Chapter I: Front Matter

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FROM THE BOTTOM UP

The Life Story of Alexander Irvine

Illustrated

New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1910 All Rights Reserved, Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Copyright, 1909, 1910 by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, February, 1910

TO

MAUDE HAZEN IRVINE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Boyhood in Ireland 3

II. The Beginning of an Education 24

III. On Board a Man o' War 40

IV. Problems and Places 53

V. The Gordon Relief Expedition 63

VI. Beginnings in the New World 82

VII. Fishing for Men on the Bowery 90

VIII. A Bunk-house and Some Bunk-house Men 105

IX. The Waif's Story 119

X. I Meet Some Outcasts 126

XI. A Church in the Ghetto 144

XII. Working Way Down 156

XIII. Life and Doubt on the Bottoms 166

XIV. My Fight in New Haven 183

XV. A Visit Home 193

XVI. New Haven Again--and a Fight 207

XVII. I Join a Labour Union and Have Something
to Do with Strikes 213

XVIII. I Become a Socialist 235

XIX. I Introduce Jack London to Yale 250

XX. My Experiences as a Labourer in the Muscle
Market of the South 256

XXI. At the Church of the Ascension 274

XXII. My Socialism, My Religion and My Home 285

ILLUSTRATIONS

Alexander Irvine, 1909 _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
Mr. Irvine's Birthplace 4

Where Irvine Spent His Boyhood 8

Alexander Irvine as a Marine 38

Officers of H.M.S. "Alexandra" Ashore at Cattaro 50

A Page from Mr. Irvine's Diary 54

Dowling, Tinker and Colporter 110

Alexander Irvine. From a sketch by Juliet Thompson 146

State Convention of the Socialist Party of Connecticut 238

The Lunch Hour in an Interborough Shop 248

Alexander Irvine and Jack London 252

In Muckers' Camp in Alabama 258

Irvine and Three Other Muckers as They Left Greenwich
Street for the South 258

Irvine, Punching Logs in the Gulf of Mexico, 1907 270

The Church of the Ascension 276

"Happy Hollow," Mr. Irvine's Present Home Near
Peekskill, New York 294

Happy Hollow in the Winter, Looking from the House 298

FROM THE BOTTOM UP