Sunshine and shadow in New York

Matthew Hale Smith

J.B. Burr, 1869 - New York (N.Y.) - 718 pages

Contents

• 1: 25
• II: 35
• III: 41
• CURBSTONE BROKERS: 47
• THE ACCIDENT OF SUCCESS: 53
• HIS STYLE OF BUSINESS: 55
• ITS BRILLIANT OPENING ITS FAILURE: 63
• TWO KINDS OF BUSINESS: 70
• MATRIMONIAL SHARPNESS: 76
• PLYMOUTH CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNING: 87
• PECULIARITIES OF THE CHURCH 03: 93
• AS A PASTOR 100 8: 100
• THE CHARACTER OF THE HOUSE: 106
• XII: 113
• A BRIDAL GIFT: 119
• MR ASTOR AT EIGHTYONE: 123
• A MINISTER FALLS AMONG THIEVES: 131
• CHURCHGOERS: 140
• ITS ORIGIN: 146
• A MINISTER IN TROUBLE: 151
• PRIVATE DETECTIVES: 161
• THE TOMBS ON SUNDAY MORNING: 165
• THE OLD SYSTEM: 173
• THE POLICE AT THEIR WORK: 180
• A MAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL: 186
• EARLY LIFE: 193
• PERSONAL: 195
• XXI: 202
• A WALK AROUND FIVE POINTS: 206
• SUCCESS OF THE MISSION WORK: 210
• A WALK UP THE AVENUE: 217
• PRESTDENT LINCOLN AND MR PHILLIPS: 223
• LANDSHARKS: 229
• FOUNDER OF THE DAILY PRAYERMEETING: 237
• XXVI: 243
• ROCK IN THE CHANNEL: 249
• XXVII: 257
• THE LESSON: 263
• HIS PIOUS ROLE: 269
• THE INAUGURAL: 270
• XXX: 277
• XXXI: 283
• XXXII: 290
• NOT EASILY DISCOURAGED: 296
• TRIALS IN THE COURTROOM: 302
• NEW YORK AROUND THE ASTOR: 310
• ROOM NUMBER ELEVEN THURLOW WEEDS NEW YORK HOME: 317
• AN INCIDENT: 323
• XXXV: 331
• GREEK SLAVE: 338
• HUMOR IN THE PULPIT: 342
• FUN AND PIETY: 348
• NEW YEARS NIGHT: 354
• THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN: 361
• A STREET BOY: 367
• EXTENT OF PUBLIC PROSTITUTION: 371
• THE KEEPER: 377
• VICTIMS FROM NEW ENGLAND: 384
• XLIV: 390
• GAMBLINGROOM: 396
• GAMBLING AS A TRADE: 402
• XLVIII: 412
• GEORGE: 421
• WOMEN ON THE PAVE: 427
• WHO IS HARRY HILL?: 435
• A STARTLING CASE: 443
• THE JEWS IN NEW YORK: 452
• METHODISM IN NEW YORK: 463
• LIX: 472
• A FATHERS OPINION OF HIS SON: 479
• LX: 485
• FLUCTUATION OF CHURCHES: 492
• LXII: 498
• MADISON AVENUE CHURCH: 504
• LXIV: 511
• THE NEW HERALD BUILDING: 515
• MR BENNETT AND THE FRENCH MISSION: 522
• MR DREW AND THE HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD: 528
• EMINENT LAWYERS: 534
• A OAKEY HALL: 542
• THE NEW FORCE: 548
• AT A FIRE: 553
• HIS LIKENESS IN THE STATE LIBRARY AT ALBANY: 589
• LXXV: 604
• A VISIT TO THE DANCEHOUSE AN INSIDE VIEW: 632
• THE EVENING POST: 640
• THE HIGHER LAW: 646
• FINANCIAL SUCCESS: 652
• LXXXI: 659
• LXXXIV: 666
• CONTROVERSY ON SLAVERY: 672
• LXXXVIII: 678
• LXXXIX: 684
• INTRODUCTION OF CATHOLICISM INTO NEW YORK: 690
• THE TICKET SWINDLE: 697
• THE PARTIES WHO CARRY ON THE SWINDLE: 703

Popular passages

Page 464 - You must preach to us, or we shall all go to hell together, and God will require our blood at your hands !" This pointed appeal had its intended effect, in awakening his attention to the peril of their condition.

Page 29 - Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth...

Page 600 - I have not eaten a warm dinner since I bought the Museum, except on the Sabbath," I replied, "and I intend never to eat another on a week-day until I get out of debt." " Ah, you are safe, and will pay for the Museum before the year is out...

Page 224 - IF you cannot on the ocean Sail among the swiftest fleet, Rocking on the highest billows, Laughing at the storms you meet. You can stand among the sailors, Anchor'd yet within the bay, You can lend a hand to help them, As they launch their boats away.

Page 224 - If you cannot, in the conflict, Prove yourself a soldier true. If where fire and smoke are thickest, There's no work for you to do, When the battlefield is silent. You can go with careful tread. You can bear away the wounded, You can cover up the dead.

Page 224 - While the multitudes go by. You can chant in happy measure, As they slowly pass along; Though they may forget the singer, They will not forget the song.

Page 611 - The book men and newspaper men, who were left out, were quite willing to have the ' Ledger? go under. The respectability and wealth of the house, its enterprise, with the class of writers it could secure, made the new paper a dangerous rival. Mr. Bonner concluded to make the first issue serviceable to himself. His paragraph advertising was considered sensational, and smacking of the charlatan. He resolved to make it respectable. He wrote half a column in sensational style: ' Buy Harper's Weekly !...

Page 187 - No tenant can expend a dollar, or put in a pane of glass, without his personal inspection. His father sold him the Astor House for the sum of one dollar. The lessees...

Page 374 - Public prostitutes, two thousand six hundred and seventy. Waiter girls in concert and drinking saloons, seven hundred and forty-seven. You will see that houses of prostitution have increased twenty-two in two years, and houses of assignation have decreased thirteen. Concert saloons have increased four. Prostitutes have increased five hundred and forty-seven. The waiter girls will be increased by the figures to come in. As it regards 'other women,' we have no means of knowing anything of their number....

Page 35 - ... life has no passport except money. If a man has this, though destitute of character and brains, he is made welcome. One may come from Botany Bay or St. James; with a ticket of leave from a penal colony or St. Cloud; if he has diamond rings and a coach, all places will be opened to him. The leaders of upper New York were, a few years ago, porters, stable-boys, coal-heavers, pickers of rags, scrubbers of floors, and laundry women. Coarse, rude, ignorant, uncivil, and immoral many of them are still....

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sunshine and shadow in New York; Volume 289 of American culture series; Making of America
• Author: Matthew Hale Smith
• Publisher: J.B. Burr, 1869
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 17, 2006
• ISBN: 1425569781, 9781425569785
• Length: 718 pages