The City That Was

by Stephen Smith

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Copyright, 1911, by Frank Allaben

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To the Memory of
Dorman Bridgman Eaton

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My thanks are due especially to Mr. Frank Allaben and my son, Mr. Sidney Smith, for their service in carrying this book through the press.

Stephen Smith.

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NOTE BY THE PUBLISHER

The story of a great life-saving social revolution, the mightiest in the nineteenth century and one of the most momentous in the history of civilization, is told here for the first time. It is told from the standpoint of the transformation of the City of New York, by a chief actor in the event.