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Show FAMOUS OLD BROADWAY. One can buy everything on Broadway. Everything! Hats, railroads, ships, shoes, dresses, a title, neckties, food, land, shoestrings, shoe-strings, pictures, theater tickets; new things and old things, things one needs and things one doesn't need, things one should have and things one should not have. Such a Jumbled street of finance and catch-penny contrivances; such a mixture of good and evil, of greatness and Insignificance, of honesty and trickery, of distinction and social ostracism as It all is: atid what a study! The o!4 and the new are aide by side. The living and the dead are In constant proximity. Away down on Broadway are old St. Paul's and Trinity lth the deed sleeping In their respective churchyards, a holy calm resting over all, while hemming hem-ming them in are great, busy buildings, the number In any one of which is sufficient suffi-cient to populate a good-sised village. From "New York's Backbone." by Emma Archer Osborne, In Four-Track News for November. |