New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-04

DRAINAGE a delightful and healthful climate. and
we have a class OF citizens who are now making
the best OF these advantages our stores are better
than the country stores, our houses are
fire our roads are models OF perfection. and we
have less poor people than most PLACES OF our Size
There IS a good school in the place. OF which Mr..
Everett is the principal The railroad company con-
templates making great Improvement at and near
the station and this. together with the accommoda-
tons which the company already offers. will tend
to make the place still more popular. One need Of
Chatham will soon be supplied. Waterworks for
the town will be OF the first public improve
ments and with the water the residents nope TO see
electric lights in their streets and houses.
Roses play great part In the business OF Chat-
ham There are number Of large growers III the
place. the product of whose monster greenhouses Is
known favoraby to al dealers for hundreds OF
miles around Among the many growers are r. l.
Moore Edwin Littleiohn. James Littlejohn, Nichols
Brothers and Lum Brothers
IL would be impossible TO mention all tho note
worthy homes In the pretty village Even those max
ing no claim architectural beauty are attractive
because OF their neatness Among the more prom
inent ones are those Of John Gould, NJ H. Lum, a
H. Day W. W. Ogden. William Wallace, H. ID.
Ogden and G.. T. Parrot. on Chatham Heights
from which there Is hne view Of the country f9 I
miles around, the homes OF r. a. Lum "a. " ~
TerwilIiger Russell Human, the Martin estate the
Van Orden place and the Danson place. ...oo,.-
The Chatham Fish and Game Protection Associa
lion has a handsome clubhouse and looks after the
game Of the yieniy II Lum Is The The president , Or
the The Oth1 II aw a1 The e. post
From the time Of settlement about no until
@ the @ ransS s s as as
which have been more recently settled from its mrs.
p academ nSui Hin which had for sign bottle
pended from post in front Of the house The irst
four Fears later Bottle IIll became Madison in
| honor of President James Madison;
| THE historian of Madison tells also or Whipping
most which stood for many years near what Is now
the centre of the village where offenders against inc
Gominatng characteristic of the early settlers OF
Madison is shown by the fact that IN 1SGs stSc o
teacher in the first public school which was erecteu
| In Madison.
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Rut the most notable feature Of the place came TO
Madison through the generosity OF Daniel Drew
uho founded the theological seminary. purchasing
| 80 trac, of land known THE Forest" for
| .,a, nuroose The house the place was built by
william Gibbons who died In 1852 This, the original
NJ the group Of beautiful buildings which belong 70
| tho seminary IL now known as Memorial HAL
| Among the other buildings are Mead Han, Asbury
| Hail the New Dormtory and the library The semin-
| arv ia beautifully situated in great park sur
| rounded by a storm wall with artistic gateways.
Madison is Justly proud OF the great seminary ou'
u has other points Of interest In which II taxes
soual pride Not the least OF these Is Its pubic I'M
| movements The place was Incorporated about siA
Gears go for the purpose of procuring for the grow
| ing town electric light. good wnter and periec'
| roads All that intended was accomplished
and the residents of the place claim that IN many
| respects they nave ouluo"c any VI W
! ing neighbors
| .,Our people are liberal when town improvements
ar. under consideration" said resident OF Madi
son ..and you see the result We have put all these
| improvements into the town. and we own them a.
| a lower figure than any town In the state.
adj
4, has fine railroad station. its business centre
shows signs OF healthy activity, and the drives II
It's immediate vicinity are delightful. Near th'
centre OF the place on commanding plot stahu'
resented 10 the town by James A. Webb In mem
nrv OF his son This chapel Is In charge or TN