New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
A $4,000 Office Structure
and a $4,000 Playhouse
Being Built.
THE TOWN HAS MANY
LAUDABLE AMBITIONS
Its Efforts To Be Great Home
and Industrial Place Meet.
ing with Success.

Large sums of money are being spent
on building in the trade and home centres
OF the picturesque village OF ,Suffern. \.
Y, in the Ramapo Mountains. about
thirty-one miles from the heart OF TINS
city. on Lafayette av.. the main business
thoroughfare of the town, an opera mouse
with two stores is being erected at a
cost of about S60,o00 and business
structure with Offices and three stores Al
2 cost Of about $4,000. on orange
Prairie and some other avenues. most
attractive TO home seekers, some houses
are being built which represent An IN
vestment Of from So, 80 up, each.
The new yigor displayed in the business
and home centres of Sunern is also re-
hectcd in other ways In this suburban
town. Suffern is no longer content to
be beautiful suburban place of normal
growth and consequently with norma
phvsical features II has taken steps 10
double as quickly as possible the num-
her OF it's home owners and 10 proVlde
within its borders steady work at good
wages for many skilled hands. II Is
ambitious to have every asset mat VIII
make il a great and model BUSINESS
residential and manufacturing place
This progressive spirit may shock some
~ the oldtime residents OF the place, VINO
have ALWAYS pictured Suffern as destined
IN he ALWAYS purely residential place
These steps TO increase the prosperity
of Suffern took definite form not long
ago in the creation of the Suffern Board
~ Trade. of which Frank Wiley $ presi-
dent. Although about only SIX months
old. this organization has done splendid
work in placing before manufacturing
concerns considering proposition loi
new sites and plants the advantages OF
Suffern as "A place fOr the carrying ON oil
a well established industrial plant. Al
the same time it has described IN a most
attractive way the charms OF Sunern 10
many CITY jewellers and others who are
vearuiuc 10 shake the dust of the city
streets from their feet and live in rural
haunts. owing TO these efforts OF the
board OF trade. the Consolidated cut
Glass Company has moved from Con-
necticut to Sufern, where II has opened
a large glass factory on a site WITHIN
ten minutes walk OF the railroad station
The weekly pay roll Of this factory al
ready amounts to SEQ. and 1t * said thai
IL will be many times that in the neal
future
The Board of Trade already comprises
about sixty members. all popular citizens
Of the town. President Wiley is the edi-
tor OF THE Su0rcln Recorder. stanch
advocate Of Republican policies. The
other officers Of the hoard are: Charles
Rocklin yice-president, Frank Malloy,
treasurer. and =. Boyanowsk. secretary.
The constitution OF the organization en-
phasizes the fact that the primary obJee'
Tor which the board was formed is the
Welfare Of Suneru.
Amore delightful place for suburban
nome within an hours ride Of this city
would be hard 10 find. and there is no
rear that this estimate OF the residential I
characteristics OF the place will ever be .
impaired by the setting aside Of large
part OF the town for transition into
"iae-aWake and modern industrial colony.
vi the other hand. the building Of
srest manufacturing section in the town y