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id: 36994
author: Chapin, Alfred Clark
title: The Future of Brooklyn
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sentence: 288
flesch: 64
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  Manifestly the tenants of these numerous flats and the 1,168 families who are to dwell in the more modest residences belonging in part at least to the class which will not live in lower New York and which cannot endure the journey to the region above One Hundred and Tenth street. We may, I think, safely assume that the falling off in the gain between 1875 and 1880 was largely due to the opening of the system of elevated roads in New York City in 1878.


id: 33172
author: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Committee of Ten
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sentence: 329
flesch: 63
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title:
  Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn

summary:
  4. Site for court house takes Polytechnic land and buildings, etc., in addition to land now owned by the city 733,700.00 ------------- Total $5,994,895.00 This plan contemplates that the court house would occupy all of the present court house block except the Hall of Records; that it should have a large inner court with court rooms opening upon it; and that the municipal building should be placed on the plaza site. Site for new court house takes part of last item.


id: 37391
author: Anonymous
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words: 18416
sentence: 1082
flesch: 77
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title:
  Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876

summary:
  Near Bergen street the dirge which the band had been playing up to that point ceased, and the roll of twenty-four muffled tenor drums marked the time for the steps of the military. The following are the principal theatres that have been burned in this country, with loss of life: National Theatre, Philadelphia, Ninth and Chestnut streets, July 6, 1854, and an actor named Shepherd burned.


id: 5311
author: Morley, Christopher
title: Parnassus on Wheels
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words: 36948
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flesch: 89
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  It's no good writing down lists of books for farmers and compiling five-foot shelves; you've got to go out and visit the people yourself--take the books to them, talk to the teachers and bully the editors of country newspapers and farm magazines and tell the children stories--and then little by little you begin to get good books circulating in the veins of the nation. Your sister has bought this van and its contents, and I have been instructing her in my theories of the dissemination of good books.


id: 172
author: Morley, Christopher
title: The Haunted Bookshop
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sentence: 4039
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Let the bookseller learn to know and revere good books, he will teach the customer. The hunger for good books is more general and more insistent than you would dream.


id: 41979
author: Ostrander, Stephen M.
title: A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume I.
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  Furman[7] regards this statement as extraordinary, and offers evidence of the fact that farmers coming to New York city in the fall of the year from the east end of Long Island, during the early period of settlement, brought with them quantities of wampum to be forwarded as tribute to the Iroquois masters at Albany. Brooklyn's political fortunes were at this period so intimately connected with those of New York city that the political history of one is, in general, the political history of the other; yet Brooklyn and Kings County held sufficiently aloof to justify the omission of any particular chronicle of the administration of Burnet and its quarrels with the French, or the circumstances attending the Governor's transfer to Massachusetts by George II.


id: 6002
author: Van Slyke, Lucille
title: Little Miss By-The-Day
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flesch: 85
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  But this is the bed where she always slept when she was young--the bed at which she laughed so much--ah, Miss Felicia, don't you think you will like it? Monsieur, she said gravely, does Miss Felicia know anything at all about all of us? He looked up at her quickly, his dark eyes sparkling with anger at her audacity, but something in her sober, respectful gaze quieted him.


id: 42712
author: Ostrander, Stephen M.
title: A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II.
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  COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TOTALS ================================================================ Industries | Industries | Establishments | Capital[57] | Reported | Reporting | ---------------------+------------+----------------+------------ All Industries {1880 | 180 | 5,201 | $61,646,749 {1890 | 229 | 10,561 | 125,849,052 ---------------------+------------+----------------+------------ ============================================================ Industries | Hands | Wages Paid | Cost of | Employed | | Materials | | | Used ---------------------+----------+-------------+------------- All Industries {1880 | 47,587 | $22,487,457 | $129,085,091 {1890 | 103,683 | 61,975,702 | 137,325,749 ---------------------+----------+-------------+------------- ==================================================================== Industries | Miscellaneous | Value of Product | Population | Expenses[58] | | ---------------------+---------------+------------------+----------- All Industries {1880 | | $177,223,142 | 566,663 {1890 | $14,824,466 | 248,750,184 | 806,343 ---------------------+---------------+------------------+----------- ========================================================= Industries | City Assessed | Municipal Debt[59] | Valuation | ---------------------+---------------+------------------- All Industries {1880 | $232,925,699 | $38,040,000 {1890 | 445,038,201 | 34,639,542 ---------------------+---------------+------------------- DETAILED STATEMENT FOR 1890 BY IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES IN BROOKLYN ELEVENTH CENSUS ================================================================= CLASSIFICATION OF | Boots and | | Coffee and INQUIRIES[60] | shoes-- | Chemicals | spice-- | factory | | roasting and | products | | grinding _Establishments_:-- | (65) | (36) | (13) ------------------------+------------+-------------+------------- CAPITAL EMPLOYED-- | | | Aggregate | $1,327,119 | $8,483,835 | $2,963,392 |============|=============|============= HIRED PROPERTY-- | | | Total | 366,230 | 275,000 | 306,300 +------------+-------------+------------- PLANT--Total | 385,934 | 4,888,250 | 546,696 +------------+-------------+------------- Land | 56,700 | 1,196,800 | 198,400 Buildings | 113,400 | 1,532,821 | 194,350 Machinery, tools, | | | and implements | 215,834 | 2,158,629 | 153,946 LIVE ASSETS--Total | 574,955 | 3,320,585 | 2,110,396


