CAPTAIN ANTONIO FACCIOLATI, of the New York N. G. TERRY, first−lieutenant under Facciolati. SCHMIDT, a sergeant. *Citizens of the Underworld*. A BUM. GACE, an assassin. A DISORDERLY WOMAN. A WOMAN−RIOTER. A DRUNKEN WOMAN. REDDY RAWN, leader of an East Side "gang." REDDY'S "GIRL." THE KID, one of his associates, CRAB ROTELLO. head of a rival gang. ZANTZINGER, a gunman. BUTCH DELLITT, another gunman. *Other Persons*. Women of the street, the brothel, the world. Clothing−factory workers. A mob. Waiters in saloons. Clerks and foremen in the Forbes factory. Stenographers and typists. Gamblers. Other gangmen. Other policemen. Various minor Republican, Democratic, Reform, and Progressive politicians. Newspaper−reporters. Some newspaper−editors. A corps of strike−breakers. Scabs. Soldiers of the New York National Guard. *THE SPIDER’S WEB* *CHAPTER I* §1. Early that morning, Luke Huber stood before the Pennsylvania Railroad Station at Americus and fancied himself a latter-day crusader setting out to reconquer from the infidels the modern Holy City of God. He had graduated from the Harvard Law-School in the previous June. Now the Republican brother-in-law of one of his classmates, having been elected District-Attorney of corruptly Democratic New York, offered a place on his staff to Luke as soon as Huber should meet successfully the necessary formalities. This new public-prosecutor was to "clean up" the largest city in the country, and Luke, as his assistant, was to aid in restoring to the metropolis the ideals of the framers of the Constitution.