PHILADELPHIA 



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PHILADELPHIA 



Ohio and the Reading. About a thousand 

 trains enter and leave the city daily. Philadel- 

 phia is a seaport, although from its docks 



steam a hundred miles before reaching the 



ocean. Twenty miles of water front present 



a busy aspect and indicate something of the 



:iitude of the foreign and domestic com- 



that the city lias built up.. 



In one respect Philadelphia presents a strik- 



contrast to the two larger cities of the 



York and Chicago a con- 



which niv. > it one of its two popular 



names, the City of Homes. To a high degree 



York and Chicago have developed the 



modern apartment building, in which from 



three to thirty or more families live; Philadel- 



;u 1916 averaged 5.4 persons per 



.linn, and thirty-four per cent of its houses 



ned by their occupants. The apart- 



ia gaining somewhat in popularity. 



LITAX I'ISTRICT 

 cross appears, at the . it\'s 



v. ,11 the two rivers, is the 



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but the present r.ction will long 



y. Of about 350,000 buildings 

 m tl -,.ooo are dwellings. 



Streets and Buildings. M.uk-t Street is 

 Philadelphia'.- principal thoroughfare. I- 



;d from the Delaware, and 



is only below the center of the city, 



t o >oi it h. On this street and almost 



exactly midway between the two rivers is the 

 great city hall, flanked on the west by the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad Station (Broad Street); 

 two blocks to the east is the Reading Terminal. 

 Both are on the north side of Market Street. 

 Two blocks east of the Reading station and 

 south of Market is the post office. Independ- 

 ence Square, the site of the historic Independ- 

 ence Hall, is three squares farther east and 

 ily south. Chestnut Street, an important 

 business street, parallels Market, two blocks to 

 the south. 



The principal thoroughfare running north 

 and south is Broad Street, which crosses Market 

 Street at the city hall. On the north-am 1-south 

 line from this center Washington Avenue is 

 one mile south; Jackson Street, two miles; 

 ue Island Park (Hoyt Avenue), three 

 miles; the four-mile line crosses League Island, 

 where the two rivers meet and on which is 

 the great League Island navy yard. North of 

 Market on Broad it is one mile to Fairmount 

 Avenue; to Berks Street, two miles; to Cam- 

 bria Street, three miles; to Butler Street, four 

 miles; to Loudon Street, five miles; to Grange 

 Street, six miles, and to the northern limits 

 of the city and county, seven and one-half 

 miles. The two rivers an- two miles apart 

 along the Market Street line, and the city 

 tends for about three miles farther to the west. 

 N uinberim: of begun at Market Street, 



extending north and south; thus, Broad Jv 

 north of Market i< North Broad; south of it, 

 South Broad. Streets which run east and west, 

 parallel with Market, hear names; those which 

 run north and south, excepting Broad and a 

 \. iy f. w others, \ ar numbers. 



The city has about 1,625 miles of streets; 



.">!() miles are paved with a.-phalt. and most of 



the remainder with wooden blocks or macadam. 



re 1,900 miles of water mains and 1,400 



mil' era. 



Historic Buildings. No other city except 

 Boston contains M> many buildings of senti- 

 mental interest to Americans. Much of tin 

 pol.ural hiV of the colonies centered in Phila- 

 di Iplna. and it wa.x virtually the capital of 

 luring the Revolutionary period. 

 which sheltered the Congress and 

 m \\iiirh m.my historic incidents occurred are 

 !ly piv.-ei 



I > Impendence Unit. The representatives of 

 I In 1729 determined no longer 



to Itol.J ilirjr I, >;j;.]. MS In j.i iv.itr houses, 



< |10,000) for the 



erection of a build Assembly. 



manuscript of the act providing the appro- 



