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Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and a half feet wide, are paved with slate. The balus-trade and cornice are ornamented with bronze panels representing birdsand foliage. Under this bridge passes a carriage-way leading to thenortheast portion of the Park, now called, by way of distinction, theEast Park. The cars of the Girard Avenue branch of the Fourthand Eighth Street Railway pass over this bridge, and the cars of theUnion line (Fairmount branch) have their terminus in its vicinity. Grays Ferry Bridge, on the line of the Philadelphia, Wilmingtonand Baltimore Railroad, is a wooden structure (with a draw) across theSchuylkill at Federal Street, Grays Ferry. The bridge is about eighthundred feet in length, and is traversed by the tracks of the BaltimoreRailroad, besides having a roadway for vehicles and pedestrians. GraysFerry Bridge is reached by the Pine Street cars (Grays Ferry branch);and the cars on Woodland Avenue (Darby Road) convey passengerswithin a few squares of the bridge; lines running north and south con-
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24 CARPENTERS HALL. nect with the Pine Street cars, by exchange tickets (price nine cents), forGrays Ferry. Market Street Bridge. The present bridge spanning the Schuyl-kill at Market Street is a temporary structure, built to replace the oldbridge, which was burnt, November 20, 1875. The cars of the MarketStreet Passenger Railway cross the river on this bridge, and the Penn-sylvania Railroad has a track on it for freight cars. The present tem-porary structure was erected by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company intwenty-one days, at a cost of $56,500. Besides the Market Street carsthe bridge is accessible by the Arch Street cars, which run to Twenty-first and Arch Streets, the Walnut Street cars, which run to Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets, and the Pine Street cars (Fairmountbranch), which pass Market Street at Twenty-third. South Street Bridge, an elegant new structure of iron and stone,crossing the Schuylkill River at South Street, is, with its approachesabout two thousand five hundr

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