CHAPTER IX.

THE SLUMS BY NIGHT —THE UNDER-WORLD OF NEW YORK —
LIFE AND SCENES IN DENS OF INFAMY AND CRIME —NIGHT
REFUGES FOB WOMEN — FAST LIFE — CHRISTIAN WORK
AMONG OUTCASTS.

A Nocturnal Population — Dens of Infamy — Gilded Palaces of Sin — The
Open Door to Ruin — Worst Phases of Night Life — Barred Doors and
Sliding Panels — Mysterious Disappearances — The Bowery by Night —
Free-and-Easys and Dime Museums — A Region of the Deepest Poverty
and Vice — Vice the First Product, Death the Second — Nests of Crime —
The Sleeping Places of New York's Outcasts — Lowering Brows and Evil
Eyes — The Foxes, Wolves, and Owls of Humanity — Thieves and Nook-
and-Corner Men — Women with Bent Heads and Despairing Eyes—One
More Victim — Night Tramps — A Class that Never Goes to Bed — The
Beautiful Side of Womanhood — Girls' Lodging-Houses—Homes for the
Homeless — Gratitude of Saved Women—The Work of the Night Refuges

SUNS.ET has come, diffusing mellow light over the beautiful
harbor and the fair islands of New York bay. Nowhere
is the soft twilight more enchanting. By five o'clock the great
warehouses along the river front, and the oflice buildings and
stores in the lower part of the city, begin to empty themselves,
and merchants, brokers, lawyers, and clerks stream up town to
their homes, or to the substitutes for them found in boarding-
houses. The heavy iron shutters are lowered. Office-boys skip
away with such alertness as is left in their tired little legs.
Weary porters straighten boxes and strive to bring order out
of the day's confusion. Presently the night watchman comes
in, and, save for the rush of the elevated trains, lower New
York, sflent and forsaken, rests in quiet till morning once more
brings the stir and roar of traffic and the anxious or eager or
preoccupied faces of the men who are rulers in the business
world.

They have come from homes where also quiet has reigned;

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