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Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nor bequests, amounting, in the aggregate, tobetween three and four hundred thousand dollars. The best known of the trusts established by Mr. Girards will is thecelebrated Girard College (q. v.). Another was the square of groundabove described, which is now covered with buildings, and thus tends byits rentals to reduce materially the city taxes. Immediately opposite a portion of the Girard Square, on the north-east corner of Twelfth and Market, is a huge building known as the Farmers Market, and at Broad Street is the new City Hall (q. v.),now in course of construction. Two other market-houses, similarlyconstructed, are situated farther west on this street. Extensive gas-works are situated at Twenty-third and Market. The Market Street Bridge, a temporary structure, does good servicein transporting goods and passengers to the western division of the city.Much of the merchandise and many of the passengers for the Penn-sylvania Railroad and its numerous branches cross this bridge; having
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J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.S PUBLISHING HOUSE. 106 STREETS —WALNUT STREET done which, they speedily arrive at the Companys two depots, occupy-ing the square on the north side of Market, between Thirty-first andThirty-second. Market Street is fast pushing its way westward. Already its line ofhorse-cars runs to Forty-first Street and thence to the Centennial Ex-hibition, while a branch extends to Haddington, on the western vergeof the city. This line of cars runs to the celebrated Kirkbride Lunatic Asylum,more properly known as the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, theoldest institution of the kind in America. (See Hospitals and Asy-lums.) Walnut Street, the chosen haunt of the coal trade, and, to a greatextent, of the insurance business, presents many points of interest. The anthracite coal trade of the Lehigh and Schuylkill regions,which is so important a feature of the domestic industry of Pennsyl-vania, centres in the lower part of this street, a large four-story build-ing of b

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