Title
Glimpses of Gotham and city characters
Name
Mackeever, Samuel Anderson, 1848-
Published
Published at the National Police Gazette Office, New York: New York. [1880]
Physical Description
72, [8] p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Manners and customs.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
Contents
Samuel Anderson MacKeever. His life and what he did in it -- Glimpses of Gotham -- Ladies who want money -- Fifth Avenue on Sunday -- Theatrical "dead-heads." -- Hotel horrors -- Private gaming establishments -- Divorces without publicity -- Society's "swell-mob" -- Book-making and pool selling -- Restaurants good and bad -- A Christmas drama -- New York's Christmas dinner -- New Year's calls -- People who live by their wits -- Men and women who deal in fancy costumes -- Children of crime -- A key to mysterious disappearances -- City characters -- The man about town -- The college student -- The coachman -- The barber -- The coroner -- The lunch fiend -- The Broadway stage driver -- The bank clerk -- The bold militiaman -- The theatrical press agent -- The pawnbroker -- The reformed young man -- Harry Hill's -- A promenade on Sixth Avenue -- On the blazing Bowery -- Trying to snare a soild dove -- Pulling a disorderly house -- Adventures in Water Street -- A thieves' tavern -- Five cent lodging houses -- Life along the wharves -- Station-house scenes and incidents -- What a hackman sees.
Format
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