Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 · New York, Mentor Assoc. · leaf 12
he twenty- four hours. Passenger travel grew in like manner. Hundreds of thousands of immi- grants landed at the ports, and found their way west. The Far West was settled up by people from states farther east; the growth of the system of "drum- mers"— or, to speak more elegantly, "commercial AN… … New York or Washington to A TRAIN PASSING THE OLD TOMBS PRISON IN THE almost any important point WINTER OF 1853 At this time the terminal of the New York £3" Harlem Rail- east of the Mississippi River road was back of the New York City Hall and Chicago; and from Chi- cago and St. Louis and New…
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