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. Scenes of modern New York . CENTRAL PARK is the great playground of the citys poor as well as the rendezvous for the fashionable turnouts of the wealthy. It extends from 59th Streetto 110th Street and from 5th Avenue to 8th Avenue, an area of eight hundred seventy-nine acres abounding in natural beauty. Woodland, lake, lawn and meadowunite to make this the most delightful park in the world. The center view above shows the fine equestrian statue of General Sherman by St. Gaudens, erected nearthe 59th Street THE COLUMBUS STATUE stands at the entrance to Central Park at 69thStreet an
. Scenes of modern New York . CENTRAL PARK is the great playground of the citys poor as well as the rendezvous for the fashionable turnouts of the wealthy. It extends from 59th Streetto 110th Street and from 5th Avenue to 8th Avenue, an area of eight hundred seventy-nine acres abounding in natural beauty. Woodland, lake, lawn and meadowunite to make this the most delightful park in the world. The center view above shows the fine equestrian statue of General Sherman by St. Gaudens, erected nearthe 59th Street THE COLUMBUS STATUE stands at the entrance to Central Park at 69thStreet and 8th Avenue. It was made in Italy and erected to commemorate the400th anniversary of the discovery of the American continent. THE OBELISK was presented to the city by the late Khedive of Egypt in1877. It is sixth in size of the famous Egyptian obelisks. The entire expense ofits removal and erection on its present site near the Metropolitan Museum wasborne by the late William H. Vanderbilt.
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