The Pennsylvania railroad - its origin, construction, condition, and connections; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and (14757787491)

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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Year: 1875 (1870s)

Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad

Publisher: Philadelphia : (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) The Passenger Dept.

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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from year to yearincreased. Although Philadelphia was founded by apeaceful people, and possesses a fair repu-tation for quiet and order, yet on severaloccasions partisan feeling has run so high thatthe wildest excesses have been committed inher streets. As early as 1742 a riot occurredat the polls, which is known in history as thebloody election ; but it was reserved fora hundred years later to demonstrate howfrenzied our people can become in themidst of excitement. In 1844 occurredthe great Native-American riots, duringwhich churches and other buildings wereburned and several lives destroyed. On twoocca-sions during that year did those disturb-ances occur, and on both of them blood wasshed. The first was in May, in the then dis-trict of Kensington, and the second in July,in the district of Southwark. The cause ofthose outbreaks was a dispute between whatwas called the Native-American jiarty and theIrish Catholics. Fortunately they were mereebullitions of passion, and they soon passed

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PHILADELPHIA. 73 away, leaving noother f e e 1 i n gthan regret. As the cityincreased inpopulation it wasfound that thedivided au-thority whichexisted in it andits many suburbs,called districts,was a serious ob-stacle to the pre-servation oforder. A streetbecame a barrierwhich an officerof the law couldnot pass, androgues and riot-ers, by fleeingfrom one squareto another, werefree from moles-tation. This ledto the consolida-tion, in one municipality andunder one charter, of the en-tire county of Philadelphia,in 1854. By this act it becamethe largest city in territorialarea in America, and secondonly to London, in Europe.Its limits now embrace onehundred and twenty squaremiles,—-their extreme length,north and south, being twen-ty-three miles, and theirwidth, from east to west,averaging about five and ahalf miles. Within this area are em-braced a number of suburbanvillages. Among these Ger-mantown. Chestnut Hill, andTorresdale are noted fortheir elegant residences; Rox-borough, Manayu

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