Suburban Homes for City Business Men

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Excerpt from Suburban Homes for City Business Men: A Description of the Country Adjacent to the Eastern Division and Branches of the Erie Railway and Northern Railroad of New Jersey, Together With a Statement of the Inducements Offered for Purchase of a Suburban Residence in the Rich Valleys of the HackenThere are those living within the hearing of Niagara who have never seen the mighty cataract which attracts visitors from another continent. Another evidence of the same trait is, that there are those Iiving in New York who have no conception that just across the Hudson river there is growing up an immense city, that within a very few years will rank among the greatest in this country. Newark, Paterson, Hackensack, Elizabeth, Jersey City and Hoboken form the New Jersey chain of cities, by intervening villages all their streets connect, and the most remote - Paterson and Hackensack - are within 60 minutes of New York. Unite all under one government, and they would form a Metropolis occupying 122 square miles, the same area as that of London, the population being it would rank as the fourth city of the Union. What can stop the growth of this great city? 350 passenger, trains pass through it daily, the Hudson faces it, two Other magnificent rivers and a canal stretch through it lengthwise, and Newark Bay gives an additional front of five miles, so that altogether it has over three times the water front of the city Of New York.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.