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The Secrets of the Great City

by James D. McCabe

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  1. 1Chapter I — The City of New York
  2. 2Chapter II — The Streets of New York
  3. 3Chapter III — The City Government
  4. 4Chapter IV — The Metropolitan Police
  5. 5Chapter V — Society
  6. 6Chapter VI — The Tombs
  7. 7Chapter VII — Reformatory Establishments
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Lines of Travel
  9. 9Chapter IX — Street Musicians
  10. 10Chapter X — The Press
  11. 11Chapter XI — Wall Street
  12. 12Chapter XII — Business in New York
  13. 13Chapter XIII — Fashionable Shopping
  14. 14Chapter XIV — Impostors
  15. 15Chapter XV — Sunday in New York
  16. 16Chapter XVI — The Detectives
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Five Points
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Hotel Life
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Restaurants
  20. 20Chapter XX — Boarding Houses
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Trinity Parish
  22. 22Chapter XXII — The Holidays in the City
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — The Central Park
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — The Public Schools
  25. 25Chapter XXV — The Poor of New York
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Poor Girls
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — The Street Boys
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — Beggars
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — Emigrants
  30. 30Chapter XXX — The Bummers
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — The Social Evil
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — Assignation Houses
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — Street-Walkers
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — Concert Saloons
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — Dance-Houses
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — The Wickedest Man in New York
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — Cheap Lodging Houses
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — Black-Mailing
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — Chatham Street
  40. 40Chapter XL — Thieves
  41. 41Chapter XLI — Pickpockets
  42. 42Chapter XLII — Drunkenness
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — Gambling Houses
  44. 44Chapter XLIV — Kit Burns’s
  45. 45Chapter XLV — Sailors’ Boarding Houses
  46. 46Chapter XLVI — The Churches and the Clergy
  47. 47Chapter XLVII — Cemeteries
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII — The Bar
  49. 49Chapter XLIX — The Metropolitan Fire Department
  50. 50Chapter L — Harry Hill’s
  51. 51Chapter LI — The Wickedest Woman in New York
  52. 52Chapter LII — Baby Farming
  53. 53Chapter LIII — The First Division, New York National Guard
  54. 54Chapter LIV — Places of Amusement
  55. 55Chapter LV — Fortune Tellers and Clairvoyants
  56. 56Chapter LVI — The Harbor
  57. 57Chapter LVII — Quack Doctors
  58. 58Chapter LVIII — The Races
  59. 59Chapter LIX — Matrimonial Advertisements
  60. 60Chapter LX — Personals
  61. 61Chapter LXI — Soldier Minstrels
  62. 62Chapter LXII — The Abattoirs
  63. 63Chapter LXIII — The Morgue
  64. 64Chapter LXIV — The Oldest Man in New York
  65. 65Chapter LXV — Divorce Lawyers
  66. 66Chapter LXVI — Pawnbrokers
  67. 67Chapter LXVII — The Markets
  68. 68Chapter LXVIII — Public Buildings
  69. 69Chapter LXIX — The Post-Office
  70. 70Chapter LXX — The Patterers
  71. 71Chapter LXXI — Lotteries
  72. 72Chapter LXXII — Gift Enterprises
  73. 73Chapter LXXIII — Situation Agencies
  74. 74Chapter LXXIV — The Patent Safe Game
  75. 75Chapter LXXV — Lost in the Great City
  76. 76Chapter LXXVI — Conclusion
  77. 77The Blue-Coats

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