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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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w across the East River. Every manner of craft— yacht, scow, and rowboat — was pressed into service,manned by fishermen and sailors from Salem and Marble-head, and Washington superintended the embarkation. Brooklyn contains fully six hundred religious edifices and ispopularly known as the City of Churches. It is also calledthe Dormitory of New York, so many of its residents areNew York business men and women. Plymouth Church,where Henry Ward Beecher, the best known preacher of hiscentury, long occupied the pulpit, is a plain brick buildingon Orange Street. At Wallabout Bay is the foremost Navy Yard in thiscountry, started in 1829. New York City 79 Prospect Park, finely situated on an elevated ridge in thesouthwest part of the city, has unusual natural beauty andcommands wide views of the region around. A half milebeyond is Greenw^ood Cemetery, one of the most attractivein America. It is at its best about the end of May, when thedogwood is in bloom. Among the notable persons buried
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ldvER\>-^- / 80 AVhat to See in America there are Henry Ward Beecher, Peter Cooper, Henry George,Horace Greeley, Elias Howe, in^^entor of the sewing machine,and Morse, inventor of the telegraph. The most thronged of New Yorks seaside resorts is ConeyIsland, south of Brooklyn, at the entrance to the harbor. Itis a strip of sand five miles long, with an average width ofscarcely half a mile, separated from the mainland by alittle creek. The estimated annual number of visitors is10,000,000. More than 100,000 are sometimes there in asingle day.

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