Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

Author(s): Lyman Abbott, Thomas Wallace Knox

Genre(s): Social Science (culture & Anthropology), True Crime, Christianity - Other

Narrators: Larry Wilson, Laurencetrask, TriciaG, James R. Hedrick, Colias1, Piotr Nater, Joanna Michal Hoyt, Rita Boutros, MichelleKinge, April6090, Greg Giordano, KHand, John, Bruce Pirie, Mike Manolakes, KevinS, TheIntern356, Colleen McMahon

Number of Chapters: 44

Length: 22 hours and 34 minutes

Language: English

A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from the bright and shady sides of the great under world of New York. By Mrs. Helen Campbell, City Missionary and Philanthropist; Col. Thomas W. Knox, Author and Journalist; and Supt. Thomas Byrnes, Chief of NY Police and Detectives. With highly interesting descriptions of little known phases of New York life; and an account of Detective Byrnes' thirty years' experiences and reminiscences written by himself from his private diary. With an introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Pastor of Plymouth Church.

This volume aims to give scrupulously exact descriptions of life and scenes in the great metropolis under three different aspects: 1st, "As Seen by a Woman;" 2d, "As Seen by a Journalist;" 3d, "As Seen and Known by a Chief of the New York Detective Bureau." - Summary by Book title and preface

Published in 1897. The source text contains over 250 sketches and illustrations, which the listener is encouraged to enjoy along with the audio.

Publishers' Preface (Larry Wilson)

Introduction by Lyman Abbott (laurencetrask)

Ch 1 - Sunday in Water Street — Homes of Revelry and Vice — Scenes in the Mission Room — Strange Experiences (TriciaG)

Ch 2 - Christian Work in Water Street —The Story of Jeffrey McAuley's Life Told by Himself — A Career of Wickedness and Crime —The Mission Now (James R. Hedrick)

Ch 3 - Up Slaughter Alley, or Life in a Tenement-House — A Tour Through Homes of Misery, Want, and Woe — Drink's Doings (Colias1)

Ch 4 - New York Newsboys — Who They Are, Where They Come From, and How They Live — The Waifs and Strays of a Great City (Piotr Nater)

Ch 5 - The One Hundred Thousand Little Laborers of New York — Child Workers — Their Homes and Daily Life (Joanna Michal Hoyt)

Ch 6 - Child-Life in the Slums — Homeless Street Boys, Gutter-Snipes and Dock Rats — The Autobiography of a Daybreak Boy (Rita Boutros)

Ch 7 - The Open Doors of Mercy — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children — Brutes in Human Form — The Demon of Drink — Rescue Work (Rita Boutros)

Ch 8 - Mission Work in Tough Places — Seeking to Save — A Leaf from the Experience of an All-Night Missionary — Rescue Work in the Slums (Rita Boutros)

Ch 9 - The Slums by Night — The Underworld of New York — Life and Scenes in the Dens of Infamy and Crime — Night Refuges for Women — Fast Life — Christian Work Among Outcasts (Piotr Nater)

Ch 10 - Night Mission Work — New York Streets After Dark — Rescue Work Among the Fallen and Depraved — Searching for the Lost — An All-Night Missionary's Experience (MichelleKinge)

Ch 11 - Gospel Work in the Slums — An All-Night Missionary's Life — A Midnight Curbstone Meeting — Up Shinbone Alley (Piotr Nater)

Ch 12 - Shop-Girls and Working Women —The Great Army of New York Poor — Life Under the Great Bridge — The Bitter Cry of New York (April6090)

Ch 13 - Hospital Life in New York — A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue — Affecting Scenes — The Morgue and Its Silent Occupants (Greg Giordano)

Ch 14 - Flower Missions and the Fresh Air Fund — The Distribution of Flowers Among the Sick and Poor — Anecdotes and Incidents (Piotr Nater)

Ch 15 - A Day in a Free Dispensary — Relieving the Suffering Poor — Missionsary Nurses and Their Work — A Touching Story (KHand)

Ch 16 - Life Behind the Bars — A Visit to the Tombs — Scenes Within Prison Walls — Rays of Light on a Dark Picture (Piotr Nater)

Ch 17 - Lurking Places of Sin — Face to Face with Crime — Cellar Haunts and Underground Resorts of Criminals — The Story of Jim, an Ex-Convict (John)

Ch 18 - Life on Blackwell's Island — The Dregs of a Great City — Where Criminals, Paupers, and Lunatics are Cared For — A Convict's Daily Life — "Drink's Our Curse" (MichelleKinge)

Ch 19 - Heavenly Charities — Sister Irene's Mysterious Basket — Homes for Foundlings and Little Waifs (MichelleKinge)

Ch 20 - Italian Life in New York — Scenes in the Great Bend in Mulberry Street — Homes of Filth and Squalor (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 21 - Shantytown and Its Dwellers — Life Among New York Squatters — Characteristic Scenes and Incidents (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 22 - Underground Life in New York — Cellar and Shed Lodgings — Dens of the Viscious and Depraved — Startling Scenes (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 23 - Jack Ashore — An Easy Prey for Land-Sharks and Sharpers — Life on the "St. Mary's" and at the Sailors' Snug Harbor (KHand)

Ch 24 - Street Life — The Bowery by Day and by Night — Life in Baxter and Chatham Streets (Mike Manolakes)

Ch 25 - Training-Schools of Crime — Drink, the Root of Evil — Great Responsibility of the Liquor Traffic for Crime — Plain Facts and Startling Statements (Mike Manolakes)

Ch 26 - The Police Department of New York — The Detective Force and Its Work — Shadows and Shadowing — Sleuth-Hounds of the Law (KevinS)

Ch 27 - Fire! Fire! — The Life of a New York Fireman — The School of Instruction and the Live-Saving Corps (Mike Manolakes)

Ch 28 - The Chinese Quarter of New York — Behind the Scenes in Chinatown — "John" and His Curious Ways — A Night Visit to an Opium Joint (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 29 - The Spider and the Fly — Mock Auctions, Bogus Horse Sales and Other Traps for the Unwary — Personal Experiences (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 30 - The Beggars of New York — Tramps, Cheats, Humbugs, and Frauds — Interesting Personal Experiences — Victims from the Country (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 31 - "Up the Spout"— Pawn-Brokers and Their Ways — A Visit to the Shop of "My Uncle" — Personal Experiences (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 32 - Street Venders and Sidewalk Merchants — How Skin Games and Petty Swindles are Played — "Beatin' the Angels for Lyin''' (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 33 - Gamblers and Gambling — A Midnight Visit to Gambling-Houses of High and Low Degree — A Glimpse Behind the Scenes (Bruce Pirie)

Ch 34 - Low Lodging-Houses of New York — Places that Foster Crime and Harbor Criminals — Dens of Thieves (John)

Ch 35 - Scientific Burglers and Expert Cracksmen — How Bank Vaults and Safes are Opened and Robbed — The Tools, Plans, Operations, and Leaders of Highly-Bred Criminals (TheIntern356)

Ch 36 - Bank Sneak-Thieves and Their Characteristics — Plots and Schemes for Robbing Moneyed Institutions — A Daring Lot of Rogues (TheIntern356)

Ch 37 - Common Housebreakers — Thieves Who Laugh at Locks and Bolts — Receivers of Stolen Goods — How a "Fence" Is Conducted (Colleen McMahon)

Ch 38 - The Rogues' Gallery — Why Thieves Are Photographed — Tell-Tale Signs — Peculiarities of Criminals (John)

Ch 39 - Cunning Shoplifters and Skillful Pickpockets — Female Operators and How They Work — Yielding to Sudden Temptations (Piotr Nater)

Ch 40 - Forgers and Their Methods — Wily Devices and Brainy Schemes of a Dangerous Class — Tricks on Banks — How Business Men Are Defrauded (Mike Manolakes)

Ch 41 - Frauds Exposed — Accomplished Adventurers and Fashionable Adventuresses — People Who Live by Their Wits — Getting a Living by Hook or by Crook (John)

Ch 42 - Sharpers, Confidence-Men and Bunco-Steerers — Wide Open Traps —Tricks of "Sawdust" and "Green-Goods" Dealers (Colleen McMahon)

The audiobook Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life falls under the genres of Social Science (culture & Anthropology), True Crime, Christianity - Other. It is written by Lyman Abbott, Thomas Wallace Knox.

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