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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization
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the amelioration of suffering man or woman.The many institutions for the care of the blind, the insane, theorphaned, the friendless, and the crippled, all supported byprivate beneficence, are monuments to the Christian liberalityof the citizens of our city. Our churches deserve especial mention. Few cities in theworld can boast of finei church edifices. Some are beautifulexamples of architecture—such for instance as Trinity,Grace, St. Bartholomews, and St. Patricks Cathedral. AVhen the Cathedral of St. John, now being erected, isfinished, we shall equal most of the cities of the world and besurpassed by none in this respect. Our public schools are most excellent and furnish accom-modation for some 125,000 children. Every year our schoolfacilities are increased, and our old school-houses made morein accord with the demands of the day, so that every childwithin our city has, free of cost, the advantage of a first-classeducation. Columbia College whose future is now doubly sure by the
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CHRIST CHURCH. RIVERDALE AND ALAMO AVES.
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