The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-06
GREENWOOD GRACHS.
The Lovely Lake Wears Its
Most Charming Aspect
This Year.
speeial o he gsrseu or Es,n,.


PATERSON, July 5, ls9O.-Greenwood
Lake is looking its lovelist just now.
The trees are wearing their bright
est and thickest foliage. the ferns are in
full plumage, the laurels are in bloc m
and the water is as clear as crystal, but
not many summer boarders are enjoying
its charms yet. Still the hotel-keepers
say this is the best June they have known
Tor years. The average number of guests
at each of the hotels during the week is
ten, and on Saturday evenings ana Sun
day the houses become nearly full of
transients. Stayers will not come till
after the Fourch of July, nor are they
expected.
Most of the visitors now are anglers,
who meet with varied success, according
TO their patience and skill. The fish are
here, and on any bright and still morn
ing, especially after a night shower, they
may be seen jumping and chasing small
i1sh IN all parts of the lake Las6 week,
when the water was unusually clear,
thousands of bass could be seen on their
spawning beds along the shores, and
thousands upon thousands OF yearlinq
bass are observed in the shallow places.
Greenwood Lake Glens IS the name
chosen for the new picnic grounds over
the dam from Cooper station. Workmen
are as busy as beavers getting the place
III shape f0r the opening next week, and
the new wharf is under way A pile
driver Is now pounding away on the pier
head and the work viii probably be com
pleted this week. Then the pile-driver
will be taken over to Lakeside TO build a
wharf for VIII De Graw, for it Is under
stood that the Montclair will make regu-
lar stops at Lakeside when the trips
down the lake to the new picnic grounds
are inaugurated. Then, ii is said. the
stops at Sterling Forest will be discon-
tinued.
The clearing up at the new picnic
grounds has effected one great improve
ment. The miserable shanty in which
Jake Ryerson has squatted for quarter
of century has been removed. All vis-
itOrs to the lake have observed this hovel,
which stood on the shore of the cove at
Cooper, just over the bridge from the sta
ton. IL was on the Cooper and Hewitt
tract, but Ryerson and his father had ad
verse possession so long that the com
pany could not remove him. Two or
three attempts were made TO Dust him,
but he showed fight, and the company
came 10 the conclusion that it was cheaper
to let him remain. Finally it became alb
solutely necessary to remove the little
shauty and improve the landscape. Then
Jake was approached, and the interlnedi-
airy was surprised to find how easy it was
TO persuade the squatter to absquatulate.
Jake consented to go for $50, a little lum-
Der and the privilege OF squatting in q
new location. Jake moved his shantv TO
the Cooper and Hewitt strip at State
Line, on the west shore of the lake. choos-
ing one of the preitieSt spots on the lake,
and one which has invariably been Il
favorite camping place. The patchwork
cabin is an eyesOre aud nuisance where
1t is, and it is to be sincerely hoped that
Jake will he forced to move again soon.
IL only a few of the stories told about mis-
Illicit fishing are true it would not be re-
GREETED il he was forced to move over the
mountain.
The water in the lake is falling quite
rapidly, and in few days it will be lower
than it was at any time last year.
Ice four. five and six inches thick is a
precious commodity at the lake. The hotels
at the head of the lake have their icehouses
full of this ice, and are using it sparing-
ly. Fuller has very little in his house ut
Cooper. Degraw has none in mis- house
at the Lakeside Hotel, but his house at
Willow PoinL is two-thirds full, and he
takes load or two to Lakeside every
week. Before the season is over ice will
be shipped to the lake tor the first time
in the history of the place
Lots at Greenwood Lake can be bought
as low as $40, and the sale is quite brisk.
They are not water front lots, however.
Mr.. Van Week has made an easy path
up the mountains to the little lake which
lies about mile west of GiHord's new
cottages below LAX eside. and q number
of gentlemen who have Interested them
selves in the little pond will build rus
tic summer house on the top OF the noun
tain near the lake, and boathouse with
sleeping accommodations on the shore.
The lake is well stocked with bass.
There will be no beer selling ON Sunday
on Hewitt's new picnic grounds, and con-
sequently it can never be al popular with
the German societies Of New York as the
Woodlands were. In fact it IS said that
men who are capable of making a success
of the new venture are reluctant to take
it because they do not believe it can be
made to pay without German picnic fea-
lures.