railways, including the Fulton street, the Atlantic 

 street, the Flatbush avenue, the Nostrand avenue, and 

 the Franklin avenue lines, furnish the best facilities 

 extant for passenger transit. Infinitely superior accom- 

 modations, speed, and time, are yet to come in the 

 underground railway and rapid transit scheme, which 

 has been organized in corporate form and real vitality. 

 The undoubted guarantee of the success of this organ- 

 ization may be found in the fact that the projectors, 

 stockholders, directors, officers, and friends of the com- 

 pany, are among the most eminent and wealthy citizens 

 and extensive landowners, builders, and residents of 

 the territory affected. 



DISTANCE AND TIME. 



The bulk of the land is but slightly more than two 

 miles from the South, Wall street, and Fulton Ferries ; 

 and the street railway trip time is about thirty min- 

 utes ; but by the rapid transit and East River Bridge 

 route it will be within twenty minutes time of the 

 City Hall Park in New York. 



ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION. 



The location of the district is upon the most ele- 

 vated ground in the city of Brooklyn. The soil is of 

 gravel and sandy earth of the clearest consistency; 

 there is an utter absence of either marsh or swamp 

 lands, and in all of the few sections that have been 

 graded, only the pure virgin soil has been used for 

 filling. The inclinations of the streets are very ad- 

 mirably adapted to the necessary natural surface 

 drainage, as well as for subterranean sewerage, water 

 and gas conduits. The atmosphere is remarkably salu- 



