The Newtown bee., 1880-12-15
Newtown's Opportunity. Our
 New Railroad, &e.

l tll1 IN. | tN N iI' INt Ib oO. WILL DC OPti6h l for public travel. Few Of your readers as. yet realize, perhaps, the importance of this enterprise to our villagers. st is the shortest thoroughfare between New York and Boston; it is direet route to the
 vast West, crossing the Hudson at Fish,
 kill and connecting directly with the N I Y., Lake Erie X Western it opens anoth- er market for our produce as near as
 Brid ,eport (Waterhury), and conveys us to the States capitol i'll one-half the time and at half the cost incurred by any other line; it is the only line approaching New l York City upon the west side, piercing the very centre and penetrating the whole
 length of the greatest city of our conti- nent, by means of the Metropolitan Ele-
 vated road, from 158th street to the Bat
 tery. The N. Y. X N. E. Go. is a live, | wholp-souled, generous corporation, ably
 officered, and now operating, including it's
 branches, nearly 800 miles of railway in
 the New England states alone. It has generously volunteered, in order to at
 tract settlement along it's line, to give free tickets or passes for two years to the
 first occupants of all dwellings hereafter
 erected costing S1, 900, and for three years
 for houses costing $3 900 and upwards. This applies as yet to portions of it's line,
 but the privileges are to be extended as
 soon as practicable. This new road and
 it's equipments are first class in every re- spect. The company have just completed
 a connections depot for the accom- moda-
 tiOn of the people of our Street" at it's
 nearest possible point of approach in
 Hanover, near the residence of Mir E,I-
 ward Fai' child.
 The accomplishment of all this must
 result to our mutual advantage. Ours is
 |" a city that is set upon hill" The rail
 road cannot come to Newtown proper, so
 Newtown must go to the railroad. This
 manifestation of spirit on the eonpany's
 part suggests something for us to do, viz,
 to construct a iirst-class highway from the
 Street to Hanover. That Hanover road ''
 has been the subject of more ridicule and
 adverse criticism in days past than almost
 any other connected with the towns ad-
 ministrati0n. It is unnecessary to in uulif NIltIf Illt ldNIIb i9, LID ViiouSl IuSlt tAe highway is and must remain an en-
 during reprOach until the people who are mindful of their own and the towns ulti-
 mate interest will take the matter in hand
 and work out a reform. Let it be agita-
 ted and remedied. Where is the man who iS ambitious for monument of gratitude, who will take the initiatory step in this
 movement ? Call out the committee on
 Village Improvem ent." Reform is
 peccssary!" B. The New York and Northern Railway VIII connect with the Metropolitan Rail road, and will run as far as Brewster $
 Station, 55 miles hence, where it joins the : New York and New England Road. Very
 little is known or has been said in 1he public prints of this corporation, con
 trolled by a few rich men, who have kept the stock in their own hands. They bought, a little while ago, all the rights
 of the old Boston and Hartford) road, on which s ,000, 900 had already been spent for some S7OO, ,OGO, and have since been ac
 lively pushing the work toward compile tion. Many of t"e persons interested are
 owners of handsome country seats up the Hudson, who hy the new road will he able to come directly Gown town as far as Wal , street without ny delay or break in theil , journey, the New York and Northern l trains running over the Metropolitan and = the Metropolitan cars running over the ' New York and Northern. This will be 2 l great gain in convenience and time, as , they have at present to change from one l line to tho other. number cf railway | magnates and other millionairps hay, - their Summer homes all along the Hud F son, from Inwood (Tuhhie Hook to Gar l risnn'S. They are most numerous betwepl r. Yonkers and Sing Sing. In that vicinit, n reside during the warm months, on beau 5 tiful estates, Maturin Livingston, Davit Il Dows. E. s. Jaffrav, Cyrus w. Field Sam 6 IIel J. Tilden, Henry Willard, ex.Mayo l. Kingsland, William Aspinwall, c. II. Lii = ionthal, William E. Dodge, MT. Cottinet ,, David McGuire. Sidney Dillon, Jay Goulr - and divers others. A year or two az,
 Gould bought the handsome marble coun
 try house and grounds about POO acres
 with magnificent greenhouses, of the es v. tate of Col. George Merritt who hat T made large fortune out of rubber cu5h ions for railway car springs. Col Mer ;, ritt had spent fully S1 000 GOO on hi place. It costs, it is said, $100. 900 annu ,, ally to carry it on, and Gould got it fo $500, ,000. Many of the seats up the Hud
 i.; ,, ity of the Metropolis. Having the ieneh
 of age, they are without any of the crude
 ness or ruzgedness inseparable from ne' places. The Chauncey estate readily It calls Europe, because, having been a
 lowed to run to waste, it seems decided W ly ancient. It contains 300 acres, whie
 have been neglected for years on aeeoun = of the absence of the family in Paris ~ The private residence is literally falliu
 to pieces, as are the paviliohs, music 'H stand, arbors, and greenhouses. Tn
 fish pond is turbid and full Of leaves, an Io everything is going to decay. The famil '' will not keep it up nor sell it, and the 's cannot rent it, if they would, under tn circumstances. The completion Of th " new railway will doubtless, add to til " already great Summer attractiveuess ~ the region along the Hudson. -Neao To, n- Times.
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 e, FROM HIGH BRIDGE TO BREwsTER's. Is An excursion was made yesterday ov, e. the line of the New York and Northel ,o Railroad Company from High Bridge 1 .n Brewster's. The special train startt l' from the southern terminus of the road