. The city of New York. on in one of the buildings onthe island has a collection of war to Governors Island is by pass,obtainable by writing to the post adjutant,Government Ferry, near South Ferry. Ellis Island near Liberty Island, is the landing-placefor immigrants, where they are examinedas to their eligibility for admission to theUnited States. The immigrants enter abig reception-room in the main building,where they are divided into groups. Thesepass before a corps of examining physicians,then before the immigrant inspectors, whoquestion each person as to his purpose,:neans
. The city of New York. on in one of the buildings onthe island has a collection of war to Governors Island is by pass,obtainable by writing to the post adjutant,Government Ferry, near South Ferry. Ellis Island near Liberty Island, is the landing-placefor immigrants, where they are examinedas to their eligibility for admission to theUnited States. The immigrants enter abig reception-room in the main building,where they are divided into groups. Thesepass before a corps of examining physicians,then before the immigrant inspectors, whoquestion each person as to his purpose,:neans, character, etc. Visitors are ad-mitted to a balcony overlooking the roomwhere they are received. Free ferry fromthe Battery. Photographing New Yorks tall skyscrapers is a very difficult matter techni-cally and the pictures we show in this workof modern buildings are due to the skill of Ir-ving Underhill, Brown Bros., George P. Hall,and others—all expert operators and clever,artistic workmen. They are „ ^ els:: E3_.^J^ , ^ Union Square Union Square lies between Broadway andFourth avenue. Fourteenth and Seventeenthstreets. Here southeast of the park stands Brownes bronze statue of Abraham Lin-coln. The curb bears the words of the Sec-ond Inaugural: With malice towards none,with charity for all. Across the Square,the equestrian bronze statue of Washing-ton (by the same sculptor) stands close bythe spot where General Washington wasreceived by the citizens when he ehteredthe city on its evacuation by the British,Nov. 2 5, 1783. Facing south on Broadway-is the statue of Lafayette, by Bartholdi,of Statue of Liberty fame, which waserected by French residents in 1876, withthe dedication: To the City of New York,France, in remembrance of sympathy intime of trial, 1870-71. The reference is tothe period of the Franco-Prussian the west of the Square is the JamesFountain, designed by Dunndorf and givento the city by D. Willis James. It is amuch admired bron
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