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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



features of which were registered in the two sides of the main thor- 

 oughfare along the river front. A nearly continuous row of one- 

 story, or at the utmost two-story, frame shacks or booths, many of 



them still in canvas form, and most of them supported over the river's 

 bank by pile proppings, built up the river side of this First Avenue. 

 All manner of articles, both serviceable and unserviceable, for the 



