Excerpt from Pennsylvania Railroad System: A Description of Its Main Lines and Branches With Notes of the Historical Events Which Have Taken Place in the Territory Contiguous As a commercial center New York is supreme. Every big industrial institution in the country has an office in the city; vessels leave its hundreds of docks for practically every port in the world, and it is extensively engaged in manufacturing. The principal industries are sugar refineries, tobacco factories, and plants for the making of clothing, chemicals, medi cines, clocks, watches, musical instruments, rope, cordage, iron and steel products, boats, ammunition, glassware, silverware, paper, oils, paints, soap, starch and matches. In engraving, printing and lithographing the city is very prominent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.