. The Street railway journal . ed with agrowth of large trees, and in the residence portions these filled with excavations from the river bottom, and inmany places this made ground is occupied by substantialdwellings. A striking characteristic of the place is itsunusully wide, level and well paved streets, substantialbusiness blocks, public buildings, numerous bridges, andwell shaded residence avenues. A peculiar local featurewhich attracts the attention of the stranger is the publicmarket which is held from day to day, but which is madeespecially attractive on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Thecente
. The Street railway journal . ed with agrowth of large trees, and in the residence portions these filled with excavations from the river bottom, and inmany places this made ground is occupied by substantialdwellings. A striking characteristic of the place is itsunusully wide, level and well paved streets, substantialbusiness blocks, public buildings, numerous bridges, andwell shaded residence avenues. A peculiar local featurewhich attracts the attention of the stranger is the publicmarket which is held from day to day, but which is madeespecially attractive on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Thecenter of the market region is a small market house orcity building, which extends through the middle of ablock from one street to another, but on market morningsthe market wagons, which are mostly one horse, coveredvehicles, surround the entire block on both sides of thestreet as closely as they can be placed together andspread out into neighboring streets, making the largestcollection of market wagons in one locality that we ever. FIG. 2. CORNER OFCOURT
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