This October 1895 advertisement announced a special train leaving Buffalo on the Lehigh Valley Railroad to take potential buyers of land in the new suburb of Depew. It exhorted the 3000 men now working at the shops in Depew to buy plots of land now before the capitalists and land speculators.
Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 18 October 1895, p. 45. NYS Historic Newspapers.