McElroy's Philadelphia city directory . LITHOGRAPHY IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES #• Corner 5^^* and Minor Streets, near Chesnui .TED CITY, Y, iS, &c. S ,d f/ie same \ 15. Mcelroy, TATES IN i Y No 2300 No 2200 No 2100 No 2000 No 1900 No. 1800 No. 1700 No. 1600 No. 1500 No. 1400 No. 1300 No. 1200 No. 1100 No. 1000 Nc .900 Nc .800 schoylkill! 23d. 22d. 21st. 20tli. 19th. No. 1901 18th. No 2^01 No 2^01 No 2101 No 2()01 Slxtb Street. No. 300 No., 200 No. 100 No. 2 At. No. 101No. 1 The Decimal System of KTumbering Houses. One H
McElroy's Philadelphia city directory . LITHOGRAPHY IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES #• Corner 5^^* and Minor Streets, near Chesnui .TED CITY, Y, iS, &c. S ,d f/ie same \ 15. Mcelroy, TATES IN i Y No 2300 No 2200 No 2100 No 2000 No 1900 No. 1800 No. 1700 No. 1600 No. 1500 No. 1400 No. 1300 No. 1200 No. 1100 No. 1000 Nc .900 Nc .800 schoylkill! 23d. 22d. 21st. 20tli. 19th. No. 1901 18th. No 2^01 No 2^01 No 2101 No 2()01 Slxtb Street. No. 300 No., 200 No. 100 No. 2 At. No. 101No. 1 The Decimal System of KTumbering Houses. One Hundred Numbers are set apart for each square, which leaves afevr spare numbers for each, so that one square can, in future be re-numbered without disarranging the entire street. The initial, or starling points are at the Delaware River and MarketStreet. Persons can, by merely looking at the numbers on the Houses, knowhow many squares they are from the Delaware or Market Street. By-Streets are numbered as though they extended to the Delawareor Market Street. Numbers properly arranged, suggest distances to the mind ; hut im-properly placed,
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