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Title: How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 Ford, Simeon, 1855-1933 Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York : Press of J.J. Little & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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le visit the Park every year, half of them on foot. The best way to get a general idea of this great pleasure-ground isto take one of the large public park-carriages, at the entrances onFifth Avenue and Eighth Avenue. The fare to Mount St. Vincent, inthe northern part, and return, is twenty-five cents. In the south-v/est part of the Park is the Ball-Ground, — a ten-acrelawn, where the boys may play cricket, base-ball, or tennis ; and adjoin-ing it on the north-east is the Carrousel, for young children, with swingsand other means of amusement. Close by is the Dairy, affording milkand light food for the little ones. Beyond is the Green, or Common,a lawn of 16 acres, made picturesque by grazing sheep, and thrownopen to the people on Saturday. In the south-east part is the Mena-gerie, around the old castellated Arsenal building, and with many cagesfor animals, birds, a house full of monkeys of various kinds, bear-pitswith amiable appearing ursine dwellers, and many other wiid creatures,
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How to Know New York. 3i whose movements are watched by thousands of visitors daily. Inwinter, when several circuses board their animals here, the residentpopulation is augmented by sundry lions, tigers, bisons, leopards,camels, hippopotami, and other rare and interesting sojourners. The Mall is the chief promenade, nearly a quarter of a mile long,and 208 feet wide, bordered by double rows of American elms, withthe Green on one side, and a bold, rocky ridge on the other. Here arethe statues of Scott, Shakspeare, Burns, Fitz-Greene Halleck, thecolossal Beethoven bust, and other artistic memorials. Beyond theMusic Pavilion, where band-music is given on pleasant Saturdayafternoons, is the Terrace, a sumptuous pile of light Albert-freestonemasonry, with arcades and corridors, and rich carvings of birds andammals. Below is the Lower Terrace, an ornamental esplanade, inwhich stands the famous Bethesda Fountain, designed by EmmaStebbins, and made at Munich, and representing a lily-bearing an

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