ILLUSTRATED BY
FRANK CRAIG
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMXII
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1912
CONTENTS
[I. THE FIRST NIGHT]
[II. STREETS]
[III. THE CAPITOL AND OTHER SITES]
[IV. SOME ORGANIZATIONS]
[V. TRANSIT AND HOTELS]
[VI. SPORT AND THE THEATER]
[VII. EDUCATION AND ART]
[VIII. CITIZENS]
ILLUSTRATIONS
[THE GLORY OF FIFTH AVENUE INSPIRES EVEN THOSE ON FOOT]
[DISEMBARKING AT NEW YORK]
[THE DOWN-TOWN BROADWAY OF CROWDED SKY-SCRAPERS]
[BROADWAY ON ELECTION NIGHT]
[A BUSY DAY ON THE CURB MARKET]
[A WELL-KNOWN WALL STREET CHARACTER]
[THE SKY-SCRAPERS OF LOWER NEW YORK AT NIGHT]
[A WINTER MORNING IN LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO]
[A RIVER-FRONT HARMONY IN BLACK AND WHITE—CHICAGO]
[THE APPROACH TO THE CAPITOL]
[ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE]
[ON THE STEPS OF THE PORTICO—THE CAPITOL]
[UNDER THE GREAT DOME OF THE CAPITOL]
[THE PROMENADE—CITY POINT, BOSTON]
[THE BOSTON YACHT CLUB—OVERLOOKING THE HARBOR]
[AT MORN POURING CONFIDENCES INTO HER TELEPHONE]
[LUNCHEON IN A DOWN-TOWN CLUB]
[A YOUNG WOMAN WAS JUST FINISHING A FLORID SONG]
[ABSORBED IN THAT WONDROUS SATISFYING HOBBY]
[IN THE PARLOR-CAR]
[BREAKFAST EN ROUTE]
[IN THE SUBWAY ONE ENCOUNTERS AN INSISTENT, HURRYING STREAM]
[THE STRAP-HANGERS]
[THE PASSENGERS ON THE ELEVATED AT NIGHT ARE ODDLY ASSORTED]
[THE RESTAURANT OF A GREAT HOTEL IS BUT ONE FEATURE OF ITS SPLENDOR]
[THE HORSE-SHOWS ARE WONDROUS DISPLAYS OF FASHION]
[THE SENSE OF A MIGHTY AND CULMINATING EVENT SHARPENED THE AIR]
[THE VICTORS LEAVING THE FIELD]
[UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS—UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA]
[MITCHELL TOWER AND HUTCHINSON COMMONS—UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO]
[PART OF THE DAILY ROUND OF THE INDOMITABLE NEW YORK WOMAN]
[THE ASTOUNDING POPULOUSNESS OF THE EAST SIDE]