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In certain of these pictures, as will be seen, reference is made to wages, hours and working and living conditions not now holding, or at least not to the same severe degree. This is especially true of such presentations as The Men in the Dark, The Men in the Storm, The Men in the Snow, Six O’clock, The Bread-line, (long since abolished), The Toilers of the Tenements, and Christmas in the Tenements. Yet since they were decidedly true of that particular period, I prefer to leave them as originally written. They bear, I believe, the stamp of their hour.
Theodore Dreiser.
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The City of My Dreams FACING PAGE The City Awakes 6 The Waterfront 12 The Michael J. Powers Association 48 The Fire 58 The Car Yard 70 The Flight of Pigeons 74 Being Poor 78 Six O’clock 82 Toilers of the Tenements 88 The Close of Summer 100 The Realization of an Ideal 108 The Pushcart Man 114 Whence the Song 142 A Character 160 The Beauty of Life 170 A Wayplace of the Fallen 174 Hell’s Kitchen 186 An Oil Refinery 204 The Bowery Mission 210 The Wonder of the Water 216 The Man on the Bench 220 The Men in the Dark 226 The Men in the Storm 230 The Men in the Snow 234 The Freshness of the Universe 238 The Cradle of Tears 241 Sailors’ Snug Harbor 250 The Sandwich Man 264 A Love Affair in Little Italy 270 Christmas in the Tenements 278