Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . klyn and itsadjacent territory. From City Hall to Union Square, we passthrough the district devoted to wholesale dry route, at Ninthand Tenth Streets,is Wanamakers de-partmental store,founded by A. T. Stew-art, and a block awayGrace Church. AtUnion Square, fourblocks further on, maybe seen the statues ofLincoln , LaFayetteand a fine equestrianstatue of is also here now,temporarily, a remark-able recruiting station,in the form of a full, life-sized battleship, coveringa large area of the Park. At 23rd St
Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . klyn and itsadjacent territory. From City Hall to Union Square, we passthrough the district devoted to wholesale dry route, at Ninthand Tenth Streets,is Wanamakers de-partmental store,founded by A. T. Stew-art, and a block awayGrace Church. AtUnion Square, fourblocks further on, maybe seen the statues ofLincoln , LaFayetteand a fine equestrianstatue of is also here now,temporarily, a remark-able recruiting station,in the form of a full, life-sized battleship, coveringa large area of the Park. At 23rd Street, Broadway, in its diagonalcourse, crosses Fifth Avenue and made possiblethe Flatiron Building, so called from its peculiarshape. Across from it is the Fifth Avenue Building,on the site of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, whichfor many years was the acme of the Cityshotel life. At 34th Street are the well-known retailmercantile establishments of B. H. Macy & Co.,Gimbel Bros., Saks & Co., Rogers, Peet Co., andfacing the Square is the building of the N. Wasliington Arch 10 Herald, withits iron fig-ures thatstrike thehours withtheir me-chanicalarms. Here be-gins the partof Broad-way that iscalled, fa- miharly, The Great White Way, from itsextravagant use of electric lights in advertisementsand decoration. Here, too, are the best-known
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