The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million

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1. The Voice of the City
   I The Voice of the City Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong…
2. The Complete Life of John Hopkins
   II The Complete Life of John Hopkins There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and…
3. A Lickpenny Lover
   III A Lickpenny Lover There, were 3,000 girls in the Biggest Store. Masie was one of them. She was eighteen and a saleslady in the gents' g…
4. Dougherty's Eye-Opener
   IV Dougherty's Eye-Opener Big Jim Dougherty was a sport. He belonged to that race of men. In Manhattan it is a distinct race. They are the…
5. "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit"
   V "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit" The honeymoon was at its full. There was a flat with the reddest of new carpets, tasselled portières and…
6. The Harbinger
   VI The Harbinger Long before the springtide is felt in the dull bosom of the yokel does the city man know that the grass-green goddess is u…
7. While the Auto Waits
   VII While the Auto Waits Promptly at the beginning of twilight, came again to that quiet corner of that quiet, small park the girl in gray.…
8. A Comedy in Rubber
   VIII A Comedy in Rubber One may hope, in spite of the metaphorists, to avoid the breath of the deadly upas tree; one may, by great good for…
9. One Thousand Dollars
   IX One Thousand Dollars "One thousand dollars," repeated Lawyer Tolman, solemnly and severely, "and here is the money." Young Gillian gave…
10. The Defeat of the City
    X The Defeat of the City Robert Walmsley's descent upon the city resulted in a Kilkenny struggle. He came out of the fight victor by a fort…
11. The Shocks of Doom
    XI The Shocks of Doom There is an aristocracy of the public parks and even of the vagabonds who use them for their private apartments. Vall…
12. The Plutonian Fire
    XII The Plutonian Fire There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their hab…
13. Nemesis and the Candy Man
    XIII Nemesis and the Candy Man "We sail at eight in the morning on the Celtic," said Honoria, plucking a loose thread from her lace sleeve.…
14. Squaring the Circle
    XIV Squaring the Circle At the hazard of wearying you this tale of vehement emotions must be prefaced by a discourse on geometry. Nature mo…
15. Roses, Ruses and Romance
    XV Roses, Ruses and Romance Ravenel—Ravenel, the traveller, artist and poet, threw his magazine to the floor. Sammy Brown, broker's clerk,…
16. The City of Dreadful Night
    XVI The City of Dreadful Night "During the recent warmed-over spell," said my friend Carney, driver of express wagon No. 8,606, "a good man…
17. The Easter of the Soul
    XVII The Easter of the Soul It is hardly likely that a goddess may die. Then Eastre, the old Saxon goddess of spring, must be laughing in h…
18. The Fool-Killer
    XVIII The Fool-Killer Down South whenever any one perpetrates some particularly monumental piece of foolishness everybody says: "Send for J…
19. Transients in Arcadia
    XIX Transients in Arcadia There is a hotel on Broadway that has escaped discovery by the summer-resort promoters. It is deep and wide and c…
20. The Rathskeller and the Rose
    XX The Rathskeller and the Rose Miss Posie Carrington had earned her success. She began life handicapped by the family name of "Boggs," in…
21. The Clarion Call
    XXI The Clarion Call Half of this story can be found in the records of the Police Department; the other half belongs behind the business co…
22. Extradited from Bohemia
    XXII Extradited from Bohemia From near the village of Harmony, at the foot of the Green Mountains, came Miss Medora Martin to New York with…
23. A Philistine in Bohemia
    XXIII A Philistine in Bohemia George Washington, with his right arm upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square, fore…
24. From Each According to His Ability
    XXIV From Each According to His Ability Vuyning left his club, cursing it softly, without any particular anger. From ten in the morning unt…
25. The Memento
    XXV The Memento Miss Lynnette D'Armande turned her back on Broadway. This was but tit for tat, because Broadway had often done the same thi…