STREET OPENINGS AND REPAIRS

"It is not the making of street openings which is a peculiar American institution, but simply our method of making them. ** If ours were managed on the European plan, the work would be no more in evidence here than it is there."

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

The use of the streets by private interests in sometimes regarded as peculiar to America.

A sidewalk on Unter den Linden blocked and the street obstructed with building material.

Opposite the General Post Office. View of building construction, showing carriageway used for storing brick.