Limited. The time given is Eastern Standard
Time at all points east of Toledo, and Central Standard Time,
which is one hour slower, at Toledo and all points west. (When
Daylight Saving Time is adopted during the summer it is one hour
faster than _Standard_ time, but all time given in this booklet
is Standard time.) The time between 12.01 o'clock midnight and
12.00 o'clock noon is indicated by light face type; between 12.01
o'clock noon and 12.00 o'clock midnight by dark face type. The
use of an asterisk (*) indicates places recommended as especially
worth visiting. Population figures are those of the 1920 U.S.
Census.]

Fifty years ago when Commodore Vanderbilt began the first Grand Central
Station--depot, they called it, in the language of the day--he made one
error of judgment. His choice of a site proved to be magnificently
right, though he selected a spot that was practically open country, then
technically known as 42nd St. The story goes--it is a typically American
story--that his friends laughed at him, remarking that a person might as
well walk to Boston or Albany as go away up to 42nd St. to take a train
for those cities. But the people did come, and they admired the
commodore's new station, which is perhaps not surprising, since the
commodore had set himself to build the greatest terminal in the world.
Many Americans considered the new "depot" as only second to the capitol
at Washington, and it served as an excellent show place when visitors
came to town. Europe might have its cathedrals, but it had no Grand
Central Station!

The commodore's one mistake lay in thinking that his fine new station
would last a century. Within ten years an addition had to be built; in
1898 it had to be entirely remodeled and enlarged, and fifteen years
later it was entirely demolished to make way for the present building
which would be adequate for handling the city's ever-increasing
millions.

There seems to be little doubt that the city of N.Y. and its
environs has become within the last decade larger even than London.
The population of greater London (including all the separate
administrative entities within the Metropolitan Police District) is
estimated at 7,435,379. Jersey City, Hoboken, and the other N.J.
cities on the west, as well as Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle,
etc., on the north, although politically detached, are included in
the "city" of N