The sun., 1893-09-07
CORRESPONDENCE.
Philadelphia, Aug. 90, 1893.

Having spent a couple of weeks
in Philadelphia and surrounding
country, have observed quite con-
trast between this city and Morris.
Philadelphia is city of magnificent
distances, covering, as it does, the en-
tire county, and having many large
tributary towns outside the county.
The dimensions of the city proper
are as follows: Boundry around city
20 miles; length of puplic streets,
], ,420 miles; length of steam railroads,
145 miles; length of street railways,
$50 miles; area of Fairmount Park,
1880 acres; other parks, 5s acres.
1t would be useless to attempt a
description of the many great build
ings in the city, but one must not be
overlooked-the public buildings.
They extend from north to south 436
feet; from eest to west, 4O7 feet; area,
A acres; height of main tower, 537
feet, width of base, 80 feet; diameter
of clock face, 20 feet; number of
rooms, $40; amount of flooring, 14l
acres. On top of tower will be erect
ed bronze statute of VIM. Penn,
measuring 81 feet high, weight 10000
lbs; hat, 3 feet in diameter, circum-
frence of rim % feet; nose 13 inches
long; eyes, II inches long, inches
wide; hair 4 feet long; shoulders, 2s
feet in circumference; feet % inches
wide, s feet long.
To describe the business of this
city, just imagine yourself at John
Wanamaker's, and you see the whole
of it. Anything from glass of milk
to an elephant can be got there. It
is the mecca of Philadelphia women
if they want dish of ice cream, a
cup of good coffee or Persian shawl
worth thousands of dollars, they GO
to Wanamaker's. If they want tc
meet lady friend for good gossip
they are sure to meet at Wanamaker's
and HE themselves to the restaurant
By the way, this same restaurant is q
wonder in itself. I found the head
waiter who, in very gentlemanly
way gave me all possible information
He has about one hundsed walters
under him, mostly colored people oi
a light, uniform shade which is very
pleasing to look at. The whole Wan
amaker establishment is a great mass
of wholesale and retail stores thrown
together under one monstrous roof
There is about Is acres of flooring in
the store; $500 to 5000 are the mum
Der of employees; II boilers aggre
eating 1900 horse power and using
26 tons of coal per day, 7 steam en-
g1nes, with a power of 700 horses
482 arc lights, 800 incandescent and
1850 gas jets light the building; 10(
miles of steam pipe heat the building
13 hydraulic elevators carry custom
ers through the establishment; &C
wagons and 14O horses deliver the
10000 daily packages through tho
city; So mercantile departments con
stitute the divisions of trade, and tho
central cash Office has 25 cashiers te
which all money is conveyed through
IL miles of pneumatic tubing.
reached Atlantic City on the even
ing of the great storm, and though
slept on the beach, in a room opel
to the ocean on three sides, I awokt
in the morning to find that one of the
greatest storms of the age had JUS
passed. Everybody had been up al
night packing jewelry and other valu
ables, ready to escape from the islanc
if they could, but slept on and on
whether it was the sleep of the just o.
of weary traveller, I leave my read
ers to decide. There were at thai
time about 100000 visitors on the
island. but next day they began te
decamp, ON the principle of locking
the stable door after the horse'is
stolen. III. WHITLEY.