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Title: The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915
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Publisher: New York : The Progress of the Empire State Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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were needed. Uptown branches wereof the bobtail variety. The first elevated road began to run in 1871 from theBattery up Greenwich Street. Its shaky appearanceinspired no confidence; few people realized that this sys-tem of transportation would annihilate distances andpractically create New York. The present means ofNew Yorks intercommunication includes: 101 miles Subway tracks,213 Elevated tracks,1288 Surface trolley tracks. These are almost exclusively moved by electric power.They carry over one billion passengers a year. Some#250,000,000 has recently been appropriated to extend theselines and build new ones, in full expectation that by in-creasing population and taxable values they will proveprofitable. When passengers wanted to go to Philadelphia by railsixty years ago, they left the Battery by the steamer JohnPotter which carried them to Amboy. The road took themon rails across the State of New Jersey to Camden, and henceferried them over the Delaware River to the foot of Market
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CLARENCE WHITMAN Manufacture! talist; born in Annapolis, No ! John and Rebecca (Cutler) Whitman. The Whifamily is of English origin, d n John Whitman ol lOUth, Mass., who came from England about 1625. ClaiWhitman was . in Cambridge. d has d< his entire busin 1 drygoods interests, first in Boston and afterwards in New York City. He began as an employee of J.C. Howe & Co. of Boston, and was later with the firm of JamesM. Beebe & Co. He came to New York in 1866 and was fornine years with J. S. & E. Wright & Co., which was later suc-i by the firm of Wright, Bliss & Fabyan. He establishedthe firm of E. C. & C. Whitman in the drygoods commbusiness, and obtained the selling agency of the Ponemah Mills,which became the pioneer manufacturer of white goods in theUnited States. The same energy and perseverance which ltd tosuccess in this line led him to engage in the lace curtain industry.He established the Wilkes-Barre Lace Manufacturing Co., whichentered extensively

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