. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. al that it onceoccupied, until now it fills the position usually ac-corded to the wooden Indian in a cigar store. Itsowner wants five thousand dollars for it. It is our purpose to start again from the oldFort, making our excursion this time up Broadway,the most famous street in the New World, as faras the Common (the City Hall Park), from whichplace we will return again to our starting point bysome other interesting route. We have become so familiar with the appearanceof the neighborhood of Bowling Green, and withthe smal
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. al that it onceoccupied, until now it fills the position usually ac-corded to the wooden Indian in a cigar store. Itsowner wants five thousand dollars for it. It is our purpose to start again from the oldFort, making our excursion this time up Broadway,the most famous street in the New World, as faras the Common (the City Hall Park), from whichplace we will return again to our starting point bysome other interesting route. We have become so familiar with the appearanceof the neighborhood of Bowling Green, and withthe smallness and humbleness of its beginning, that,as we pursue this interesting journey of observa-tion, we may perhaps be able to make an estimateof the progress and the spirit of progress whichhave given to the City its wealth, magnificenceand business power. We will recognize the fact,too, that what we have here now is not theresult of any revolution or of the overturningof the little commercial state that was foundedat this starting-point in the early days, but that 132. lifWBUL^*^ «»»LMC1t i
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