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Title: The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Pl. 41. - Tiffanys, Fifth Avenue SHOPS AND SHOPPING 203 selves; but, somehow, she instinctively feels that theywill make the house look more comfortable or cheerfulor refined, and thus add to the pleasure of the family. Itis the same with a great many of the hundreds of thou-sands. They are, unconsciously perhaps, striving to makesomeone happier, to give an uplift to the home, to makelife more worth the living. And in the aggregate of themass, in the combined aspirations of the throng, what se-quence must be forthcoming ? Surely a broader outlook,a nobler living; and, ultimately, a higher civilization. Nodoubt some of the energy employed is wasted, completelydissipated and lost; but much of it redounds to our good,makes for righteousness, and possibly finds us each to-morrow farther than to-day along the pathway of thebetter life. NEW YOKK BY NIGHT
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pl. XII. —coney island —on the beach H0A3a 3HT HO- QHAJai Y3H00 - .HX jS ^^V.-S«! *i.Jf •fm^^t ,? CHAPTER XII NEW YORK BY NIGHT Before it is dark in the city the electric street lamps,hanging from their steel yard-arms, begin to sizzle asthough trying to live up to a steady illumination, andtheir ground-glass globes take on beautiful opalescenttints of pink and lilac. This is the preliminary sputteringsuggestive of the coming current. It ceases as the currentgrows stronger; and, as the dark falls, the lilac globesturn into marked spots of light and become related andassociated with other spots of light. From block toblock balls of yellow or orange or pure white or blue-violet appear. The city is soon illuminated — partsof it almost ablaze. At its height the brilliancy of Paris,^the city of light, seems just a little dull by comparison. All over the city the lights are burning. The BrooklynBridge seen from Governors Island is a tracery of filigreework set with silver stars, un

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