“ NEW HAVEN, a city and county-seat of New Haven co., Conn., at the head of New Haven Bay, an excellent harbor 4 miles long that sets in northwardly from Long Island Sound. The city is located on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad, 73 miles N. E. of New York City, and about 36 miles S. of Hartford. The city is the largest and most important in the State and is rapidly increasing in population and in industrial importance. It is also the home of Yale University. ”

“ New Haven is developing into the largest railroad transfer point in New England, the railroad system having in process of construction at Cedar Hill a freight classification yard for New England of about 1,000 acres, with more than 10 miles of trackage constructed in 1920. ”