LXXVII. THE POOR OF NEW YORK, 796 I. THE DESERVING POOR, 796 II. THE BEGGARS, 802 LXXVIII. QUACK DOCTORS, 805 LXXIX. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 811 LXXX. CASTLE GARDEN, 816 LXXXI. WORKING WOMEN, 822 LXXXII. STREET VENDERS, 831 LXXXIII. THE WHARVES, 835 LXXXIV. THE MORGUE, 839 LXXXV. THE CUSTOM HOUSE, 843 LXXXVI. MISSING, 848 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. General View of New York City, showing the Bridge connecting it with Brooklyn.................................... Frontispiece. Offices of the _Tribune_, _Times_, and _World_............................ 8 Grand Central Railway Depot......................................... 9 First Settlement of New York........................................ 37 New York in 1664.................................................... 45 Broadway, looking up from Exchange Place............................ 53 The City Hall Park in 1869.......................................... 56 The Harbor of New York, as seen from the Narrows.................... 60 A. Oakey Hall, Mayor of New York.................................... 81 William M. Tweed.................................................... 82 The New County Court House.......................................... 83 The Robbery of the Vouchers from the Comptroller's Office........... 94 Richard B. Connolly................................................ 104 Peter B. Sweeny.................................................... 105 Broadway, at the corner of Ann street.............................. 124 A. T. Stewart's Wholesale Store.................................... 125 New York Life Insurance Company's building, corner of Broadway and Leonard street.............................. 127 Broadway, as seen from the St. Nicholas Hotel...................... 129 Saturday Afternoon Concert at Central Park......................... 132 A Fashionable Promenade on Fifth avenue............................ 137 The German......................................................... 165 Female Prisoners in the Fourth Police Station...................... 176 A Winter Night Scene in a Police Station........................... 181