ILLUSTRATIONS

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Looking up Broad Street from Spruce Street[Frontispiece]
Delancey Place[3]
"Portico Row," Spruce Street[7]
Arch Street Meeting House[13]
The Schuylkill South from Callowhill Street[17]
Friends' Graveyard, Germantown[21]
In Rittenhouse Square[25]
The Pennsylvania Hospital from the Grounds[29]
"Eleventh and Spruce"[33]
Drawing Room at Cliveden[37]
Back-yards, St. Peter's Spire in the Distance[45]
Independence Square and the State House[51]
Christ Church Interior[57]
Classic Fairmount[65]
Down Pine Street[69]
Loudoun, Main Street, Germantown[75]
Entrance to Fairmount and the Washington Statue[83]
Main Street, Germantown[89]
Arch Street Meeting[95]
The Train Shed, Broad Street Station[99]
St. Peter's, Interior[105]
The Pennsylvania Hospital from Pine Street[109]
Second Street Market[115]
Fourth and Arch Streets Meeting House[121]
Johnson House, Germantown[127]
The Customs House[131]
Under Broad Street Station at Fifteenth Street[135]
The Philadelphia Club, Thirteenth and Walnut Streets[141]
The New Ritz-Carlton; The Finishing Touches; The Walnut Street Addition Has Since Been Made[149]
The Hall, Stenton[155]
"Proclaim Liberty Throughout all the Land into all the Inhabitants Thereof"[159]
Bed Room, Stenton, the Home of James Logan[163]
The Tunnel in the Park[167]
The Boat Houses on the Schuylkill[171]
The Pulpit, St. Peter's[179]
The Cathedral, Logan Square[185]
Christ Church, from Second Street[189]
First Presbyterian Church, Seventh Street and Washington Square[195]
Old Swedes' Church[201]
Independence Hall: The Original Desk on Which the Declaration of Independence was Signed and the Chair Used by the President of Congress, John Hancock, in 1776[207]
Philadelphia from Belmont[211]
The Dining Room, Stenton[217]
Down the Aisle at Christ Church[223]
The Bridge Across Market Street from Broad Street Station[229]
State House Yard[235]
The Penitentiary[247]
On the Reading, at Sixteenth Street[251]
Locust Street East from Broad Street[255]
Broad Street, Looking South from above Arch Street[261]
Clinton Street, with the Pennsylvania Hospital at its End[265]
The Cherry Street Stairs Near the River[269]
The Morris House on Eighth Street[273]
The Old Coaching-Inn Yard[279]
Franklin's Grave[285]
Arch Street Meeting[291]
Cliveden, the Chew House[295]
Bartram's[301]
Carpenter's Hall, Interior[305]
Main Street, Germantown[311]
Arch Street Meeting—Interior[317]
Front and Callowhill[321]
The Elevated at Market Street Wharf[327]
Dr. Furness's House, West Washington Square, Just Before it was Pulled Down[333]
The Germantown Academy[339]
The State House from Independence Square[345]
"The Little Street of Clubs," Camac Street Above Spruce Street[349]
Down Sansom Street from Eighth Street. The Low Houses at Seventh Street Have Since Been Torn Down and the Western End of the Curtis Building Now Occupies Their Place[353]
The Double Stairway in the Pennsylvania Hospital[359]
Carpenter's Hall, Built 1771[365]
Independence Hall—Lengthwise View[369]
Girard College[377]
Upsala, Germantown[383]
The Hall at Cliveden, the Chew House[387]
The Old Water-Works, Fairmount Park[391]
The Stairway, State House[397]
Upper Room, Stenton[403]
Wyck—The Doorway from Within[409]
The Philadelphia Dispensary from Independence Square[415]
Morris House, Germantown[419]
The State House Colonnade[425]
The Smith Memorial, West Fairmount Park[431]
The Basin, Old Water-Works[435]
Girard Street[441]
The Union League, from Broad and Chestnut Streets[415]
Broad Street Station[453]
Wanamaker's[457]
St. Peter's Churchyard[461]
City Hall from the Schuylkill[465]
Chestnut Street Bridge[469]
The Narrow Street[475]
The Market Street Elevated at the Delaware End[479]
The Railroad Bridges at Falls of Schuylkill[483]
The Parkway Pergolas[487]
Market Street West of the Schuylkill[491]
Manheim Cricket Ground[497]
Dock Street And The Exchange[501]
The Locomotive Yard, West Philadelphia[507]
The Girard Trust Company[511]
Twelfth Street Meeting House[515]
Wyck[519]
The Massed Sky-scrapers Above the Housetops[523]
Sunset. Philadelphia from Across the Delaware[527]
The Union League Between the Sky-scrapers[531]
Up Broad Street from League Island[535]
From Gray's Ferry[539]

OUR PHILADELPHIA

CHAPTER I: AN EXPLANATION

I

I think I have a right to call myself a Philadelphian, though I am not sure if Philadelphia is of the same opinion. I was born in Philadelphia, as my Father was before me, but my ancestors, having had the sense to emigrate to America in time to make me as American as an American can be, were then so inconsiderate as to waste a couple of centuries in Virginia and Maryland, and my Grandfather was the first of the family to settle in a town where it is important, if you belong at all, to have belonged from the beginning. However, J.'s ancestors, with greater wisdom, became at the earliest available moment not only Philadelphians, but Philadelphia Friends, and how very much more that means Philadelphians know without my telling them. And so, as he does belong from the beginning and as I would have belonged had I had my choice, for I would rather be a Philadelphian than any other sort of American. I do not see why I cannot call myself one despite the blunder of my forefathers in so long calling themselves something else.

I might hope that my affection alone for Philadelphia would give me the right, were I not Philadelphian enough to know that Philadelphia is, as it always was and always will be, cheerfully indifferent to whatever love its citizens may have to offer it. I can hardly suppose my claim for gratitude greater than that of its Founder or the long succession of Philadelphians between his time and mine who have loved it and been snubbed or bullied in return. Indeed, in the face of this Philadelphia indifference, my affection seems so superfluous that I often wonder why it should be so strong. But wise or foolish, there it is, strengthening with the years whether I will or no,—a deeper rooted sentiment than I thought I was capable of for the town with which the happiest memories of my childhood are associated, where the first irresponsible days of my youth were spent, which never ceased to be home to me during the more than a quarter of a century I lived away from it.