Transcriber’s Note: Often, contracted words lack an apostrophe, two words are printed as one, and elipses and hyphens are used inconsistently. Words may have multiple spelling variations; all variations were retained as printed. Dialect, obsolete words, alternative spellings and misspelled words were not corrected. Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Unprinted final stops and quotation marks were added. _Manhattan Transfer_ _By John Dos Passos_ _One Man’s Initiation_ _Three Soldiers_ _Rosinante to the Road Again_ _A Pushcart at the Curb_ _Manhattan Transfer_ _Streets of Night_ [Illustration: design] Manhattan Transfer By John Dos Passos [Illustration: colophon] Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London MANHATTAN TRANSFER COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY JOHN DOS PASSOS PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. TENTH PRINTING CONTENTS _First Section_ I FERRYSLIP _3_ II METROPOLIS _12_ III DOLLARS _49_ IV TRACKS _78_ V STEAMROLLER _112_ _Second Section_ I GREAT LADY ON A WHITE HORSE _129_ II LONGLEGGED JACK OF THE ISTHMUS _144_ III NINE DAYS’ WONDER _169_ IV FIRE ENGINE _202_ V WENT TO THE ANIMALS’ FAIR _217_ VI FIVE STATUTORY QUESTIONS _237_ VII ROLLERCOASTER _249_ VIII ONE MORE RIVER TO JORDAN _255_ _Third Section_ I REJOICING CITY THAT DWELT CARELESSLY _271_ II NICKELODEON _291_ III REVOLVING DOORS _305_ IV SKYSCRAPER _351_ V THE BURTHEN OF NINEVEH _371_ _First Section_ I. Ferryslip _Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes, orangerinds, spoiled cabbage heads that heave between the splintered plank walls, the green waves spume under the round bow as the ferry, skidding on the tide, crashes, gulps the broken water, slides, settles slowly into the slip. Handwinches whirl with jingle of chains. Gates fold upwards, feet step out across the crack, men and women press through the manuresmelling wooden tunnel of the ferryhouse, crushed and jostling like apples fed down a chute into a press._