The Personality of American Cities

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Edward Hungerford. The Personality of American Cities

The Personality of American Cities

Table of Contents

PREFACE

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

THE PERSONALITY OF. AMERICAN CITIES. 1. OUR ANCIENT HUB

2. AMERICA'S NEW YORK

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VII

3. ACROSS THE EAST RIVER

4. WILLIAM PENN'S TOWN

5. THE MONUMENTAL CITY

6. THE AMERICAN MECCA

7. THE CITY OF THE SEVEN HILLS

8. WHERE ROMANCE AND COURTESY DO NOT FORGET

9. ROCHESTER—AND HER NEIGHBORS

10. STEEL'S GREAT CAPITAL

11. THE SIXTH CITY

12. CHICAGO—AND THE CHICAGOANS

13. THE TWIN CITIES

14. THE GATEWAY OF THE SOUTHWEST

15. THE OLD FRENCH LADY OF THE RIVERBANK

16. THE CITY OF THE LITTLE SQUARES

17. THE AMERICAN PARIS

18. TWO RIVALS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC—AND A THIRD

19. SAN FRANCISCO—THE NEWEST PHŒNIX

20. BELFAST IN AMERICA

21. WHERE FRENCH AND ENGLISH MEET

22. THE CITY THAT NEVER GROWS YOUNG

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Edward Hungerford

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The young engineer explains—in some detail. To find a foothold for this building was no sinecure. Tests with the diamond drill had shown that solid rock rested at a depth of 145 feet below street level at the south end of the plat. At the north end, the rock sloped away rapidly and so that part of the building rests upon compact sand. The rock topography of Manhattan island is uncertain. There are broad areas where solid gneiss crops close to the street level, others where it falls a hundred feet or more below water level. There is a hidden valley at Broadway and Reade street, a deep bowl farther up Broadway. Similarly, the north extremity of the Municipal Building rests upon the edge of still another granite bowl—the sub-surface of that same Collect Pond upon which the New York boys used to skate a century or more ago.

"That bothered some folks at first," laughs the engineer, "but we met it by sinking the caissons. We've more than a hundred piers down under this structure hanging on to Mother Earth. You don't realize the holding force of those piers," he continues. He turns quickly and points to a fourteen story building off over the trees of City Hall park. Out in one of the good-sized towns of the Middle West people would gasp a little at sight of it—in New York it is no longer even a tower.

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