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an irresistible magnetic force to the commercial cities ; 

 here he succeeds in "becoming wealthy by close atten- 

 tion to his specialty, and the sharp country boy be- 

 comes the keen city man. Trees and grass are, how- 

 ever, wrought into the very texture and fibre of his 

 constitution, and, without being aware of it, he feels 

 day by day that his life needs a suggestion of the old 

 country flavor to make it palatable as well as profit- 

 able. This is one aspect of the natural phenomena 

 with which we are now attempting to deal ; no broad 

 question of country life in comparison with city life is 

 involved; it is confessedly a question of delicate ad- 

 justment, but we feel confident that whenever and 

 wherever, in the vicinity of New York, this delicate 

 adjustment is best attended to, and the real needs of 

 of these city-bred country boys are most judiciously 

 considered, there they will certainly throng. We do 

 not, of course, mean to argue that the tastes to which 

 we have referred are limited solely to citizens whose 

 early life has been passed in the country, but only that 

 the existence of the special social element thus typified 

 gives one of the many assurances that such a scheme as 

 the Parkway neighborhood would be successful, if ju- 

 diciously carried out within the lines suggested, before 

 the demand is more or less perfectly met in some other 

 locality. 



EAPID TRANSIT. 



It is needless here to show what Brooklyn and Long 

 Island have lost in population and wealth for the want 

 of rapid transit from the great ferries through the city 

 and suburbs, as well as beyond, to the country districts 

 of the island. Every intelligent person must realizes 

 that the aggregate of such losses, is immense. 



