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Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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relief from the reflections that will crowd upon her indrink, and perhaps to drunkenness adds the vice ofopium eating. Her health breaks fast. What was leftof her beauty when she entered the house soon fades,and in two or three years she becomes unfit to remaineven in a second-class house. She is turned into thestreet by the proprietress, who generally robs her ofher money and jewelry, and sometimes even of herclothing, save what she has on at the time. Thewretches who keep these houses do not hesitate todetain a womans trunk, or other effects, upon sometrumped-up charge of arrears of debt, when they haveno longer any use for her. The poor creature has noredress, and is obliged to submit in silence to anywrong practised upon her. The woman whose career opened so brilliantly isnow a confirmed prostitute and drunkard, bloated,sickly, and perhaps diseased. She is without hope»and there is, nothing left to her but to sink still lower.Yet it is only four or five years, perhaps less, since
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THE GREENE STREET BAGNIOS. 481 she entered the fashionable up-town mansion, beauti-ful and attractive in all the freshness of her charms,and little dreaming of the fate in store for her. Sheis not an exception to the rule, however. She has butfollowed the usual road, met the inevitable doom ofher class. From the second-class house the lost woman passesinto one of the bagnios of Greene, Worster, or some *similar street. Here her lot is infinitely more wretched.Her companions are the vilest of her class, and thevisitors are thieves, roughs, and men who cannot gainadmittance into places such as she has left. She findsherself a slave to the keeper of the house, who is oftena burly ruffian, and even more brutal than a womanwould be in the same position. She is robbed of herearnings, is beaten, and often falls into the hands ofthe police. She becomes familiar with the station-house, the Tombs, and Blackwells Island, and what-ever of womanly feeling remained to her is crushedout of her. She

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