Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . E 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
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . E 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 15,000 happyand contented substantial Americancitizens make up the sum total of itspopulation. Its factories employ be-One of the Public Schools tween five and six thousand persons,. 36
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