. Philadelphia and its environs . depots and warehouses, andwhole cargoes of merchandise are thus daily sent from the warehouse direct to distant points. PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 15 A walk along this street shows many fine buildings, but few of special note. We havealready alluded to the Old London Coffee-House, on the corner of Front and Market; to PennsHouse, in Letitia Street, and to Christ Church, in Second Street, above Market. Second Street presents in itself a peculiar feature of the city, which the visitor should notfail to see. It is to Philadelphia what the Bowery is to New Yor
. Philadelphia and its environs . depots and warehouses, andwhole cargoes of merchandise are thus daily sent from the warehouse direct to distant points. PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 15 A walk along this street shows many fine buildings, but few of special note. We havealready alluded to the Old London Coffee-House, on the corner of Front and Market; to PennsHouse, in Letitia Street, and to Christ Church, in Second Street, above Market. Second Street presents in itself a peculiar feature of the city, which the visitor should notfail to see. It is to Philadelphia what the Bowery is to New York. Of great length, andrunning in an almost undeviatingly straight hne from the northern to the southern portions ofthe city, it is lined with miles of retail stores of the humbler class, placed with a most supremedisregard for the fitness of things. Hardware, clothing, grocery, confectionery, almost every other conceivable species of store, follow each other with as little regularityas the scenes in a J. B. LIPPINCOTT & PRINTING-OFFICE AND BINDERY. But, interesting though Second Street is, we cannot linger long here, but must return to thebusy, bustUng scenes of Market Street. Of the many large business houses on this street, wemake special mention of the establishments of Garden & Co., extensive dealers in hats, whosetall, white building is a conspicuous object on Market above Sixth, and that of J. B. Lippin-cott & Co., one of the largest publishing houses in the world. This estabhshment is older thanthe present century, and has risen with the city, from a small beginning to its present mammothproportions. Their Printing-Office and Bindery, on Filbert Street, in the rear of the store, isone of the largest and most substantial buildings in the city. On the northwest corner of Market and Eighth stands the large and handsome store ofStrawbridge & Clothier, one of the most extensive retail dry-goods houses in the city. The mammoth establishment o
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