a ^ Fizz s ftbe Ctt^ of 1ftew Kork HILE London may surpass it in population, and Paris in art and architecture, yet from the point of view of the living world — of industrial achievement — of commercial ambition — New York stands alone. Busi- ness, wealth, stupendous enterprises faultlessly consummated, gigantic undertakings that are impossible in the old world, flourish in New York, and failure in the broadest sense is an unknown quantity. Twenty-storied buildings, mile-long bridges, tunnels beneath the earth, and elevated railroads above it, all contribute to reveal the limitless powers that here exist to satisfy the equally limitless necessities of the greatest city in the greatest nation on earth. Geographical conditions have had much to do with this. The long and narrow island of Manhattan has forced the city's growth in one direction only, hence a congested business district, and the greatest need of rapid transit. The skyscraper, the express elevator, the fast trolleys and trains, are the logical out- come of such conditions. Americanism rises to the task, overcomes every obstacle, and works out a commercial salvation impossible in any other country on the globe. New York is now the financial and business center of the world. Its bank clearings exceed those of London nearly 50 per cent., and now that the manufactures of the United States exceed in volume those of any other country, New York has naturally become the greatest mart for the buying and selling of merchandise the world over. No vista of man's achievement can compare with the view spread before the traveler as his ocean steamship enters New York Harbor. The skyline is a study of heights and angles, of gigantic buildings following each other in rapid succession, that may well amaze mankind. Only a few years ago, the World building with its fourteen stories taxed credibility. Now, this is but a pigmy compared with the American Surety, Bowling Green, Commercial Cable, the " Flatiron," and a score of others, while over all towers that enormous pile of steel and stone, the Park Row Building, a straight shaft toward the blue sky, counting thirty-one stories and measuring from sub-basement to flagstaff, 550 feet. No city in the world possesses such magnificent hotels, nor so many of them — perfect palaces catering to the most fastidious tastes of a discriminating public. Then there are the parks — Central, Bronx, Van Cortlandt, and a hundred others, comprising unquestionably the largest and most elaborate park system in the world. Not less noted are the houses of New York's multi-millionaires. Fabulous in magnificence, they adorn Fifth Avenue, Riverside Drive and a score of lesser boulevards. Nothing daunts the audacious boldness of New York. When one considers the proposal of the Pennsylvania Rail- road to construct its tunnel from Jersey City under the Hudson, through Manhattan, and again under the East River to Brooklyn — of the marvelous Subway just completed, of the gigantic new East River bridges, of the projected theatres, hotels, office buildings, department stores, and all the rest, he may well pause in wonder and think — is there any limit to American ambition, determination, power, achievement? Published by L. H. NELSON COMPANY, Portland, Maine Proprietors of Nelson's International Series of Souvenir Books Copyright, 1905, by L. H. NELSON QO, 160th Thousand CITY HALL PARK is the center of political life in the great metropolis. Standing on the steps of the famous New York City Hall one gets a remarkable im- pression of the ceaseless energy of the city. Located near the entrance to Brooklyn Bridge, in close contact with Newspaper Row and the Post office and sur- rounded by many characteristic skyscrapers, the Park is one of the most interesting places in New York. Probably at no other point are so many thousands of people in sight. Here is one of the great stations of the Subway, and it was directly in front of the City H'all that the ground was first broken for that gigantic undertaking. WASHINGTON SQUARE, at the beginning "f 5th Avenue, is nine acres in extent. It was originally a Potter's Field, aDd later a camp ground during the Civil War. For over half a century it has lieen the chosen residential section of many old New York families, including the Stuyvesants. Rhinelanders, Potters, DePey- sters. Coopers, and others. Their old-fashioned brick mansions impressively line the northern side of the Square. The stately Washington Arch, exquisitely modeled in marble from the design of Stanford White, was erected in 1889-92 to commemorate the inauguration of General George Washington as the first Presi- dent. It cost $250,000. MULBERRY BEND PARK, running from Bayard to Park Street, and from Mulberry to Baxter Street, contains two and three-quarters acres of well-kept lawn. Innumerable seats, a rest house and fountains are provided for the comfort and pleasure of the people. BATTERY BARK is the name applied to the triangular green at the southern extremity of the city. From here a fine view of the bay may be obtained. The Bat- tery Bark contains twenty-one acres, is shaded by many trees, and has a broad walk along the sea wall. It is always thronged with immigrants and loungers. BROADWAY AT 32d STREET. At no other point in the city except perhaps at the entrance to Brooklyn Bridge is street traffic so congested from time to time as at this busy corner. Surface cars moving in rapid, succession on both Broadway and Sixth Avenue and the vast army of pedestrians and vehicles make this one of the most difficult crossings in New York. The view shows a station of the elevated mad with entrances and exits and separate platforms for " up-town " and "^down-town " trains. The elevated railroads are now operated by electricity and consist of four main double-track lines and a few short branches. BROADWAY FROM CHAMBERS STREET. The great avenue of New York's business life. No other street in America can show such activity, such a variety of architecture, such throngs of people. The surface cars follow each other in a never- ending procession. Broadway starts at Bowling Green and extends to Yonkers, a distance of 14 miles. WALL STREET. The money center of America, the text for political tirades, the target for many a sermon. Fortunes made or lost every hour of the business day. In the center of the view is Trinity Church, at which point Wall Street begins ex- tending to the East River. The low building at the right is the U. S. Sub-treasury; the skyscraper beyond, the Gillender Building. ^%% THE BOWERY. A thoroughfare of world-wide fame. It derived its name from the " bouweries " or farms between which it ran during tin* old Dutch days. In latter years the lower end grew to be a series of dives, saloons, shows, etc., and became the favorite resort of a tough element. Here the peculiar type Of swag- gering ruffian, " the Bowery boy." was developed. The street has lost much of its former bad repute, and the " hoy" has disappeared. The milder young toughs of today are in turn giving way to the frugal and good-natured German and Jew. Better shops are being opened year by year. The Bowery now boasts the largest savings bank in the world. i • m ' -a i « 1 ii' M'"' .i I 11 II I a H 5 ill ■' I IS2.IF 3 a 2 -TT. j NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING. At Broadway, 7th Avenue ami 42d Street. The new home of the great newspaper, built especially t" meet the requirements of mod- ern journalism. It is a Btately structure of 22 stories : rises 375 feet above and extends 55 feet below the sidewalk. A subway station is in the basement. THE FI'LLEK BUILDING, known popularly as the "Flat-iron," is located on Broadway at the intersection of 23d Street and 5th Avenue. It has 20 stories and is 280 feet high. Its remarkable shape and conspicuous position have made it one of the best known buildings in the country. Manhattan Life Building. MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY BUILDING. 66 Broadway, near Exchange Place. One of the tallest buildings in the city, having 23 stories, and towering 3G1 feet high. Very striking and ornate design. Home of the Manhattan Life, Insurance Company, organized 1850. Standard Oil Building. STANDARD OIL COMPANY' BUILDING. Located at 26 Broadway, near Bowling Green. This structure has acquired fame as ttie headquarters of the gigantic trust which controls the petroleum industry of the world. The building is entirely occupied by the parent company or sub-companies which either produce, refine or transport oil or by-products. COMMERCIAL CABLE BUILDING. Adjoins the Stock Exchange at 20 Broad Street. An imposing office building given over to the business of the Commercial Cable system organized in 1884 by John W. Mackay and James Gordon Bennett. The offices of the Postal Telegraph -Cable, the German and Pacific cables are here. HANOVER HANK BUILDING. Located on the southwest comer of Nassau and Pine streets. This 22-story building, completed in 1901, is justly considered one of the finest office structures in the world. From an artistic standpoint it is a most pleasing example of sky-scraping^architecture. THE CORN EXCHANGE hank. Tliis splendid bank building is located at 13 William Street. The Corn Exchange Hank is capitalized at $2,000,000, and has numer- ous hraru-hes at various points throughout the city. THK NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE occupies a handsome building in Hanover Square. In is built of yellow brick with stone lacings anil cost upwards of $1,000,000 Hen- the American cotton quotations are made. '" -~ «j 5 <* o -a " ra o .- ^ 5 CO o r tu i, ~ r C ^ S £ !Z .M coo as c J = £3 > S o >..s ►. « 9 6 i ■< a « s Ph P4 Pt£ 08 M 5 ■=* 2£ S a H P - P ■Jl 1 |z 3 «! Vi '5 c ° - X ■= W a> = C P n - Efl 0^ O = 03 u a -3 w it £, ■- 2 3 "S: 3 O a Ed ~ . j3 " (D EH 8 s 6-1 n a -^ o ! o -a .3 g ©" *a 8-= „-! ■3 C z > ^ c3 - P o o « £5 - ?■ £• • > - S '■ •— B s '". * rt — .z r ~' X - CH AMRER ( >F ( '< »M MERCK. North side of Liberty Street, corner of Liberty Place. Here is located the oldest commercial corporation in the United States, having been organized in 1708. The building, of white Vermont marble with a granite base, was erected iu 1902 and cost over $1, 500,000. The main hall is 90x00 feet. HALL OF RECORDS. Chambers, Reade and Center streets. A splendid fire-proof structure, built of steel and Maine granite, for the safe-keeping of real estate deeds, mortgages, etc., of Manhattan Borough, also.for Surrogates' Courts and City Offices. Erected 1904, and cost $5,000,000. GRAND CENTRAL STATION. 42d to 45tli streets, Vanderbilt Avenue to Depew Place. An immense six-storied building, reconstructed in 1898. The most con- venient and capacious railroad station in the country. The New York terminus of the New York Central lines, comprising: numerous railroads operating 11,126 miles east of the Mississippi. Here are terminal facilities also for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The great train shed is Tiki feet long. It is estimated that 12.000,000 people pass through this station annually. The head offices of the New Y'ork Central and the New York offices of the New Haven road are on the upper floors. #" I lil 1 !' 1 nniii'i 1 ! 1 SMil ii ■ll'li li:l I I'll 'Mi Ii*li%»B|ifi^f , m I I'i »• i» it_LH ill THE HOTEL ASTOR. Long Acre Square and 44th Street. Erected in 1904 by William Waldorf Astor. One of the moBt sumptuous hotels in the world. Built of absolutely fire-proof materials, contains six hundred guest rooms, large restaurants, grill room, palm garden, roof garden, etc. Great banquet halls, ball room and private dining rooms occupy an entire floor. One of the most interesting places in New York to visit is the vast wine cellar of Hotel Astor. THE WALDORF-ASTORIA, 5th Avenue, 33d and 34th streets, is the largest and most luxurious hotel in the world. It is supposed to have cost upward of $12,000,000. There are accommodations for about 1,500 guests. The hall room is of unsurpassed magnificence, and regal decorations prevail throughout the house. THE HOLLAND HOUSE, 5th Avenue, southwest corner 30th Street. A ten-storied tire-proof hotel built of Indiana gray Limestone in the Italian Renaissance style of architecture. It is the equal of any In del in America, and enjoys the patronage of a most fastidious class of people. THE NORTH RIVER. The name applied to the Hudson where it Hows between the city and the Jersey shore. The available North River water front of New York is estimated to lie about 13 miles. Helow 43d Street on the New York side the shore is lined with great steamboat docks and warehouses, and ferry slips. The Jersey City and Houoken side is equally crowded. Many of the fa us transatlantic lines have docks on the Jersey shore. The amount of daily traffic on these waters is enormous. Hig liners, tugs, ferries, and canal boats are continuadj [passing. The great freight and passenger ferries of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, which has a terminal in Jersey City, are a noticeable feature of every day. life on the river. IMMKillANT STATION. These'fine buildings otjnick, stone and terra cotta are located on Ellis Island, a small istand between the Liberty Statue and the Communipaw shore. Here thousands of immigrants are received daily and passed into the United States. All steerage passengers are transferred from the steamers in which they arrive, and before they can land, must be examined as tii their eligibility as citizens and be fully recorded. The Government never ceases to protect the immigrant until he is prepared to face the new conditions. Over 10,000,000 immigrants have entered the port of New York since 1880, and the annual average is about 000,000. IgStirTTii World Dome. St. Paul. Park Row. Washington Life. Bank of Commerce. American Surety. Equitable. Trinity. THE SKYSCRAPERS *HfcWB»*""«*»> MMNhM Empire. Manhattan Life. Cable. FROM THE HARBOR Columbia. Standard Oil. Bowling (ireen. Washington. Produce Exchange. PARK ROW ENTRACE TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE during the rush hours oilers a scene unequalled anywhere. Hundreds of thousands of human beings crush and struggle, in the general mix-up of vehicles and trolley-cars, striving to board their home conveyance. The daily rush has been relieved to some extent since the opening of the new Williamsburg Bridge, and will grow still less strenuous when the Manhattan and Blackwell's Island bridges, now in process of erection, are completed. At the right in the view is the entrance to the tall Pulitzer Building, the home of the great newspaper, " The New York World." THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. Stretches from opposite < "ity Hall Park to Fulton and Sand streets. Brooklyn. This magnificent bridge was begun in 1870 and opened to the public in 1883. Cost 821,000,000. It consists of a central river span 1,585 feet long and two land spans, with a total length between terminals of 7.. r >S0 feet. The bridgeway carries two cable and two trolley car tracks, two wagon ways and a footpath. 4,0(KI cars anil 2,000 vehicles pass east and west every day. The average number of passengers in twenty-four hours is 300,000. It is estimated that about 5,00i>,000,0tio people have used this bridge since its opening. THE WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE, the greatest suspension bridge in the world, crosses the East River at the Grand Street Ferry to Broadway (Williamsburg) Brooklyn. It is a steel-towered suspension- cantilever structure with a length of 7,200 feet between terminals. The towers are 335 feet high. The central span is 1,600 feel long and 135 feel above the middle of the river. The bridgeway is lis feet wide, and carries four trolley and two cable tracks, two roadways, two foot- paths, and two bicycle paths. Estimated cost, about $21,000,000. HIGH BRIDGE was built to carry the Croton Aqueduct across the Harlem Valley at 175th Street. It is supported by 13 arches resting on solid granite pins, :m. " Washington Crossing the Delaware " Leutze. No. 6. " Sheep— Spring " by Anton Mauve. THE STATUE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Conradst, is of granite, and is located near the Art Museum in Central Park. THE colossal STATUE < >!■' WASHINGTON, by J. Q. A. Ward, stands at the entrance to the Sub-treasury building, formerly the City Hall, on the exact Bpot where Washington tm.k the oath of office in 17sy. ill E BRONZE STATUE OP PETER COOPER was designed by St. Gaudens, who \v:is himself once a pupil at the Cooper Union in front of which the statue stands. THE BRONZE STATUE OF NATHAN HALE, by Maem nes, is located in City Hall Park nearthespot where Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War. THK MILLIONAIRES iif new vork have contributed much toward beautifying the city by the erection of many magnificent residences. Nocitj in the world can boast si. many private palaces. They comprise all classes of architecture, utilizing the most substantial and costly building material. While the exteriors are frequently ornate and elaborate, the interior furnishings and decorations are luxurious in the extreme. GRANT'S TOMB. Claremont Heights, Riverside Drive, near 123d Street. This beautiful edifice, one of the largest monuments in the world, is 150 feet high and covers an area of 10,000 square feet, and is built of Maine white granite. The cost, $600,000, was raised by the Grant Monument Association by voluntary contribu- tions from over 00,000 people. The memorial was dedicated by President McKinley in 1897. Over the portico are statues of " Peace" and " Victory "by J. Massey Rhind. The remains of the great soldier and his wife lie in two red porphyry sarcophagi in a crypt under the dome. CENTRA1 I'ARK is the great playground of the city's poorasjwell as the rendezvous Cor the fashionable turnouts of the wealthy. It extends from 59th sunt to 110th Street and from 5th Avenue to 8th Avenue, an area of eight hundred seventy-nine acres abounding in natural beauty. Woodland, lake, lawn and meadow unite to make this the most delightful park in the world. The center view above shows tlic fine equestrian statin- of General Sherman recently erected at the 59tb Street entrance. . — - ■ ■■ ■- -— 1 THE COLUMBUS STATUE stands at the entrance to Central Park at 59th Street and 8th Avenue. It was made in Italy and erected to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the American continent. THE OBELISK was presented to the city by the late Khedive of Egypt in 1877. It is sixth in size nf the fanums Egyptian obelisks. The entire expense of its removal and erection on its present site near the Metropolitan Museum was borne by the late William II. Vanderbilt. THE BARTHOLDI STATUE stands upon Bedloe's Island, almost two miles south- east of the Battery. This colossal figure, representing Liberty Enlightening the World was presented to the people of America bj the great French sculptor, Auguste Bartholdi. It was erected in 1883. The torch is 306 feet above the sea. THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. At 89tb Street stands ;i pure white marble monument erected i«i the memory of the citizens of New York who took part in the Civil War. n is a circular structure, with a peristyle of twelve Corin- thian columns, 36 feet high. Built by the city at a cost of $2.30,000, in 1002. d to Z - - ^ o •' .2 s s * s a 15 CCS OQ _¥ 43 4J 1^1 * C - Q O fc- *j a? ? t c to *jj ^ § E? -^ ° f> so fti +2 M o 's 3 5 g <8 Ed © -3 w g m , .a o H ° "3