The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-15

$3.50 etAJ AAON " tklQ WOQl4 pay d
lawyer q thousand dollars than admit
mat ne had no right to do as he pleased
on the lake. Again he was defeated, aud
In which it was stipulated that as long
as Squire Davenport lived, he and his
guests must be excluded from the priv
Pond.
That is the state of affairs today. The
motel ran on until 1t was burned under
ago, but none Of its guests could enjoy d
nSnlng trip or a row upon the lake with
cut deceiving the representative Of the
on from his cosy farm house near the
mead OF the lake, grew crops, distilled
famous applejack. did more having, at
goings on of his enemies. Peter Ward
ran the MOTEL for some years under great
~sadvantag until he could no longer
ant. who did no better. No attempt was
made to build the house up after it was
burned.
Green Pond has not prospered because
It has not had hotel accommodations
complned with lake facilities for many
years. e. e.. Merritt, who was formerly
claims to own nearly all of the land
at the lower end of the lake, and a
Iew years ago, when he built the Merritt
Park Hotel at Lake m he tried
10 boom Green Pond as well, and it was
through his individual exertions tina the
picturesque back road to the lake was
DoAtN ~ SCS4l q 6uOStdIllldl tlldflIfEF iHdI
little work has been needed upon it
since. His project was to build a picnic
ground, hotel, ~boathouse, pavilion and
stables, but he abandoned it, and now
there is nothing at the foot of the lake
but a fine grove, a small stable and a
capin IN which two or three persons may
Staff and wife. Staff has about a dozen
or twenty boats n keeps bait for fish
ermen. His place is a favored resort in
summer for driving parties from Dover,
4 6O0nf0n and MnrriCtnrUp md nthn
places on the south and east. At the
mead OF the AXE, just above the old log
cabin, is q small. boarding house, kept by
Denton w. Clark, who might, with the
proper expenditure of energy, lave made
MS place so attractive that the heirs of
the Cobb estate would nave been con-
has large enough stabling accommoda-
tons to shelter the horses, and makes
shift to feed all of the one-day patrons
who apply and to give beds to eight or
ten people who stay over NJ hit, but even
| with the manifold attractions which the
lake presents his management is not of
a kind to encourage repeated VISIT All
that the lake needs to make it GaIe of
the most attractive resorts in this coun-
try is a little road-making and the con-
! struction and intelligent management of
a hotel to accommodate from sixty to 100
persons. The rest will follow. In 1885
the lake was stocked with black bass of
both varieties, and they have thriyen
amazingly, so that there is really fine
bass fishing in the season, while the lax
| for years has been noted for its mex
haustible supply of yellow perch, which,
| sport for the children only. Then there
| are some big pickerel left. and catfish
enough to satisfy the night fishermen.
The superior fighting qualities of the
| bass have been observed by all who have
flshed in the lake, and it is said of the
pickerel that they are firmer and sturdier
than those caught in any other waters
in this State.
Green Pond is an interesting study in
! the light of the geological history of this
State, and it has kept the students guess
ing for many years. 1t is nearly three
miles long. and averages nearly half a
| mile in width. 1t has no inlet stream,
but its outlet trickles out from one of the
two arms at the lower end of the lake
through a level tract of woodland, to
plunge noisily down the gorge. The lake
is at an altitude of over 1000 feet above
tide water, and within a mile or two of
either end there is a decline of at least
400 feet. The biologists say that at one
time it was a feeder of the Pequannoek
River, but Q it is a tributary to the
Rockaway. Their theory is undoubtedly
correct, for the land at the head of the
lake is composed of sand pushed up by
the ice from the bed of the lake, and for
a half a mile north of the present beach
it is no more than three or four feet
higher than the present level of the water.
Then this prehistoric dam Suddenly ends,
and a descent begins toward a deep
ravine through which a well-known trout
brook trickles, in what was formerly the
bed of the ancient outlet of Green Pond.
1t was not a ~convulsion of volcanic ma
ture which made the lake change ends
but a slow moving action of the ice year
after year. The expansive force Of the
ice was exerted in every direction, but
the resisting rocks on one side and the
mountain slope on the other were proof
against its force, and it had to work on
either end to accomplish anything. Al
one end was an elastic swamp, and on
the other a bed of easily shifted sand.
The sand piled up in front of it winter
after winter, and then the wafer broke
through the bog and sought a new route
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