3d March, A. D. 1898. 



ESSAY 



BY 



Mr. lathe, Worcester, Mass. 

 Theme: — Travels in the South. 



Philadelphia is the third city in population in the United 

 States. The city hall is the largest in this country. It is 

 nearly 500 feet square, has 14 acres of flooring, and 720 rooms, 

 including the rooms in the basement. The tower is 500 feet 

 high. William Penn stands on top of the tower in bronze, 

 37^ feet high, weighing 20,000 pounds, making the total 

 height, 537J feet. The cost was $20,000,000. Worcester city 

 hall is 85 feet wide, 217 feet long, and the tower is 200 feet 

 high. 



The next wonder in this city is Wanamaker's store. It has 

 thirteen acres of flooring, fifty departments under one roof and 

 all entirely separate. The restaurant will seat over eight hun- 

 dred people. Over 3,000 are fed daily. Christmas week over 

 seven and one-half tons of candy were sold. There is a sitting- 

 room and a reading-room for men and women. You can spend 

 the day at the store in trading, reading and visiting, and you 

 can get a lunch or a good square meal. It takes twenty-three 

 tons of coal a day to warm, light, and run the thirteen elevators. 

 it takes one hundred and twenty horses and sixty delivery 

 wagons to deliver the goods and to haul the goods from the 

 depot to the store. Quite a good many old people go to the 

 store, where they read, visit, tell stories, and have a good time 

 generally. More than seven miles of two and one-fourth inch 

 pneumatic tubing, reaching to eighty-one pay stations in many 



