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Title: Scenes of modern New York.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC L.H. Nelson Company
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L.H. Nelson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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Hi- liners. tugs, ferries, and canal boats are continually passing. The great freight and passenger ferries of the Pennsylvania Rail-road, which has a terminal in Jersey City, are a noticeable feature of .every day life on the river. IMMIGRANT STATION. These fine buildings of brick, stone and terra cotta are located on Ellis Island, a small island between the Liberty Statue and theCommimipaw shore. Here thousands ol immigrants are received daily and passed into the United States. All steerage passengers are transferred from thesteamers in which they arrive, and before they can land, must be examined as to their eligibility as citizens and be fully recorded. The Government never ceasesto protect the immigrant until he is prepared to face the new conditions. Over 10,000,000 immigrants have entered the port of New York since 18S0, and the annualaverage is about 600,000. World Dome. St. Paul Park Row. Washington Life. Hank of Commerce. American Surety. Equitable. Trinity.THE SKYSCRAPERS J
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PARK now ENTRANCE TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE during the rush hours offers a scene unequalled anywhere. Hundreds of thousands of haman beings crashand struggle, iii the general mix-up of vehicles and trolley-cars, striving to board their home conveyance. The daily rush has been relieved to some extent sincethe opening of the new Williamsburg Bridge, and will grow still less strenuous when the Manhattan and Blaekwells Island bridges, now in process of erection,are completed. At the right in the view is the entrance to the tall Pulitzer Building, the home of the great newspaper, The New York World. THE BROOKLYN BRIDCK. Stretches from opposite City Hall Park to Fulton and Sand streets. Brooklyn. This magnificent bridge was begun in 1870 andopened to the public in 1883. Cost S21.000,000. It consists of a central river span 1,596 feet long and two land spans, with a total length between terminals of 7,580feet. The bridgeway carries two cable and two trolley car tracks, two wagon ways and a footpath

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