Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-23
GROWTH
AT GILLETTE
Train Service Much improved
in Two Years--Landscape
Gardener Busy.

one of the best examples Of growth
In the Summit Bernardsville territory
is Gillette There a number of we'll
known Newarkers have summer and
1 all-year homes.
( Two years ago when the conductor
of a Lackawanna Railroad train
would announce Gillette the train
scarcely slowed up at that station
and it would be an unusual occur
renee for as many as two passengers
/ TO get off there. The passenger who
| happened to glance out of the window
J would see a country road, a hill, some
fields some dark woods and a tangled
( mass of underbrush. He would Won
| der why on earth the railroad com
pany ever placed a station at such a
| lonely spot, not knowing that there
was a little village just over the hill
consisting of a few summer and farm
ers' cottages and a general store.
Now the trains stop more fire.
quently at Gillette. There are about
twenty-five regular commuters all
year round and fifty in the summer
time. Twenty-Five trains q day stop
there and the commuters get to New
ark in forty minutes, schedule time
The view from the train is now en-
tirely different. and the passenger
who wondered at the lack of develop
ment two years ago now sees at Gil
lette one of the prettiest residential
parks along the line of the road. The
tangled underbrush has disappeared
The dark woods are thinned out and
the trees trimmed, making q pretty
grove. Bouleyards, streets and side
walks have been made. The hand of
&c
everywhere and the scene Is dotted
here and there by bungalows and cot
tages.
Gillette extends from Long Hill,
half mile to the north of the railroad.
% Union village, a mile to the south
Of the railroad. including quite a
stretch of the beautiful Upper Pas
sale River Near the river is the
well known Tri-Ccunty Country Cub.
of which DR.. Willis Fletcher john
son. the editor of the New York
Tribune. is president. This club,
which has over 100 members, is the
centre of Gillette's social activities
Tennis matches, baseball games, field
days. dances, euchre and bridge par
ties and other amusementts keep the
club members going all summer and
q good part of the winter.
\ number of persons have aided in
The growth of Gillette by building
new homes or remodeling and beauti-
fning old places. One of the finest
lll-year homes at Gillette has been
recently completed in the Long Hill
section by Gilbert Cornish, of the
local law firm of Burnett & Cornish.
Very attractive homes here are &C.
.upied by DR. Mary Philbrook and
- Judge Algernon T. Sweeney, of
Newark.
The main factors in the growth of
the Springfield avenue section are
the Mutual Realty Corporation and
the North Jersey Mountain Homes
company. The latter company, of
rhich Joseph Dobbs. of Bernardsyille,
is president, has purchased consider
able property and improved it with
high-class dwellings, nearly all of
which have been disposed of.
The Mutual Realty Corporation, a
local concern, has built miles of
streets and installed a 72.0O0-gallon-
q-day water plant, with a gigantic
-ank. pipe lines, etc. More than $780,,
700 has been expended by this COM
many in such improvements. The
most important work of the Mutual
Realty Corporation. however, has
been that of interesting Newarkers
and New Workers in Gillette as a
location for all-year and summer
homes. Principally as a result of its
activities there have been more in
dividual sales of property in Gillette
during the past two years than in
env one town between Summit and
TernardsYille, the two latter towns
Included