FOREWORD My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between and or ', or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly, they represent in part, at least, certain phases which at that time most arrested and appealed to me, and which now are fast vanishing or are no more. I refer more particularly to such studies as The Bread-line, The Push-cart Man, The Toilers of the Tenements, Christmas in the Tenements, Whence the Song, and The Love Affairs of Little Italy. … CONTENTS Foreword The City of My Dreams The City Awakes The Waterfront The Log of a Harbor Pilot Bums The Michael J. Powers Association The Fire The Car Yard The Flight of Pigeons On Being Poor Six O'clock The Toilers of the Tenements The End of a Vacation The Track Walker The Realization of an Ideal The Pushcart Man A Vanished Seaside Resort The Bread-Line Our Red Slayer Whence the Song Characters The Beauty of Life A Wayplace of the Fallen Hell's Kitchen A Certain Oil Refinery The Bowery Mission The Wonder of the Water The Man on the Bench The Men in the Dark The Men in the Storm The Men in the Snow The Freshness of the Universe The Cradle of Tears When the Sails Are Furled The Sandwich Man The Love Affairs of Little Italy Christmas in the Tenements The Rivers of the Nameless Dead