Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — A Complete Town in One Block. [ARTICLE]

A Complete Town in One Block.

N. Y Bun. If the .block on West Thirtieth street between Sixth and Seventh avenues was suddenly set down in the middle of a huge uncultivated and untenanted prairie it would not be long before it would have a railway station, and figure in all the guide books and maps as a yery important place, indeed. This block has all the necessary ad-Ttmets-of -a thriving city,.and it needn’t care a rap what happens around the corner or any where else. Besides an army of people and scores of big buildings, it has a public school, a police station, two undertakers, two doctors, two drug stores, a bakery, two , laundries, an employment bureau, two groceries, a meat market, a branch of the Public Works Department, a mission house, a church, a fire engine house, an insurance patrol, three barber shops, a Wheelwright, a cabinetmaker, a shoemaker, three livery stables, a tailor, a cigar manufacturer, a boarding house, a dressmaker, a coal yard, an express ojfice, and several saloons.