. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . THE STATUE OF LAFAYETTE IN UXKJX SUUAKK services as well, and with such marked ability as todeserve well of the American people. The statue is byBartholdi and was given to the city in 1876 by its Frenchresidents. In the southwest corner of the square, isthe statue of him who is called by Lowell the firstAmerican. The Lincoln statue was modelled by Brownand was erected by popular subscription. It would From Union Square to Forty-Second Street 225 be a good thing if popular subscript on wo
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . THE STATUE OF LAFAYETTE IN UXKJX SUUAKK services as well, and with such marked ability as todeserve well of the American people. The statue is byBartholdi and was given to the city in 1876 by its Frenchresidents. In the southwest corner of the square, isthe statue of him who is called by Lowell the firstAmerican. The Lincoln statue was modelled by Brownand was erected by popular subscription. It would From Union Square to Forty-Second Street 225 be a good thing if popular subscript on would take itdown again and erect in its place a truly artistic statueof the Great Liberator commensurate with the greatnessof the subject and of the city which desires to do himhonor. For many years the park was enclosed by an iron. THE WEST SIDE OF UNION SQUARE IN 1897 railing; but about twenty years ago, the city authoritiesawakened to the fact that the public parks should befree at all hours, especially at night in our hot spells,and the fence was removed. The fountain was erectedin anticipation of the admission of Croton water andplayed for the first time upon the day of the great cele-bration in 1842. Several smaller fountains for drinkingplaces have been erected about the park, and on the 226 The Worlds Greatest Street north is a house of comfort with a platform facing theopen space of Seventeenth Street from which speakerscan address the crowds upon pubHc occasions. Thishas been a favorite out-door gathering place upon Alay-da} and Labor day for the socialistically inclined; andone can listen upon such occasions to a variety of denun-ciations by wild-e^^ed and long-haired foreign may not be able to understand anything they sayexcept the one word capitalisteii, which is hurled withsuch obvious
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