Theodore Dreiser

The Color of a Great City Theodore Dreiser

FOREWORD
My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between and or ', or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly, they represent in part, at least, certain phases which at that time most arrested and appealed to me, and which now are fast vanishing or are no more. I refer more particularly to such studies as The Bread-line, The Push-cart Man, The Toilers of the Tenements, Christmas in the Tenements, Whence the Song, and The Love Affairs of Little Italy. ...

CONTENTS
Foreword
The City of My Dreams
The City Awakes
The Waterfront
The Log of a Harbor Pilot
Bums
The Michael J. Powers Association
The Fire
The Car Yard
The Flight of Pigeons
On Being Poor
Six O'clock
The Toilers of the Tenements
The End of a Vacation
The Track Walker
The Realization of an Ideal
The Pushcart Man
A Vanished Seaside Resort
The Bread-Line
Our Red Slayer
Whence the Song
Characters
The Beauty of Life
A Wayplace of the Fallen
Hell's Kitchen
A Certain Oil Refinery
The Bowery Mission
The Wonder of the Water
The Man on the Bench
The Men in the Dark
The Men in the Storm The Men in the Snow
The Freshness of the Universe
The Cradle of Tears
When the Sails Are Furled
The Sandwich Man
The Love Affairs of Little Italy
Christmas in the Tenements
The Rivers of the Nameless Dead