. Philadelphia and its environs . UNION LEAGUE BUILDING. enty feet high, and will seat twenty-nine hundred persons, besides providing standing room. LA PIERRE HOUSE. for about six hundred more. The arrangements both for seeing-and hearing are excellent; itsacoustic properties being extolled by all who have appeared on its stage. 4 50 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. Opposite the Academy of Music the Colosseum and the Kiralfy Alhambra Palace, two largestructures have recently been erected, and just above is the St. George Hotel. FoUowincr in regular order after the St. George Hotel, and on the sa
. Philadelphia and its environs . UNION LEAGUE BUILDING. enty feet high, and will seat twenty-nine hundred persons, besides providing standing room. LA PIERRE HOUSE. for about six hundred more. The arrangements both for seeing-and hearing are excellent; itsacoustic properties being extolled by all who have appeared on its stage. 4 50 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. Opposite the Academy of Music the Colosseum and the Kiralfy Alhambra Palace, two largestructures have recently been erected, and just above is the St. George Hotel. FoUowincr in regular order after the St. George Hotel, and on the same side of the the wellinown building of the Union League. This association grew out of a UnionClub which was formed in 1862 for promoting friendly intercourse among loyal people. Theorganization of the Union League was effected in December, 1862, and it at once took an active° part in all public meas- ures. It enlisted for theUnited States Army tenfull regiments of troops,distributed over two mil-lion six hundred thou-sand copies of Uniondocuments, and claimedto have carried the Stateof Pennsylvania for theRepublican party by itse
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