PREFACE.
It has occurred to the author very often that a volume presenting the peculiar features, favorite resorts and distinguishing characteristics, of the leading cities of America, would prove of interest to thousands who could, at best, see them only in imagination, and to others, who, having visited them, would like to compare notes with one who has made their PECULIARITIES a study for many years.
A residence in more than a hundred cities, including nearly all that are introduced in this work, leads me to feel that I shall succeed in my purpose of giving to the public a book, without the necessity of marching in slow and solemn procession before my readers a monumental array of time-honored statistics; on the contrary, it will be my aim, in the following pages, to talk of cities as I have seen and found them in my walks, from day to day, with but slight reference to their origin and past history.
WILLARD GLAZIER.
22 Jay Street,
Albany, September 24, 1883.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Portrait of the Author (Steel) | [Frontispiece.] |
| PAGE | |
| State Street and Capitol, Albany, N. Y. | [34] |
| Boston, as Viewed from the Bay | [38] |
| Soldiers' Monument at Buffalo, N. Y. | [62] |
| View of Baltimore, from Federal Hill | [92] |
| View of the Battery, Charleston, South Carolina | [108] |
| Garden at Mount Pleasant, opposite Charleston, S. C. | [112] |
| Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina | [116] |
| Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina | [120] |
| Public Square and Perry Monument, Cleveland, Ohio | [150] |
| Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio | [156] |
| Bird's-eye View of Chicago, from the Lake Side | [160] |
| Burning of Chicago, the World's Greatest Conflagration | [164] |
| Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago | [170] |
| Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan | [192] |
| Harrisburg and Bridges over the Susquehanna | [200] |
| Jackson Square and Old Cathedral, New Orleans | [274] |
| Mardi Gras Festival, New Orleans | [278] |
| Bird's-eye View of New York | [296] |
| New York and Brooklyn Bridge | [318] |
| Pittsburg and its Rivers | [336] |
| Night Scene in Market Square, Portland, Maine | [360] |
| Old Independence Hall, Philadelphia | [370] |
| Masonic Temple, Philadelphia | [378] |
| Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia | [394] |
| View of Providence, Rhode Island, from Prospect Terrace | [400] |
| Tabernacle and Temple, Salt Lake City | [440] |
| Seal Rocks from the Cliff House, near San Francisco | [462] |
| Levee and Great Bridge at St. Louis | [492] |
| Shaw's Garden at St. Louis, Missouri | [502] |
| University of Toronto, Canada | [524] |
| East Front of Capitol at Washington | [538] |
| State, War and Navy Departments, Washington, D. C. | [546] |