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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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s from year to yearincreased. Although Philadelphia was founded by apeaceful people, and possesses a fair repu-tation for quiet and order, yet on severaloccasions partisan feeling has run so high thatthe wildest excesses have been committed inher streets. As early as 1742 a riot occurredat the polls, which is known in history as thebloody election ; but it was reserved fora hundred years later to demonstrate howfrenzied our people can become in themidst of excitement. In 1844 occurredthe great Native-American riots, duringwhich churches and other buildings wereburned and several lives destroyed. On twooccasions during that year did those disturb-ances occur, and on both of them blood wasshed. The first was in May, in the then dis-trict of Kensington, and the second in July,in the district of Southwark. The cause ofthose outbreaks was a dispute between whatwas called the Native-American party and theIrish Catholics. Fortunately they were mereebullitions of passion, and they soon passed
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PHILADELPHIA. 73 £^^j^^,C^ away, leaving noother feelingthan regret. As the cityincreased inpopulation it wasfound that thedivided au-thority whichexisted in it andits many suburbs,called districts,was a serious ob-stacle to the pre-servation oforder. A streetbecame a barrierwhich an officerof the law couldnot pass, androgues and riot-ers, by fleeingfrom one squareto another, werefree from moles-tation. This ledto the consolida-tion, in one municipality andunder one charter, of the en-tire county of Philadelphia,in 1854. By this act it becamethe largest city in territorialarea in America, and secondonly to London, in Europe.Its limits now embrace onehundred and twenty squaremiles,—their extreme length,north and south, being twen-ty-three miles, and theirwidth, from east to west,averaging about five and ahalf miles. Within this area are em-braced a number of suburbanvillages. Among these Ger-mantown. Chestnut Hill, andTorresdale are noted fortheir elegant residences; Rox-borough, Ma

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