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قراءة كتاب Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
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اللغة: English
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
الصفحة رقم: 2
city will, I am sure, confirm the statements contained herein, and will acknowledge the truthfulness of the picture I have drawn, whatever they may think of the manner in which the work is executed.
J. D. McC., Jr.
New York,
March 21st, 1872
| I. | THE CITY OF NEW YORK | 33 |
| I. Historical | 33 | |
| II. Descriptive and Statistical | 49 | |
| II. | THE HARBOR OF NEW YORK | 59 |
| III. | THE CITY GOVERNMENT | 64 |
| IV. | THE RING | 75 |
| I. The History of the Ring | 75 | |
| II. Personnel of the Ring | 100 | |
| V. | BROADWAY | 118 |
| I. Historical | 118 | |
| II. Descriptive | 123 | |
| SOCIETY | 135 | |
| I. Analytical | 135 | |
| II. Fashionable Extravagance | 141 | |
| III. Fashionable Follies | 153 | |
| IV. Fashionable Children | 155 | |
| V. A Fashionable Belle | 157 | |
| VI. Fashionable Entertainments | 162 | |
| VII. Marriage and Death | 166 | |
| VII. | THE MUNICIPAL POLICE | 171 |
| VIII. | THE BOWERY | 186 |
| IX. | PUBLIC SQUARES | 194 |
| I. The Battery | 194 | |
| II. The Bowling Green | 196 | |
| III. The Park | 197 | |
| IV. Other Parks | 200 | |
| X. | THE FIFTH AVENUE | 204 |
| XI. | STREET TRAVEL | 211 |
| I. The Street Cars | 211 | |
| II. The Stages | 216 | |
| III. Steam Railways | 221 | |
| XII. | HORACE GREELEY | 225 |
| THE TOMBS | 232 | |
| XIV. | THE PRESS | 244 |
| I. The Daily Journals | 244 | |
| II. The Weekly Press | 255 | |
| XV. | WALL STREET | 258 |
| I. The Street | 258 | |
| II. The Stock Exchange | 264 | |
| III. The Government Board | 269 | |
| IV. The Gold Exchange | 272 | |
| V. Curbstone Brokers | 275 | |
| VI. The Business Of The Street | 276 | |
| VII. Stock Gambling | 279 | |
| VIII. The Ways Of The Street | 284 | |
| IX. Black Friday | 290 | |
| XVI. | THE FERRIES | 299 |
| XVII. | THE HOTELS | 304 |
| XVIII. | IMPOSTORS | 316 |
| STREET MUSICIANS | 324 | |
| XX. | THE CENTRAL PARK | 332 |
| XXI. | THE DETECTIVES | 351 |
| I. The Regular Force | 351 | |
| II. Private Detectives | 364 | |
| XXII. | WILLIAM B. ASTOR | 372 |
| XXIII. | FASHIONABLE SHOPPING | 375 |
| XXIV. | BLEECKER STREET | 386 |
| XXV. | CEMETERIES | 390 |
| I. Greenwood | 390 | |
| II. Cyprus Hills | 391 | |
| III. Woodlawn | 392 | |
| IV. Calvary, and the Evergreens | 393 | |
| XXVI. | THE CLUBS | 394 |
| THE FIVE POINTS | 398 | |
| I. Life in the Shadow | 398 | |
| II. The Cellars | 405 | |
| III. The Missions | 412 | |
| XXVIII. | THE MILITARY | 422 |
| XXIX. | NASSAU STREET | 426 |
| XXX. | THE METROPOLITAN FIRE DEPARTMENT | 430 |
| XXXI. | THE BUSINESS OF NEW YORK | 441 |
| XXXII. | THE SABBATH IN NEW YORK | 445 |
| XXXIII. | THE POST OFFICE | 448 |
| I. Internal Arrangements | 448 | |
| II. The New Post Office | 456 | |
| III. The Letter Carriers | 460 | |
| XXXIV. | A. T. STEWART | 464 |
| PLACES OF AMUSEMENT | 470 | |
| I. The Theatres | 470 | |
| II. Minor Amusements | 485 | |
| XXXVI. | THE MARKETS | 487 |
| XXXVII. | THE CHURCHES | 491 |
| I. The Sacred Edifices | 491 | |
| II. The Clergy | 498 | |
| XXXVIII. | BOARDING-HOUSE LIFE | 502 |
| XXXIX. | THE RESTAURANTS | 508 |
| XL. | THE CHEAP LODGING HOUSES | 511 |
| XLI. | THE LIBRARIES | 513 |
| XLII. | PROFESSIONAL MEN | 519 |
| PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS | 522 | |
| I. The Thieves | 522 | |
| II. The Pickpockets | 531 | |
| III. |