The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-22
PLAINFIELD'S IMPROVEMENT.
MIR. Charles Hyde Is Spending Money
there Right Royalty.

Mr.. Charles Hyde Is Spending Money
there Right Royalty.
Over a quartz, of a mile from the main
depot a new thoroughfare has been re-
Gently cut through from Front street. 1t
runs Northwest toward Green Brook
at a point midway between Westervelt
and Franklin avenues. North Plainfield,
and is known as Sanford avenue. Mr..
William Sanford owns much of the
property there. Other large owners are
Mr.. Edward Loomis and Mr.. jeremiah
Manning. The property of Mr.. Loomis
extends to the brook. On the opposite of
the stream Mr.. Charles Hyde owns both
sides of Franklin avenue. The thorough
fare ends at Mountain avenue, but Mr..
Hyde's possessions continue on up the
mountain, and embrace some two hun
dred acres. the elegant property of John
Taylor Johnston. Mr.. Loomis recently
offered enough of his property to Mr..
Hyde to make a roadway if the latter
gentlemen would lay out the road to
connect in a circle to Crescent ave-
nue., the Joint Committee of the
Boards of Freeholders of Union and
Somerset counties ave offered to erect
an iron bridge over the stream to replace
the wooden structure swept away by the
flood, provided Mr.. Hyde will build the
abutments. The Board cannot do the
work this year because the a%ppropria-
tions will be exhausted by the erection of
the new iron bridges already contracted
for. but will AVE it included in next
years appropriations for bridges, as it
will involve no additional expense to the
tax payers, while securing a much bet
ter bridge than otherwise.
Mr.. Hyde has accepted the proposition
of MIR. LOOMS, and has already COM
menced to open the circling road to
Franklin avenue. He also thinks favor
ably of the committees proposition.
HfhpQp i'm nrnvnma ants will noo1ya Lro 1I;r
avenue one of the gramdest to
be found anywhere in New Jersey, as he
is, with his many millions of dollars, his
taste and large practical experience,
~abundantly able to carry out his elaborate
designs. The avenue is TO be made one
hundred feet wide, and continue on
through to Johnston's drive on the
mountain. 1t is to be laid out with
beautiful promenades, n on the sum
mitS of two OF the most commanding
knobs on the northeasterly side Of
Franklin e. Mr.. Hyde is to
erect two elegant 100000 mansions,
the most imposing in Plainfield.
One Of these is to be for one Of his
sons, a young man of fine attainments,
who is engaged to be married about two
years hence to a beautiful young lady.
The mansion will be a wedding gift. The
knobs are 100 feet above sea level, over
looking Plainfield. and the view from the
VI iiO AAO ia 4AAtA AT d1lhCClU
picturesque scenery will be very fine. Mr..
Hyde's son Is a member of the firm of
Dumont, Clawson 81 Hyde, of Wall street.
Mr.. Dumont is president of the Plainfield
Common Council, and to him probably
more than to any other man are we in
debted for our thirty miles of fine macad-
amized drives, modelled after the finest in
Europe, Mr.. Dumont having visited the
Continent for the express purpose of post
ing himself as to the most improved
methods of road construction, of which
study Plainfield has received the benefit.
Mr.. Clawson, of the firm, is also Plain
fielder, residing on Front street, the gar
dens and lawns on his elegant property
being so well kept that they are con-
stantly pointed to with pride by a Plain
tielders while exhibiting the beauties of
our town.
The elegant property of the Johnstons.
the Clawsons and the Hydes, Combined
with the improvements now being made
in the vicinity referred to, will make this
locality the most beautiful in New Jersey.
and will aid in perpetuating Plainield's
fame as a miniature garden of Eden
Platnfeld News.