Excerpt from The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Guide Book

At Darby, Moore's, Norwood, Sharon Hill, Ridley Park, and at other points, a series of new places have sprung up, owing their existence entirely to the railroad and the facilities thereby afforded for reaching the country side from the city streets. Clustering around the choicest and most desirable sites, groups of villas, country seats, cottages and suburban mansions have sprung into being since the railroad opened opportunity for them, and new rural communities, enriched by all the advantages wealth and good taste command, are strung along the track like gems upon a necklace. These locations are not only'at tractive to the citizen seeking a home. But to the capitalists seeking investment as well. Few promises of profit ever realize so handsomely as land purchased by the square acre and sold by the square foot. And when the population is increasing and new homes are being established every day, conversion of prop erty can. Never be a matter involving much difficulty or delay. The land in the immediate vicinity of the stations is in the hands of parties who sell lots at reasonable prices and who are doing much to make the property desirable for residences. The scenery along the Darby Improvement is magnificent and has every element of landscape beauty and interest. -the broad Delaware widen ing toward the great bay, gives long vistas of water View enlivened by the con stantly passing commerce of the second entrepot on the Atlantic Coast. To the eastward lies the great city, with its thousand steeples shining in the summer sun; southward and westward the old town of Chester, and the hills there about, bound the View, while northward the rich farming region of Delaware county adds pastoral beauty to the scene. Here are all the conditions fulfilled that mankind has ever sought in establishing rural neighborhoods near large cities. No railroad line fi'om Philadelphia offers such facilities for quick and frequent local travel as the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad between Philadelphia and Chester. Chester may be reached in twenty minutes and the intervening stations are accessible in from five to twenty minutes, al most every half hour in the dav. The Railroad Company has made arrange ments with real estate owners along the line, by terms of which whenever a dwelling house is erected the Company issues to the owner a free annual pas o')

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