The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . PENN TREATY MONUMENT. POST-OFFICE. The present building of the United States Post-Office is located onChestnut Street, below Fifth. The front is of Pennsylvania marble, andwith its mansard roof the building presents a fine appearance. Thesecond floor is occupied in part by the United States courts. A newpost-office is now in course of construction at Ninth and ChestnutStreets. See Custom-House, page PRISONS.—PUBL
The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . PENN TREATY MONUMENT. POST-OFFICE. The present building of the United States Post-Office is located onChestnut Street, below Fifth. The front is of Pennsylvania marble, andwith its mansard roof the building presents a fine appearance. Thesecond floor is occupied in part by the United States courts. A newpost-office is now in course of construction at Ninth and ChestnutStreets. See Custom-House, page PRISONS.—PUBLIC SQUARES. 83 PRISONS. Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, popularly known asCherry Hill Prison, a State institution, is situated on FairmountAvenue, at Twenty-second Street, having a front on Fairmount Avenueof six hundred and seventy feet. The grounds connected with this prison embrace about eleven acresnearly all of which space is covered with buildings, the whole beingsurrounded with a stone wall thirty feet high. The plan of the build-ings may be compared to a star with seven rays, there being a centralhall with seven corridors running from it, so arranged that the warden,sitting in the centre, has the whole length of each corridor under his eye. The separate {not solitary) system of confinement is adopted here,but is modified to the extent of confining two prisoners in each of thelarger cells whenever the crowded state of the prison renders it neces-sary. Each prisoner is furnished with work enough to keep him mod-erately busy, and is permitted to earn money fo
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