SEYMOUR DURST When you leave, please leave this hook Because it has heen said "Sver'thinc) comes t' him who waits Except a loaned hook." 60K 4«f Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library LONG ISLAND OF TO-DAY. ILLUSTRATED. i 884 : OPYRIGHTED BY CHARLES M. HEALD. CONTENTS. Bird's-eye view of Long Island, Why? Long Island as it is, Long Island Improvement, - Then and Now, The Journey over the Island, Manhattan Beach, THE SOUTH SIDE RESORTS, Amagansett, - 52 Fire Island, Amityville, - 34 Forge, - Atlanticville, - - 49 Fort Pond Bay, Babylon, 34 Freeport, Baldwin's, - 32 Good Ground, Bayport, 42 Islip, Bayshore, - 39 Isle of Wight, - Bellmore, 33 Jamaica, Bellport, - - 43 Lawrence, Breslau, 34 Long Beach, Bridgehampton, - 5i Merrick, - Brookhaven, 44 Montauk Point, Easthampton, - - 52 Moriches, Eastport, 47 Oakdale, East Rockaway, - 3° Patchogue, Far Rockaway, - 28 Pearsall's, THE NORTH SHORE BRANCHES, Bayside, - - 62 Greenlawn, - Broadway, - 61 Green vale, - Centreport, - 70 Huntington, College Point, 60 Little Neck, Cold Spring, - - 68 Locust Valley, Corona, 59 Manhasset ; - Douglaston, - 62 Newtown, East Northport, - 71 Northport, - Flushing, - 59 Ordfield Point, Glen Cove, - 66 Oyster Bay, Glen Head, - - 64 Port Jefferson, Great Neck, 63 Roslyn, MAIN LINE AND CENTRAL SECTION, Aquebogue, - 89 Gardiner's Island, Baiting Hollow. - 88 Greenport, - Bethpage, - 83 Hempstead, Brentwood, 83 Hicksville, - Central Park, - - 83 Hinsdale, Central Islip, 84 Hyde Park, Cutchogue, - 93 Jamesport, Deer Park, - 83 Manor, Farmingdale, - - 83 Mattituck, Franklinville, 90 Medford, Garden City, - - 80 Mineola, - Passenger Tariff, Advertisements, 4 5 7 12 12 17 20 25 37 | Quogue, - - 48 46 Ridgewood, 33 54 Richmond Hill, 25 32 Rockville Centre, 32 49 Sag Harbor, - 53 39 Sayville, - 4i 28 Speonk, - - 48 25 Springfield, - 26 28 Southampton, - - 5i ^1 j South Oyster Bay, JJ 33 Valley Stream, - 26 54 Water Mills, 5i 4° Wave Crest, - 2 9 40 Westhampton, 48 42 \\ oodstjurgh, - - 27 30 57 7o Sea Cliff, - 65 64 Setauket, - - - 73 69 Smithtown, - 7 2 62 St. James, - 72 66 St. Johnland, - 71 63 Stony Brook, 7 2 59 Syosset, - - 66 70 Whitestone, 60 76 Williston, - 64 68 Winfield, - - - 58 74 Woodside, - 58 64 77 98 Orient, - - 97 95 Peconic, 93 82 Queen's, - - 80 82 Riverhead, - 88 80 Ronkonkoma, - " 84 80 Shelter Island, 96 89 | Southold, - 94 87 Waverly, 86 92 Westbury, - 82 86 West Deer Park, 83 80 Yaphank, - - 86 IOI 106 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/longislandoftodaOOralp E don't propose to inquire ' ' Where are you going to spend the summer ? " for that, doubtless, is the question you are asking yourself, but we desire to suggest that you TRY LONG ISLAND. Why? Because you will certainly be able to find upon it a home or a resting-place suited to your tastes, your pocket-book, your consti- tution and your business — it matters little what their condition. The hills and dales and wooded knolls of the north side, edged by the silvery waters of the Sound ; the level centre retired and quiet, and the fertile fields, pretty hamlets and already popular resorts of the alluring south side, lying close to or directly along the surging ocean, whose resounding beach stretches more than one hundred miles away, form a combination not offered elsewhere. Why were not these advantages known and utilized years ago? Because — like the famed spectacles in search of which the old lad} ransacked the house while they were in their place upon her head — the\' were too close at hand to be seen. But now that the ancient dame (who in this case must be Dame Fashion) has been shown where her glasses are, we may all look through them upon these pages and see clearly WHY. This book was not written to take a place among the lustrous examples of fancy composition that aim to be guide-books, but prove to be mere wordy nothings — glasses of literary soda, whose origin is gas and whose body is froth. Nor will it be found to belong to that other familiar order of enticing but mendacious creations, in which Venice is likened to heaven, and every place in a certain district — say in New Jersey — is described as very like Venice or very much nicer. It was written to provide the public with useful information about Long Island, a section of country as yet little known, but which lies in the very shadow of the metropolis, and offers advantages unequalled in attractiveness or variety to those seeking summer resorts or per- manent homes. To such this book is offered. Its pictures, though mainly adapted from views by the candid camera, are no less true to what they represent than the written lines. The one aim has been to tell the reader just what will interest and help him ; anticipating natural questions and describing most fully those places that represent each of the many differing sorts of attractions, in order to gratify (as it is possible to do on Long Island) nearly every shade of taste. LONG ISLAND AS IT IS. ORTIONS of the journey "all over Long Island" required for the _L compilation of this book the writer has made again and again, and now, as he moves in perfect comfort in a train of cars not excelled in any respect by those of any other railroad, over smooth, steel rails, upon a level, well-balanced road-bed, thoughts about this singular island rush upon his mind. How strange it is that while Connecticut is already an aggregation of cities, while southern New York is populous to the same degree, and while from Trenton eastward the overflow of metropolitan popula- tion has littered the plain with towns, Long Island is to-day able to 8 accommodate millions in cities yet unfounded ! It is as though Nature has planned that Long Island's woods and bays, and fields and heights and beaches, are to remain as they yet remain, in spite of two centuries of ownership by white men — a vast sanitarium, a resting place, a breathing spot, a pleasure-ground for the teeming millions crowding one another within sight or short sailing from her shores. Think of its situation ! It is at the meeting-place of all lines of travel from the East — as handy to the people of the Southern as to the people of the Eastern and the Middle States ; and its separation from the continent by the Sound, which, in the old world, would have been called a sea, protects it not only from the swarms of population, but from the hot blasts which sweep outward from the interior to scorch every other seaside territory on the coast. It is the largest of our islands, and on its surface may be enjoyed every variety of scenic attrac- tion to be found elsewhere in this part of the country, save in the mountains of northern New York, New Hampshire and Vermont. Inhabited by the Dutch at the eastern end since 1611, and at the western end by the English since 1639, what household words some parts of the island nomenclature have become to us all ! Coney Island sends a flood of thoughts to the mind : Fire Island, sighted by immi- grants and Americans home- ward bound from Blue Point and suggestive of that good living which is a special characteristic of every locality on the island ; the Hamptons, unequalled for richness of soil, and famed as having fascinated the author of "Home Sweet Home," who chose his own home there ; Roslyn, the home of William Cullen Bryant ; Dosoris, near Glen Cove, the summer home of Charles A. Dana ; Seaford, in the Hamptons, Gen. Dix's country place ; Babylon, close to which is August Belmont's mansion and park ; Gar- den City, founded by the greatest of merchants, A. T. Stewart ; Sag Harbor and Greenport, familiar to all yachtsmen, and Shelter Island, long popular with New Englanders. And, as these names are recalled, what a diversity of scene is * suggested. Surely nothing but mountains are lacking to com- plete the variety. We have touch- ed upon blossoming inland plains ; upon a towering, surf-beaten pro- montory ; upon pellucid, green-edged bays ; stretches of perfect beach, upon w 7 hich gentle summer billows sound their rhythm ; upon wood- land and hill, and glen and lake. Had we included Flushing and Jamaica — proud old towns, within easy reach of the city's thoroughfares, where their inhabitants spend their days at trade, returning to their cosey homes amid shaded streets and blooming gardens in the cool of twilight — what that exists on the mainland would have been omitted from the list of attractions to this continent in miniature ? The new-comer upon this magnified and improved reproduction of the Bermudas close to our doors is certain to be surprised at that fertility of the soil which alone accounts for the beauty of the island's summer dress. As long ago as 1670 the Rev. Richard Denton wrote home to England from his parish at Hempstead : " Yea, in May you shall see the Woods and Fields so curiously bedecke with roses, and an innumerable multitude of delightful Flowers not only pleasing to IO the eye, but smell, that you may behold Nature contending with Art, and striving to equal, if not excel, many Gardens in England." He spoke of the wealth of wild fruit also, and in his quaint style said that strawberries were in "such abundance in June, that the Fields and the Woods are died red : Which, the Country-people perceiving, instantly arm themselves with bottles of Wine, Cream and Sugar, and instead of a Coat of Male, every one takes a Female upon his Horse behind him, and so, rushing violently into the fields, never leave till they have disrobed them of their red colours, and turned them into the old habit." Part of this remains true to-day, for at Montauk the hill-sides yet continue to be so reddened by this fruit that strangers wonder to what cause is due the autumnal tint of the landscapes thereabout. The good man also called attention to what he aptly called the crystal streams on the south side, which he said, "run so swift that they purge themselves of filth and mud," and which he describes as well stocked with ' ' Basse, Sheepsheads, Place, Perch, Trout, Eals, Turtles and divers other Fish.'" To the game of the island he devoted a paragraph, and though the variety and quantity of sport in the water and on land is diminished, as good fishing and hunting remains as can be had short of the Adirondacks or the North- west. The spring and fall shooting are not elsewhere excelled, and the summer fishing is not equalled. Long Island is 125 miles long, and from eight to twenty miles in width. It embraces 1,500 square miles, or 960,000 acres — larger than the State of Rhode Island. The climate is mild, and not liable to sudden changes or extremes of heat and cold. There is no such thing as malaria nearer to it than New York. It offers to the pleasure- seeker unequalled surf-bathing, ocean or bay sailing, brook or pond or ocean fishing, better shooting than can be found at a less distance than the Adirondacks, unexampled drives, food fresh from the water, the air, or the land ; an 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 mornings until Saturday nights. With this, as with all else herein set forth, the fact should be kept clearly in mind that those tyrants of most persons' lives, our purses, however little they may hold for wise outlays in summer, can be closely suited in the wide range of places here enumerated. In spite of the general excellence of the fare, in no place within easy reach of New York is living anything like so cheap as on this island. As each town, village, or country-side receives its especial chapter farther on in these pages, the reader will be able to make his choice the site of a permanent home. If he would sport with the surf, or wing the feathered beauties of the air, or throw his line for trout, or exercise his limbs with field sports, or seek the quiet shade of wood- land parks, or sail, or row, or drive, or till the soil, or end a busy 12 life in restful village lanes, he'll find somewhere along the list the very spot to go to and examine, and, if we mistake not, the very spot whereat to end his search in triumph. LONG ISLAND IMPROVEMENT. An association of British and American capitalists, organized for the purpose of developing the great natural resources of the island, with a capital stock of one million powids sterling, have made their initial investment in the town of Babylon, where they have purchased a plot of seventy acres in extent, of most inviting and beautiful location, embracing a fresh-water lake, and commanding an outlook of surpass- ing beauty. Upon this charming spot they have built the New Hotel at Babylon — "The Argyle " — the most unique and picturesque hotel in the country. A picture, elsewhere, conveys an idea of its external beauties. In outline, internal finish, and novel and pleasing features it surpasses anything yet built in the land. Three hundred and fifty guests, supplied with every modern convenience in use in the best hos- telries of the city, can find accommodation here. An especially beautiful feature of this notably handsome house is the mediaeval dining-hall, with its light-timbered roof and exquisite screen, panelled with stained glass. Contiguous to the hotel are the stables (accommodating forty horses), the gas-works, water-works, ice-house, servants' quarters, etc., completing an establishment so thoroughly appointed as to be without its equal elsewhere. A dozen or more cottages, of the same style and elegance as the hotel, occupy the grounds immediately surrounding. THEN AND NOW. Although the Long Islanders themselves — a sturdy, hardy, happy people — have farmed and hunted and fished here during more than two centuries, the greater portion of the island is to the minority of summer visitors only a few years old ; to the majority it is totally unknown. The grandmothers of middle-aged New Yorkers hunted for shells on Coney Island, frolicked in the surf at Rockaway and 13 breathed the delicious air of Islip when they were in short frocks ; their sons ran out to the old Fashion Course to see the trials of speed upon that famous track, and Greenport and Sag Harbor were bustling whaling ports. But all these were small things in their way, and the tide of summer travel continued to set in other directions, until now that, in the ripeness of time, the railroad system having interested far-seeing men with means sufficient for the purpose, "the railroad,'' as one shrewd native expressed it, "is building up the island and the island is building up the railroad. " Two hundred trains a day roll to or from Long Is- land City, like ' ' so many pulsations carrying life- blood from the heart through e arter- All the great roads running out of New York have had to pass through the fledgling period, during which each struggled for a livelihood, and when no man of all the public was so humble but that he felt he had a right to abuse and condemn it. The rail- road to Long Branch was first called the Raritan and Delaware Bav, and 14 the ill-suited people nicknamed it the "Ridiculous and Darned Bad Railroad." The little line, now a portion of the great Pennsylvania system in New Jersey, and called the Freehold and Jamesburg Agri- cultural Railroad, was for years known as the "Fits and Jerks Aggra- vation Company and even the great Delaware, Lackawanna and Western was once so little like its present self that the wits called it the ' ' Delay, Linger and Wait. " But just as the Raritan and Dela- ware Bay came in time to earn the popular title, ' ' Rising and Doing Better, " so have the others lived out and down all reason for ridicule, and the Long Island Railroad, which never had a nickname, has for years been one of the great lines of the country. The history of each of the giant railroads across the continent, striking out beyond the confines of civilization, across vast unpeopled prairies and through mystic mountain fastnesses, and yet almost instantly provoking the establishment of chains of new cities by the way, is, after all, only the record on a larger scale of every railroad enterprise, even in the neighborhood of the great centres of popula- tion. This record is being made upon Long Island to-day. New towns are springing up, and old Rip Van Winkle-villes are awaken- ing to an appreciation of modern needs and enterprise. An evidence of the strides made by the Long Island Railroad in passenger and freight traffic may be seen at a glance in the fol- lowing extract from the books of the company : Year. Passengers Carried. Tons of Freight Carried. I8 77 . • 3» o6 3>43 1 272,086 i87g • • 4,157,7*5 254, 5 8 ° 1879 . . 5,043,848 286,071 1880 . . 6,228,292 320,837 1881 . . 6,512,270 339^52 1882 . • 8,878,543 38o,949 1883 . . 9,024,370 416,153 This is a short story, but a plain one, and we strongly doubt whether this statement can be eclipsed by any other railroad. The figures of the monthly and daily travel show that this wonderful increase is not attributable to the summer business alone, but that a large increase has been made in the permanent resident population. 15 The following table of receipts from daily commuters is positive evidence that the opportunities of the island for permanent homes, so long hidden, are being availed of. Winter Months. 1879. 1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. October . . . 5857 75 6525.88 7773-75 8254-35 8817.20 November . 6406.88 6352.75 755050 7S56.IO 8877.23 December . 4643 • 75 5295 -47 6339-75 6397-30 7179.82 January . 5057.00 5872.25 6116.25 7634-50 7719.60 7827.18 February . 4618.73 5064. 13 6488 . 00 7536.50 7630.25 8172 22 March . . . 5 20 9-75 5439 25 6490.25 7439 25 7726.15 8568.58 Under the present management the arrangements for the trans- portation of passengers with promptness, speed, and comfort are equal to those of any railroad in the country. During the season frequent trains will be run at a speed of forty miles an hour, making it feasible during the day,- and to reach his summer home before nightfall. Large expenditures have been made to perfect an equipment of rolling stock, road-bed, and rails equal to that of any road running out of New York. The celebrated Woodruff parlor-coaches are attached to i5 all express trains. They provide the very acme of comfort. Each coach moves upon carefully adjusted trucks, insuring noiseless and gen- tle motion, and the cars are appointed handsomely, conveniently, and so as to give the utmost comfort. Perfect ventilation is secured without draughts, and even in the warmest weather the cars are delightfully cool. There is no car, no matter what its name or fame, that excels in any particular any of these Woodruff coaches, which are new and replete with every invention designed to make railroad riding luxurious. They will be run under the management of the genial manager, Major J. C. Paul, who will be found particularly anxious to satisfy the most fastidious. New and commodious stations have been built ; trains are run on exact time ; the special requirements of localities have due consider- ation ; and, in the pursuance 01 a liberal and far-seeing policy, the company is daily adding to its equipment, in order to meet the most exacting demands for speedy and comfortable transportation. This needs to be said only to strangers. So great has been the confidence reposed in the policy of the company, that capital has for several years been seeking investment all over the island ; land has quadrupled in value ; buildings are springing up both in the older settlements and upon new tracts, for private dwellings and for the entertainment of the public, and the very atmosphere over the length and breadth of the island is charged with the quickening element of enterprise and activity, in anticipation of the new life that is suffusing and spreading the population. The Main Line of the road runs along the centre of the island from Long Island City and Brooklyn to Greenport, keeping generally equidistant from the ocean beach on the one side and the shore of the Sound on the other. From this Main Line many branches connect with important points. The Glen Cove Branch diverges from the Main Line at Mineola, and traverses the rich and picturesque section between the centre of the island and the Sound, passing the pretty and popular stations East WlLLETON, Albertsons, Roslyn, Greenvale, Glen Head, Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, and terminating at Locust Valley — a trip of only half an hour each way, and of rare delight to the lover of beauty in nature. At Hicksville, on the Main Line, is the junction of the Port Jefferson Branch to Huntington, Northport and Port Jefferson, three old and romantic villages nestling at the heads of beautiful bays on the Sound shore. The route is through a country in which nature has lavished ornament, and the stations » 17 passed are nearly all synonymous in the popular mind with pure and cool air, pretty landscapes, comfort, sport and rest. They are Syosset, Cold Spring, Huntington, Greenlawn, Northport, East Northport, St. Johnland, Smithtown, St. James, Stony Brook, Setauket and Port Jefferson. At Manor is the junction of a branch connecting the Main Line with the Montauk Division at Eastport on the direct line across the south side, midway between Babylon and Sag Harbor. The North Side Division, commonly called the North Shore Road, forms a separate line to itself, reaching from Long Island City (its only New York ter- minus) to Whitestone, and with its Great Neck Branch diverging near Flushing and ending at Great Neck. On its line are Woodside, Winfield, Newtown, Corona, Flushing (Bridge Street station), College Point and Whitestone ; and returning to the junction and taking the other branch we pass Flushing (Main Street station), Douglaston, Bayside, Little Neck, and end at Great Neck. The Montauk Division is that almost parallel line of road along the south side of the island from Long Island City or Brooklyn to Sag Harbor. At Fresh Pond is the junction of the branch to Manhattan Beach, a short cut behind Brooklyn and through a country of farming land whose neatly kept fields, substantial houses and perfect roads reflect the traditional attributes of the Knickerbockers, who have been in possession there during two and a half centuries, straight to the most famous and crowded day resort in America. A branch diverg- ing at Valley Stream takes the passenger to Far Rockaway, and farther on, at Pear sails, is the branch for Long Beach, both short and interesting runs. These divisions and branches will be properly specified, wherever the information needs to be specific, throughout these pages. Time- tables, presenting the schedules of trains, can be had at all hotels and railroad offices in New York, and at all stations along the line of the railroad. For the convenience of all who need them, numerous Sunday trains will be maintained during the season, from the earliest to the latest dates ; the Long Island News Co. , supplying newspapers and periodicals to all Long Island, will, during the summer months, run special newspaper trains for the benefit of their customers, delivering morning papers forty miles from New York before breakfast ; and everything, in short, necessary for the perfect accommodation of those who intend to give Long Island a trial this year, will be performed by the Long Island Railroad. THE JOURNEY OVER THE ISLAND. The many trips that composed the journey were all begun at Long Island City, the natural starting point from New York, although they might quite as well have begun in Brooklvn. from which city passengers 2 i8 have exactly the same facilities as those from Long Island City. The trip to Manhattan Beach naturally suggests itself as a short journey on what is practically a separate division of the railroad. One of the forward cars is a handsome Woodruff parlor-coach ; the others are vehicles peculiar, in this part of the country, to Coney Island travel. They are open at the sides, but covered by a roof to shut out the sun, closed at the ends to defend the passenger from the wind produced by the rapid forward motion, and appointed with curtains that are rolled up out of the way, but are ready for use when it rains. Delightful cars are these, and exactly suited for a short, quick run. The pleasing view on either side is unobstructed, and, until the salty breeze from the sea is encountered, the delicious odors of field, of woodland, and of gardens, float through the cars. What a spin it is. A mere taste of travel, a moment with the flying wheels, the busy train-hands, the rushing fences and outward swinging vistas of country-side, and then the cry "All out for Manhattan Beach. " 20 Manhattan Beach. — What need is there to tell of the glories of Manhattan Beach? Who has not been to the crowned head of all the sea-side places ? At least, who has not read or heard of its delights ? Leaving the cars at 16 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. FORENOON TRAINS EVERY HOUR. AFTERNOON, TRAINS EVERY HALF HOUR. the great Manhattan Beach Hotel, two things suggestive of a volume impress one instantly. How cool and invigorating the air is. It can 21 be tasted : it can be drank by the chestful. What crowds of people — . light-hearted, laughing people ; women, girls, men, boys, children, rich, poor, cityfied, country-clad, all sorts — all thrilled by the tonic of the atmosphere, and all active, yet wondering at their activity. The enormous building (lacking nothing that is to be had at the best hotel in town, and yet possessing so much more than can be had there), towers overhead, gilded by the sunlight, yet so cool that the ladies in the open windows are wearing light wraps about their shoulders. We wonder as we recall how hot it was in town. People in numbers sufficient to establish a western city with four daily newspapers and an opera house are on the enormous piazza. Some are dining, some are courting, some are promenading ; others are smoking, day-dreaming, chatting, looking out upon the velvet lawns, the glorious banks of flowers, the fountain, the endless, twenty-fold interweaving lines of people. The band — Gilmore's unequalled — is playing, as it does every afternoon and evening, and its strains, issuing from out a great, open, shell-like structure, are so blended as they cross the lawn that it is as though a single, grand, celestial instrument had given them existence. Here is the hard, sand beach, dotted with bathers anH romping children armed with spades and pails ; the emerald, white- capped billows, freighted with laughing women and sturdy men. There is a gallery at the bathing-house, and it is peopled with onlook- ers. Was there ever such a bathing-house ? Few hotels are as big as 22 it is ; none contain as many rooms. There is running fresh water in . each room, and those who desire it cap take their baths in still water, either fresh or salt. All in all, the island is a human beehive. As many as 150,000 people sometimes enjoy themselves there in one day. Manhattan Beach is the eastern end of the island, with two miles of sea front, and managed by the Manhattan Beach Improvement Company. It is removed from the noise, the puppet-shows, the beer- gardens, merry-go-rounds, and showmen's tents of the public beach, and offers a cool and salubrious retreat for tired or heated men or for families, with whatever degree of quiet or amusement is desired. All can be entertained there, whether they come to spend the day at the cost of a dollar, or one hundred times that sum ; indeed, at the great pavilion, picknickers may spread their repasts and have free attendance. THE ORIENTAL HOTEL. The most magnificent caravansary on any sea-shore — a palatial structure offering accommodations for 700 people, distant but a few minutes from New York or Brooklyn, yet as free from the crowd and bustle, and blending of ill-assorted company, as if it were 1,000 miles from town. The hotel is only four years old, and its appointments are all most convenient, elegant and modern. The rooms are large and beautifully furnished. Gas, running water, steam heating, and a passenger elevator give hints of the completeness of the arrangements. 23 The guests have always included representatives of the most select circles of Americans and the most distinguished visitors to this country from abroad. Quiet and refinement not anywhere exceeded mark the very atmosphere of this palatial, yet beautiful, comfortable and home-like hotel. It is managed on the American plan, table d'hote. THE MANHATTAN BEACH HOTEL. The Manhattan Beach Hotel is second only to the Oriental. It was built in 1877, and has rooms for 500 persons. It is run on the European plan. The portion above the first floor is reserved for permanent guests, who are there able to enjoy home-like quiet and exclusiveness. There is no better cuisine in the countrv, no better attendance can possibly be had or wished for, and provision is made as well for those who limit their expenses as for those who need not do so. There is a vast and astonishing difference between Manhattan Beach and the western or public end of Coney Island. It has always been the aim of the company to maintain the great resort not only as an absolutely safe retreat, even for ladies, nurses and children, but to render it absolutely free from whatever could give offence or mar well- ordered pleasure. 25 THE SOUTH SIDE RESORTS. BY THE SEA ONCE again a start is made from Long Island City, this time in handsome, roomy coaches, equaling in beauty and in gentleness of motion any yet designed, on the way toward a journey to the farther end of the island. The first noteworthy stop is at Richmond Hill, a picturesque suburb, less than half an hour distant from New York or Brooklyn. Here one perceives what the railroad has done 8 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. IB TRAINS OAILY. 7 TRAINS SUNDAY. and is doing for the island. Given ten trains a day each way, this long neglected site for a model city suddenly took on new life, and one may see from the car windows how greatly the pretty new cottages outnumber the modest old ones. The fruit and shade trees, the rich- hued gardens and the lawns, attest the virtues of the soil ; and as for the air, which, as the genial end-man remarked, ''is a thing we all look at but none of us ever see," its salubrity may be judged of by the fact that from the hills on which the houses rest, the Sound and the ocean are enclosed within the horizon on two sides. Richmond Hill has its post-office, school, church, and water-works ; while close at hand, and before the train has moved all of the second mile away, are the shaded streets of busy and ambitious old Jamaica. — From the cars the ancient burgh presents the appear- ance merely of a railroad centre, and that it really is, for here the main divisions of the railroad system separate ; and as all the branches, except one, diverge at points farther east, it follows that Jamaica has the full benefit of every effort of the railroad managers to meet the varying demands of other localities. But Jamaica has many phases. It is one of the oldest settlements in the country, and the descendants of some of its founders yet remain in numbers sufficient to maintain a very select and dignified society. Some most interesting old ante-revolu- tionary houses lend interest to the broad, well-shaded streets, along 10 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 50 TRAINS DAILY. 40 TRAINS SUNDAY. which are to be seen many trees older and nobler than can easily be found in a day of journeying elsewhere. Fine residences line these cool avenues, and mingled with these are some pretty and substantial church buildings and an unusual number of schools. The churches are Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Reformed, Lu- theran and Presbyterian ; the schools are the five common schools, St. Monica (Roman Catholic), Maple Hall Institute and Union Hall Seminary. Three newspapers are published there, the Democrat, the Farmer, and the Standard. Here is to be found a constantly and rapidly increasing population of men doing business in New York and Brooklyn. Merchants are among them, who live here amid luxury, and clerks also, who enjoy a degree of comfort not to be attained when city rents are taken from their earnings. Jamaica is nearer to the City Hall than the upper end of Central Park was before the elevated railroads were constructed. It is nearer now than the annexed dis- trict, about as near as Harlem, and a thousand-fold superior, for the care of health and the rearing of children, to either of those places ; in short, the railroad journey is made in eighteen minutes. There are beautiful drives through a rich farm and garden country, and along avenues decked with pretty homes and grounds, in all directions outside Jamaica. Between lines of waving green or gold, according to the month, the ride to Springfield is over the same rich country. This village is Revolution to recover from malaria. (Who is it that says malaria is a modern accomplishment, invented by the city doctors ?) The British soldiers had such bad treatment at our hands when they were here, and have had so few kind words since, that it is with pleasure that we commend their behavior, not in getting the malaria, but in coming to Long Island to get rid of it. Springs of the most delicious, clear, crystal water abound, and the most beautiful verdure clothes the land all the way up to and far beyond Valley Stream. — This is the point of junction with the Rock- 13 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. famed as having been the place to which some British troops were sent during the 17 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. away Branch. It is a modest village con- taining two small hotels and a church, and 2 7 situated in a delightful farming country, whose inhabitants boast of wondrous early vegetables and good autumn shooting. Here we leave the Montauk Division to make a short trip along THE ROCKAWAY BRANCH, Through a lovely country to the sea-side. The journey is made at right angles to the Division we are leaving behind, and through the centre of the peninsula between Jamaica Bay and Hempstead Bay. Hewlett's, Woodsburgh, Ocean Point, and Lawrence provide a con- tinuous line of houses along the route. They are quiet, fresh-air points, at all of which the fare is excellent and the rates are low. Of these places, Woodsburg'h is most attractively situated three miles from the beach, and three-eighths of a mile from the bay. It owes its existence and much 19 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 20 TRAINS DAILY. 16 TRAINS SUNDAY. of its attractiveness to the late Samuel Wood, a wealthy resident of Brooklyn, whose aim was to build a town not even second to Garden City. The place commands a fine view of Jamaica Bay, Great South Bay and the ocean, as well as of the neighboring country. In 1870 the mammoth Pavilion Hotel, subsequently doubled in size and now covering 28,000 square feet, was completed. It is equal to any hotel in the country for comfort, and contains 250 elegantly furnished and well ventilated rooms ; water, gas and steam throughout, and offers from its roomy piazzas grand views upon the sea and land. A spacious bathing-house for still-water bathing is exclusively for the guests of the house. Boulevard Avenue, a feature of the place, 28 one hundred feet wide and lined with shade trees, extends from the railroad to the shore. There are many delightful cottages for summer residents or permanent inhabitants. Of the latter class there are already very many who do business daily in Brooklyn or New York. The estate is ably managed by A. L. Simonson, Esq., trustee, Temple Court, N. Y. From Lawrence or Ocean Point, we reach Isle of Wight, the newest of all stylish claimants for popular favor. A great and elegant hotel surrounded 21 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 20 TRAINS DAILY. 16 TRAINS SUNDAY, by grounds which, when fully improved, will be perfect in their beauty and sanitary arrangements, has been established by wealthy New Yorkers. There are also some pretty cottages to rent for one or more families, and run in connection with the hotel. These cottages contained a distinguished company last summer. Here are to be enjoyed contact with an excellent class of boarders, the com- forts of a Fifth Avenue hostelry, still-water and sea bathing, boating, fishing, and all out-door sports. There is telegraph and telephone communication with the city. At last the sea, so long foreshadowed in the gradual change of soil and vegetation, lies right before us at Far Kockaway. — There are thousands of persons who think that, even in the infinite variety of Nature's offerings, there can be nothing anywhere as 22 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 20 TRAINS DAILY. 16 TRAINS SUNDAY delightful as Far Rockaway. Other newer places take on more show and style ; boast of fine bands and big hotels, of foreign lords as guests, and blacks in livery to wait upon the rooms and tables ; of glittering cavalcades or famous drives, and — But what are all these things com- pared with honest, old-fashioned, Democratic, plain and comfortable Far Rockaway ? It is not right on the ocean ; instead, it crowns an elevated plateau upon a narrow inlet for safety-loving women and chil- dren to row upon, to sail upon, for still-water bathing, aye, and for fishing as well. Jamaica Bay, a little westward, is a still larger field for these excursions. If you want the other thing, cross the inlet and stand upon the narrow reef of sand five minutes distant, and there enjoy the surf. The settlement is made up of hotels of varying sizes, shapes, rates and degrees of comfort ; but at each the fish and chicken are certain to be fresh, at each the breezes are equally delightful ; and 2 9 behind them all is the same charming back country, with its woodland walks, its rural drives, its extra-fertile fields. The a school, court-house, post- telephone and telegraph. There is a choice society of cot- tage residents also, com- posed of the households of New Yorkers, who are able to breakfast and dine at the sea-side, and yet spend the business hours in town. New York and Brooklyn are forty-fiv^ minutes dis- tant. Two hundred of these cottages were put up the last two years their only a slightly lower rate, remain open the year tage owners are Judge the Hon. Patrick Keenan, Reed of the Hoffman Lord, Mr. Daniel Lord, Jr., Alex. H. Stevens, and a score of others almost as well known. "WAVE crest" at far rockaway. Five years ago a few gentlemen owning country places at Far Rockaway conceived the idea of purchasing the property known as the Rockawav Marine Pavilion land, and the estate of the late Horace F. Clark, and converting it — some eighty' acres in all — into a park exclu- sively for private residences. That this idea was good is now very apparent In 1880 there were within the present enclosure exactly five cottages, while last summer there were thirty, all occupied by private families. Five others are now in course of construction. Wave Crest is one of the very few head-lands on the south shore of Long Island, within one hundred miles of New York. Its elevation is about thirty feet, and the formation is a series of bluffs and undulating slopes facing the ocean. Enclosed as it is with gates and lodges, it is' freed in three years, and during number has increased at A large fraction of these around. Among the cot- Donohue, Nathaniel Jarvis, ex-Judge Alker, C. H. House, Mr. Daniel D. 3° from the annoyance of transient visitors. The Inlet, which runs east and west between the main-land and the beach, and is some four hundred yards wide, offers excellent opportunities for fishing, sailing, and still-water bathing. A sail can be had from Wave Crest past Isle of Wight, Long Beach, on to Fire Island and beyond, without going outside the bar. The shores of the Inlet, sloping gradually, render it absolutely safe. The outer beach, reached by ferry-boats running night and day from the main-land, has numerous bathing-pavilions, private bath-houses, etc., and offers every facility for surf- bathing. This beach has been famous for many years. The land of Wave Crest is divided into plots varying in size from one-quarter of an acre upward, and is sold subject to such restrictions as are deemed necessary to insure privacy and comfort. The shell roads and paths are curved pictur- esquely, and lend to the grounds the appearance of a private park. Every house has access to the sewer-pipes, which are laid out in the most thorough manner in all the streets. Its accessibility to New York is being annually increased. In the summer through trains leave at short intervals and reach Long Island City in forty minutes, where close connection is made with up and down-town New York. Wave Crest contains the residences of the following gentlemen : Messrs. John H. Cheever, W. T. Buckley, Dr. G. H. Wynkoop, E. A. Brinckerhoff, Henry M. Taber, Dr. Edward Curtis, Lowell Lincoln, Edward N. Dickerson, C. C. Beaman, J. H. Strong, John G. Heckscher, E. H. Harriman, George S. Greene, Jr., and many others. Returning to the Montauk Division at Valley Stream, and journeying onward toward the east, the next turning point is Pearsall's, a pretty little inland town, and the junction for the branch to Long Beach. The town pre- sents a pleasing picture in green and white ; 18 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 TRAINS DAILY. 8 TRAINS SUNDAY. and its two factories, two hotels (the Furman House and Dr. Pettit's), its post-office, telegraph and telephone facilities, besides the invariably appearing new growth of frame cottages, give it the right to assume the air of business that distinguishes it. East Rockaway, nearer the bay, though small in size, is a great shipping place for oysters, and boasts of its own growing patronage by summer 19 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 10 TRAINS DAILY. 8 TRAINS SUNDAY. 31 boarders. Brooklyn amateur fishermen favor it. The rates for board are very reasonable, and the erection of several cottages is in con- templation. Farther still, and reached in quick time, over as fine a stretch of railroad track as there is in the country, is ■v Long Beach. — Long Beach, though a new-comer in the world of watering-places, has attracted popular attention and admiration because of the points 24 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 20 TRAINS DAILY. 20 TRAINS SUNDAY. in which it excels its New Jersey and New England competitors. The beach is simply without a rival. It is as level as a concrete walk, and is delightful either to the feet of pedestrians or to those who enjoy the drive of seven miles beside the breakers. It slopes so gently that one must walk the length of two city blocks outward in order to find a depth sufficient to cover a man of ordinary stature standing up. There is no under-tow, and the currents never bring to the strand any of the city's refuse, as is the case in other localities, to such an extent as to seriously interfere with pleasure at the sea-side. The hotel is one of the truest and most beautiful reproductions of the architect- ure peculiar to Queen Anne's time — a roomy, comfortable, elegantly furnished and conveniently arranged hostelry, again in the hands of that master of the art of entertaining, Mr. R. H. Southgate, with Mr. D. S. Hammond of the Bristol, N. Y. The music will be kept at its wonted grade. Thomas, the world-renowned, will hold the baton this season. The lessees of the cottages will once again establish the delightful social circle, which has rendered the place distinguished from the stand-point of society ; and those who join the larger coterie at the hotel, whether they establish their homes there with their families ■ — riding to and from the city, by an hour's journey twice a day — or merely spend an occasional day there, are equally certain to enjoy themselves. It does not take many minutes to return again to the line of the Montauk Division, hereafter to ride straight ahead in swift trains of handsome and comfortable coaches, on the way direct from Long Island City and Brooklyn, to Sag Harbor. The prospect from the car windows is most enticing. The first halt is at Rockville Centre, smiling in the heart of a lovely country region — a pretty little settlement of cottages peeping at the shaded streets from over gar- dens and behind trees. There are two small hotels, La Roza and Lott's ; a post-office, telegraph station, Methodist and Baptist churches, but no regular boarding cottages. Two miles farther on, Baldwin's lies between inviting groves, in a country-side seamed with brooks and gleaming with tiny lakes, beautified by rich edgings of verdure, and famous for trout. Here are several boarding cottages, a hotel, two churches, and many handsome dwellings. Hempstead Bay is only \y 2 miles distant. Freeport. — This is larger than its neighbors, and merits the r— I gratitude of New Yorkers for the immense j 23 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN O ! 12 trains daily. 4 trains Sunday. number of oysters — luscious Rockaways — which its citizens rake up from Hempstead Bay and ship to the city. It has long been popular as a summer boarding place, and, though the sea air is breathed there, it is as truly rustic, with its groves, its smiling farms, its babbling streams, shining ponds and shaded lanes, as if it were in Middle England— although, to tell the truth, it is so much more like a bit of Holland, that, perhaps, it should be called a 20 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 22 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 12 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY 33 ' ' Dutch Interior " A pleasant walk or drive soon ends at the bay. There are two hotels, the telegraph, post-office, and Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Only half as large a place is Merrick. — This is a quiet farming village, with milk for its staple, and popular camp -meeting grounds to spread its fame. Here the rich land, so 25 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 10 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 27 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 10 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. plenty on the island, yet so long overlooked, has been made to demonstrate its full value, by a community grown very rich from farming. Mr. P. C. Barnum, of New York, has his great model farm not far from here, noted for the cattle it supports and the dairy products it returns. Trout streams and ponds continue in plenty. There is a post-office and telegraph in the village. Farther on, at Bellmore, there is no change in the scene. The distinctive ( " ~ I feature of the place is the lon^ creek, navi-- 26 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. | * O ' io trains daily. 4 tra ins sunday. | g a bl e for boats of 200 tons burden. The shooting and salt and fresh water fishing are good there and at Ridgewood, from whose enormous reservoir Brooklyn is sup- plied with a plenitude of the same sparkling, diamond - clear, refreshing spring water we have been admiring throughout our journey. Two miles more, and the train hauls up at South. Oyster Bay, one of those fortunate resorts with the means to attract visitors in every month of the year. Heretofore it has been observed that each town is built along a road at right angles to the car tracks, stretch- ing down toward the salt water, as if divided in inclination, and therefore reaching out both hands contrariwise — one toward the sea from which so much of livelihood is gained, the other toward the revivifying and enriching railroad. Not so South Oyster Bay. Rendered independent by greater fame than some of the others, she seems to have yielded to first inclinations, and run out an L facing the bay. The w r ater here is the beginning of the Great South Bay, and visitors can sail or row all the way to Quogue, past Babylon, Fire Island, Islip, Patchogue, and all the little bay ports. The surf is four miles away, at Jones' Beach, the next division to Long Beach, in the great outer sand-bar that lies between the ocean and the south-side bays. Very pretty country is this, 29 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 34 32 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. half sea-side and half pastoral, decked with groves and giant single trees, dotted with silvery ponds and streams, and abounding in pretty drives. Hotels and boarding houses are plenty, and sportsmen find attractions the year around. The famous trout -ponds of Messrs. William Floyd-Jones, and Elbert Floyd-Jones are here. An Episcopal and a Methodist church, telegraph station and post-office are among the institutions of the village. The next station is Amityville, a place of considerable local importance, having more than 1,500 population, four hotels, and all the modern appointments of a thriving town. Its summer population is at least as much again, for it has for many years been a favorite resort. Recently it put out a surf-side annex on Oak Island Beach, across the bay, where there is now a sprinkling of cottages, and a pavilion for the public. The four-mile sail to the beach is delightful and cheap. The beauties of nature are not a whit less numerous and rich than in the neighboring villages. Next, we come to Breslau, scene of a German colonization enterprise much more ambitious in its original design than in its realization, but far prettier and more attractive now, in its rural beauty, than if its projectors had succeeded in rearing a great geometric array of right-angled streets walled in with compact rows of stores and houses. Many pretty streets are laid out, and houses are constantly springing up. The people are largely Germans, and they maintain a brewery, tassel factor}', and picture-frame establishment, three churches, a school, post-offices, stores and hotels. Just beyond, along a beautiful stretch of country, is Babylon. — Babylon is, comparatively speaking, a big place, and, speaking precisely, it is sufficiently large to provide a summer community prolific in amusement resources and strong in social impulses. It is doubled in interest by having Fire Island sufficiently close at hand to render it the most versatile in its powers of entertainment of any place upon the south shore. Let it be imagined that there are — as there must ever be with all places — persons who know nothing at all about Babvlon. Here, then, is a thriving country town, showing prosperity, 34 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 10 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 37 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 20 TRAINS DAILY. 8 TRAINS SUNDAY. 35 36 pride and enterprise in every feature, displaying in the highest degree the characteristic cleanliness and neatness to be found wherever Long Islanders are concerned — a spick-and-span array of cottages embowered in trees, flowers and shrubbery, and resting on the shore of a great, blue-bosomed, green-edged tranquil bay. The last admirer who essayed to describe its varied charms in a single phrase called it "the Newport of Long Island, " but, while that was meant for flattery, it was not even true praise. It combines a bit of Florida and a glimpse of the Bermudas, with Nantucket at arm's reach. Nature has been prodi- gal of ornament and generous with her substantial comforts. Two large streams, and many smaller ones, arising back in the hills, pour their pellucid ice-cold volumes through picturesque surroundings, past the town and into the azure bay. The skies, the summer sunsets and the moonlight on the waters provoke rhapsodies of delight, and every respiration in that singularly pleasant air brings exhilaration and vigor. The drives are carefully maintained in good condition, and one in particular, the ' ' old post road, " leading east from the village centre, passes a double panorama of palatial villas and mansions surrounded by parks and tasteful grounds. Foliage, flowers and fountains are to be seen for miles on either side ; while the magnificent equipages of the residents pass and repass constantly. All the surroundings are eloquent of the presence of wealth and culture ; and yet no one who can afford a vacation in the country can fail to find accommodation here within his means. New York is largely represented by some of her wealthiest citizens ; you pass in succession the villas and stately cottages of Edward Post, H. L. DeForest, Effingham Sutton, H. C. Hempburn, John B. Ireland, G. C. McGoun, Ex-Senator Wagstaff, Henry Have- in ever, W. P. Clyde, B. W. Silliman, Richard Arnold and Henry B. Hyde. Trout ponds are to be found on several of the estates. Two miles north of Babylon is the princely mansion and park of August Belmont. Close by are his training ground and private race track for his celebrated horses ; and in close proximity is situated the property of Austin Corbin, President of the Long Island and of sev- eral other railroads. This elegant place, modestly called a farm, is in reality a park. Upon it is the owner's handsome residence and carriage houses, stables and barns, each prettily designed and 37 substantially constructed. The oak grove, lawns, drives, artistic floral effects, fountains and pond, wherefrom President Arthur has landed many a speckled beauty, combine to make the estate notable even in that neighborhood. But the piece de resistance at Babylon is the "Ar- gyle. " This imposing and costly structure, with its picturesque grounds, is the property of a number of English capitalists who, conjointly with Austin Corbin and associates, constitute '' The Long Island Improve- ment Company," with $5,000,000 capital. The hotel is built in the Queen Anne style, and can accommodate 250 guests ; its patrons are of a class accustomed to ample accommodation, and apartments en suite are the rule. The house, internally, is a study of comfort ; all city improvements are in use. Gas, sewerage, running water, etc., supply conveniences on a par with those in the best New York hotels. Argvle Park consists of seventy acres of high ground, twenty-five of which are surrendered to a pretty lake. Boats gently glide over its placid surface, and ,the groves and walks resound with the songs of birds. As you drive along the winding roads that lead through the park to the hotel unique cottages, thirteen in number, greet your eyes. They conform to the Queen Anne order of architecture, and contain the same conveniences as are to be found in the hotel. Connection by telephone is had with the Argyle, and the dwellers in the cottages can, if so inclined, dispense with the annoyances of the kitchen and order meals from the hotel. The house is now in its third season, and has been notably successful. Not the least among the comforts of Babylon are the conveniences at its railroad depot — a large and handsome building, set in beautified grounds, with room for any number of vehicles, and a corps of intelligent employes. Fire Island. — Fire Island, three miles north and two miles east of Babylon, across the still waters of the Great South Bay, has been a favored resort since 1856, and seems to possess some mysterious author- ity over the best physicians, even as far west as the Mississippi ; in consequence of which they have ever been prone to send conval- escents there to regain their full quota of strength. The Fire Island Hotel is owned and managed by Captain Sammis, who has also large interests in Babylon. The hotel has no pretensions to architectural eccentricity, but is plain outside and comfortable within. The table 38 is always firs_t^class ; the quantity being proportioned to the appetite and the character being eclectic, with a leaning toward marine fare, but a strong reliance upon the fresh, rich products of Long Island's farms. Captain Sammis, says: "If a man don't eat he can't live;" and the worst victims of dyspepsia, after sojourning with the Captain a short time, become able companions at table. For surf-bathing Fire Island has a world-wide reputation ; a plunge in its limpid waves is as refreshing to the tired brain and steadying to weakened nerves as a shock from a galvanic batten'. The hard, level beach is one of the glories of the place, while the breezes that blow, mostly from the sea, are laden with health-giving essences. The victims of hay fever, asthma, malaria and ague are sent here when every other method of cure has proved a failure. A roomy steamer conveys visitors across the bay from the wharf, situated about a mile to the south ; horse cars run to this point from the railroad depot. Fire Island Light and Life Saving Station are visited during the season by thousands from the main-land. The hotel has its own fishing and sailing boats, and bathing houses both for surf and still water, and with competent men in charge. On the cars again and settled back in a window corner on a cushioned seat, as used to the sensation of railroad riding, in all probability, as a drummer or traveling player, but not with such feelings as theirs must too often be. True, we have seen a score of pretty resorts, including Babylon and Fire Island ; but we have said the south shore holds a chain of watering places, and it is a small chain that has but twenty links. Our voyage is one of discovery. The air replenishes 39 41 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 6 TRAINS SUNDAY. our energy, the smiling landscapes beckon us on. Such a trip is like the mental journey along the pages of a novel ; no matter what we find here and there, we feel confident that the best is farther on, until there is nothing but the thrilling, comforting climax and the close. But there, the air-brake's clasp upon the wheels is warning of the neighborhood of Bay Shore.— Another succession of pretty villas and more pretentious summer houses, some that have yielded comfort through many seasons, and others but just abandoned by the builders. We call attention to this boom in building, and a nut-brown, wrinkled-visaged native gravely informs us that it seems to him "'s if the hull of New York and Brooklyn's a-going to locate here. "'' Half a mile along a fine drive takes us to the bay side, where we may bathe, fish or sail to our heart's content, and not spend a fortune for the enjoyment. For children this is a paradise ; they swarm from out of the cottages, rosy cheeked and healthy — fine nurture this for vigorous manhood and blooming womanliness. It is time something was said of the mosquitoes — yet the only thing that can be said is that there are none. There are three hotels and a number of boarding cottages ; four churches — Episcopal, Catholic, Methodist and Congregational. The Olympic Club House, replete with every convenience for yachting and fishing, is on the shore. The members of the club spend most of each season here, entertaining their friends bountifully. That warning whistle is for Islip. — Ah ! time has not withered nor familiarity staled thy charms, fair bay-side village. Smiling ponds and leaping streams abound here, and vege- 44 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 6 TRAINS SUNDAY. tation, either wild or trained, shades and beautifies every vista. The Great South Bay is about two miles off, but sail-boats come up Champ- lin's Creek, not far from the hotels. Fire Island is only five miles away. Mr. Wm. K. Vanderbilt erected here a handsome church in the Gothic style. Service every Sunday. Mrs. Vanderbilt has built a Seaside Sanitarium on Great River, and numbers of invalid children from New York are brought here every summer. The principal hotel is the Pavilion, owned by Mr. J^mes Slater, the proprietor of the Berkley, Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street, New York. This is an ■ 4° exceptionally fine house, and will accommodate over 125 guests. It is elegantly furnished, lighted with gas and heated with steam when necessary. All the rooms are large and airy, and everything about the house suggests neatness, elegance and comfort. Attached to the hotel are four cottages within the grounds — rented throughout the season, fully furnished, to first-class parties. The occupants can have their own sen-ants, or can take their meals at or from the hotel, as they may choose. The grounds contain a private trout pond. The Lake House, owned and managed by Amos R. Stellenwerf since 1856, is a cosey, old-fashioned house, where good cooking, comfortable rooms, civil attendants and cleanliness are the rule. Close by the house is a large trout pond, with row-boats and a bathing-house for fresh-water bathers. There is stabling for fifty horses at the Pavilion, and for twenty at the Lake House. Mr. George L. Lorillard's stock farm and country residence are about three miles from the village In close proximity is the South Side Sportsman's Club, an association of wealthy New Yorkers, having a club-house and hunting and fishing grounds. Near by is the country residence of Wm. K. Vanderbilt, an elegant mansion with luxurious surroundings, and every luxury that large expenditure can procure. The next sign-board reads Oakdale. — Oakdale is a little woodland place, whose year is divided into the months without an R, when 48 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 10 TRAINS DAILY. 4 tr ains sunday. summer visitors are plenty, and the other 4i months when oysters are shipped to New York. St. John's Episcopal Church here was built ten years before the Revolutionary War. If you board here it will be likely to be at a farm-house, and Long Island farm-houses are proverbial for fine beds and good board. The bay is within sight. Next door, on the railroad, is Sayville, perched upon high ground, with no meadow-land between it and the bay ; a smiling, thriving little place, addicted to boat building and to the maintenance of an oyster fleet of one hundred sail. The ocean 50 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 12 TRAINS DAILY. 6 TRAINS SUNDAY, surf beats upon Flat Beach, four miles away. Two trout streams — 'Brown's" and "Green's" by name — flash by on either side of the village, and Mr. R. B. Roosevelt, the President of the Fish Commis- sion, has his summer home and private, or, should we say, official trout pond here. It is difficult to remember to remind the reader of telegraph and postal facilities, but they have them here, and four churches as well. The brakeman's next call is 4 2 Bayport, familiar to many, and suggestive to all who learn that I it was long: considered part of Blue Point, 52 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. | ° * ,0 trains daily. 4 tpains Sunday, i home of the finest bivalves. Nothing is lack- 55 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 6 TRAINS SUNDAY. ing here. The hotel and boarding houses invite all who will come ; cottage residents are numerous, and their places are often exceedingly pretty. Driving, bathing, boating, dining that is "worth the trouble" — as one might say, where there is so much else to enjoy — and trips to Fire Island still the rule. To a lover of marine scenery the view of the Great South Bay furnishes never-ceasing delight. You seem to get the best view at Bayport. When the sun is rising, hangs high overhead, or is setting, or when the moonlight turns its ruffled surface into hammered silver, the bay is ever beautiful, grand and inspiring. The largest place upon its shores is Patchog'Tie. — Many thousands have mastered that hard-looking name, for it is the permanent abiding place of nearly 4,000 persons, and more than half that number, in addition, spend the summer there. It has the air of a little city ; its streets are lighted at night, and its stores are numerous and sufficiently well stocked to attract customers from neighboring towns. It is a port of entry, and from its yards are launched bigger and finer boats than any other South-Side builders put together. The farmers puzzle little children by telling them that, with the wind and the moon just right, it is possible to ' ' see the corn grow ; " but no conditions need be specified for one who would see Patchogue grow — that is to say, no other than the primary con- dition of good and sufficient railroad facilities. In the ringing blows of the trowels and hammers of the builders you can hear Patchogue grow. The population was 2,500 in 1881 ; it was 3,600 last Janu- ary. There used to be two hotels, and now there are seven, and the largest of these has doubled its capacity since last season. New Yorkers can go to business and back every day. It is not an expensive place to spend a summer at. If nothing has been said about the beauty of the place it is not because there is a lack of beauty here. The avenues are well graded, lined with shade-trees, and set with charm- ing residences. Ponds and streams, yielding trout, perch, bass and other fresh-water fish, diversify and adorn the scenery. One of these, 43 Patchogue Lake, is a fine body of water four miles long. Ocean Avenue is a crowded and gay thoroughfare in the season, and those who throng its walks have all the advantages of air and water, food, sport and pastime mentioned among the concomitants of all the south shore resorts. Opposite, on the ocean, is Water Island Beach, a pleasant resort. The Brooklyn Union, in de- scribing this sec- tion, declared that "In all the towns on Long Island this side of Jamaica people speak in high praise of the im- proved accom- modation given them by the Long Island Railroad, both in quality and quantity, under its present management. The road and the cars have been greatly improved, better time is made, more trains are run, and the island is being vastly benefited thereby." Bellport has been declared by an English lord to be the prettiest and nicest little place in all the world. And thereby hangs a romantic tale : George Essex Montifex Drummond, heir to the earldom of Perth, the earldom of Montfort, and to six other highly profitable titles, fell in love with his grandmother s maid, and, rather than be separated from her while he prepared for college, married her and ran away to 58 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. 44 America, though nothing more than an impulsive, open-hearted, big stripling of fifteen years. That was in 1871. Quite poor, and almost entirely dependent on his own exertions, he and his wife came to Bellport in 1874, and here remained until two or three years ago. The roof of the house they dwelt in ran, in the old-fashioned way, nearly to the ground, and the beauty of the surroundings was that of nature unadorned — which is saying a great deal, for this is a very pretty place — perched upon the Great South Bay, on a bluff sixty feet high, with an entrancing background of woods, ponds, well-tended drives, and summer villas in pretty parks. His lordship fished and hunted for a living, and a book upon the subject could not say more for the sport hereabouts than is told in this little story ; for after he and his wife, and the little bov that was born to them in the village, had taken out all they needed he sold the rest of his game, and his rod alone brought him in $500 a year. A ride on the old turnpike reveals the great taste and liberality of the cottage residents. Skillful boatmen are numerous, and have the giant bay for their field, or the ocean beach four miles away. Of hotels, there's the Bay House, Goldthwaite House, Bell House, Raynor House and Wyandotte House, to care for 1,500 guests, and there are eight pretty cottages with rooms and board for the rest. Next en route is Brookhaven — A chapter ox Game and Fishing. An over- particular critic suggests that, in order 61 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN . 4 trains daily. 2 trains Sunday. ]jq mor q accurate, these chapters should be reversed, and the heir to two earldoms should take his place in Brookhaven ; but as there is geographically no difference between that place and Bellport, and as the chronicler who brought the Long Island nobleman to public notice laid his scene of action in Bellport, its next-door neighbor may justly claim its share of the compliments paid that place, while this chapter is devoted to game and fishing. The fishing district maintains the highest excellence all the way from South Oyster Bay eastward, and for hunting one may also find sport upon the whole territory ; though beginning west of Babylon, and extending all the way eastward, the country remains practically fresh and unharmed as far as small game is concerned. The myriad streams that take their source at the backbone of the 45 11 » ij is island, and flow into the bays, as well as the ponds they pass through, contain trout famous for gameness, weight, flavor and beauty. Their rich food, and the fact that they have constant access to salt water, enhance their quality. Other fresh-water fish are even more abundant, and in the salt water every variety known to the latitude is plentiful. Lovers of this sport will not be disap- pointed ; the waters are at every stopping place, and there is no end to the supply of fish. As for the tStar las- '- >-^Ss&<> 1 1 46 shooting, Great South Bay abounds in geese, brant, canvas -back, broad-bills, red-heads, black-heads, mallards, and other ducks, and along the beach may be had snipe, tern and curlew, while back in the country are quail, partridge, and grouse. The hunting and fishing territory can be reached from New York in an hour. Forge is the station for West Moriches and Mastic, and is on the shore of East Bay. The view from the Point is a charming one. The 65 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 4 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. place should be as popular as Bellport, for it has similar and equal natural advantages and beauties. It is precisely the spot in which, as Walt Whitman says, to ''loaf and invite my soul," which, being translated, probably means to rest and forget care. There are no hotels or boarding houses, but the farmers are willing to entertain visitors, and they will be found to know how to play the part of host very skilfully. We are now approaching the three famous Moriches villages — let no one who fears fancy prices mistake the name for a hint that More Riches are needed for stopping here than elsewhere in this neighborhood of most reasonable charges. The More Riches suggested lie in the wealth of soil, the rich food it produces, the priceless pure air and sparkling spring water, and the unpurchasable beauties of every prospect. Moriches Station. — Moriches, Centre Moriches and East Mor- iches lie in a row, mainly upon the winding turnpike close to the water, but also, to some 67 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. extent, along the charming cross-roads leading to the bay, of which, and of the ocean beyond, they command delightful views. Centre Moriches is the middle village, and the station is close to the centre of the village. Stages are run from place to place all day. The bay is a mile from the station, but East Moriches is right on the bay, upon a breezy, elevated plateau overlooking the still water and the ocean, across the South Beach two miles away. The bay attracts the most attention, even of those w r ho stop at Centre Moriches. Its shore is prettily broken up into little coves, and just here its waters are shallow enough to render boating by children more than ordinarily safe. A pretty custom is that of sailing over to South Beach for a surf bath ; often as many as fifty craft at a time may be seen spreading their sails in that direction. An 47 enterprising resident has put a light-draft steamboat into service for this season, to run to the Cupssough House, a new caravansary on South Beach. There are two hotels and twelve boarding cottages in the centre village. Nine of the cottages are close to the bay or Senec's Creek, a stream which is navigated to within a quarter of a mile of the heart of the village. The drives are smooth and hard, and the sur- rounding country is picturesque at every turn. There is only one hotel at East Moriches, but there is room for 300 in neighboring cottages. A small house on South Beach will accommodate twenty of the mam- persons who enjoy life on a narrow footing of earth, water-bound on either side, like a ship's deck not very greatly magnified. To resume our journey, the next place is Eastport. — Eastport has of late put forward just claims for summer support. The village is about the same distance from East Bay as Moriches, 71 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. * TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. and has the same advantages. There is one hotel, the Bayside House, about one mile from the bay. Fronting on East Bay, and ending at the edge of a grove of fine old oaks, is 48 Speonk. — Here, again, surf and still-water bathing are con- venient and excellent, and there is game and fishing and sailing. One hotel, the 73 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 4 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. Rossmore, has accommodation for about sixty guests. There are five cottages, with room for a hundred guests, about a mile and a half from the depot. The church is Methodist. Presently, as we ride, the island will be found split in two by Great Peconic, Little Peconic, and Gardiner's Bays. Its appearance here is familiar even to school- boys—fish-shaped, anyway, it here spreads into the form of the two flukes of a dolphin's tail. On the south fluke we shall find the Hamptons — famed in verse and story, distinguished by the homes of noted persons, and by the constant visits of artists. First of all is "Westhampton, where the main-land pushes out, and the ocean i beach slants in, until the bay is squeezed into a thread of blue, and we may drive or w r alk 76 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. over to the restless breakers. The ocean is about a mile from the picturesque old village. An air of long establishment is noticeable here, and time has mellowed the general aspect of the village. Here — beside the bathing in both still and rough water — the driving, the choice edibles, and the nourishing air, a new attraction, that of 11 crabbing, " may be enjoyed. Crabs are a staple here, but those usual companions of the crab, mosquitoes, present no bills » for liquidation in blood, for they do not. exist here: There are many large and fine boarding houses, a Methodist, a Roman Catholic and a Presbyterian church, and a certainty of good company. The village of Q,UOgTie, a mile away, is beautiful and healthful enough to have attracted four conspicuous physicians to make their summer homes there. 78 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. A year ago last spring, four literary men of New York agreed to go to Europe together in the summer. They had got the idea that it was their solemn duty to "do" Brittany. Before they started, one known as "Sam," because his name is Ebenezer and Sam is shorter and better, was taken ill. The others lost sight of him and were disturbed, but presently each received a letter bearing the outlandish 49 postmark "Quogue," saying that he was getting better. Number Two, called " Lengthwise," because that is neater than calling a man Beanpole, went down to hurry Sam off to Europe. In a week he wrote back that he was happy, and "P. S. Let Brittany go hang." Number Three, not called anything, because he gives no one a chance to get in a word edgewise, rushed to Quogue in anger, but stopped there, and wrote three letters a day to Number Four to give up Brittanv and come down to Quogue. Number Four, mad as a hornet, went to Ballston Spa. The three at Quogue stayed there all summer, and are going again this season. Anxious to know what its attractions were for men who had seen nearly all the world, the writer questioned one of them. "I found the place and the society delightful," said he. " Quogue presents the appearance of a number of large, airy and pleasant boarding houses on a high bluff .over- looking the sea, three-quarters of a mile away. A neck or point (an intermission in the line of bays) leads on terra fir ma to the sea, and yet there are safe, land-locked bays for sailing also. Pretty streams seek the bays, broad and handsome roads invite exploration, turf and shade and woods are all about. The prices for accommodations New Yorkers would consider reasonable. It is my opinion that the air is so strengthening that if a man or woman dies there it's his or her own fault." From Quogue station we go by stage, two miles, to Atlanticville, an Arcadian retreat upon the verdure-clad side of an inlet navigable for sail-boats from Shinnecock Bay. The houses are close to the bav or the still more beautiful creek, and the dull roar of the billows on South Beach is plainly within hearing. There are good accommodations for visitors at the cottages, and prices are lower than at Quogue. Onward again, we pass through a wild but beautiful country, over rolling land whose heights rise gradually to the dignity of the Shinnecock Hills. But first there is a halt at Good Ground.^- At little Good Ground the balsamic odors of \ 83 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. ^ P""* ^ 0* OCe^Vl atlUOS- j e trains DA.LY. 2 tra.ns Sunday. | pne re, an d woo ds hem in the prospect on every side. The "Sportsman's Retreat" and some comfortable boarding cottages offer hospitality here ; and, so close at hand as to • .so be included in the visitor's daily programme, is lovely Ponquogue, built upon a promontory, breezy and cool in the hottest weather, jutting out into Shinnecock Bay, and bearing on its crest the famous Quogue light-house. Here is a convenient starting point for expe- ditions with rod or gun or boat. There are three hotels here. " 3 *^^i Through the pines and among the hills by rail again, we pass Canoe Place and the Shinnecock Hills — rich to raanv in recollections of sport, and delightful to all for their peculiar charms. At this point we see the ocean ; at the next Peconic Bav is on one hand, and Shinne- cock Bay is on the other, both at our feet, deep, blue and calm, and gleaming in the sunlight. Every- where around us the land is broken up into rounded elevations coated with low vegetation. The Long Island Improvement Company have purchas- ed all this prop- erty, and next summer may see there a hand- some hotel and cottages. There mm 31 is no more healthful site on Long Island for a water-side resort, and no section within the same distance of New York, and as easy of access, offers such a charming prospect or enjoys such refreshing and invigorating atmosphere. The Shinnecock Reservation, on a neck of land to the southeast, is a more level bit of country. The Indians cultivate the soil and maintain their tribal government, but they are few in number and rather black than red. To-day they are interesting only because of their grand and warlike past. Beyond, in a smiling, agricultural country, is Southampton, a two-hundred-and-forty-year old town, which Mr. George Putnam Lathrop declares is ' ' like a small detachment of Newport flung 91 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. down on the shore of Long Island."' The picturesque old village (full of quaint old houses, and lacking not even an old windmill to complete its ancient and romantic beauty), has a modern annex of new cottages — a summer Southampton closer to the beach. Here is to be found a fashionable and distinguished community. In the old town a tourist of last year quoted good board at from $7 to $14 a week. The village has a pond of its own in its precincts, and cut off from the sea by a strip of sand. Here boating is enjoyed. The bathing is had in the surf, under the guardianship of a bathing- master and a complete system of safeguards. There is nothing to check the ocean breezes, and the air is ever fresh and strengthening. From the sandhills on the far-stretching beach magnificent sea-views are had, as well as vistas over a most entrancing country to the northward and toward Water Mills, a purely country retreat of woodland, stream, lake and field, with good board in substan- tial and cosey farmhouses — a choice place for 93 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNOAY. aquatic and piscatorial sport and cottage life. Three miles farther on, is Bridgehampton, another member of the royal family of east- end resorts ; a twin-brother to Southampton as far as the range of pastimes is concerned, but somewhat smaller and less stirred by new blood. There is a fine library here, a Methodist and a Presbyterian church, and no lack 96 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. 52 of accommodation for the many to whom the mention that "it is one of the Hamptons " is sufficient praise. Another of them is reached by stage. Easth.am.pton. — Out of the rush of travel, and hiding its many charms and historic reminiscences at arm's length from the modern road of iron, and rendered exclusive to its more steadfast admirers by the six-mile stage- ride. To anticipate one of the glories of this quaint old place, imagine a main street four times the width of Broadway, green as a lawn with heavy turf, and fringed with stately, tapering poplars. Behind the trees imagine dwellings of ancient designs, tapestried with lichens, and softened in outlines by the mellowing influences of time. This, and three genuine Holland windmills, that swing gaunt arms against the sky, and a great expanse of rich lawn reaching toward a sandy beach by the sounding sea, constitute East Hampton, where John Howard Payne once lived (the house is yet standing) ; where Major Andre, command- ing part of the red-coat forces, made his head- quarters, and near which James Feni- more Cooper laid the opening scene in "The Sea Lions." The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage has his summer home near here. Two miles farther east, and directly on the beach, is Amagansett, the last village on the eastern end of the island — a small, but nevertheless most charming and interesting place. The Montauk reservation is also a point of considerable interest. To 53 return to the railroad and resume the tour is a light task. The Montauk Division has its eastern terminus at the next stopping place, Sag Harbor. — The little old seaport has passed through strange „ 1 vicissitudes, and each change has left its 101 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. ' O 6 trains daily. 2 trains Sunday. traces. It has ever been the market-town for the Hamptons, and on market-days the streets are as full of bustling folk as those of a metrop- olis should be. The glory of wide maritime connections has long since vanished from the place, and its fame as a whaling port is a matter for mem- ory only ; but the beau- tiful harbor remains to delight the eye and to provide continual pleas- ure, and the wharfs and yards and other relics of past importance enhance the pictures presented at every point of view. In the village 54 are brick houses and streets both paved and lighted ; to say nothing of good hotels, cosey boarding houses, fine private residences and most delightful drives. There are five churches and a convent here. Manu- factures now find a place in the changing record of the town. Morocco leather is made there, and so are watch-cases, flour, pottery, cotton and other commodities. Shelter Island is close enough to somewhat overshadow the village in the view of summer visitors, but Sag Harbor has manifold charms of its own, nevertheless. Fort Pond Bay. — The first inroad made by the sea into the land behind Montauk Point is Fort Pond. Bay, the American terminus of the projected swift line of steamships to Milford Haven, an equally advantageous port in England. It is shaped like a broad horseshoe, with high, cliff-like banks, and opens into the sheltered waters of Block Island Sound. It is a far better harbor than New York, being equally sheltered and with a wide entrance, and having fifty-four feet of water at its mouth and forty-eight feet at the edge of the natural wharf-line. The extension of the railroad to this bay would be comparatively inexpensive, and trans-Atlantic voyagers would start or land 108 miles nearer New York, making the distance in elegant cars and at a swift rate of speed, while the steamers would not be bound by the tides as at New York, but could enter or quit the bay on schedule time, and make the trip across in five days' time or less. MONTAUK POINT, At the end of the coast, repays its visitors for all their trouble in getting to it. It is a bold head-land, almost as much at sea as any ship. It is unlike any other part of the island, and possesses pictur- esqueness to a greater degree than any other point on the Atlantic coast. From the sea it appears as a rugged, precipitous, lofty cliff, surmounted by the famous lighthouse which shares its name ; but the visitor finds it a vast pasturage of rolling, graceful hills clothed with rich grass, cool, airy and delightful even in the dog-days. Yachting parties of venturesome New England folk have long been accus- tomed to camp out in these downs, there to hunt or fish, to loaf and to watch the ships passing to and from New York. Great gray 55 boulders and gleaming ponds diversify the scene, and though there is a sloping sandy beach on the bayside, abrupt cliffs receive the ceaseless hammering of the ocean's breakers. An association of New Yorkers, whose offices are not far from Delmonico's Broadway House, have lately started a little settlement near the Point, and are them- selves, with their families, the pioneer dwellers in this modern village by the sea. At two or three houses on the Point accommodation for visitors may be found. "i've been berrying." 57 THE NORTH SHORE BRANXHES. ALONG THE SOUND. E quitted the main line at Jamaica to make the trip along the Montauk Division on the South Shore, but the charming North Shore is traversed by branches from two points. At Mineola, on the main line, we take the cars for the Glen Cove Branch, and Hicksville, 6j4, miles farther on, is the junction for the lovely bays along the Port Jefferson Branch. The Flushing, or North Side Division, is separate, with its metropolitan terminus in Long Island City. BEAUTIES OF THE NORTH SHORE If the people of the north side may be said to complain at all, it is only because they have not been able to share the pleasures of their existence with a just proportion of the strangers who make Long Island a summer resort. They feel neglected, and declare that not a tenth part that can and should be said has been made public about their blue bays, silver ponds and smiling fields and villages. This is true, and the reason is plain. The south side began to attract atten- tion when pastoral scenes and bay-side ports were plenty, even on Manhattan Island, and the people of the city sought the more rare pleasure of the sea-sands. So Coney Island was first established as a vacation point, and, travel being turned that way, place after place along the ocean beach was opened up. It was natural, and there was no help for it. But the time has come when thousands, having had their surfeit of the sea, add their numbers to the other thousands in the now vast population who yearn for the quieter and more varied charms of summer woods and placid bays in quiet country nooks. All this, and more, the North Shore holds in trust for even- one who would draw upon it. The passenger upon the railroad sees only the pastoral back country ; the chief and varied charms lie along the Sound, a mile or so to the north, for so strangely is the coast 5S line broken up by rounded bays, bold promontories and harbors joined to harbors, that access from one settlement to another must necessarily be had beyond the innermost of these waters. Stages meet every train, and to him who has thought he knew Long Island from intimate acquaintance with the south shore, almost every hundred rods along any road from the cars to the water-side will reveal a delicious series of surprises. Here is a close succession of old towns, each at the head of its own bay and possessed of its own verdure-environed ponds and grassy-banked streams. Yet no two at all alike. Here are thriving industries — ship building, sail making, flour making and manufacturing generally. Land and water yield riches alike, and the stranger, who sees at a glance that the community is not dependent on his coming for its prosperity, likes each place the better for its independence. Here long estab- lishment and continued prosperity have formed in each place a society delightful for its dignity, intelligence and hospitality. The water is here in land-locked, lake-like bays, or, just beyond, in the deep, blue Sound. Wild birds are in the air, small game is on the land, sea fish or brook fish are plenty, bathing and boating are convenient at the ponds, the bays or the Sound itself; and added to all these pleasures, common to both sides of the island, are the matchless beauties of the north shore scenery and the unrivalled drives, the equally wholesome and cool air and the milder charms of a vast and opulent farming territory. First among these branches, as they succeed one another in their natural order along the railroad, is The Flushing Branch. The first stopping place is Woodside, back of Ravenswood and Astoria, but prettier than either of those suburbs— a pleasing combination of woodland, farms, villas, parks, lawns and village roads ; already the seat of many suburban homes and offering sites for hundreds more. Side by side with it is Winfield, only a mile away, and, like its neighbor, set upon high ground. Here are some blocks of dwellings that would be compact but for the intervening gardens. Here, too, manufactures, of a sort that 3 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 38 TRAINS DAILY. 28 TRAINS SUNDAY. 4 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 88 TRAINS DAILY. 29 TRAINS SUNDAY. 59 . benefit the place and are in nowise objectionable to those in the neighborhood of the establishments, are already under way. Shoulder to shoulder with Winfield is the famous old gardening and farming village of Newtown, years ago known to New Yorkers as a picnic and day resort, or as a name seen on countless market wagons. Now, while the 5 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 38 TRAINS DAILY. 28 TRAINS SUNDAY. country has lost nothing in beauty or fertility, a suburban settle- ment has sprung up here. In the old parts of the village fine estates and substantial mansions line the broad ways, cooled by umbrageous trees. In the new part are seen clusters of mansard cottages. Parts of New York are not so near the City Hall as Newtown is, and no part of New York is anything like so salu- brious. Next is Corona, a modern suburb displaying evidences of taste, comfort and a lively public spirit in its well kept streets, fine houses and neat 6 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 38 TRAINS DAILY. 28 TRAINS SUNDAY yards and lawns — a pretty village containing, in its centre, a little lake surrounded by an attractive public park. It is one of the prettiest of the places that are aptly called "the sleeping rooms of New York." More like a parlor than a bedroom is Flushing" ; nowhere else within easy reach of New York is there any such admirable combination of country attractions and city advantages. 8 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 35 TRAINS DAILY. 27 TRAINS SUNDAY Here are broad avenues, as trim and neat as a Holland kitchen, framed in flowers and verdure and redolent of the country, yet appointed with the gas and water mains, the sewerage system and the pavements of a complete city. Here are sweet air, fresh pro- duce, the protection of a police and fire department, the society of an old and highly intelligent community, all within half an hour of New York by very frequent trains ; and to be had at much less cost for land or rent and food than in New York. Flushing wears a lively air of business, also. It has numerous well stocked stores, hotels, two newspapers, a savings bank, a bank of deposit and such educational establishments as St. Joseph's Academy, Fairchild's Institute, a young ladies' seminary, St. Michael's, the High School, 00 etc. As seen nestling upon a hill-side, from the water, it is rather like a park than a city. It was not laid out in a night and built up in ten years on the plan of a checker board, as were some cheerless suburbs, the J^/jUSh^m property o f shrewd land speculators. It was a village in the time of the Revolution. It grew slowly until the railroad sought it out ; and from its beginning as a growing town it has ever shown a quick and shrewd public spirit, directed by taste and aiming to keep the town beautiful, wholesome and comfortable. There are some very famous nurseries here, and the mineral springs of the neighborhood are greatly frequented because of their reputed medicinal properties. The next place, equally advantageous as a site for homes for New Yorkers, but with a more mixed population, is 6i College Point. — It is finely situated, with the East River on one side and Flushing Bav on the other. 10 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 37 trains daily. trains sunday. These give it four miles of water front. Along this are some of the handsome residences of the wealthier people. As a manufacturing village it stands first on Long Island, and its cheap building sites, excellent atmosphere, sewer, water and gas systems, flagged streets and fire apparatus, conjointly with its closeness to the city, are building it up with a fine population. Its greatest benefactor, Conrad Poppenhusen, Esq., made a gift to the town of the excellent and well endowed institute which bears his name. It is a free school in all branches of art and science, and embraces a library, kindergarten, evening classes, reading room and sewing school. There are two other noted schools and a number of private ones. Here, too, is a savings bank, and many of the pleasures and pastimes of water-side and rural life are obtainable here. The surrounding country is beautiful, and there are several good hotels and a newspaper. On the same point, only two miles distant, is Whitestone, older than College Point, and once a popular summer resort, it is also fortunate in the pos- session of a great water front, skirting which are some handsome villas, the residences of men well known in the city. Here are fine building sites, a pure atmosphere and opportunities for blending city and country life within a shorter dis- tance, in time, from New York than many more populous and less advantageous places. The famous fort and garrison at Willett's Point are on a high bluff commanding the water, at the end of a charming drive from Whitestone. During fine summer afternoons the military band's splendid performances are listened to and enjoyed by hundreds of promenaders. Returning to Flushing, we follow the railroad to Broadway, a roomy and handsome part of Flushing. The wide macadamized road, with its quadru- ple line of shade trees — some of which are a century old — leads into the heart of the pretty city. Here, as well as in the older parts of the town, are the handsome homes 11 MILES from long island city. 44 TRAINS DAILY. 27 TRAINS SUNDAY. 9 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 18 TRAINS DAILY. 10 TRAINS SUNDAY 02 and summer places of more rich and well known New Yorkers than there is room to mention here. Close by is Bayside, on the shore of Little Neck Bay. Crocheron's Bayside House — a weil known ''clam- bake" — has always been a popular resort, 11 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 18 TRAINS DAILY. 10 TRAINS SUNDAY. and the list of New Yorkers who have enjoyed clam -bakes there is as long as the roll of colonels in the Southern States. The bay is very pretty — a wedge of blue water between high hills fringed with groves and adorned with fine residences. Here are cool air, fine bathing, good fishing, boating, sailing or perfect rest. The place is so close to the city that the drive to it has always been popular. Opposite is Douglaston, also on Little Neck Bay, in a famous farming country and on the brow of a graceful hill reaching up from the placid bay — a pretty 12 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 17 TRAINS DAILY. 10 TRAINS SUNDAY aggregation of cottages, lawns and gardens, and the summer resting place or permanent home of many New Yorkers. On the plateau on top of this promontory is Little Neck, not a village, in the strict sense of the word, but the seat of many fine residences sprinkled among substantial farm-houses, on a breezy 13 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 18 TRAINS DAILY. 10 TRAINS SUNDAY hill overlooking Little Neck Bay and that part of the East River where it begins to widen into the Sound. The whole country- side looks prosperous. The hard clay roads, hedged by noble old trees, wind along close to the bluff or across the Neck, ever invit- ing the tourist onward, and as constantly disclosing exquisite sites for the dwellings of men, who may reach the city comfortably each morning, transact a day's business and return in the evening. The famous Little Neck clams are raked up in these waters. They have been immortalized in verse by Bloodgood H. Cutter, Esq., the poet-farmer, whose great estate and quaint old home are here, in a poem entitled "Lines on Occasion of an Indian Clam- Bake." As he is an authority as well as a poet, we quote a few couplets and stanzas : I think the clam did have its birth At the creation of the earth. 63 But if you swallow a clam whole, It will digestion so control That ofttimes makes some people sick, And compels them to take physic. But take the clams right out their shell, Season and butter them quite well ; Then these nice clams done up so brown Will taste so sweet and slip right down. Here, and on Great Neck, one is constantly reminded of the Connecticut shore. The marked characteristics of the 14 MILES FROM LONG ISLAND CITY. 18 TRAINS DAILY. 10 TRAINS SUNDAY. | QJQ Qjg Same , althOUgh elsewhere On Long Island these features are missing. Great Neck is a blos- soming highland, two-thirds surrounded by water. It is a veritable garden spot, rich in its soil and distinguished by its excellent roads, noble trees, charming water views, salubrious air and positively unexampled sites for fine residences. From the higher points on the undulating surface one can count twenty spires in New York and Brooklyn, and plainly see the Palisades of the Hudson. Its already numerous mansions, each set in a beautiful park, contain a distinguished as well as a wealthy summer community. Here are the summer homes of ex-Mayor Grace, Michael P. Grace, James E. Ward, Joseph Spinney, Edward Morgan, J. H. Birkbeck, J. M. Sneden, John A. King and very many more. Here, too, are farms which, to the unprofessional eye, appear to be models. The farm- houses are often elegant mansions, and the out-buildings testify to the taste and prosperity of their owners. Many of the finer summer residences are near the bluff overlooking the dimpled blue bays or the island-dotted river, busy with Sound craft. There is fine boating and bathing, fruit is luscious and plenty and the gar- dens form a wonderful midsummer exhibition. Here this branch of the railroad terminates. Reached by stage from Great Neck is Manhasset, a pretty water-side retreat, hemmed in between the bay and a great grove ; containing pleasant cottages and abound- ing in woodland drives and walks on the breezy hills or in the shaded valleys. Here boating, bathing and fishing are convenient and excellent. Board may be had in many farm-houses. At Min- eola, nineteen miles from Long Island City or Brooklyn, 6 4 THE GLEN COVE BRANCH. Diverges from the Main Line. The first station ultilized by the inhabitants of a wide track of fertile iarming land is Williston. — Brick making is carried on extensively here. The next station is close to the water-side, and is famed as having been for years the 20 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 10 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. home of William Cullen Bryant. Roslyn is by many persons declared to be the most beautiful spot on Long Island, and it is, indeed, most prepossessing. It is at the head of 23 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 14 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY Hempstead Harbor, surrounded on three sides by hills. The view from an eminence down upon the placid waters, the little hamlet bent around its curving shore, with the deep, unbroken green of the high hills in the background, is a scene tranquil and beautiful beyond expression. One of the elevations that form this background of forest shade is the highest land on Long Island. It is called Harbor Hill, and the tower that surmounts it is an observatory from which one is able to see the Sound, the opposite shore, the sea, New York and a great part of Long Island. The late Mr. Bryant's picturesque drab cottage and beautiful grounds are objects of great interest to strangers. Other fine estates are those of Mr. Parke Godwin, Thomas Clapham, the Hon. Stephen Tabor and Gen. Ward. Roslyn has a silk factory, paper mills, flouring mills and a moulding mill. There is a local story to the effect that Washington made a sheet of paper in one of the paper mills. If he were there to-day he would find boating and bathing more agreeable pastimes ; and if he had the fondness for fishing that the present Chief Magistrate has, he could get fine trout in the lake, perch in the ponds, and many varieties of fish in the harbor. Greenvale, a growing place ; wholesome, cool and pretty, and in the heart of a rich and beautiful farming section. Toward the harbor is Glen Head, another quiet place destined to contain the sum- mer homes of many wealthy New Yorkers, when its beauty, salubrity and accessibility 26 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. attract attention. Farther on is the lovely village of 65 Sea Cliff. — The uppermost houses crown the high bluff over- looking the beautiful harbor. The ground 27 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 tr ains dai ly . 4 tr ai ns Sunday. | r j ses abruptly from the bay-shore, and the cottages clustered upon it rise tier above tier, until the plateau on top is reached. Established solely for a camp-meeting ground, it has become a lively summer resort as well, with a perma- nent village population. It has water-works, and a few such enterprising citizens that the roads are kept in excellent order, and improvements are made as fast as the growth of the place will warrant. The air is sweet and bracing ; the views are grand in some directions, and exquisitely beautiful in others. Here may be enjoyed boating, bathing and fish- ing — in fact, one must get all the enjoyment possible from the water, for alcoholic beverages are rigidly excluded. New cottages are building constantly, and the hotel and boarding house accommodations are admirable. Among the conspicu- ous residents are Senator Boyd, John T. Pirie, the wealthy Chicagoan, Mrs. Dr. Lozier, E. C. Coe of the Equitable Life Insurance Company. If 5 11 28 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 66 L. A. Battershall and others. Mr. F. W. Geisenhainer, the superin- tendent, who is a retired New York lawyer of wealth, has a superb residence there. The next station is Glen Cove. — The high rank held by Glen Cove among what we may hastily call the noted beauty-spots of the land is no where disputed. Whatever charm could be missing from a place so happily situated has been supplied in the improvements and adornments by an old-established community of wealthy, tasteful and public-spirited residents. The view from it over the blue harbor and upon the shimmering waters of the Sound is most attractive, and there is hardlv a drive that does not reveal a constant succession of picturesque landscapes or water scenes. The village is a busy place, reached by boat or rail, and contains a number of factories besides the famous starch works. It has three hotels, many boarding houses, two newspapers and four churches. Many residences of famous men are in or near the limits of the place. The Hon. Charles A. Dana, the editor of the Sun, has a noted park and residence on Dosoris Island ; Townsend Cox, Esq., is a neighbor of his, and so is the Hon. S. L. M> Barlow. Other wealthy residents are Charles E. Appleby, Edward T. Weeks, Charles L. Perkins and Messrs. John and Wright Duryea. Here are to be enjoyed shooting, fishing, bathing and boating. The terminus of this busy branch is at Locust Valley. — It is prettily situated in a rich and delightful farming country. Through shady dells, by leaf-encircled ponds, and along the shores of the Sound and bay, the excellent roads of the neighborhood lead the tourist. There is fishing and gunning, and there are churches and two schools. For those who wish a tranquil resting place no village on the island is more attractive. THE PORT JEFFERSON BRANCH. This branch diverges from the main line at Hicksville, reached equally well from Long Island City or Brooklyn. The first station is Syosset — an emerald by the roadside. Here are grown some „„„„„, VM I of the finest products of the soil that are 29 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR EROOKLYN. : F a trains daily. 4 trains Sunday. I gent tQ jj ew York, so that, beside rest and 30 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 67 contact with Nature in her richest garb, excellent table-fare may be relied upon. The stages that are met at the depot are for Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor. These places are both about four MB I* ---- — miles from the rail- road, and the jour- ney to them is through a charm- ing country made up of hills, vales and streams, in a long-settled region of substantial The tonic of the air makes itself felt and the drive provokes the appetite. All the praises of the North Shore are realized at these resorts. Here are the crystal waters, the high tree-and-grass-clad shores, the water- side drives, the mills so prettily situated that every artist who sees homes. 68 them is sure to take their pictures ; the myriad boats and all the interminable list of delights. Hotels there are, of course, and board- ing houses, churches and the rest. You go by stage to Oyster Bay. — The attraction is the beautiful bay, a hill- sheltered inner basin opening into Cold Spring Harbor. It is a yachtsman's head-quarters, and sailing and rowing races are fre- quent. Summer visitors, catching the infection, spend much time on the water, going to picnics and clambakes on the necks and islands of the Sound shore, or in the season enjoying the wild-fowl shooting, which is plenty and close at hand. There are sandy beaches for bathers, and as for driving, the roads lead over fine drives, past many notable residences, and through rich and beautiful farm land, in a section famed for its production of asparagus. In a word, no point on the North Shore presents more or greater attrac- tions than this. Here are hotels, boarding houses, five churches (Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Roman Catholic and Presbyterian), and express, telegraph and postal facilities. Gold Spring. — Riding along a hard, smooth road between noble trees, admiring the rolling land, and its rich, verdant covering, and unprepared for any change in the scene, suddenly Mill Pond Lake bursts upon your view. If you ever grow enthusiastic, you cannot restrain an invol- untary exclamation of delight. It would not have been deemed possible to improve or adorn that embowered sheet of liquid silver, yet the lawns before the mansion of Mr. Townsend Jones contribute to its magic beauty. Beyond this there are other surprises. It is the fashion of this country to take its admirers unawares, hiding its greatest charms until the last second, and then letting them leap into view from a hill-top or a bend in the road. Where the bay is first seen is the State Fish Hatchery. The village skirts the bay, and the two together are indescribably beautiful. The lovely sheet of water is a gigantic amphitheatre between towering hills hidden under foliage. At the north the hills are parted, and blue sky meets blue water far out in the Sound. On the terraced sides of the amphi- theatre are fine cottages and inviting hotels. The bay is gay with craft, from tiny row-boats up to world-famous yachts. The bathing 32 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 8 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 6 9 and fishing are excellent. Mr. John C. Totten, whose stages meet every train, offers advantages to those who are fond of driving. For those who desire to hire conveyances he has a variety of vehicles, and a fine stable of horses to let at low rates, while his accommo- dation for boarding horses are extensive and excellent. Upon the hill-tops, especially the highest, a magnificent area of land and water is spanned by the naked eye. At one's feet are seen Lloyd's Neck and Centre Island, and some of the other resorts we are to visit. In Cold Spring are Baptist, Episcopal and Methodist churches, and capacious hotels with such alluring names as Laurelton Hall, For- est Lawn, Thespian Hall and Arcade Castle. Gas, hot and cold water, and such modern conveniences are to be found in some ; but delightful rooms, fine fare, polite attention and delightful surround- ings go with them all. You can see Norwalk, Conn., from Eaton's Neck Light, and the drive to the Neck is one of exceeding beauty, leading five miles away from Huntington. — Five bays — Northport, Centreport, Cow Har- bor, Lloyd's Harbor and Huntington Harbor — are all reached from the Sound through 35 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. S TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. Huntington Bay. Fancy how the land must be broken up into penin- sulas and capes, and necks and hooks. And all these shores present the same wealth of vegetation described above. Here are more green hills, more lawns reaching down to the clearest water imaginable ; more romantic, winding, shore-hugging drives, more exhilarating and refreshing air. The harbor itself seems land-locked, like a Swiss lake, and from certain elevations the bay and Sound appear to be shut off by banks of foliage. The taste that cannot be suited here is difficult to serve, for whether one likes village life, or farm scenes and comforts, or water views and sports, here he may end his search. That indescribable charm which distinguishes an ancient village, and seems to influence even the people in it, is noticeable in old Hunt- ington. It needs not the seventeenth century gravestones on Fort Hill to reveal its oldness ; you feel it in the very spirit of the place. Yet it did not lack enterprise before the new railroad management sent a thrill of new life along the whole shore ; but now it is all the more energetic. It contains thirty stores, a public hall, a library and seven 7^> churches. The wealthy residents of the place constitute a refined and hospitable society. Mr. James H. Temple has an elegant house, surrounded by artistically arranged grounds. Mr. C. H. Davis, Mr. Henry Scudder, Mr. H. C. Brown, and Colonel H. B. Beecher also have very fine establishments. J. R. Maxwell, Esq., Vice-President of the Long Island Railroad, is the owner of one hundred acres on West Neck, one of the loveliest points along the shore. His house and grounds are superb, and when all the improvements he contem- plates are finished the place will rank with the notable properties of its class. There are two good hotels and a dozen boarding cottages. Two newspapers are published here, and the Suffolk Driving Park is close by. To the eastward is Greenlawn, a very pretty village among high hills, and not far from the water. There is a hotel and board- ing house from which to go boating, fish- 38 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 8 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. ing, or, when you tire of the water, to enjoy pretty country drives. It is on the way to Centreport. — Here are repeated the beauties of the water-side places we have left behind. There is not room to tell anew the glorious succession of attractions, but one might express his feelings if, after see- ing all these belles among country beauties, he were to imagine them all personified, as the Rhineland towns are in one of Disraeli's stories. Then let him remember that it is leap-year, and that they might ask him to choose one among them for an eternal (summer) companion. For our part, we confess we would be in a plight like that of the poet who would have been " happy with either, were t'other dear charmer away." But this should be said : Centreport is on one bay and close to another, and her hotel, situated in a nook of ravishing beauty, provides from its windows a view one could never tire of. There are six pleasant cottages to receive boarders here. One of the most charming drives in all this country is that from here to Northport. — If you want to see it best, come upon it from be- hind, by the road from the depot. It is a busy, proud little place, and pretends to be too keenly interested in maintaining its forty stores, in building its fleet of three-masted schooners, in raising famous cows, and in shipping 40 MILES FRCM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 8 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. 7i oysters, clams and scollops, to care anything about mere natural beauty ; but, deep in their hearts, the people must be very proud of their enchanting surroundings. The harbor is shaped like the Bay of Naples, and in its clear depths are reflected the light-colored houses and their dark background of green hills. Here is Mr. C. H. Delamaters's famous Beacon stock farm, fine dwelling and hand- some grounds; and William Crozier's Ayrshire and Jersey farm, famed also for its Berkshire pigs, is near the village. Close to the harbor are the Robbins mansion and the residences of Daniel Thompson, H. J. Scudder, "^^PS^ Mrs. James S. Lewis, F. Carl and others. There is excellent accom- modation for visitors, and added to all the other pleasures is the treat of a sail to Duck Island, where Mr. Rowland (not Reilly) "keeps the hotel." Close by is East Northport, really a part of Northport, with stage as well as rail communication. Yet a little 1 40 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. faTthCT Oil iS St Johnland, scene of a humanitarian enterprise born of the kindly brain of the esteemed and pious author of 44 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. I would not live alway ; I ask not to stay. The project embraces a number of philanthropic and charitable ob- jects : the care and education of destitute and crippled little folk. 7 2 the training of boys and girls, and a home for old men, crippled, poor or friendless. When one sees the buildings and notes their surroundings in a beautiful firming country, fanned by healthful breezes, the sagacity of the founder becomes apparent. Here, lodged in a farm-house, one may forget the bustle of town and gain strength as well as rest. For variety, the drive to the Sound is through a short bit of delightful country, and though not direct, is a pleasant way to reach Smithtown and Smithtown Branch. — Here the store, hotel and mill are at the foot of a restful, oval pond enclosed on two sides by high. 48 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SU':DAY tree-clau, curving hills. At the village end this giant bowl is broken, and the clear water roars over a little dam, and runs blithely in a tiny brook to the bay. Above is a smaller pond equally charming, and all about are cosey village homes. The little Riverside Hotel is a model of neatness. There is another hotel a mile away from the lake by the railroad, and beyond that, along the turnpike, is Smithtown Branch — an aggregation of substantial farm-houses side by side, along a broad road whose carriage tracks wind through green turf beneath rows of noble oaks. The shingled houses, ample barns, neat gardens and tranquil farm-yard scenes make up a captivating picture. Three miles north of the station lies the Sound. Its shores are fronted with precipitous cliffs, and the rugged aspect of the place has a charm for city eyes. A popular pastime here is to sit upon some shelving rock and watch the gambols of thousands of sea-birds, floating lazily through the air, and now and anon swooping down to seize their finny prey and fly with it into the nests among the rocks. Next on the road is St. James, a little village, but to many the most beautiful in its combination of water and land scenerv of all the spots in this vicinity. Half a 51 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. dozen families take boarders here. Its neighbor, Stony Brook, is stretched along the sloping side of a valley between rounded hills, its main street follow- ing a brook that empties into a mill-pond, 54 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. following that in turn into Great Bay. From these hills, that shield the town in winter, one may see the vessel-dotted Sound and the smoke- blue shore of distant Connecticut. The bay spreads wide to catch the summer winds, and the sparkling waters break in miniature waves upon white shingle beaches at the feet of the sloping lawns and green- robed hills. Here are stores, churches, suburban-looking villas, a post-office, boats, bathing-beaches, game, fish and wild birds, good - want e air. Close by quiet for those The principal hostelry is the Stony Brook Hotel, an ample mansion, commanding from high ground a view of all the prettinesses of the place. It has its well-stocked bar-room, billiard-saloon and bowling-alleys in a separate building, so that nothing shall disturb the home-like air of the comfortable hotel. Beyond lies Setauket, with two shingled ante-revolutionary churches perch- ed upon a hill high above Setauket Bay, so that the tallest trees shall not conceal 56 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. their quaint old belfries from "the country round about." A village 74 clusters near them, with a green-fringed pond on one side and the bay upon the other. Another village, or another part of the same village (if you are as particular as the old darkey who said he "did not hear de secon' bell ; dat was de secon' ringin' ob de fust bell lines the head of the pretty bay. Here are the same attractions re-repeated. Last of all, at the end of this branch of the railroad, is Port Jefferson. — This is a rural metropolis, a veritable hive of industry. The hum of its machinery, well plied tools and busy streets is heard 68 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. before the visitor gains the hill-tops, from which it is to be seen huddled upon its dozen streets behind the busiest bay on the shore. Here are forty stores, two newspapers and several hotels. On the waters ride great schooners, trim yachts, capacious sloops and the white-topped Bridgeport steamers. On shore are other boats in every stage of overhauling or construction, the gallant "Fleetwing," of ocean yacht race renown, towering high and dry among them. There are no less than nine marine railways on the beach. The best known and busiest of sail-lofts is here. The huge spread of canvas with which the yacht "America" won the world's champion- ship came from this place. Everything about a ship — her hulls, her masts, her iron work, her rigging, her spars — everything there is, can be had at the port ; and there is more repairing of vessels here than anywhere else between Boston and New York. From here to Boston and the Connecticut cities are shipped tons of straw- berries and garden stuff, for a grand farming country lies behind the encircling hills. There are two flouring mills here, one of which ships its considerable out-put to distant lands and cities. For summer visitors there are fine attractions. Mr. Raynor of the Port Jefferson Hotel offers a handsome reward for the capture of a single mosquito. It would almost pay to smuggle a good, lusty, seven-octave mosquito down here — one that could live in this air — from one of the New Jersey resorts, in order to secure the premium. The bay is big and safe — the shape of a horse-shoe with the ends drawn close together ; ample to sail a yacht in, safe to learn to sail upon, and with an inlet with fourteen feet depth of water leading into the Sound, whose waters dance in plain sight between the village 75 and the dim, blue Connecticut shore, twelve miles away. Quiet bathing is to be had in the bay, and beyond it are the Sound beaches. There are very picturesque build- ing sites upon the hills at the sides and foot of the bay, and many of these are " improved," as the saying goes, with city men's homes and the villas of 7 6 wealthy Long Islanders. These and the green foliage on the ter- raced slopes are reproduced in the clear mirror-like bay, whose water is as untainted as when the Puritans first sailed upon it to found the village. The most enchanting scenery on Long Island is that found along short drives in every direction. Besides the trips made by the steamboat to Bridgeport, across the cool broad Sound, there is a constant chance to sail out through the inlet to Oldfield Point, a combination of beach and woodland upon the Sound, and a place already known to hundreds. Here is a pleasant little community affording accommodations for those who desire to spend their vacations in one of the coolest and most beautiful of watering places. Stages run between the Point and Port Jefferson, and Setauket and Stony Brook are almost as close at hand. Beyond the railroad terminus, and yet close to it, are Mount Sinai, Miller's Place, Rocky Point and Middle Island, retired country places offering the attractions of water scenery, sport with rod and gun, or farm life, to him that flees From Babel-strife To the green Sabbath-land of life, To dodge dull care 'mid clustered trees, And cool his forehead in the breeze. 77 MAIN LINE AND CENTRAL SECTION. 'HE reader does not need to be reminded that in whatever direction he journeys the start is made from Long Island City or from Brooklyn, from which latter city passengers have exactly the same facilities as at the former place for all points, except the North Side Division, to Flushing, Great Neck, etc. Brooklyn passengers connect with the main line at Jamaica, to which we have already been, and from which we will extend our journey along THE CENTRE OF THE ISLAND. Too little is known of the wide tract through the middle of Long Island, along the centre of which the great majority of the passengers by the railroad are whirled to the bays and beaches at the eastern end of the territory. So great is the general ignorance about the central tract that an editor, who recently sought to call attention to those merits he had heard the country was possessed of, called it "The Plains," and then went on to write about it as if it were a level prairie like the Hempstead Plain, only different from that section in the possession of occasional tracts of forest land. So uninviting and so deceptive is the view from the cars over many miles of this tract that it is, perhaps, no wonder few persons have taken the trouble to explore beyond the pine woods whose fire-blackened trunks increase the ugliness of what was originally thoroughly unattractive. And yet even this land, when examined by a number of eminent agriculturists and practical farmers, was found to possess rich productive qualities. These gentlemen have placed on record carefully written testimonials to this effect, but it would be unneces- sary to quote from them in view of the fact that every here and 7 U there the traveler may see villages built up and thrifty farms smiling where but a short time ago the wilderness extended. The soil is a fine yellow loam, one to two feet deep, upon a compact bed of sand and gravel, which is free from quicksands and forms a perfect under-drain. But who that has not made the journey is aware that along this section runs a chain of hills 200 feet in height, with beautiful waving green fields stretching out on either side of their base ? Who that has not seen them would suspect that here, too, are thrifty little villages whose pretty cottages are set amid blooming gardens, or at the edges of large and valuable farms ? From these hills, in a region unsurpassed for salubrity, one may see the ocean, the Sound and great stretches of Long Island, with its gleaming ponds and silvery threads of water, its villages, farm lands and forests spread out as in a bird's-eye view. The writer drove through this region on a bright spring day. Leaving Farmingdale, a prosperous farming centre which is itself in part reclaimed from the forest, he rode straight into the centre of the island. The newly-green acres of the village outskirts soon began to give way to patches of forest, and presently houses, fields and fences vanished, and the way led along a hard, smooth road through cool and silent woods. As the eye became accustomed to the general scene it began to scan the details which together comprise the monotonous and yet not unpleasing view. Bit by bit it dawned upon the vision and the mind that not even the so-called wilder- ness had ever been examined or described for the public. It was no wilderness at all. It blossomed like the rose. Here was the earth covered with moss and enriching dead leaves, and above these were a myriad plants and vines, all green-leaved and many blossom- ing. Here was the wild rose, the laurel, the trailing arbutus, wild berry bushes and many growths the writer could not name. Above rose the straight shafts of several sorts of trees. Oaks w T ere the most plenty, and there were locusts, chestnuts, cedars, pines and other varieties. Where the pines grew the soil was thinner and more sandy ; but, in a two days journey, only one tract of pines (that between Smithtown Branch and Lake Ronkonkoma) was passed, 79 and just beyond them, almost at the lake-side, was a community of farmers. Whenever the roads were cut through undulations in the land, it was possible to see the rich, dark soil extending to and resting upon a mixture of yellow sand and round white pebbles. This soil was not in any place less than two feet deep. Rich farming villages were to be found surrounded by the forest, in which men were to be seen, on all sides, wielding their axes and widening the area of civilization, in circles of ever widening diameter, like those that spread from the pebbles a child casts into a pond. One needs not to ask the denizens of a farming country whether their land is good or bad. The public roads, the houses, the out-buildings, aye, even the fences, tell the unbidden tale. Therefore it is a significant fact that in all Long Island, or in New York State itself, there are no more prosperous looking villages of their size than New Village or Melville, two places literally chopped out of the forest. There are dozens of other such villages away from the railroad, and beyond Farmingdale there are ten flourishing stations where smiling settlements have been built upon clearings in the woods. No extra amount of fertilizers is needed. The land is easy to clear and easy to till, and will produce any crops raised in this latitude. A thrifty farmer, long settled in. the forest, is our authority for the statement that the farmers find that it pays to cut the forest and extend the farms. The new soil yields a sufficient amount in excess of the vield of the old farm land to make it J profitable. What an immense field is here open for transformation into farms and villages, at moderate cost and with certain and prompt reward for each settler ! The railroad is close at hand, the markets are near ; schools, churches and towns are on every hand. The sea and the Sound are never more than five miles away from the centre- most point in this tract ; the 'land is far above the sea-level and the air is ever pure and invigorating — an elixir made up of the breath of the sea and the balsam of the forest. It is for a tenth part of such advantages that the Old World swarms are seeking the distant territories. To begin the journey — next beyond Jamaica is 8o Queen's, an attractive little village set in a rolling expanse of verdure, possessing shaded roads and substantial homes — a handy site for the 13 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 6 TRAINS SUNDAY. homes of those who spend their day-times in town. A little far- ther on is Hinsdale, not so well built up as Queen's, but presenting a fine area of verdant country between the railroad and the adjacent line of blue hills. 16 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 6 TRAINS SUNDAY. The fine farm-houses of an ancient and thrifty population are scattered here and there, and one is also able to perceive the nucleus of a coming town of those who are certain soon to perceive the wants of this entire section for households whose heads do business in the city. We find Hyde Park a rich agricultural district, and containing a hotel and other public accommodations, as well as some fine cottages — forerunners of the 17 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 5 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. settlement that surely will, at no distant day, grow up in this handy suburb of the metropolis. Of Mineola one gets an unfavorable impression from the car windows, the truth being that here is a prosperous country-side, adorned with well 13 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. kept drives, shaded lanes, fruit orchards, blooming fields and pretty homes. Here tracks diverge for the Glen Cove and Locust Valley Branch, as described on page 64. Ahead is Garden City. — The site of Garden City, when the late Mr. A. T. Stewart purchased/ it, had ever been regarded, by all who honored it with 19 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 14 TRAINS DAILY. 10 TRAINS SUNDAY any attention, as about as sterile and in all respects unprofitable a tract as could be found near New York. Farmers supposed nothing would grow there but the grass that coated it. Now see what the notorious Hempstead Barren has become. Thirty miles of boulevards, fringed with flourishing shade trees, cottages set in as rich gardens as any place can boast of, water plentiful enough for the needs of the place many years from now ; these are among the more noteworthy developments of this pretty, thriving suburb. Now, it is a matter of common fame that the nature of 8i the soil, the high elevation of the plateau and the central situation between the Sound and the ocean, combine to make this one of the most healthful cities man has built. And its situation is as remarkable from the stand-point of convenience. Its male inhab- itants are largely business men of New York, able to spend the day at business, and the mornings, evenings and nights at home, as well as to take their families, conveniently, to the neighboring resorts — Fire Island, Babylon, Coney Island or Rockaway. The houses are fitted with all modern improvements. The hotel is an admirable establishment. The Cathedral is notable among the churches of the land, and the educational facilities are extraor- dinary. It is a tribute to the founder's shrewd judgment, rather than to Long Island, that all this now exists upon the long ignored plain. Here we change cars for the one-mile ride to 6 82 Hempstead, a rich and beautiful settlement, older than our government, and famed for the salubrity of its climate, the beauty of its surround- 20 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 14 TRAINS DAILY. 8 TRAINS SUNDAY. ings and the number of city men who make it either their permanent or their summer homes. Here those who contemplate removal to a beautiful suburb will find good board in a solid and hospitable old community, supplied with water, gas, a town hall, Liberty Hall and a fire department. Everywhere, in the well kept streets, the handsome villas and the tasteful grounds and gardens, are evidences of wealth and refinement. Summer visitors will be glad to know that there are three excellent hotels, at one of which, a picturesque old place, Washington once refreshed and rested his horses. There are five churches — Methodist, Episcopal, Presby- terian, Roman Catholic and African Methodist. The rector of the Episcopal church can show a registry of baptisms and marriages dating back 159 years, a communion service of plate presented by Queen Anne in 1706, and other relics of our country's infancy and dependence upon her mother-land. The interest upon the fund accruing to the town from the sale of Garden City's site to the late A. T. Stewart is applied to the schools and the poor. All about here are fine farms, highly productive orchards and charming country seats. Back upon the main line again, the land is once more undulating. Here w T e come upon Westbury, a considerable farming town, not lacking the black- smith shop, wheelwrights and churches, without which, it would appear, no place 22 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 10 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. can justly be called a village. The fine grazing ground produces a large daily yield of milk for the city. A larger place is Hicksville, with its two schools, hotel, stores and inviting well shaded avenues and streets. This is a thriving farmers' centre — a delightful site £6 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 12 TRAINS DAILY. 4 TRAINS SUNDAY. for homes and inland resort for summer visitors. Jericho, two miles north, is already a resort for summer boarders, and there is a hotel there for transient visitors. Hicksville contains ten small factories. Hence, on its pleasant northward way, reaches the Port Jefferson Branch, whose manifold attractions are elsewhere set forth. Beyond 83 Central Park the traveller passes a considerable tract of that pine land which we have shown to be so greatly deceiving ; but Central Park itself 29 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. lies, smiling and white, in a great fertile green clearing. Its gardens and fields are eloquent advocates of the claims of this section upon the attention of settlers. Low valuations, meagre taxes, plentiful water and the great advantages of a busy railroad peculiarly adapt all these places for manufactures. There is already one factory here and a good hotel. Many happy homes lead the way for more. At Bethpage, close by, is found the beginning of another farm surrounded settlement. Brick making is carried on here. At Farming'clale, a little white and green village on ground recently reclaimed from the woods and con- taining broad acres of grain fields, whose 31 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. every spear speaks volumes for the possibilities of the wilderness that is now what this once was. There is a school-house, a cluster of churches and a good hotel here. Two pickle factories, a flouring mill and a picture-frame factory open the way for other manufac- tories. On, through the woods, a sudden reminder of civilization is West Deer Park, a pretty hamlet close to the green Comae Hills, feeling the benefits of good railroad management and constantly increasing its 35 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. elbow-room in the forest, as well as the number of its healthy homes. Gen. Casey's mineral springs are an attraction here ; and at this place, as well as at Deer Park, we are passing through a fine fruit producing- country, and parallel with a much greater extent of farming land than is hinted at in 37 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 4 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. the view from the cars. There is a hotel in Deer Park. In Brentwood are the luxuriant nurseries whose sturdy products, I in the shape of shade trees and orna- 41 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. | -T s trains daily. 2 tra.ns Sunday. mental trees and shrubs, attract attention both before we come to the place and for miles beyond. Here are well kept roads and very many pretty homes ; that of Mrs. R. \Y. Pearsall, commanding a view of both Sound and Great 44 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNOAY. 8 4 South Bay, having cost $150,000. There is an Episcopal church in the village. The next station, Central Islip, is the summer resting place of Mr. James Slater, who owns the Berkely in Fifth Ave- nue and the Pavilion in Islip. A beautiful drive is that due south to Islip and the Great South Bay. Here, again, are fine farms, a cheerful village, two churches, and whole- some surroundings. The balsamic outgivings of the neighboring pine woods, though not perceptible to the sense of smell, add to the otherwise pure atmosphere properties that are said to be cura- tives for consumptives. When the writer first saw Ronkonkoma he had been riding for hours through farm land and forest. The sun shone with pleasant, early morning warmth, the wind sighed in 49 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 8 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY the tree-tops, and a myriad birds lifted their voices tow r ard the blue sky. Suddenly, before the nucleus of a village, the forest disappeared, and in an instant there was disclosed a great pear-shaped lake, skirted by a broad, gently-sloping beach, and around that, in a third rude oval, the enclosing hill-sides, dotted w T ith pretty cottages amid lawns and groves, and connected by a bowery road. The wild rose, eglantine and broom Wafted around their rich perfume ; The birch-tree wept in fragrant balm, The aspens slept beneath their calm ; The silver light, with quivering glance, Played on the water's still expanse. No wonder that artists have drawn and painted it from an hundred stand-points ; that poets have raved about it and tourists have been shouting praises of its beauty for fifty years or more. Probably none has done it justice, or ever can. It is unique ; its beauty grows upon one, not for an hour or even a week, but for a summer ; and every month it is new to the gaze in the changing hues of the foliage and the altering light of the skies. Ronkonkoma means Sand Pond, and was suggested to the Indians by the broad beach of fine, white sand pebbles, fit to drive upon, which skirts the water. They would have done better to have named it with a word that means Sylvan Water, /or its mirror-like surface is tinged with the reflection of the foliage of the shaded hill-sides all around it. Better yet, they might have named it the Lake of Glass, for the water, as pure as if distilled, and as sweet as ever water was, is so transparent that the smooth, hard bed, and every tiny ridge upon it, is clearly visible at a considerable depth. Its surface is nearly fifty-five feet above the surface of the Sound, but it has in one place a depth of eighty-three feet. Every inch of ground around it is hard ; there is no marsh, no mud, no foot - hold for those dreaded M's — miasma, mal- aria, or mos- q u i t o e s . Here health MP is in everv whisper of the ^ ) ^m^4^n^Pii f) breeze; and since the ocean \\fvm/l r^vk /,'/■ and Sound are equally close at hand, and the calm, cool forest almost surrounds the lake; its refreshing atmosphere must ever be, in summer, vastly more cool than that of almost any other inland watering place in the country. A more healthful place is not to be found, or one more attractive to ladies or safer for children. It is 86 inviting to sportsmen also, for not only are the woods close at hand, but the lake itself is the occasional resort of nearly every species of water-bird found in the United States. There hardly could be found a richer field for the student of natural history. Perch, black bass, Oswego bass • and catfish are the denizens of the crystal waters. The little belfry of St. Mary's-by-the-Lake, an Episcopal church, is seen above the oaks and chestnut-trees on the south side, and only a quarter of a mile away are the Methodist and Baptist churches and the school-house. Within a very few miles are houses of wor- ship of nearly every sect. Stages will meet every train for and from the city. There is a fine hotel, and a number of the cottage folk take boarders. Ex-Alderman W. P. Kirk has a house here ; Mr. Seymour, of Arnold, Constable & Co., has just built a beautiful villa ; Mr. George F. Devere, the theatrical manager, spends his summers here ; Mr. Daniel O'Connor, Dr. Catanach, and Mr. Charles N. Brown have notable places, and Mr. Fords, of the publishing house of Fords, Howard & Hurlburt, is a summer resident. Waverly. — Settlers will find good farming land at compara- tively low prices here, and city visitors of a retiring disposition, who love country life, 52 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 4 TRAINS DAILY. will find accommodation very moderate. In the neighborhood ot Medford is a wild but salubrious country that it would be profitable to clear and till. The soil is rich and very productive when cultivated. 54 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN 4 TRAINS DAILY. 59 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY Fresh-water lakes begin to be plenty near Yaphank, a cosey, nourishing village, built upon a clearing in the woods. Farming occupies the atten- tion of the inhabitants during six days, and two clergymen minister to the spiritual wants of the place on Sun- days. The model farm, connected with a county institution here, demonstrates very thoroughly the worth of the land in the hands of energy and enterprise. Although there are probably very few of LONG ISLAND'S PRETTY GIRLS in Yaphank, there is no more appropriate place than this to render homage to the fair island maidens who rival the flowers in their 8 7 beauty, and all the other charming features of their native region in their graces and virtues. Pretty girls abound upon Long Island. Many of the boys come to New York, but the girls remain at home. Their lives are spent amid the most wholesome surroundings. Pure air, clear water and the best of food are their birth-rights, and these put roses in their cheeks, elasticity and gracefulness in their movements, and vigor in their muscles. They are not addle-pates or gawks, as girls in more distant villages are sometimes rudely said to be. They quickly acquire taste in dress from seeing the city fashions all summer in their native places, and in the winter when they run up to town to do a little shopping. They see the city newspapers also, and never could, by any chance, fall into the error of that country maiden who said she "Knew what a philosopher was. She guessed she ought to. Her little brother was run over by one of them that a man was riding on in the middle of the road." The Long Island girls are apt to be of English or Holland stock, and therefore make prudent and skillful housewives ; and, indeed, they are not at all afraid to work. You see them bare-armed in the kitchens of their fathers' hotels and boarding houses ; they wait upon you at dinner, and in the evening you will find them at the pianos or their sewing, or bending over a magazine, or, more practical than all these employ- ments, walking through the village streets with some handsome young cavalier. The Long Island girl can swim like a frog, sail a boat, and figure the cost of a passenger's dress at the same time ; row like a sailor, and either fish or let an admirer do the work while she superin- tends, according to circumstances. On land she is like a deer. She is a dear. You can tell a Long Island girl by her pink and white face and brown hands. She shades her face, but hates to wear gloves. They are good-natured, healthy, independent and a trifle saucy ; cold and distant to slight acquaintances, but are said to be very loving with those who win them. There is music in their speech, poetry in their motion, and virtue in their company. And (this is confidential) every one of them is bent upon one object — to get a city husband. Manor, a smiling little town at the head of the Peconic River. The few houses are widely scattered over a fertile region. Board can be had 66 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR 8R0OKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. 88 in several of them, as well as in the Manorville Hotel, which is well patronized by city visitors every summer. The contiguous pine woods not only beautify the level plain, but add to the wholesome qualities of the atmosphere. Pickerel and perch are plenty in the lakes. There are two churches in Manor, and its inhabitants have the advantage of the short branch at that point connecting at Eastport with the Montauk Division for all the ocean resorts. Baiting Hollow, the station beyond Manor, is also in a good farming district, and sends to New York and Boston large quantities of farm produce, 69 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAIN3 SUNDAY. especially cauliflowers, strawberries and cranberries. The market town for all this region is Riverhead, to be found in the maps at that point where the end of the island appears to begin to tear in two. It is the liveliest town on eastern 74 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 8 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. Long Island, the prospective seat of a large manufacturing interest, the principal trading point and the capital of Suffolk County. Al- though there are many prettier places, its hotels and boarding houses are crowded all summer long. This is because the temperature is delightful, the people are hospitable, and the town is a good starting point for journeys down the bay or to the beaches, or the farming districts. There is no pastime to be enjoyed on Long Island that cannot be indulged in within a short distance of Riverhead. On certain days and nights in each week the place bustles like a minia- ture city, and each of its fifty stores is busied with custom. The village has no sentimental record and no fine retrospect, like the old whaling ports near by, and the ancient settlements both east and west of it. It is a new place sustained upon modern principles. Already it includes among its possessions moulding and flour mills, a cigar factory, and a large lumber yard. Its excellent railroad facilities and the river it is built beside, which is navigable for vessels of many tons, invite manufactures. Water-power is plentiful. Here, too, are the court-house, the jail, post-office, a fine school, and Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Swedenborgian, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, a weekly newspaper, and a savings bank. The County Fair Grounds are in the village. Leading eastward from Riverhead is the most s 9 remarkable country road in America — the longest street in the United States, except Broadway. The tourist has, doubtless, been surprised ere this to learn that the broad avenue he finds tracing a parallel line to the Hudson all the way to Albany, and called Broadway a great part of the distance, is New York City's grand commercial boulevard. Between Riv- erhead and Greenport he will find its counterpart, gaining in the closeness of its houses to one another what it loses in being shorter — a magnificent, well kept road lined with a succession of dwell- ings only separated by gardens and beautified grounds. The fir t village it pierces is Aquebogue, flourishing as a well attended garden ; and gar- den is the only word that describes this whole peninsula. Next is Jamesport, the first settlement on Peconic Bay, divided as to its houses and its fealty into two parts — one along the blue bay and one to 79 MILES FROM NEW YORK CR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TF AINS SI NOAY. QO help maintain the wondrous turnpike we have spoken of. There are two hotels and many boarding houses ; and whether you stop at the bay shore and fish, swim, sail or row, or whether you live on the bustling road and seek the bold" cliff and gentle beach of the Sound, you will be ever amid the most exquisite scenery, the most fertile soil and the most abundant opportunities for pleasure. The rush was too great last summer, but the accommodations have since been increased. It was not in Franklinville, the next village, that the writer had a sin- gular experience, but it was nearby on the same shore. He arrived late one summer evening, and, after a delightful supper and a medi- tative cigar, went to bed. In the morning came a violent rat-tat on the chamber door, and then the command, "Get up." "All right. What time is it?" " Half-past six ; get up." "Look here," said the boarder, "I never get up at such an unchristian hour as this. Wake me at half-past eight." "No, "was the reply. " Hurry down ; I'll wait for you down stairs." A STORY ABOUT A BREAKFAST. So the visitor, wondering what was the matter and what sort of a place he had come to, donned his clothes and found the inn- keeper thumping up and down the piazza in the cold morning air. He was eccentric. (He keeps a hotel no longer ; indeed, his old neighbors say he is driving a street car in one of the cities.) But he was a genial, kind-hearted, well-meaning man, and gave this particular guest a morning's experience never to be forgotten. "Now," said he, "you are from the city. You don't know the first principles of good living. To live sensibly and to enjoy life you must first arise early. Then you. must exercise. Then you must eat ; not city food, but fresh country fare, just out of the earth or the water. Now you are up and ready for it, stroll down this road and see the earth quickening into life ; see fair Nature's morning blushes ; enjoy the electric air and the tonic 9i ACROSS FECOXIC BAY. sunlight. Two miles clown you'll come to a beautiful pond. There you'll see something - worth your walk. Then come back ami I'll have a breakfast better than the Queen gets in the Highlands." 9 2 "I won't," was the reply. " Please do. " "But I shall be faint in half an hour." "Oh, bad city habit to eat when you first get up; but come into the bar-room. I'll fit you for your breakfast. Drink this and eat this cracker. There ! You'll be a new man if you stay with me. " Humoring the man, partly from the same motive that moved the personage who smiled a ghastly smile when a crazy photo- grapher put a pistol to his head and bade him "look pleasant," and partly because the hotel - keeper's intentions were of the very best, the full four-mile walk was taken and enjoyed, and in an hour the guest sat down at the hotel table. "I've taken a great fancy to you," said mine host, "and have cooked your breakfast with my own hands. Eat sparingly, for there is a good variety. First, I have roasted you some clams in the earth ; next, you shall have a blue-fish baked in leaves in the ground ; after that, the leg or wing of a young chicken, broiled over an open fire ; potatoes, sweet potatoes, home-made bread, milk and coffee. If vou want a smack of bacon with vour chicken, I'll cook it for you while you eat your clams and fish." Thus was gotten what, after years of experience in other dis- tricts and other lands, is still remembered as the most toothsome, fragrant, and in every way delicious one among ten thousand breakfasts. And though there is no such a hotel -keeper to-day, Long Island fare yet remains for all who value fresh, beautiful and delightful food. Northville, a pretty place on the high bluff overlooking the Sound, and Franklinville, a prosperous farming village which raises crops that the managers of the stylish city hotels are greedy to get, offer board in a few farm-houses. Beyond, and on the railroad, is Mattituck. — Mattituck can keep a summer visitor busy 83 miles from new york or Brooklyn. with varied entertainment throughout an 6 trains daily. 2 trains Sunday. | ent i re summer. The creek rises near the village and flows into the Sound. The Sound beach, a mile and a half distant, slopes up to a high and rugged bluff, but the water 93 is easily accessible and the bathing is excellent. Peconic Bay, half a mile from the village, is a favorite excursion field for fishing, sailing and rowing parties. There is the old familiar pond one seems to meet with nearly everywhere, of which the alleged chief peculiarity is that it has no bottom. However, this pond is useful and beautiful as well as mysterious. Pretty residences are scattered all about the neighborhood, and there are Episcopal, Methodist and Presbvterian churches and a first-class hotel. In the same J fertile district is • Cutchogne. — Here, too, is the great thoroughfare, fit road- I way for a region famed for its horses. 86 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. I J O s trains daily. « trains Sunday. | Hutchinson's and Goldsmith's Creeks beau- tify the countrv-side. The Great Bav is onlv a mile distant, where, J J J.J * J in quaint New Suffolk, boats, fishing and bathing are to be had. There is a hotel and many boarding houses, and of churches there are the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist and Congrega- tional. Look at the map when you are reading about all these places between Riverhead and Orient, and draw your own infer- ence as to what the air here must certainly be. In the same rich agricultural country is Peconic, another and very similar summer cooling, resting and sporting place. The triangular head- land that makes out into the water here 88 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. is the delightful site for Peconic Park, a projected resort which has been purchased by the Peconic Park Im- provement Company. The plan is to erect here a cottage settle- ment and a fine hotel, with roads and walks and wharfs and ar- tistic landscape effects. The Park is that point of land which divides Little Peconic and Great Peconic Bavs, on the upper 5*^ 94 fork of the island and in a line with Southampton on the lower fork. Mr. G. P. Lathrop has written a book about the attractions and advantages of this site, which, as he says, is less than three hours from New York ; has an equable, mild climate and salubrious air ; rises to one of the loftiest elevations on Long Island ; com- bines woodland, hill and beach, and offers charming walks and drives, and health, sport and comfort to those who are to pass their summers If the next time the reader consults his map, he will glance at Peconic Park, pushing out like a vessel into the cool waters, the good judgment of the promoters of this new enterprise will be at once apparent. Here is coolness without ocean blasts, water without a bleak expanse of sand, the foundation of a settlement that is to be in no sense an excursion resort, and that will never be permitted to become anything but a select and delightful community of cottage folks, all sharing the common interest in maintaining and improving the attractiveness of their beautiful park. Only a mile and a quarter away is Southold. — Two of its houses, built in 1640, remain in the village as reminders that this is the oldest The houses 91 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. town on eastern Long Island. 95 form a few blocks of the great country street we have referred to, which here lies close to both Sound and ocean, and is especially cool all summer. There is a savings bank and a newspaper, and there are two hotels and four churches. From at least thirty board- ing houses the resting and recuperating city folk may start out on daily expeditions for the Sound beach, the bay shore, the delightful drives, the fishing or the shooting. Last of all the railroad stations is Greenport. — A master of descriptive has written of the sur- prise " afforded by the harbor of Greenport, 95 MILES FROM NEW YORK OR BROOKLYN. 6 TRAINS DAILY. 2 TRAINS SUNDAY. seen in the gathering twilight of a clear evening, its liquid stretches bordered by low, wooded banks, from which the cheerful gleam of lighted windows shone at intervals. There could hardly be a completer picture of a safe and placid haven than this." The beauties of the harbor and the outer waters, laving the shores of Fort Pond Bay, of bold Montauk and of Shelter and Gardiner's Islands, are known all over America. But the writer referred to should have seen the village as the writer has, with its little stores taxed to meet the rush of city people who jostled the elbows of 9 o the farmer-folk in town for marketing — each sort of persons slyly watching the other, and each thinking the other very curious and interesting. He should at the same time have seen the make-believe side streets — too pretty, cool and salubrious to be thought of as streets -bearing lovely city burdens in carriages, and gallant city fellows arm-in-arm on the sidewalks with coy, country beauties. Then, too, to make his work worth the while, the writer first quoted should have seen the bay alive with pleasure-craft — for here is fine bathing, good sport with the gun, and fishing unexcelled. There are fine walks and finer drives, and the considerable community of cottage folk show that the beauties of the place are known to Chicago and the West, and Boston and the East, as well as to New York. It is a bustling, travel- lers' centre, also with ferry connection for New London, New Haven, Hartford, Shelter Island, Sag Harbor, East Marion and Orient. The harbor is deeper and better than that of New York ; the shipping interest is large, and ship-building and manufactures are increasing. There is a bank here and a fire department. Wild geese and ducks are abundant in the season, and boarding accommodation is plenty and reasonable in price. Jump into a sail-boat, or a steamer if you prefer it, and in ten minutes you will be on SHELTER ISLAND — a mass of verdure, upraised on irreg- ular, rugged cliffs. It is sheltered from boisterous winds and inclement weather by its position between the two parts of the divided end of Long Island, where the maps show it lying like a filbert between the spread jaws of a nut-cracker. In jest, the boast is often made that one village or another is "as big as New York, though not built up yet. " This is true of Shelter Island, which is seven miles long and five wide. The surface presents a delightful array of streams, inlets, hills, dales, groves and bays. The temperature is cool all summer, and balmly both early and late in the season. The outlook from the bluffs is wondrous : Connecticut, all Peconic Bay, Gardiner's Island, Montauk Point and the sea are spread to the gaze. The gently-slop- ing beach is safe for bathers and delightful to the children, who search it for shells and mosses. It is not white and blinding, as most beaches are. The fishing is very fine ; porgies, Spanish mackerel, blue-fish, black-fish, bass, flat-fish and weak-fish are plenty. The prevailing 97 wind, from the southwest, is peculiarly dry and strengthening, and many who have waited vainly for returning health in the mountains have found it here. The abundant vegetation, lawns and shaded drives are unusual at the sea-side. Shelter Island is a sturdy, growing infant in the family of Long Island- resorts, and the fact is appreciated by the management of the railroad, who now give it especial attention, and will increase the facilities here as fast, or faster, than the demand. There are good hotels here ; the Manhanset House is one of the finest in the country. Its location is perfect and its accommodations and manager. The Prospect House is aptly named, and thoroughly and finely appointed. Its lessee, Mr. D. P. Hathaway, late of the Grand Pacific, Chicago, is its manager. An association of business men has become possessed of a fine tract on the highest land and facing the bay, and has improved it by a large and wise outlay. More than one hundred cottages have been built, and a water system has been established. The Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs has his resting place here, and other men of wealth or fame or distinguished taste are summer residents. Orient. — Farther east than the railroad reaches lies the banner farming district of the State. The soil is a clay loam, the richest and most fertile in New York, and produces more oats, rye, wheat, potatoes, 7 98 corn and turnips to the acre than the most boastful farmers elsewhere credit their lands with. You reach Orient over five miles of a level, hard road out of Greenport. You find in the midst of the smiling plain a quaint old village of 1,000 hospitable, prosperous people. But for the trees, you could see from any point on that cool peninsula Gardi- ner's Bay on one hand, and the Sound on the other. So extraordinary is the fishing, that this little community ships weekly catches of be- tween fifteen and fifty tons to New York. There are boarding houses there, and board is cheap. Three miles beyond, on Orient Point, there is an excellent hotel, most charmingly and healthfully situated. From its cupola you see the great star-fish outlines of Gardiner's Island. — Here is dessert fit for the close of such a repast as this Bill of Long Island Fare offers ; a reminder of Captain Kidd after these views of peaceful water-sides, and a hint of a feudal stronghold in the most delightful section of free America. The island is nine miles long, with a tiny population of farmers, gardeners and stock-raisers. The same family, the Gardiners, have owned it 250 years. The Squire's Hall, built in 1774, is supplied with every necessary for the table, except sugar, tea and coffee, by his people, and out of his land. Here was dug up a chestful of gold, silver, pearls, rubies, diamonds, silk and satin, which Capt. Kidd buried on the island only a little while before he paid the penalty of his crimes. But there is nothing weird or mysterious about Gardiner's Island. It is a lovely, sunlit isle, where the land rejoices in fruit, flowers and game ; and as for the sea — Here and there a fisher's far-off bark Flies with the sun's last glimpse upon its sail. Like a bright flame amid the waters dark. It must be acknowledged that the task of preparing this volume required the utmost care, sagacity, and artistic taste. We believe that this is apparent in every page — in letter-press, illustrations and printing. The literary work was entrusted to Mr. Julian E. 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These tickets will not be dated in advance of the date issued. COxMMUTATION TICKETS Date from the first of each month, and no deduction will be made for part of a month. The coupons are dated, two for each day, and are valid only on the day of date. They are not transferable. Commutation tickets on the monthly payment plan may be purchased monthly, or for any number of consecutive months up to twelve, may be purchased at one time. Tickets at the monthly payment rates ivill not be issued in connection with the single payment (three, six and twelve months) TicJcets. To insure prompt delivery of tickets, applications should be made at least five days before the first ok the month for which they are wanted. All tickets so ordered will be ready for delivery on the day before the first of the following month. Tickets ordered on the last day of the month will not be ready for delivery until the following' day. For further information see applications, which may be obtained at any regularly established ticket office of the company. Tickets will be delivered only at FLATBUSH AVE., BUSH WICK, JAMES SLIP, LONG ISLAND CITY or ANNEX BOAT Ticket Offices. I. D. BARTON, chas. m. heald, General Superintendent. General Traffic Manager. 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BETWEEN LONG ISLAND CITY or BROOKLYN AND ♦Woodhaven .... $3 65 *Clarenceville 3 90 Jamaica 4 60 Queens 4 90 Hinsdale 5 15 Hyde Park 5 40 Garden City 5 85 Hempstead 6 10 Mineola 5 8 5 East Williston. ... 6 25 Roslyn 6 50 Glen Head 6 75 Glen Cove 6 85 Locust Valley 7 00 Westbury $6 35 Hicksville 6 75 Syosset 7 00 Cold Spring 7 25 Huntington 7 65 Greenlawn 7 90 Northport 8 25 tGlendale 3 35 Richmond Hill... 3 90 Springfield 4 90 Valley Stream. .. . 5 40 Hewletts 5 65 Woodsburgh 5 85 Ocean Point 5 85 Lawrence $6 25 Far Rockaway. . . 6 50 Pearsalls 5 65 Rockville Centre/ 6 85 Baldwins 6 25 Freeport 6 50 Merrick. 6 65 Bellmore 6 75 Ridgewood 6 85 S. Oyster Bay. ... 7 CO Amity ville 7 25 Breslau 7 60 Babylon 7 93 Bayshore 8 25 BETWEEN LONG ISLAND CITY AND Woodside $3 00 Winfield 8 10 Newtown 3 15 Corona ... 3 40 Flushing 3 90 College Point ... 4 15 Whitestone 4 60 Broadway 4 15 Bayside 4 60 Douglaston 4 75 Little Neck 4 85 Great Neck 5 03 * These rates apply to Flatbush Avenue only. t This rate applies to L. I. City only BETWEEN LOCAL STATIONS. BETWEEN JAMAICA AND Woodhaven $3 00 Queen's 3 10 Hinsdale 3 65 Hyde Park 3 90 j Mineola 4 60 Garden City 4 60 Hempstead 4 90 East Williston. . . 4 90 Roslyn 4 90 Glen Head 5 40 Glen Cove 5 65 Locust Valley ... . G 10 Westbury 4 90 Hicksville 5 40 Syosset 5 85 Cold Spring 6 50 Huntington 6 75 Greenlawn 7 00 Northport 7 25 Central Park.... 5 85 Farmingdale 6 25 West Deer Park. . 6 75 Richmond Hill. ..$2 30 Glendale 3 10 Springfield 3 00 Valley Stream. ... 3 90 Hewletts 4 60 Woodsburgh 4 60 Ocean Point 4 60 Lawrence 4 90 Far Rockaway. . . 4 90 Pearsalls 4 60 Rockville Centre. 4 60 Baldwins 4 90 Freeport 4 90 Merrick 5 15 Bellmore 5 40 Ridgewood 5 65 S. Oyster Bay 5 85 Amityville 6 35 Breslau 6 65 Babylon 6 85 Bayshore 7 25 BETWEEN GARDEN CITY AND $4 90 4 60 3 35 3 10 Hyde Park 3 00 . 2 30 2 30 East Williston. . . 2 30 3 35 Glen Head 3 90 4 60 Locust Valley. . . 4 90 3 10 3 90 4 90 5 15 5 65 Greenlawn 6 10 6 50 Central Park. . . . 4 90 4 90 West Deer Park. . 5 65 4 90 Richmond Hill. . . 4 90 5 65 b 35 BETWEEN FLUSHING AND Woodside ,?3 15 Winfield 3 10 Newtown 2 30 Corona 2 30 College Point . . . 2 30 Whitestone 3 00 Bayside 3 00 Douglaston 3 15 Little Neck 3 35 Great Neck 3 65 Tickets between other stations than those mentioned above will be issued at corresponding rates upon application at the General Office, Long Island City. Application blanks may be obtained at any of the ticket offices. THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. F. S. WINSTON, President. Assets, $101,148,248.25 Surplus, over $12,000,000 THE LARGEST AND BEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD. CHARLES H. RAYMOND, GENERAL AGENT, No. 141 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Our liquid paints are composed exclusively of the best and purest materials combined on different principles from any other Liquid or Mixed Paints. They have been thoroughly tested in nearly all parts of the world and have been found to withstand the severest tests of climatic changes, sea air and other trying exposures where the best white lead has failed, and the universal testimony of those who have used them is sufficient proof of our claims that they are in every re- spect strictly reliable and first -class paints of a higher grade than have ever before been offered to the public for structural purposes, either in " paste" or liquid form, and second to none in rich- ness and permanency of color, beauty of finish, durability, uniformity, and all characteristics which are requisite to form a perfect ornamental protective covering. Our paint 3 art sold by U. S. Standard Gallon measure (231 cubic inches J ; i.e., our packages contain front 8 to 1 2 per cent, more paint than is usually sold fior the same quantity, and they weigh from 10 to 20 per cent, more to the gallon than any others in the market. One gallon WILL COVER FROM 225 TO 250 SQUARE FEET, TWO COATS. We manufacture forty-eight shades of "body " and trimming colors, and also make Standard and Light Greens, Light and Dark Blues, Reds, Black, etc., samples of which will be supplied on application. The finest and most extensive structures in this country are painted with these paints, among them, the U. S. Capitol at Washington ; Light Houses zndLife Saving Stations ; U. S. Custom House at Chicago ; Navy Yard Buildings; Metropolitan Elevated R.R. ; Oriental and Manhattan Beach Hotels; the "Argyle" and Cottages at Babylon; Hygeia Hotel, Fortress Monroe; Thousand Islands House; Crossman House; Forest Hill House, Franconia, N. H. ; Sinclair House, Bethlehem, N. H. ; Fort Point House, Stockton, Me. ; Pequot House and Cottages, New London, Conn.; Appledore House, Isle of Shoals ; the " Dakota," New York City, and thousands of other public and private buildings. Our pamphlet on "STRUCTURAL DECORATION" Will be sent free by mail on application. ROOF, CAR and BRIDGE PAINTS. These paints possess a more elastic body than any other, and are less liable to injury. They are prepared ready for use, and have proven to be the most economical paints ever produced for similar purposes. They were originally designed for preserving tin and other roofs, but are now also used for railroad buildings, bridges, freight cars, steamboat decks, boats, and all wood and iron work exposed to salt or fresh water, and are especially adapted for out-buildings, fences, floors, gas holders, and other iron and rough wood-work. They are supplied in seven colors, viz. : brown, red, yellow, gray, buff, slate and cream-white. One gallon will cover about 400 square feet, one coat. ASBESTOS ROOFING. The only practicable and reliable portable roofing in nse. Is adapted for steep or flat roofs in any climate. Skilled labor not required in its application. ASBESTOS BUILDING FELT, For interlining frame buildings, floors, etc. Is wind, dust and pre proof. H. W. JOHNS MANUFACTURING CO., No. 87 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF H. W. Johns' Genuine Asbestos Liquid Paints, Roof Paints, Roofinr, Steam Pipe and Boiler Coverings, Fireproof Coating's, Cements, etc. DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST AND SAMPLE FREE. BABYLON, I OPENS MAY 31st, 1884. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Transient Rates, $4 per day. This elegant hotel contains 200 handsomely furnished rooms and parlors, and, with its dozer- ,or more contiguous cottages, is situated in a beautiful park of seventy acres, distant ONLY ONE AND ONE-HALF HOURS from the Fifth Avenue Hotel (via East 34th St. Ferry), or Wall Street by boat from Pier 17 East River, foot Pine St., or James Slip. (See time-table Long Island Railroad.) Diasrams may be seen and rooms secured by applying at 265 Broadway, />r at the Grand Hotel, Broadway and 31st Street, until June 1. ATTRACTIONS. Pure water, perfect ventilation and drainage, electric bells, gas and baths, telegraph and tele- phone offices, extensive livery and stabling accommodations, picturesque lake of forty acres, with row and sail boats, yachting and exceptionally fine fishing on the Great South Bay (ten minutes distant*. Surf and still water bathing, lawns, flowers, shady drives, Mollenhauers' Orchestra, bowling alley, billiards and lawn tennis are among the many attractions and conveniences at this fashionable and charming resort. RICHARD H.STEARNS. HEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Assets, - - ■ $55,000,000 Surplus, - ■ ■ 10,000,000 "TONTINE INVESTMENT" and " NON-FOREE /TING LIMITED TONTINE" POLICIES ISSUED. General and Special Agents Wanted on Long Island. APPLY TO BRANCH OFFICE, BOREEL BUILDING, 115, 117 and 119 BROADWAY, N. Y HENRY M. BALDWIN, Agent General STATEN ISLAND "THE BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF THE SEA." Hourly Excursions across the Bay of New York at TEN CENTS EACH. The most healthful, the cheapest and most accessible trip out of New York. Connecting with the hourly ferries is the railroad across Staten Island, with eleven stations, nearly all of which are situated in localities surrounded with beautiful woods and sylvan retreats. For family picnics, with quiet country surroundings, no place out of New York is so cheaply, EASILY AND READILY REACHED. All trains on the Elevated Railroads lead to the Staten Island Ferry. Take the boats nearest to the Battery. Go only by the "Railway Ferry," comprising the FINEST, FASTEST AND LARGEST FERRY BOATS IN THE WORLD. SURF HOTEL, FIRE ISLAND BEACH ? N_ V_ The only natural sea-shore resort in America, long famous for its invigorating breezes, healthfulness and quiet enjoyment. WILL BE OPENED JUNE 15th. Some of the advantages of this place as a summer resort are : First. — Its pure sea breezes, always cool and refreshing. Second. — Excellent beach, which affords superb surf bathing; also still water bathing, if preferred to surf. Third. — At the very doors of the hotel you may revel in the sand or sea. Fourth. — Sailing and fishing can be enjoyed to perfection in the waters of the Great South Bay and Ocean. Fifth. — It is the only place near New York where those suffering from "hay fever ''or " rose cold " can obtain relief. Sixth. — A certain relief for catarrh. Seventh. — For children it is a paradise. Eighth. — Here may be enjoyed all the beneficial effects of the Ocean, without the discomforts of a sea voyage. Ninth. — The air is always cool at Fire Island. Tenth. — The hotel is supplied with pure water, has excellent drainage, is lighted with gas, and has accommodations for 400 guests. Also ten cottages in connection with the hotel. Eleventh. — It is the "place of places" in which to get rid of chills and malarial fever. Rooms may be secured by telegraph. Through tickets and baggage checked to hotel. TBAIXS WILL LEAVE L. L CITY, 8.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. D. S. S. SAMMIS & SON. Pavilion Hotel and Cottages, Opened for the season^ April 1st, and will remain opei\ till November 1st. 31r. JA31ES SLATER, OF THE " BERKELEY," FIFTH AVE., COR. 9th ST., NEW YORK, OWNER AND PROPRIETOR. GOOD STABLE ACCOMMODATION. During the past Winter the Pleasure Boat " Pavilion" has been built and launched. She is owned by the Hotel, and is for the plea- sure of its guests, their children and nurses. Under the charge of a competent Captain she will make two Excursions each day on the Great South Bay. Conveyances to the Dock will leave the Hotel at 9.§0 a.m. and 2.S0 p.m. ; returning will arrive home at 12.§0 and £.00 p m. NO CHARGES WILL BE MADE. MANHANSET HOUSE, Shelter Island, L, I., X. T. Opens June 24th, 1884, E. N. WILSON, Proprietor. SEA CLIFF HOUSE, Long Island. Delightfully situated on Hempstead Harbor, 26 miles from New York. Capacity, 400 guests. Access by boat or rail Excellent facilities for bathing, boating and fishing. Connected with the hotel are telegraph, billiard hall and laundry. RATES PER WEEK, $10 to $20; $3 J' Kit DAY. PEET & DAILEY, - - - Owners and Proprietors. Circulars sent on application, Plans seen and engagements made at 74 WEST 35th STREET, NEW YORK. CLIFFWOOD HOUSE, SEA CLIFF, L. I. THIS DELIGHTFUL SUMMER RESORT WILL OPEN IN MAY, Elevation 180 feet. Sandy soil, dry atmosphere. Three minutes from bathing grounds and steamboat landing. Twenty-six miles from New York ; access by boat or cars. Application and terms at No. 74 WEST 35th STREET, NEW YORK, A. DAILEY, Owner and Proprietor. PAVILION HOTEL, Opposite Long Beach, WOODSBURGH, L. I. ON HIGH GROUND. Eighteen miles from Brooklyn. Accommodation for 300 guests. Has gas and running water in every room. Furnished in best style i black walnut furniture, Brussels carpets, best beds and bedding. Billiard room, bowling alley and large stables. Surf and still-water bathing. Music throughout the season. M. E. GLADWIN, Manager, Office of Estate of SAMUEL WOOD, Room 60, Temple Court 3 to 9 BEEKMAN ST., N. Y. CHOICE BUILDING LOTS AND VILLA SITES. Lots from $100 to $500. TERMS EASY TO ACTUAL SETTLERS. COTTAGES TO LET and FOR SALE. HEALTHY and ECONOMICAL HOMES for SUMMER or WINTER. Please call on or address A. L. SIMMSON, Temple Court, 3 to 9 Beekman St., New York. 8 JAMAICA HOTEL, JAMAICA, L. I. HOTEL ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN. ROOMS BY THE DAY, WEEK OR MONTH. GOOD LIVERY STABLE ATTACHED. ALONZO B. PETTIT, Proprietor, Formerly of REMSEN'S HOTEL, corner of Beaver and Fulton Streets. PECK'S HALL OF PHARMACY, JAMAICA, L. I. PURE DRUGS, GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES; Imported and Domes- tic FANCY GOODS; SURGICAL APPLIANCES. The best as- sortment on Long Island, at fair prices for best goods. PRESCRIPTIONS COMPOUNDED DAY OR NIGHT BY COMPETENT PHARMACISTS. GEORGE L. PECK. BEERS & CORNELL, Corner Union Avenue and Fulton Street, JAMAICA, L. X, — ARE DEALERS IN — HAY, GRAIN AND FEED OF ALL KINDS. Also carry a full stock of finest Teas, Coffee, Fancy and Staple Groceries, Flour, etc., and make pure and reliable Farm and Garden Seeds a specialty, having arrangements with the best growers in the country. Are agents for Harrison & Bros'. Ready-Mixed Paints and Wiard Chilled Plows, and can furnish satisfactory prices on goods in large or small quantities. J. <3c T ADIKES, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Flour, Feed, Hay, Farm and Garden Seeds and General Merchandise. SEED POTATOES A SPECIALTY. DIVISION STREET, near Railroad Depot, - - JAMAICA, L. I. THE BLYDENBURGH SUFFOLK WAGON, WITH TOP, No. 44. Patented. These carriages are all made by day's work and by skilled mechanics, have steel axles and tire, corduroy trimmings, and in a word, are strictly a fine, not a cheap, wagon. These wagons are made in three sizes, one, two and three seated, and with or without canopy tops. They are the summer tourists' ideal depot and runabout wagon. They are light and hang low, are very strong, and more than ordinarily attractive. Send for catalogue and prices. Price of tliis Wagon is $135. C. M. BIYDENBURGH, Manufacturer, Riverhead, N. Y. NAT. W. FOSTER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN GOOD, RELIABLE, HONEST INSURANCE, LIFE, ACCIDENT, FIRE AND TORNADO. Represents some of the very best companies in the world. Business solicited from all parts of the Island. RIVERHEAD, LONG ISLAND. JOSEPH B. EVERITT & SONS, LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES, Flushing Ave,, rear of Town Rail, Jamaica, L, I. SKIDMORE, f 9 STJjF^OjLfK: CO., YORK. GEORGE H. RIVERHEAD, NEW Stony Brook, Suffolk County, L I. "D ECENTLY remodelled, refitted and refurnished, pleasantly located, close proximity to depot Av and bathing grounds. Excellent salt water bathing, boating and fishing, romantic scenery, and shady drives. This house is the most pleasantly located and every way the most desirable summer resort on the north side of the island. TERMS, $7 TO $10 PER WEEK. STONY BROOK is a romantic and charming little village, located among the hills in view of Long Island Sound. Its advantages — healthfulness, no mosquitoes, fine water privileges and less than two hours' ride from the city. Visit this little village and see for yourself before making arrange- ments for summer board. For further information, address THOMAS B. SMITH, Stony Brook, L. I. F. W. DEVOE & CO., Cor. Fulton and. \V il liam Streets, ]N"ew York, MANUFACTURERS OF Dry Colors, Colors in Oil, White Lead, Fine Varnishes and Japans, Coach and Car Colors ground in Japan, READY MIXED PAINTS, FINE BRUSHES, ARTISTS' MATERIALS, etc., etc. FEED. W. DEVOE. JAS. F. DKUMMOND. J. SEAVER PAGE- OYSTER BAY. -^THE ACKER NASSAU HOUSE, *- Broadway and Spring St., HARRY C. ACKER. This house is open the whole year for guests. Billiard Saloon, with bar supplied with the best. Large hall for concerts, balls, etc. Stabling, with sheds for horses and wagons. Combining comforts of a home with pleasure of a road house. Is not excelled by any. Stages connect via Syosset and Locust Valley Stations, Long Island Railroad. m a ACKEBt -•^PROSPECT HOUSE,*- BAY SHORE, LONG ISLAND. This large and beautifully situated hotel, located on the "Great South Bay," directly opposite Fire Island Light and in full view of the broad Atlantic, will be open for the reception of guests on the first of May. The magnificent water front of this house cannot be excelled by any hotel in the vicinity of New York. The surroundings are perfect in healthfulness and beauty. Ozone can here be inhaled in all its purity and abundance. No Malaria or insects of any kind to disturb or annoy the sojourner in search of health or pleasure. The Great South Bay, on which the house is situated, is renowned for the abundance and variety of fish, and its facilities for sailing parties and yachtsmen. In fact, the Prospect House offers that great desideratum, so long sought by the more refined classes in New York and elsewhere, of a beautiful and quiet sea- side home, undisturbed by excursionists or the ruder elements of life. Bay Shore is in all respects the Newport of Long Island. Trains for Prospect House, Bay Shore, leave Long Island City at frequent intervals. Time from Long Island City to Bay Shore, one hour ; ten minutes' walk to railroad station. Hotel stages meet all trains. For terms, etc., apply to N. P. SEWELL, Proprietor. CONGRESS HALL, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Mr. R. H. Southgate again becomes interested in the management of this well-known estab- lishment, and promises that it will be maintained first-class in every particular. Terms to suit the times. CLEMENT, COX & SOUTHGATE. LONG BEACH HOTEL, Long Island, N. Y. Thoroughly select and first-class family resort. Theodore Thomas's Orchestra. Finest beach, safest bathing. No malaria, no hay fever. The children's paradise. SOUTHGATE & HAMMOND. ADIRONDACKS PROSPECT HOUSE, Blue Mountain Lake. Finest hotel at any mountain resort in America. Electric lights and running water in every room. Surrounded by the primitive forest two thousand feet above sea level. No hay fever. R. H. SOUTHGATE, Propinetor. MURRAY HILL HOTEL, NEW YORK. The largest and. finest constructed hotel in the city, one block from. Grand Central Depot, Will open August 20th. 1884. HUNTING & HAMMOND. THOUSAND ISLANDS HOUSE, Alexandria Bay, N. Y. First- class in every respect. No malaria, no hay fever. Perfect drain- age. Pure water. Finest fishing in America. It. H. SOUTHGATE. PALISADES MOUNTAIN HOUSE, Englewood Cliffs, on the Hudson. Forty-five minutes by steamboat from New York. Will open in June D. S. HAMMOND. WIVE. WALL'S SONS, MANUFACTURERS OF MANILA SISAL. JUTE AND TARRED CORDAGE and OAKUM. Office, 113 Wall Street, New York. H. Mendinhall, Tres. Clement B. Smyth, V. Tres. and Treas. Geo. W. Todd, Sec. DIAMOND STATE IRON CO., WILMINGTON, DEL MANUFACTURERS OF RAILWAY TRACK FASTENINGS and MERCHANT BAR IRON, Cable and Rivet Iron, Hor?e Shoe Iron, Fish Joints, Bolts, Railroad Spikes Ship Spikes, Horse and Mule Shoes, Washers, Bridge Work, Hot and Cold Pressed, Nuts, Lag Screws, Bolt Ends, e:c. NEW YORK OFFICE, Coal and Iron Exchange, Courtlandt and Xew Church Sts. HOLBROOK BROTHERS, IMPORTERS OF AND DEALERS IN FRENCH A2VD AMERICAN WINDOW and PLATE GLASS, 87 and 89 Beekman St., 53 and 55 Cliff St., NEW YORK- ISAAC E. HOLBROOK HARRY HOLBROOK. Ch. H. Raymond, Pres. P. M. Millspaugh, V. Pres. and Gen'l Manager. MANHATTAN OIL COMPANY, OFFICE, 51 Front Street, New York. WORKS, 419, 421, 423 and 425 E. 112th St. Manufacturers and Sole Proprietors of MASON'S SPERM, MANHATTAN SIGNAL, EXTRA LARD, Tallow and Mystic Coal Oils, Refined Tallow, and Tallow Stearine for Export and Railroad use, also Sperm, Elephant, Whale, Paraffine, West Va., Olive and Cotton Seed Oils of all kinds. Machinery, Cylinder and Valve Oils for Railroads, Steamers, Woolen and Cotton Factories, Machinery and Burning, j B Carpenter, Treasurer. J. A. Clussman, Secretary. VALENTINE & COMPANY, Varnishes and Colors, 245 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. CHICAGO. BRANCHES = BOSTON. PARIS. THE JOHN A, ROEB LING'S SONS CO,, MANUFACTURERS OF mOXT AUD STEEL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND FOR EVERY PURPOSE. Galvanized Fence, Market and Vinevard Wire. GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE WIRE A SPECIALTY. — ANI WIRE OR" EVE RY DESCRIPTION GALVANIZED WIRE CLOTHES LINES. WINDOW SCREEN CLOTH. BUCK-THORN BARBED FENCING. THE JOHN A. ROEBLING'S SONS CO., NEW YORK OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE: 117 and 119 LIBERTY STREET. works: trenton, N. J. H. L. SHIPPY, Manager. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN IRON and STEEL. AGENCIES z PORTAGE IRON CO. (Limited), Merchant Iron and Soft Steel. NORWAY STEEL AND IRON CO., Homogeneous Steel Plates. BAY STATE IRON CO., Tank, Boiler and Girder Plates. BRANDYWINE ROLLING MILL, Boiler Plates. GLASGOW TUBE WORKS, Boiler Flues. A. M. BYERS <5r> CO., Wrought Iron Pipe. CARNEGIE BROS. &> CO. (Limited), Iron and Steel Beams, Channels, Shapes, and Shafting. H P. NAIL CO:S Steel Wire Nails. BROOKLYN WIRE NAIL CO. THE CHESTER PIPE AND TUBE CO. Plans and estimates furnished and contracts made for erecting iron structures of every description. Books containing cuts of all iron made sent on application by mail. Sample pieces at office. Please address 58 Hudson Street, New York. HENRY S. MANNING. EUGENE L. MAXWELL. CHAS. A. MOOBL MANNING, MAXWELL & MOORE, Railway & Machinists' Tools & Supplies, III and 113 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. —AGENTS FOR— THE ASHCROFT MANUFACTURING CO. THE CONSOLIDATED SAFETY VALVE CO. MORSE TWIST DRILL and MACHINE CO.'S TAPS, DIES, SCREW PLATES, Etc THE HANCOCK INSPIRATOR CO. NILES TOOL WORKS, MACHINE SHOP AND CAR TOOLS. POND MACHINE TOOL CO.'S LATHES, PLANERS, DRILLS, Etc. Worcester Machine Screw Co. Brady's Emery Grinding Machinery. The Billow Co.'s Engines and Boilers. Smith's Hub Friction Clutches. Keystone Portable Forge Co. Midrale Steel Co.'s Tires, Axles, Forgings and Castings. Huntington Track Gauges. Saunder's Corrugated Copper Packing and Gaskets. Hoopes & Townsend's Nuts, Bolts, Washers, Lag Screws and Rivets. Bett's Machine Co.'s Gauges, Etc. Morgan Engineering Co.'s Steam Hammers, Punches and Shears, Etc. The Long & Alstatter Co.'s Punching and Shearing Machinery. Prentice Bros. ' Drill Presses. F. E. Reed's Lathes and Drills. American Tool and Machine Co.'s Brass Workers' Tools. Brainard Milling Machine Co. Valley Machine Co.'s Steam Pumps. Westcott's Lathe and Drill Chucks. Colliau Furnace Co.'s Iron Melting Cupolas. Page Belting Co. ^ UcCLAV£ 4 MILLS. YARD. Georgia and Florida. Hunter's Point, Long Island City. New York Office: 18 BROADWAY. TELEPHONE CALLS : \ BR0ADWAY 2 J 5> f or °ffi ce > *8 Broadway. I 2 WILLIAMSBURGH, for Office at Hunter's Point. SHELTER ISLAND, N. Y, The property upon which the Prospect House is situated rises in a gradual slope from the beach to a height of over two hundred feet, the highest elevation on the island. Has electric bells and other modern conveniences, and comfortably accommodates two hundred and fifty guests. Its sanitary condition is pronounced perfect. Located upon the ground is an inexhaustible spring oi the pure water for which Shelter Island is renowed, and from which the hotel is supplied. THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, with its fast trains from New York or Brooklyn to Greenport, thence by Ferry to Prospect, one and one-half miles distant, arriving at the hotel in two hours and thirty minutes. Baggage should be checked to Greenport, where hotel porters will meet guests and take charge of baggage. Also by the steamer W. W. Coit from Peck Slip, New York, and daily by steamer from New London and Hartford, connecting with trains at these points. The Hotel will open the 19th of June. Special rates for two or more weeks. Transient Bate, $3.50 per day. D. P. HATHAWAY, Proprietor, Late Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. Ft. J. CHARD, MANUFACTURER OF COACH OIL, VALVE OIL, SIGNAL OIL, CAR OIL and COOLING COMPOUND, a Lubricant for Hot Car Boxes, all of which are in nse on the L. I. R.R. No. 6 BURLING SLIP, NEW YORK. Established 1855. A. Spadone, President. THE GUTTA PERCHA AND RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. Rubber Belting, Packing and Hose, Vulcanized Rubber Goods for Mechanical Purposes. No. 23 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK. S. T. BAKER. E> H . BAKER. S. T. BAKER & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF AXD DEALERS IX Lubricating and Burning Oils, 295 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. J. W. & T. D. JONES, LUMBER AND TIMBER DE Al EE R S_, Corner West iisicl Kent Streets, Adjoining 10th and 2Sd Sts. Ferries. GREENPOINT. L. I. THOS. D. JONES. ECONOMIST. PERRY & GO,, 84 Beekman St., NEW YORK. Oil Stoves, Parlor Stoves, Cooking Stoves, Hot Air Furnaces. ECONOMIST. PIERSON r AIV 13 R XI INT, PRACTICAL TINSMITH, PLUMBER AND JOBBER, Also dealer in FURNACES, STOVES, PUMPS, SINKS, Lead and Iron Pipe. CUTLERY, TOILETWARE, BATH-TUBS and a good assortment of Plain Tin and Japanned Ware. COOK- ING UTENSILS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, COPPER, BRASS, SHEET-IRON and TIN- WARE, MADE TO ORDER AT SHORT NOTICE. JOBES LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, L. I. CARPENTER AND BUILDER, SOUTHAMPTON, L. I. WORK DONE BY CONTRACT, ON PERCENTAGE OR BY THE DAY. NEW ENGLAND BAKERY and ICE CREAM SALOON, SOUTHAMPTON, L. 1. The proprietor, GEORGE F. WINES, will run a wagon daily through the village, and supply his customers with fresh Bread, Rolls, Cakes and Pies. ALL ORDERS FOR WEDDING CAKES, Etc., WILL MEET PROMPT ATTENTION. POTTER & PRICE, FtE AL ESTATE AGENTS, PATCHOGUE, L. I. Farms, Village Residences and. Villa Plots For Sale. Furnished Cottages for the Summer to Rent. Main St., BatcJiogne, L. T. FIRST CLASS IN ALL ITS APPOINTMENTS. SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF THE VILLAGE. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO TRANSIENT GUESTS. TOURIST, COMMERCIAL MEN, FISHING AND GAMING PARTIES, Etc. H. C. LOSEE, Proprietor. A. FISHEL, Dry Goods, Carpets and Furniture, MAIN and PINE STREETS, PATCHOGUE. Patchogue, L. I. Opens June 1st. Accommodates 75 Guests. Terms, $2.50 per day; $10 to $15 per week. This house, fronting the Great South Bay, 200 feet from the water, cannot fail to please, with its large airy rooms, good beds, a well supplied table, wide piazzas, ample grounds, docks, yachts, row-boats and bathing. Is ten minutes from depot. Reference if required. Our Stage meets all Trains. W. M. JENKINS, Proprietor. ROE'S HOTEL, PATCHOGUE, L. I. Open the year round. Accommodation for 150. FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. XX J. ADJOINING POST OFFICE, PATCHOGUE, I l_ _ ALONZO E. SMITH, YACHT BUILDER, ISLIB, L. I. Builder of Yachts COMET, HILDEGARD. SAGITTA. ONWARD, WINDWARD, LANCER, MYSTERY and others. Having two sets of railways, I am prepared to haul out and overhaul vessels at short notice. Repairs executed with despatch. Established 1849. LAKE HOUSE, AMOS R. STELLENWERF, Proprietor, ISLIP, Long Island. Situated near the Great South Bay and Ocean. Neighborhood excellent, and the health of place proverbial. The table is provided with the best the markets afford. Terms, $3 per day. Special terms to families by the season. 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