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Received from passenger traffic, $4,878,575.00. 



" tonnage, $15,780,460.00. 

 Carried to Baltimore, grain, 12,977,035 bushels, 

 flour, 1,274,542 bushels, 

 live stock, 43,220 tons. 

 lumber, 76,103 tons. 

 " coal, immense quantity. 

 With the superior facilities of the Staten Island water fronts as 

 detailed above, there is no reason why some of this immense tonnage 

 shall not be brought hither without breaking bulk, and be immedi- 

 ately shipped to all parts of the world; and the building of the Kill 

 bridge, the entrance of branch lines of the great railroads, which 

 have all a common interest in the bridge, must in time, and that not 

 distant, make our Island shore be filled with commercial enterprises, 

 and a great city arise on its borders. 



Back from this will spring up thousands of suburban houses, and 

 the more distant hills, made accessible by lines of rail, will be filled 

 with tasteful residences, and thus the lovely heights and valleys, now 

 lying almost uninhabited, will be appreciated and made desirable. 



MEMOIRS OF MY NAMESAKE. 



BY JAMES BUKKE. 



THE WHOLE HISTORY of a human life has never been told. The 

 biographies of the greatest men give only the salient points of 

 their career, not unlike the stepping-stones of a ford or the wayside 

 station of a railroad. 



The stages of life's journey mark 



Our mem'ry's waste with solemn sheen, 



Like lamps at night and all is dark, 

 Or dimly braced, that lies between. 



A record of all the thoughts of a single life, though it were only 

 that of a cowherd, would make more books than the world could 



