Identifier: newyorkbysunligh00mcca_1 (find matches)
Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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foul expressionsfrom the lips of members of their own sex. Should awoman, unaccompanied by a man, attempt to passalong the avenue between 14th and 34th streets, afternight, she is almost sure to be insulted by some of theruffians who parade the street, hang around the bar-rooms, or stand on the corners, and who are hand andglove with the street-walkers. You see them stand ingroups around a party of abandoned women on the.sidewalk, exchanging ribald jests with them, and shouldyou pause to listen, you would hear words spokenopenly and loudly that would make your ears tingle. All along the avenue are saloons of more than doubt-ful character, and oyster-houses in which no decentperson ever sets foot. These are favorite resorts withthe street-walkers and their companions, and rallyingplaces for the ruffians that lend the girls their protec-tion and live upon the wretched earnings of thewomen. In these resorts, says a writer in the PoliceGazette., vou see the rough, intoxicated elements of
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ON THE ROAD TO RUIN. 255 Sixth avenue. Girls lounge about in the midst of thesmoke ; do not hesitate to sit on the laps of gentlemen,and are always ready for one of the foaming glassesof beer which are pyramidally carried about by theubiquitous waiters. There are many young men beingruined here. While we look on, an episode occursthat illuminates the whole subject as a flash of lightningdoes a gloomy wood. At one of the tables has been sitting, with two girlsof the town, a handsome boy of about eighteen years.The rose of health is still on his cheek, and, althoughthe gin and water he has been drinking have given hiseyes a false lustre, you can easily see that he hasntgone far on the road. His vital organs are healthy.How about his moral tone ? Directly back of him sits a silent and apparentlyabstracted individual, who has gone to such depths ina brown study that the glass of beer before him is asyet untasted, although it has been there ten minutes. The youth gives the waiter a twenty-

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