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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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From its southern sideof solid blocks of buildings it has leaped across the beautifullittle Haarlem, and the beholder sees a city of grand magnifi-cence on the other side, and the once marshy stream nowspanned by bridges for travel, commerce, and pleasure. His eye suddenly catches sight of the Chicago express-train of sleeping and buffet, vestibuled coaches drawn byengine 999, Empire State Express, which, with lightning-like rapidity, is speeding on its eighteen-hour trip betweenNew York and Chicago. (The locomotive!—wonderful pieceof mechanism, that can thus annihilate time and space.) The panorama still continues to pass before the vision ofthe old Father in knee-breeches. He now beholds the solidgranite arches of the High Bridge spanning the Haarlem,supporting the greatest aqueduct of the world, conveying thepurest water to the millions of inhabitants of this, long since,the largest city on the American Continent. It is no wonder that the old Father beholds with amaze- H^BLE HILL
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222 The Great North Side. 223 ment the wonderful changes, the rapid strides taken along allthe lines of industry, the phenomenal growth of the once smallhamlet that covered but a small portion of the island northof the Battery walls. When we consider the difference between then and now, were not seeing believing, we would all exclaim, Im-possible ! Two huudred and seventy-eight years ago the site of NewYork was a rocky, wooded, canoe-shaped island, thirteen mileslong. The first trading charter was drawn up in 1615, recordingthe first use of the name u New Amsterdam.1 On January 1, 1618, the trading charter expired. May 6,1626, the site of New York was bought by Peter Minuet,agent for the West Indian Trading Company, for $24. In1695, New York extended to Wall Street, May 6, 1697,charter was granted for building Trinity Church. In 1699,corner-stone was laid for new City Hall, on the present siteof the Custom House, by William Bradford. In 1693, Oct. 16th, the first newspaper was publish

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