The warden of Bellevue Hospital reported, two or three weeks after we had begun, that for the first time in its existence there had not been a case due to a drunken brawl in the hospital all Monday.

The police courts gave the same testimony, while savings banks recorded increased deposits and pawnshops hard times.
The most touching of all things was the fact that we received letters, literally by the hundred, from mothers in tenement-houses who had never been allowed to take their children to the country in the wide-open days, and who now found their husbands willing to take them and their families for an outing on Sunday.

Jake Riis and I spent one Sunday from morning till night in the tenement districts, seeing for ourselves what had happened.
During the two years that we were in office things never slipped back to anything like what they had been before.

But we did not succeed in keeping them quite as highly keyed as during these first weeks.

As regards the Sunday-closing law, this was partly because public sentiment was not really with us.