Identifier: newyorkbysunligh00mcca_1 (find matches)
Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING. the main offices of the great Express Companies.Opposite Wall street is the stately edifice of Trinity
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ST. PAULS CHURCH. 140 NEW YORK. Church,lying back among the grand trees of its church-yard, and surrounded by the time-worn grave stones ofthe old New Yorkers who lie sleeping peacefully amidall the turmoil and strife going on around them. Thetall spire points solemnly heavenward, as if to lift the soulabove the vulgar worship of mammon in the city below,and at intervals the sweet tones of the chimes comefloating down into the street, telling that wealth is notall, folly is not all, pleasure is not all, business is notall, but that there is something purer, nobler, waitinghigh above the golden cross which the sunlight bathesso lovingly. Looking down Wall street one sees anequally busy throng, and catches a glimpse of thestately edifices with which the street is lined. Passing Trinity Churchyard we notice the immensebrick building which forms its upper boundary. Thisis the headquarters of the coal trade, not only of thecity, but of a large portion of the Union, and herefortunes are mad

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