New-York tribune., 1895-08-19


NO LIVERY STABLE: CHURCHES. But NO
FUNERAL DIRECTOR -BRoNXvILLE. ITS
NEAE AND SMALLER NEicHBoR-.
QUAINT PLACES NEAR THE CITY.
In the valley just east of the city of Yonkers
through which the historic Bronx flows plscidiy 10
the Sound. lie the villages OF Tuckahce and Bronx
vile. These harlets are on the western porder o.
the township OF East Chester the settlement OF
which dates back 10 1861 They are scarcely two
miles apart The larger OF the two. Tuckahoe. Is
about sixteen miles from New-York City. on the
Harlem Division of the New-York Central KALI
road. and has population of about t~enty-six
hundred The name according to Bolton, Is OF
Indian origin and signifies. in the language or the
Algonauins 'the bread" Captain John smith. IN
his travels speaks of root-Tockawhouse-used
largely by the Indians of Virginia as FOOD and
which grew in large Quantities like hasge IN
marshes"
Tuckahoe is known principally for the fine qua'-
ity OF marble found there. II has national rep
utat;on and many buildings in New-York City and
Washington as well in other larges cities, nave
been constructed Of it. Quarrying therefore the
main industry of the place. and few minutes walk
from the railroad station brings one to the NILS
from which II is taken. Two firms are engaged IN
this trade-the Norcross Brothers and Sinclair &
Tousey When In fun operation the former hrin
employs between four hundred and six hundred
hands and the latter about three hundred. The
firms have every facility for handling the huge
blocks taken out and the railroad having run
tracks the quarries loading is made an easy mat
ter Adjoining the qaarries on the south are the
we'll equipped works OF the Tuckahoe Lime Kiln ana
Marble Dust Company. which employs about iory
men. Another industry, which is located on the
banks OF the Bronx. Is that Of the Hodgman Rub
Der Company The company has large two
story frame factory and employs about three nun
dred persons. The Offices are in New-York City.
The business OF the town is transacted mainly on
the street which the railroad station is ouiit
and the avenue leading east TO the ridge
Tuckahoe has no banks ard the merchants do their
banking business either White Plains. Mount
Vernon OF Yonkers. A curious fact that strikes
stranger on mis- first visit 10 the pace is that
there is neither an undertaking establishment or
livery stable there. In other respects the business
houses about the same as those found in other
towns OF ts size Recently well-oquipped drug
store. of which Christopher J. sherden is pro
prietor has taken the place of small pharmacy in
Depot Square.
PROUD OF ITS TWO SCHOOLS
The people OF Tnckahoe take great pride in their
public schools, of which there two. They are
under the care Of Trustees John Fisher Joseph
Silk William II. Madden ana Waiter +. Jeffers
Mr.. Fisher is president of the Board and Mr.. JEFF
fers Clerk The main school. district No. 3. is at
Waverly ont Hill J. L. .,igley is the principal
and about four hundred children attend there.
There is branch school al Upper Tuckahoe. OF
which James Fitzgerald is principal, and at which
about one hundred children receive instruction. At
a recent meeting of the taxpayers Il was voted to
appropriate SOS OcJ for the erection OF school
building to take the place of the one pow In use
at Waverly aad further appropriation of 5000 TO
build additional school near the business centre
Protection in OF fire is furnished by two
ieffcient companies. Waverly Engine Company
The elder organization Of which James Kerwin is
foreman. has forty men. with comfortable quarters
the hill" company OF more recent lorna
ton is the Tuckahoe Hose Company-C ". D.
Peggs, foreman-with about seventy members The
company at present is housed in temporary quar-
tiers the railroad station. but hopes 10 have
home of its soon. negotiations now being in
progress for the purchase OF land ana the erection
of a frehouse. The companies have had 70 rely on
cisterns and wells for supply OF water when hres
have occurred but better facilities now being
provided. An arrangement for 4 water supply has
been made with the New-Rochelle Water Com
pany. and pipes now being laid in the streets.
II Is stated that the proposed trolleyline between
Mount Vernon and White Plains vii, pass through
Tuckahoe. and spar will be run TO the railroad
station.
There are two churches in Tuckahoe-the Asbury
Methodist Episcopal. the Rev J. W Bates pastor.
founded in 1884, and the Church Of the Immaculate