From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine

by Alexander Irvine

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	Boyhood in Ireland	3
[II.]	The Beginning of an Education	24
[III.]	On Board a Man o' War	40
[IV.]	Problems and Places	53
[V.]	The Gordon Relief Expedition	63
[VI.]	Beginnings in the New World	82
[VII.]	Fishing for Men on the Bowery	90
[VIII.]	A Bunk-house and Some Bunk-house Men	105
[IX.]	The Waif's Story	119
[X.]	I Meet Some Outcasts	126
[XI.]	A Church in the Ghetto	144
[XII.]	Working Way Down	156
[XIII.]	Life and Doubt on the Bottoms	166
[XIV.]	My Fight in New Haven	183
[XV.]	A Visit Home	193
[XVI.]	New Haven Again—and a Fight	207
[XVII.]	I Join a Labour Union and Have Something to Do with Strikes	213
[XVIII.]	I Become a Socialist	235
[XIX.]	I Introduce Jack London to Yale	250
[XX.]	My Experiences as a Labourer in the Muscle Market of the South	256
[XXI.]	At the Church of the Ascension	274
[XXII.]	My Socialism, My Religion and My Home	285

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ILLUSTRATIONS

[Alexander Irvine, 1909]	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
[Mr. Irvine's Birthplace]	4
[Where Irvine Spent His Boyhood]	8
[Alexander Irvine as a Marine]	38
[Officers of H.M.S. "Alexandra" Ashore at Cattaro]	50
[A Page from Mr. Irvine's Diary]	54
[Dowling, Tinker and Colporter]	110
[Alexander Irvine. From a sketch by Juliet Thompson]	146
[State Convention of the Socialist Party of Connecticut]	238
[The Lunch Hour in an Interborough Shop]	248
[Alexander Irvine and Jack London]	252
[In Muckers' Camp in Alabama]	258
[Irvine and Three Other Muckers as They Left Greenwich Street for the South]	258
[Irvine, Punching Logs in the Gulf of Mexico, 1907]	270
[The Church of the Ascension]	276
["Happy Hollow," Mr. Irvine's Present Home Near Peekskill, New York]	294
[Happy Hollow in the Winter, Looking from the House]	298