Produced by ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber’s Note: Minor punctuation errors have been repaired. A list of further changes made is given at the end. Please note that the table of contents doesn’t match the numbered chapter headings. NO. 1. The Toronto Daily News Library TORONTO BY GASLIGHT. Thrilling Sketches of the Nighthawks of a Great City. WRITTEN BY THE REPORTERS OF THE TORONTO NEWS. EDMUND E. SHEPPARD. Publisher. PRICE 20 CENTS. THIRD EDITION. 1885 THE NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY, AS SEEN BY THE REPORTERS OF “THE TORONTO NEWS.” This series of sketches of the night side of life was commenced in THE TORONTO DAILY NEWS on Monday, May 19th, concluding on June 7th. They are but a sample of the interesting specialties which appear daily in THE NEWS, which is certainly the most readable and spicy newspaper published in Canada. Every Saturday, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage’s sermon of the Sunday before, Clara Belle’s New York letter, a cartoon by Mr. S. Hunter, and two columns of dramatic gossip, including many glimpses of life in the Green Room, are regularly given, besides an endless variety of humorous sketches, and a complete compendium of the news of the day. THE NEWS has no Canadian rival as a first-class family newspaper, one which will be read through every day by every member of the family. PUBLISHED BY EDMUND E. SHEPPARD, 106 YONGE STREET TORONTO. [Illustration: SKINNING A SUCKER.—See page 8.] READ THE TABLE OF CONTENTS