The poor and the rich in the "industrial" city, while living in sharply contrasting conditions, tended to be widely segregated in terms of residence. The one group rarely saw the living conditions of the other. They met only in the work-away environment of the businesses and factories of the city core. But the greater paradox of the "industrial" city was the penetration of technology - often the source of riches - through all sectors of society. The artifacts of an advanced world seen here - the steam train, sewers (note the curb drain), paved streets, and electricity (note the street lamp and house wires) - were "stuck on" to a tenement society and co-existed with poverty. The street waifs lived in two worlds at once, the one of archaic social conditions and the other of industrial and technological progress. Their problem was that they had control over neither.
Courtesy: Canada Wide Feature Service Ltd., Montreal
