The evening world., 1890-07-03
YOUR own HOUSE
Suburbs Where Every Man Pays Rent
to Himself
How Waue-Earners Can Buy Land
and Build Their Homes.
Hints to an Inexperienced Couple on
Furnishing the New Home.

When William d. Astor found himself the
possessor Of the vast estate left by h's
father, the old furrier, John Jacob Astor.
which the younger man had managed for
many years. he went about securing reali-
cation OF his lifes dream. The estate num-
bcred more than one thousand buildings,
and William B. Astor had long been inn
pressed with the idea that the tenemenk
house system then in vogue was very bad.
II was bad Americanism, he thought. TO own
the stufy. unventilated. dark hives in which
the laboring people were packed, and Il was
bad for their children.
Mr.. Astor then inaugurRted movement
for better ACCOMPLISHMENTS that were
more than hives. more than sources Of rev.
enue to .heir owner.
The city was small in those days Of forty
years ago. The metropolis has been grow
ing at the rate OF 10, 900 year ever since.
her people spreading out all over Manhattan
Island, Westchester County, Brooklyn,
Staten Island and New Jersey. To-day the
metropolis has a population of 2. 800, 600.
Along with this wonderful growth has
steadily advanced the movement for i'm
provements in the hnbitations Of those who
tho wage -Retters. broadwinners. salary
| carners: but " life is only "existence in
the city's big fats. The street is the
chldrens playground. and sunlight and
pure air arc luxnrics.
The development OF the street-car systems
OF New York, Brooklyn. Long Island City.
| IIoboken and Jersey City: the building of
elevated railway lines; the bridging OF the
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systems has given q new direction to prog
ress in building during the past ten years.
| During this last decade home building I"
! in the truost sonse Of the term has occupied
the attention of thinkers, who have tried to
solve the problem of how best to house those
of our people who are dependent on wages or
salaries for their livelihood. The results
are exceedingly gratifying. for there are
actually 800. 600 metropolitans who live,
not in tho tall and more or less confined
tenements of tho crowded city thorough
fares, but in neat. pretty and homelike cot
tages in the shaded streets and boulevards
OF suburb towns. dotting the landscape
oil about New York within radius OF 25
miles and within an hour of the City Hall
and Post-O Office of New York.
SO strongly is the tide now setting in
favor Of suburban homes that nearly every
farm. big or little. within twenty-five miles
of New York has been surveyed and laid ont
in city lots OF the regulation size. 20 by 100
feet. and the sound Of the adze and the
trowel are to be heard everywhere.
The dry bones OF the ancients who inhab-
tied some of these suburbs 200 years ago.
must rattle IN their collins at the sound of
tho rush and push going on In their old
bailiwicks.
REMopELLIso OF FLUsHIEo.
Take Flushing, for instance: In 1645
some English people who had tried to enjoy
their religious liberty in Holland for time
came over to the New Netherlands and settled
OH the shores OF the beautiful bay which
they called Wishing" or 'Vlissengen, "
and we call Flushing Bay"
There still stands the stately residence OF
Godfrey John Bovine. one of the old Quak-
ers. and up to very few years, almost
months, ago 1t was q part of an ancient,
staid, slow and moss-grown village.
To-day it is the centre of teeming village
of 10000 people, enjoying free postal de-
livery. city water. gas aud sewerage. 1t has
a park, banks, hotels, newspapers. police, a
lire department and prosperity.
Its broad streets are lined with trees; it
has an elevated railroad to College Point,
and has several stations OF the north branch
of the Long Island hallway within Its limits.
1t is a thirty-minute ride from the Thirty
fourth street Ferry to New York.
Now the beauty OF Flushing, as IL Is OF
Morris Park and Leferts Park and Bath
Junction and West Brooklyn and q dozen
other places in Kings and Queens counties.
| In that almost every house IL owned by it's
occupant. who is generally salesman. n
mechanic. clerk, and salary Garner i'll
New York or Brooklyn.
OK THE WEST SHORE ROAD.
Along the line of the West Shore Railroad
there are the sites OF many beautiful subur-
ban settlements like those which already dot
| the lines OF the other great railways rum
ming out oi New York in all directions, only
At prices within the reach OF every one.
One OF the prettiest OF places along the
west shore was chosen for the site OF
Congers. IL IL twenty-six miles from the
City Hall The little city lies III a marvel
lously pretty valley between the RAmapo
Mountains and the Hook Mountains, 800
Hockiand Lake lies at the foot of the
| Village, and Just beyond the broad Hudson
rolls maiestically down to the sea Here,
| where there were fields of waving grain a
few years ago, have been erected many
homes Tor the people. There is an eI-
casino, hotels and other edifices. and they
are still building on all the nicely laid out
streets and avenues OF the little city.
CHARMS OF oOSdERR.
The resident of Congers enjoys all the COM
forts OF q great city, while he has pure AIR
and rests his eyes in looking npon scenery
that is remindful OF switzerland. The
mountains ON the east and west protect the
town from the cold winds OF Winter, while
in summer the air is balmy and cool on ac-
count OF its elevation above the mugRy at
mosphere of the tidewater levels.
| ROckland Lake has long been famous for
| the purity OF It's water, IL is led by innum-
cradle springs. and furnishes the wateT-sup-
ply of CongerB-
ConRers is city of homes. not Of COM
merce, and although II is nearer TO bust
ness New York. IN point of time. than
the TWenty-fourth Ward is to the CITY Hall,
the little city u quiet, save for the eaIollinR
birds aud laughter OF Joyous, free children.
! as they play upon the greenswATd. and the
relief to the tired brain OF the worker in the
metropolis Is great,
The West Shore Railway, quick TO perceive
its advantages. has provided ample trans
portation facilities for Congers, tWenty-f five
trains stopping there daily. eight OF which
are express trains.
The tract of land that Is being so rapidly
developed in Little Rockland' County has
been known for zoo years As "QuAspeck
Pond Patent. granted by the Indians aud
by King William and Queen Mary In 1893
10 James Marshall and William Hutchin-
and the title Is absolutely clear.
Congers won the prize a. tie hest tosn
Il IN live Tag NnuU