Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-11-11

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ored competitors and the first fruits
always bring the best prices. falling
in few weeks to less than half
-. The population OF the, Estelle colony
is made up of Americans, with gener-
GUS sprinkling OF thrifty Germans and
Englishmen. q few Irishmen and SweGes,
H. When this place was first opened up
| for colonization it was called Estelle.
When application for a post Office was
| made it was found this name could not
be used because OF its similarity to an
| other office in the same county. So the
post office was named Risley. Recently,
however, in order that the station and
post office might correspond, the South
Jersey Railroad Company changed Es-
telle to Risley station. The name Estelle
now applies to the whole colony, which
embraces three stations on the South
Jersey Railroad the upper
station; Dorothy, the centre station
and Risley, the lower station. The South
Jersey Railroad has only been built two
years and few months. The growth
of Cape May, Sea Isle City, Ocean City
and other sea shore resorts along the
South Jersey coast caused stheroad to
be built and it's splendid Century Fly
|sersp to Cape May in connection with
the Royal Reading Route" enable Estelle
visitors to travel in luxurious style.
Supt. Beach takes great pride in his
road and there are no swifter or more
comfortable trains in the country. And
you don It have to go to Estelle on an
accommodation train, in fact, you can t.
All the Century Flyers are express
trans and rnake only one or two stops
between Camden and Estelle.
Paul Groeber, one OF the largest lano
owners here, has started mushroom
farm on First avenue. He has named
it Laura" About SO, 900 will be spent
in improving it, It. will be conducted
by Max Groeber.
The owner of the largest cultivated
farm in Estele is Franz j. Boehley, who
with his wife and four children have
lived there nearly a year. He came from
Patterson, N. j., last November and
has forty-nine acres. Mr.. Boeilley rails
ed splendid crop this season OF corn,
rye, oats, turnips, tobacco and garden
stuff. His corn was eleven inches long
and samples OF his tobacco, rutabagas
and turnips hang on the walls OF Mr..
Risley 8 office in Philadelphia.
r. L. Barringer s place on Second
avenue is a beauty. Mr.. Barringer goes
in largely for poultry and his white Wy
andottes would take the blue ribbon
in any poultry show. 5fs
Near the Milmay station William
Moore. proprietor OF the saw mill, is
erecting dwelling which would DO
credit to fashionable city street. 1t
will cost several Thousand dollars.
One of the first settlers near the new
station Dorothy is Richard Ellison, OF
New York City, with his wife and two
daughters. Mrs. Ellison applied to Mr..
Risley several months ago for small
improved farm in New Jersey in heal
thy neighborhood. He showed her sew.
eral and incidentally took her to Es-
telle. There she decided to locate if a
house could be built at once. This work
the Estelle Building Company took in
hand and the new house is now complete,
opposite Dorothy depot. The station
was named for Supt. Beach $ daughter
and by e curious coincidence one OF Mr..
Ellison 5 daughters is also named Doro-
thy. g
~ A yaluaDle acquisition to the colony
comes in the persons of P. Goldsack
and his wife from London. Mr.. Goldsack
was formerly inspector OF police under
the English government and his wife
is an accomplished linguistic and musi-
clan.
! Yne postmaster at Risley, D. Bennett,
: is one OF the, first settlers. He came here
from Northern Pennsylvania, built a
house for his family and soon opened
a store. Lately he was recommended
for .appointment as postmaster and
SO Cleveland concluded he was the prop
er man for the place.
In the centre Of the Milmay tract
little colony OF Germans has been form
ed, and it is their intention to call their
place FortuneyiIle. This section is very
{ heavily wooded, and Otto Ruchholtz
and his colleagues propose going into
the lumber business.
George Greller' s farm on Cumberland
avenue looks well, and his store busi-
ness is good. He and his. wife are well
and hearty.
& One thing here that appealed especi-
ally to me was the excellence OF the wa
ter throughout the colony. 1t is aD5o-
lutely pure and is positively as good
as any water to be had in America or
abroad. In getting this water the resi-
dents drive wells about IS feet deep.
In going this depth the light surface
soil and the clay subsoil is pierced and
the stratum OF gravel underneath is
penetrated. Some 60 deeper, but really
good water can be gotten in about rs
feet. Aboye that you strike surface wa
ter, the purity and heaIthiulness of which
can both be questioned. IA 25foot well
can be driven and finished completely
for SIS.
They. tell me that Founder Risley
sold 1742 farms here last year, and will
doubtless sell more in 1886. Every. day
Mr.. Risley sagent, Mr.. Vandever, brings
squad OF people here to see farms they
have bought or to inspect farms open
for sale. OF the latter there are very
few, 30 the map shows. Tracts. 5 and
dl oOiu Out, bIdCtS Q duu Ii dIC HCdl-
ly closed I'd there are few lots still
open on tract IL. 1t is unfortunate that
when these farms were firlS thrown
open for sale that persons throughout
the country were permitted to buy them
spromiscuously, regardless of whether
they intended to improTe their land
or not. The consequence is that there
are long stretches OF sold farms along
the railroad front which are unimproved,
the owners OF which are scatterrd far
and; wide. It may be some time before
these farms are built upon, but never
theless in the march OF improvements
the day will certainly come when origi-
nal buyers will build or the farms, for
an advanced consideration, will be sold
to others who wish to-. s45ssss
When farm has been bought and
paid for d title deed is given free OF charge.
The land title is insured in the Commons
wealth Title and Trnst Company. Of