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parts of the store converge at one point, where twenty-nine 

 cashiers are required to attend to the business they bring. 

 More than three acres of flooring are covered with samples of 

 furniture. In one day nine hundred chairs were sold. Thirty- 

 five hundred people are employed in the store, a city under 

 one roof. 



Next comes Wanamaker's Sunda3'^-school, The object is: 

 To teach the word of God ; to lead souls to Christ ; to build up 

 Christian character ; to encourage and assist Christian workers ; 

 to train everyone to usefulness. In 1858, Mr. Wanamaker 

 held his first Sunday-school. He had twenty-six scholars and 

 two teachers. Now he has an average attendance of twenty-five 

 hundred scholars and one hundred teachers. The building was 

 enlarged last year one-third its original size. The orchestra 

 is composed of twenty-three pieces. The first half hour is 

 devoted to the opening exercises. Six or seven pieces are sung 

 and the singing is very fine. 



One of the attractions at Wanamaker's store was a vegetable 

 wedding. The bride and groom were the cucumber and tomato ; 

 the notary was horseradish ; the mother-in-law was cauliflower ; 

 the witnesses were leek and asparagus ; the invited guests were 

 celery and carrot ; the musicians were the black beans and peas ; 

 the magistrate was cabbage. 



Baltimore. I was there on the nineteenth day of April just 

 thirty-three years after the riot. I went out on the street 

 where the riot took place. At the time of the riot a train of cars 

 could not cross the city, so the cars had to be hauled through by 

 horses. On Pratt Street the mob became so enraged that they 

 tore up the track, and then the soldiers had to march. It was 

 while they were marching that the mob threw stones and bricks 

 and killed two of them and wounded several. It was now the 

 soldiers' turn. They were ordered to fire, and the result was 

 that some seven or eight of the mob were killed. This closed 

 the affkir. It was the Massachusetts Sixth from Lowell, Mass. 



Richmond, Virginia, is a city set on hills. The colored 

 people of this city have the finest colored church in the South. 

 It cost $40,000, and was paid for by the colored people. One 



