New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-05
LONG ISLAND HAS MANY CHARMS
Its Rapidly Growing Suburban Districts Noted for Vast Fontages
on Sound, Bays and Ocean.
SAFE PLACE FOR REALTY SPECTATORS AND INVESTORS

Long Island is one of the safest and one
If the most alluring places for realty buy
ers in this country.
II possesses beautiful frontages on the
Atlantic Ocean, the Great South Bay ana
the waters OF the Sound.
II has moreover, many thousand acres
of picturesque plainland. region many
miles long noted for its beautiful hills ana
dales, country estates and cottage colonies
and a suburban area of natural loVelinesS
and vigorous home and business centres
The larger part of the charming suburb
an districts are within the boundaries OF
the greater city. and the contiguous IN
hand and north and south shore resldenual
divisions are, as the saying is, at the very
Threshold OF old New York.
"The south shore, to far away Montauh
Point. is a charming bit of land says
we'll known writer. overlooking the ocean
and Great South Bay, and on the eastern
end the beautiful Peconic Bay.
THE central section is generally level
though in places rolling, where farms ana
woodland intermingle, with little to sug-
sest the proximity of the great beach
stretches so close to it.
THE north shore Of the island is very
different-here the hills rise gently until
they form broken series Of parapets, like
miniature Gibraltars. above the Sound
which has indented the shore and formed
placid and picturesque bays and harbors
offering uneXcelled conditions for boating
and sailing. Whichever way one turns il
is a picture land: and II ones eyes weary
for a moment OF woods and hills and plains
and waters they may follow the setting sun
away beyond the great city at whose gates
and for whose special benefit this gem or
nature seems to have been set.
The waters around Long Island have
long been popular with amateur sailors,
with men and women who love TO skim
IN white-winged craft across safe bays
where salt breezes blow. The Sound, Great
South Bay, Gardeners Bay and the At
lantic Ocean offer variety OF sailing
There are quiet waters for the iat-hot-
toned skif and the leg o mutton.
Another writer says:
The opportunity for sport which Long
Island presents-with its wooded hills It's
BAYS. where leaping trout flash In the hgh'
of vagrant sunbeams. its salt marsh haunts
of the wary wild duck, its runs OF gameE
bluefish. grassy downs and breeze-s"ept
moors. where the golfer makes his HAPPY
round-are such as no other section OF
country anywhere near the great metropolis
can offer Its appeals to the sportsman
and the lover Of outdoor pastimes are IRE
sistible.
The Automobiles Paradise was long
ago applied 10 Long Island, and TO this day
there is no other worthy claimant TO that
title. Some twelve hundred miles OF con-
nected asphalt and macadam roads Ieau
unbroken from the heart Of the city by
three or four different routes and continue
over shell roads and firm gravel surfaces
10 the end of the island, over a hundred
miles away. These roads offer an infinite
variety of hill and dale land vistas and
water views. level stretches and forest
crowned slopes without equal IN the two
Americas: with frequent depots for those
supplies the modern vehicle must have.
NO general description Of the island is
complete that omits reference TO its won
derful climate. When one reaches the ISL
and he finds II unsurpassed from a eli
matte point Of view.
THE entire coast line Of the United States
lies nearly north and south. except the
jog where Long Island stretches more
than a hundred miles eastward from New
York, with the horizon wide Long Island
Sound between it and the mainland on the
north
THE prevailing summer winds are south
winds. which sweep straight from the ocean
over Long Island-coo on Long Island hot
ten degrees hotter-everywhere else.
Long Island is at least ten degrees cooler
than any other spot on the nearby coast.
In the winter the blasts from the north
west howl over the mainland. cross the I'M
freezable Sound. and, with tempered vigor
and reduced force as they meet the ocean
pressure, strike the protecting ridge of hills.
defect upward and leave the suulit south
ern slopes in comparative warmth. That,
with marvellous assortment of farm soils,
accounts for the unrivalled variety Of the
islands products-the fact that things -four
ish on Long Island that would be consid-
cred almost tropical growths; the best Of
all garden truck and fresh eggs come
from Long Island.
Fine Train Service.
The trains Of the Long Island Railroad
run 70 the Pennsylvania Station, at
Seventh avenue and 32d street, landing
passengers In the very heart Of the city,
from which any part OF the town can be