The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-03
REPEALED IN STREET NAMES.
The System or Baok or System In the vnri
oua Cities of the Country.

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The System or Lack or System In the var,.
ors CITIES OF the Country.
The Post ONCE Department ublishes for lie
own use a curious and valuable composite
street directory. showing streets Of identical
names In scores Of cities. When letter comes
| misdirected to q Post ONCE this composite
street directory lie ct once appealed to. and
the letter is sent to some ono Of the other
cities having street Of the name that appears
on the envelope. Several employees OF the
New York Post ofIlce pass several hours OF
| each working day porinR over this book. In
| no other country OF the world could such a
| book have the same value as 1t has here, boz
| cause In no other land have cities been so put
to 1t Tor street names and so generally imi-
| tated one nnother's devices Of nom enc lature.
The simplest, II least picturesque, OF nll sys-
| tens IL that OF numbered streets. New York 3
device OF numbered streets crossed by num-
bered avenues is the ideal OF this convenient
system. Foreigners boot at the system. and
New Workers. do not pretend that It has any
| virtue except its manifest convenience.
Nevertheless. every person acquainted with the
characteristics OF the great thoroughfares OF
New York is con scious that Fifth avenue is
part OF q hard and -fnst numbered system. The
distinction OF the street has conferred q sort Of
distinction upon the name. and one does not
think OF IL as q number In sequence.
The system Of numbered streets has been
adopted. in whole or in part. by nearly every
considerable American city. and the New York
system Of numbered streets and avenues
crossing at right angles has commended it.
self to several thriving Western cities. Coun-
Gil Bluffs has adopted 1t bodily. SO has Dem
YER ana SO has Birmingham. Ala. Chicago has
it. though the numbered avenues do not cut an
important figure In the system OF streets. Num-
bered streets are conspicuous in Philadelphia.
San francisco, DstToit. st. Joseph, iMilwaukse.
louisville and wi mineton. Gincinnati has
the system imperfectly developed. aoston
adopted ado d" n%mbered Streets and AVENUES
ten begun: and s, Paul l. singular among
streets. most OF them unimportant save Sew
enth street. which runs through large part
Another device for obtaining a self xpana-
tory and lonR-running sequence Is n to name
tom ths sSste ns most Highly deVs
the fact that the first Adams rather than the
dozen OF the streets bearing the names Of
Presidents are. among the longest and most
Presidents In like fashion. but their names APP
pear only In streets on the outskirts OF tho
FROM his psco Tyer Poes
and buchanan are also left out Of the sequence.
has Of f s
out. Memphis includes the first Adams in its
short seunence of Presidents
sequences in the names OF the States. doubt.
less a succession obtained from the street
has employed this device. So has Buffalo.
Pittsburgh. which has an imperfect develop
ment OF the numbered street and avenue sys.
obtain names In sequence. Far out on the
city''s edge the name-givers have placed the
iish poets Battles, heroes and poets are
M
1aEksoSnti and stanton With an az In
Gully. In another part Of the city gems form
McnonEahela there is the classical sequence
Philadelphia sequence Of trees. dou btless. a
Streets e Of Cities were shaded. New Orleans,
whose street nomenclature is a chaos OF French
nna varous
has taken up the tree system. and run beyond
i into vines and fruits 50 that one finds on
Plum. and Rose. Violet. Jessnmfne. Hyacinth.
Narcissus, Geranium. and Lavender.
have Cd land under water from time ' to
time. and built upon 1t new thorouRhfares.
IT hss s S sn sneF on the stog i
told Of New York in the names South street
Front street. Water street. each being the name
OF a thoroughfare now or at some other time
fronting the water. brooklyn has River and
and First: Cincinpati has River Water. Front
In the same way the successive inland bounda-
ries are indicated Line street and Boun iary
street, Charleston. s, C.. each mark what was
once the northern edge Of the city, though they
changes in cities, pre- recorded in street
market Of Wilmington is NO longer
on Market street: hlt upon King street;
a mile on market days with scores OF
farmers, wagons filled with all manner Of
Furnishes with heavy fine the offence Of fore
staling or huying up the produce from; the
it at monopoly prices. When Market street
became too busy thoroughfare to hold the
open air market. It was removed to King
street: and for years there has been an effort to
drive 1t from the latter thoronghiare. Traces
upon the man Of New York, and the same
OF aim ost any old city OF the United States