The port of Philadelphia, its facilities and advantages . de-water and beyond. It coversan area of 129,58:3 sq. mi. or 82,933 acres, measures about 10miles by 1(3 miles in extreme dimensions, and supports a popu-lation of 1,650,000 who are lodged in 350,000 dwelling this latter particular, the number of individual residences,Philadelphia exceeds any city in America, and bids fair, withher unlimited capacity for lateral expansion, to rival at no dis-tant day the huge English cai)ital. The number of buildings ofall kinds is nearly 400,000. Her net funded debt is |92,866,, a rema
The port of Philadelphia, its facilities and advantages . de-water and beyond. It coversan area of 129,58:3 sq. mi. or 82,933 acres, measures about 10miles by 1(3 miles in extreme dimensions, and supports a popu-lation of 1,650,000 who are lodged in 350,000 dwelling this latter particular, the number of individual residences,Philadelphia exceeds any city in America, and bids fair, withher unlimited capacity for lateral expansion, to rival at no dis-tant day the huge English cai)ital. The number of buildings ofall kinds is nearly 400,000. Her net funded debt is |92,866,, a remarkably healthy financial condition for a city ofthis size. The main portion of the city is located on a practically levelplain 25 to 50 feet above tide level, on which most of the busi-ness and manufacturing establishments are located. To thewestward, northwestward and southwestward lies a rollinghill country, which forms an ideal combination with the fluvialplain of the central city and affords sites for very popular andbeautiful residential suburbs. 8. Eel a The climate of Phihulelpliia is much the same as that ofNew York, 87 miles by rail, and Baltimore 9(> miles by rail,its nearest neighbors. The city being located about midwayof the Atlantic Coast, its weather is temperate in character,and its residents are not subject to the discomforts of the ex-tremes of low temperature suflered in the region further north,nor the long enervating summers of more southerly ports. Thegeneral health of the community cannot be excelled by anyport in the United States. 10
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