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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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It is universally conceded that the City of New York,when its growth in population and its unprecedented devel-opment are considered, is one of the most striking evolutionsof history. In all the retrospect of the past, search as wemay every point within our scope, no instance presented tous is quite comparable to it. All great cities of the worldhave been the outcome of centuries of gradual development. Even London and Paris—rated as the two largest cities—grew as a man grows to maturity, strengthening in fibre andbone, and nerve and brawn, year by year, each successiveperiod during which they were passing from infancy to fullgrowth involving a century of time. History seemed to have especially reserved for this conti-nent the glory of presenting the marvel of a great city as one 87
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88 The Great North Side. 89 of the commercial wonders of the world, developing into arobust, ever restless and broad-minded activity in less thantwenty decades and winning from all the great municipalcommonwealths of the Old World the acknowledgment thatit was entitled to rank with them as a commercial emporiumof importance and second to none. Yet it is as a manufac-turer that one of the chief glories of this great city is to beachieved. Even to-day it acknowledges no superior as a pro-ducer, both as to extent and quality, of general products ofevery variety of manufacture, while in the production of agoodly number of useful and universally desired specialties itenjoys a generally conceded monopoly ; and there is no rea-son why, before the lapse of many years, it should not becomethe hub of the worlds manufacturing interests. Topographically speaking it has all the territory necessaryto such a grand development, and a vast proportion of thatarea is compassed within the boundary of wha

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