. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . READING RAILROAD COMPANY S RUILDING. PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 39. PHILADELPHIA SAVINGS FUND. most reliable in the city, with assets amounting to over two millions; its business covers thethree classes of insurance,—marine, inland, and fire. Passing the Sunday Dispatch _,^.=^^^ ^s^ ^ office, on the corner of Third Street,we pass an almost unbroken file ofcoal offices, until we reach FourthStreet, and here we turn the cornerinto Fourth to visit the splendidnew offices of the Pennsylvaniaand the Philadelphia and Rea
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . READING RAILROAD COMPANY S RUILDING. PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 39. PHILADELPHIA SAVINGS FUND. most reliable in the city, with assets amounting to over two millions; its business covers thethree classes of insurance,—marine, inland, and fire. Passing the Sunday Dispatch _,^.=^^^ ^s^ ^ office, on the corner of Third Street,we pass an almost unbroken file ofcoal offices, until we reach FourthStreet, and here we turn the cornerinto Fourth to visit the splendidnew offices of the Pennsylvaniaand the Philadelphia and ReadingRailroad Companies, which standside by side on the east side ofFourth Street, below Walnut. The office of the PennsylvaniaRailroad was built in 1871-2. It isof brick, with an elegant front ofQuincy granite, and of dimensionsadapted to the business of a corpo-ration which owns and controlsmore miles of rail than any otherm the world. The immense extentof this companys operations is toowell known to need repetition here. The office of the Reading Rail-road was so much enlarged andimproved during the summer andfall of 1871 as to make it,
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