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Title: What to see in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Aquarium on the Batteky Lind, the SwedishNightingale, madeher debut on itsstage. After thegolden period ofmusic and drama thebuilding served asan immigrant depotfrom 1855 to 1891,when it was trans-formed into an aqua-rium. The oldest city thoroughfare is Pearl Street. In the earlydays it was right at the water front, and on the landward sidewas a straggling row of quaint Dutch houses. Where thisstreet is joined by Broad Street stands the oldest landmarkin the city, Frauncess Tavern, erected in 1739. Here Washington took leaveof his officers at the closeof the Revolution. Not a single buildinghas come down to usfrom the Dutch period,but we at least havethat bit of park — Bow-ling Green — which layimmediately in front ofFort Amsterdam. Be-tween the high buildingson the west side of Broad-way, at No. 55, is a nar-row passage that used tobe called Tin Pot Alley.Wall Stkeet a.nd Tiumty Chuhch Marketfield Street, which F rr^.T^-
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66 What to See in America is theStockbonds,ington the Produce Exchangenow almost covers, wasknown as PetticoatLane, because it con-tained the residencesof some of the peopleof fashion. The pres-ent Nassau Street wasPie-womans Lane. Aone-time respectabledweller on LibertyStreet was Capt. Kidd,whose enduring fameis unrivaled among allthe freebooters whoterrorized the sea. Wall Street, whichthe towering buildingson either side havemade a narrow canyon,financial center of the United States, and here is theExchange, the worlds greatest market for stocks,and securities. There is a notable statue of Wash-that stands, as the poet Stedman says, Just where the Treasurys marble front Looks over Wall Streets mingled nations;Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont To throng for trade and last quotations;Where hour by hour the rates of gold Outrival in the ears of peopleThe quarter chimes, serenely tolled, From Trinitys undaunted steeple.

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