New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . NEW YORK Ci:.\L K. K. DKIOT. Printing and publishing take in nearly 10,000, with a productive value of $21,000,000. At the presenttime New York has 12,000 factories, which give employment to 500,000 operatives, and show a i)roductivevalue of $600,000,000. The wholesale jobbers in the drygoods trade occupy both sides of Broadwav, from a half to aquarter of a mile above the City Hall; the grocery trade is carried on between Broadway and theNorth River, downtown, mostly, and operations in fruit, butter and provisions are b
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . NEW YORK Ci:.\L K. K. DKIOT. Printing and publishing take in nearly 10,000, with a productive value of $21,000,000. At the presenttime New York has 12,000 factories, which give employment to 500,000 operatives, and show a i)roductivevalue of $600,000,000. The wholesale jobbers in the drygoods trade occupy both sides of Broadwav, from a half to aquarter of a mile above the City Hall; the grocery trade is carried on between Broadway and theNorth River, downtown, mostly, and operations in fruit, butter and provisions are bevond and belowthe grocery quarters. Heavy hardware and metals are liandled on the east side near John and CliffStreets, while light hardware is sold on Chambers and Reade Streets, and leather in the Swamp, adistrict east of the City Hall running down towards the East River, which was formerly a Swamp,as the name NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. Ixv AVENUES OF COMMERCE. INHERE is no city on the globe better situated for commerce than New York. It is naturallythe entrance gate from the Old World, and it the entrepot of the New, the halfway housebetween Liverpool and San Francisco. Nature-has given it this magnificent position, and the energ}^ ofits citizens, generation after generation, has taken advantage of the situation and prepared the way forits unrivalled commercial supremacy in the future. It may be useful to glance over the waterboundaries of the city and see what has been done in that direction since New York began todevelop itself as a great commercial centre. And first a few words about the boundaries, which areocean and river. The Lower Bay, and its tributary Raritan Bay, are formed 1)y a triangular indentation of thecoast, between Monmouth Coimty, N. J., Staten and Long Islands, partly buttressed from theonslaught of the sea by Sandy Hook and Coney Island, and the shoals and bar exten
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