Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . intention to deepen the Bay to give 35 feet of water and todevelop the surrounding lands for factory purposes with water and railconnections with the great railroads of the country. Recent legislation enacted permits the City and Federal govern-ments to widen and deepen Flushing River to its headwaters. These im-provements will give water transportation through Flushing, Corona,Forest Hills, Richmond Hill and Jamaica, and incidentally will inc
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . intention to deepen the Bay to give 35 feet of water and todevelop the surrounding lands for factory purposes with water and railconnections with the great railroads of the country. Recent legislation enacted permits the City and Federal govern-ments to widen and deepen Flushing River to its headwaters. These im-provements will give water transportation through Flushing, Corona,Forest Hills, Richmond Hill and Jamaica, and incidentally will increasethe frontage of Flushing River in the Flushing section about two and vicinity enjoy the same freight rate as New York City. Immediate improvement of the Barge Terminal on Flushing Bay isbeing urged by the Queens Chamber of Commerce, to relieve the freightcongestion of the Port of New York. Plans for the Flushing Bay Ter-minal are being prepared by Frank M. Williams, State Engineer andSurveyor, and it is hoped the Flushing Terminal will be ready in 1918, when the State Barge Canal System is to be in opera-tion. 35. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF COI THE INDUSTRIAL-MANUFACTURING COLLEGE POINT is essentially a manufacturing town—the indus-trial center of the Flushing District. It is an old settlement likeFlushing and Whitestone, both of which it immediately adjoinson Flushing Bay, and like both it is rich in its possession of old treesand old houses. It has many fine modern residences, too; and even the proximity of its scores of factoriesdoesnt seem to spoil its charm asone of New York Citys pretty homesuburbs. Here Mac Neil, the sculptor,pursues his art; nearby, at Malba, JohnMcGraw, of baseball fame, is erectinga costly edifice in which to spend hisdeclining years enjoying the trophiesand emoluments he has earned by hismastery of the great American men important in the affairs ofthe Greater City live here and like fact, something like 15,00
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