Identifier: suburbanitemonth05cent (find matches)
Title: The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Central railroad of New Jersey. (from old catalog)
Subjects: New Jersey -- Description and travel. (from old catalog) New York (City) -- Suburbs. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Elizabeths Many Beautiful Slieels in a row-boat, and rowing throughthe Narrows, found a Narrow Riverto the westward between the Islands,and one, John Coleman, who headedthe party, reported on their returnThat the lands were as pleasant withflowers, gi-ass, and goodly things asever they had seen. Colemans partyhad passed through Arthur Kill, thatfine span of water which now sepai-atesthe city of Elizabeth from the Bor-ough of Richmond of the metropolitanCity of New York, and weie the firstwhite men to look upon the presentsite of Old Betsytown. If Coleman and his fellows couldto-day re-visit the scene of their earlyexploits, how impressed they wouldbe. Along the banks of the Kills theywould find some of the largest manu-facturing industries of the world, nota-bly the Singer Sewing Machine Com-pany, with its immense buiklings andthousands of employees. The greatlocomotive car shops and coal ship)Mngports of the Central Railroad of NewJersey, and other concerns of ecjual THE SUBURBANITE
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importance too numerous to mention.You may enter a trolley car in almostany city in the world and note of itsbeine; made at the John Stephenson CarWorks, of Elizabeth, N. J., U. S. A.Besides its majmificent water facilities,Elizabeth is particularly favored inhaving some of the great railroads ofthe country pass thi-ough it, notablythe Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley, Balti-more & Ohio, Philadelphia & Reading,and the Central Railroad of New Jer-sev, so that from an industrial point ofview, few, if any, of the cities of theState possess transportation facilitiesapproaching that of Elizabeth, andwhich will be so material in advancingits great giowth and developmentwithin the next decade. But it is not alone as an IndustrialCenter that Elizabeth is noted for, anddestined to .-uch gi-eat prominence, for,be it understood, that fi-om a residen-tial standpoint she maintains a mostadvantageous position, for she is, infact, and possibly so to a gieater ex-tent than any other city of the St

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