tenement-owners

Updated: January 24, 2026

For that region had its aristocracy of rich merchants, tenement-owners, politicians whose sons, close imitators of the uptown aristocracies in manners and dress, spent money freely in the amusements that attract nearly all young men everywhere. Susan made almost as much as she could have made in the more renowned quarters of the town.

David Graham Phillips - Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise