. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . e it has given us thisfine and convenient building. Two other market-houses, similarlyconstructed, are situated farther weston this street. Extensive gas works are situated at Twenty-Third and Market. The Market Street Bridge, a commodious but unsightly structure, does good service in trans-porting goods and passengers to the western division of the city. All the merchandise andnearly all the passengers for the Pennsylvania Railroad and its numerous branches must crossthis bridge; having done which, they speedily arriv
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . e it has given us thisfine and convenient building. Two other market-houses, similarlyconstructed, are situated farther weston this street. Extensive gas works are situated at Twenty-Third and Market. The Market Street Bridge, a commodious but unsightly structure, does good service in trans-porting goods and passengers to the western division of the city. All the merchandise andnearly all the passengers for the Pennsylvania Railroad and its numerous branches must crossthis bridge; having done which, they speedily arrive at the companys two depots, occupyingthe square on the north side of Market, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second. Market Street is fast pushing its way westward. Already its line of horse-cars runs to Forty-first Street, while a branch extends to Haddington, on the western verge of the city. This line of cars runs to the celebrated Kirkbride Lunatic Asylum, more properly knownas the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, the oldest institution of the kind in PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 17 having been established in 1751 ; though it has occupied its present location only since institution is located on a farm of one hundred and thirteen acres, the entrance-gatesbeino- on Haverford Road. About one-third of the grounds is laid out in gardens and pleasure-
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