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CHAPTER XVIII. The Reign of Rum, 210 CHAPTER XIX. The Harvest of Tares 217 CHAPTER XX. The Working Girls of New York, 234 CHAPTER XXI. Pauperism in the Tenements, 243 CHAPTER XXII. The Wrecks and the Waste, 255 CHAPTER XXIII. The Man with the Knife, 263 CHAPTER XXIV. What Has Been Done, 268 CHAPTER XXV. How the Case Stands, 282

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Gotham Court,	Frontispiece
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Hell’s Kitchen and Sebastopol,	6
Tenement of 1863, for Twelve Families on Each Flat,	12
Tenement of the Old Style. Birth of the Air-shaft	18
At the Cradle of the Tenement.—Doorway of an Old-fashioned Dwelling on Cherry Hill,	30
Upstairs in Blindman’s Alley,	34
An Old Rear-tenement in Roosevelt Street,	45
In the Home of an Italian Rag-picker, Jersey Street,	51
The Bend,	59
Bandits’ Roost,	63
Bottle Alley,	66
Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement—“Five Cents a Spot,”	69
An All-night Two-cent Restaurant, in “The Bend,”	75
The Tramp,	79
Bunks in a Seven-cent Lodging-house, Pell Street,	87
In a Chinese Joint,	98
“The Official Organ of Chinatown,”	100
A Tramp’s Nest in Ludlow Street,	106
A Market Scene in the Jewish Quarter,	111
The Old Clo’e’s Man—in the Jewish Quarters,	117
“Knee-pants” at Forty-five Cents a Dozen—A Ludlow Street Sweater’s Shop,