. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. tion of North-American woods and buildingstones, the James-Hall collections in paleontology and geology, collection of shells, the Bailey collection of birds nests and eggs,mounted mammalia, Indian dresses and weapons, Pacific-Islandersimplements and weapons, 10,000 mounted birds, the Major-Jones col-lection of Indian and mound-buildrrs antiquities from Georgia, the 66 How to Know New York. Porto-Rico antiquities, a
. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. tion of North-American woods and buildingstones, the James-Hall collections in paleontology and geology, collection of shells, the Bailey collection of birds nests and eggs,mounted mammalia, Indian dresses and weapons, Pacific-Islandersimplements and weapons, 10,000 mounted birds, the Major-Jones col-lection of Indian and mound-buildrrs antiquities from Georgia, the 66 How to Know New York. Porto-Rico antiquities, a mammoth twenty-five feet high; severalspecimens of the extinct Australian bird, the Moa, fifteen feet high;reptiles, fishes, corals, minerals, etc. The library contains 12,000scientific works. Many lectures are given here yearly for the teachersin the public schools, who come here to study these vast and interest-ing collections. New buildings are about to be added by the Museum is open free on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, andSaturdays. It is reached by the Sixth-avenue Elevated Railroad tothe 8ist-street Station, or by the Eighth-avenue electric Grand Central Depot, the largest and finest passenger station inAmerica, is located on Forty-second Street, directly opposite theGrand Union Hotel. It is used jointly by the New York Central andHudson River Railroad, the Harlem Railroad, and the New Haven and Hartford Railroad, with the connections of the latterramifying all over New England. How to Know New York. 67 CHURCHES. There are about 400 churches on Manhattan Island, capable ofseating at one time 250,000 persons, and valued at $60,000,000. Roman Catholic. — There are 75 Roman-Catholic churches inNew York, representing a vast population, as each has several differ-ent congregations on each day of worship. Several of the churchesare German, Polish, etc. St Patricks Cathedra/ is the greatest and most magnificent churchin the United States. It was pr
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