New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-10

hundrcd,and ffh-st up Bloomugdaleroad to Eleventh
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| WASHINGTON HiGHTS3
With tbe execution OF one carriage factory Washington
Nights has no manufacturing interests IL Is PRINCIPALLY
remarkable for the pcndor OF its scenery ana It's social
briancy as place of residence some OF me ioiemoSV
OF New-Yorl citizens reside there 1t Is included between
the Hudson and Harlem rivers, and One-hundredand-
nfty-ffth and Observation-Disclosures by 1862
s resorvor "a expected 10 no completed Its sewerage
and strcetlghts already eiclent property has IN
creased and Is increasing; s1 N ad LOIS %lsn 10 ~
times that price The average price demanded $3.50
large estates have already been IN the market for
time and the sale Of such remnants of them remain
public buildings Washington Nights possesses
nattractiye. Among them are French School for Boys
Home for Destitute Boys, Public School, and Deaf
and Dumb Asylum.
DoBBs FERRY
DObbs Ferry, like Bergen Point is another Of those
proxmities which never win improve quite as much
Workers would like to see IT, until II is granted
act Of incorporation origin obscure it's hav
ing been gwen to it by family of the Of DobbS.
who ran ferry there upward Of hundred years ago.
1t Is filed with handsome residences, but is not very
much Of manufacturing place, its only mandatory at
present being lagerbeer brewery 1t is located twenty
miles NewYOTk and remained very insignificant
village until within the last IS years, when the Hudson
River Railroad went by it, and NewYork merchants
commenced to buy land and build houses there High
st. has lately been macadamzed and graded Ashfords
is being beautihed with new buildings gas lights the
house and new Presbyterian church viii shortly add TO
the architectural attractions OF the place No more sig
fact that lands which formerly sold from $50 500
acre, now sell at from sl,9 to $1,000
YoNKERs.
1t has been just about dozen years since the Legisla
ture granted an act of incorporation Yonkers 1t is
equally noted for the beauty OF Its scenery the elegance
its private residences and the thrift of its manufac
turers Like Tarrytown, it has smack of Revolutionary
history. and is one Of those smart places when,
| in spite Of being dignifed by ancient memo
ton was only 300 In 1861 its population q 1000
hudson River Railroad passed there, Yonkers began to
grow. Artemus Ward and Edwin Forrest USED 10 nave
sti have 1t covers area Of about q miles square
and is abundanty stocked with oeati esuo F h
declivy on which Yonkers is built, and at te norm
being built Between % and 80 in different stages
of progression during the Fall The estimated cost OF mo
new Savings Bank is $4,000 The public schools are
increased within the last ten years At the very eXre-
village land witch in 1852 sold for little than 500
per readily brings $1,000 per acre. Within tho
corporation limits the average price OF lots 20 feet by
hundred is q $50 The business spirit OF nonkers Is e4
said the largest Of the kind in the world and fur
nishes constant 10 between goo aq so men se
tories, beadtrnmng factory, mower ana reaper
factory, two sewing silk factories, carpet factory an
Oundery half dozen mills for lumber, mahogany
three mschneshops &c OF all the suburbs YcEeI5 Is
featuring elements are blended to perfection
HASTINGS.
In Summer Hastings is of the most greeny bcau-
tful Of all the suburbs Of NewYork IL is full Of that
repose due to verdure and Quoude which the American
mind is supposed to appreciate less than the excitement
Of city turmoil Until within twenty year, contained
very few houses-the Hudson River Railroad, by passing
through II 1919 first giving the impetus from which
1t has never relaxed It's population now about 5000 one
sixth Of whom children who attend the public school
The interest which New Workers have taken property
there has advanced the value of from 500 20 5000
per AZ Hastings, well as at all the stations one
arrives at before reaching IT, the old Albany postroPd,
now known as Broadway, is being macadamized Gas
pipes are already LAID ana rows OF lamps VII oop tese
suburbs TO the city Hastings is provided with gas. but
has neither water nor sewerage one OF the features OF
this neighDOrhOOd Is ls valuable quaIeS tuIee III mum
ber ore beng pink limestone another gneiss granite
aud the third white marble From The latter the nco
soonest stores in Hastings, were built The pink lime
Dutch Reformed Church. and the gneiss granite contrib
uted 10 the public school, which. archtecturaly speak
With magnificent residences taste for beauty is evil
dent eyeIywhsre Even the railway station is 1yToese
Episcopal Church win next Spring be added Nor are
factory and maehneshop are IN operation, and an
unusually extensive sugar refinery Y dong hourshng
manufacture Of chemical manures is not likely TO md
much favor from the holders OF Communication tcSe@ho
have their homes there PeIhaps 40 hotee OF ha5,gs
ought TO be closed, without reiepnce to the tIity
a ,0 tbo only parties in the tinted States That
have as yet Manufactured sherry from the lsa-
bella The visitor 10 Hastings has the oIpOflu-
nifty Of feastng his eyes upon number OF beautunl
stations before he arrives there One OF these Inwood
mapnfactures Another is spuyten Duyvel which de-
interest from its nfoundery and building
tendencies. Hverdale Mount ST. Vincent, and GlenwOod
follow in succession but are more remarkable ior their
handsome residences than for their manufacturing inter
ests.
TarrytOwn has Revolutionary history and in 1874 the
property which It included underwent cOnhscaOn Sew
eral capitalists purchased the tracts into which the pro-
perry was divided. Until the year 1878, TarrytOwn
grew slowly and passengers by the Hudson River Rail-
road found little TO see and admire II New
York enterprise that first took hold OF Tarytown and
trimmed 1t into it's present shape Mr. Edmund Coffin II
was who first detected its capabilities, and Immediately
commenced buying lands In the neighborhood. Many
magnificent private residences and castles which would
bear comparison with baronal halls OF the feudal ages
have been erected in the vicinity OF IafTytOwn
Its memorial church, In memory OF Washington Irving
(whO resided rvlngton mile souh cost 10000 and
the site il in tho immediate vicinity OF sleepy Hollow
aud the cemetery where Washington Irving sleeps. 1t
was proposed to make the majority OF the seats free
Tarrytown has also marble monument, SIGNALLING the
spot where Major Andre was captured on the YORK
and Albany turnpike, mile the north The suburb
contains about 5000 inhabitants, and its manufactures
are limited to sewlngsik and chemical manure FAC
tory, beside saw-m grisnill, and shop for mold
ing Mr. Thomas H. Purdys new hall, In Orchardst, Will
alnuseents general and erection OF the Colored
Methodist Church and st. Marks Episcopal Church will
be warmly welcomed by the religious community larry
town an aiuent place. II one is to Judge By the num-
and its incorporation city will give it just the impe
tus 1t needs At present the price OF land there
between $1,000 and 5000 per acre The New-York and
Albany turnpike has lately been wdcned graded and
lighted, and the streets generally being sidewalked
With the NewYork enterprise represented by the capi
tass at present living there Tarfyown ought to enjoy
a better system OF streetighting and sewerage.
ASTORIA
Astoria is OF those suburbs which appears more 10
ones love Of elegance than to his love OF progress In
the mder seasons Of the year, its white Villas Its Tyro
lese cottages ITS winding drives sudden and delicious
OutlOOks upon the East River, and the dreamy air OF
secluson with which the soft eenness and the glow OF