Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . s through the town double-tracked all the way to 59th Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, directwithout change in 45 minutes for a five-cent fare; the Dual SubwaySystem, as stated on page 5 in the opening article of this book, is to beextended in 1918 from Corona, where it now ends in Queens Borough,through Flushing to College Point, Malba, Whitestone and Beechurst,and will run from Times Square, or down-town, New York, to CollegePoint in les
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . s through the town double-tracked all the way to 59th Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, directwithout change in 45 minutes for a five-cent fare; the Dual SubwaySystem, as stated on page 5 in the opening article of this book, is to beextended in 1918 from Corona, where it now ends in Queens Borough,through Flushing to College Point, Malba, Whitestone and Beechurst,and will run from Times Square, or down-town, New York, to CollegePoint in less time than to the Bronx or Washington Heights; the fast,clean electric service of the Long Island Railroad now takes one toPennsylvania Station, Manhattan, in less than half an hour many timesa day on a monthly commutation of $; and two ferries operate toManhattan and one to the Bronx. In addition to rail freight via thePennsylvania - Long Island, under the Metropolitan Freight Rates,Flushing Bay affords a depth of from 20 to 35 feet of water for sea-going vessels, and theState Barge Terminal ofthe Erie Canal is to beconstructed at the towns. bulk Or rehandling, all Poppenhusen Monument 39 FLUSHING AND VICINITY tonnage carried by the great Erie Canal System — things vital to amanufacturing community, such as the raw products of the field, theforest and the mine. The Erie Canal will bring to College Point directbrick, lumber, building and construction materials, steel, grain—in fact,whatever may be loaded at the Great Lakes ports or en route on the1,000-ton barges of the Erie Canal System. And when College Pointgets all these raw materials at the lowest possible transportation chargeit will refine and manufacture many of them into commodities thatit can send forth at the lowest rates to other less favored Easterncommunities. The pay-rolls of the College Point factories are said to total a sumlarger than that for any other section of Greater New York, based onpopulation.
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