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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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them to any part of the UnitedStates without being subjected to the dilatory and oftenannoying disadvantages of transferring freight. And thesesame excellent facilities of water and rail can be used inbringing in coal at a very low cost to the manufacturers lo-cated on the North Side, so that the cost of power is less herethan at any other place not so favorably situated. Another valuable advantage will be the Harlem ShipCanal through which, when completed, many of the rawproducts of the country will be brought nearer to the NorthSide, and, as saving of time and distance are important factorsin all manufacturing enterprises, the efficacy of this long-needed improvement will be at once recognized. Taking into consideration the fact that the population ofthe North Side is only about one twelfth that of the cityproper, it is surely a subject of deepest congratulation whenwe survey the different fields of manufacturing which arenow in a state of prosperous cultivation on the upper side of
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The Great North Side. 93 the Harlem. From these mills of industry come a greatvariety of commodities, such as iron work of every description,including stoves, ranges, and furnaces; refrigerating and ice-making machinery, church organs, pianos, refrigerators, artis-tic bronze goods, electric supplies, surgical instruments, beatengold, china and enameled ware, naphtha launches, railwaylamps, paper boxes of every design both as to utility andbeauty, window-shades, toys, segars, brushes, carpets, dyeingand printing work, mineral waters, tape, soap, silks, shirts,drums, varnish, and other products of necessity and practicalusefulness. And these industries, as great as they are in ex-tent and variety, are only an item compared with the possi-bilities that the near future presents to the mind of everyobserver who has applied his eye and his thought to a thor-ough examination of the situation. Among the possibilities, even among the probabilities ofthe future, is a renewal of the ship-buildin

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