111 years ago today, on May 26, 1914 (May 2, 1914), the famous journalist Jacob Reese passed away. Most of the Danish-American Jacob-A-Reese immigrated to the United States to make a fortune. In 1870, at the age of 21, Jacob-A-Reese immigrated to the United States from Denmark to find a way out. Since then, through the revolution in camera use, Reese has become a dancer in the national social reform movement. Reese began his career as a police reporter for a New York newspaper. His sharp articles and shocking photographs culminated in the publication of "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, the book's description of the "filthy core of New York's slums" - squalid areas that resembled bandits' habitats and thieves' alleys - caused a sensation, won Theodore Roosevelt's friendship, and the respect of reformers everywhere. Reese's "Struggle Against the Ghetto," published years later, reported on the process of urban housing reform. Reese was a pioneer in every sense, founding the housing complex and naming it after him in 1901. He ruthlessly warned his fellow citizens that "no one can live like a pig... We don't have to wait for peace to get rid of the ghetto. We can do it now." Today Reese dies, and the ghetto still exists. Photo by Reese: New York City, gangster's lair