Excerpt from Homes on the Central Railroad of New Jersey for New York Business Men: A Description of the Region Traversed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and Its Branches and Connections From New York to Mauch Chunk, Embracing a Statement of the Inducements and Conveniences Held Out Conjointly by the Railroad Company and Property

While New Yorkers are jostling and crowding one another with their marble palaces and brown stone fronts, until Manhattan Island bids fair in a few years to become covered with brick and stone from end to end, while the wearisome problems of rapid transit and the East River bridge, are still unsolved, leaving Westchester County and Long Island no nearer New York, in point of time and convenience, than they were two decades ago, while thousands of people who seem never to look farther than their noses, and, worse still, who don't care to, are delving away all day long in stores and offices down town, and huddling themselves away at night in close, expensive quarters up-town, while hungry city landlords are raising rents and the deuce with their tenants at the same time. While all this is taking place, reader, remember that just across the Hudson, in fair, fertile, well governed Jersey, are thousands of dells and knolls and pretty villages, where a business man can, almost for the asking, secure a neat, convenient and healthful home, no further from his office than an up-town residence, and surrounded by scenes and influences that will give a lightness to his cares, and a halo to his domestic happiness. To a contemplation of facts and places such as these, it is that the reader's attention is invited.

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