. Philadelphia and its environs . THE NEW HOUSE OF CORRECTION, HOLMESBURG. 114 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. up like stone fences on NewEngland farms, with a solitarysentinel pacing his beat, and thestars and stripes floating overhead,are the only things that suggest thewarlike uses of the place. Theshops are devoted solely to themanufacture of fixed ammunition ;all the cartridges used by the UnitedStates army are made here, and, asmay be supposed, the late wartaxed the energies of the labora-tories to their utmost the height of the war, workin

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. Philadelphia and its environs . THE NEW HOUSE OF CORRECTION, HOLMESBURG. 114 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. up like stone fences on NewEngland farms, with a solitarysentinel pacing his beat, and thestars and stripes floating overhead,are the only things that suggest thewarlike uses of the place. Theshops are devoted solely to themanufacture of fixed ammunition ;all the cartridges used by the UnitedStates army are made here, and, asmay be supposed, the late wartaxed the energies of the labora-tories to their utmost the height of the war, workin these shops never and day, Sundays and holi-days, it went on, the demand con-stantly increasing, until Leessurrender stopped midway theerection of an additional building

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