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That the landlord-company was not a band of philanthropists, but a capitalistic group in search of dividends, I would readily admit.
I saw an empty flat. The professional vermin exterminator had just gone for the landlord-company took no chances in this detail of management. Then I was lifted a little higher in the social-financial scale, to a building of which the entrance-hall reminded me of the foyers of grand hotels.
The Bronx presented itself to me as a place where the right of the inefficient to expire would be cheerfully recognized. The district that I inspected was certainly, as I say, for the fit. Efficiency in physical essentials was inculcated and practised by the landlord-company, whose constant aim seemed to be to screw up higher and higher the self-respect of its tenants.
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