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44 of 44 (100%) sections assigned

44 of 44 (100%) sections completed

This project has a dedicated proof-listener who will listen to all sections: TriciaG

Section	Title	Reader	Notes	Listen Url	Status
1	Publishers' Preface	silverquill			PL OK
2	Introduction by Lyman Abbott	laurencetrask			PL OK
3	Ch 1 - Sunday in Water Street — Homes of Revelry and Vice — Scenes in the Mission Room — Strange Experiences	TriciaG			PL OK
4	Ch 2 - Christian Work in Water Street —The Story of Jeffrey McAuley's Life Told by Himself — A Career of Wickedness and Crime —The Mission Now	JHedrick			PL OK
5	Ch 3 - Up Slaughter Alley, or Life in a Tenement-House — A Tour Through Homes of Misery, Want, and Woe — Drink's Doings	Colias1			PL OK
6	Ch 4 - New York Newsboys — Who They Are, Where They Come From, and How They Live — The Waifs and Strays of a Great City	Piotrek81			PL OK
7	Ch 5 - The One Hundred Thousand Little Laborers of New York — Child Workers — Their Homes and Daily Life	JoannaHoyt			PL OK
8	Ch 6 - Child-Life in the Slums — Homeless Street Boys, Gutter-Snipes and Dock Rats — The Autobiography of a Daybreak Boy	RitaBoutros			PL OK
9	Ch 7 - The Open Doors of Mercy — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children — Brutes in Human Form — The Demon of Drink — Rescue Work	RitaBoutros			PL OK
10	Ch 8 - Mission Work in Tough Places — Seeking to Save — A Leaf from the Experience of an All-Night Missionary — Rescue Work in the Slums	RitaBoutros			PL OK
11	Ch 9 - The Slums by Night — The Underworld of New York — Life and Scenes in the Dens of Infamy and Crime — Night Refuges for Women — Fast Life — Christian Work Among Outcasts	Piotrek81			PL OK
12	Ch 10 - Night Mission Work — New York Streets After Dark — Rescue Work Among the Fallen and Depraved — Searching for the Lost — An All-Night Missionary's Experience	MKinge			PL OK
13	Ch 11 - Gospel Work in the Slums — An All-Night Missionary's Life — A Midnight Curbstone Meeting — Up Shinbone Alley	Piotrek81			PL OK
14	Ch 12 - Shop-Girls and Working Women —The Great Army of New York Poor — Life Under the Great Bridge — The Bitter Cry of New York	adr6090			PL OK
15	Ch 13 - Hospital Life in New York — A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue — Affecting Scenes — The Morgue and Its Silent Occupants	GregGiordano			PL OK
16	Ch 14 - Flower Missions and the Fresh Air Fund — The Distribution of Flowers Among the Sick and Poor — Anecdotes and Incidents	Piotrek81			PL OK
17	Ch 15 - A Day in a Free Dispensary — Relieving the Suffering Poor — Missionsary Nurses and Their Work — A Touching Story	MrsHand			PL OK
18	Ch 16 - Life Behind the Bars — A Visit to the Tombs — Scenes Within Prison Walls — Rays of Light on a Dark Picture	Piotrek81			PL OK
19	Ch 17 - Lurking Places of Sin — Face to Face with Crime — Cellar Haunts and Underground Resorts of Criminals — The Story of Jim, an Ex-Convict	johnb2			PL OK
20	Ch 18 - Life on Blackwell's Island — The Dregs of a Great City — Where Criminals, Paupers, and Lunatics are Cared For — A Convict's Daily Life — "Drink's Our Curse"	MKinge			PL OK
21	Ch 19 - Heavenly Charities — Sister Irene's Mysterious Basket — Homes for Foundlings and Little Waifs	MKinge			PL OK
22	Ch 20 - Italian Life in New York — Scenes in the Great Bend in Mulberry Street — Homes of Filth and Squalor	beeber			PL OK
23	Ch 21 - Shantytown and Its Dwellers — Life Among New York Squatters — Characteristic Scenes and Incidents	beeber			PL OK
24	Ch 22 - Underground Life in New York — Cellar and Shed Lodgings — Dens of the Viscious and Depraved — Startling Scenes	beeber			PL OK
25	Ch 23 - Jack Ashore — An Easy Prey for Land-Sharks and Sharpers — Life on the "St. Mary's" and at the Sailors' Snug Harbor	MrsHand			PL OK
26	Ch 24 - Street Life — The Bowery by Day and by Night — Life in Baxter and Chatham Streets	MManolakes			PL OK
27	Ch 25 - Training-Schools of Crime — Drink, the Root of Evil — Great Responsibility of the Liquor Traffic for Crime — Plain Facts and Startling Statements	MManolakes			PL OK
28	Ch 26 - The Police Department of New York — The Detective Force and Its Work — Shadows and Shadowing — Sleuth-Hounds of the Law	KevinS			PL OK
29	Ch 27 - Fire! Fire! — The Life of a New York Fireman — The School of Instruction and the Live-Saving Corps	MManolakes			PL OK
30	Ch 28 - The Chinese Quarter of New York — Behind the Scenes in Chinatown — "John" and His Curious Ways — A Night Visit to an Opium Joint	beeber			PL OK
31	Ch 29 - The Spider and the Fly — Mock Auctions, Bogus Horse Sales and Other Traps for the Unwary — Personal Experiences	beeber			PL OK
32	Ch 30 - The Beggars of New York — Tramps, Cheats, Humbugs, and Frauds — Interesting Personal Experiences — Victims from the Country	beeber			PL OK
33	Ch 31 - "Up the Spout"— Pawn-Brokers and Their Ways — A Visit to the Shop of "My Uncle" — Personal Experiences	beeber			PL OK
34	Ch 32 - Street Venders and Sidewalk Merchants — How Skin Games and Petty Swindles are Played — "Beatin' the Angels for Lyin'''	beeber			PL OK
35	Ch 33 - Gamblers and Gambling — A Midnight Visit to Gambling-Houses of High and Low Degree — A Glimpse Behind the Scenes	beeber			PL OK
36	Ch 34 - Low Lodging-Houses of New York — Places that Foster Crime and Harbor Criminals — Dens of Thieves	johnb2			PL OK
37	Ch 35 - Scientific Burglers and Expert Cracksmen — How Bank Vaults and Safes are Opened and Robbed — The Tools, Plans, Operations, and Leaders of Highly-Bred Criminals	TheIntern356			PL OK
38	Ch 36 - Bank Sneak-Thieves and Their Characteristics — Plots and Schemes for Robbing Moneyed Institutions — A Daring Lot of Rogues	TheIntern356			PL OK
39	Ch 37 - Common Housebreakers — Thieves Who Laugh at Locks and Bolts — Receivers of Stolen Goods — How a "Fence" Is Conducted	ColleenMc			PL OK
40	Ch 38 - The Rogues' Gallery — Why Thieves Are Photographed — Tell-Tale Signs — Peculiarities of Criminals	johnb2			PL OK
41	Ch 39 - Cunning Shoplifters and Skillful Pickpockets — Female Operators and How They Work — Yielding to Sudden Temptations	Piotrek81			PL OK
42	Ch 40 - Forgers and Their Methods — Wily Devices and Brainy Schemes of a Dangerous Class — Tricks on Banks — How Business Men Are Defrauded	MManolakes			PL OK
43	Ch 41 - Frauds Exposed — Accomplished Adventurers and Fashionable Adventuresses — People Who Live by Their Wits — Getting a Living by Hook or by Crook	johnb2			PL OK
44	Ch 42 - Sharpers, Confidence-Men and Bunco-Steerers — Wide Open Traps —Tricks of "Sawdust" and "Green-Goods" Dealers	ColleenMc			PL OK