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largest of the city. It has a frontage of about 260 feet on 

 Broadway ; Trinity Church, opposite Wall Street. It has a 

 tower 284 feet high, from which visitors can enjoy a very fine 

 view; the American Banknote Company, at the corner of 

 Liberty Street; the gigantic and splendid palace of ^he 

 Western Union Telegraph Company, at the corner of Dey 

 Street; St. Paul's Chapel, built in 1766; the City Hall, 

 facing the south side of City Hall Park. It is a fine and 

 imposing building of the Italian style ; the beautiful and large 

 marble building of the New York Life Insurance Company, 

 one of the most successful institutions of that class in New 

 York ; the sumptuous hotels of San Nicholas and Metro- 

 politan, the first on the east, and the second on the west. 

 Both are first-class hotels, very large and with marble 

 frontages, if my remembrance is correct. I have been staying 

 in both. The price was twenty shillings per day, for a single 

 room and board, but all first class, and with a very good 

 service. Close by, is the Grand Central Hotel, and a host of 

 others, just as large and fine, but too numerous to mention 

 here. 



Among the commercial houses, I shall mention the New 

 York Stock Exchange, in Broad Street, Kemp's Building, 

 American Watch Company Building, Lord and Taylor's 

 Store, Stewart's Store, an immense iron building, Dey lin and 

 Company Store, Sewing Machine Company, Tiffany and 

 Company, the well-known firm of jewellery and precious 

 stones, Arnold Constable and Company, the great dry goods 

 establishment, etc., etc. There are so many more that it is 

 quite impossible to mention them in such a limited work. 



The Evening Post and the Staats Zeitung buildings 

 are also very fine, and the centre of great activity. 



At 23rd Street, Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue and 

 skirts one side of Madison Square, which is well supplied 

 with trees and lawns, and one of the most attractive and 

 striking features of New York. 



From this point, Broadway continues to the Boulevard 

 already mentioned. This Boulevard is a wide avenue con- 

 tinuing west of the city, and over the heights of the Hudson 

 into Westchester County. 



Before reaching the Boulevard many fine hotels are met 

 with, the principal of w T hich, is Steven s Family Hotel, a very 

 large establishment, more like a palace than anything else. 

 Further on, is the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the Grand Hotel, 

 the Wood' s Museum, the Broadway Tabernacle, a very 



