The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . wner. It is now a restaurant, where indifferent re-freshments are dealt out at correspondingly high prices; for it is anaxiom that men pay most for the worst fare. Next, following the carriage-drive, which, beginning at the GreenStreet entrance, runs up the river, we come to a third hill, formerlycalled Sedgely Park. Here stands a small frame building known asGrants Cottage, because it was used by that general as his h
The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . wner. It is now a restaurant, where indifferent re-freshments are dealt out at correspondingly high prices; for it is anaxiom that men pay most for the worst fare. Next, following the carriage-drive, which, beginning at the GreenStreet entrance, runs up the river, we come to a third hill, formerlycalled Sedgely Park. Here stands a small frame building known asGrants Cottage, because it was used by that general as his head-quarters at City Point. It was brought here at the close of the war. From this hill there is an excellent view of the Schuylkill Water-Works, Which stand in a ravine just beyond it. At its foot is the GirardAvenue Bridge, an elegant iron structure, which connects the East andWe*st Parks. (See Bridges.) Under this bridge passes a carriage-wayleading to the northeast portion of the Park, now called, by way of dis- 58 FAIR MOUNT PARK. tinction, the East Park. The Connecting Railroad Bridge, as it is pop-ularly termed (see Bridges), which unites the Pennsylvania Railroad. THE LINCOLN MONUMENT. with the Camden and Amboy, raises its graceful arches a little abovethe Girard Avenue Bridge, and through the rocky bluff which formsits eastern abutment a short tunnel has been cut, as the only means ofopening a carriage-road to the East Park. This route was opened inthe summer of 1871, and developed some of the loveliest scenery in allthe Park. A number of fine old country-seats were absorbed in thisportion of the grounds, and they remain very nearly as their formerowners left them. Here a distributing reservoir, to cover one hundredand five acres, is now being constructed. Continuing up this side ofthe river, we come finally to Laurel Hill Cemetery (see Cemeteries),and then to the massive stone bridge over which the coal-trains of theReading Railroad pass on their way to Richmond. (See
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