Excerpt from Summer Homes on Long Island: A Brief Description of New York and Brooklyn's Nearest Summer Resorts, With a List of Desirable Boarding Places and How to Reach Them by the Long Island Railroad

Long Island is the natural and most accessible Summer retreat for persons residing in and about the city of New York. To business men who must be within easy access of their office Long Island offers advantages not possessed by any other near - by resort.

The Long Island Railroad stations in New York City (manhattan) are at the foot of New Chambers Street, and at the foot of 34th Street, East River. An annex boat for the especial accommodation of down town business men is also operated during the Summer - June Ist to October rst, morning and afternoon - from Pier 18, foot of Pine Street, East River. The stations in New York City (manhattan) are readily accessible from the various railroad stations and steamboat piers by the elevated and surface lines. The terminus in Brooklyn is at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, and is reached from the Pennsylvania Railroad, Jersey City, by annex boat; also from the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and the Ferries by the elevated and surface lines. There are also other stations in Brooklyn at Franklin and Atlantic Avenues (bedford Station), at East New York and at Bushwick, which are readily reached by the many car lines.

The frequency of trains and the ease with which they can be reached makes the Long Island Railroad service equal to that of any other railroad operated out of New York City.

The entire road-bed has been newly ballasted with heavy cinder ballast, thus absolutely avoiding dust and its general attendant unpleasantness. In addition to this the whole length of the road will be sprinkled with oil. For the past two years oil sprinkling has demonstrated for itself its efficiency to allay the dust and to keep the road-bed thoroughly clean. Positive safety (as well as ease and comfort of travel) is ensured by the use of heavy steel rails; hard-coal engines are in use, and the cars are illuminated by Pintsch gas.

Long Island is 122 miles in length and from 8 to 20 in width, and within this area of square miles is almost every diversity of scenery. The climate is mild, and not liable to sudden changes or extremes of heat and cold. The temperature of Long Island is 10 degrees higher in Winter and 15 lower in Summer than in New York City. The modifying influences of the Ocean and the Gulf Stream are considerable. Statistics show that the mortality in Suffolk County and in the rural section of Queens County is lower than in any other part of the State. Long Island offers to the pleasure seeker unequalled surf and still-water bathing, ocean or bay sailing, brook, pond or ocean fishing, better shooting than can be found at a less distance than the Adirondacks; pleasant drives, unexcelled roads for bicycling, food fresh from the water, the air or the land, and atmosphere peculiarly invigorating and never tainted. Its pleasure resorts are especially attractive to women and children, because, being close to the city, the hotels and boarding houses are not abandoned by the men from Monday morning until Saturday night.

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