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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Personality of American Cities - -Author: Edward Hungerford - -Illustrator: E. Horter - -Release Date: October 1, 2012 [EBook #40884] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PERSONALITY OF AMERICAN CITIES *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, Charlie Howard and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40884 ***</div> <hr class="wide"/> <div><a name="frontispiece" id="frontispiece"></a></div> @@ -626,7 +586,7 @@ in any other city within the United States. The Bos<span class="pagenum"><a name is occasionally rude; these occasions are almost invariably upon his overcrowded streets and in the public places—until the stranger may begin to wonder if, after -all, the street railroad employés have a monopoly of good +all, the street railroad employés have a monopoly of good manners—but he is always just. His mind is judicial. He treats you fairly. And if he knows you, knows your forbears as well, he is courtesy of the highest sort. And @@ -1593,7 +1553,7 @@ comes from the fact that it squarely spans one of the busiest crosstown highways in the lower part of the city—Chambers street. The absorption of that busy thoroughfare is recognized by a great depressed bay -upon the west front—the main <i>façade</i> of the building. +upon the west front—the main <i>façade</i> of the building. And incidentally that depressed bay makes interior courts within the structure absolutely unnecessary. So much for the architectural features, severe in its detail, @@ -2014,7 +1974,7 @@ and the coffee houses.</p> <p>Even the hospitality of the genial host seems to end—with the ending of the lunch-hour. As he takes his -last sip of <i>café noir</i> he is tugging at his watch.</p> +last sip of <i>café noir</i> he is tugging at his watch.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> "Bless me," he says, "It is going on three o'clock. @@ -2037,7 +1997,7 @@ machine of business.</p> is over. Three o'clock. Before the last echoes of Trinity's bell go ringing down through Wall street to halt the busy Exchange—the multitude has been fed. -Miss Stenographer has had her salad and éclair, two +Miss Stenographer has had her salad and éclair, two waltzes and perhaps a "turkey trot" into the bargain, and is back at the keys of her typewriter. Mr. President has entertained that Certain Party at the @@ -2076,7 +2036,7 @@ find those anywhere in the town."</p> <p>And there was another reckoning to be figured. Three o'clock means the day well advanced and there is -a <i>vis-à-vis</i> awaiting you uptown. Of course, there is +a <i>vis-à -vis</i> awaiting you uptown. Of course, there is a Her to enjoy your Day of Days with you. And just for convenience alone we will call her Katherine. It is a pretty name for a woman, and it will do here and @@ -2207,7 +2167,7 @@ white marble—bears no sign or token of its ownership or trade. An oversight, you think. Not a bit of it. Four blocks farther up the avenue is another great store in white marble—a jewelry shop of international -reputation. You will have to scan its broad <i>façade</i> +reputation. You will have to scan its broad <i>façade</i> closely indeed before you find the name of the firm in tiny letters upon the face of its clock. Oversight? Not a bit of it. It is the ultra of shop-keeping in New York—the @@ -2364,7 +2324,7 @@ that we must pause for afternoon tea."</p> <p>"Twenty years ago and it had every promise of success. It looked as if Riverside Drive would surpass the Avenue as a street of fine residences. The side streets -were preëminently nice. Then came the subway—and +were preëminently nice. Then came the subway—and with it the apartment houses. After that the very nice folk began moving to the side streets in the upper Fifties, the Sixties and the Seventies between Park and Fifth avenues."</p> @@ -2407,7 +2367,7 @@ ransacked for the furnishing of this tavern. And in the center of them all is a great glass-enclosed garden, filled with giant palms and tiny tables, tremendous waiters and infinitesimal chairs. A large bland-faced -employé—who is a sort of sublimated edition of the +employé—who is a sort of sublimated edition of the narrow lean hat-boys who we shall find in the eating places of the Broadway theater districts—divests you of your outer wraps. You elbow past a band and arrive @@ -2509,7 +2469,7 @@ population of a city almost the size of Syracuse.<span class="pagenum"><a name=" And the famous old bridge is but one of four direct paths from Manhattan to Brooklyn.</p> -<p>Six o'clock sees restaurants and cafés alight and ready +<p>Six o'clock sees restaurants and cafés alight and ready for the two or three hours of their really brisk traffic of the day. There are even dinner restaurants downtown, remarkably good places withal and making especial appeal @@ -2523,7 +2483,7 @@ square. There are still a very few old hotels in Broadway south of that point—a lessening company each year—one or two in close proximity to Washington square. Two of these last make a specialty of French -cooking—their <i>table d'hôtes</i> are really famous—and +cooking—their <i>table d'hôtes</i> are really famous—and perhaps you may fairly say when you are done at them that you have eaten at the best restaurants in all New York. From them Fifth avenue runs a straight course @@ -2665,7 +2625,7 @@ in effect there.</p> suggest the theater to Katherine. She is enthusiastic. You pick the theater. It is close at hand and you quickly find your way to it. A gentleman, whose politeness -is of a variety, somewhat <i>frappé</i>, awaits you in the +is of a variety, somewhat <i>frappé</i>, awaits you in the box-office. A line of hopeful mortals is shuffling toward him, to disperse with hope left behind. But this anticipates.</p> @@ -2828,7 +2788,7 @@ you will avoid the restaurants that make a specialty of the so-called <i>cabarets</i>. Really good restaurants manage to get along without them. And the very best that can be said of them is that they are invariably indifferently -poor—a <i>mélange</i> contributed by broken-down actors or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> +poor—a <i>mélange</i> contributed by broken-down actors or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> actresses, or boys or girls stolen from the possibilities of a really decent way of earning a living. As for the worst, it is enough to say that the familiarity that begins @@ -3266,7 +3226,7 @@ tenements of Rivington and Allen and Essex and all the other congested narrow streets east of the Bowery began moving over the new bridge and out to a distant section of Brooklyn, known as Brownsville. They had -preëmpted Brownsville for their own. For a time that +preëmpted Brownsville for their own. For a time that was all right. Then the wiser men of that wise old race began asking themselves "why go to Brownsville, eight or nine miles distant, when at the other end of the bridge @@ -3468,7 +3428,7 @@ island—again and again. It scoured the paint and tinsel cities, thrust the highest of their towers, a blackened ruin, to the ground. Pious folk said that God was scourging Coney island for its contempt for His laws. -And the fact remains that it has not regained the preëminence +And the fact remains that it has not regained the preëminence of its position ten years ago.</p> <p>We think that a man who had been out of Brooklyn @@ -3958,7 +3918,7 @@ of feminine shoppers show themselves. Upon a prominent corner there stands a very unusual grocery shop.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> That is, it must be a grocery shop for that is what it advertises itself, but in the window is a <i>papier-mache</i> -reproduction of the <i>table-d'hôte</i> luncheon that it serves +reproduction of the <i>table-d'hôte</i> luncheon that it serves upon its balcony, and within there are quotations from Shakespeare upon the wall and "best-sellers" sold upon its counters.</p> @@ -4264,7 +4224,7 @@ night forgets some of its sordidness and misery. And the picture that one of these celebrations makes upon the mind of a stranger is indelible.</p> -<p>Like all of such <i>fêtes</i> it gains its greatest glory at dusk.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> +<p>Like all of such <i>fêtes</i> it gains its greatest glory at dusk.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> As twilight comes the strident colors of the city fade; it becomes a thing of shapes and shadows—even the restless crowd is tired and softened. Then the genius @@ -4632,7 +4592,7 @@ recall a bit of verse that you saw a long time ago in the heart of Charles street. It is a little open place, shaped like a Maltese cross rather than a real square or oblong, with a modern apartment house looming up upon it, -whose façades of French Renaissance give a slightly +whose façades of French Renaissance give a slightly Parisian touch to that corner of the square. To the rest of it, bordered with sober, old-time mansions there is nothing Parisian, unless you stand apart and gaze at the @@ -4916,7 +4876,7 @@ for they, too, jump off and follow after.</p> <p>The chauffeur fumbles with the crank of the top-heavy car. It does not respond readily. The chauffeur perspires and the personal conductor—who will shortly -emerge in the rôle of lecturer—offers advice. The +emerge in the rôle of lecturer—offers advice. The chauffeur softly profanes. Interested spectators gather about and begin to make comments of a personal nature. Finally, when the chauffeur is about to give it all up and @@ -5422,7 +5382,7 @@ And that self-same fact seems to fairly establish the aristocracy—you can frankly call much of it snobbishness—of the place. To understand the whys and wherefores of this paradox one would need, himself, -to be an employé of the government, of large or small degree. +to be an employé of the government, of large or small degree. They are many and they are complicated. But an illustration or two will suffice to show what we mean:</p> @@ -5436,7 +5396,7 @@ urgent may be their errands or how short the time at their command. A gradual increase of this silly rule has made it include many assistants, sub-chiefs and assistants to sub-chiefs. Only the elevator man knows the rank at -which a government employé becomes entitled to this +which a government employé becomes entitled to this peculiar privilege. But he does know, and woe be to that little stenographer who enters the Department of X—— at just three minutes of nine in the morning, with @@ -5489,12 +5449,12 @@ given up in utter disgust.</p> <p>But official Washington does not care. Official Washington ends its day at half-past four and official Washington -is such a power that matinées, afternoon lectures +is such a power that matinées, afternoon lectures and concerts of any popular sort are rarely planned to begin before that hour. And on the hot summer afternoons of the Federal capital the wisdom of such early closing is hardly to be doubted. On such afternoons, -matinée or concert, a cup of tea or a walk along the shop +matinée or concert, a cup of tea or a walk along the shop windows of F street are all forgotten. For beyond the heat of the city, within easy reach by its really wonderful transportation system, are playgrounds of infinite @@ -5998,7 +5958,7 @@ Southerners—had placed us in a room big enough for the holding of a reception. From the shutters of the room we could look down into Meeting street—into the charred remnants of a store that had been burned long -before and the débris never removed. When we threw +before and the débris never removed. When we threw up the window sash we could thrust our heads out and see, a little way down the street, the most distinctive and the most revered of all Charleston's landmarks—the @@ -6522,7 +6482,7 @@ does not flaunt herself. And if the younger girls of Charleston society do drive their motor cars pleasant mornings through the crowded shopping district of King street, that does not mean that Charleston—the Charleston -of the barouche and the closed coupé—will ever +of the barouche and the closed coupé—will ever approve.</p> <div class="tb">*<span class="i2">*</span><span class="i2">*</span><span class="i2">*</span><span class="i2">*</span></div> @@ -6875,7 +6835,7 @@ cool heads and stout hearts. Buffalo is just beginning to appreciate that. It is becoming less difficult than of old for them to pull together, to dig deep into their purses if need be, and to plan their city of tomorrow in -a generous spirit of coöperation.</p> +a generous spirit of coöperation.</p> <div id="i016" class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> <img src="images/i016g.jpg" width="600" height="364" alt="Rochester is a city of charming homes" /><br /> @@ -7514,7 +7474,7 @@ Before that had been the memorable fight and defeat of Braddock—not far from where more recently Mr. Frick and Mr. Carnegie have been engaged in a rivalry as to which could erect the higher skyscraper and most -effectually block out the <i>façade</i> of the very beautiful +effectually block out the <i>façade</i> of the very beautiful Court House that the genius of H. H. Richardson designed—more than a score of years ago. At Braddock's defeat George Washington fought and it was no @@ -7743,7 +7703,7 @@ and better Pittsburgh?"</p> <p>The limousine stopped and the ironmaster beckoned a large, whiskered Russian to it. "Here's a real anarchist," -he said, "but he is one of my protégés. He +he said, "but he is one of my protégés. He speaks down in a dirty hall in Liberty avenue, near the Wabash terminal, but he's for the new Pittsburgh, and he's for it strong—so we come together after a fashion."</p> @@ -8121,7 +8081,7 @@ contentions. Tom L. Johnson merely laughed at the statistics and reiterated that three cents was a sufficient street-car fare for Cleveland.</p> -<p>The details of that <i>cause celébre</i> are not to be recited +<p>The details of that <i>cause celébre</i> are not to be recited here. It is enough here to say that Tom L. Johnson lived long enough to see three-cent fares upon the Cleveland cars, and that the conclusion was not reached until @@ -8218,9 +8178,9 @@ gained over her chief utility and necessity, of the progressive social reforms that she houses, is not alone to tell of the splendid heart and soul that beats within the walls and roofs of her houses. It is, quite as much, -to tell of a remarkable coöperation, remarkable when +to tell of a remarkable coöperation, remarkable when you consider that Cleveland has become a city of more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span> -than six hundred thousand humans. That coöperation +than six hundred thousand humans. That coöperation may best be illustrated by a single incident:</p> <p>A retail dealer in hardware recently opened a fine @@ -8294,7 +8254,7 @@ civic heart it becomes, proclaiming her not merely great in dollars or in the swarming throngs of her population, but rather great in strength of character, in charity, in generosity—in all those admirable things that go to -make a town preëminently good and great. And in these +make a town preëminently good and great. And in these things your Cleveland man will not proclaim his as the Sixth City, but rather as in the front rank of all the larger communities of the United States.</p> @@ -8494,7 +8454,7 @@ town in creation, and to make your old New York look like an annexed seaport. We had no cults, no woman's societies, nothing except a lot of men making money hand over fist, killing hogs, and building cars and selling -stuff at retail by catalogues. We were not æsthetic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</a></span> +stuff at retail by catalogues. We were not æsthetic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</a></span> and we didn't particularly care. We liked plain shows as long as the girls in them weren't plain, and we had a motto that a big lady carried around on a shield. The @@ -9513,7 +9473,7 @@ these days to lodgers. They are of a type somewhat peculiar to the town. They were built high and rather narrow and as a rule set upon a terrace and detached. Builded of brick, the fancy of those old-time architects -seemed to turn almost invariably to a façade of marble, +seemed to turn almost invariably to a façade of marble, an unblushing and unashamed veneer to the street, with the side walls humble and honest in dark red brick. Steps and lintels were of marble or what must have been @@ -9678,7 +9638,7 @@ doom of the smaller. The town had grown out around its grounds and they were no longer in the country. So the career of the old St. Louis Fair ended—brilliantly in that not-to-be-forgotten exposition. Although -some attempts have recently been made to reëstablish +some attempts have recently been made to reëstablish it in another part of the town, the older folk of St. Louis shake their heads. They very well know that you cannot bring the old days back by the mere waving of a @@ -9812,7 +9772,7 @@ of all nations. A great cotton shipping port she still is and will long remain. But the multiplication of railroad points and the rapid development of such newer cotton ports as Galveston, to make a single instance, -have all worked against her preëminence.</p> +have all worked against her preëminence.</p> <p>This is not a story of the commercial importance of New Orleans, either. There are plenty who are willing @@ -10069,7 +10029,7 @@ signs.</p> </div> <p>An ugly old building did we say, with rough glance -at its rusty façades? Can one be young and beautiful +at its rusty façades? Can one be young and beautiful forever? Rusty and beautiful—oh no, do not scorn the old St. Louis Hotel for following the most normal of all the laws of Nature. For within this moldering @@ -10096,7 +10056,7 @@ old-time paper hangs in long shreds, like giant stalactites, from the ceiling. Once, for a decade in the "late eighties," an effort was made to revive the hotel and its former glories—a desperate and a hopeless effort—and -the pitiful "innovations" of that régime still show. +the pitiful "innovations" of that régime still show. But when you close your eyes you do not see the St. Louis Hotel of that decade, but rather in those wonderful twenty years before the coming of the cruel war. @@ -10222,7 +10182,7 @@ old markets are almost priceless heritages that descend from generation to generation. In these days they never go out of a single family.</p> -<p>"<i>Café lait?</i>" says the coffee-man.</p> +<p>"<i>Café lait?</i>" says the coffee-man.</p> <p>You nod assent.</p> @@ -10231,9 +10191,9 @@ one the coffee, from the other creamy milk come simultaneously, with a skill that comes of long years of practice on the part of the coffee-man.</p> -<p>That is all—<i>café lait</i> and doughnuts. They make +<p>That is all—<i>café lait</i> and doughnuts. They make just as good doughnuts in Boston, but New England has<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span> -never known the joys of <i>café lait</i>. If it had, it would +never known the joys of <i>café lait</i>. If it had, it would never return to its oldtime coffee habits. And the older markets of Boston do not see the fine ladies of the town coming to them on Sunday morning, after mass, negro @@ -10553,7 +10513,7 @@ value.</p> <p>But if it were not for these Mexicans—that delicate strain of the fine old Spanish blood that still runs in her veins—San Antonio would have lost much of her -naïve charm many years ago. The touch of the old +naïve charm many years ago. The touch of the old grandees is everywhere laid upon the city. In the narrow streets, the architecture of the solid stone structures that crowd in upon them in a tremendously @@ -10594,7 +10554,7 @@ of their clothing remain in the docile humility of blue jeans; the women scorning such humility and running to the brilliancy of red and yellow velvets, although of late years the glories of the American-made hat have begun -to tell sadly upon the preëminence of the mantilla. +to tell sadly upon the preëminence of the mantilla. These are the Mexicans who dominate the streets of the older part of the town—they are something more than dominant factors in the West end of the city, long @@ -10841,7 +10801,7 @@ walls next the Alamo and there erect a modern park and monument. By the time these things are done and San Antonio is thoroughly "modernized" she will be ready for an awakening—she is apt to find with -her naïve charm gone the golden flood of tourists has +her naïve charm gone the golden flood of tourists has ceased to stop within her walls. Truly she will have killed the goose that laid the golden egg.</p> @@ -11259,7 +11219,7 @@ newspaper on a shady bench in the Capitol grounds, you will become acquainted with some whiskered old fellow who will tell you that he chased antelope where the big and showy City Park today stands, that he remembers -clearly when a nearby street was the Santa Fé +clearly when a nearby street was the Santa Fé Trail and then a country road, and that two generations after him are living in Denver; or sometimes if you go down into Larimer street, which is old Denver,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[276]</a></span> @@ -11446,7 +11406,7 @@ our suggestion as to the chocolate propensities of the maids of Portland. They are very much like the girls in Hartford or Indianapolis or St. Paul or any other bustling town across this land, attending the Saturday -matinées with an almost festal regularity; rollicking, +matinées with an almost festal regularity; rollicking, flirting girls, grave and gay, girls dancing and girls driving their big six-cylinder automobiles with almost unerring accuracy up the tremendous hills of the town.</p> @@ -11515,7 +11475,7 @@ inland navigation of the streams that make her an important ocean port although fifty miles distant from the sight of the sea. The Columbia river is already navigable for four hundred miles inland and Portland is today -coöperating with the Canadian authorities in British +coöperating with the Canadian authorities in British Columbia for extending the waterway's availability as a carrier for another four hundred miles. A great work has been performed in pulling the teeth of the mighty @@ -12230,7 +12190,7 @@ or two, some linen—you are ready to begin.</p> <p>Bless your soul, the builder of the apartment house solved that problem for you. Your bed is a masterpiece of architecture which lets down from the wall, -<i>à la Pullman</i>. By day it goes up against the wall again +<i>à la Pullman</i>. By day it goes up against the wall again and an ingenious arrangement of wall-shutters enables the bedding to air throughout the entire day. In some<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[301]</a></span> cases the beds will let down either within, or without, @@ -12267,9 +12227,9 @@ And the food is surprisingly good.</p> the California market in Pine street—into which we stumbled of a Saturday night just about dinner-time. It was an unpretentious place, with two musicians fiddling -for dear life in a tiny balcony. But the <i>table d'hôte</i>—price +for dear life in a tiny balcony. But the <i>table d'hôte</i>—price one dollar, with a bottle of California wine after -the fashion of all San Francisco <i>table d'hôtes</i>—was +the fashion of all San Francisco <i>table d'hôtes</i>—was perfection, the special dishes which the waiter suggested even finer. <i>Soupe l'oignon</i> that might linger in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[302]</a></span> mind for a long time, a marvelous combination salad, @@ -12839,7 +12799,7 @@ British thing that will open to a stranger within the town. Within its dining-room the lion and the unicorn still support the crown, and the old ladies who are ushered to their seats wear white caps and gently pat -their flowing black skirts. The accents of the employés +their flowing black skirts. The accents of the employés are wonderfully British, and if you ask for pens you will surely get "nibs." The old house has an air, which the English would spell "demeanour," and incidentally @@ -13372,7 +13332,7 @@ million folk.</p> <p>We pass through the splendors of Victoria square and up the steep turn of Beaver Hall Hill into Phillips square and smart Ste. Catherine street. In a general -way, the French element have preëmpted the eastern +way, the French element have preëmpted the eastern end of the city for themselves, while the English-speaking portion of the population clings to the section north and west of Phillips square and Ste. Catherine street @@ -13397,7 +13357,7 @@ o'clock with you in the lounge of the Windsor, "than we are of our New Yorkish restaurants that have imported themselves across the line within the past year or two. We have smiled at our daughters drifting in here -for their tea on matinée afternoons, but dinners and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[331]</a></span> +for their tea on matinée afternoons, but dinners and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[331]</a></span> American cocktails—well there are some sorts of reciprocity that we decidedly do not want."</p> @@ -13497,7 +13457,7 @@ almost become traditions among the older folk of the place. Those girls of Quebec town seem always to have held keen attractions for young blades from afar. When you turn down Mountain Hill and pass the General -Post Office with its quaint Golden Dog set in the <i>façade</i>, +Post Office with its quaint Golden Dog set in the <i>façade</i>, they will not only make you re-read that fascinating romance of the old Quebec, but they will tell you that years after the Philiberts and the Repentignys were gone @@ -13529,7 +13489,7 @@ change hardly at all with the changing of the years.</p> </div> <p>Here among them are the ruins of an old theater—its -solid-stone façade still holding high above the narrow +solid-stone façade still holding high above the narrow run of pavement. It has been swept within by fire—the evil enemy that has fallen upon Quebec again and again and far more devastatingly than even the cannon @@ -13690,7 +13650,7 @@ late premier, sir."</p> <p>We liked the old gentleman's spunk. He was typical of the old French blood as it pulses within the new<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[339]</a></span> France. We liked the old gentleman, too. To us he -was as one who had just stepped from one of Honoré +was as one who had just stepped from one of Honoré Balzac's stories, with his mustaches, waxed and dyed into a drooping perfection, his low-set soft hat, his vast envelope of a faded greatcoat, his cane thrust under his @@ -13905,388 +13865,6 @@ awaits the coming of Christ.</p> <p>Frequent inconsistent hyphenation not changed.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Personality of American Cities, by -Edward Hungerford - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PERSONALITY OF AMERICAN CITIES *** - -***** This file should be named 40884-h.htm or 40884-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/8/8/40884/ - -Produced by David Edwards, Charlie Howard and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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