. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . street shows many fine buildings, but few of special note. We havealready alluded to the Old London Coffee-House, on the corner of Front and Market; to PennsHouse, in Letitia Street, and to Christ Church, in Second Street, above Market. Second Street presents in itself a peculiar feature of the city, which the visitor should notfail to see. It is to Philadelphia what the Bowery is to New York. Of great length, andrunning in an almost undeviatingly straight line from the northern to the southern portions ofthe city, it
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . street shows many fine buildings, but few of special note. We havealready alluded to the Old London Coffee-House, on the corner of Front and Market; to PennsHouse, in Letitia Street, and to Christ Church, in Second Street, above Market. Second Street presents in itself a peculiar feature of the city, which the visitor should notfail to see. It is to Philadelphia what the Bowery is to New York. Of great length, andrunning in an almost undeviatingly straight line from the northern to the southern portions ofthe city, it is lined with miles of retail stores of the humbler class, placed with a most supremedisregard for the fitness of things. Hardware, clothing, grocery, confectionery, dry-goods,and almost every other conceivable species of store, follow each other with as little regularityas the scenes in a kaleidoscope; and mingled with them, as if to make the variety as completeas possible, are a few wholesale houses, two or three museums and menageries, and theomnipresent J. B. LIPPINCOTT & PRINTING-OFFICE AND BINDERY. But, interesting though Second Street is, we cannot linger long here, but must return to thebusy, bustling scenes of Market Street. Of the many large business houses on this street, wemake special mention of the establishments of Garden & Co., extensive dealers in hats, whosetall, white building is a conspicuous object on Market above Sixth, and that of J. B. Lippin-cott & Co., one of the largest pubhshing houses in the world. This estabhshment is older thanthe present century, and has risen with the city, from a small beginning to its present mammothproportions. Their Printing-Office and Bindery, on Filbert Street, in the rear of the store, isone of the largest and most substantial buildings in the city. The mammoth establishment of Hood, Bonbright & Co., importers and jobbers of dry-goods,on Market Street, above Eighth, is also worthy of special notice. A
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