Peculiarities of American Cities

Peculiarities of American Cities
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Glazier Willard W.. Peculiarities of American Cities

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. ALBANY

CHAPTER II. BOSTON

CHAPTER III. BUFFALO

CHAPTER IV. BROOKLYN

CHAPTER V. BALTIMORE

CHAPTER VI. CHARLESTON

CHAPTER VII. CINCINNATI

CHAPTER VIII. CLEVELAND

CHAPTER IX. CHICAGO

CHAPTER X. CHEYENNE

CHAPTER XI. DETROIT

CHAPTER XII. ERIE

CHAPTER XIII. HARRISBURG

CHAPTER XIV. HARTFORD

CHAPTER XV. LANCASTER

CHAPTER XVI. MILWAUKEE

CHAPTER XVII. MONTREAL

CHAPTER XVIII. NEWARK

CHAPTER XIX. NEW HAVEN

CHAPTER XX. NEW ORLEANS

CHAPTER XXI. NEW YORK

CHAPTER XXII. OMAHA

CHAPTER XXIII. OTTAWA

CHAPTER XXIV. PITTSBURG

CHAPTER XXV. PORTLAND

CHAPTER XXVI. PHILADELPHIA

CHAPTER XXVII. PROVIDENCE

CHAPTER XXVIII. QUEBEC

CHAPTER XXIX. READING

CHAPTER XXX. RICHMOND

CHAPTER XXXI. SAINT PAUL

CHAPTER XXXII. SALT LAKE CITY

CHAPTER XXXIII. SAN FRANCISCO

CHAPTER XXXIV. SAVANNAH

CHAPTER XXXV. SPRINGFIELD

CHAPTER XXXVI. ST. LOUIS

CHAPTER XXXVII. SYRACUSE

CHAPTER XXXVIII. TORONTO

CHAPTER XXXIX. WASHINGTON

COMMENDATIONS. TESTIMONIALS. OF. Peculiarities of American Cities

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An exceedingly cold day was February fourth, 1875, the day which marked our journey from Boston to Albany. My inclination to step outside our car and tip my hat to the various familiar places along the route was suddenly checked by a gust of cutting, freezing, zero-stinging air. A ride of between one and two hours brought us to Worcester, a stirring town of about forty thousand inhabitants. Worcester is noted principally for its cotton factories, and as a political center in Eastern Massachusetts.

Springfield, Westfield and Pittsfield follow in succession along the route, in central and Western Massachusetts, the first of which has been made the subject of a special chapter in this book. The last I remember chiefly as the place where, in the summer of 1866, I took my first steps in a new enterprise. Pittsfield has large cotton mills, is a summer resort, and is the nearest point, by rail, to the Shaker community at Lebanon, five miles distant. At Westfield the Mount Holyoke Railroad joins the main line, and semi-annually conveys the daughters of the land to the famous Holyoke Female Seminary.

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There is a large society of Grand Army men in Albany, one Post numbering five or six hundred members. Their rooms are tastefully decorated, and hung with patriotic pictures, which make the blood thrill anew, as in the days of '61. A miniature fort occupies the centre of the room, and emblematic cannon and crossed swords are to be seen in conspicuous places.

A trip down the Hudson, in summer, from Albany to New York, is said to afford some of the finest scenery in the world, not excepting the famous sail on the castled Rhine; and the large river boats which leave Albany wharf daily, for our American London, are, indeed, floating palaces. The capital city of the Empire State is not, therefore, without its attractions, despite the fact that it was settled by the Dutch, and that a sort of Rip Van Winkle sleep seems, at times, to have fastened itself upon the drowsy spirit of Albanian enterprise.

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