The Voice of the City Book

My favorite stories in this collection were
"Dougherty's Eye-Opener", "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit", "The harbinger", "While the auto waits", "One Thousand Dollars", "The defeat of the city", "The shocks of doom", "The Plutonian fire", "Transients in Arcadia" and "The Rathskeller and the rose."

From "While the auto waits"

Her book slipped from her fingers and bounded from the bench a full yard away. The young man pounced upon it with instant avidity, returning it to its owner with that air that seems to flourish in parks and public places - a compound of gallantry and hope - and stood poised for a moment, awaiting his fate.

From "The harbinger"

Mr. Peters had a pure, unbroken record of five years without having earned a penny.

"You have a dollar" he said loftily.
" I have" said Mrs. Peters, producing the bill from her bossom and cracking it, teasingly.

From "The Plutonian fire":

"You can fool an editor with a fake picture of a cowboy mounting a pony with his left hand on the saddle horn, but not with a love story. So, you've got to fall in love and then write the real thing."
Pettit did. I never knew whether he was taking my advice or whether he fell an accidental victim.
There was a girl he had met at one of these studios -a glorious, impudent, lucid, open-minded girl with hair the color of Culmbacher, and a good-natured way of despising you. She was a New York girl.
Well, Pettit went to pieces. (...) There was about a month of it. And then Pettit came to me and talked about the grave and South America and prussic acid; and I lost an afternoon getting him straight. I took him out and saw that large and curative doses of whiskey were administered to him.