The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-05-13
ORANGE. THEN and NOW.
The Old Owners snd the New In and near
PIctmrcsa IIeMelI,M rnrL.


The Old Owners snd the New In and near
Picturesque Iieweiiyn Park.
Several important changes in real estate
have been made in Orange y. j.. this spring.
and, hard as the times have been. there have
been some marked improvements in private
residences some fine stone houses having been
built Mr.. Samuel Colgate and Mr.. Edward
Austin have bought twcnty-four acres In Har-
rison street. running back TO a frontage in SAN
ford street, paying II 500 per acre. In 1870 the
land was held at $1,000 per acre. and would
have brought e. son an acre. Mr.. Wallis was
authorized recently to offer $4,000 for gothic
stone house and twenty acres on the
mountain side. The place changed owners
year ago for that sum. John N.Whitng refused
i25 900 for his place. lIc has four acres Mr..
Edward Austin refused $4,000 for his resi-
dcnce in Centre street Mr.. J. O. Gmhernet.
Spanish Vice-Consul in this city. has a place on
the mountain ridge. twelve acres. for which he
had an offer OF u round sum recently. hut did
not desire to sell. Mr. Lowell Mason recently
built Ave houses at Mountain Station. which are
rented at ten per cent. ON the investment. He
asked s.. $50 To- iG.uUO each for the houses and
regretted plump otcr ~ So.5UO lnr one. Tho
ia owned 10y Col. John Watson Of Ferry street.
IL" paid SduOuu for IL. and, II is said. spent
$4,000 IN hoautfying the place. Geo. f.. lam
lin has built "A hands me rrsidrnce near Noun
tam station at "A cost of $4,000. Marcus Sayro
ls building a stone house on the rldg" west OF
Mountain Station Mr. Gardner Il. Colby a
well-known merchant of New York. has altered
ana almost rebuilt his residence. An outlay Il
s3u.uuO hns changed tie old hospitnbly home
rteHd TO the style ~ vogue in tho days ~ Queen
Anne. Thomas =. kiugmnn ~ A.. T. stewart 4
Co... has bought seven acres in Elliott place.
and VIII erect fine house.
Itwiii he Son Tia, Orang" Is still in sutStan.
ta hands A. elsewhere. property has rrccdrd
from ne prices current In the palmy DAYS; 1t
was said in derisiou fifteen years ago that " Or
anlse was made ~ oi brooklyn aukees." But
the Brooklyn Yankee have. perhaps. better
than any community within nifty miles Of New
York, nHintained themselves. There is 4 New
England Society IN Orange numbering 40
men,hers; Mr; 4; A. Howe is President, and
Secretary Tho public schools are good; the
roads are maeadamiiSed. and The debt 81 the
ar. good AMI liberal rliilens.
Twenty years ago Mr.. l.lrwcllyn $. Haskell. n
m"mh.r of the old drug house 1t Haskell Mer-
peutrn ~. H. bought seven hundred acres ON
The mountain side. north II Orange and aiIoin.
Ing H.. II" ncorporntri the land NJ park and
named IL Llcwrilyn Park. He graded the land,
MAIDS good substantial roads. erected III FUR
rsuue lodge and through q lrigs - rock built
To- the PARK. He planted trees. and the park was
To- be governed by the owners ot houses In II;
there were 10 be no fences. and permission To
drive through IL was given or withheld by the
dietum 81 tho owners
j eNltWS IN various places IN Inc Ihfk are
superb. From tho Hill top the spire Of Trinity
Church IN New York IL seen; the thickly settled
Bergen Hill Is seen in the middle foreground,
and al your feet. SO 10 speak. are winding
streams and prosperous settlements or thrifty
and out-preudiug cities, The eye takes in
sandy HOOK. and Staten Island looms W clear
For yenrs Mr.. Haskell built and sold and built
nsnin. He built u Kind Of eyric on peak. or
Little plateau, OF the ledge. and here he viewed
his broad acres and nursed his phaniasy. Good
nirn ThW" around lm "a III, fhrs. Mr.
surunc,. Company built" Home Wood. away up
TN hillside, but sheltered from the northwest
winds. Mr.. Martin has Kept busy, building and
improving. and now M gI9sfhonseS cover
7. b. Merrick. II. y. Aunhincloss. u. A. Head.
Grccn. j u. Jnid. i. {. DIS Ross {. brown.
ing, Egbert Starr. Levi Z. stone. d. /" WALLACE,
mi Wiilnm David. and Chas. Green. Mr..
il,cemun and Mgrri x arr daad Some solid
men have been uld"d to the PARK. AleNundor
tudnut mas followed IN me, wake ot ms
brethren, Of tho mortar, 9nd Gyms a ilpe
Mr.. Haskell. struggled Tor years and, dying,
bequhatncd an interest in the Park, sup
dollars to liz son. Who iai served in tHa ' war
on ttc stan Of Cen. Fremont. The son inner.
tied the fathers hopeful temperament and
waited and hoped for years, lat not long ago
the SON abandoned i.lrwollyn PARK. AMI IL now
earning % crust NJ honkkeeper in Il commercial
The PARK vas topped by those who bought
the ridlr ana hui,t n string ~ houses npuR It's
clgr. Thai edge wu- settled by DR.. T.. l.. Marcy
AMI Mr., I. ), q. cobb. and 10 those have been
ud.l,l br Mn. Adams and hil law. J.
Crosby brown, and Gen. 'Clcllan whose resi-
dcu"e "a the elm gav" him the legal status by
which hr reached the Stuto House ~ Trenton.
The lhtr Bishop danes owned u mouse on tho
ridge. the ridEo H. expensive; N" pun 10 the
top is long Hni tough. som" 81 the owners llte
there all the wear round. II IL bleak ana cold
ia winter, hut IN summer IT is charm n., ana
the mosquitoes do not venture 20 lar away
from the marshes.
ono Of the unfortunate speculators Of Orange
is David y. Ropes. once Mayor Of the city He
bought a belt vi land running north from the
city and Gust Of the Park. He built houses.
graded and spoiled farms lthai Is. spoiled them
for farming purposes. and built II little spur Of
% railroad from Il station 81 the BlOumil'li
bran IN vuul, and all II disaster now. He Issued
bonds on In" roud. and many of them were
llueri with the trust con pnnics Of Newark.
Mr.. Ropes was aided by the Poppenhusens OF
l.un., lSlHnl but the head of that firm 10 in
hINrult.y With liabilities Of sGO0OOQO. The
late Mr.. John g. No-r owned Property between
Orange and South Orange. He improved IT,
! ALT roads. ana graded sites for houses. Mr..
Nps'. with Al- family. went lo Europe for n
"huugo. His wife died in Brighton, and tho
shock 81 that calamity, and perhaps the load Of
from friends orlrlm uu asylum IN Philadelphia,
Hud from South Jersey attempted 10 rross TIE
Atlantic with view Of gottluI: hs wife. AMI Was
drowned. His estate. his friends viii hc glad ttl
learn. yielded competency for his orphaned