The Muffin Man.

NEW YORK IN THE ELEGANT EIGHTIES

CHAPTER I
 

General Description of the City - Habits - Cus¬
toms ~ Fat Policeman - Arrival of the Typewriter -
Advent of the Lady Stenographer - End of the
Squatters and Shanty Town - Coming of the
Bicycle

TN Eighteen Eighty the population of New York was
about a million two hundred thousand. The City
still had a strong frontier atmosphere about it—half min¬
ing camp and half Mayfair. Yet signs of the coming Age
of Elegance, were not lacking. Dad paused in the days
occupations long enough to take the clinkers out of his
hair and Maw was noting with deep satisfaction the grow¬
ing whiteness of her hands. Years of dishwashing,
scrubbing and housework (in spite of Pearline and
Sapolio, ancestors of  our present day,  dear little Gold

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