. es. Thousands of acres of land, with small hamlets dotted here andthere, plenty of woodland and splendid roadways, serve as a back-ground for Chester on the banks of the Delaware. All this, added toa climate in which the winters are mild and the heat of summer neverexcessive, makes Chester an ideal jjlace in which to live. It is a goodall-the-year-round climate, pleasing in summer as well as in winter. Cyclones and tornadoes ai^e unknown to Chester. The district com-prising the city and surroundings is rarely visited by wind storms


. es. Thousands of acres of land, with small hamlets dotted here andthere, plenty of woodland and splendid roadways, serve as a back-ground for Chester on the banks of the Delaware. All this, added toa climate in which the winters are mild and the heat of summer neverexcessive, makes Chester an ideal jjlace in which to live. It is a goodall-the-year-round climate, pleasing in summer as well as in winter. Cyclones and tornadoes ai^e unknown to Chester. The district com-prising the city and surroundings is rarely visited by wind storms ofany kind, such disturbances passing either over or around the city. Anoccasional thunder storm during the summer season breaks over thecommunity, but never with disastrous results. After all is said, the chief attractions of Chester are its naturalresources and acquired facilities, its even climate, its steady growth, itssuperior advantages over other places and, last but not least, the induce-ments it holds out to those seeking homes or industrial fifty-four


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