LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Miss Marie and Mrs. John Van Vorst in their factory costumes]
["The streets are covered with snow, and over the snow the soot falls softly like a mantle of perpetual mourning"]
["Waving arms of smoke and steam, a symbol of spent energy, of the lives consumed, and vanishing again"]
["They trifle with love"]
[After Saturday night's shopping]
[Sunday evening at Silver Lake]
["The breath of the black, sweet night reached them, fetid, heavy with the odour of death as it blew across the stockyards"]
[In a Chicago theatrical costume factory]
[Chicago types]
[The rear of a Chicago tenement]
[A delicate type of beauty at work in a Lynn shoe factory, and One of the swells of the factory: a very expert "vamper," an Irish girl, earning from $10 to $14 a week]
["Learning" a new hand]
[The window side of Miss K.'s parlour at Lynn, Mass.]
["Fancy gumming," and An all-round, experienced hand]
["Mighty mill—pride of the architect and the commercial magnate"]
["The Southern mill-hand's face is unique, a fearful type"]