PHILADELPHIA 



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PHILADELPHIA 



Carpenter's Hall. Not far from Independence 

 Hall, in a narrow court off Chestnut Street, be- 

 tween Third and Fourth streets, is another build- 

 ing famous in Revolutionary annals Carpenter's 

 Hall. This building was planned in 1724. but 

 was not begun until 1770. The First Continental 

 Congress met here September 5, 1774. Building 

 operations were not completed at the time ; the 

 structure was finished in 1792. In 1787 the 

 Constitution makers deliberated here for four 

 and completed that great charter for the 



CARPENTER'S HALL 



new nation Fi..m IT'.M to 1797 the Hall was the 

 of the fi i States Bank. In point 



.me Carp ; : is perhaps second only 



to Independence Hall. 



Old Buildings. Christ Church, on Sec- 

 ond Street. n-ar Mark. t. was building from 1TJ7 

 t<> 1744. Benjamin Franklin was one of the 

 managers of a lottery in i7.':{ which was con- 

 money for the steeple and for a 

 ! ulj.it. put in place in 1770, is still 

 in its original position. In the church graveyard 

 ifth and Arch streets are the tombs of Ben- 



iklin and Robert Morris. 



Old Swedes' Church was completed in 1700. 

 It was t. home of the Swr.lish Luther- 



:o years was served by pastors sent 

 from S\V<I.M. The present communion service 

 has been used MM< .- 17 73. The church Is In the 

 t of the business district, as Is Christ Church. 

 i 's church aiMi Antedates the Revo- 

 nary period, for It was completed in 1761, 

 on years before Paul Revere 1 the 



ixrlng New England farmers to anus from 

 Bout ,.-xington. Commodore Decatur s 



grave Is In the churchyard. The church Is still 



The famous United States Mint Iv Illustrated 



In tin- arti. ! MIST. 



A Great Manufacturing Cent< t : Iplua 



follows N. w York aii.l tin- Chicago 



inber and importance of its 



manufacturing enterprises. Many producers 

 have their factories at some distance from the 

 city some of them in New Jersey but t: 

 are justly classed as Philadelphia enterpr 

 More than twenty-eight per cent of the value 

 of manufactured goods for the entire 

 credited to the city; about $2,700,000,000 rep- 

 .ts the state's annual output; of this sum 

 Philadelphia's factories supply almost $750,000,- 

 000 worth. Names known throughout the world 

 contribute to the city's industrial fame; among 

 these are Baldwin locomotives, Disston saws, 

 Stetson hats and Cramp's ships. There are 

 about 8,700 establishments, whose reports to 

 the Census Bureau list very nearly 300,000 

 workmen. 



Among the cities of the United States Phila- 

 delphia is preeminent in textile production, not 

 only in the total value of all textiles, but in 

 each of the four textile divisions silk goods, 

 hosiery and knit goods, woolens and worsteds, 

 and cotton goods. One-third of the carpets 

 and rugs made in the United States are pro- 

 duced in this city. The Baldwin Locomotive 

 Works (see BALDWIN, MATTHIAS WILLIAM, page 

 549) are the largest makers of locomotives in 

 the world. 



In printing and publishing, the city enjoys 

 the distinction of having a weekly literary 

 magazine which sells more copies of r\ 

 issue than does any other paper of any de- 

 scription in the world ; it has an old-established 

 farm journal with the world's largest circula- 

 tion for publications of its class. Grandpar- 

 ents of to-day remember the Lippincott Pub- 

 lishing House since their youthful days; the 

 company is yet counted among Philadelphia's 

 assets. The Curtis Publishing Company is the 

 largest publisher in Ameriea. . \c. -pi ing the Wil- 

 liam R. Hearst interests; it pul-! Sat- 

 urday Evening Post, The /,</'//,>' // ',. 

 nal, The Country Gentleman and Public Lrilyt r. 

 the last named a daily paper made great by 

 George W. Childs a generation ago. and the 

 Even .- r. established in I'.Ufl. Other 

 great daily publications are the Bullitin. the 



North Annncnn. the A' , ;(/ and the /m/i/m r. 

 Manufacturing statistics do not include Fed- 

 eral government activities. Then i- a 

 navy yard at League Island, the Frank ford 

 Arsenal and a Quartermaster's Depot of the 

 Tinted States; these three employ over 3,650 

 .. n, Th- ir prodw I 



$8,000,000 per year in normal time--, md m 

 1917 U began immensely to in- 



crease this total 



