The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-27
OURS IS A CITY
Of A THOUSAND
HOME SUBURBS
Nearly 500 Outlying Sections
Are Recognized Stations
on Railroads.
New York is entering its season OF

New York is entering its season OF
1909 as the city OF a thousand suburbs,
Why waste your lives in crowded
fats?
Within the metropolitan committing
zone are 100 separate home sections,
with distinct chara cteristlcs and names.
Nearly five hundred Of them are recog-
nized stations on the railroads which
run out OF the metropolis.
Every year sees the rapid transit zone
stretching little further over the out
lying territory. Not only are new lines
built, but the old RAILROADS improve their
/ service. The circle OF quick transit for
commuters has been extended to cover
radius Of seventy miles,
Spread Five Miles Year.
That New York's suburban home
interests are spreading far out Of its
| political confines becomes more APP
! parent each year. The daily ebb and
| flow Of the human tide covers four or
five miles more Of outlying country
every summer.
| Perhaps the New Haven Railroad
Is preparing to carry daily commuters
over the longest direct rapid transit
line. Its express trains make the sew
. enty.three miles from New Haven to
| New York In less than two hours at a
Communication OF SIS a month. The road
claims the lowest communication rates
] in the suburban zone
y" W, ''D'' oa' .'N''e' ..,-
I oh Long Island the oaiIy committing
zone OF rapid transit reaches out fifty
1--WE miles vim , running ,,na NJ an
Nv. ""''e'' W." ''''''''s .'". VI w."
nour anu mar ana inon1n,y hiaAI-
mum commntation rate OF tlsW.
NotthWard the New York central Ilnei
cover an extreme average Oh forty .,Ne
.''I'es ~. al. huu, ana quarter at
''Sntl'F ratc OF Slooy' ,,., ~,
ne" 1e'sey KEEPS We' W.Ihln me
t i rau!us' us I!tli.t asea's
is, ani r'r,I,a a''o ", ,, t,r -
''''' ''' 49,. "a"s w., u.'', n v. o"' "''''
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raj WhIilll theSe IN, vAtreillc euseS Oh tle
rapld-lranst zone I'VE tne vast masses
or commuters, lneir average dtstancs.
exceed one-third or these extremes;
In distrlbution, New jersey WIN us
many railroads. ana woe nome territory
ohers Inc widest ilc'd Ipr the move
ments OF suburpani'eS. mere are more
than 2n recognized ralIoad stations IN
the Jersey sunurnaii zone ana Wv sep
Ra Ii with its various branches , are
eighty stations and over $50 distinct
home sections, The Erie has 5000 daily
commuters. The Lackawanna Railroad
has twenty-five stations: the Pennsyl'
vania, fifteen; the West Shore, twenty,
the Central Railroad OF New Jersey,
Atty.
Long Island comes next in facilities
for home-makers on the Long Island
Railroad. outside of BROOKLYN and the
nearer narts of Queens, are sixty
recopnized stations and 200 residential
deveIonments Brooklyn and nearer
oueens have over 100 more distinc,
49, soctIons which arc united close
.oint ~ W.,hn,ta, husiness certre,
by " smhwavs trollevs or elevated rail
49, uS
Never Had Such a Chance.
Tho far Bronx Westchester and IN,
nearer ConnectIcut territory have ove
lOO stations on the big railroads am
f,ilIv tx, separate suburban home tracts
Ricbmond has no bir railroad To-
, con,nniters hut lis ferry and loca
randi transit lines reach more thai
twen,v.dve separate towns and sixty
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