Excerpt from Quaint Corners in Philadelphia: With One Hundred and Seventy-Four IllustrationsIt is natural that such a volume should in parts bear the signs of age, and of containing statements no longer true, for Philadelphia, along with the rest of the country, has made immense strides during the last forty years. Among other things it has doubled its population and very nearly doubled the number of its buildings. But it has been believed best to allow the different chapters to remain as they were originally written, but to supplement them with a few words in this Preface. One of the original chapters has been displaced by another that out lines the development in the neighborhood of City Hall Square, a locality that had only begun to be a center of interest in 1883.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.