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Great New York Centennial Celebration Looms Over City
Our New York Letter describes preparations for a citywide centennial celebration with grand arches along Fifth Avenue, crowds from across the country, and intense hotel demand. Inspector Byrnes reorganizes crime control for the event, while Four Hundred society tensions and German and Jewish visitors shape a bustling, disorderly but festive metropolis.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Burt
Brooklyn
United States Navy
Byrnes
Paris
Berlin
Inspector Byrnes
Gen. Grant
Ward McAllister
Stuyvesant Fish
Jimmy Oliver
Paradise Park
The
Five Points
Dr. Watts
Eastern
Middle States
Metropols
Brooklyn Bridge
Battery
Trinity Church
City Hall
Central Park
Union and
Madison Squares
Atlantic Garden
Volks Garden
Jersey City
Hoboken
Hoffman House
St. James
Stewart's
Union Square
Motor Telegraph
Washington
Sub-Treasury
Fales-Curtis