The Female Thieves

533 IV. The River Thieves 534 V. The Fences 539 VI. The Roughs 542 XLIV. THE PAWNBROKERS 546 XLV. THE BEER GARDENS 550 XLVI. JAMES FISK, JR. 555 XLVII. TRINITY CHURCH 565 XLVIII. THE HOLIDAYS 572 I. New Year’s Day 572 II. Christmas 577

XLIX.

THE SOCIAL EVIL 579 I. The Lost Sisterhood 579 II. Houses of Assignation 587 III. The Street Walkers 589 IV. The Concert Saloons 594 V. The Dance Houses 597 VI. Harry Hill’s 600 VII. Masked Balls 604 VIII. Personals 611 IX. The Midnight Mission 614 L. CHILD MURDER 618 LI. THE EAST RIVER ISLANDS AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS 631 I. Blackwell’s Island 631 II. Ward’s Island 640 III. Randall’s Island 641 LII. BENEVOLENT AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS 648 LIII. HENRY WARD BEECHER 655 LIV. BLACK-MAILING 658

LV.

FEMALE SHARPERS 662 I. Fortune Tellers and Clairvoyants 662 II. Matrimonial Brokers 664 LVI. EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS 666 I. The Free Schools 666 II. The Colleges 671 LVII. JEROME PARK 675 LVIII. COMMODORE VANDERBILT 677 LIX. THE BUMMERS 680 LX. TENEMENT HOUSE LIFE 683 LXI. CHATHAM STREET 699 LXII. JAMES GORDON BENNETT 703 LXIII. DRUNKENNESS 706

LXIV.

WHAT IT COSTS TO LIVE IN NEW YORK 710 LXV. GAMBLING 715 I. Faro Banks 715 II. Lotteries 726 III. Policy Dealing 728 LXVI. PETER COOPER 731 LXVII. THE “HEATHEN CHINEE” 734 LXVIII. STREET CHILDREN 738 LXIX. SWINDLERS 745 LXX. ROBERT BONNER 756 LXXI. PUBLIC BUILDINGS 759 LXXII. PATENT DIVORCES 768

LXXIII.

CROTON WATER WORKS 774 LXXIV. EXCURSIONS 778 LXXV. SAILORS IN NEW YORK 782 LXXVI. THE BALLET 789 LXXVII. THE POOR OF NEW YORK 796 I. The Deserving Poor 796 II. The Beggars 802 LXXVIII. QUACK DOCTORS 805 LXXIX. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 811 LXXX. CASTLE GARDEN 816 LXXXI. WORKING WOMEN 822 LXXXII. STREET VENDERS 831

LXXXIII.

THE WHARVES 835 LXXXIV. THE MORGUE 839 LXXXV. THE CUSTOM HOUSE 843 LXXXVI. MISSING 848

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

General View of New York City, showing the Bridge connecting it with Brooklyn	Frontispiece.
Offices of the Tribune, Times, and World	8
Grand Central Railway Depot	9
First Settlement of New York	37
New York in 1664	45
Broadway, looking up from Exchange Place	53
The City Hall Park in 1869	56
The Harbor of New York, as seen from the Narrows	60
A. Oakey Hall, Mayor of New York	81
William M. Tweed	82
The New County Court House	83
The Robbery of the Vouchers from the Comptroller’s Office	94
Richard B. Connolly	104
Peter B. Sweeny	105
Broadway, at the corner of Ann street	124
A. T. Stewart’s Wholesale Store	125
New York Life Insurance Company’s building, corner of Broadway and Leonard street	127
Broadway, as seen from the St. Nicholas Hotel	129
Saturday Afternoon Concert at Central Park	132
A Fashionable Promenade on Fifth avenue	137
The German	165
Female Prisoners in the Fourth Police Station	176
A Winter Night Scene in a Police Station	181
The Bowery	189
The City Hall Park	198
The Washington Statue in Union Square	201
Fifth avenue, near Twenty-first street	205
Junction of the Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, showing the new residence of A. T. Stewart, Esq	209
New Palace-car for City travel, in use on the Third avenue line	213
Tunnel under Broadway	223
Horace Greeley	231
The Tombs	233