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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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most every sort of club life is found among us, and al-most every element of this community has its club or clubs.Whatever club speciality may be desired can be found. Thechief cities of the world may well envy us in this respect. In matters of art we have many advantages. Our Metropolitan Museum of Art, is fast becoming one ofthe finest institutions of the kind in the world. Consideringthe youth of this institution, its growth has been remarkable.The fact that it is, and has been from its beginning, carried onby private liberality, and that its vast accumulations of mil-lions of dollars1 worth ;f precious art work are entirely theresult of private donations, speaks volumes in favor of thegenerosity of our people. The Museum of Natural History is another institutionworthy of all praise, and as an educational factor, is a mostvaluable adjunct to our schools and colleges. The Historical Society is a vast store-house of most valu-able historical information. The Lenox Library has some of
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238 The Great North Side. the most valuable books to be found in the world. The AstorLibrary is full of books of rare value. The Mercantile Libraryand the Free Circulating Libraries offer advantages to thestudent in whatever line he or she may be especially inter-ested. New York has been behind other cities in not having aZoological Garden commensurate with its wants, and in hav-ing no Aquarium or Botanical Garden, but in tliis matter weare now placing ourselves alongside the best equipped citiesof the world. This Aquarium w ill be forever free to the pub-lic. Already #250,000 has been subscribed by a few gener-ous, public-spirited people towards a fund to establish aBotanical Garden. This with #250,000 and 250 acres of landin Bronx Park which the city will contribute makes a Botani-cal Garden a certainty in the very near future. A law has recently been enacted by the Legislature estab-lishing a Zoological Garden in the city above 155th Street.The gentlemen connected with this enterpr

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