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Tin-types Taken in the Streets of New York

by Lemuel Ely Quigg

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1890
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Twelve New York characters get a chapter apiece in this 1890 collection by the newspaperman Lemuel Ely Quigg, the Tammany man getting two. Mr. Ricketty coaxes a Bowery pawnbroker's wife into a string of pearls whose history he keeps vague. Absalom Jayres, counsellor, works out of an office lined with peerage books and sells poor families the dream of a lost British fortune. Bludoffski leans on a drunken millionaire for money to bring on the reign of anarchy. The Hon. Doyle O'Meagher prices a Supreme Court nomination at twenty thousand dollars and calls it a campaign assessment. Then comes Maggie, whose chapter ends in an alley and drops the comedy entirely. Cassell issued the book with fifty-three drawings by Harry Beard. Quigg was on the Tribune staff at the time, and it shows.

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Lemuel Ely Quigg

Lemuel Ely Quigg (1863-1919) was an American journalist, editor and politician. Born near Chestertown, Maryland, to a Methodist minister and schooled in the public schools of Wilmington, Delaware, he reached New York City in 1880 at seventeen, edited the Flushing Times in 1883 and 1884, then served on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune from 1884 to...

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First published
1890
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
187
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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