The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-19
WestCneSter County.

The omen weather Of recent weeks has
resulted in decided activity In the nreDara-
ton Of the suHnR and summer athletic and
social programme OF the fashionable. Park
ernors oil the Park Hlll Country Club Is
manning a schedule which will provide enter
tainment for residents Of the section during
the entire season. Tennis courts which adJoin
the Park Hill Lake are being put In shape
and are nearly NJ for the all season tOurnA-
ments. The golfers OF the section have been
active for ONE weeks past on the van Cort-
landt Park links and on the links Of the Dun
woodie Country Club, which Ia not far distant,
The board Of governors Of the club will report
It's completed programme In a few DAYS.
According 10 clifford B. Harmon the
residents OF New York city are beginning
wonderful difference in suburban lie and
conditions, The churches, SCHOOLS and high
schools In the westchester suburbs are equal
to those Of New York city Each suburban
combines social and athletic features Mount
Vernon. White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle,
IATchmont and many other towns are pro-
vded with sewers, water supply gas, cleo
tricitV. telephone service, postal delivery,
paved or macadamiLed streets. trolley ser
vice. police and FIRE departments and nrac-
ticallv all other city conveniences. In almost
all the above named towns property is
sold under restrictions. This idea, has been
carried out in our own p%roperty at Harmon.
The success OF the Hotel Gramatan at
BronXyille, one Of the finest hotels outside
Of New York city. has been phenouenal and
has attracted many thousands TO Westchester
who formerly spent the summer In the Berk-
shlres and other resorts, Many substantial
business men are securing country residences
In Scarslale, White Plains, North White
Plains. Nalhalla, Pleasantville, Mount Kisco.
Ardsley, Harmon and villa ges along the
Hudson and the Sound and many new and
beautiful homes are being constructed.
An this building tends TO Improve West
chester. but as the larger portion Of the coun-
try Is held in large private estates the amount
OF land available for development Ii limited.
This Ia especially true along the Hudson River
where metropolitan millionaires own almost
the entire section Harmon, which was the
old Van Cortlandt Manor estate, Ia amonG the
last tracts along the Hudson available for
subdivision. The real estate outlook for
Mtstchtste IL extremely bright. Besides
the transportation improvements It's great
natural beauty and fine location are making
II more and more popular aud home seekers
and investors are becoming more and more
interested"
The American Real Estate Company re-
ports the sale Of several plots at Park Hin
on the Hudson, on hhlcreSt avenue. mon
which ground will be broken for so, 900 houses
within the next week. Three other attractive
homes are nearing completion. two opposite
the lake and one a block away. =
New Rochelle, on the Sound, combines
the attractions Of a high grade summer re.
sort with those Of an all year round residents
colony. Its summer residents probably still
outnumber ite permanent population. Profit
II found In building and furnishing houses
for rent for the summer. The proportions
OF the transient and permanent population,
however, are being reversed, owing 10 the
improvement In transit facilities between
New Rochelle and New York city. Mean