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TORONTO BY GASLIGHT: THE NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY.
INTRODUCTION.
THE MASHER
THE STREET-LOUNGERS,
CHAPTER I. THE TOILERS OF THE NIGHT.
RESTRICT THE HOURS OF TOIL
LABORIOUS AND MONOTONOUS.
CHAPTER II. AN ALL-NIGHT EATING HOUSE.
SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME
PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF A SHIRT.
BLOOD AND TREASURE.
CHAPTER III. THE CABMAN’S CHATTER.
CHAPTER IV. BILLIARDISTIC BOYS.
CHAPTER V. THE GAMBLERS.
ENTICED INTO THESE DENS?
CHAPTER VI. PLUCKING THE SUCKERS.
IN A FRAUDULENT GAME
CHAPTER VII. THE WORK OF THE “CAPPERS.”
THE SCENE BETWEEN FATHER AND SON
DISGRACED AMONG HIS “FRIENDS.”
CHAPTER VIII. NIGGER LOO.
SIGNS OF DISSIPATION
THE FASCINATION THAT LED THEM
EGYPTIAN DARKNESS
CHAPTER IX. THE NIGHT POLICEMAN.
A QUEER SIGHT.
THE DARK FIGURE OF A MAN
SUCH A SCENE
I THOUGHT I HEARD BREATHING.
A CUTE GIRL.
THE FINDERS.
CHAPTER X. THE SERVANT GIRL’S “FELLER”
THE RATTLING OF THE DICE
THE ADVANTAGES OF HONEST LABOR.
ONCE A GUILELESS CHILD.
CHAPTER XI. ALL NIGHT IN THE CELLS.
CHAPTER XII. THE POLICE COURT.
THE REGULAR HABITUES
ALL OF THEM ARE UNSAVORY.
EIGHT SECONDS TO TEN.
A TOKEN OF LIBERTY.
CHAPTER XIII. PROMENADING THE STREETS.
TEXTURE OF THE HOSE WORN
HERE TO MAKE ‘STRIKES,’
ALLAY HER RUFFLED FEELINGS.
THE FRESH BLOOD or GIRLHOOD.
MORE DID NOT GO TO PERDITION.”
BETTER THAN THEIR FATHER.
CHAPTER XIV. AN ALL-NIGHT MEETING OF THE ARMY.
YOUNG AND PRETTY,
SMUG-FACED YOUTHS
DO CREDIT TO A TALMAGE
CHAPTER XV. THE “SCHOOL.”
PICKING UP A CAVALIER
THE GENERAL MORAL TONE
CHAPTER XVI. THE GENUS TRAMP.
RUM-BLOSSOMED BEINGS,
LOCAL VAGABONDISTI,
CHAPTER XVII. A VAG BY CHOICE.
NOTHING BUT A TRAMP,
THE CAPTAIN WAS A TYRANT,
WHISKY MAKES YOU RICH.”
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SLUM-DWELLER.
INTERVIEWS WITH CLERGYMEN.
A CITY MISSIONARY’S EXPERIENCES.
DRINK REIGNS UNCONTROLLED.
AGGIE WOULD SING
IDLENESS AND DRINK.
RELEASED CONVICTS.
THE INCORRIGIBLES
GRACE MARKS, THE GIRL MURDERESS.
FROM THE EAST END.
KEPT AWAY FROM CHURCH
THE NUMEROUS BABY FARMS,
CHAPTER XIX. IN THE WARD.
AN OLD BOX FOR HIS BED-CLOTHES!
TO RETURN THE COFFIN
A ROUGH-LOOKING CROWD
NO CLOTHES, NO SHOES, THAT WINTER DAY.
A CHARLTON BILL CASE.
A LIFE WHICH SHE ABHORRED.
A BABY FARM.
CHAPTER XX. A PEST HOUSE WIPED OUT.
THEIR PAINTED FACES
THE MOST DREADFUL FEATURES
SCORE OF WOMEN
PROVOKE THEM INTO A FIGHT.
CHAPTER XXI. DOWN AT THE UNION STATION.
HIDE THEMSELVES
COULD NOT BE HER FATHER,
A DAMSEL WHO PLAYS ON THE PIANO
CHAPTER XXII. MORE ABOUT THE UNION STATION.
FRENCH CANADIAN LUMBERMEN
COMMERCIAL TRAVELER
THE BIG BAGGAGE-CART,
CHAPTER XXIII. THE NIGHT EXPRESS.
“THAT’S A COFFIN
LAID HIS HAND ON THE SHOULDER
A SUPERIOR BEING.
THE PARTY GROWS QUIETER.
GOING HOME TO DIE.
COULD KEEP THE $100 BILL
CHAPTER XXIV. THE EMIGRANT TRAIN.
THEIR ARMS ENTWINED,
A QUICK SHUDDER OF FEAR,
CHAPTER XXV. THE WRECKING TRAIN.
CONDUCTORS’ EXPERIENCES.
I FIRED HIM OUT
CHAPTER XXVI. MILLIE’S FIVE CENT PIECE.
BEAUTIFUL, BUT ERRING MOTHER.
THE TEARS THAT HAD ESCAPED
RECOGNIZED THE CHILD.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE JAIL.
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEAUTY
DRANK HARDER THAN EVER
ONE NIGHT I GOT “PULLED IN”
THE FROUSY BESOTTED WRETCHES
CORDIALITY AND FAMILIARITY
LISTEN WITH STRAINING EAR
A POUND OF DRY BREAD
MY HEART GAVE A GREAT THROB,
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE STREET ARABS.
THE WAY THEY LIVE,
IN A MISERABLE HOVEL
TIM AND SAM.
WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM.
SAM WAS WELL NIGH SMOTHERED
ENDED IN HIS DEATH
CHAPTER XXIX. THE HOSPITAL.
COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE MANAGEMENT
AN OLD MAN LIES.
DISTURBED BY WHAT SHE SEES.
CHAPTER XXX. PIECES OF MEN.
THIN AND HAGGARD,
FURTIVE LOOK OF THE TRAMP,
CONTEMPT FOR CIVILIANS,
MORE LESSONS TO BE DERIVED
CHAPTER XXXI. INFANT WAIFS.
THE WARM ROSE HUE OF SLEEP,
TO NURSE A MOTHERLESS ONE
CHILDLESS COUPLES
CHAPTER XXXII. THE PRETTY BOY.
TOO PRETTY TO BE SPOILED
ONLY PURE PLACE HE ENTERS
HE TAKES IN EVERYTHING.
CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT’S IN A NAME?
SET THE NEWS FLYING
THE REPORTER’S EYE
THESE FELLOWS WILL LAUGH
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE SCARLET WOMAN.
FLASHY FEMALES
DUMB, TEARLESS AGONY,
STOLE A HANDSOME BONNET
REPRESSIVE MEASURES
SAVE MANY A GIRL
CHAPTER XXXV. BEHOLD, THERE MET HIM A WOMAN.
EAT INTO SOCIETY
FAMILIARIZE THE MINDS
CHAPTER XXXVI. KILLJOY HOUSE.
THEIR WITHERING LIVES
LIE BY PREFERENCE.
KNOW NOTHING BUT TO WORK
HER STORY.
TURNING POINT OF MY LIFE.
WATCH WHERE SHE LIVED.
ODORIFEROUS BREATHINGS.
CHAPTER XXXVII. LEADING DOWN TO DEATH.
THE AWFUL PUNISHMENTS
LESSENING THE EVILS OF PROSTITUTION
CAN NEVER CLIMB BACK
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. ANOTHER CLASS OF PROMENADERS.
A FIT OF COUGHING,
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