Excerpt from Metropolitan Fair, in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1864 Another effect of this Fair will be the increase of the material prosperity of the city at a time when the rigors of the season make the need of money among all classes unusually great - the well-to-do for the sake of their poorer neighbors, if not for themselves. It was found by all the retail dealers in Boston, no less than by the omni bus and railway companies, and all those whose business depends, in part, upon a floating population, that their gains had rarely or never been so great as during the recent great Fair in that city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.