Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . manifest, simplybecause it cannot be ignored or avoided. Manhattan, Brooklyn, theBronx and the Jersey shore are commercially over-crowded. Practically,only Staten Island—isolated—and College Point-Flushing and one ortwo other Long Island points—accessible—remain to be developed forwater-front manufacturing locations that will size-up to metropolitanand national requirements. As a bit of prophecy, the reader is asked to lay aside this book fort
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . manifest, simplybecause it cannot be ignored or avoided. Manhattan, Brooklyn, theBronx and the Jersey shore are commercially over-crowded. Practically,only Staten Island—isolated—and College Point-Flushing and one ortwo other Long Island points—accessible—remain to be developed forwater-front manufacturing locations that will size-up to metropolitanand national requirements. As a bit of prophecy, the reader is asked to lay aside this book forten years and then compare this portrayal of College Point-Flushing conditions as they nowexist with those of adecade hence. It ispretty safe to say thatthe two old mansions,pictures of which areprinted with this article—the Stratton andGraham homesteads —that to-day stand aslandmarks on the trol-ley line between Col-lege Point and Flush-ing will long since havedisappeared, and intheir places and ontheir surrounding acreswill have risen manybeautiful, modern resi- Residence of Louis Denes, the Silk Manufacturer dences and apartment 42. FLUSHING AND VICINITY houses, and that themeadows some distanceaway will havebeencovered with manufac-turing plants all theway from the hills tothe waters of FlushingBay. Walking from onepart of College Point toanother one is agree-ably astonished at thefact that all streets areof asphalt—splendidlygraded, smooth as glassand clean as those ofthe proverbial SpotlessTown. At noon time, till theone oclock whistle blows, the different avenues are alive with men andwomen workers from the factories, many of whom go to their homes forlunch. The factory operatives of College Point-Flushing are happy, con-tented and thrifty. The buildings they work in are roomy and statistics for College Point show a low death rate and a remarkablyfine state of public health. The unusually large deposits of the Savings and other banks bearsilent, y
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