In this view you seem to be looking up a deep and narrow canon for the buildings which line Broadway are the highest in the world. Land in lower Broadway is very valuable. It has been sold for as much as $576 per square foot, or at a rate of $1,500,000 per acre. Yet the whole island of Manhattan was bought from the Indians for $24. When land is so very valuable it pays to build high so as to get as great a return as possible from a small land space. Some of these buildings shelter thousands of people, more than most of our smaller towns contain. Such buildings were not possible in the old days when wood and stone were the only building materials. Skyscrapers are always constructed on steel frames whose parts are riveted together. At the left in the foreground is the top of the tall spire of old Trinity Church sharply outlined against Trinity Building over whose

top may be seen the Singer Building, the home of the singer Sewing Machine Co. Trinity Church faces Wall Street, now the financial center of the world. The American Surety Building which you see in the foreground on the right side is on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street. Next to it, tall and white, stands the Equitable Building. Broadway is a part of the old post road that extended from the village of New York to Albany, 150 miles north. From 23rd Street to 59th Street it is spoken of as the "Great White Way." This is the theater, hotel and shopping district and is the best known part of the city. Gradually the stores are moving farther up town leaving lower Broadway to the offices where the big business of the world is carried on.