The Secrets Of The Great City: A Work Descriptive Of The Virtues And The Vices, The Mysteries, Miseries And Crimes Of New York City Edward Winslow Martin [Psued. James Dabney Mccabe]

Faded burgundy cloth. Frayed at spine ends, exposed corners, small holes appear along outer hinges. Lightly shaken. Some foxing to pages, else interior generally clean. Engraved (with tissue guard) and typographic title pages. 27 illustrations on plates, including five fold-outs. 552 plus [4] ads. A fascinating work describing life in New York City, from the great capitalists to the lowest street urchin. However, while also describing the physical environs of the city, the dominant focus of the book is on the seedier side of life, cataloging and explaining a wide variety of the vices, crimes and corruption found in the city and at all levels of society. Includes a vast number of anecdotes and tales of true-life figures who were the unfortunates, victims or victimizers, and other figures that gave the great, growing city such gritty character in the 1860s. James Dabney McCabe Jr. (1842-1883) was the author of several books, writing under the pseudonym Edward Winslow Martin. His papers and correspondence are collected at Johns Hopkins University. Contents: [I] The City of New York. [II] The Streets of New York. [III] The City Government (political black mail, etc.). [IV] The Metropolitan Police. [V] Society. [VI] The Tombs. [VII] Reformatory Establishments. [VIII] Lines of Travel. [IX] Street Musicians. [X] The Press. [XI] Wall Street. [XII] Business in New York. [XIII] Fashionable Shopping. [XIV] Impostors. [XV] Sunday in New York. [XVI] The Detectives. [XVII] Five Points. [XVIII] Hotel Life. [XIX] Restaurants. [XX] Boarding Houses. [XXI] Trinity Parish. [XXII] The Holidays in the City. [XXIII] The Central Park. [XXIV] The Public Schools. [XXV] The Poor of New York. [XXVI] Poor Girls. [XXVII] The Street Boys. [XXVIII] Beggars. [XXIX] Emigrants. [XXX] The Bummers. [XXXI] The Social Evil (prostitution). [XXXII] Assignation Houses (love hotels). [XXIII] Street Walkers. [XXXIV] Concert Saloons. [XXXV] Dance Houses. [XXXVI] The Wickedest Man in New York. [XXXVII] The Lodging Houses. [XXXVIII] Black-mailing. [XXXIX] Chatham Street. [XL] Thieves. [XLI] Pickpockets.[XLII] Drunkeness. [XLIII] Gambling Houses. [XLIV] Kit Burns's. [XLV] Sailors' Boarding Houses. [XLVI] The Churches and the Clergy. [XLVII] Cemeteries. [XLVIII] The Bar. [XLIX] The Metropolitan Fire Department. [L] Harry Hill's. [LI] The Wickedest Woman in New York. [LII] Baby Farming. [LIII] The First Division, N.Y. National Guard. [LIV] Places of Amusement. [LV] Fortune Tellers and Clairvoyants. [LVI] The Harbor. [LVII] Quack Doctors. [LVIII] The Races. [LIX] Matrimonial Advertisements. [LX] Personals. [LXI] Soldier Minstrels. [LXII] The Abattoirs. [LXIII] The Morgue. [LXIV] The Oldest Man in New York. [LXV] Divorce Lawyers. [LXVI] Pawnbrokers. [LXVII] The Markets. [LXVIII] Public Buildings. [LXIX] The Post Office. [LXX] The Patterers. [LXXI] Lotteries. [LXXII] Gift Enterprises. [LXXIII] Situation Agencies. [LXXIV] Swindlers in General. [LXXV] Lost in the Great City. [LXXVI] Conclusion.