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immense freights of cereals .and manufactured goods, 

 and add this more remote but inmeasurable influence to 

 the rest, we shall find the motive to the enterprise most 

 irresistible. 



The growth of population along the Hudson river, 

 the Harlem, and the New Haven Railroads in West- 

 chester county, and along the lines of the New Jersey 

 steam roads, predict for the great and beautiful area 

 about Prospect Park a more rapid upbuilding than has 

 been realized anywhere in the vicinity of New York. 



IRRESISTIBLE CONCLUSIONS OF FACT. 



The real terminus of the New York Central and 

 Hudson River Roads for passengers and mails will be 

 at the post-office, City Hall Park, in two or three years. 

 At or about that time, with the completion of the great 

 East River Bridge, and the Brooklyn rapid transit rail- 

 road, the territory in the vicinity of the Prospect Park 

 will be within twenty minutes' time of the New York 

 City Hall, and of far more easy, direct, and expeditious 

 access than any other place of residence within a radius 

 of twenty miles of New York. Prospect Park then will 

 be as accessible from the lower portion of the city of 

 New York as the Central Park, and the journey to the 

 former will in all respects be far preferable. 



These facts demonstrate that the " East Parkway 

 and Boulevards," with all the region adjoining, are to 

 have a rapid and steadily increasing advance in popula- 

 tion, enterprise, and wealth. It requires no extreme 

 foresight to realize that the district indicated will have 

 a population of about half a million of people. 



Perhaps the best evidence as to the present and pro- 

 spective value of the lands in the " East Parkway and 



