Excerpt from Homes on the South Side Railroad of Long Island

The annually increasing demand for complete, succinct and reliable information concerning the numerous attractive towns and villages on the line of the South Side Railroad of Long Island, as eligible places of residence for New York business men, has rendered desirable the publication, for gratuitous distribution by the Company, of a work of this character, setting forth the inducements offered to prospective settlers, conjointly by the Company and real estate owners at each point, the natural advantages in point of health and surroundings, the religious, educational and social facilities to be met with, and a general statement of the advantages to be derived by exchanging a home in the city for one in the healthful and salubrious region traversed by the road. Interwoven with the narrative will be found many facts of historical or cotemporaneous interest, pertaining to the various localities mentioned. The rapidly growing popularity of Long Island, as a place of surburban residence, gives assurance of future development far exceeding the expectations of the most sanguine. Already thriving towns and villages, cities in embryo, have sprung up in the fields and woods as if by magic, older places, stationary for years, have awakened to new life and vigor, streets, avenues, hotels, manufactories, churches and school houses spring suddenly into existence, and the region which a few short years ago was deemed remote and inaccessible, becomes, by the enterprise of men and the agency of steam, transformed into one continuous settlement, teeming with life and prosperity, and peopled mainly by men whose avocations call them daily to the great metropolis.

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