aro misa jacob A illes an air author and ab social caal wor worker lier didd ivd at ills his summer homo her chirp tuesday after a long illness jacob august nils became ahr through ough his work in ili behalf of tile poorer people in ili now york the tha useful citizen of the metropolis according accord hig to attribute a tribute once paid to him by theodata roosevelt ilia hla intimate friend As tin nn almost penniless immigrant lie obtained knowledge of the slums nt at first hand antl and found conditions there so BO repellant rc that lie ho consecrated hla his whole life to warfare against wretchedness iles watt wad the thirteenth child of a latin teacher in ribe jutland denmark lie ho was born in 1849 |