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truly picturesque, the Chinese, called Chinatown, with its 

 many laundries, curio and tea stores, opium dens and a 

 thousand and one attractions; and the Jewish sett lenient 

 in Baxter street, which baffles all description. Of TduiIcI- 

 ings there are many magnificent structures, of which I 

 mention the Post-office, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of 

 St. Patrick on Fifth Avenue, the Immanuel Temple, of 

 Moorish architecture, Columbia College and its fine li- 

 brary, the grand Cooper Institute, the Academy of De- 

 sign, and the City Hall, of white marble, with Corinthian 

 Porticus and a dome about 180 feet in height. Among 

 other attractions which the sight-seer will remember are: 

 the marble structure of Stewart's warehouse, the cele- 

 brated Hotel Astor and last but not least, the world-re- 

 nowned Delmonico Restaurant. 



Fleishman and I visited Newark on Monday and had 

 admission to the clock and iron-moulding factories. This 

 city is said to have over five hundred factories, but 

 strange to say, little direct export to foreign lands. We 

 visited Jersey City, where the large railroad stations in- 

 terested me most during our short stay. We returned to 

 New York by way of the Christopher ferry. 



Tuesday, the twelfth of May, was an ideal spring-day, 

 such as I had not witnessed since my departure from 

 home, as California with all her beauties has no such 

 spring, no fresh grass and foliage as we of the North en- 

 joy—except at the beginning of the rainy season. When 

 the early Erie train pulled out of the Jersey City Station, 

 I was just in the best of mood to inhale all the beauties of 

 nature, with which the trip to Buffalo was said to be 

 strewn. And there was to be no disappointment. Such 

 were the scenes presented to our view that I actually 

 found myself transported in imagination to home sur- 

 roundings — familiar spots seemed to turn up every few 

 minutes. The rivers, the brooks, the very ponds with 

 their floating leaves and majestic swans, imported from 

 Europe — all this caused me to think, to meditate upon the 

 past and on the immediate future which was awaiting me 

 at my home across the ocean. These and similar were my 



