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obvious feasibility and its vital relations to the future 

 growth of Brooklyn. We dismiss the first point with 

 the simple remark, that it is perfectly apparent to the 

 observation of any who will take the trouble to walk 

 over the route, that the question of construction in- 

 volves no more serious problems than the removal of a 

 certain number of square yards of earth and the build- 

 ing of the required masonry. 



BRILLIANT PROMISE OF THE FUTURE. 



As to its important immediate or ultimate relations 

 to the future of the city of Brooklyn and suburbs, 

 whether we consider these with reference to the present 

 convenience of the 26,143,500 passengers transported 

 by the Brooklyn City Railroad alone in 1870, or the 

 3,000,000 yearly visitors by rail to Coney Island, or the 

 25,000 daily visitors to Prospect Park, or to the fact 

 that with the present ratio of increase the travel on all 

 these lines will double in about eight years, or whether 

 we add to these considerations reasonable estimates for 

 the very great accelerated growth of business always 

 realized in populous cities and districts with increased 

 facilities for rapid transit, we shall reach results both 

 remarkable and surprising. Couple with these the 

 conspicuous power which the great bridge will bring to 

 all Brooklyn interests, and we have startling estimates 

 of future, growth. 



If we look a little further on to the day sure to 

 come, when the Hudson river and New York Central, 

 Harlem, and New Haven Railways, traversing a bridge 

 which can be easily built at or near Randall's Island, 

 will find more convenient and cheaper terminal facilities 

 and store-houses in Brooklyn than elsewhere for their 



