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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o West Hartford line,about 18 square .miles in all; the town and cityare conterminous. It is divided about equallyby the little Park River, which joins the Con-necticut just south of the centre and is crossedby many bridges, and through whose bed runsthe great main sewer into the Connecticut. Thechief business street is Main, following the riverline along the first high ground back from itsshore, the latter frequently overflowed in thespring freshets; next Asylum, west past the rail-road station, and State east to the steamer land-ing with the chief wholesale warehouses; Prattand Pearl parallel to Asylum, and Central Rowopposite Pearl across Main. It is a place ofgreat beauty; and from its age, early and con-tinuous business importance, and consequent ac-cumulated wealth and generations of inheritedincomes, is of noted social and intellectual cul-tivation,—more like the old European provincialcapitals in a mingling of metropolitan advan-tages with those of moderate numbers and coun-
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BRET HARTE,Died May 6th, 1902. HARTFORD try roominess than any other American city.(here .ire several costly residence districts: themost notable are Washington Street with itsmagnificent arch of old elms. Asylum Avenue,and a portion of Farmington, and WoodlandStreet, with some handsome places on Wethers-field Avenue. One of the finest streets, Pros-pect Avenue, is the West Hartford boundary,and built up only mi thai side; and fine placesextend well into West Hartford. The street-railway system is very extensive and well man-aged: it runs in all directions for many miles.The Connecticut is spanned by a wooden bridgeto East Hartford; hut work has begun on asplendid stone bridge, to be completed by theend of 1904, at a cost with handsome street ap-proaches of nearly $2,000,000. The park system contains some 1,200 acres:within the past few years the munificence ofseveral citizens has endowed the city with aring of beautiful parks, which with the cityshelp will ultimately encircle it enti

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