A terrible struggle for member of "The Finest."
Wheelers break records in the six-day contest in Madison Square Garden, New York.
Ball of lunatics at the Asylum, Blackwell's Island, East River, N. Y.
New York City - The opium dens in Pell and Mott Streets - How the opium habit is developed.
The "Sawed-Door Game" on a Gudgeon.
Raid on the Broadway concert saloons, New York.
The Scheme of a Conscienceless Adventurer in New York - "Chippies" his Accomplices in Trapping Old Sinners into Hush-Money Situations.
How two Dizzy Girls Advertised Their Charms and Political Faith.
Scene in a velocipede riding-school, New York City.
No. 232 Fifth Avenue, corner Twenty-Seventh Street, New York.
Opening of the Broadway Omnibus Racing Season of 1884.
Dizzy cigarette girls have a most hilarious time in the Lyceum Opera House, this city.
How the gilded vice of the metropolis fishes for its victims in the public streets, and innocent confidence is trapped by the fine feathers which disguise foul birds.
A vain girl makes a fireman wait until she fixes her hair preferring to risk her life rather than appear in public not “made up’; New York.
Architect John M. Merrick of New York triumphantly finishes his thirtieth canvas-back duck on the thirtieth consecutive day
Mrs. Day is accused of stealing a ring from the finger of dead Sophie Ahrens as she lay in her coffin.
New York City, -- The Steamboat Riverdale blown up, August 28th – Rescuing the passengers.
Had Miss Baker looked under the bed before making her toilet she would have postponed it.
The Post Office Department will pay the sum of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD, each, for the capture of Joseph Killoran, Harry Russell, and Charles Allen.
An Irishman and a Yankee Settle a Dispute Across the Breakfast Table at their Boarding House in New York.
A New Attraction to the Ball Room Invented by a New York Genius for the Benefit of Bashful Men and Ugly Women.
The original and daring aerial representation by Thomas Hanlon, now performed by him every evening at Niblo's Garden.
Superintendent Walling makes a raid on a Sixth Avenue opium den and gathers in a motley crowd of smokers.
While New York is by no means the hottest city in the country, there have been a few days during the present season when the temperature reached a height altogether incompatible with human comfort.
Too, too, utterly utter! Remarkable effect of the appearance of Oscar Wilde, the apostle of Aestheticism, on the streets of New York City.
A scene from feal life in a sixth avenue smoking car—giddy girls who believe in taking a “whiff of the weed” in public as well as in priv
There is a class of publications whose lives depend upon their successful appeal to vicious instincts.
Two of the charming girls who pose as "living pictures" in Rice's "1492" have a wordy war, which ends in a hand-to-hand conflict.
Mdlle. Carlotta de Berg, at the New York Circus, Fourteenth Street.
Winter sports in the metropolis—a skating scene in Central Park.
The conmen of New York City were noted for their colorful nicknames: "Paper Collar Joe", "Grand Central Pete" Jimmy "the Kid" and the greatest of all "Hungry Joe".
How a Georgia alligator attempted to make a meal of Captain Johnson’s son. [more]
While Capt. R. B. Johnson, of Clinch county, Georgia. was helping a party of 23 or 30 men haul for trout in a millpond, the other day. his little son, Joseph. had a most thrilling experience, Master Joseph carried a bag, or corn sack, in which to deposit the fish when caught. When loaded with as many as he could carry he would take them out and make a deposit and return for more. In making one of these trips, while wading through water about three feet deep some distance from the fishermen, a monster alligator, said to be of unusual size, rose suddenly right at the boy and seized him by the thigh. A desperate struggle ensued—the boy battled for his life and the alligator for his prey. It so happened that the bag, which hung by the boy's aide, was caught In the alligator's mouth with the thigh, and It proved a sort of shield—lessening greatly the incisions made by the brute's teeth, and thus, perhaps, preventing a shock to his nervous system which might have made him succumb without the struggle which saved him his life. By an effort the boy tore his bleeding flesh from the alligator's Jaws. The monster grimly held to the sack a moment with the delusion, perhaps, that he still had his prey, affording the boy an opportunity to escape.
He had hardly extricated himself from the jaws of death before the fishermen, alarmed by the struggle, were at hand, and another battle ensued. Thirty men, armed with gigs, poles, pocket knives and such other instruments of war as were at hand, charged upon the monster. Being In three feet of water, the 'gator bad considerable advantage, but those men had their blood up and were not to be outdone. They poled and punched and harpooned him until the brute was almost outdone, when one of the party made bold to seize him by the tail. This was a signal for a general assault. In less time than it would take to tell it, a number of the more daring had him by the tail and legs. There were too many of them for the 'gator to slap around with his tall, a peculiar mode of n 'gator warfare, and he had to give up the fight. A harpoon was plunged into his mouth and then it was safe to approach him with pocket knives. Soon his head was severed from his body, and the victorious party marched out of the pond with the monster's head on a pole.
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, December 15, 1883.