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[Illustration: THE GLORY OF FIFTH AVENUE INSPIRES EVEN THOSE ON FOOT]


YOUR UNITED STATES
IMPRESSIONS OF A FIRST VISIT

BY
ARNOLD BENNETT

ILLUSTRATED BY
FRANK CRAIG


HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMXII


COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1912


CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. THE FIRST NIGHT 3
II. STREETS 27
III. THE CAPITOL AND OTHER SITES 49
IV. SOME ORGANIZATIONS 73
V. TRANSIT AND HOTELS 99
VI. SPORT AND THE THEATER 123
VII. EDUCATION AND ART 147
VIII. CITIZENS 171


ILLUSTRATIONS
THE GLORY OF FIFTH AVENUE INSPIRES EVEN THOSE ON FOOT _Frontispiece_
DISEMBARKING AT NEW YORK _Facing p._ 10
THE DOWN-TOWN BROADWAY OF CROWED SKY-SCRAPERS 16
BROADWAY ON ELECTION NIGHT 20
A BUSY DAY ON THE CURB MARKET 34
A WELL-KNOWN WALL STREET CHARACTER 36
THE SKY-SCRAPERS OF LOWER NEW YORK AT NIGHT 38
A WINTER MORNING IN LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO 42
A RIVER-FRONT HARMONY IN BLACK AND WHITE--CHICAGO 44
THE APPROACH TO THE CAPITOL 50
ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 52
ON THE STEPS OF THE PORTICO--THE CAPITOL 54
UNDER THE GREAT DOME OF THE CAPITOL 56
THE PROMENADE--CITY POINT, BOSTON 60
THE BOSTON YACHT CLUB--OVERLOOKING THE HARBOR 64
AT MORN POURING CONFIDENCES INTO HER TELEPHONE 74
LUNCHEON IN A DOWN-TOWN CLUB 86
A YOUNG WOMAN WAS JUST FINISHING A FLORID SONG 90
ABSORBED IN THAT WONDROUS SATISFYING HOBBY 94
IN THE PARLOR-CAR 100
BREAKFAST EN ROUTE 108
IN THE SUBWAY ONE ENCOUNTERS AN INSISTENT, HURRYING STREAM 112
THE STRAP-HANGERS 114
THE PASSENGERS ON THE ELEVATED AT NIGHT ARE ODDLY ASSORTED 116
THE RESTAURANT OF A GREAT HOTEL IS BUT ONE FEATURE OF ITS SPLENDOR 118
THE HORSE-SHOWS ARE WONDROUS DISPLAYS OF FASHION 124
THE SENSE OF A MIGHTY AND CULMINATING EVENT SHARPENED THE AIR 130
THE VICTORS LEAVING THE FIELD 134
UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS--UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 156
MITCHELL TOWER AND HUTCHINSON COMMONS--UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 164
PART OF THE DAILY ROUND OF THE INDOMITABLE NEW YORK WOMAN 172
THE ASTOUNDING POPULOUSNESS OF THE EAST SIDE 186


YOUR UNITED STATES


I
THE FIRST NIGHT

I sat with a melting ice on my plate, and my gaze on a very distant
swinging door, through which came and went every figure except the
familiar figure I desired.
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