The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
LONG ISLANDS PROGRESS
NORTH SHORE FILLING UP WITH
BIG COUNTRY SEATS.

CottaEs Colonies and Small Estates Are
Increasing Chiefy on the South Shore
Tendency Has Grown 20 subsu.
tute All Year for Summer Homes.
Il seems odd now that more OF Long Island
was not incorporated In the Greater New
York. The Queens borough line. on tho
eastsrly border Of the city, Ia about thirty
miles from the City Hall In Manhattan.
That was undoubtedly an inconvenient dis
lance before the Long Island Railroad passed
into the hands Of the Pennsylvania, Since
then. however, the time Of travel has been
greatly reduced and the service improved
When the East River tunnel is completed
the farther end OF the Great South Bay
about sixty miles from the City Hall, will be
as accessible as the Queens borough line
was In 1898
Those OF the manufacturing industries
OF New York that handle bulky products
are tending 10 concentrate in Long Island
City and in parts OF Brooklyn. Because Of
the growth Of manufacturing there more
room for suburban expansion will presently
be needed than Is supplied by Kings and
Queens counties. There is every reason To
believe that the westerly end OF Long Island
VIII eventually DO tub kTtdb Lldllul dNNuIluk
center Of New York
with this prospect in view, the city line
should have been established with refer
ence, not TO the financial and mercantile
centers in Manhattan, but with reference
TO the spreading industrial center in Queens
and Brooklyn. To-day II seems mistake
that a strip thirty miles wide was not taken
from Suffolk county and added to New
York The time il probably not far distant
when the whole Of Long Island will lie
physically, II not politically, a part Of the
greater city.
Long Islands $50 square miles Of area,
extending lis miles from west 20 east and
invent y-three miles between the faTthest
removed north and south points, Is eI-
tremely varied in character and unusually
we'll adapted for suburban residence. The
north shore, along the Sound, Is hilly.
wooded, and indented with picturesque
inlets. The eouth shore, along the Allan
tic, Is a smooth sand beach as far east az
Lawrence, followed by sixty miles
meadow land bordering the Great Sout
Bay. Between the north and south shore
stretches the fertile countryside Of orchard,
market gardens and farms, which was tie
source OF Long Islands early prosperity
The north shore has developed intoa
fashionable place OF country residere
practically within the last five years. he
farms fronting the Sound and running
back into the Wheatey Hills have ben
bough up by people Of wealth, like the
Vanderbilt, Gould Mackay Belmont and
Whitney families, and turned into great
private estates, The change has been
especially marked between Baysidt and
Oyster Bay, and is making progress as Tar
east as Port Jefferson.
The region is protected from popular
invasion by the absence Of trolley lines,
and the fashionable colony opposes al
efforts to introduce local transit. The
automobile, coupled with good roads, has
been an important factor in making the
north shore accessible TO the railway and
in preserving It's eXclusiveness as 9 place
OF residence II is quite probable that
without the automobile land values in the
Wheatley Hills would not have nRen in