Toronto by Gaslight: The Night Hawks of a Great City / As Seen by the Reporters of "The Toronto News"
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.
Toronto News
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INTRODUCTION.
THE MASHER
THE STREET-LOUNGERS,
RESTRICT THE HOURS OF TOIL
LABORIOUS AND MONOTONOUS.
SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME
PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF A SHIRT.
BLOOD AND TREASURE.
ENTICED INTO THESE DENS?
IN A FRAUDULENT GAME
THE SCENE BETWEEN FATHER AND SON
DISGRACED AMONG HIS “FRIENDS.”
SIGNS OF DISSIPATION
THE FASCINATION THAT LED THEM
EGYPTIAN DARKNESS
A QUEER SIGHT.
THE DARK FIGURE OF A MAN
SUCH A SCENE
I THOUGHT I HEARD BREATHING.
A CUTE GIRL.
THE FINDERS.
THE RATTLING OF THE DICE
THE ADVANTAGES OF HONEST LABOR.
ONCE A GUILELESS CHILD.
THE REGULAR HABITUES
ALL OF THEM ARE UNSAVORY.
EIGHT SECONDS TO TEN.
A TOKEN OF LIBERTY.
TEXTURE OF THE HOSE WORN
HERE TO MAKE ‘STRIKES,’
ALLAY HER RUFFLED FEELINGS.
THE FRESH BLOOD or GIRLHOOD.
MORE DID NOT GO TO PERDITION.”
BETTER THAN THEIR FATHER.
YOUNG AND PRETTY,
SMUG-FACED YOUTHS
DO CREDIT TO A TALMAGE
PICKING UP A CAVALIER
THE GENERAL MORAL TONE
RUM-BLOSSOMED BEINGS,
LOCAL VAGABONDISTI,
NOTHING BUT A TRAMP,
THE CAPTAIN WAS A TYRANT,
WHISKY MAKES YOU RICH.”
INTERVIEWS WITH CLERGYMEN.
A CITY MISSIONARY’S EXPERIENCES.
DRINK REIGNS UNCONTROLLED.
AGGIE WOULD SING
IDLENESS AND DRINK.
RELEASED CONVICTS.
THE INCORRIGIBLES
GRACE MARKS, THE GIRL MURDERESS.
FROM THE EAST END.
KEPT AWAY FROM CHURCH
THE NUMEROUS BABY FARMS,
AN OLD BOX FOR HIS BED-CLOTHES!
TO RETURN THE COFFIN
A ROUGH-LOOKING CROWD
NO CLOTHES, NO SHOES, THAT WINTER DAY.
A CHARLTON BILL CASE.
A LIFE WHICH SHE ABHORRED.
A BABY FARM.
THEIR PAINTED FACES
THE MOST DREADFUL FEATURES
SCORE OF WOMEN
PROVOKE THEM INTO A FIGHT.
HIDE THEMSELVES
COULD NOT BE HER FATHER,
A DAMSEL WHO PLAYS ON THE PIANO
FRENCH CANADIAN LUMBERMEN
COMMERCIAL TRAVELER
THE BIG BAGGAGE-CART,
“THAT’S A COFFIN
LAID HIS HAND ON THE SHOULDER
A SUPERIOR BEING.
THE PARTY GROWS QUIETER.
GOING HOME TO DIE.
COULD KEEP THE $100 BILL
THEIR ARMS ENTWINED,
A QUICK SHUDDER OF FEAR,
CONDUCTORS’ EXPERIENCES.
I FIRED HIM OUT
BEAUTIFUL, BUT ERRING MOTHER.
THE TEARS THAT HAD ESCAPED
RECOGNIZED THE CHILD.
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEAUTY
DRANK HARDER THAN EVER
ONE NIGHT I GOT “PULLED IN”
THE FROUSY BESOTTED WRETCHES
CORDIALITY AND FAMILIARITY
LISTEN WITH STRAINING EAR
A POUND OF DRY BREAD
MY HEART GAVE A GREAT THROB,
THE WAY THEY LIVE,
IN A MISERABLE HOVEL
TIM AND SAM.
WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM.
SAM WAS WELL NIGH SMOTHERED
ENDED IN HIS DEATH
COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE MANAGEMENT
AN OLD MAN LIES.
DISTURBED BY WHAT SHE SEES.
THIN AND HAGGARD,
FURTIVE LOOK OF THE TRAMP,
CONTEMPT FOR CIVILIANS,
MORE LESSONS TO BE DERIVED
THE WARM ROSE HUE OF SLEEP,
TO NURSE A MOTHERLESS ONE
CHILDLESS COUPLES
TOO PRETTY TO BE SPOILED
ONLY PURE PLACE HE ENTERS
HE TAKES IN EVERYTHING.
SET THE NEWS FLYING
THE REPORTER’S EYE
THESE FELLOWS WILL LAUGH
FLASHY FEMALES
DUMB, TEARLESS AGONY,
STOLE A HANDSOME BONNET
REPRESSIVE MEASURES
SAVE MANY A GIRL
EAT INTO SOCIETY
FAMILIARIZE THE MINDS
THEIR WITHERING LIVES
LIE BY PREFERENCE.
KNOW NOTHING BUT TO WORK
HER STORY.
TURNING POINT OF MY LIFE.
WATCH WHERE SHE LIVED.
ODORIFEROUS BREATHINGS.
THE AWFUL PUNISHMENTS
LESSENING THE EVILS OF PROSTITUTION
CAN NEVER CLIMB BACK
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT.
A FIT OF COUGHING,
