Pocket Guide FOR THE CENTENNIAL VISITOR. PRESENTED WITH COMPLIMENTS OF Croft, Wilbur & Co., No. 1226 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. J. W. FHAZIFjR, Printer, 33 South Third Street. PLEASE NOTICE OUR SPECIALTIES: DRAGEE WORK, ALL STYLES. Hard Gum Work, all styles; A. B. Gum Work, all styles ; Fine Chocolates, all styles; Plain Chocolates, all styles; Cream Work, all styles j ' Jelly Work, all styles ; Fig Paste Work, all styles. _ * JORDON SUGAR ALMONDS, ALL GRADES AND COLORS. Common and Fine Sugar Almonds, all Grades and Colors. Lozenges, all styles and flavors. The Celebrated Philadelphia Walnut Candy. English Colt’s-Foot Rock Candy. Croft’s Colt’s-Foot Rock Candy. MARSH MALLOW DJKOFS, IN TIN AND PASTEBOARD BOXES. Licorice Gum Work, all styles.; Glace and Crystalized Domestic Fruits. Glace and Crystalized Imported Fruits. Japanese Cocoanut, in its various styles. Cocoanut Caramels. MIXTURES OF VARIOUS GRADES. Fine Liquor Chocolate, for Confectioner's. Prepared Cocoa, for Table Use. CHOCOLATE in all its forms, and a very large assortment of all the finest goods^ which can be made for Fine Retail Confectioners and Druggists. THE LARGEST ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KIND IN THE WORLD, CROFT, WILBUR & CO., murrains cohfectiohers. ^ OFFICE AND SALESROOM, NO. 1226 MARKET STEEET, PHILADELPHIA. 1S7B 1778. CENTENNIAL GREETING 07 Croft, Wilbur & Co., No. 1226 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. In priSentlngyou -with this, onr CentPnnial Greeting, we take occasion to s y that we hope it may"prove valuable to yon, either as a pocket history of Philadelphia, or as a useful Guide Book-when visiting the Centennial City. In offering yon this little volume, compiled expressly for the benefit of the Centen¬ nial visitor, we extend a cordial invitation to visit ns at onr New Building, No. 1226 Market street—one square east of the Municipal Hall—where we will be pleased to show >ou the most complete establishment of the kind in the world, and to furnish you with all the information we possess concerning the Centennial Exhibition, and of the City of Philadelphia—the birth place of oor nation. .... As the press has kindly eiven descriptions of our new building, we subjoin the following editorial notices taken from a few of onr city journals; trusting they will he perused with interest by you, we subscribe ourselves, Very truly yours, CROFT, WILBUR & CO., 1220 Market Street, Philadelphia. SPLENDID ESTABLISHMENT. Each month of the past decade of years presents improvements upon onr great thoroughfare that are a credit to their projectors and embellishments to the city. We are ever chronicling such incidents, and it gives ns pleasure to note another addition to the number of beautiful and complete structures that are rising so rapidly around us. Nos. 1: 24, 1226 and 122S Market street, covers the space ouce occupied by the Olympic Theatre, and upon this spot has been erected au ornate iron building that refleci* infinite credit upon the builder, and does honor to the liberality of the , wners, Messrs. Croft, Wilbur & Co. These gentlemen, so well-known to the cou- fectiouery trade throughout the couutry, finding the facilities at their old location. No 126 North Second street, inadequate to the proper management of a large and growing busiue-s, determined upon a removal, and in so doing have not only made preparation for their present trade, but anticipating a large future, have given themselves ample scope for extension. The edifice is five stories in height, with abundant space between the floors, thus giving good light and ventilation, anA* covers a frontage on Market street of 60 feet, running back to Leiper street a distance of 190 feet. The architecture is simple, imposing and peculiarly attractive. Messrs. Croft, Wilbur & Co. occupy the centre store, 24 feet front with a depth of 115 feet, connecting the factory in the rear, 54 feet by 80 feet, making a total depth of 190 feet from front to rear. The first floor front is to be devoted to the retail department, and is fitted up with taste and elegance. The fi'tings are of black walnut, beautifully finished, counters, desks and cases alike of the same material. The walls and ceilings are in fresco of a neutral tint, and from the ceilings are pendant three superb chande¬ liers of the Alhambra finish; from this portion of the buildiug rises a capacious stairway with heavy walnut balustrades and newel posts, supporting pedestals, out of which spring gas jets. In the rear is the wholesale depar.ment, occupying the AND POCKET GUIDE. first floor of the factory. Between the store and factory the sample and counting rooms are placed, covering a space of 10 by-40 feet. In the northern angle of the room is the private office of the firm, fitted up with every comfort and convenience. This office counects hy telegraph with the old establishment on Second street, which is to be connected as a branch. From this private office radiates bells a id speaking tubes to all portions of the building, so that the entire business is under inst nt control ot the chief of each department. The rear basement contains the eug ne boiler in the vault unde the back street, and is also destined for Japanese cucoanu work, for winch the establishment is famous. So great is the demand tor these goods that a bin, specially con-tructed for the storage, is capable of bolding 60,000 outs. The front basem nfis devoted to cocoa and chocolate machines. From both of the bas meats spriug hoisting machines, which pass through each story, making rapid and easy -transfers from one department to another. In ilie upper stories of the front building the manufacturing and drying of lozenges is carried on, and the packing aud decora¬ ting departments are also in this portion. In the manufactory are many original methods used only by this firm, which serve most materially to economize t me and material. There aro employed in ti e manufacture, packing and decorating of their elegaut goods, one hundred and filly skilful men and women, who have been thoroughly trained and disciplined iii the departments to which they are allotted. In conclusion we would remark that i he trade of this massive establishment extends into every S ate of the Union, a corps of travelling sale men visit every sectlou to take orders, tbu- saving to the customer the lime and expense of purchasing in person. The members of this firm aro Messrs. Samuel Croft, Henry O. Wilbur, Wm. H, Alien, aud George W. Allen. . The establishment will be opened for business on Wednesday, December 16th, and may anticipate a rich harvest iu ibe coming holiday season.— Evening Bulletin, December 3d, IS<5 CONFECTIONERY. A Visit to the Mammoth new Wholesale and Retail Candy Manu¬ factory of Croft, Wilbur & Co., No. 1228 Market street-Elegantly Fitted up Warerooms—Improved Machinery—Choice Oonfeotions. That Philadelphia is a city of substantial gn the in- creaser On Wednesday viext the beautiful new warerooms at 1*226 Market street will be open to the public, when a choice disp ay of ft e confectionery will dazzle the eyes 4 CENTENNIAL GREETING *nd gladden the hearts of the young folks out for the holidays. We recommend all In a -arch of a new sensation to visit th. s magnificent establishment .—City Item, De¬ cember 13 th, 1875. A FINE IMPROVEMENT ON MARKET STREET. Messrs. Croft, Wilbur Sc Co., manufacturing confectioners, have erected a handsome new building on Market street, below Thirteenth, ou the site of the old National Hall. 'j he-nee- edifice is 66 feet front by 190 feet in depth, to a back street, and five stories high. The front is of iron, and is richly ornamented with columns, pilasters and cornices at each story. It has been painted a subdued gray color, and presents a very handsome at pearance. The budding is divided, 95 feet back, by an area 15 feet wide, the back building being 75 by 64 feet and five storb s high, to be used as a candy manufactory. The basemen! contains a 60-horse power steam engine to furnish power for the factory^ The rooms for tlie manufacture of choco ate are also in the basement, extending under both tho factory and the front building. The front on Market street is divided into th ee stores, the two on either side being 21 feet front by 95 feet deep, and five stories high. The cent e store will be occupied by Me srs Croft, Wilbur & Co. as a wholesale and retail wareroom. It is 24 feet front, aud runs back on the first floor 190 feet, tho e.itire depth of the lot. It is connected by bridges at each sto y with the facory building, and the upper story will be used as finishing and packing rooms, Ac. The first floor is elegantly fit ed up for the retail trade. The floor is laid with em austic tiles, the walls and ceilings are elaborately frescoed, and the fixtures are of oiled walnut, the show cases being of silver plate and plate glass. There are -everal very large mirrors in the walls. he gas fixtures are of bronze, of a new pattern, aud the store is one of tho handsomest on the street. The owners expect to commence busi¬ ness in their new building on Wednesday of next week .—Public Ledger, De ember llth, 1675. A FINE IMPROVEMENT ON MARKET STREET. Messrs 1 roft, Wilbur A- Co., manufacturing confectioners, have erected a hand¬ some new building on Market street, below Thirteenth, on the site of the old National Hall. The new edifice is 66 feet frout by lt-0 feet in depth, to a back street and five stories high. The front is of iron, and is richly ornamented with columns, pilasters, aud cornices at each story. It has been painted a subdued gray color, and presents . a very handsome appearance. Ti.e building is divided, 95 feet back, by an urna 15 feet wide the back building being 75 by 64 leet, and ve stories high, to be used as a candy manufactory. The basement contains a 60 horse power steam eng no, to furnish power for the factory. The rooms for the mauutacture of chocolate are also In the basemeut, extending under both the factory and the front building. The front on Market street i» divided in o three stores, the two on either side being 21 feet front by 95 feet deep, and five stories high. The centre store will bo occupied > y Me-srs. Croft, Wilbur i Co. as a wholesale and retail wareroom. It is 4 feet frout, and ruus back on the first floor 190 feet, the entire depih of the lot. It is connected by hr dgeg at each story with the factory building, and the upper story will be used as finishing and packing rooms, etc. The first floor is elegantly fitted up for the retail trade. The floor is laid with encaustic tiles, the walls and ceilings are elaborately frescoed, and the fixtures are of oile I walnut, the showcases beiug of silver plate aud plale glass. There are several very large mirrors in the walls. The gas fixtures are of bronze, of a new pattern, and the store is one of the handsomest on the street. The owners expect to commence business iu (heir new bui.diug on Wednesday of next week.— Evening Telegraph, December 14 th, 1875. A MARKET STREET IMPROVEMENT. The development of Market street into the noblest business thoroughfare on the Continent is not only a consummation devoutly to be wished but likely to be realized f within the century. The most recent architectural improvement is the fine iron aud brick structme which occupies the place where once stood the old ‘‘ National Hall,” Just below Thirteenth street. The building is imposing and commodious, the frontage being divided iuto three stores, with a depth of 95 feet and a height of five stories, aud a large factory, 75 feet by 64 feet, occupying the lot in the rear. Tbeimprove- meuts have been made by Messrs. Croft, Wilbur & Co., who will use the centre store and the adjoiniug factory for the manufacture and sale of their coufections The lnierior decorations of their salesroom are of a handsome and substantial character.— The Times, December Uth, 1875. AND POCKET GUIDE. b THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, i>E cannot too much exaggerate the great importance of this event to the future interests of the nation ; it presents the first oppor tunity ever offered to our inventors, mechanics and manufac¬ turers to display the great progress made in our various indus- t:ies to the inspection not only of our own people, but also oi the thousands from other lands who will visit Philadelphia on that occasion. There can be no question but that there will bo securt d in this way a largely increased demand for our own manufactures, but a'tention will also be turned to a more close competition with our foreign rivals. To the farmer and landholder, the opportunity is offered to secure both capital and labor by the propier presentation of the great sources of the various States, and the advantages for investment; an impetus will alsr be given to the introduction of new staples, such as silk, useful fibres for paper, coffee, teip tropical fruits, &c., &c. The occasion is one thataj peals to the national pride of every citizen, and the managers of this great enterprise feel justified in the expec'ation t ’at there will not be a branch of manufacturing industry unrepre¬ sented, however simple may be its character. In all the World Fairs of Eurone, Americans have carried off the majority of prizes in propor¬ tion to the articles on exhibition, and it would be a standing discredit to our people should we not me.tour competitors successfully on our own ground. No better evidence of the value of a free government can be given than an exhaustive exhibit of all its resources; and the credit due to those who risked their lives and fortunes for our independence will be most justly rendered by this tribute of industry and invention. Let every person who may receive this book use his best endeavor to give success to the International Exhibition of 1876, and thus make some return for the position lie occupies as an America-! citizen. The articles to be ex ibited have been classified, seven departments in all, as follows: ACRES COVEI1XD. DEPARTMENTS. BUILDINGS. 1. Mining and Metallurgy.."1 2. Manufactures.>Main Building. 21.47 S. Education and Science... J 4. Art.Art Gallery. 1.5 5. Machinery...Machinery Building. i 4 . 0. Agriculture.Agricultural Building. 10. 7. Horticulture.Horticultural Building. 1.5 Total. 48 47 The reception of articles begins January 5th, 1876, and ends April 19th. Unoccupied space forfeited April 26th. Exhibition opens May 10th, and closes November 10th, and all goods must be removed bv December 31st. 1876. The first illustration we give is a bird’s-eye view showing the loca¬ tion of the Exhibition Building. In addition to the five buildings erected by the Centennial Commission, are the following: The Jury Pavilion, an ornate two-story structure, which contains, besides the numerous smaller chambers appropriated to the deliberations of the In¬ ternational Juries, a spacious hall suitable for receptions and banquets, 6 CENTENNIAL GREETING the meetings of conventions and international congresses, and similar purposes. Next in the rear of this will be the building, an acre in size, which is to accommodate the Women’s Exhibition, a tasteful and com¬ modious structure, erected at a cost of $30,000 by the subscriptions of the women of America. West of this, and on the lower slope of George’s Hill, will be another structure, rivaling some of the Exhibition buildings in size and interest. This is to contain the collection, provided for by an executive order of the President, of “such articles and materials as wilt, when presented in a collective Exhibition, illustrate the functions and administrat ve faculties of the Government in time of peace, and its resources as a war power, and thereby serve to demonstrate the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people.” Our last Congress provided for the expenses of this exhibition by an appropriation of $505,000, and its preparation has been entrusted to officers representing the War, Treasury, Navy, Interior, Post-Office, and Agricultural de¬ partments, and the Smithsonian Institute. Special structures will al o be put up by Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and probably other States which have not yet matured their plans. Tho photographers, carriage- builders, and a number of other associa ions ana individual exhibitors, will find accommodations in buildings for their peculiar use. Many foreign nations will erect special buildings for their own use. Arrangements to this effect have thus far been completed by England, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Morocco, and are under con¬ sideration by other countries. As far as can at present be foreseen, the enure number of buildings on the Exhibition grounds is likely to be from two hundred to two hundred and fifty. • The plan of the grounds embraces seven miles of roads and foot-walks, all of them of a substantial character, quite a number of bridges, summer¬ houses, &c. An ample water supply will be provided. A complete system of mains and drains is a’ready finished, and ti e Exhibition, in addition to being able to draw from the Georgo’s Ilill City Reservoir, which is just outside the enclosure, and has 40,000,000 gallons capacity, will have an independent source of supply on the Schuylkill river, pumping-engines being placed thero especially for the Exhibition, which will have a daily capacity of 6,000,000 gallons. It will thus be seen that the water supply will be ample; like steam and exhibition space, it will be furnished free of cost. The largest influx of strangers is expected on July 4th, 1876. The Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Societies will dedicate their monu¬ mental fountain. They expect to parade 50,000 strong. Fifty thou¬ sand Germans dedicate the monument to Humboldt. Ten thousand Italians, 25,000 Israelites, and 20,000 Presbyterians will dedicate their respective statues. A least 25,000 soldiers are expected, representing the National Army and the Militia of many of the States of the Union. These will be reviewed by the President, and by the General of the United States Army. The grandest parade of Masonic Knights ever witnessed will also take place. The Cadets of Temperance wi.l parade 10,000 strong, and a number of civic societies, not yet fully determined upon, will also join in the grand pageant. AND POCKET GUIDE. BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF EXHIBITION GROUNDS 8 CENTENNIAL GREETING A number of Trade and Industrial Associations, which require l ar - amounts of space, will be provided for in special buildings. Amot these are the photographers, the carriage-builders, the glass-makers \£ cracker bakers, the boot and shoe manufacturers, beside, quite a n Ufil ’ bcr of individual exhibitors. The great demands for space will prcbabt render this course necessary to a considerable extent, especially f 0r exhibitors who have been tardy in making their applications. Iq K Main Exhibition Building, for example, 333,300 square feet of had been applied for by the beginning of October by American exkibi. tors only ; whereas, the aggregate space which it has been possible to reserve for the United States Department is only 160,000 square fe e t- about one third of which will be consumed by passage-ways. The Machinery Building, like the others, is already fully covered b applications. There are about 1,000 American exhibitors m this depart ment, 150 English, and 150 from other European countries—which j s about 250 more than entered the Vienna Machinery Exhibition. Extra provision is being made for annexes to accommodate the hydraulic m a . chinery, the steam-hammers, forges, hoisting-engines, boilers, plumbers carpenters, Power in the Machinery Hall will be chiefly supplied by a pair of monster Carliss engines. Each cylinder is 40 inches in diameter, and weighs fifty-five tons; the horse-power is 1,400; and the number of boilers is twenty. This engine drives about a mile of shafting For the Art Exhibition, the most eminent American artists are under¬ stood to be at work, and it is a matter of fact that, aside from the contributions from American artists, applications from abroad call for more than four times the exhibiting space afforded by the great Memorial Hall. Provision for the surplus will bo made in temporary « fire-proof buildings, though all exhibiting nations will be repiesented in the Central Art Gallery. The Secretary of the Navy has arranged that a United States war vessel shall call next spring, at convenient European ports, to collect and transport hither to the Exhibition the works of American artists resident in Europe. Among the ports thus far designated are South¬ ampton for England, Havre for France, Bremen for Germany, and Leg¬ horn for Italy, if desirable, others may be added. The Orders that will take part in the Exhibition, are: The Grand Lodge of Penna., I. O. of O. F.; Grand Encampment, I. O. of 0. F, ; Grand Lodge, United States, I. 0. of 0. E.; Grand Com. Knights Tem¬ plar ; G. Army ot the Republic; Presbyterian Synod; Caledonian Club; Portland Mechanic Blues ; Welsh National Eistedfodd ; Patriotic S. of A.; California Zouaves, of San Francisco; an International Regatta; the Life Ins. Companies; Nat. Board of Underwriters ; State Agricultu¬ ral So’y; 2nd Inf. N. G. of California; Phila. Confer. M. E. Church: Cincinnati Society ; California Pioneer Society ; Am. Dental Conven¬ tion ; Catholic T. A. Union of America; I. 0. of B’nai B’rith; National Alumni Ass’n ; Salesmen’s Ass’n ; 5th Maryland Reg’t; Am. Pomologi- cal So’y ; Malster’s Ass’n of the U. S.; Army of the Cumberland ; Hum¬ boldt Mon. Ass’n; Columbus Mon. Ass’n; B. of Trade Convention ; In¬ ternational Typographical Congress; Rifle Ass’n of the U. S.; Centen¬ nial Legion ; Phila. Co. Medical Society ; International Med. Congress; Old Volunteer Fire Department of Philadelphia, and many others. AND POCKET OFTDF. oa This structure will stand north of Horticultural Hon. and on the eastern side of Belmont Avenue Its maferinl* wood and glass, and consist of a lorg nave, crossed by transents being composed of Howe truss arches of a Gothic form The nave is 8-0 feet long, by 125 feet wide, with a heitht of 75 feet from the floor to the noint of the irA Th fo ^ m * transept is of the same height, and a breadth of 100 feet, the two end transepts 70 feet hth and SOfbet wide.' ° " rJ r g T lnd P a r r f b ' , ldi "S wiil be a parallelogram of 510 feet bv 820 feet, Covering a space of more than ten acres. In us immediate vicinity will be stock yards for the .exhibition of horses, cattle, sheep, swine^ poultry, 000 people to assemble beneath its Main Exhibition building,- it is 360 feet wide by 1 4o7fL 0 IonJ nd Tr den0e ’ ^ b , UildinS ] ° 0ated 542 f ° et W08fc ° f the entire area covered is 558,440 square feet or 12 82 V" “"** ° D tb ° ®° uth side of 208 by 210 feet - The almost the entiro length of tho building and s, oxc usive o the upper floors. Sixteen lines of shafting running in pos'tion. Twelve lengths of this shaft' 00 “ 11 or ' < ’ a ta introduced Into the aisles at almost every point., will bo plaoed revolutions per minute. ° 1D ® W1 6 rUn at a s P ee ^ of 120 revolutions, and four lengths at a speed of 240 CENTENNIAL GREETING AND POCKET GUIDE CtflVTinpr lAZ BORTTCUZTUBAZ, BUTIT>TSTG.- pntemiia 1 nf rsnnnAd __.... _.. .. OnteniihU I! 7,Z* 1. ^ " 'V' lfUU J>ING.— The liberal appropriation* of the City of Philadelphia have enabled the Park. The design is in rh« M« n e „ C fl , an extremely ornate and commodious building, which is to remain as an ornament of Fairmouut 193 feet, covering l.o acres. ^amesque style of a rchtteoture, of the twelfth century; the length of the buildings is 383 feet; width * CENTENNIAL GREETING 1 i * 1776. The International Exhibition, SUBSCRIPTION TO STOCK. Notwithstanding the hearty eo-operation of the American Press in supplying in. formation, there is still much ignorance in reference to the Centennial Stock and* iis character The organization of the Centennial Board of Finance has already* been explained, also the object of its formation; and, in the last annual report «( the Board, It is stated that there will be required to complete the work a sum not less than $3,500,000, which it is proposed to secure by sales of the Stock to citizens of the United States. This Stock is issued in Shares of $10 each, and every holder is entitled to an interest in the total proceeds of the Exhibition ; therefore, so far as each subscriber interests his friends and neighbors to co-operate, so far are his own interests increased. The Memorial Certificate is now ready for delivery to all who have subscribed, and it will be sent at once to all who wish, on receipt o[ Bs value, either in Post Office Order or Check, made payable to FREDERICK FRALEY, Treasurer, 904 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Tire steel engraved Certificate itself will ever remain a memorial of our interest in the occasion, and it is hoped and believed that few Americans will not, ere the expiration of this year, secure to themselves this evidence of their interest in the ennmon welfare of their country. The Certificate is engraved by the United States Treasury Department, and is in every respect a model, the Engraving Bureau of the Treasury deserving great credit for the admirable manner in which it i s produced. The plate is twenty-four by twenty inches, on the best bank note paper. The design is pyramidal, America forming the apex, with Fame and Art personified sitting at her feet; the busts of Washington and Grant on either side, typical of the commencement and end of the century. America is represented as welcoming the representatives of foreign nations, who bear symbols of their national industries and resources. Independence Hall and the National Capital are in the background. Beneath the former stand Fulton apd Fitch with their steamboat models, and under the latter are Frrnklin and Morse with electric and telegraphic instruments. On the right facing the figure of America, is Howe offering his sewing-machine, also a shipwright with a model of a clipper. The freedman, Continental and Federal soldier, and mechanic form a group on the right, and the farmer, planter, miner, trapper, and Indian, all presenting symbols of the avocations, the group on the left. The centre of the base is Trumbull’s painting of the “Signing of the^Declaration of Independence,” on the right of which is exemplified progress—the busy manufac¬ turing eitv in contrast with the neglected windmill. To the left of the base is represented civilization, combining the railroad, telegraph, steamship, and reaping machine, in contrast with the Conestoga wagon, mail rider, sailing vessel, and laborer with a sickle. The legend in the body of the certificate was engraved by a new and ingenious process, the invention of G. W. Casilear, Superintendent, of the Engraving Department of the Treasury, and it is most creditable, as is also the printing—the Department being determined to make the work worthy of the nation and the grand commemorative occasion. The designs and arrangement are due to Messrs. Ferris and Darley, American artists. , This stock certificate should be in the possession of every patriotic citizen as an heirloom, without reference to the fact of its being repaid with interest. It must be understood by our readers that the certificate is to b a retained, by the holder, (he principal and interest being paid on presentation of proper evidence of ownership after the close of the Exhibition. Should the receipts not prove sufficient to pay J entire amount, the division will be made equally among the stockholders. »The sale of tickets at fifty cents each is estimated to reach the sum of $5,000,000, j and is based upon the results of the Paris Exposition, which should be largely ex¬ ceeded when we consider the fact that we are a travelling community, and that the Birth-place of American Independence will be the Mecca to which all our fellovr- citizens will be attracted from every sect ; on of this great country, any increase in the above estimate of visitors will add that much to the resources to be divided among the Stockholders. AND POCKET GUIDE 15 FAC SIMILK OF CENTENNIAL MEDALS elegant building, located on Belmont Avenue, near the Horticultural Grounds, eovers an area of 30,000 square feet. Ine material is wood, roofed over by segmental trusses. It contains, in addition to space for exhibits, toilet and reception- rooms. In it, articles, the result of woman’s labor only, are to be exhibited. The whole cost, including- interval decora¬ tions, will be about $10,000. Great credit is due the Women’s Centennial Executive Committee, otwh,££ r *o Gillespie is the efficient President, for so successfully enlisting the sympathy and oo-oporation o with, the purposes of the Exhibition* CENTENNIAL GREETING AND POCKET GUIDE. 17 FAIRMOUNT PARK. -o- J IIIS Park, so inseparably connected -with the Centennial, contains 2,991 acres of ground, being more than three times as large as the Central Park °* New York. The best entrance for the stranger is at Coates street, -which is reached by the j Green and Coate* Street cars, and by the Union Line, or at Fairniount Bridge entrance—equally as good as the other—reached by the Callowhill Streetcars, Arch Street, Bace and Vine, and Spruce and Pine Street Passenger cars. Either of these entrances bring the visitor directly to the Fairniount Water-Works, which should be closely inspected; they are grand, wonderful, startling. The mighty engines found here are worked by water-power, and also by steam; they pump up into the reser¬ voir on the top of the adjoining hill about 25,000,000 gallons of water,on an average, each day in the year, or about 7,000,000,000 gallons a year. From the rear of the en¬ gine houses a splendid view of Fairniount dam is obtained ; after leaving here, and passing into the open space north-eastward, the visitor comes upon the Art Gallory 8 CENTENNIAL GREETING in which are placed many handsome paintings by eminent artists- ti ^ being iree, he should not fail to visit it; from here to the Lincni* «77 is but a short distance, and as it is in a direct line to Lemon Hill *h • . ttoilu tt ’ fail to observe the beautiful bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln. ’ 06 Vlsitorc H B °g tic cu^i'e^by^obrrtThfrrfs during tlmRerohiH 0 BU } Mansion ’ the house o, and taking in the beauty of thescen^v bvloT 17 s nx ^o After resting awhii 1 or me sceneiy, by looktngdown the Schuylkill the visito AND PACKET GUIDE. 19 ~T, j7„„ inclined can ramble on and pay a visit to Vv'est Park, '" inch lies directly as - the Schuylkill. to the north-west, and is reached by the Girard Avenue End, , aC e of he handsomest structures of its kind in the world. Immediately above this bridge isUie connecting railroad bridge, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com¬ pany the three beautiful arches of which form the entrance to the I\ cst 1i ark, a t £*elesfield. A little to the south-west from Girard Avenue Bridge are the Zoolo; i- caTGardens, containing the finest collection of birds, animals and flowers to be ound iu this country. The admission lor adults is 2o cenis,for children 10 cents. 00 CENTENNIAL GREETING AND POCKET GUIDE. 21 We believe there is no place in Philadelphia that will give more pleasure to the visitor than an afternoon in the Zoological Gardens. Among the most noted animals to be seen there, are three varieties of the kangaroo, ana the same number of wallabys; tigers, spotted hyenas, ocelots, lynxes, leopards, giraffes, Angora cats, coa'i mondi, Javan swine, wombats, Tasmanian devils, bears, ichneumons, Texas ■wild cats, Java porcupine, panthers, zebras, aoudads, foxes, five species; wolves, three species; prairie dogs, badger, beavers, elephants, rhinocerous, eik, deer, seve¬ ral varieties; Llamas, antelopes, bisons, and American reindeer. Of these animals, numbers have given birth to young in the Gardens, all Of which, mothers and children, are doing well. The collection of birds is very fine, indeed, and so of the reptiles, which, while not so agreeable to look at as the bright plumage of the birds, yet they form an at¬ tractive study for the naturalist. It is proper here to observe that, in May, 1874, Congress passed a bill admitting, free of duty, all beasts, birds and reptiles intended for the Zoological Gardens of Philadelphia, and on November 14th, 1874, the Secre- THE BEAU ms. tary of the N T avy requested all commanders, and other officers to foreign statiops, to “ aid the Zoological Society of Philadelphia in its laudable enterprise.’’ One of the things which makes it so pleasant for ladies and children to visit, is the entire absence of spirituous liquors—their sale being forever prohibited inside the Gardens. As an evidence of the attractiveness, we mention that 310 000 persons visited the place during the first year it was open, although it was far less attractive then than now. The management of the Zoological Gardens have made provision that visitors can enjoy, at moderate prices, ail the delicacies of a first-class cuisine, as well as hearty and substantial fare, adapted to the tastes and requirements of the million, without the necessity of going beyond the Garden area. The restaurant structure is a beau¬ tiful one, and will command attention for its ample porticos, its deep bay-windows, and the commandiug situation it occupies. Its lessee, Mr. F. A. Hardt, of Philadel¬ phia, has profited by the experience of the proprietors of corresponding depart¬ ments in London, Paris and Vienna. All their imperfections ho has avoided ; and, 22 CENTENNIAL GREETING as is plainly apparent, he has improved upon their improvements, and will rm at the Centennial Exhibition a plate ibr refreshment not surpassed by any i 5 ‘ : already conceded that in several respects these Zoological Gardens excel e?* other one in the world, and that of St. Petersburg can be made no except | contract or by the card. HOUSE FOB MONKEYS, • *x. VVi m ■ i The easiest access to the Zoological Gardens is as follows : 1. Girard Avenue vij the Girard Avenue Bridge, leading direct to the northern gate. 2. Arch Street’ vii Callowhill Street Bridge, to Thirty-fifth Street, thence north direct to the sou then gate. 3. Race and Vine Streets, same route. 4. Spruce and Pine Streets, to thi Gree n Street entrance of the East Park, thence a pleasant walk via river road aid Girard Avenue Bridge. 5. Union Line, via Brown Street entrance Last Park 6. Green Street and Fairmount Avenue Line, direct to Fairmount Avenue entrance' East. Park, 7. P hiladelphia and Reading Railroad, direct to Brown Street entrance 8. By the three pleasant steamers which ply on the Schuylkill, leaving Fairmount every thirty minutes, landing and taking on passengers at the Garden, within a few yards of the northern gate. Visitors preferring tocross the river by ferry-boats will always find a safe boat to carry them over at the turn of the river road, north of the boat-houses, landing them at the southern gate; and, lastly, by carriages, which are always to be found at the carriage stand, East Park. b ' Feeding-Time of the Animai.s.— Lions and Tigers, 4.00 P.M.; Eagles, 3 30 P M • Elephants and Rhinoceros, 10,00 A.M, and 4.30 PAL Other herbivorous’ and grani' vorous animals, twice a day. : AND POCKET GUIDE. 23- GIRA.FFE. a sound of any kind—not even when in the egonies of death. It is a native of various parts of Africa, and is ranked the tallest of all animals which walk on the face of (ho globe. The height of the male, when full grown, is from eighteen to twenty feet; thnt of the female is somewhat less. ~T rr.'ZTT^iT^mierfu 1 animals were placed in the garden at a cost of many thou- S ^nirs in the latter part of the summer of 1874, two of which, however, have died. la a eentie, playful, and very inquisitive animal; readily attaches itself to its companions, and ever endeavors to attract attention by a sort of coquettish fc e r grades, it winds along the open grounds, and so 3aches a rustic bridge which crosses the river road. CENTENNIAL GREETING i. UP°n entering the_Park, after crossing Girard Avenue Bridge Uu >, ' • Is Lansdowne, lollowtng the broad earria^e-wav around inr n ,,, * ’ *”® hror, mark the soot where stood rniittET V *5® monster.*** height which towers grandly above ’the Exhibition grounds SKlS* of a mile from the Centennial Buildings. The groundhereis2tft^ UU - river, and from this spot—which, “in «n the ., v re '1 210 le «i,/ Hill, as a per] 4 ’ - - - tall spires ana .««««« uouwa u»ai marie the niaces «h«m praise to God MONSTER PINES, WEST PARK. iTo .^fbSSSo?*” 310 * ™ back is by Belmont Mansion, leaving the Besorvo r $11 » P* by Mount Prospect, where the Park all the Z iTm I * • rI S ht -the lce SliSSSS^Ilsg AND POCKET GUIDE. 27 nore picturesque is the drive from Fairmount along the east bank of the ‘ ni-lKil to Strawberry Mansion. The view of the river is everywhere beautiful, 1 - ^udeod but it is especially imposing from Laurel liill, as it flows sadly, as it were. oetween the two cities of the silent, dead, which here line its banks. Almost 25,000 persons sleep their last sleep in East Laurel Hill Cemetery and West Laurel Hill, even more beautiful, gives rest to many more. 28 CENTENNIAL GREETING After Raving Laurel Ilill, it Is but a short distance to ih B v there Is no prettier drive anywhere than along the Wissaliickon i'^ o to uu unvo auywnure man aioug tue VV iasahicl <« 1 Fairmoun t? 8 ' Cr038 the at Falia Brid * e ’ and & Vrat SsaHS-i 5 ? sirs: u 1 RrK > Louis, 2/G acres; Lincoln Faik, Chicaj AND POCKET GUIDE. 29 PWnix Park, Dublin, 1,752 acres; Hyde Park, England, 389 acres; Windsor Great Park, 1.800 acres; Victoria Park, 300 acres; Albert Park, 409 acres; and the crystal Palace Park, Edinburg, 200 acres. CENTENNIAL GREETING AND POCKET GUIDE. 31 WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERY. f O be secure from intrusion, a cemetery must be guarded either by a high, and necessarily, therefore, an ugly wall, by legislative enactments, or be inclosed by natural boundaries, such as precipitous ravines or valleys. The wall or the legislative enactment are barriers which, having been erected by human agency,can be pu led down by the same instrumentality. They are usually erected where there is no great disposition to intrude, because there are not j any interests to be interfered with. As soon, however, as the cemetery walls become au obstacle to the movements of an increased population, it only be¬ comes a question of a few years as to the removal of the impediment. Hot so with water-courses or natural barriers to intrusions. If these defensive * iriclosures of nature are so great that they cannot be overridden, the flow of travel conforms itself to the physical characteristics of the couniry. l To be successful, however, a cemetery must be easy of access, and all large cities will, ultimately, be compelled to use steam communication. London, Hew York and Chicago, have already adopted this mode of transit, and the day is not far dis¬ tant when Philadelphia's will take the cars to reach the cemetery as treely as they do to go out to Germantown. Already notices of funerals by railroads are not un- frequent. The impropriety of making interments beneath and around city churches has long been acknowledged, and of l-.te years it ht* been felt that all buiials within the built up portions of cities are open to objections. Again and again, in the pro¬ gress of improvements in Philadelphia, the fields of the dead have been broken up and the renulsive sight'of human skulls and other boues shovelled out to make room for tlio foundations of stores or dwellings has shocked the feelings of sur¬ vivors. Even suburban cemeteries, if not sufficiently remote, are liable to be cut up by streets as the city stretches out its ever-expanding arms; and the feeling is growing in the public mind that burials should take place at such a distance from the built-up portion of t he town that the repose of the dead may be assured forever The history of mankind in all ages shows that the human heart clings to the grave of its disappointed hopes—that it seeks consolation in rearing emblems and monu¬ ments, and in collecting images of beauty of the disappearing relics of humanity This can be fitly done, not in the tumultuous and harassing din of cities, not in the rgloomy and repulsive vaults of charnel-houses,hut amid tho-quiet verdure of the field, under the broad and tffieerful light of heaven, where the harmonious and ever-changing face of nature remiuds us, by its resuscitating influences, that to die is to live again. Nature seems to have provided tills appropriate location for the resting-place of tho dead, while art is adorning it and making it still more attractive. The views up and dowu the Schuylkill from a height greater than that of George's Hill, and the extensive prosfiectof a beautiful surrounding country, need only to he seen to be appreciated, while the river front affords picturesque sites for vaults, monuments, and larnily lots. West Laurel Hill, on Belmont Avenue, or Forty fourth Street, combines "natural protective boundaries and beauty of location, with the additional merit of easy accessibility by carriage or ttie Leading Kaiiroad. Forty fourth Street, at Lancaster Avenue (one of the great radial arteries of travel from Market ft rent Bridge) widens into a noble avenue of one hundred feet, and is beautifully bordered with trees. After passing Girard Avenue, another great thoroughfare, Forty-fourth Street, or Belmont Avenue, enters and bisects the West Park. It ri es by *asy grades to the level of that plateau of high land which constitutes the ranee-of hills encircling Philadelphia on the north and west.. This range sweeps around the city and is familiar to our citizens as Chelten Hills, Germantown, fioxborough, Bel¬ mont, Georgehi Hill, Haddington, etc. Just beyond the West Park, Montgomery County comes down to meet West Philadelphia, the township of Lower Merion overlapping Manavunk, the Falls, etc. It is on a spur of this high land, which pushes out into and is pa'itially encircled by the Schuylkill, and whose north and south sides are buttressed by high precipitous ravines that West Laurel Hill is situated. As its elevation is two hundred and twenty-five feet above the river, views of remarkable beauty pro obtained on the eastern (or river) front, reaching up the valley of the Felluvlkill to Flat Bock Dam, and down the river to Chamounix and Laurel Hill. As it was projected by and its management is under the care of Mr. John Jay Smith, it is reasonable to expect that it will soon become an object of interest and pride to the citizens of Phila¬ delphia. The office of the Company is No.115 South Fifth Street, where all infor¬ mation concerning tho sale of lots can be had. CENTENNIAL GREETING ENTRANCE TO ODD FELLOWS’ CEMETERY. AND POCKET GUIDE. 33 MOUNT VERNON CEMETERY. ENTRANCE TO MOUNT VEIINON CEMETERY, This cemetery, located.on Ridge Av. nue, opposite Laurel Hill, is reached by the Ridge Avenue line of passenger cars, ana by the steamboats which leave Fairiuount. THE GARDEL MONUMENT. This monument, of Italian marble, elaborate and ornate, the design and wnrk- nvinship of statuary artists of European celebrity, was erecel a Tlie monument over the remains of Lawrence Johnson, and the Sherman Obelisks, arc the handsomest improvements in Mount Vernon Cemetery. 34 CENTENNIAL GREETING Tli > Wissahickon is famous as a place for fishing, and if the visitor W | ] “catfish and coffee” supper at one of the restamauta on the banks of thisst^ 1 he will have something pleasant to remember as long as he lives as the Wisi hickon catfish are said to be superior to those caught in any other waters. AND POCKET GUIDE 3t> close of the 17th century, who, with John Kelpius’ followers, located at this place to meet ‘‘the woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and twelve Btars on her forehead; she who had fled into the wilderness.” As she failed to come, her “Lover” leaped from the rock to meet her, and now other lovers whose sweet¬ hearts come not, walk to that rock, look at its heighth and—walk away to make the acquaintance of less heartless ladies. * miarter of a mile above the Log Cabin is a high bluff; it is a striking object r A the carriage road. The rock which rises from the bluff is called The Lover’s i in which overlooks from its crest a wi d gorge. It is the scene of one of the tmerous traditions which sutvive here. The “Lover” is presumed to have been Fabriciua Ueimstadt, a scholar and mystic, who came from Germany, towards tha 36 CENTENNIAL GREETING A hundred yards above the Pipe Bridge, a wooden bridge crosses the st leaving the carriage-way and crossing this bridge, turning to the left and folio 1 a pathway a short distance along the hill side, progress is arrested by a stream shein Creek, which joins the Wissahickon. At this point is a spot lrequenW «!* by the superstitions in the early days of the Province, and now, for more than K a century, by artists and all lovers of nature. It is certainly a wild place; roclu^ thrown together in great nmssos, and the long trunks of hemlocks and pines jut up from the darkness around the pool into the sunshine above. The waters of a small tributary of the Wissahickon run into t his pool, whose depth has been very sugnes- tlve to the superstitious minds which gave it its name. The place is very readily accessible, and artists’sketches through our rallerics have made it widely known. It was the scene of an engagement during the battle of Germantown, and its watan once had stains bust now forgotten. AND POCKET GUIDE. 37 PHILADELPHIA. f Mll£ city of Philadelphia is located upon the Delaware river, about fifty miles if from its mouth. It was lounded in 1GS2, by William Penn, and at that time mi had about 500 inhabitants. Its earliest settlers were mostly l'riends; the j population increased rapidly by emigration from Germany, the north of Ire¬ land, and Sweden. Tho Germans made their settlement at Germantown, which was then called one of the inland towns of Pennsylvania—it is now the Twenty- second Ward Of this city, and contains a larger population than did the city of Philadelphia in 1776. The Swed s made their settlement in the vicinity of Front and Carpenter; and the friends began business about Dock street, their Btar of empire rapidly taking its way northward as far as Kensington. On the 5th day of September, 1774, the first Continental Congress met here, and from that meeting of patriot sires resulted the Declaration of American Inde¬ pendence, the seven years’ struggle with the fourfold foe—the hritish soldiery, the savage Indian, the merciless Hessian, and the grim, strong arm of want and despair —ending in the establishment of the Government of the United States of America. With a population of less than one thousand, two hundred years ago, and increased to 21,000 in 1776, Philadelphia has now, in 1875 about 1,000,000 inhabitants. The city lias an area of 129^ square miles, on which stands 150,000 dwelling-houses, occupied by about the same number of families.it being a rare exception to find two families residing in the same house This exceeds the number of dwelling- houses in New York by over 60,000; Daltimore, by over 83,000, and Boston by ovt r 94.000 There are about 9,000 manufactories here, with acapital of nearly $250 000,000, and giving employment to about 150.000 people, the product of whose labor is almost ? 450,000.000 annually. No other city on the American Continent approximates his amount: and, wit.ly the single exception of London, Philadelphia is the greatest manufacturing city in the world. Its water privileges are unequalled by any other city—the Delaware river, on its eastern hue. is of a sufficient depth to float the largest ve-sels in service; it forms a wharfage front more than twelve miles in length. The Schuylkill, a larger stream than the Thames, flows through the eeutre of a large portion of the city. The general h-alth of the city is better than any other cily in the world. The real estate of the city, including the property not taxable, is valued at $633,592,093. We have over 400 public school buildings, in which m ire than 90,000 children are educated. Our places of public worship num¬ ber over 500, with a seating capacity of 400,000. We have about 2,000 city railroad cars, running over 300 miles of track, carrying passengers to almost every part of the city for a fare of seven cents. The city is lighted by 10,000 public lamps, supplied from nearly 700 miles of gas mains, while the 15,000,009,000 gallons of water used annually is forced through about 650 mpes of water pipe. There is no other city in the world of its dimensions or population that possesses such accommodations for its people; mechanics, and even laborers, whose daily earnings in < ther cities barely sustain life and provide a shelter for themselves and families, except in the mo t rude, coarse and crowded way. are here the occupants of single and comfortable dwellings, and thousands of them are owners of their own houses. iOur Post Office employs 2 7 carriers, who deliver to Philadelphians 17 891,736 mail letters a year, 9,760,824 local letters, and 8,693,361 newspapers. About the same number of mail letters are collected by carriers. The city is governed by a Mayor, elected by the people every three years, and by a Select and Common Council The Select Councilmen are chosen for three years, eacli of the Wards of the city electing one member; the members of Common Council are elected for two years, one member being chosen for each 2,000 taxables residing in tho Ward from which the member is elected. Philadelphia is the only city on the Atlantic seaboard that maintains a line of steamers sailing beneath the American flag, and we feel considerable pride in the fact that it is from this city alone the grain of American farmers, the handiwork of American workmen, and American travellers for Europe are carried across the ocean in steamships built by American mechanics out of the products of our mines and forests, and owned exclusively by American citizens; and it is doubtless owing to this fact that the commerce of our port is so rapidly increasing. Philadelphians, as a rule, are a plain, matter-of-fact sort of people; unlike New Yorkers, they are not given to osten'atious show, and it is gratifying to know that the reputation of Philadelphia tradesmen tor integrity and fairness in dealing is proverbial throughout the whole of the United States. 38 CENTENNIAL GREETING I - . As merchandise is invariably sold at fairer rates in T'hiladi Inhii th,„ • City in the Union, there is ordinarily no good reason why thecount! n a ”Jo(lk| should not come here to buy bis stock ; but when, in addition to tbk ^ • thousand attractions that our great Exhibition presents, we exlect L ° fleteJ ^ literally run down with buyers, large and small, and to all we greeting; and for the beneiit of those whom business and p'casu™ ^ aCo «ii city, we would briefly state that the following are among * ur most not^i^ tar " m ‘° a ° d ““<* wwSbs?*i INDEPENDENCE HALL IN 1776. e mfirmed, under the Great Seal of Itovaltv toVil n,™ p n>/'»« wroU many places I have seen in the world f rempmW ; and » of »H. tb eoems to me to have been appointed for ° ne better seated; so that j or the conveniency of the coves natural Mother ^ regard the two river the land and the air,” AND POCKET GUIDE MASONlO TJUMKL.K ODD FELLOWS’ hall. n f r er 0f 0 < 1 , V n- ab °"* the >' enr K00, located at Second Street and Norris’ Al ev ’^ '"ndred years ago. The house born, who after wards became Governor of Penney vunti" * Americ “»=” AND POCKET GUIDE. 47 PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. i BOUT fifty-five years ago, several deaf mutes were often seen wan¬ dering about the streets in various parts of the city. Hags and dirt indicated poverty and destitution. Their gestures, grimaces and uncouth mutterings drew the attention and excited the laughter or the pity of the passing throng. The extended hand claimed and often received the bounty for which these children were unable to ask. To their friends, such as they had, they were bur¬ dens ; to tire public they were objects of suspicion and apprehension, and to the philanthropist their cases seemed hopeless. There was one, however, who saw in their cunning, their powers of imitation and their natural skill in pantomime, the evidence of mental faculties which only required development. The key to this development he thought might be found in a system of motions or signs. Prompted by feelings honor¬ able to any heart, he gathered a number of these wanderers under his own roof, and from his limited resources gave them clothes and food to induce them to return to him day after day, till he had established a system of communication with, and had obtained a degree of influence over them. This ingenious and persevering individual was David G. Seixas, who met his numerous difficulties al~ne, and overcame them unaided, by his own skill and industry. His success soon attracted the attention Doth of the curious and of the benevolent, and the deaf and dumb school of Mr. Seixas became soon the wonder and admiration of Philadelphia. From this beginning arose the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, now among the most prominent ot the benevo¬ lent Institutions of the city. CENTENNIAL GREETING. AND POCKET GUIDE. 49 GIRARD COLLEGE. time is not far distant when the name of Stephen Girard will be as highly honored as that of Washington. While advancing time may dim the lustre of i die fame of Washington, each returning year will brighten the halo that « r«athes the honored name of the founder of this, the noblest institution on llie American Continent. Siephen Girard was born in Bordeaux, France, May "21st, 1750; he came to this f ity iu May, 1776, and soon thereafter began a San Domingo and New Orleans trade, which was early extended to other points. Loading one of his vessels with grain at Philadelphia, he would send it to Bordeaux, and there exchange it for wines and fruits; these lie would ship to St. Petersburg, where they would be exchanged for iron and hemp; these would then be taken to Amsterdam, and sold for coin; with the gold the ship would sail to China and India, there load with tea and shawls, return to Philadelphia, sell the cargo for cash, or negotiable paper, and net $100,000 for her owner. After an active, useful business life of more than fifty years in this country, Mr. Girard, at the age of eighty years, died on the 26t h of December, 1831, leaving behind him a devise that will make his name honored through all coming time as among (lie Boldest men the world ever knew. The amount left by Mr. Girard for the erec¬ tion and maintenance of the College which bears bis name now aggregates $6,000,000. Iu this College six hundred orphan boys are fed, clothed and gi.veu a thorough edu- [ ration, the grade being about the same as given at our State Normal Schools, or at the Boys’ High School, in this city. At the age of sixteen or seventeen years the 1 boys are apprenticed to learn useful trades or occupations, and many a newspaper publisher, miller, farmer, and many other tradesmen, in all parts of Pennsylvania —for the boys are apprenticed anywhere in the State—has bad cause to bo thankful, cot only for a gentlemanly and honorable boy, but for his knowledge of practical mathematics. The Masonic Temple, in Philadelphia, the grandest edifice of its kind in the world, is, throughout all its wonderful conceptions, massive proportions and har¬ monious whole, the work of a graduate of Girard College. The architect of this coble edifice was early left an orphan; the loss of a father was, in a pleasure, soft¬ ened by the parental care of the College which cared so tenderly for him; and how highly honored must his preceptors feel, as they look upon the stately edifices reared in all sections of our city, magnificent landmarks that mark the progress of but one of the many useful men Girard College has given to society. This incident, not generally known, will serve to show wbat a warm-hearted man Stephen Girard was. In the year 1793 the yellow fever made its appearance in Philadelphia, and desolated the city; those who could fled to the country, terror- stricken, from the dreadful plague. A hospital for yellow fever patients was estab¬ lished at Bush Hill, from which at last even the nurses fled with affright- Girard, at this time a man 6f wealth, and In the very prime of life, aged forty-three years, volunteered his services, and served sixty days and nights as a nurse in that dreadful place, tenderly caring for thesick, soothing the pangs of the dying and burying the dead. God spared his life for a still more noble purpose, and through centuries yet to come will those who enjoy his beneficence bless the honored founder of Girard College. The main edifice is built in the Grecian style of architecture, and is one of the finest specimens of that order in this country. It is located upon one of the highest points of ground in Philadelphia, east of the Schuylkill, and from its grand roof, built of marble, and rising step by step from eaves to ridge, a most commanding view of the city is obtained. There is no other place in this city from which so grand a view of city aud country, for many miles around, is obtainable. On entering the College grounds the visitor will be surprised and highly gratified at the beauty of the horticultural display which adorns the lawn frontingthe Col¬ lege. Upon entering the College, the first thing that strikes t he eye is the Sarco- plpigus containing the body of Stephen Girard. Standing on the fop of this marble casket is the statue of Mr. Girard, carved in marble, and habited in the style of ap¬ parel worn by Girard. Girard College is located at Ridge Avenue and Girard Avenue, and can be reached by the cars that run up Nineteenth Street, by the Bulge Avenue, line, from almost anywhere in the city by the Union Line going out Poplar Street, and by the Girard Avenue Line. Tickets of admission can bo had at the Public Ledger office. Sixth and Chestnut streets, or from the Mayor of the city. The Institution is open every day except Sundays. 50 CENTENNIAL GREETING GIRARD BANK. The Girard Bank, on Third street, below Chestnut, is so inseparably conneciri with Stephen Girard, that we give an illustration of it. This building was tl:o banking-house of Mr. Girard, where he transacted business with marked precisian »nd perseverance. UNITED STATES CUSTOM HOUSE. On Chestnut street, above Fourth, is the Custom House, built in style similar to that of Girard College. It is a fine specimen of the Doric order of architecture, in imitation of the celebrated Parthenon of Athens. It cost 8500,000 to build it. HOUSE OF CORRECTION. 51 AND POCKET GUIDE. House of Correction, located at the mouth of Penny pack Creek, Is a building wines and contains about 1,500 cells, and is capable of accommodating 2^500 men and" women who require the refining influences of this public chanty. The building was erected by Mr. Richard J. Dobbins whose fame as a builder of the Centennial Exhibition Buildings is world-wide. 52 CENTENNIAL GREETING AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY 53 AND POCKET GUIDE, The Young Men’s Christian Association’s Building,located at Fifteenth and Chest- nut Streets, is one of the finest architectural ornaments in Philadelphia; it covers the entire lot extending from Chestnut to Sansom street, 230by 72 feet, on Chestnut street; it is five stories in height, with Mansard roof; it is built of Ohio blue-stone, with buff trimmings, with a base of Quincy granite, the principal entrances being embellished with columns of highly-polished red granite; over thecentral entrance, on Fifteenth street, a massive stone tower rises to the height of 95 feet. The cost of the structure is $-120,000, and of the lot $185,000. The rentals from stores, halls, ic., will amount to about $30,000 a year, which will pay all the expenses of the As- YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUILDING. sociation. This building is a fitting companion to the grand Temple of the Free- Masons, the splendid edifice of the Natural Scientists, and of the beautiful Academy of Fine Arts. Tlio American Baptist Publication Society’s Building, located just below tho Young Men’s Christian Association’s Building, is another architectural adornment, of which, as a city, we are proud; it is five stories in height, with a front of 46 feet, built of puro white marble, the depth being 230 feet. Tho four arched openings in the front are supported by round columns, entirely clear of the surrounding mar¬ ble-work, thereby making it one of the most attractive fronts ; n our city. GENTENNIAL GREETING 54 It is now almost two hundred years since this Church was organized • itsflr^t tor was Rev. Mr. Clayton, under whose ministration the church was built in & During 1727 Robert Asheton, Recorder and Prothonotary of the city, was buried i Christ Church yard, “in much pomp, by torchlight, after the English manner la , people of distinction.” In March and May, 1753, two lotteries were drawn each °# 4,500 tickets, at £4 each, for the purpose of finishing the steeple, which was bee ° f in 1727. This scheme netted the vestry about $5,000, and the steeple wasfinkv!'!! the year following, at a cost of $10,500. The chime of eight bells, brought frm!} England at a cost of $4,500, weighed 8,000 pounds, and were taken down in 1777 °^ CHRIST CHTOCH. keep them from falling into the hands of the British ; they, with the State House boll, were taken to Trenton for safety. A goblet and two tankards, used in com¬ munion service, were presented by Queen Anne, of England; they bear this in¬ scription: “Annae Anglican ae pud Philad., A.D. 1708.” One of the chief orna¬ ments of the steeple was a representation of the British crown; but in the year 1777 the steeple was struck by lightning, the rain conductor destroyed and “the crown entirely melted,” Washington and Franklin each had a pew in this church, and during the Presidency of the former he went regularly with his family to worship there. AND POCKET GUIDE. 55 The Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul la 136 feet wide, 216 feet long, and W]4 ’ t) , s navement to tne apex of the pediment. The exterior diameter of the dome is •Y fa nj its total height 210 feet. The interior of tho Cathedral is cruciform, and de¬ fied in the most elaborate Corinthian style. Unlike most buildings in this country, lire are no side windows, and all the light is introduced from above, which, taken in function with the prevailing colors of the whole interior, resembling Parts stone. THE CATHEDRAL. inrvellously heightens the architectural effect. The fresco-painting of the Crucifixion e four figures in chiaroscuro of the four Apostles, the four medallions in the corners of e dome ronresenting the Evangelists, the painting in the crown of the dome of the As- le dome ropresen g Vmnninto Heaven, and the illustrations in either transept of re^NativHy^f 6 our^Lord^and 1 the Adoration of the Kings from tho East, giveamngnifi- ^ to Ihe y interior of this noble structure which will compare most favorably With the 56 CENTENNIAL GREETING tat Cathedrals of the Old World. The facade consists of a portico of four gigantic column, 60 feet high and 6 feet in diameter, with richly-sculptured bases and capitals, and on the frieze are engraved the words: “ Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.” The structure coBt upwards of a million dollars. It is located at Eighteenth and Race streets. Among the many charitable institutions of this city, few are more deserving than the Pennsylvania Institution for Instruction of the Blind, located at Twentieth and Race Streets. It was founded by the State of 1’eDnsylvania, in 1833, and now has accommodations for 225 pupils. During last year over 55,000 brushes, brooms and whisks were made at the Institute by the blind. Visitors are warmly wel¬ comed at all times; the best time, however, to visit the place, is on Wednesday afternoon, between three and five o’clock, at which time a concert is always given It is an Interesting, although a sad sight, to witness the boys of the Blind Asylum engaged in the amusements of boyhood; the force with which a fourteen-year okl boy strikes from the shoulder; the precision with which he drives his fist straight for the nosoofhis opponent, and the dexterity with which the other fellow wards PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE FOR THE IIUNl). oil'the blow, and often succeeds in “getting home his bunch of fives” on his con¬ testant’s eating apparatus would astonish Tom Allen, even if it did not teach him a lesson in sparring yet unlearned by that noted pugilist. Doubtless these pitiable boys and girls are as happy in each others’ society at the “ Asylum” as it is possible for the young to be who are totally and hopelessly blind. Rather more than a square eastward, on Race street, is Wills’ Eye Hospital, another charitable institution, founded by the late James Wills, ior the free treat¬ ment of diseases of the eye. The building is a neat stone structure, with a trout on Race street of about *80 feet. It accommodates about one hundred in-door patients. Daily treatment at 2 P.M. The Presfon Retreat, founded by Dr. James Preston, is a 'beautiful white marble building, located in the centre of the plot of ground occupiug the square from Twentieth to Twenty-first streets, and from Hamilton to Spring Garden. This in¬ stitution is designed as a lying-in hospital for indigent married women; it has ac¬ commodations for about fifty patients. Visitors are admitted daily. This building, with its Doric portico and cupola, is fully regarded as one of our city’s finest orna¬ ments. ~ AND POCKET GUIDE. wills’ eye hospital. PRESTOS RETREAT. 3* 58 CENTENNIAL GREETING rp,™ 3 ^iW^g ls locatcd on Passyunk Avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets The budding is of Quincy granite, in the Tudor style of architecture. It contains FrSnSwXut e it TlCketS admission can be obtained of Mr - ^es A. EASTERN PENITENTIARY. Located on Fail-mount Avenue, west of Twenty-first Street. Cost ?G00 000 The lot of ground on which it is built embraces eleven acres. The prison ismanaled upon the solitary confinement plan, each prisoner having a cell to himself No enf poreal Pumshmen t of prisoners is permitted. The place is worthy a visit Ticket Street? from Uon ' Rlcbard Yaux > President of the Board, No. 520 Walnut AND POCKET GUIDE.5 5& (EVENTS IN PHILADELPHIA. ' The first parks or public inclosures laid out is North America for the pleasure aud eon- • renience of the people were dedicated at the siitlemeatof Philadelphia, in che North-east¬ ern, South-eastern, North-western. South-west¬ ern and Centre Squares, in 1681 The first paper-mill established in North America was built upon the Wissahickon, near Germantown, by Wm. Rittenhouse and Win. liradford, in 1690. '1 he first public school in the American Colonies was estab.ished at Philadelphia, Feb. 12th, 1(198, and a corporation created, entitled, "The Overseers of the Publiok Schoolefounded in Philadelphia." In this school it was ordered by the Governor and Council, “All children and servants, male and female, whois parents, guardians & masters be wilting to subject ym to the rules and orders of the said schoole, shall from time to time, with the approbaon of the overseers thereof for the time being, be re¬ ceived or admitted, taught or instructed; the rich at reasonable rates, and the poor to be maintained and schooled for nothing " The first school-house was built on the east side of Fourth street, below Chestnut street. Enoch Flower was the first schoolmaster. The first Presbytery in the United States was organized at Philadelphia, in 1706, by seven Presbyterian ministers. The Philadelphia Library, the first public in¬ stitution of that kind in America, was fouuded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin, Thos. Hopkinson, Thomas Cadwalader, and others, July 31st, 1731. The Philadelphia Hospital, the oldest in America, was established in connection with the Philadelphia Almshouse, in 1732. The Union Fire Company, the first voluntary association for the extinguishment of fires in the United States, and probably iu the world, was lounded at Philadelphia, Dee. 7th, 1736, by Benjamin Franklin and others. The American Philosophical Institution, the first institution devoted to science in North America, was founded at Philadelphia, in 1713, by Benjamin Franklin, John Bartram, Dr. Thomas Bond. Thomas Godfrey, and others. The Pennsylvania Hospital, the first estab¬ lishment in North America devoted to the re¬ lief of the sick aud suffering, was chartered by tho Assembly of Pennsylvania, February 7th, 1751, at the solicitation of Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Thomas Bond, Rev, Richard Peters, and others. Tho Philadelphia Contributionship for in¬ surance against losses by fire was established in Philadelphia in 1752, being the first fire in¬ surance company established in the American Colonies. The theory that lightning and electricity were the same, which was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1719, was demonstrated by him by drawing lightning from the clouds by means of a kite, in 17. 2. The experiment is said to have taken place upon a lot on the east side of nidge road, near the present inter¬ section of Buttonwood street. Franklin was assisted on this occasion by his son, William Franklin, who was then twenty-one years of ago. 0 - Tho first lightning-rod used in the world fer the protection of a building from danger by lightning, was set up by Benjamin Franklin, at his dwelling-house, south-east corner of Second and Race streets, in September, 1752, The first expedition fitted out in North America for Arctic exploration, and the dis¬ covery of a north-west passage, sailed from Philadelphia in the schooner Argo, Captain Charles Swaine, March 4th, 1/53. The'expe- dition was fitted out by subscriptions in Phila¬ delphia. The vessel proceeded as lar as Capa Farewell and Hudson Strait, but being baffled by the ice, was compelled to return to Phila¬ delphia, which port was reaehed in November of the same year. The same vessel went upon a second voyage in the spring of 1754, but having lost three men, killed by Indians on the Labrador coast, returned in October of the same year without success. The first school of medicine and anatomy in North America was opened in Philadelphia by Dr. William Shippen in 1762. In 1774, the physicians of Philadelphia formed the “Society forlnoculatingthe Poor,” the first benevolent association designed to mitigate the horrors of small-pox founded in the Colonies. The Bank of North America was established by resolution of Congress Slay 26th, 1781, and opened for business in 1783, being the first corporate banking institution established in tho United States. The “ Pennsylvania Packet or General Ad¬ vertiser” was established as a daily newspa¬ per, in 1774, by John Dunlap and David C. Claypole, being the first daily paper published in the United States. The Philadelphia Dispensary for the medi¬ cal relief of the poor, the first institution of the kind, was established in 1786. The first vessel moved by steam was navi¬ gated on the Delaware river, at Philadelphia, July 20th, 1786, by John Fitch, being a skiff fitted up for the purpose. On June, July, August and September, 1790, the first steamboat navigated in the worid for a passenger and freight-boat ran on the Dela¬ ware, between Philadelphia, Burlington,•Bris¬ tol, Chester, etc. advertising her trips regu¬ larly in the newspapers, and passing over three thousand miles that summer. This was seven¬ teen years before the Clermont, Robert Ful¬ ton's first steamboat, navigated the Hudson river. In 1804, the Eruktor Amphibolis, a machine for cleaning docks, invented by Oliver Evans, mounted on a wagon, was propelled by steam along Market street, from Centre Square to the Schuylkill river, being the first land-carriage ever propelled by steam in the world. At the Schuylkill river the vessel was launched, a stern wheel attached, and the machine was navigated by .steam down the Schuylkill and up the Delaware river to the city of Philadel¬ phia. In 1809, aline of telegraphs (semaphore) was set up and operated by Jonathan Grant, be¬ tween the head of Delaware Bay at Reedy Island and Philadelphia, under patronage of tho Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. CENTENNIAL GREETING 80 POSTAL RATES. ■O' FOREIGN. The fallowing are the postal rates to European countries : Letters Postal Newspa'r Countries. per y 3 Cards Postage ounce. each, per 4 oz. CTS. CTS. Crs Austria. 2 2 Belgium. . 5 2 2 Denmark. 2 2 France. ... 3 Germany. . 5 2 2 Gibraltar. . 8 ... 4 Great Britain and Ireland. . 5 2 2 Greece. . 5 2 2 Holland. 2 2 Ita'y. 2 2 Moldavia. 2 2 Netherlands.... . 5 2 2 Norway. 2 2 Poland. . 5 2 2 Portugal. . 5 2 2 Russia. . 5 2 2 Servia. 2 2 Spain. 2 2 Sweden. 2 2 Switzerland.... . 5 2 2 Turkey. 2 2 To other countries : Africa.. .. 15 2 4 Bihamas. 2 2 Bermuda. -. 5 2 2 .15 2 2 Canada. . 3 1 1 Chili. .17 4 Cuba. . 5 2 East Indies.... . 10 2 llong-Kong.... .10 2 Jamaica. . 5 2 Japan. 4 Liberia.... . 15 i 4 M xico. . 10 2 Panama.. 2 Porto Rico. 2 Shanghai. . 5 2 West Indies.... —. 5 2 Prepayment optional in every case, and the postage above given carries the mail matter to destina¬ tion. AMERICAN. Americal postal rates are as fol¬ lows : Letters for tbe city, 2 cents per half ounce. Letters for anywhere throughout the United Suites, 3 cents for each half ounce, or fraction there¬ of. Postal oards, 1 cent each. Peri¬ odicals and circulars, if not exceed¬ ing two ounces, 1 rent; if exceeding two ounces, 2 cents. Papers and periodicals from pub¬ lishers to subscribers, or from news¬ dealers to newsdealers, 3 cents per pound, if published monthly, or less frequently than once a month; if published oftener than once a month 2 cents per pound. All other printed matter and merchandise, 1 eent for each ounce, or fraction of an ounce. The first collection from the postal boxes, at street corners, is made at 8.15 A.M., and the last collection at 7.30 P.M. Letters that aro not dropped in the boxes before 7.30 P. M. will not be colleoted until the fol¬ lowing day. On Sundays, but one collection is made, which is at 7.30 P.M. Telegraphic Rates. As telegraphing has become a part of the daily transaction of business men, wo herewith give for their in¬ formation, as well as for that of the groat number of foreigners who, from now until the close of the Exhibition, will ho among us, the rates for tele¬ graphic messages to prominent places in this country and abroad. From Philadelphia to New York, 30 cents; Baltimoie,30cents; Washing¬ ton, 40 cents; Harrisburg, 25 cents for ten words, and 2 cents for each additional word. To Boston, and throughout the New England States generally, 50 cents for first ten words, and 3 cents for each additional word. To Pittsburgh, 40 cents. To Syracuse, N. Y., 50 cents for ten words, and 3 cents thereafter. To Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., and Richmond, Va., 75 cts. for first 10 and 5 cts. for each additional word To Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville, Toledo, Detroit and Indianapolis, $1.00 for first ten words, 7 cents each additional word. St. Louis, Nashville, and Mont¬ gomery, Ala., $1.25 first ten, and 8 oents each following word. Milwaukee, $1.10 first ten, and 7 cents each additional word. and pocket GUIDE. 61 , U- 1 „ Wraa Ala., ami Memphis, i0 -nts there- rf C r Ori*M,°$2’» 0 . first ten, and 1 ^gan Franciscn^$ 2 !5'o for 'ten words, , nd 17 cents thereafter per word. Montreal, Canada, $1.05 first ten, and 7 cents each additional word. St. X«, N. B„ *1.25 «rst tan. 8 cents a word following. Haranna or Cuba, $o.40, gold, for first ten words, and 40 cents per fol- Intending messages throughout the United States or Canadas, the address of the party to whom ““{» and the address of the person send¬ ing the message, aro not counted. Cable Rates. In sending cable telegrams, every ,rord, including address and super¬ scription, is counted. From Philadelphia to any part of Great Br.tain, 53 cents per word, payable in gold, or its equivalent, as is the case in all cable de ^To^Erance, same as to ® re * t Britain, with the exception that the place from which the telegram is sent must he inserted; as, lor instance, from this city the sender must add *• Philadelphia,” which makes the cost on every telegram, long or short, 53 cents more than if sent to Great ^To all places named, in addition to the 53 cents per word, the charge for each twenty words, or fractions 1 part thereof, is as follows: fo Ger¬ many, $1-10; Switzerland, $1.46, Austria and Hungary $1.50; Spain and Sweden, $1.75 ; Norway, $1.SO , Italy, $1-88; Russia, $2.50; \eddo, Japan, $12.62, and IIong-Kong, $30.00. HOTELS IN PHILADELPHIA. Reeheny, No. 812 Market Street. Hen House, No. 1220 Market Street, mcrican, 517 Chestnut Street, rch Street., No. 1 Arch Street, in in Kaale, 414 N. Third Street. : arlcv STieaf, 257 N . Second Street, lingham, Eleventh and Market Streets. v.ear 425 N. Third Street. Hack llorse, 352 N. Second Street. Irevort, Ninth and Waluut Streets. 242 N. Eighth Street. Suam 728 Filbert Street. Hull’s Head, 1025 Market Street. a << 3734 Market Street. Antral Avenue. 851 Market Street. Centrab 623 Arch Street Clarendon, 11a S. Eighth Street. Clinton, 1608 Ridge Avenue. Columbia, 111 N. Broad Street. lillliHH- rohlen Fleece, 310 Cherry Street. Hlobe Belmont, Below Elm Avenue. Howard, 703 Chestnut Street. Irving, 917 Walnut Street. LhS Fourth and Wood Streets. Markoe, 919 Chestnut Street. Mansion, 619 Arch Street. Mercantile, 23 S. Tenth Street. Manufacturers’, 310 Cherry Siree . Montgomery, 413 N. Sixth Street. Merchants’, 42 N. Fourth Street. r « 415 N. Third Street. National, 1715 Market Street New Market, 1619 Market Street Pennsylvania Farmers ,342 V.'Lbrgb^ Penn Manor, Eighth and Sp. Gulden Petry’s, Broad and W alnut Streets. Red Lion, 472 N. Second Street. Ridgway, No. 1 Market Street. St. Charles, 54 N. Third Street. St. Cloud, 709 Arch Street. St. Elmo, 317 Arch Street. St Stephen’s, 1018 Chestnut Street, semcdley’s, 1227 Filbert Street. To ? p 0 Gallant!Broad St. and Ridge Av Washington, 711 Chestnut Street Win. Penn. 831 Market Street. Zeisse, 820 Walnut Street. 62 CENTENNIAL GREETING HOW TO REACH THE HOTELS. The Market Street Line of cars carries passengers from the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, Thirty-second and Market streets, to within one square of the Colonnade, La Pierre, Continental, Girard, Washington, St. Stephens American, Merchants, St. Cloud, St, Elmo, Guy’s Hotel, and directly to the Bingham House, for the fare of 7 cents. The price charged by the carriages for the same is $1.50 to $2.50. For a fare of 9 cents (exchange ticket) passengers can go to any of the above hotels from the Reading Railroad Depot, by the Thirteenth ptreet cars. Passengers will be carried directly to the Continental and Girard Hotels" from the Baltimore Depot (Broad and Prime streets) for one fare of 7 cents by the Union Line; and they will be carried direct to the Colonnade by the Fifteenth Street Line, for a 7 cent fare, and for an exchange ticket of 9 cents will be carried by the same Company, directly to the Bingham, Washington St. Cloud, St. Elmo St. Stephens, American and Markoe Hotels. DELAWARE RIVER STEAMBOAT. By taking a trip up or down the Delaware River, the Centennial visitor will have a splendid opportunity of seeing the river front of our great city. The steamers Warner and Twilight, for Burlington, Bristol, Florence, Tacony, Riverton, Torresdale, Andalusia and Beverly, all up-river places, leave from foot of Chestnut street. A round trip ticket is 40 cents. For Trenton, the Forrest leaves from Arch Street Wharf. Round trip 40 cts. For Wilmington, Chester, and Marcus Hook, down-rive trips, the Felton leaves from Chestnut Street Wharf. Round trip 35 cents. Distance, both ways, sixty miles. For Bridgeport, Red Bank, Billingsport, and Chester, steamer leaves Arch Street Wharf. For BridgetoD, steamer leaves first wharf above Race street. For Salem, Pennsgrove, New Castle, and Delaware City, steamer leaves Arch Street Wharf. Round trip 50 cents. For Gloucester, New Jersey, steamers leave every few minutes from South Street Wharf. Fare, 10 cents. For Kaighn’s Point, New Jersey, steamers leave first wharf above South street every five minutes. Fare, 5 cents. For Camden, steamers leave from Market Street Wharf, from Vine Street Wharf, and from Shackamaxon Street Wharf every few minutes. Fare, 5 cts. For Zoological Gardens, Falls of Schuylkill, and Laurel Hill, steamers loave every few minutes from opposite Green Street entrance. AND POCKET GUIDE. 63 Railroad Depots, and How to Reach Them. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD DEPOT. This depot is located at Thirty-second and Market streets. By an ex¬ change ticket, costing 9 cents, it can be reached from any where on the Tenth and Eleventh, Twelfth and Sixteenth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth, and Seven¬ teenth and Nineteenth Street car lines, getting out at Market street, and there taking the Market stroet cars. KENSINGTON DEPOT. This depot is located at Front and Berks streets. The white care of the j Second and Third Street line, and the Fifth and Sixth Street cars run | directly to it, and the Union line carries passengers from anywhere over its route to within one square of it for one faro of 7 cents. NORTH PENN DEPOT. Located at Berks and American streets. The green cars of the Second and Third Street line, and the Fifth and Sixth Street cars run directly to it for one faro of 7 cents. PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON AND BALTIMORE DEPOT. Located at Broad street and Washington avenue. The Union line, and Thirteenth and Fifteenth Street cars oarry passengers directly to it for a single fare of 7 cents; and for an exchange ticket over the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Street line passengers can reach it from anywhere on the lines of the Lombard and South Street, Spruce and Pine, Chestnut and Walnut, Market Street, Arch Street, and Race and Vine Street cars. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD DEPOT. The Callowhill Street Line runs directly to the depot, and so does the Thir¬ teenth and Fifteenth Street Line. An exchange ticket, via the Callowhill Street Line will carry passengers directly to it by way of any line running north and south, exeept the Union Line. Persons living on Girard avenue take Girard Avenue Line and buy an exchange ticket down Thirteenth st. GERMANTOWN DEPOT. Located at Ninth and Green streets. It can be reached by the Union line, and by both lines running u.p Eighth street. Trains leave the Germantown depot for Germantown, Chestnut Hill, Manayunk, Conshohocken, Norristown, Plymouth Railroad, Chester Valley R iihoad, Perkiomen Railroad, Piekeriog Valley Railroad, Colebrookdale Railroad, Phcenixville and Pottstown. WEST JERSEY DEPOT. Located at Camden, N. J. This is the railroad that runs to Cape May. The Market Street Ferry boats carry passengers to it. The Union line, and Market Street line run te Front and Market streets, and passengers on the lino of Tontb and Eleventh, Thirteenth and Fifteenth, Twelfth and Six¬ teenth, and Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street cars can reach it by an ex¬ change ticket over the Market Street road. • CAMDEN AND ATLANTIC DEPOT. Foot of Vine street. Itaceond Vine Street cars, or an exchange over this line from anywhero "on Tenth ( and' Eloveuth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth, Twelfth and Sixteenth, and Seventeenth and Nineteenth lines. 64 CENTENNIAL GREETING Carriage Fares. The drivers of hackney coaches are so accustomed to cheat travellers, that we herewith append the rates of fare authorized by ordinance of Citv Councils. ^ One passenger, with trunk, valise or box. distance not exceeding one mile 75 cents ; two passengers $1.25, and for each additional passenger 25 cems' Distance over a mile, and not more than two miles, $1.25; each additional passenger, 25 cents. If the distance be more than two miles, for each addi¬ tional mile or fractional part of a mile, 50 cents in addition to the $1.25 for the first two miles ; for each additional passenger 50 cents. When engaged by the hour for shopping, or going from place to place, and stopping as often as may be required, $1.50 per hour. Twelve Squares are a Legal Mile. In case of dispute appeal to the Mayor or to the Chief of Police, corner of Fifth and Chesrnut streets. . -o---- PASSENGER RAILWAYS. TIME TABLE OF LAST TRIPS* UNION LINE. Last Car for Navy Yard leaves Depot, Twenty-third and Brown, 11.20 P.M. Last car leaves Navy Yard 12.20 midnight. NIGHT LINE. Fare, 10 Cents.—Leaves depot 11.48, 12.23, 1.03, I .53 2.43, 3.23, 3.58, 4.33. ’ Leaves Navy Yard 12,40, 1.15, 2.00, 2.50, 3.32, 4.15, 4.50, 5.22. RICHMOND BRANCH.—Last car for Baltimore depot leaves 11.15 P.M. Last car leaves Baltimore depot 12.15, midnight. NIGHT LINE.—Leaves depot 11.25, 11.55, 12.35, 1.25, 2.10, 2.55, 3.35 4.15. Leaves Baltimore depot 12.25, 12.55, 1.40, 2.30, 3.15, 4.00, 4.40, 5.15. COLUMBIA AVENUE LINE.—Last car leaves depot, Twenty-third street and Columbia avenue, for Front and Market 11.22 P.M. Leaves Front and Market 12 . 20 , midnight. NIGHT TRIPS.—Leave depot 11,35, 12.10, 12.45, 1.20, 1.55, 2.30, 3.05, 3.40, 4.12 and 4.45. Leave Front and Market 12.30, 1.00, 1.35, 2.10, 2.45, 3.20, 3.55, 4.30, 5.05, 5.35. MARKET STREET LINE. Last car leaves depot, Forty-first street and llaverford road 11.40 P.M. Last car leaves Front and Market 12.20, midnight. THIRTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH STREET LINE. Last car leaves Baltimore depot 11.50. Last car leaves Thirteenth street and Columbia avenue, 12.45, midnight. SEVENTEENTH AND NINETEENTH STREET LINE. Last oar leaves, Nineteenth and Master, 11.30. Last car leaves Seven¬ teenth and Carpenter, 12.00 midnight. SECOND AND THIRD STREET LINE. Last car leaves Fran kford road and Lehigh avenue 11.00 P.M. Last car leaves Third and Mifflin 12.05, midnight. For Frankford, last ear 11.15 P.M. From Frankford, last car 11.50 P.M. For Bridesburg, last car 12.00, midnight. From Bridesburg, 12.30, midnight. I and pocket guide. fi5 RIDGE AVENUE LINE. l3S tcar down, 11.20 P.M. Last car up leaves Second and Arc ’ H!?r nd “ J Are, “ '" deP,, ’ U traUCE AND PINE STREET LINE. i„l ear for Exchange leaves depot 11.16 P-M. Leaves Exchange lor depot „d Gray’s Ferry bridge 11-36 P.M. . ohestnot'Ind walnut street line. From Fertv-second and Chestnut 11.30 P.M. u midnight. For Forty-second and Chestnut, leaves Second and Walnut 12.15, undm* From Fairmount Park depot:11 24J-M. m gecond and Walnut For Fairmount Park depot 12 ./ 1 , miunig » on p M For Darby, last car leaves Second and Walnut 11-00 P.M. From Darby, last car 9.30 P.M. RACE AND VINE STREET LINE. From depot, last car 11.30 P.M. . , For depot, leaves Dock street 12.30, naidmg . For Hestonville, last car leaves depot 12.00, midm B h . From Hestonville 12.15, midnight. ARCH STREET LINE. AXLL/ii M Hast car leaves Last car from Twenty-sixth and Callowhill 11- Second and Arch 12 . 00 , midnight. „mr>-r>-mrp t TWIT LOMBARD AND SOUTH STREET LINE. Last car from depot 11.00 P.M. From Second^uid_D^k^U^car^lL^ ^P- LINE . From Fairmount Park, last oar 11.20 P-M. From Eighth and Dickinson 12.10, imdnigh' • FOURTH AND EIGHTH STREET LINE. From depot for Eighth and L^inson 10.52 P.M. SToSS “n, ScXot, iwa “ j ta D “TS;”;- m 00 ’ »» “ '“jITroIvENCE UNE LIRA Fairmount, for Shackamaxon street, , l 2 2 *?m •*»* <« F “ iri '';”"i’ T 2 f ■ ”' dnieUt - 1.22 P.M. W.T ELEVENTH STREET LINE. - «-•«-«* n ' 16 “* Cenl h "-^^Iro'sxxTEENTH STREET LINE. Last ear leaves T.e.fth and ‘ laetcarleavesT-irf ^ LINK p M ^ leaves Kensington a.eno. .®J“S“h.sto»t street at 1.00 A.M. B „„th Fifth “Vplm FORD STOAM DUMMY LINE. leave, Fra.Sd 5 16 P-M. Leaves depet for Franhford 1236, nr.dn.ght. 66 CENTENNIAL GREETING HOW OUR STREETS ARE NUMBERED. The streets of Philadelphia are laid out at right angles, and are numbered from Market street, north and south, and westward from the Delaware river. Thus the first house below Chestnut street, on the west side, is numbered 100, and so on, regularly, until Walnut street is reached; and although the first • house north of Walnut street may be numbered but 158, the first house touth of Walnut is numbered 200. Beginning at the Delaware river, the streets running westward from the river are numbered in like manner—the even numbers being on the south ' side of all streets running east and west, and on the west side of the streets running north and south. At Third street anywhere in the city, the first house west is numbered 300; at Eighth street, 800; Broad street is numeri¬ cally 1400; and so on, up to Cobb’s Creek, the western boundary line between Philadelphia City and Delaware County. The streets north and south from Market Street, are thus numbered: South, No. North, No Chestnut. . 100 Arch. Walnut. . 200 Race. Spruce. . 300 Vine. ....... 300 Pine. Callowbill. Lombard. Buttonwood. South. . 600 Green. Bainbridge. . 700 Coates. Catharine. . 800 Brown. Christian. . 900 Poplar. Carpenter. Beaver. Washington Ave.... .... 1100 George. . 1100 Federal. Girard Avenue. . 1200 Wharton. . 1300 Thompson. . 1300 Reed. . 1400 Master. Dickerson. . 1500 Jefferson. . 1500 Tasker. . 1600 Oxford. .1700 Columbia Avenue. . 1700 Moore. . 1800 Montgomery Avenue. . 1800 Mifflin. . 1900 Berks. McKean. . 2000 Norris. . 2000 Snyder. . 2100 Diamond. . 2100 Jackson. .2200 Susquehanna Ave. . 2200 Wolf. . 2300 Dauphin. .2300 Ritner. .2400 York. Porter. .2500 Cumberland. .2600 Huntington. . 2600 Oregon Avenue. . 2700 Lehigh Avenue. . 2700 Johnson . . 2800 Somerset. Bigler. . 2900 Cambria. . 2900 Pollock. Indiana. . 3000 Packer. . 3100 Clearfield. Curtin. . 3200 Allegheny Avenue. Geary. . Hartranft. .3400 AND POCKET GUIDE. 67 Banks- Rank Clearing House, 429 Chestnut street. Bank of America, 306 Walnut street. Rank of North America, 307 Chestnut street. Central National Dank, 109 South Fourth street. Consolidation SgWS* Che.t.nt s'r.ot.. SSS, 1H Ck° S 1. J'.L. .01 Girard avenue. Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, 427 Chestnut street. First National Bank, 313 Chestnut street Girard National Bank, Third, below Chestnut street. National Bank of Commerce, 20 » avenue. National £2 S ^ National Bank of the Repuhhc, 313 01.08^^^ National lutJ Bank ofCamden, N. J. ; W Church street. Philadelphia National Bank, 423 Chestnut street. c ivt h National Bank, Second and Pine streets. ***-«- ^ WartN.Ho »’.l Buk, 4860 Germantown oven... Union Banking Company, 310 Chestnut stree . West, Philadelphia National Lank, 3938 Marke Western National Bank, 408 Chestnut stieet. -o--— Deposit Companies. . . . o . „ Vnn A a w cornee Twelfth and Chestnut streets. Beneficial Saving Fund, b. w. corue*. a Fidelity Safe Deposit Company, 329 Chestnut scree Germantown Savings, 4908 German «««•; Guarantee Safe De,,o.,t Comp..,, .« 68 CENTENNIAL GREETING CHARITABLE AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS OF PHILADELPHIA. Association for Relief of Females in Re¬ duced Circumstances, No. 20 9 Pine street. Association f r lit lief and Employment of Poor Women, 702 Green street. Associati u for Relief ami Employment of tho Poor, 19 South Seventeenth Btroet. Bedford Street Mission, 619 Ala ka street. Christmas Fund for Disabled Clergymen (Protestant Episcopal!, 421 Chestnut st. Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the P. E. Church of Pennsylvania, 212 South Fourth street. Churchmen’s Missionary Association for Seamen of tho Port of Philadelphia, 737 South Ninth street. Central Employment Association, Fourth and Green streets. Day Nursery, 410 Blight street. Excelsior Associat’n, Old Swedes’ Church, 1601 Pussy unk road. Female Society for Relief and Employ¬ ment of tho Poor, 112 North Seventh street. Female Hebrew Benevolent Society, 1411 Arch street. Flower Mission, Horticnltural Hall, 8 to 12 A M., Mondays. Friends’ Fuel Association, Race, near Fifteenth steeet. Female Association for Relief of Sick and Infirm Poor, 152 North Fifteenth street. Fuel Savings Society of Philadelphia. Secretary’s office, 731 Walnut street. Grandom Institution, to Aid Young Men in Business, and to Assist tho Poor in Pro¬ curing Fuel, 715 Walnut street. Homo Missionary Society of Philadelphia, 633 Arcl. street. Ladies’ Depository Association, 124 South Eleventh street. Ladies’ United Aid Society, Methodist Church, Thirteeenthst. and Lehigh avenue. Merchants’Fund, Third and Walnut sts. Preacher’s Aid Society (Methodist), 1018 Arch street. Philadelphia Society for Employment and Instruction of the Pour, 716 Catharine st. Presbyterian Relief Fund fur Disabled Ministers, 1334 Chestnut street. Protestant Episcopal City Mission, 225 South Ninth street. St. Peter’s (Protestant Episcopal) House, S. W. corner Front and Pine streets. Trustees of Clergymen's Daughter’s Fund (P otestant Episcopal), 708 Walnut street. Union Benovoleut Association, 110 South Seventh street. Women’s Christian Association Dimog- Rooms and Lodgings, 139 North Seventu st. Children’s Homes and Orphan Asylums. Associated Institute for Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans, Twenty-third and Brown. Association f ir Care of Colored Orphans, Forty-fourth street and IL verford road. Burd Orphan Asylum, Market, above Six¬ ty-third street. Bethesda Children’s Christian Home, Township Line and Willow Grove roads. ’ Boarding Home for Little Children, 1112 Fitzwater street. Catholic Hume for Destitute Orphan Girls, 1720 Race street. Church Home for Children, Baltimore avenue and Gray’s lane. Educalional Home for Boys, Forty-ninth street and Green way avenue. Foster Home, Twenty-fourth and Poplar streets. Homo for Destitute Colored Children, Forty-sixth street and Darby road. Industrial Home for Girls, 762 South Tenth street. Jewish Foster Home, 1431 North Fif¬ teenth street. Lincoln Institution for Care of Orphan White Boys, 308 South Eleventh street. , Northern Home for Friendless Children, Twenty-third and Brown streets. Orphans’ Society of Philadelphia, Sixty- fifth street and Haverford Road Orphans’ Homo of the Shepherd of tho Lambs, Bridesburg. Philadelphia Homo for Infants, Forty- fifth and Market streets. St. J< sepli’s (lloman Catholic) Society fur Educating and Maintaining Poor Orphans, 700 Spruce street. St. Vincent’s Home for Destitute Infants, Eighteenth and Wood streets. St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, Tacony. St. John’s Male Orphan Asylum, Forty- eighth street and Westminster avenue. Union Homo for Children, N. E. corner Poplar and Sixteenth streets. Union School and Children’s Horno, Twelfth and Fitzwater streets. Western Provident Society and Children’s Home, Forty-first and Venango streets. West Philadelphia Children’s Homo, 199 North Forty-first street. Bispcnsaries. Bedford Street Mission Dispensary, 613 Alaska street. Charity Dispensary, 1832 Hamilton street. Children’s Dispensary, Twenty-second, below Walnut street. AND POCKET GUIDE. J^pensary of Southwark, 1017 Front and Hunt- Skin Diseases, 216 South ; ^i r W a P eBBary an town Dispensary, Germantown U "fn- oelTsary' lSl^tiOmbard street. Industry Dispensary, 716 Catha- Dispensaries, 1314 Bain- Germantown avenue, and fe^Charhy Dispensary, Thirty- rfk sud ^suensnry?^ 08 Fairmonnt av. jj^ern Disp jyiedical and Philadelphia D loy South Fifth st.; ij \h and Chestnut sts. , Obstetrical Do- ienth ? u-5 North Thirteenth st. CbjVrtn Ilospital Dispensary, Thirty inth and Filbert streets^ j n fl rmary Dis- Fb n d 5 t 6 No5h Eleventh street. fflShht Infirmary for Diseases of „ Bar, 419 W«jengary!318 Rainbridge st. University^Dispensary, Thirty-fourth and pruce streets- Female Medical .s:KrSsr e /...«u.»aT»«^ je ond street. Homes ami Asylums. TVmtht Home, Seventeenth and Norris. Sing Homes for Young B omen, 1433 0 Xdst., 1605 Filbert st., and 915 Chn- Children’s Sea-shore HouseAtlantic>Chty, s Whitney, President, 1815 Vine street. Franklin Reformatory Homo, 913 Locust, ft m e for Aged and Infirm Colored Per- n . T nlmont and Girard avenues. Hmne of the Good Shepherd, Twenty- d t jj i„ie for the Homeless, i08 Lombard st. inebriates’ Home, Hurrowgate lane, near 'indent wTdow’s and Single Women’s r, „ rvinrrv below Eighteenth street, kittle Sisters of the Boor, Eighteenth, lb Luth J eran'Orphan^ Home and Asylum for J uwl Infirm, 5582 Germantown avenue. Magdalen Society, Twenty-first and Lace, jtethodist Home, Thirteenth street and ^tlidnigh^Mission, 919 Locust street Old Men’s Home ot Philadelphia, Thirty . ,i, street and Powelton avenue. 11 Pennsylvania Institution for Deaf Mutes, Bread and Pine streets. ^Pennsylvania Institution for Instruction of the Blind, Twentieth and ltaco streets. Penn Asylum for Indigent 'Widow's and Single Women, Belgrade, above Otis street, Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men, 3518 Lancaster avenue. Pennsylvania Industrial Home for Blind Women, 3921 Locust street. Presbyterian Home for Widows and Sin • gle Women, Fifty-eighth st. and Darby road. Rosine Association, 3216 Germantown av. St. Ann’s Widows’ Asylum, 906 Moya- mensing avenue. St. Luke’s Home for Aged Women, 1317 Pine street. Seaside Boarding House, Ashury Park. Office, 1605 Filbert street. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home. Office, 513 Market street. Temporary Home Association of Phila¬ delphia, 505 North Sixth street. Uui’ed States Nival Asylum, Gray’s Ferry road, below Bain bridge street. Hospitals. Blockley Hospital, Thirty-fourth and Spruce streots. City Hospital, Hart lane, near Frankford avenue and Reading -Railroad. Children’s Hospital, Twenty-second, be¬ low Walnut street. Charity Hospital, 1832 Hamilton street. Christ Church Hospital, Belmont avenue and Monument road. Friends’ Hospital for the Insane, Frank- German Hospital, Girard and Corinthian avenues. , , , Germantown Hospital, Shoemaker s lane, near Chew street. , „ Gvnsecologic.il Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Children, 1624 Poplar street. Hospital for Inebriates of Philadelphia, ^Homeopathic Hospital, 1116 Cuthbert st. Hospital f.r Nervous Diseases, Mam st,, Chestnut Ilill. , , ,. Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia Almshouse, Thirty-fourth and Spruce sts Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, Front and Huut- "’fffispUaTonlie Good Shepherd for Chil¬ dren, Radnor, Delaware County, la Ilownrd Hospital for Incurables, 151o L °Insane Department of Pennsylvania Hos¬ pital, Fiftieth street and Haverfor d road. P Jewish Hospital, Olney road, Taber feta- t '°Ly in grin llospital, 608 Fairmonnt av Orthopedic Hospital, Seventeenth and ^Pennsylvania Hospital, Eighth and Pino. Philadelphia Lying-In Hospital, 126 N. ^Preston*Retreat, Twentieth and Hamil ^Presbyterian Hospital, Thirty-ninth and Filbert streets. 70 CENTENNIAL GREETING State Hospitnl for Women and Infants of Pennsylvania, 1718 Filbert street. St. Joseph’s Hospital, Seventeenth and Girard avenue. St. Mary’s Hospital, Frankford avenue and Palmer street. University Hospital, Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets. Wills’ Eye Hospital, Race, above Eigh¬ teenth street. Women’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Female Medical College, North College avenue and Twenty-second street. Relief Societies. Albion Society, 109 South Third street. French Benevolent Society, 221 Dock st. German Society of Philadelphia, 24 South Seventh Street. Hebrew Charities, 30 North Seventh st. Hibernian Society for Belief of Emi¬ grants from Ireland. Office, 138 S. Front Bt. Itulian Society, Columbus Hall, Eighth, below Fitzwater street. Koscuiszko Association, 626 Cherry st. St. Andrew’s Society, 508 Waluut street. Sons of St. George, S. W. corner of Thir¬ teenth and Arch streets. St. David’s Society, 133South Fifth street. Swiss Benevolent Society, S. W. corner of Fourth and Wood streets. Scandinavian Society, 347 North Third st. Welsh Society, 133 South Fifth street. Soup Houses. Central Soup and Bath House, 709 Cherry street. Kensington Soup House, 1036 Crease st. Moyamensitig Soup House, Eighth and Marriott streets. Northern Soup Society, 817 N. Fourth st. North-western Soup House, Nineteenth and Thompson streets. Philadelphia Soup House, 338 Griscom st. Southwark Soup House, Sutheiland, near Queen street. Spring Garden Soup Houso, 1329 Button- wood street. Western Soup Houso, 1615 South street. Miscellaneous Institutions and Societies. Board of Public Charities of Pennsylva¬ nia, 737 Walnut street. Board of City Trusts, 19 South Fifth st. Bishop Potter Memorial House, Front and Huntingdon Btreets. Beneficent Building Association, 619 Wal¬ nut street. Benevolent Society of Mercy and Truth (Hebrew), Hope Hose Hall, Pine, above Second street. Blockley Almshouse, Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets. Office, 42 North Seventh st. Centennial Commission Office, 903 Wal¬ nut street. * Centennial Board of Finance, 904 Walnut. Cherry Hill Prison, Twenty first street and Fairmouut avenue. Employment Bureau Y. M. C. A., 727 Sansom street. House of Correction, near Holmesburg. City office, 51 North Sixth street. House of Refuge, Twenty-ihiid and Par¬ rish streets. Office, 21 North Seventh sr. Philadelphia Fountain Society, 1512 V ul- nut street. Pennsylvania Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1320 Chestnut street. Pennsylvania Seamen’s Friend Society. 422 South Front street. Philadelphia Society for Alleviating Mise¬ ries of Public Prisons, 109 North Tenth st. Typographical Society, Public Ledger Office. Volunteer Firemen’s Funeral Relief As¬ sociation, 511 South Fourth street. educational. Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Locust and Juniper streets. Divinity School, Protestant Epistypal Church, Thirty-ninth and Walnut streets. Girard College, Ridge avenue and Nine¬ teenth street. Institute for Colored Youth, Ninth and Bain bridge streets. La Salle College, 1321 Filbert street. St. Joseph’s College, Willings’ alley, be¬ low Fourth street. Seminary of Lutheran Church, 216 Frank¬ lin street. Seminary of St. Charles Borromoo, Over- brook. Boys’ High School of Philadelphia, Broad and Green streets. Girls’ High School of Philadelphia, Ser¬ geant, above Tenth street. Medical Colleges. Alumni Association, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Tenth, ul ove Cherry street. American Institute of Homeopathy, 918 North Tenth street. American Medical Association, Wm. B. Atkinson, M.l)., Secretary, S. W. corner of Bre ad and Pine streets. College Physicians, Philadelphia, Thir¬ teenth and Locust streets. Halim man Medical College, 1105 Filbert. Jefferson Medical College, Tenth, below Chestnut street. Northern Medical Association, 608 Fair- mount avenue. Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, S. E. corner of Tenth and Arch stree's. Philadelphia College of Phurmaey, North Tenth, near Race street. Philadelphia Medical Society', Thirteenth and Locust streets. Philadelphia Denial College, 108 North Tenth street. L’niversily of Pennsylvania, Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets. AND POCKET GUIDE, Tt~N L Women’s Medical College of Pennsylva¬ nia, North Collogo avenue and Twenty- gecond street. Scientific, literary and Fine Arts. Academy of Natural Sciences, Broad and gansom streets. Academy of Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry. American Entomological Society, 518 S. Thirteenth street. » Athepteum, Sixth and Adelphia streets. -J^jflfrican Literary Union, 1821 Green st. r^tirierican Philosophical Society, 104 S. Fifth street. Carpenter’s Company of Philadelphia, 322 Chestnut street. Catholic Philopathian Literary Institute, 1227 Locust street. Fairmount Park Art Association, 251 S. Fourth street. Franklin Institute, 15 South Seventh st. Franklin Literary Institute, S. W. corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Friends’ Social Lyceum, Fifteenth and Race streets. Ilandel and Ilaydn Society, 533 North Eighth street. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 820 Spruce street. Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, 524 Walnut street. Pennsylvania Literary Association, 528 North Eighth street. Philadelphia Lyceum, S. E. cor. of Ninth Sind Spring Garden streets. Philadelphia Sketch Club, Merrick, abovo Market street. Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia, 704 Walnut street. School of Design for Women, Filbert and Merrick streets. Spring Garden Institute, Broad and Spring Garden streets. St. Philip’s Literary Institute, 542 Queen. Wagner Free Institute of Science, Seven¬ teenth street and Montgomery avenue. W heatley Dramatic Association, Fifth and Qaskill Btreets. Libraries. ' American Mechanics’, Fourth and George- Apprentices’, Fifth and Arch streets. ! pj a ‘i, 1600 South Fifth street. Franklin, 1420 Frankford avenue. Friends’, 304 Arch street, and Fifteenth j streets. 8B n e rman, 24 South Seventh street. Hermann, 347 North Third street. James Page, 208 East Girard avenue. Kensington, Girard avenue and Day st. T.-iw Library, Sixth and Walnut streets. Mechanics’, 1104 South Fifth street. Mercantile, Tenth, above Chestnut street Movamensing, Eleventh and Catharine. Philadelphia, cor. Fifth and Library sts. Bidgway, Broad and Christian streets. Southwark, 765 South Second street. Taber Mutual, 1721 Filzwater street. Secret Societies. Masonic Temple, Broad and Filbert sts- Members and their friends are admitted to visit the Hall on Thursdays, from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M., if not raining. On these occa¬ sions ladies and children are admitted, if introduced by a member. The R. W.Grand Secretary’s address is John Thomson, Ma¬ sonic Temple, Philadelphia. I. O. of O. F., Hall, Sixth and Cresson sts., James B. Nicholson, Right Worthy Grand Secretary. Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania, James B. Nicholson, Grand Scribe, Odd Fel¬ lows’ Hull, Sixth and t reason sts , Phila. Grand U. O. of O. F., Hall, 602 Spruce st. Order United American Mechanics, Hull, Fourth and George streets. Knights ol Pythias, Hall, Broad and Spring Garden streets. Grand Division Sons of Temperance of Pennsylvania. Office, 118 South Seventh street. Open daily, from 1 to 6 P.M. Independent Order of Red Men, Hall, Third and Brown Btreets. Improved Order of Red Men. A. J.Biker, Great Chief of Records, 518 South Tenth st. Patriotic Order Sons of America. General office, 413 Chestnut street. Clubs. Athletic Base Ball, N. E. cor. of Eleventh and Chestnut streets. Americas, N. W. corner of Eleventh UDd Chestnut streets. 1001 Club, 1203 CheBtnut street. Mysterious Pilgrims, 1107 Chestnut st. Philadelphia Club, Thirteenth and Wt-1- nut streets. Penn Club, 606 Walnut streets. Philadelphia Sketch Club, Merrick, abovo Market street. Philadelphia Base Ball Club, Fifth and Locust streets. Press Club of Philadelphia, 521 Chestnut. Reform Club, Chestnut, above Fifteenth.. Radical Club, E. M. Davis, President, 333 Walnut street. Schuylkill Navy, Jas M. Ferguson, Com¬ modore, 15 North Seventh street. Union League, Broad and Sansom streets. Cemeteries. Beth-el-Emeth, Fisher’s avenue and Mar¬ ket street, W est Philadelphia, Cathedral, Lancaster avenue and Forty- eighth street. Office, Eighteenth and Sum¬ mer streets. Cedar Hill, 4610 Frankford avenue. Christ Clmrch, Fifth and Arch streets. City Burial Ground, Hart luue and Lamb Tavern road. I Fernwood, Church lane and Baltimore I turnpike. Office, 146 South Fourth street. 72 CENTENNIAL GREETING Friends’, Fourth and Arch streets. Glonwood, Ridge avenue and Islington lane. Office, 16 North Seventh street. Hebrew, Frankfurd. Knights of Pythias, Fisher’s lane and Asylum pike, Fraukford. Office, 2054 North Sixth street. Lafayette, Ninth and Wharton streets. Laurel Hill, Ridge avenue and Falls of Schuylkill. Office, 524 Walnut street. Lebanon, Passyunk avenue aud Ponroso Ferry road. Office, 716 Lombard street. • Macphelah, Washington av. and Tenth st. Monument, Broad street and Montgo¬ mery avenue. Mount Moriah, Darby road. Office, 132 South Sixth street. Mount Peace, Ridge avenue, near Laurel Hill. Mount Vernon, Ridge avenue, opposite Laurel Hill. Office, 137 South Fifth street. Now Cathedral, Socond street road, near Nicetown. Odd Fellows’, Twenty-fourth street and Islington lane. Swedes’ Church, 931 Otsego street. Ronaldson’s, Ninth and Bainbridge sts. St. Peter’s, Third and Pine streets. Union, Sixth st. and Washington avenue. United American Mechanics’, Twenty- fourth street and Islington lane. West Laurel Hill, Poncord Station, Read¬ ing Railroad. Office, 115 South Fifth st. Woodlands,Thirty-ninth street aud Darby road. Office, 709 Walunt street. Department of City and United States Governments. Mayor’s Office, S. W. corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets Chief of Police, S. W. corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. Detective Department, S. W. corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. Board of Health, Sixth and Sansom sts. Registration Office of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 604 Sansom street. Guardians of the Poor. Office, 42 North Seventh street. Board of Public Education, Sixth and Adolphi, first street below Walnut. Port Warden’s Office, 119 Walnut street. Tho Morgue, Noble, below Front street. United States Custom Houso, Chestnut, above Fourth street, United States Post Office, diroctly west of the Custom House. New Post Office, in course of erection, Ninth und Chestnut sts. United States Assistant Treasurer, in the Custom House. United States Arsenal, Washington av. and Gray’s Ferry road. United States Mint, Chestnut, below Broad street. United States Navy Yard, League Island, foot of Broad street. Navy Pay Office, 427 Chestnut stroet. Paymaster United States Army Twelfth street, and Girard avenue. tn Pension Offices—W’idow’s Agency 7 ia Walnut street; Invalid Army and Navy Pensions, 722 Sansom street. ~ y Commercial Associations. Board of Brokers, 21 Merchants’ Ex¬ change, Third and Walnut streets. Board of Trade, Tenth, above Chestnut st Commercial Exchange, 137 S. Second st ' Drug Exchange, 17 South Third street ’ Maritime Exchange, 133 South Second st Merchants’ Association, 131 S. Fourth Produce Association, South Delaware avenue, near Dock street. Religious Publication Socie¬ ties. American Baptist, 530 Arch street. American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut stroet. American Tract Society, 1408 Chestnut st Evangelical Lutheran, 117 N. Sixth st. Episcopal Female Tract Depository, 1316 Chestnut street. Friends’ Bible Association in America 116 North Fourth street. Friends’ Book Association, 109 North Tenth street. German Reformed Board of Homo Mis¬ sions, 2043 Wallace street. Hebrew Education Society, N. Seventh street, near Callowhill. Methodist Episcopal Publication Rooms 1018 Arch street. ’ Pennsylvania Bible Society, 701 Walnut. "4 Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1334 1 Chestnut street. Protestant Episcopal Book Society, 1224 j Chestnut street. Reformed Episcopal, 1227 Sansom streot. * Young Men’s Christian Association, 1210 Chestnut street. Places of Amusement. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust sts- Arch Street Theatre, Mrs. John Drew’s, Arch, above Sixth street. Chestnut Street Theatre, Chestnut, above Twelfth street. Concert Hall, Chestnut, below Thirteenth. Carncross & Dixey’s, Eleventh, above Chestnut street. Fox’s Theatre, Chestnut, above Tenth st. Grand Central, Walnut, above Eighth st. Horticultural Hall, adjoining Academy of ~ Music on the south. Musical Fund Hall, Locust, below Eighth.—' Simmons & Slocum’s, Tenth and Arch sts. Walnut Street Theatre, Ninth and Wal¬ nut streets. Wood’s Museum, Sixth and Arch streets. Zoological Gardens, Fairmount Pork. Point Breeze Racing Park, Point Breeze, near Penrose Ferry Bridge. Union Racing Pai’k, Lamb Tavern road, west of Broad street.