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prices mt which land can be secured for
factory sites in Brooklyn and the con-
tiguous territory, either by purchase or
lcaschold, insure, in view of the rapid
development certain to come, hand
some profit on the investment. Brook
lyn is notably city of homes, in which
labor and help is abundant. While it
has a population of one and half mill
ions it is distributed over so large an
area as to leave an abundance of fine
sites, conveniently located for mercantile
and manufacturing purposes.
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An authority upon the subject has said
that, in the improvements in motive
power and local transportation, process
Of decentralization of congested sections
in cities will, if it has not already, set in
with the result of dispread of popula-
tion over adjacent suburban territories
from which the money getters of the
families will travel to and from the
points of labor. With the modern ten
dcncy, now no longer in dispute, of gath
ering in populous centers he sees in New
York and its surrounding sections pop
ulatiun so great as to make him timid as
to his statement, and he contents him
self with predicting that in the year 1000
within the borders of New York City
there will be a population of 4O,0O0,OOO.
For twenty five or thirty years these
close connections have been dreamed of
and discussed. Indeed during that
period there was more than dreaming and
discussion. The amount of money, il its
aggregate could be computed, sunk in
preliminary and tentative furtherance of
plans and franchises obtained to accom-
plish close connection with the outlying
roads would be astonishngly large. Many
of these schemes, OH which money was
spent, have not only been forgotten, but
have lapsed in life. A most interesting
chapter of the history of Brooklyn with
regard to these tentative efforts could be
written, and thereby would be shown
the prcscience of the men of Brooklyn
active i'll its affairs thirty years ago. No
doubt in the coming developments of
Brooklyn during the next twenty-five
years many of these schemes will be re-
viyed. put into execution and brought to
fruition as original conceptions that
twenty-five or thirty years ago were ex-
plotted to be denounced as wild and Wis
ionary, which were only wild and Wis
ionary because the period of development
which would have made them practicable
had not been reached.
In the near future there will be two
tunnels, one at the Battery from Man
haitian, and one at Thirty-fourth street.
There will be four bridges on which will
ply passenger cars, also accommodating
foot passengers and vehicles drawn by
horses or propelled by the electric motors.
Then there will be the bridges over
Wards, Blackwells and Randalfs ISL
ands.
An idea of the Importance of Long ISL
and as residential section may be OBJ
taned from the fact that the Long Island
Railroad operates 1000 passenger trains
daily during the summer months. Among
the advantages offered by the island that
of climate is youched for by no less an
authority than DIR. LIE Grand N. Dens-
low. fellow of the New York Academy
of Medicine. DIR. Denslow says:
''l'he south shore Of Long Island in
August and September may be classed
as dry-much drier than any location on
the Atlantic coast, or Los Angeles and
San Diego, on the Pacific.
''The practical side Of the question is
that we have within from one to three
hours OF New York places where many
suffering from diseases that will at once
suggest themselves may, by sojourn
or residence, be benefited. 1t is certainly
worth a trial, when for many reasons
a long journey to the Rocky plateau
or Pacific coast is inadvisable. Its best
field would seem to be in those eases
of heart, lung, kidney and rheumatic
troubles in which rapid oxidation is de-
sirable in a sunshiny, dry, slightly stimu-
lating climate, at low level, and where
during from four to six months, or from
May to October, almost every day may
be with comfort passed out of doors,
under sky that for absence of clouds
has no rival in the United States out.
side of Arizona and California, with the
exceptions of Amarillo, Tex, and Okla
homa, Okla"
The Improvements contemplated in the
passenger service of the Long Island
road will, when completed, bring .Jamai-
ca within twenty minutes of the City
Hall, Manhattan. From Jamaica east
stretches a magnificent country, contain
ing the homes of some of New York's
most prominent business men. The Van
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