New-York tribune., 1906-11-11
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One-haIf Of the southern rim OF Connects.
already within the suburban scope Of New v
City. There are New York business men Ivs,,
along Long Island Sound as far as New Haven =
travel daily TO and from the metropolis Tia -
muters from New Haven which IS seventvs
miles from the Grand Central Station. take r.-
train known as the Bankers Express. and -
the distance in ninety minutes. A trolley lns !,
parallels the New Haven road more than half n
10 Providence, and, according 10 present plans Il
will oe able IN few years 10 travel all the n
from New York 10 Boston by a shore line es-s
road II is now possible for New Yorkers TO IA
Boston by trolley by way OF New Haven. Harrs-l
Springfield and Worcester. a trip OF 25s miles II
costing SO O5. Including stops for transfers al
ride is scheduled 20 take 20 hours and 80 mn-s
Much OF the Connections shore. especially "A
part OF IT between New Haven and New yors
valued more highly a front foot than properly VA
in the limits of New York city Al Greenwi.h d
Sound Beach. near Stamford. only men Of l.r
wealth are able TO buy a building site. And 81
rise in valuations is constantly extending eas,ws
So small is Connecticut that II is all CONTAINED
a fifty -mile-wide strip. with The exception Of 8
Of the northwest corner, the most sDarsely pg
lated part Of the state. II contributes nearly d
million people TO the metropolitan belt, threest5
Of whom live in the four coast counties So ga
has been the foreign immigration into the 81
that II contains as many persons OF foreign b--
as there are inhabitants in the whole city Of w
ark, or about 250.00
If the ffty-mile metropolitan belt were brOadsz
where it cuts through New York State as
enable New York City TO include all the tsrrsm
within committing range of the City Hall .
metropolis would have a population greater IL
that OF greater London. IL would contain Z
/ 600 900 inhabitants OF the city. 900 from 2
state counties 150 600 from Long Island. 5O00O0 n
Connecticut and 1900 900 from New Jersey count
"a total OF 6.65Oo0O people. According 70 the 4
census, greater LondOn's population was S,5SLS2
AS New York reaches out half way TO Phlais
phia so does Philadelphia extend half way % NJ
York That part OF the metropolitan belt lying =
tween these cities is so completely traversed
steam railroads and electric lines that II aims
links the two great cities into one At the plssl
time IL takes about two hours 20 cover the Z-sr
miles that intervene, or about as long as IL az
to 90 from Yonkers. on the northern ooundaT
New York 20 Far Rockaway, or the tip OF Suz
! Island on its southern limits. With the insiai
tion Of electricity on the Pennsylvania RairA
con1ununiCa tion between New York and Pniaoeg-
NAV he reduced to pretty near an hour. which =
In fact enable Phfladelphians 70 do ouslnes'
New York and have the quiet OF their own u'
for sIeeping At the present time one may rlE'
TO PhtIade .hia from New York by trolley car
etght hours and forty minutes. az cost OF Sl@
| From Philadelphia 10 Baltimore the metropoA2
strip includes the most densely populated reg
of Delaware and Maryland, the former contrioE7
10 the belt $4,000 people and the latter @la
Baltimore and Washington are IN such close a-
ununication that many Of the government emp9.
at the capitol have their homes in the AaFyA
metropolis. making the forty-nnile run IN -
more than an hour.
On the fastest train II is now possible to go f-
one end of this metropolitan belt TO the otas'
nine hours. and If II possessed one good road p
end 10 end for the exclusive use q automo~
that time could be greatly cut down