Title: Metropolis
Description: Following a fire in P.T. Barnum's circus stable, a young German immigrant becomes caught up in New York's criminal underworld while falling in love with an Irish girl, as he becomes the target of a city-wide arson investigation.
Subjects: Arson, Bridges, Circus, Design and construction, Fiction, Gangs, German Americans, Immigrants, Investigation, Arson investigation, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, historical, Crime, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Irish americans, fiction
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)