The Color of a Great City

The Color of a Great City

SISTER CARRIE JENNIE GERHARDT THE FINANCIER THE TITAN THE GENIUS A TRAVELER AT FORTY A HOOSIER HOLIDAY PLAYS OF THE NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL THE HAND OF THE POTTER FREE AND OTHER STORIES TWELVE MEN HEY RUB-A-DUB-DUB A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF THE COLOR OF A GREAT CITY My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between 1900 and 1914 or 15, 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. For, to begin with, the city, as I see it, was more varied and arresting and, after its fashion, poetic and even idealistic then than it is now. It offered, if I may venture the opinion, greater social and financial contrasts than it does now: the splendor of the purely social Fifth Avenue of the last decade of the last century and the first decade of this, for instance, as opposed to the purely commercial area that now bears that name; the sparklingly personality-dotted Wall Street of 18901910 as contrasted with the commonplace and almost bread and butter world that it is to-day. (There were argonauts then.) The astounding areas of poverty and of beggary even,I refer to the east side and the Bowery of that periodunrelieved as they were by civic betterment and social service ventures of all kinds, as contrasted with the beschooled and beserviced east side of to-day. Who recallsvi Steve Brodies, McGurks, Doyers Street and Chuck Connors? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 61043
Author: Dreiser, Theodore
Release Date: Dec 29, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Falls, C. B. (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960