New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08

5000 10 xl5ooo The grounds OF tbs Hackenssck
Golf Club partly this property.
Haekensack. many Of whose leading citizens are
descendants of Dutch settlers, has interest
fng hfstory-tte hotel where Washington rested for
the night his way TO MorTistown Is still standing
snd Revolutionary hero Brigadier General Enoch
Poor, lies in tbs old churchyard OF the First Re-
formed Church Its broad streets. shaded by giant
trees have a general cir Of quiet and reposs sug-
gestve OF aristocratic old Southern towns. 1t has
about Loo inhabitants. About thirteen miles from
New-yorA. the New-Jersey and New-York and
the New-Yorl. Susquehanna ana Western branches
Trains to and from New-Yorf ' each E--T week eek
trolley lines connect it with surrounding towns and
furnish direct service to ls9 10Th New. In,
same form CT government, though slightly modi-
rate being 2a per cent about one-half valua-
tons. Sanitary conditions good, owing to fine
L has satisfactory baing facilities. some of the
4dlciary institutions being particularly strons-the
National Bank, for example The former has a
H8ooo deposits: 1t also conducts savings depart
1nelt: the bank has 100000 capital $1S6,oo0 surplus
The North Jersey Title Guarantee Company was
$1,000 ana makes speciality of Bergen County
real estate 1t is particularly well equipped for this
identified with Bergen County affairs. It insures
titles, loans money bond and mortgage, and sells
Hackensack has some twenty church congrega-
having Tery handsom@ eses sSa IL istS pTo
OF her public school system; It is claimed thai
5iackensack candidates for West Point or Annapo-
Eift OF the Hon. w. M Johnson ex-Asslstant Post
$1,000 It IS built of brownsfone, with interior nm
tsh OF Flemish oak and gold and set In spacious
grounds beautifully laid out and adorned with
and circulated $500 IN 1904 Its general reading
room is the first floor. where are 5000
on the second floor Mr. johnson also donated g. 900
Tor the purchase OF books.
There are several excellent clubs the more promi-
nsnt ones being the 0ritaai Field Club. the Hack
ensack Golf Club, the Hackensaek Wheefmen the
Eackensaek Club flor men) and the Gentlemen s
Hackensack has two daily and two weekly news
penocraf. which has recently ne started daiiy
called The Daily Times" The Hackensack Re-
publican,' edited BY. E. K. Bird is well con-
Quoted aud influential weekly paper. THE Evening
se1rd daily newspaper circuates in thirty
eInploys fully. sixty newsboys. and a half dozen
wagons TO deliver the papers to the various points
ro;i ,Nenty-fiye towns-near the railroads and
,aolley lines 1t has done much to solidify the IN
Tlssis or the various towns in this most rapidly
st'"iis seclon or New-Jersey.
ATTRACTIVE HOMES OFFERED.
An attractive property now being developed here
- that OF e B. Ross, whose New-York Office is
at No $50 Broadway. It Is located in the north
part Of the town, and extends from, Main-st
20 sunainlt-aFe The western portion of the site
is high ana signify sioping gently TO the Fair
noaIlsase fSaaliWag station, which is located on its
eastern boundafF Most of the tract is covered
with fine growth of forest trees many NJ ybieb
can be preserved for shade purposes when houses
ere erected Nhlie the greater portion Of the
property has been divided into lots of q bv i5e
feet, much OF that on the heights has been laid
In plots of 1e9 by $50 feet which are beig eoId
at about one-haif the price for which similar Iots
within three blocks. and situated no better have
as ii is surrounded three sides by banSsaTes,
residences and is reasonably restricted: il is oniy
a question of q short time when il viii become
one of the finest sections OF the city