The New York herald., 1879-07-06

Measures Nearly ali Of tho twenty or thirty lami-
lies of the eighborhood take boarders during the
summer and are well patronized. IL combines the
advantages OF comparatively cheap board. an alb
sence of fashion and the privileges OF wearing what
YOU please Most OF the guests live on the water and
in the cool of the afternoon run down to Long
Branch to join the throngs at the hotels
or on tho beach. Compared with many other
parts OF the country the means of going between
New York and twenty attractive summer resorts
along the line of the Central Railroad OF New Jersey
are unequalled You may leave your city home at
almost any hour in the day and in two hours more
be enjoying bath in the sea or fishing in q dozen
pretty streams all within pistol shot of the depot
where you alight Let the poor tired clerks try the
experiment for day and be satisfied. Three dollars
% a an ana amount OF hoa
and pleasure that will make the sum seem insigni-
fcant
ALONG THE soUND-sUMNER ATTRACTIONS AT
NEW ROCHELLE, LARcHMoNT MANOR, MAMAR-
oNEcK AND RYE-oLD NAMES AND OLD
PLACEs--NEw WORKERS ENJOYING COUNTRY
LIFE IN THE VICINITY OF THE CITY.
RYE. N. Y. July g. 1872
The relief offered to the great cities during the
summer months by tho quiet suburban village of
New Rochelle is neither important as the major
ity of its residents desire, they are yet des-
tined to see 1t. Upon the line of the Now Haven
Railroad 1t is less than forty minutes ride from
New York, and may also be conveniently reached by
steamer. The ground rises gently with q rolling
surface from the waters edge until. from a lofty
elevation at the back of the village magnificent
Wow afforded both of the Sound with ats endless
panorama of sail and steamer. and of the precpi
tous shores of Long Island beyond. The land
scape of the vicinity is of singular sylvan
beauty. The village sleeping beneath the shade of
venerable trees. the placid creeks the marshalled
water reeds the notionless line of foam. the white
sta tIlrap oh he m ha ifu nv
Turner. The fishing is excellent that two ANA
teurs of the goodly craft staggered home last week
under the weight of thirty-pound bass. shoal of
yachts and catboats futter round the Neptune House
upon the beach, and the boarders of that hotel
tired of bathing and boating, OF dances and
pcnics The salt breeze, fltering through the mass
Of accumulated seaweed in the South. has a flavor
which is Enthusiastically its own. The villas that
crown the promontory called Davenport's Neck are
royal in their luxury of equipment.
THE HUGUENoT SETTLEMENT.
But New Rochelle lacks the seal of popularity.
The Columbus of Summer excursions has yet to
discover it. The village remains much what it was
two hundred years ago, when the Huguenots landed
there and thought the site worthy to bear the
of their loved Rochelle Walk down Main street and
look at the names of the storekeepers and public
functionaries -'Lefevre carriage builder" Hugue-
not; lie Count. real estate agent" Huguenot;
'.De veau. steam packets" Huguenot; "Badeau.
postmaster, . Huguenot. Trinity Church is built
the ruins of that Huguenot chapel to
which the French refugees marched in solemn
procession every Sunday. The Town Clerk
still keeps the parish register of those days.
written in curiously neat characters and will show
you the papers relating to the slaves whom the
Huguenots kept. and quaint map made in I'LL
The descendants OF the old families preserve the
traditions of deeds that took place long before the
and dwell as fondly stories Of sieges
and war did Sternes Uncle Toby. There
man. almost of sternes time. who loved their com
pany, and that Tom Paine. His monument is
chopped by tourists; his bones lie in England. But
the inscription may still be read tom Paine.
thor OF Common Sense; !" and part of his common
doubtless thisthat he spent the best years
Of his life under the shade rees of New Rochelle
Paine being gone the modern hero of the village
is the great American stage driver Colonel Delaney
Kane. He is not only its president; he not only
lives in u sumptuous house on Davenport's Neck,
but he used to rattle his Tally COACH bugler.
passengers and ALL up to the doors Of the Huguenot
Hotel to the CONSERVATION of the aged hostler of
that inn. Aud as Colonel Kane thought to quicken
the life of New Rochelle. the late Simeon Leland
the hotel keeper. thought to embelsh it by build
ing an edifce known as "Lelands Castle" 1t has
meet you at the entry of the park Two cannon
stand beside the gate with the word Defiance"
craven upon them. Nevertheless the castle has
yielded to the drowsy influence Of the neighborhood
Its builder IL dead; his widow inhabits 1T at the
sutlerance of insurance company, and even the
defiant cannon are mortgaged.
THE LORDS OF THE DOMAIN
To the aristocracy OF the place you must return
ager of Davenports Neck is old Mrs. Davenport, who
still carries her eighty years to market and bargains
valiantly her ancestors fought. In revolution
ary days owned all the Neck but part OF it
is in the hands of proprietors who would accept
no possible nducement from contractors or builders
destroy it's equanimity and hood it with strangers
"As soon as our rich people buy house. said real
estate agent, ''they wan: to buy the next. They
would sell you lot tor the value OF half their
place." Foremost among these nabobs of the soil is
MIR. Clarkson N. Potter. Here his villa. "Nut-
wood;' here are his gardens and lawns here is the
fruit to whose culture he devotes his leisure he
took the first prize for Strawberries and grapes at
the last exhibition OF fruits and flowers in New York
aud sghs more for horticultural than for political
honors. Hard by is trim French rooted villa be-
longing to Mr.. Adrian Iscin, father-in-aw Of Col
oncl Delancey Kane; and to the north of il bay. .
gemmed with small islands, where stood villa Of
the late eccentric David Hudson and to the north of
that is the main shore. covered with groves and
villas, commanding Echo Bay. and the residence of
Mr.. Thaddeus David, the ink manufacturer. The
Neptune House. which overooks pretty harbor.
commodities about one hundred boarders. Most
OF the guests rich merchants with their families
from New York. They enjoy themselves vastly
quiet way and carry with them air mystery AZ
though they would SAY "Hushl we have found a
good place Tor the summer; but for goodness sake
don't bring anybody else here 50 that when the
land their excursionsts and Sunday shool
picnckers at Hudsons Park aud Starin's Glen Island
they fly back New York and the aristocrats OF the
villas hide their heads in dismay
FISHING FOR FIsHING's sAKE.
Up in the village there is always good sprinklng
of young fellows who care nothing tor the fashions
and much for the fish. For their enteri anment the
cosey, old fashioned Leroy House is kept open
Main street, wen the Hupuenot Hotel. OF coach
ing lame. Here they can buy rods ana tackle Inoie
conveniently and recite their piscatoria prowess to
larger audience than they could on the beach. Nor
is the village without either its arstocracy its
amusements. Colonel Richard Lathers has
charming place in Huguenot Park. and the villa OF
Mr. John Stephenson, tho car builder, rivals any
thing on Davcnport's Neck. Concerts organized
ut the Town Hall by local vocalists, assisted by
young ladies from the Brooklyn churches Blue
ribbon temperance clubs hold festive meetings
the grocery store, strawberry festivals quite
and the arrival OF occasionally the
4,5OO villagers to wild excitement. Two news
papers supply the neghborhood with de-
iais of the latest burglary, criticisms of tho
Town Clerk, the weight OF fish recently caught. the