The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-14
SUMMER BEAUTIES NEAR TOWN
EVERY KIND or PASTIMEN PICT-
VRESOIE LONG ISLAND.
It's Good Roads and Clean Hard beaches
We'll stocked Trout streams ana
Ideal woodland RcsOrts-Ocean
Breezes SweeD II and Keep II Cool.


Ideal woodland Rcsorts-ocean
Freezes sweep II and Keep II Cool.
A man who laid out elaborate vacations
for himself was worried last year as 10
where he should go. He wanted TO ma
spot which would be very much out OF
the way, very much in the haeKwooos'
and which would still have all the charms
Of the famous holiday resorts.
He considered the Adirondacks ana
rejected that section because everybody
went there; the Catsl,ills, the upstate MAe
| country, the Jersey coast and the Dela-
| ware--none OF them suited, because they
weren't far enough away from the crowd
and there wasn't anything new about them
anyway He bothered all his acquain-
tanoes for suggestions about new haunts,
| The last they heard Of him was that ne
| hadn't quite decided whether to bury himself
in northern Maine, TO try new camping
ground out in Michigan or to 60 UP TO
Canada and seek fresh vacation ground
altogether,
| He started for somewhere at last, ana
there was the keenest interest among
his friends to find out where he had gone
Where could he be satisfied when every
one of the usual places had failed to please
| him?
He was among the last of his set TO come
back to town, and when he did turn up
his friends seized him and asked questions.
"Was it Michigan or Canada, and now
| did it turn OUT" they wanted to know
why" said the man of elaborate IN
ten,ions. "as it turned out it was neither.
| went down OH Long Island, aud within
q W IL ,tt | lrns Ia
much out Of the world and had rs good
time as if had gone Thousand miles
| further"
Mlnv other men have discovered Long
| Island in the last few years and have been
astonishcd by the beauties Of shore ard
forest they have found there, almost at
the citv's door. Not the least delighted
of these explorers have been Sc me OF the
city's wealtliast residents, They are TAX
ing up land in the nearby leauty spots
by til, hundreds Of acres. But there Is
plenty left.
Tho city is only beginning to know tn"
islands attractions. Ten years hence 1t
will be a different story, and then resorts
further away Ni.l have To looh t" their
laul.ls. II SON of h "a sens and h1rlors
were in 4 distant Stat their fame would
be greater new. propinuuity breeds in
,litre,e nee 'olns tim's,
Somsv IL, r. in the island there is every
conceivable variety If simmer recreation.
There are ocean Watering places with
great hotels known the country over. There
are forests as wild and beautiful as any
the northeast can show, wooded hills and
open, rolling districts, fertile plains and
villages dotted with picturesque farm
houses. nnum.rable well-stocked trout
streams, rivers and lakes historic old towns
and picturesque hamlets every variety
of life. and as secluded AZ if il were New
England instead of near neighborhood
OF New York city.
Suppose 1t is a seashore life that the
man who is thinking Of a vacation wants.
Long Island offers all possible varieties
OF that sort The couldn't find a greater
range of seashore possibilities than between
Coney Island or Rockaway Beach and the
quiet of Shelter Island, Point o Woods
and the picturesque Great Peconic Bay.
And between these lie host of varied
pleasure grounds along Sound and ocean
shores. all within an hour or 50 of the city.
vet AS far removed from its life apparently
as IL they were days apart.
Beginning with the ocean side, first Of
all when Coney and it's companion pleasure
grounds are past, there is Rockaway with
its cottage filled park two miles away.
Aryerne-by-th sea. which Big Bill Devery
and lesser celebrities have found exactly
to their taste. then Long Beach with its
fine bathing ground and huge hotel
Then comes the Great South Bay, finest
shore hunting ground in the East, dotted
10 n in,
and bordered with pleasant loafng places
for July and August This is fisher
mans paradise in the long summer days
and the villages along shore are fun OF men
tn whom a boat. a line and a quiet sea are
all the good time needed for holiday
Between these villages and alongside the
sea runs good white road along which the
summer cottages grow more thickly every
wear Babylon, home OF the Westminster
Kennel Club Bayshore, across the bay from
Fire Island, with its cluhhnuscs and ocean
cottages and Point o Woods, headquarters
of the ChautauQua summer school; lslip.
OaKdale Sayvlle and Bellport lie along
this road Then comes Patchogue, which
adds thousands Of holiday-making New
Workers. to its population every summer
just little farther along are the SHINE
cock Hills and the famous windmill, and golf
links between two great sheets OF water.
There ia Moriches first then Good Ground,
an ideal compound Of country and seashore.
Then beyond the broken ground of the strip
between the bays comes gay Southampton,
rapidly becoming one of the most favored
shore resorts of New York well-to-do.
The island has b ecome mere strip OF
broken country here. Beyond is Muntauk
where the sick ps gained heal aud
strength from the o cean hreencS after the
malaria laden air of Cuba when the span
ish war closed Then the coast swings
north and west around the point into new
inland sea There is Shelter Island closing
its mouth, always cool and with hotels
always filled in the hot months.
Farther up the Great Feconic Bay are
Iamesport and Aquehogue, and then the
bay becomes river with Riverhead nam
let at the dividing line.
On the other side Of the island are more
shore resorts, hut with deeper fringe o!
| forest, all the Sounds length, Here are
| more summer homes and more summer re-
sorts. II is more country OF summer
homes than a temporary abiding place Tor
few weeks Is this side Of the island. and IN
| that lies the charm of it's villages from Orient
| the quaint little settlement occupying al
most the whole OF the ragged peninsula at
the northeast end of the island back TO
| Great Neck and Sea Cliff, beside beautiful
Hampstead Iarbor,
| r.