The personality of American cities . a square that will not offer some landmarkripe with tradition and rich with interest. Time has laida gentle hand upon the City of Brotherly Love. And noAmerican, who considers himself worthy of the name,can afford not to visit at least once in his lifetime thegreatest of our shrines — Independence Hall. Withinrecent years this fine old building has, like many of itsfellows, undergone reconstruction. But the workmenhave labored faithfully and truthfully and the old StateHouse today, in all its details, is undoubtedly very muchas it stood at the time of the s
The personality of American cities . a square that will not offer some landmarkripe with tradition and rich with interest. Time has laida gentle hand upon the City of Brotherly Love. And noAmerican, who considers himself worthy of the name,can afford not to visit at least once in his lifetime thegreatest of our shrines — Independence Hall. Withinrecent years this fine old building has, like many of itsfellows, undergone reconstruction. But the workmenhave labored faithfully and truthfully and the old StateHouse today, in all its details, is undoubtedly very muchas it stood at the time of the signing of the still houses the Liberty Bell, that intrepid and seem-ingly tireless tourist who visits all the worlds fairswith a resigned patience that might well commend itselfto human travelers. Around these landmarks of colonial Philadelphia thereebbs and flows the human tides of the modern city. Thewindows of what is today the finest as well as the largestprinting-house in the land look down upon the tree-filled. Where William Penn looks down upon the town heloved so w^ell PHILADELPHIA 85 square in which stands Independence Hall. A littlewhile ago this printing concern looked down upon thegrave of that earlier printer — Franklin. But growthmade it necessary to move from Arch street — the bus-iest and the noisiest if not the narrowest of all precisepattern of parallel roads that William Penn — the Pro-prietor of other days — laid back from the Delaware tothe Schuylkill river. One square from Arch street is Market, designed yearsago by the far-sighted Quaker to be just what it is today— a great commercial thoroughfare of one of the met-ropolitan cities of America. At its feet the ferriescross the Delaware to the fair New Jersey land. Up itscourse to the City Hall — or as the Philadelphian willalways have it, the Public Buildings — are departmentstores, one of them a commercial monument to the manwho made the modern department store possible and
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