E. H.

Brooklyn, New York, September, 1913.

[CONTENTS]

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1.Our Ancient Hub[1]
2.America's New York[17]
3.Across the East River[61]
4.William Penn's Town[76]
5.The Monumental City[95]
6.The American Mecca[108]
7.The City of the Seven Hills[127]
8.Where Romance and Courtesy do not Forget[135]
9.Rochester—and Her Neighbors[153]
10.Steel's Great Capital[171]
11.The Sixth City[185]
12.Chicago—and the Chicagoans[198]
13.The Twin Cities[212]
14.The Gateway of the Southwest[225]
15.The Old French Lady by the Riverbank[236]
16.The City of the Little Squares[256]
17.The American Paris[266]
18.Two Rivals of the North Pacific—and a Third [280]
19.San Francisco—The Newest Phœnix[288]
20.Belfast in America[307]
21.Where French and English Meet[318]
22.The City that Never Grows Young[332]

[THE ILLUSTRATIONS]

Madison Square, New York[Frontispiece]
FACING
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Tremont Street, Boston[2]
Park Street, Boston[10]
The Brooklyn Bridge[18]
View of New York from a Skyscraper[30]
Washington Square, New York[46]
A Quiet Street on Brooklyn Heights[64]
An old Brooklyn Homestead[72]
City Hall Philadelphia[84]
In Baltimore Harbor[96]
Charles Street, Baltimore[102]
The Union Station, Washington[114]
The Capitol[122]
St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston[146]
The Erie Canal, in Rochester[154]
A Home in Rochester[160]
Syracuse—the canal[168]
The waterfront, Pittsburgh[180]
One of Cleveland's broad avenues[192]
Michigan Avenue and lake-front, Chicago[204]
The River at St. Paul[220]
Entrance to the University, St. Louis[226]
A home in the newer St. Louis[232]
Steamboat at the New Orleans levee[244]
The big cathedral, San Antonio[256]
San Juan Mission, San Antonio[262]
The arch at 17th Street, Denver[270]
Seattle, Puget Sound and the Olympics[282]
Where the Pacific rolls up to San Francisco[294]
The Mission Dolores, San Francisco[302]
A Church parade in Montreal[320]
Looking from the Terrace into Lower Quebec[334]
Four Brethren upon the Terrace[340]