. Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad guide book . rard College is the Eastern Penitentiary, covering ten acres, andwitli its massive walls and frowning turrets recalls some baronial castle. Thesystem of solitary confinement necessitated this vast extent. The interior is ofremarkable construction; from a high tower in the centre, the officers of theprison can see at a glance the door of each cell, the ranges of the cells radia-ting from the tower to the high walls. A visit to this penitentiary is indispen-sable to the traveler who would study prison discipline. Near it is the House
. Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad guide book . rard College is the Eastern Penitentiary, covering ten acres, andwitli its massive walls and frowning turrets recalls some baronial castle. Thesystem of solitary confinement necessitated this vast extent. The interior is ofremarkable construction; from a high tower in the centre, the officers of theprison can see at a glance the door of each cell, the ranges of the cells radia-ting from the tower to the high walls. A visit to this penitentiary is indispen-sable to the traveler who would study prison discipline. Near it is the House ofKefuge, intended to reclaim the vicious of both sexes under mature age. The 114 PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON AND BALTIMORK children are educated in the ordinary branches of knowledge, and taught use-ful trades. The Gas Works are eight in number, the cost of the whole beingabout $3,000,000. The streets are lighted by about fifteen thousand public lamps,and gas is used in almost every private residence. There is no city in the UnitedStates equally well UNITED STATES .^[IXT. The United States Mint, on Chestnut street, near Thirteenth, was built in1830, and is a fine specimen of Ionic architecture. The mint contains an inval-uable collection of coins of every country and age. Amongthe othcri)ublic build-ings is the Custom House, formerly the United States Bank, a noble specimen ofGrecian architecture. It was completed in 1824, at a cost of half a million ofdollars. The Merchants Exchange, at the corner of Third and Walnut streets,is a beautiful edifice of white marble,containing a spacious rotunda, and a fine com-mercial reading room, in which are kept on file the leading papers of the new Chamber of Commerce, completed in 186(i by the Corn ExchangeAssociation, is another magnificent building. Tlie principal room is one hun-dred and thirty-three feet long, ninety-one feet wide and thirty-five feet high,without columns. The architecture is of the Roman Doric order
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