Some of their houses have no water inside and have toilets on the outside without sewerage connections.

The cooking is often done by coal or wood stoves or kerosene lamps.

Yet the rent runs high although the houses are generally out of repair and in some cases have been condemned by the municipality.
The unsanitary conditions in which many of the blacks are compelled to live are in violation of municipal ordinances.
Furthermore, because of the indiscriminate employment by labor agents and the dearth of labor requiring the acceptance of almost all sorts of men, some disorderly and worthless Negroes have been brought into the North.

On the whole, however, these migrants are not lazy, shiftless and desperate as some predicted that they would be.

They generally attend church, save their money and send a part of their savings regularly to their families.
They do not belong to the class going North in quest of whiskey.