The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-29
AspNyvA1D NANsIo NOW OCCUPIED WILLIAM RocKEFEILER
"ocGUPIED BY WILLIAM RocKEFEI~EF
The Long up the than
the Others but those the north the Hudson cost
moneysome city expansion may break the belt.
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them. The Isellns have put up a high j
wall to shut out Questionable sights aid 1
sounds, but It doesn't help much. s$ I'LL
5 The estates & OF Arson Phelps Il stokes.
and the late illiam Ziegler, the baking
powder man; who sent o. polar expedition.
north few years ago, adorn the Sound !
shore al Noroton.5 Ziegl Ter spen t So, 00O 0vOs
on his place 3s55 yt
ifg9 West of i the Hudson and north Of the
diagonal boundary line betwe cen N ewS z orlsg
fnnd New Jersey, in 4 the r alnapo ELL II
Thomas F& r. yam, insurnnc e. pid transit
aand tobacco Croesus, q has n1l estate or
1000 acres, which has a been christenedI
$Nlontebello, Is where s the family. OF heit
< Roman Catholic aith. vorships n in sSRa
private chapel NJ In charge u Of q pr Vateg:
chaplain on the es tate AZ,
s&f i. III Hartman, the minister's son, wf,oS
now, con rols the Southern Pacific Rait-#
road, and is peri forming prodig ies III help
ling put San Francisco Ii on Il its feet, is 4
getting together rear Tuxe do, at Arden
in Orange county, an enormo US estnte.a
1T probably covers co. 900 acres. Il most SofS
which Is mountain territory, though he
has 100 or 500 acres OF ghlyS fertile FARM
land NJ It Is imposed to be his ambition
Ito = own the "A argest n country estate sSSi III
America eventually. There h he has his
8trotting track. his sknt ting ponds. and
every faclli lily for QUITO DOR nusement YOU
well could imagine. and there he IS now
building a house on a hill, with a Won
sderful view to the west, al a cost Ola i
mil lon n or more M s5l asis2
45s8ts Tho Tuxed o Park places are hardl " to-
h be termed country states, but the park
as q whole, is not to be left out OF ac-
count in this story, It IS several miles
ssquare:8it was founded by the first Pierre
8Lorillard, and 1t has been q IA tors OF tn1-a
fportance In the growth of the rno yemenr !.
away from town am ong thc mi r; on aires Il
z of New Yo rk. It is distinctive In Y IS
most Of It's residents live within Us sbor.@
sders the year. around. This Is not SO of
the majority among the rich of the
metropolis. ,i.; Il t$ s8f sSgs
M Further south. across the line In New
Jersey, there are half a hundred note--SA
worthy estates. perhaps naore, Fl. Nc Kay
sTwombly's F,lorham Park. near NJ orris-s
town, cost $4,000 900. Twonbly's estate
includes much beautiful farming land 5s5s
# So does George Gould's estate at Lake.
wood, still further south, though n OF In
any such degree. M Gould's estate Is now
the most thoroughly developed along tho 4
gardening and tree culture lines, they
say In all this country t was n OF K
planned to be thus distinctive, but It's N
development Just naturally evolved that
way, Al feature OF the place is the sptne-s
tum, or grove of pines. Mr.. Gould likes A
grass to grow beneathg MS plneS,f ana pine
needles, even more than pine shade. kill "a
grass. being positively poisonous to t:1
hence a regular force has to keep busy Il
constantly raking the pinetum free VI Of Il
pine needles. ia u; & sSS
SsIJp Greenwood Lake way, In the north-Ntss
western part Of lew Jersey. the Coopers 4
and the Hewitts. descendants OF Peter \
Cooper and Abraln S. Hewitt, own thou
sands of5acres. The main esta tei is termed
Ringwood and upon It stand an old red
stone building used ms q q blacksmith's ~
forge In Revolutionary days. and much q
frequented then by the officers Of the y
Continental Army8when their horses u
needed shooting, II It is known as the Wa sh-s$s
.lngton forge. because of certain legends n
concerning the shoeing8 OF Nv shjngtonn's x
horse there-lege which there8is every y
reason to believe are true.
The estate established by the late Theo-$
dore A. Hayemeyer8 Is In New jersey S3
too. on the edge OF the Ramapo Hills. at
K The famous old Lorlllard es-
tate IS now well-nigh forgotten. Tho
great tobacco millionaire estate In New XII
Jersey to-day Is that OF James b. Duke,
at present In process OF development
q This leaves unmentioned the famous
places In low lylSg Monmouth county.
N. j., hundreds OF them worth many <
millions, For all their value and beauty, A
and the many square miles which they Y
cover. few OF them are large enough to \
size up with the great estates up the
Hudson, In the highlands Of Southern KS
New York and Northern New jersey, and s
on Long Island,
/ 5(Copyrlght, 1906, by Dexter Marshall,)