Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-01-14
THE QUAKER CITY.
When Liberty was First Pealed
 Forth to all the Land.

 !. 1862 by the Quaker, William Penn, afte
 he purchased the land from the Indian
 and to which he gave the name of th City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia being the Greek name for the sam meaning. Wholesale and retail store ,, stand sids by side on these streets The largest being that owned by Post
 master General Wanamsker. It is ar enormous bazaar. Apartments tastily
 furnished with household furniture; (
 millinery department in which flowers
 are suspended from the ceiling, looking
 as if they float in tae air; dry goods
 groceries, flower and garden seeds, etc.
 are to be found in this establishment The saleswomen are all cOstumed ID
 black. All the cashiers desks are in one
 part of the store, and the clashing sounds of the numerous balls contain ing the money, make one feel like not tarrying in that department long.
 The Mint is constructed of white marble in the architectural design of a Grecian Ionic temple. The officials politely take visitors through and show them the various processes, gold, sil- yer and copper metals pass through be- fore becoming stamped coins. All de- signs both accepted and rejected of coins for United States currency are ex- hibited there; also the varieties of money used by savages and foreign na- tions, and numerous models of medals
 At the rear of Indepennerce Square is Carpenters Hall, in which the first continental Congress was held in ITO. The hall was built by and intended for the use of the Society of Carpenters; but has been used for different purposes since its erection-C8rpenters' Society, political meetings, government uses. banking business and Apprentices li- brary.
 In Independence Hall the secord con- tinental Congress was held which in 1884 declared the independence of the colonies. In this hall the Declaration of Independence was signed and first publicly read on the steps in Indepen- dence square July i. 1776. In one room are the portraits of the signers and the table on which they signed the docus ment. Hanging in the tower is the old Independence or Liberty Bell, which rang the independence of the American colonies when the boy with his little hands up-lifted," shouted. "Ringl grand pa, ring! oh, ring for hbertyr' On it is the inscription, "Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the people thereof" The bell was brought over from England. In the lobby many bountiful feasts were held in colonial days. In this hall large public recep- tion was given in 1924 to Lafayette.
 From the roof of tEe Drexel building is picturesque view of the city, Ger mantown. the fields and hills of the sur rounding country and the valleys of the Delaware and Schuylkill where the two rivers form a junction.
 The City Hall, white marble struc- ture, has been ? years building and is still unfinished, It is the largest City Hall building in the United States, oc- cupying four and one-half acres. The tower when completed will be 537 feet high, on the top of which is to be a statute of William Penn. In the build- ing is a model of the building and grounds of the exposition of 1876.
 The red brick residences with their white shutters and doors and low, white marble steps, by their general appearance remind one of the London honses. Many of the Phiiadelphians live in the houses and retain the furni- ture and draperles of their ancestors.
 The aristocracy in coloniel days at tended Christ's church, which contains a chime of bells brought from London in the middle of the 18th century.
 Two miles from Independence Hall is Girard College. The buildings are con- structed of white marble in the style of Grecian architecture. The grounds oc- cupy about 40 acres. It was founded for the support and education of destI~ tute orphan boys by Stephen Girard, who made one of the regulations that DO clergyman ever be admitted. But it is so managed that the boys receive good moral training without conflicting with Mr. Girard's rules
 In Paramount Park are the geological gardens. On entering one building some one said, Had your breakfast" and looking around we saw sitting on a perch, a cockatoo, with white feathers and yellow topknot, looking demurely at us.
 The house of William Penn which has been removed from Market street, is also in the park. This was the first brick building erected in the city. It has a high mantle and old-fashloned door and windows with small panes of glass and deep sIlls.
 Other buildings of interest in Fair mount Park are Horticultural and Me morial halls, remaining from the Cen tenBial exhibition. Horticultural Hall contains numerous varieties of plants and small trees, including orchids and the following trees: Camphor, palms from which the palm leaf fans are made, india rubber about 20 feet high, lemon with lemons on, and banana with bun- ches of bananas, which are rareties in northern climes.
 Memorial Hall is the museum of the city, and contains many things of in- terest. Some are ancient cross-stick work and embrOideries, large oil paint ing of battle scene, which has an eX- cellent atmospheric effect, the soldiers | looking as if they are on the battlefield and not on canvass, an ivory gondOla about Is inches in length with email pots of plants on top, the leaves and stems of which are dehcately and per- fectly cut, plaques in good carving, one $ of a woman turning cakes over a grid | de, while on the wall is a shelf on which are plates standing edgewavs, all cut out of one piece of wood, showing much skill
 The suburbs of Philadelphia are