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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