Photograph by Brown Brothers 

 THE TOP OP THE BUSINESS WORLD : LOOKING PROM THE WOOL WORTH BUILDING PAST 



THE BATTERY TOWARD THE SEA 



It takes no undue amount of national pride to accept New York as the world's foremost 

 metropolis. London may be hundreds of years older and bigger; Paris may surpass it in art 

 and architecture; Berlin may hold the better of the argument in "newness," but nowhere 

 else on the face of the earth is there a city of such many-sided greatness as New York. Its 

 port does more business, its banks have heavier clearings, its immigrant station has more 

 incomers, its streets are trod by a more polyglot population, its urban railroads handle more 

 traffic, its bridges carry more people, than any other city of Christendom. 



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