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[Illustration: Jacob A. Riis]
THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN
BY JACOB A. RIIS
AUTHOR OF "HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES," "A TEN YEARS' WAR," "OUT OFMULBERRY STREET," ETC.
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
To LAMMET
TO THE READER
The papers which form this autobiography were originally publishedin The Outlook, the chapter telling of my going "home to mother"in The Churchman, and parts of one or two others in The CenturyMagazine. To those who have been asking if they are made-up stories,let me say here that they are not. And I am mighty glad they arenot. I would not have missed being in it all for anything.
J. A. R.
RICHMOND HILL, N.Y., October, 1901.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ITHE MEETING ON THE LONG BRIDGE
CHAPTER III LAND IN NEW YORK AND TAKE A HAND IN THE GAME
CHAPTER IIII GO TO WAR AT LAST, AND SOW THE SEED OF FUTURE CAMPAIGNS
CHAPTER IVWORKING AND WANDERING
CHAPTER VI GO INTO BUSINESS, HEADLONG
CHAPTER VIIN WHICH I BECOME AN EDITOR AND RECEIVE MY FlRST LOVE LETTER
CHAPTER VIIELIZABETH TELLS HER STORY
CHAPTER VIIIEARLY MARRIED LIFE; I BECOME AN ADVERTISING BUREAU; ON THE "TRIBUNE"
CHAPTER IXLIFE IN MULBERRY STREET
CHAPTER XMY DOG IS AVENGED
CHAPTER XITHE BEND IS LAID BY THE HEELS
CHAPTER XIII BECOME AN AUTHOR AND RESUME MY INTERRUPTED CAREER AS A LECTURER
CHAPTER XIIIROOSEVELT COMES—MULBERRY STREET'S GOLDEN AGE
CHAPTER XIVI TRY TO GO TO THE WAR FOR THE THIRD AND LAST TlME
CHAPTER XVWHEN I WENT HOME TO MOTHER
CHAPTER XVITHE AMERICAN MADE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Jacob A. Riis
Our Stork
The Meeting on the Long Bridge
Ribe, from the Castle Hill
The View the Stork got of the Old Town
The Domkirke
Within the Domkirke
Mother
The Deserted Quay
Downstream, where Ships sailed once
A Cobblestone-paved Alley
Father
My Childhood's Home
Down by her Garden, on the River Nibs
The Picture her Mother gave me
Brady's Bend as I knew it
"I found the valley deserted and dead"
"The dead were much better company"
Lunching at Delmonico's
The Fight on the Police Station Steps
"There I set my traps"
Our Old Pastor
When I worked in the Buffalo Ship-yard
"One end of the town was burning while I was canvassing the other"
"I went to hear Horace Greeley address an open-air meeting"
"The wide world seemed suddenly a cold and far-off place"
"Hard Times"
Brother Simmons (the Rev. Ichabod Simmons)
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