vators and a number of wharves, including those of
the Baltimore & Ohio railway.

That part of the city which lies E. of Jones's Falls is known as East
Baltimore, and is in turn nominally divided into Fells' Point to the S. and
E., now a shipbuilding and manufacturing quarter, and Old Town to the N.
and W. In the Old Town still remain a few specimens of eighteenth century
architecture, including several old-fashioned post-houses, which used to
furnish entertainment for travellers starting for the Middle West by way of
the old Cumberland Road beginning at Fort Cumberland, and from Baltimore to
Fort Cumberland by a much older turnpike. The more inviting portion of the
modern city lies on the western side of Jones's Falls, and the principal
residential districts are in the northern half of the city. A little S.
from the centre of the city, Baltimore Street, running E. and W., and
Charles Street, running N. and S., intersect; from this point buildings on
these two streets are numbered N., S., E. and W., while buildings on other
streets are numbered N. and S. from Baltimore Street and E. and W. from
Charles Street. Baltimore Street is the chief business thoroughfare; S. of
it as well as a little to the N. is the wholesale, financial and shipping
district; while West Lexington Street, a short distance to the N., and
North Howard and North Eutaw Streets, between Fayette and Franklin Streets,
have numerous department and other retail stores. In North Gay Street also,
which runs N.E. through East Baltimore, there are many small but busy
retail shops. North Charles Street, running through the district in which
the more wealthy citizens live, is itself lined with many of the most
substantial and imposing residences in the city. Mount Vernon Place and
Washington Place, intersecting near the centre of the city, Eutaw Place
farther N.W., and Broadway running N. and S. through the middle of East
Baltimore, are good examples of wide streets, having squares in the middle,
adorned with lawns, flower-beds and fountains.

The buildings of the principal business quarter have been erected since
1904, when a fire which broke out on Sunday the 7th of February destroyed
all the old ones within an area of 150 acres. Within a year after the fire,
however, 225 places of business were again occupied and 170 more were
building. A city ordinance prohibited the erection of any building more
than 185 ft. in height, and prescribed a uniform height for th