Identifier: newyorkbysunligh00mcca_1 (find matches)
Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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st attractive scenes to bewitnessed in the city. The wharves extend, in an un-broken line, along almost the entire water front of thecity. They are, as a rule, wretched-looking piers ofwood, thrown out into the water, and covered overwith dilapidated sheds. The ferry-houses and thesheds of the great railway and steamship lines are wellbuilt, and often handsome structures, but they are theonly respectable-looking buildings along the shore. Itis hoped that at some future day the present systemof piers will be replaced with substantial and handsomestructures of granite and iron, which will enable NewYork to compete favorably with Liverpool and itsother great rivals of Europe. Beginning at the Battery, the North River front istaken up for some distance with the piers of the Penn-sylvania Railroad, and several lines of steamers plyingto ports on the coast of the United States. Abovethese are the ferry-houses of the New Jersey Central^nd the Pennsylvania Railroads, and at intervals higher i
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OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. 361 up the river are other piers and the up-town ferry ofthe Pennsylvania road, the Pavonia and Erie Railroadferry, the ferries to Hoboken and \Veehawken, and thefreight piers of the other lines of railroads terminatingin Jersey City. All the great traffic and travel betweenNew York and the South, and a large part of that toand from the West, enter and leave the city by theNorth River front. The foreign steamships lie thicklyalong this portion of the river. Here are the greatfloating palaces of the Pacific Mail Company, the In-

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