The Summary Volume 34. Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 1030 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781231154199
File size: 16 Mb
File Name: The.Summary.Volume.34.pdf
Download Link: The Summary Volume 34
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 1030 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781231154199
File size: 16 Mb
File Name: The.Summary.Volume.34.pdf
Download Link: The Summary Volume 34
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... like a handball until Commodore Vanderbilt acquired possession of it and gave it the needed leaven of financial genius. Not only was this puffing, perstistent little dummy the father of rapid-transit on New York, but the forebear as well of th New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. Until the early fifties it had no rival but the lumbering stages. Then in quite rapid succession street-railways were put on Sixth, Third and Eighth Avenues, and when in 1860 a franchise was granted for a railroad on Broadway, the stage lines w-re for a time suspended. Distances shrank when, about 1880, the elevated road was completed, bringing Haarlem nearer Wall Street than Greenwich had been a few decades ago; and while yet the subway was a dream the last surviving villages had been drawn into the body of the stocking with stitches so close as to be almost past unraveling even by lore and landmark lover.--Four Track News.--Historic Eli----"" A Visit to the Many in the Old City a: Boston----Points of Interest id the New VISITORS who wish to form some idea of what old Boston was like will have to thread their way through many streets which are neither very straight nor very savory, where strange names upon the business signs and the jargon of alien tongues heard on every hand might lead a stranger to think that he was in a foreign city, rather than in Puritan Boston. If the ghosts of the men whose homes, and gardens, and shops were in this locality a century and a half or two centuries ago were to walk the once familiar streets they would not wish to linger long. Not only are the streets, and houses and people changed beyond recognition, but the physical conditions have greatly altered. Busy streets now extend where once the water of the harbor lapped lazily abou...
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