Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02

| biuation and it's subsidiaries. Along
 this part of the street are the offices of the big steamship companies, the | Steel corporation, the Rubber Trust and scores of other great aggregations ! of capital representing hundreds of
 millions of invested capital. Inter. | spcrrcd with these are banks. insur. ancc companies, lawyers and brokers offices and all the varied machinery
 required in the operation of great l financial undertakings.
 Farther up, between City Hall Park and Union Square. Broadway runs | through the heart of the wholesale | district. For some two miles it is lined with great merchandising estab. lishments in which are gathered the
 manufactured products of every part of the world. Above this in turn is the retail district. The crowds which.
 furtlfcr down. consisted cheiny of men show as great Q majority of women as soon as Fourteenth Street is passed and the big department stores which
 nave succeeded the wholesale estab.
 lishments are throngcd with smartly dressed shoppers.
 ! The shopping section of Broadway
 has been moving rapidly uptown dur
 ing the past few years and has crowd i cd out number of hotels and the.
 aters. It's northern limit now k Her.
 ald square, least this is the location
 of the furtherst uptown big depart.
 mcnt store. Here at Thir,y.fourth
 Street too is the most crowded spot in i the city or in the world. By careful computation more than l,50O,0O0 per. sons pass here every day and this
 number will be still greater when the new Pennsylvania terminal is com pleted and the tunnels under the North , and East rivers meet near by.
 Above Thirty fourth Street extends "the Rialto," "Tne Great White Way" Champagne Alley" to quote few of the pet names New Workers have given to their favorite stretch of Broadway. This is the region of hotels, restaurants and theaters. Long. acre Square Is the capital of this gay prineipality. Less than century ago the cows pnsturing on the peaceful acres of the old Astor farm were al. most it's only tenants. Now the great mass of brick and stone whica forms the new Hotel Astor stands on tho site of the old farmhouse, twenty theaters are within a stone's throw and fam. ous restaurants are grouped all about. More money is spent every day with, in the space of these half dozen blocks for food, drink and amusement than in any like area in the world. Long. acre Square is the core of the evening life of the Metropolis, where t0e lights Hash brightest, where the crowds of pleasure seekers are thickest and where all that is typical of the gay, careless, fashionable life is most in evidence. Following Brondway's up. town course one passes block after block in the region about the lower end of Central Park given over almost entirely to the automobile industry. " "Gasolene Allcy,' it Is called in the local vernneular. Still further norta is the region of great apartment no. tels. the homes of those residents of the city who are among neither the richest nor the poorest, extending block after block in structures of tow. ering height for several miles. Where the street begins to mount the heights that form the northern part of Man haitian 1t enters upon another phase, passing great institutions, the lofty arches of tho Cathedral of St. John, the halls of Columbia University, and further up the College of the City of New York. Open spaces begin to ap. pear. There are private residences as well as apartment houses. Broadway here overlooks tne lordly Hudson and the Palisades on the Jersey shore, and along this part of its course. from the upper heights Co the northern end of tho Island at Spuytcn Duyvil will stand in the future in all probability tho finest and costliost of New York's homes, residences of the fashionable wealthy.
 Broadway mas two advantages which many other famous streets lack n worthy beginning and ending. At its lower end is Battery Park, "a spot or greenery looking out upon the bnsy waters of the harbor and at it's upper terminus is to be placed the