New-York tribune., 1899-05-28
BROOKLYN SUMMER HOMES.
WHERE PEOPLE OF WEALTH SPEND
THE HEATED TERN.
FEW RESORTS IN THE EAST WHERE THE CITY
OF CHURCHES IS NOT REPREsENThp-.,---
SOME OF THE MORE NOTEWORTHY
COUNTRY PLACES. WHERE THEY
ARE AND WHO OWN THEM.

ARE AND WHO OWN THEM.
A "country seat is coming more and more to
be a part OF the life OF representative brookyn-
ties Many It Is true still follow the oid-fashionea
method Of renting a home for the summer months
now here and now there. each year as she iahey
NAV lead them. But the number or those "no
have built bought and whose rural do"a" Is
quite as much home their city house swels
at rapd rate The tendency Is to erect new
abodes for II is not everywhere that suitable
house is TO be found In an ideal location fe"
old mansions have been bought. however and these
give to their purchasers satisfaction 'hat 'he
most perfectly designed modern Colonial mouse
cannot afford.
These "cod,ntry reats' OF Brooklyn people are 10
be found everywhere. Hardly summer region OF
the East can be named that does not own BROOK
lynitc Thus thtse important homes a'c "iuciS
scattered A curious fact OF II Is tnat there !"
hardly such thing a Brooklyn colony at any
of ;hese resorts New-York has It's Newport lts
Ber Harbor. its L6nox. southampton anc IrSeoo'
These colonies have as their social louhch"on
stoaes New-Yorkers. But Brooklyn distincuVeiy
possesses no place. The nearest approach 10
''Brooklyn colony" is prooably Shelter lsiano anu
here there are for the most part. cottages not
Country seats" closely grouped together house'
with practically no grounds.
BROOKLYN people most plentiful, or COURSE OH
Long Island itself along the shores OF the uIe"'
South Bay and up in the region around oys'e' D'S
In fheee there
Elsewhere the scattering Is wide. The Connecticut
shore owns a few, the Jersey coast several more
Th,ro ,s nj least one superb Brooklyn domcile
among the islands OF the st. Lawrence And now
Is the time when all these houses are peihg pre-
pared for the summer campaign. brooklyn ooes
not as matter OF fact, shut up her city houses as
early as Is the case across the East RIVER put oy
the middle of June the larger portion OF the country
homes have their machinery set IN mouon' july
sees them filed with visitors
The country homes so numerous, and so
many have the same relative Importance tnat IL ~
difficult to know just where 10 begin 10 describe
them Perhaps one OF the most attractive is the
Endcliffe Of Frederick w. Moss of Remsen-st'
situated on Cape Arundel. at Kennebunkport Me-
This IS a charmingly planned home for hot weather
perched the end of sharp and precpi'ous
bluff looking down on a mass OF bold rocks win
the sea Just beyond. Within, the house IS no Tess
attractive An especial feature is a remarkably
fne broad hall. Close to Mr. Mosss is the SUM-
mer house of Edwin Packard of Henry-st., mouse
with practically the same view and OF the same
general plan of architecture and design
Here Is shown rugged beauty of scene and dwell
inRs TO harmonic. Country homes OF suostan-
TALLY different type and order are those Oh spencer
Trask and Charles NJ Bull. That OF the FORMER IS
a superb mansion, almost a palace, at saratoga
inst outside of the rush and hustle OF that popu-
lar resort 1t is known as Yaddo, and the mouse -
so greatly the favorite OF Mrs. Trask that she anu
her husband now spend nearly the entire year
there The mansion is large, and has TWO hhe
stone gateways at the entrance TO It's grouhos' II
overooks the battlefield of Saratoga
Karlsruhe, Charles NJ Bulls place, at Newport
is prominent even in that place OF gorgeous homes
1t has wonderfully fine hedge. AS modern coun-
try houses go 1t is not new. having oeen erected
in 1850; but for all that It is excellent specimen
OF a summer abode.
The A. A. Lows are representative Newporters.
their place having been of the enthusasms or
AbIel Abbott Low, father Of A. a. Low and Seth
Low.
E. H. Ltchheld is developing really superb
country property in the shape of fenced park
OF great size in the very heart OF the Adiron-
dacks near Big Tupper Lake. This is already
game preserve OF importance. and is only just
coming into It's own. Only a small cottage Is at
present on the property. It is part Of Mr. Ltch-
fields programme. however, to put up hand
house here.
In Belle Haven. Conn., Charles A Moore has an
attractive country house. and the Moores con-
tribute largely to the summer life OF the colony.
In Norfolk. Conn, Brooklyn Is chiefly represehteo
by Charles Marvin Howard OF Lincoln Piace, VINO no
erect large mansion of Colonial design to replace
the fine odtme house he Is at re tSs
Chittendens, whose summer nome Is IN HulioIIa
where they live IN an Sa Of this
old place is the number OF huge and ancient trees
that surround the house Is the name M 0I
the Henry W thatfeids, of South oxfOrd-st;;, and
the John Van Buren, Thayers OF Monroe race
and is in Bridgeport.
OVER IN JERSEY.
The famous Rumsen Road OF the Jersey coast
has Brooklynito of note upon 1t, Fritz Achelis of
the Heights whose place, Wiesenacht, Is at Sea-
bright Much shrubbery Of fine order marks this
home. The W. s. p. Prentces have long been
settled at Monmouth Beach, in roomy house that
sees much entertaining, and whose lower moor Is
almost entirely given up to one great living room.
Slas c. Forces country home Is at Coma, ten miles
Woodmere in Bernardsville, n. j.. is where Mr..
and Mrs. e. T. H. Talmage live. The place Is large
and wide-spreading. of many acres and of many
horses. The house upon it Is great structure %
Colonial IN design Of stone and lon q shin 1
and is finished In black OAK t,.,a,.. ,oa .,
mer home Of a different order, camping lodge in
the woods-Camp Caribou-far up In the Maine
no Brooklynite has solved the problem more per-
fecty.
ON THE SOUTH SHORE
Prominent among those who love the fiat shores
and the many inlets OF the south coast Of Long
Island are ex-Mayor Schieren and William and
]. Henry Dick who have homes OF "a high order OF
architecture and convenience in Islip. The list of
permanent dwellers on the south shore would be
long and tring If an attempt made to give
It in fu-indeed this entire article mentions only
a few of the more noteworthy Country seaters"-
but others who must be mentioned are Mrs. J.
Augustus Hewlett. with Rock Hall, Lawrence; the
Carmsns who have occupied their Swiss villas
structures OF quaint construction in Babylon
for twenty-four years; ". H. Force, In Cedar
hurst Alden s. Swan, in Islp Crowell Had
den in Quogue, who leases his house to Fran
els L. Eames OF No. 125 Remsen-st, this sum-
mer: the Gibbs. in Bay Shore whose yacht the
Bonnie Doom Is perhaps the most famous the
south coast; Dr. William i; Fiske, OF the Eastern
District in Westhampton; Rodney Ward. In West
hampton; Robert A. Pinkerton: OF Bay Shore. ard
Spencer A. Jennings, OF NO. S6J Wiioughby- ave-
al Islip (Southmere). with unusually extensive
grounds.
OVERLOOKING THE SOUND.
| !. NJ Bon OF Clinton-ave. owns Oak Lawn. one
OF the largest and best-situated houses Shelter
| Island Heights. A Brooklyne whose country
! place is OF unusual extent Is Ferdinand McKege,
| who is associated with Russell Sage. Mr.. McKelges 3
| uncle was General Spinola. and at the Generals