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 tions (if li\inn ill Xrw \'oik 
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 tlic iicatnig ill its vi< inil\ 
 one ot' the handsomest ( ity 
 siilmrbs on the cuntineiit, 
 tile oflieers of the Ainerii an 
 hneslmeiit I'nion \isited 
 every portion ot c (iiinlr)' ad- 
 jacenl to the great American 
 Metro|iolis, for the jiurpose 
 of hjcating su<:li an enter- 
 prise. After rarefully i on- 
 sidcring the advantages and 
 disadvantages of location, access, and en\ ircjnmeiit, tlie\' 
 setaircc-i by a series of pure liases, during the past three 
 years, the valuable group of properties kiiounas I'ark llill 
 at \'onkers on the Hudson. 
 
 New \'ork City with its i-nornioiis annual expansion has 
 hitlierto had no systematic (le\ elopnu iit of siiluirbaii laini- 
 iininities such as have been created at i!r\n ,Maur, l)e\(in, 
 Waynt', and St. I )avids on the I'ennsyKania Kail Road out- 
 side of riiiladelphia, or like the Newtons and llrookline on 
 the edge of lioslon, so that the construction of a compact 
 
 ( c)niniunil\ in the heart of the country lor all the year resi- 
 deiu e, with fully ecpiipped i ity advantages, was here a 
 practically iinoi iiipied lield. 
 
 It is a fact wliii h cannot be siu cessfully ( onlradiclc-d, 
 that the growth of New \'ork northward has been at the rate 
 of a mile a year during the past six years, and while on the 
 east side (.if the city this growth has been l.iigeh tenement 
 and iiianufac turing, on its west side, paralleling the lludson, 
 and towards V'onkers, the progress of building i an best be 
 des( ribed as " palatial." On the u]i])er west side lots have 
 alread\ rea< lied fabulous prices, and e\en now only people 
 of the amplest means (an hope to li\e there. 
 
 I'ark llill, easier of ai < ess to-dav than any other place in 
 the vicinity of Xew \drk offering equal advantages, is 
 dir( ( tly in the pathwa\ of this great west side development. 
 I'loiii its ( ijinmanding position, three hundred leet above 
 tides, it oNcrlooks tlie ncuthern part of the cit\ itself, while 
 b\' the fast express trains it is but thirty minutes Irom its 
 theatres and plac i-s of amuseinent, aiul onl\ t liree-(piarters 
 of an hour iKuu New York's extreme soiithern limit, liattery 
 I'ark. It is easil\- reached from the entire line of the 
 Manhattan elevated s\stem on the west side, and sixt\-tliree 
 trains a day stop at I'ark II ill station on the premises. Stop 
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 the Jersey meadows even, and in s]iite of mosquito pests 
 and malaria, a city will spring up as if by magic where such 
 facilities are offered What then may we not be led to 
 expei t on the borders of the metropolis itself, adjoining a 
 highly rehned community of 35,000 people sucli as the city 
 of Yonkers contains, amid scenic surroundings which of 
 tlieir kind are not (inly unsur|)assed in New \'ork but any- 
 where in America. 
 
 Park Hill offers now — not next year or ten years hence, 
 when it shall have grown up with the country, but to-day — 
 all the advantages of a ( ity home with the amiilitude of 
 country surroundings. Through the heart of it connecting 
 (Jetty S<piare in the centre of Yonkers with Van C'ourtland 
 I'ark in New \'ork City, i)asses one of the handsomest 
 avenues of the City of N'onkers, constructed at a cost of 
 $52,000. Water, gas, and sewer pipes are already in it, 
 placed there by an expenditure of $25,000 more. It is 
 covered with a magnificent growth of old forest trees : 
 through it parkways have been built and villa plots defined; 
 on it "The Aerie " and " Alta Vista " are examjjles of the 
 beautiful homes that have been and are being erected, and 
 which give ]jromise of the exceptionally high class of archi- 
 tecture which will adorn it. Landscape gardeners and sani- 
 tary engineers have plotted and planned it with reference to 
 beauty and health, and everything the ripest professional 
 skill could bestow has been called to aid in making it 
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 whose residence it is designed. Park Hill has an environ- 
 ment which alone would make it popular did it not adjoin 
 tlie City of New York. Its western front commands the 
 noble sweep of the Hudson River and the noble wall of the 
 Palisades through their entire length from Hook Mountain 
 beyond the Tappan Zee to Weehawken on the Jersey 
 Heights. On the south and overlooked by it is \'an Court- 
 land Park, the last and greatest concession New \'ork City 
 has made to the demand for breathing space which its mill- 
 ion and three-quarters of people are crying for with an 
 emphasis scarcely less pronounced than the niutterings of 
 the mob wliich a short time ago demanded broad in the 
 streets of Berlin. Eastward is Long Island .Sound, dotted 
 with the traffic of the seas, while behind it are tlie historic 
 hills of Westchester of which Irving wrote so lovingly and 
 picturesquely. At its feet the City of Vonkers. 
 
 Park Hill is a part of the only large city north of and near 
 New York itself, and as such gives its occupants city advan- 
 tages. Yonkers, as before stated, has 35,000 people. It has 
 health, i)olice, water and fire departments ; fine hospitals and 
 churches ; unexcelled public schools, social clubs, yachting, 
 rowing, canoeing, tennis, and athletic clubs. It has just 
 voted $300,000 for increased water facilities besides the 
 $75,000 expended for the same purijose in the erection of a 
 high water tower on Park Hill during the past year. A com- 
 plete system of electric transportation of the most aiiproved 
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 entire city and extend as far as New Rochelle and Glen 
 Island on the Sound, which system it is promised shall be 
 extended over Park Hill and into Van Courtland Park as 
 soon as the company can complete its arrangements. In 
 getting to Park Hill you have no ferries with their aggravat- 
 ing detensions by fog and storm and ice. Vou cross no great 
 bridge with its hurrying, jostling, surging crowds, jiacked 
 like sandwiches in narrow cars morning and night. You 
 pass through no dreary tunnels, stifling with smoke and smells. 
 Drawbridges do not stand open for an hour at a time for 
 tows of canal Ijoats, while your business engagements in the 
 great city go by default. Park Hill is reached by the Man- 
 hattan Elevated Rail Road and its legitimate extension, the 
 New York and Northern Rail Road, after a delightful ride 
 over the handsomest part of New York City, along the his- 
 toric and picturesque banks of the Harlem, and through the 
 heart of \'an Courtland Park. Palatial houses to the banks 
 of the Harlem, and beyond, flowing waters, fresh fields and 
 green trees greet the eye on the entire route. 
 
 Reader, we have now taken you into our confidence as 
 to the reasons which determined us in making this invest- 
 ment. The same and other reasons which we will briefly 
 outline must influence you, if they are rational and sound. 
 
 In s|)ite of the repeatedly asserted statements that out of 
 the nearly two millions of people who inhabit New York, 
 only 13,000 own their own homes, we believe that some- 
 how or other the ambition of every honest married man is 
 
 to have a home of his own if he can command one. We 
 know it is his wife's ambition. We further believe that 
 every man ought rather be willing to buy a cottage than hire 
 a palace, especially if that palace is a high priced New York 
 flat. In his cottage he can at least hang upon his own walls 
 the glorious old invocation " God bless our home," under 
 which all of us have jjrayed at our mother's knees ; but who 
 ever heard of anyone tacking up such a ridiculous legend as 
 " (iod bless our flat " ? 
 
 Having made up your mind then to emancipate your 
 family from the bondage of " flat life," from its high rents, 
 its utter lack of privacy, its bed rooms often without sunlight, 
 and always ventilated with air that is first i)olluted by the 
 smells of the streets, and to seek a home in the country 
 where you will have plenty of bright sunlight, abundance of 
 bracing air, pure water, fragrant woods, picturesipie sur- 
 roundings, desirable neighbors, play-grounds for your chil- 
 dren, which can be reached by a trip exhilarating instead of 
 fatiguing, if, when you have come to this conclusion you do 
 not care to become a pioneer in a new locality, and thus in 
 a manner condemn yourself and family to social e.xile, you 
 will naturally turn to that suburb of New York City which 
 will epitomize in the most comjilete manner together with 
 your own wants not only the modern ideas of airiness and 
 roominess, but of the centralization of the community as a 
 social and economical unit. 
 
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 lavor at tliis time, is the maintaining cif a certain area as 
 jirivate park in wliicli all the occupants shall have an equal 
 interest in the roads, play-grounds, public buildings and 
 general conveniences, the same to be kept up l)y tlic Park 
 Association perpetually, or by the original grantor of the 
 land for a certain number of years as is done at the P.eacons- 
 field Terraces near ]^>oston. To meet this idea partially the 
 American Investment Union has divided its properties into 
 two parts by their location on either side of Park Hill 
 Avenue, which are known resi)ectively as the P2ast and \\'est 
 Parks. In the East Park is the lake, the children's play- 
 ground. Here will be erected the gymnasium with its bowl- 
 ing alley and liilliard rooms. Also here is now being con- 
 structed the club stable, where all present and future house 
 owners can be accommodated and guaranteed that their 
 horses will have as good care and attention as if in their 
 own private stables. Here too will be erected as soon as 
 practicable a central steam heating plant like that at Wayne, 
 near Philadelphia, and at the Beaconsfield Terraces, from 
 which steam pipes will be carried underground and steam 
 heat delivered by indirect radiation to any available point 
 on tlie premises. The club stable and the steam heating 
 de]iartments will be connected by a system of electric bells 
 with the various houses. 
 
 In the East Park convenient fields have been laid out and 
 dedicated to lawn tennis, and an archery range, for the 
 ladies' archery < luli, which has already a year's existence. 
 
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 Here other grounds will likewise from time to time be set 
 apart for athletic and field sports as the growing demands of 
 the new community shall require them. 
 
 It must be obvious to anyone that such a scheme for the 
 creation of a highly desirable neighborhood as has been here 
 outlined and is now being carried into practical effect on 
 Park Hill, can only become possible where a considerable 
 area of land is laid out and maintained under one direction 
 and control and a single ]nirpose is kept steadily in view. 
 Of course the American Investment Union with its 1200 lots 
 does not propose to create a Tu.xedo which has many times 
 as many acres, where only millionaire princes can afford to 
 live, but it does propose in a limited sense to e.xtend to its 
 patrons all the community advantages of this more preten- 
 tious neighborhood, and to do so at the very doors of New 
 York City, where the well-to-do middle class can find health- 
 ful and beautiful homes which can be maintained at a 
 moderate expense because wants of e\ery kind have been 
 anticipated by a general supervision and are furnished at a 
 common cost, and the means of general enjoyment are main- 
 tained and furnished free of cost, or at a trifling e.xpense per 
 capita. 
 
 It is neither freak, fancy, nor philanthropy that has dic- 
 tated the policy of the American Investment Union in thus 
 guaranteeing community advantages to those who will pur- 
 chase and build on its property, but hard, sound, business 
 sense, backed by an experience of what is absolutely essen- 
 
 tial to bring the best results to people who are seeking the 
 greatest degree of comfort with the least possible expendi- 
 ture of money. 
 
 Three years liavc already been spent in acquiring and pre- 
 paring these properties for occupancy. Tlie improvements 
 now made are of a most substantial and enduring char- 
 acter. Not a foot of this property will be offered for sale on 
 speculation, Init to ])ersons who agree to become actual 
 builders of homes, and under conditions which will asSure a 
 first class community in every particular. 
 
 There will be no onerous restrictions imposed, only 
 simple, wholesome, neighborly regulations, such as every 
 reasonable man would be glad to make to protect his imme- 
 diate locality from nuisances and contamination, and exactly 
 such restrictions as future owners would arrange if they 
 could get together and vote to prevent the deterioration of 
 the neighborhood. 
 
 .Suburban development of the kind here outlined while not 
 new in this countrv, has been fully tested in Europe and 
 successfully carried out, at much longer distances from the 
 great metropolitan centres. Think of an Englishman going 
 home fifty miles from London every evening for his dinner, 
 and you have a not infrequent occurrence. While the 
 Pennsylvania Rail Road by the extraordinary facilities it 
 accorded on its main line beyond Philadelphia extended the 
 city along its tracks by a dozen miles of charming viHas 
 largely owned by their own occupants, it has been truth- 
 
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 fully said of New York " that there is no hope so hopeless 
 as the hope of a home within New York to three-fourths of 
 her peo])le." Or as Henry Cieorge puts it, " ninety per rent, 
 of the people of New ^'ork are paying tribute for the privi- 
 lege of shelter to the other ten per cent." 
 
 The .Vmerican Investment Union offers a solution to these 
 perple.xing situations, besides by its yearly expenditures in 
 new developments and improvements it gives you the com- 
 fortable assurance that your property can never become 
 worth less than you paid for it ; but that here in the path- 
 way of New York's greatest present and future ])rogress it is 
 more than likely within ydur lifetime to reach the Harlem 
 figures of to-day. 
 
 P"ew people ever take the trouble to think that in New 
 York City, between Park Hill and the Harlem River, locked 
 up in the embrace of two corporations, lie 2000 acres which 
 can never be built upon. Van Courtland Park and Wood- 
 lawn Cemetery. Again the most difficult and e.xpensive por- 
 tion of the waterway designed by the Government to connect 
 the Hudson River with Long Island Sound and open up the 
 great east side traffic being already completed, the ne.xt few 
 years will witness a revolution in commercial facilities which 
 will rebuild Kings Bridge on the lines of the avenues and 
 cross streets of the City of New York. After that the ne.\t 
 lap of the wave of population which for fifty years has moved 
 northward along the banks of the Hudson with the steadi- 
 ness of an incoming tide from the ocean, will be the south- 
 
 ern portion of Yonkers, Park Hill. Yonkers itself has 
 grown se\enty per cent, in the last decade, which for a vil- 
 lage might mean little, but in a city of 35,000 ])eo])le is 
 prophetic. 
 
 The third track of the Manhattan Elevated Road which 
 has just been completed from One Hundred and Fifty-fifth 
 to Fifty-ninth streets, is particularly designed to meet this 
 great suburban development on the west side, and will here- 
 after be used almost exclusi\ely for the fast express trains 
 which put these suburbs so easily and quickly in touch with 
 the beating heart of the big city. 
 
 Therefore we speak advisedly when we say property pur- 
 chased at Park Hill, at present prices, gives its owner the 
 comfortable assurance that it can never grow less in value. 
 
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 To the believer in the destiny of New York City the his- 
 tory of the past fifty years has shown that very few ever lost 
 an}'lhing by anticipating its progress on its north and south 
 
 lines. The chief fault has been in not looking far enough 
 ahead in the only direction where development must be. un- 
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 CrrY of Vonkers is rightly 
 called "(Juecn City of the 
 Hudson," but amid all the 
 beauty of environment its 
 crowning glory is the Pali- 
 sades. All its wealth of 
 revolutionary history ; its 
 pride in the great men 
 whom it nourished and 
 whose homes have, for a 
 century, crowded the banks 
 of the stately river within its 
 borders can create no interest in itself comparable with the 
 mute legacy of a bygone age, which has invested this entire 
 region with a pii turesqueness beyond the power of history, 
 crumbling ruin, or ancient legend to bestow. 
 
 These dark, beetling crags must ever form the most im- 
 pressive feature of the Hudson River as they hang in rugged, 
 sombre beauty over its western bank, changing their moods 
 with every cjuality of sunlight or shadow, with every caprice 
 of season or temperature. Who that has gazed upon them 
 from the deck of a river steamer, or the commanding 
 heights of the Westchester hills opposite, has not felt the 
 sublime impression inspired nowhere else on the continent 
 
 save perhaps in the gorges of the Rocky Mountains tir under 
 the trap cliffs of the Columbia River in far-away Oregon. 
 
 People ransack America and pAirope to find what they are 
 pleased to call a romantic spot. \'et here at the doors of 
 New York are natural beauties worth a journey across a 
 continent of land or an ocean of water to behold. 
 
 If this country had felt the influence of feudalism, some 
 Sir Walter .Scott would have made the stately Lords of the 
 Castle dwell on these crags. If it had been bathed in the 
 warm fancies of legendary lore like the Rhine \'allcy, under 
 the feet of these cliffs would have sported the mysterious 
 maidens of "the Xibelungen," in whose custody was held 
 the famed " Rhinegold." (Jr on their summits would have 
 been enshrined some happy allegory, such as the noble 
 figure representing Cermania, which the Teuton planted on 
 the Neiderwald of the Rhine when he wished to com- 
 memorate and emphasize the splendid unity of his empire. 
 Thus fame would have assisted fancy and the Palisades 
 would be renowned for past glories, as well as present pur- 
 poses, instead of being condemned to father the |)air of 
 nuist\' old legends about Hendrick Hudson and Captain 
 Kidd. What are Staffa's Rocks and Fingal's Cave, and 
 even Arthur's seat in Scotland, but (jther palisades among a 
 poetic and ajjpreciative people ? 
 
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On a summer's day from any point on Park Hill, to a lover of the jiictur- 
 esque in nature, these titanic forms speak a varied language. They tell to 
 >-;- _. such an one the geological story, how ages and ages ago the earth, a stony 
 pavement, heaved and cracked, and out of the opening fissures rent asunder 
 by a giant hand there issued, from a thousand fathoms of the abyss to a 
 thousand fathoms into the sky, the lightnings through whose aid these molten 
 foundations were cast between the walls of sedimentary rock ; how after the 
 paroxysms of convulsion had ceased they cooled through vastly extended 
 periods ; how the denuding agencies of the air and water took their share of 
 the work through the slow process of the ages ; how fmally the iceberg and 
 the glacier ground off and polished the stupendous pile, making it ready to 
 ''-■• -^ be clothed with verdure and fitted for the habitation of man. 
 
 Lay over these Palisades the delicious warmth of an early summer atmos- 
 phere and you will see beneath you the great river artery throbbing with trade, sluggish tows, smart steamers, saucy 
 yachts, all outlined against the base of towering battlements of rock. Now a sea gull, swinging in majestic circles, will 
 streak with white wings the chocolate-brown background, or a group of straggling clouds for a moment deepen it into a 
 more sombre pati hwork. Then there will be a wonderful shifting of light and shadow as the sun climbs higher and 
 
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 higher, shooting his rays deep into the crevices and fissures 
 of the columnar precipices, turning out the shadows that 
 brooded lliere and turning in a flood of compromise tints, 
 sepias, grays, warm siennas, until, like the skilful painter 
 that he is, he has made the wonders of the earth and air 
 attend his passage over the face of these gashed and 
 broken crags. 
 
 h'ollow the sun from the same spot on a winter's day and 
 you have an added splendor. These rocky pinnacles glisten 
 and gleam like the bayonets of an army of giants on guard, 
 while the dark curtain of evergreens clinging to their feet 
 or climbing here and there their furrowed sides seem so 
 many ramparts behind which they keep their solemn, stately 
 watcli over the tlowing river. Now their stony folds part 
 and disclose some beautiful cascade or some sunless cavern 
 to your wandering gaze. At morning's dawn they redden 
 and strengthen in the undulating light. At evening's glow 
 they tarnish and fade into weird and spectral shapes. 
 Tranquil in calm and troubled in tempest, these mysterious 
 pillared giants are as mood}' as man and as fickle as fate. 
 
 Sometimes in the clear crisp of an early autumnal day they 
 seem to grow friendly and familiar, to come towards you and 
 dwarf the river in its bed, and you feel like reaching out a 
 hand to pat their shaggy sides. Again, when the horizon is 
 diffused with vapor, or in the lengthening shadows of the 
 evening, they draw back and grow far away and the river 
 flows lietween you and them of interminable width. 
 
 ,'\n abrupt wall of rotk rising bold and bare by a river 
 side from three to five hundred feet in the air, and skirting 
 its banks majestically for twenty miles will be an imposing 
 sight wherever it may happen to exist and whatever its ac- 
 companiments, be it the wall of a solitary canon in the 
 Roi kies or the Andes, or the vestibule of the waterway of 
 the greatest city on the continent. 
 
 deologically speaking, the basaltic trap rocks of the 
 Palisades have been classified among the wonders of the 
 world. It has been said "only three other pla( es ecpial 
 them in importance, but each of the four is different from 
 the others, so that the Palisades of the Hudson may be said 
 to be unii|ue." 
 
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 |HE City of Yonkers has always 
 been famous for its outdoor 
 sports and club Hfe. No place 
 in the United States of its si/.e 
 can boast of such an array of 
 what someone has been pleased 
 facetiously to style "outdoor 
 fiends." Here are the names 
 of a score of organizations, 
 some of whii h have a national 
 reputation, and there are others 
 beside. \'onkers Corinthian 
 Boat Club, Palisade Boat Club, 
 Yonkers Yacht Club, Yonkers Canoe Club, Viking Boat 
 Club, Park Hill Outdoor Club, Yonkers Riding Club, ^'on- 
 kers Curling Club (Park Hill), Park Hill Tennis Club, Pali- 
 sade Tennis Club, Park Hill Archery Association, Yonkers 
 Bicycle Club, Yonkers Photograph Club, Yonkers Athletic 
 Club, Yonkers Rifle Club, I'errace City (,)uoiting Club, Ter- 
 race City Rod and Cun Club, Oak Hill Base Ball Club, 
 Caelic Athletic Society, \'oung Men's Christain Association 
 Athletic Club. 
 
 In this field Yonkers has simply been ahead of the awak- 
 ening spirit of our American life. From pul]:)it and plat- 
 
 form and lectuiedesk and printed column there is a growing 
 commendation of outdoor life for American youth. But 
 while the current of this teaching is becoming stronger year 
 by year, the necessities of civilization in our largest cities 
 are constantly narrowing, " the play-ground,'" where alone 
 this condition is possible, until to-day in New York " the 
 fresh air fund" is the single hoyie for a genuine romp in 
 
 the country for the 
 ])Oorer classes, and 
 the brief outing of a 
 sultry summer vaca- 
 tion for the well-to- 
 do middle class. Of 
 course there are "the 
 ])arks" with their 
 neatly shaven lawns, 
 sentinelled at every 
 turn by a uniformed 
 ];oliceman, or guard- 
 ed on their trim 
 borders by the mo--~r=^ 
 notonous legend, so 
 ( heerful to boys, of 
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Commenting on the austere and arti- 
 Icial grandeur of these breathing spots 
 of the great city, a keen observer has 
 remarked, " Central Park, miles away 
 from the great majority of the boys of 
 the city, is elegant enough when they 
 get to it ; but let them once set their 
 bounds and start at a game of ball, or 
 d hound, or try a little jumping or running, on any 
 ie hundreds of beautiful acres, save in one solitary 
 nd see how soon the grey coats will be upon them. 
 The ]!ntter\-, City Hall, Washington Square, Union Park, 
 Stuyvepant Park, Madison Park, are well located and would 
 make capital play-grounds, liut the grass there is altogether 
 too well combed to be ruffled by unruly boys. If a boy's 
 cousin comes from the country and he wishes to try conclu- 
 sions with him, he must confine his efforts to the flagged 
 side-walk, or the cobble stone street while a brass buttoned 
 referee is likely at any moment to interfere and take them 
 )Oth in custody for disorderly conduct." 
 
 I'here are thousands in New York to-day, who jiity the 
 poor of the slums and give cheerfully of their substance to 
 the fresh air fund for ragamuffins and newsboys, who forget 
 to look into the pallid faces of their own offspring : half 
 uilt, undersized, bleached in the sumptuous cells known 
 as apartment houses, not half so well fitted, physically, at 
 least, to grapple witli the rough and tumble of American 
 
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The Lake, East Park (Winter). 
 
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 life, as the street urchins wlioin their buuniv gi\x's a day <iir 
 in tile fields or at tlie sea shore. 
 
 i!ul narri)\v quarters, jMior air, iiiMillic ieiil sunlight, d<i not 
 \isit the iniiiuities of llat life on the ehihlren imly of New 
 \"ork. Who does not count among his acquaintaiKes men 
 whose wan faces, women whose dragged and lired Uioks, tell 
 a tale of wcirn out ner\es in broken bodies, waiting for the 
 summer to llee for their h\es, where? the woimn and eliil- 
 dren to some coo])ed-ui> room in a sea side hotel for a month 
 or two " to build U|i," while the man swelters on at his desk, 
 running down o\er Simda\ (111 tedious and irowiled trains, 
 <-oining ba< k on Monday, more tirid than when he left. 
 And when the glorious autumn c onus and the \ igor of a 
 genuine tonic is felt on hill an<l field the\ are - - - -. 
 
 <a)oi)ed 11]) for another nine m(;iitlis and the "(i 
 dreary round of llat life begins anew. To all -v 
 such we say come to Park Hill on the Mud- 
 son, wliere with city comforts you can enjoy 
 all the year 'round country advantages. The ' .-' ' 
 ride takes but a lew minutes longer than the trip to Harlem. 
 To yourself it will act as a daily tonic; lo jour children w ho 
 welcome the breath of fresh air they catch in the area w.iy, 
 on the door sloo]>, or hanging out the window ol the tene- 
 ment Hal it will be a revelation in health and vigcjrof muscle 
 
 
 
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 success on the exchange can aiipidach. N'our own lite will 
 Ijei ome attracti\e by the variety each day will afford and 
 vour usefulness will be redoubleil. 
 
 'I'o those persons who are willing to tleprive themselves ol 
 the glorious o/one of our northern hills and prepare for the 
 and mind, ("ountry life secures privacy and independence. serious draughts of summer by anticifiating that season 
 It is the ideal way of living and will bring an added zest to among the malarial swamps of I'loriila, we ha\ e nothing to 
 your days that no windfall of tin- stock markets or business sa\'. Sin h peo])le are a law unto themselves. 'I'hey are 
 
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 looking fcir the soft spots of life, and proba- 
 bly have no more serious purpose. Hut to 
 the manly, earnest, wide- 
 awake New Yorker 
 w ants to make 
 
 
 
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 every blow given in the battle of life count, who wants to 
 see his family grow up about him full of that " fire on the 
 nerve " which burns fiercest and lasts longest where a healthy 
 mind inhabits a vigorous body, to such an one we say get 
 out-of-doors, get to the country. 
 
 Park Hill is not a sanitarium, it is only a glorious country 
 spot of the same piece out of which New York City carved 
 Van Courtland Park, and, overhanging it 
 on the north, it is nearer New York City 
 than any equal breathing space in its entire - • • 
 environment and more accessible. 
 
 The ofificers of the American Investment . - = 
 Union in locating this valuable property 
 
 .if'/fef have been particularly solicitous of encour- 
 'f^i^rf*:li'-\'iM!/i'<-l 'i»'"g open air sports. There will be at- 
 ^^'ii* f^'' i^/'^' '' tractive areas laid out so as permanently to 
 ' ' '"■'' insure unmolested elbow-room, where in sum- 
 
 / mer boys can fly their kites and balloons, rig 
 and sail their yachts and schooners, snare birds 
 in the hills, hunt the copses and tangles with arrow 
 an<l hlow-gun ; where in winter they can skate 
 without danger on the shallow lake, coast on the 
 hillsides or fortify them with snow forts ; where 
 they can set their jack lights all the year 'round 
 without being chased by a policeman. The girls 
 can use the tennis courts, enjoy the witchery of 
 archery, skate on the lake with their brothers, 
 gather wild flowers on the knolls or stroll througli the looo 
 acres of Van Courtland Park nearby, with their attendants, 
 or in Park parties as they chose. For both l)oys and girls 
 there will be provided as a rainy day place of amusement a 
 building in which to practice light gymnastics, which will be 
 open at all seasonable hours and in charge of " the care 
 taker " of the premises. 
 
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 In England it is no uncommon thing to see a wonmn row 
 from Putney to Mortlake on the Thames, and during a 
 Holland winter long distance skating is an every-day occur- 
 rence among ladies, singly, and in parties. 
 I'lUt these vigorous English and rosy lipped 
 1 )utch women could never have been grad- 
 uated from a New York flat or spent their 
 youth in the stifling air of an apartment 
 house. 
 
 Physical, intellectual, and financial rea- 
 sons urge everyone e.xcept, perhaps, the 
 very rich who can come and go when and 
 where they like, to seek the ampler sur- 
 
 roundings whi<h country life affords, pro\i(led it can be 
 done witliout a sacrifice of present opjiortunity. \\'e believe 
 Park Hill, Voiikers on the Hudson, will fulfdl every require- 
 ment for an all the year 'round summer and 
 winter home at the doors of New York 
 City and amid her most majestic belong- 
 ings. Here, at home, you have a taste of 
 the charms of the Catskills or the Adiron- 
 dacks, and three-quarters of an hour later 
 .f \ou may be sitting Ijefore the footlights 
 
 '" ■ listening to jtersonations of a Bernhardt 
 
 .^.. (jr the rapturous music of a Danirosch 
 
 ( onccrl in America's social capital. 
 
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 i\ conrlusion, New \'iirk must grow witli llie uniwth 
 and kfe]> pace with the development iif tliis inati li- 
 less country. 
 
 December 4, 1S9T, The New \"ork llerahl saiti 
 
 editorially "New N'ork's growth surpasses 
 
 P^ //; the dream of the enthusiast, luit it can 
 
 • •' only grow in one direction. 'J'he centre 
 
 of population is steadily and rapidly 
 
 moving toward the Harlem River " 
 
 Within a radius of fifteen miles of (.'ity 
 Hall there is already a jiopulation of more 
 «-- _ ~ than 3,000,000 of [leople. A < ity to 
 
 which a continent of such abundant 
 wealth and resources contributes cannot stop short of be- 
 coming the world's capital. And it is no exaggeration to 
 
 Note. — We desire to acknowledge indebtedness to Mr. 
 C. E. Cookman for the sketches, and to members of the 
 Yonkers Photographic CUd) for the pliotngraplis rejirodiiced 
 here. 
 
 say that the end of the present century will witness this 
 consummaticjn. Tens of thousands of laborers working 
 through the inexhaustible power of the steam drill leveling 
 tlie hills, piercing the rocks, bridging the rivers, constitute 
 the peaceful army of occupation which is pushing this mag- 
 nificent result to a speedy issue. Park Hill is no longer an 
 advanced post on the line of this triumphant march. Tlie 
 a|)athy and indifference that has lieretofore prevailed north 
 of the Harlem has given place to the keenest appreciation of 
 the new conditions, and even Rip Van Winkle, disturbed 
 from his long repose in Westches- 
 ter County, shades his dazed eyes, 
 as, looking out from his solitude, 
 he beholds the imperial city that 
 is spreailintr al his feet. 
 
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MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THE AMERICAN INVESTMENT UNION BY E. C. BRIDGMAN, MAPS. 84 WARREN ST., NEW YORK. 
 
Park Hill, from Broadway, Yonkers. 
 
AMERICAN INVESTMENT UNION, 
 
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 A New Business.-Real Estate Shares. 
 
 l-rom the Ni;w York Si:n, Fel>ruary, iStj::. 
 
 A practical plan or combination to purchase antl improve real estate now in 
 successful operation was introduced bj' the American Investment I'nion of this 
 city. Instead of buying single lots you can buy .shares of this Company, which 
 buys centrally located real estate in larjje tracts at lowest prices. The shares can 
 be paid for by installments during a term of years. }'ou arc giiaranleed 6 per cent, 
 interest, and also a pro rata share of the additional profits, which have averaged 
 12 per cent, annually for the last four years. The Company makes all improve- 
 ments and docs everything necessary to sell or rent the property and to increase 
 its value. All taxes, assessments for water, sewers, gas, and other improvements 
 are attended to by it. 
 
 This Company is new only in bringing within the reach of everybody the 
 opportunity for large profits that have heretofore been secured by those with large 
 capital. The Astor and Rhinelander estates in New York, the Lucas and O'Kallen 
 estates in St. Louis, the Parrot and I^ick estates in San Trancisco, and others in 
 every large city, are good examples of the fact that the investment of monej's 
 in real estate is a study and a business, and these men, with a moderate start, all 
 amassed fortunes that ran into millions. 
 
 The Company is managed by rei)re.sentative men. To-day it is a .splendid illus- 
 tnition of the fact that, with the ability to manage, "money makes money." 
 
 Stewart Buii,ding, 2S0 Broadw.w, N. Y, 
 
American Investment Union. 
 
 Organized 1888. Incorporated ] 890. 
 
 ANDREW S. BROWNELL, President. EDWIN K. MARTIN, Vice-President. 
 
 aEO. J. ORD, Secretary. 
 
 Principal Offices: Stewart Building, 280 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
 
 Boston, Philadelphia, 
 
 Providence, Reading, 
 
 sob.okkices: 
 
 Baltimore, Indianapolis, 
 
 Detroit, Chicago, 
 
 San Francisco. 
 
 Milwaukee, 
 St. Louis, 
 
 Kansas City, 
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