. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . ].M, Trinity Church [the present Trinity was built in 1839-46, though it stands onthe site of the old church built in 1696]. N, St. Georges Chapel. O, St. PaulsChapel [built in 1756; the oldest church-edifice still standing in N. Y. C.]. P to Z.[various churches]. NEW YORK TO ALBANY 7 As distinctively New York as the sky-scrapers, are the hotelsand apartment houses. Of the latter, there are more
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . ].M, Trinity Church [the present Trinity was built in 1839-46, though it stands onthe site of the old church built in 1696]. N, St. Georges Chapel. O, St. PaulsChapel [built in 1756; the oldest church-edifice still standing in N. Y. C.]. P to Z.[various churches]. NEW YORK TO ALBANY 7 As distinctively New York as the sky-scrapers, are the hotelsand apartment houses. Of the latter, there are more than in any othercity in the world, and the number of persons who are giving up theirhouses and adopting this manner of life is steadily increasing. Thefirst thing, in fact, that impresses a visitor on his arrival is the seem-ingly endless amount of buildings adopted for transients. A few ofthe largest hotels have space for several thousand persons at onetime. The old station in 1903-12 was torn down, brick by brick,while at the same time the new building- was being erected■—and all without disturbing the traffic or hindering the75,000 to 125,000 people that passed through the station each. New Amsterdam (Now New York City) in 1671The point of land in the foreground is now known as the Battery. The largebuilding inside the stockade is a church. In the middle foreground is a hills in the background form the approach to the present Morningside Heights. day. This was an extraordinary engineering feat, for notonly were 3,000,000 yards of earth and rock taken out toprovide for the underground development, but hundreds oftons of dynamite were used for blasting. Among the im-provements introduced in the new station are ramps insteadof stairways, the division of out-going from in-going traffic, 8 THE GREATEST HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD and the elimination of the cold trainshed. The substitutionof electricity for steam as a motive power in the metropolitanarea made possible th
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