New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
BRENTWOOD PARK
APPEALS TO ALL
It Is in the Heart of the
Land of the Pine and
Sunshine.
COOL IN SUMMER.
WARM IN WINTER
This Beautiful Development IS
Only Fo-ty-two Miles from
This City.

s-u--tIr located in the great pine belt
p q Log island is Brentwood Park, at
BRENTWOOD This delightful home devel-
orrenr .s just rorty-two miles from the
Te--eyIva-fa station Al ed st. and Sew
Cb ave. and several miles less than
tfet distance from the Fiatbush ave.
s1at.or. 10 Brooklyn. Of the Long Island
Railroad
ID comprises about four hundred acres.
every part Of the development being
within easy reach of the Brentwood rail-
road station.
The transformation OF Brentwood Park
into a well planned and efficiently man
aced suburban residential place was be
gun about four years ago. An inspection
a. The Dropertv now shows that vast
amour, NJ work has been done in build
ing houses. in laying out roads, grading
curling and tagging the streets anu
in making the property most sulta' 'e
70 rermaneut home purposes. over
twelve miles Of stone sidewalks nave
been laid and II all the roadways Whlch
I'm through the tract were brought TO-
rethc- thew would extend over twenty
miles The principal conveniences inciuoe
electric light and pure water IN al se'-
tons Of the premises.
For Years Brentwood. Of which this big
resdential park is such large physical
factor. has been widely known as one OF
the most healthful and picturesque places
n this country.
II was in 1851 that the healthfulness OF
suffolk County became known TO such
men Of note as Horace Greeley Charles
4 Dana. stephen Pearl Andrews, George
Ripley, the historian, and others who had
taken part ia the Brook Farm movement
ir Massachusetts These men, who after
vard made American history, found
regtling among magnificent groves OF
rfoe. ar and balsarn an ideal place for
To working out OF their theories Of So
o.l freedom and called II Brentwood.
To-day. II seems as though the shades
O. its founders stil walk its streets and
breathe their benediction upon IT, These
pioneers toiled with great energy. The
large tract o. land which they had pur-
chased was laid out on broad. cornprehen-
ave lines. At first blocks Of four acres
we're laid out and curbs and lot lines
set with eyerrreens and deciduous trees
- well a. many fruit trees
one Of the cardinal principles OF the
Ittle colony was the Interchange OF Ia
boz. and 70 facilitate this scrip was is
tued. aimed By the Village treasurer ana
received among the members az currency
. TIE value o. q bushel OF wheat, pair
o. shoer. q days labor was fixed by
4. s scheGGle and scrip Of proper value was
Issued % the man or woman who had
treated anything tangible In order 70
procure the neceagarfes 81 Iife The plan
worked veil in theory and among them
sslyel until the outside barbarians VINO
81 them goods demanded greenbacks IN
p1yroeut" This ended tho isus Of scrip
Tie community had paper box fac
iDfy and harness shop and raised excel
ifut fruits and berries It's members
we're al bright and brsiny. and Brent
WOOD beam. fountain Of literary cult
ure. The Oh dranatlsts found expo
r'nis 81 the nllage hall before apprecla-
Use audience. philosophers poured forth
topiOus streams ~ wisdom; artists
painted hnG poets wrote, ana q peace
Np idylbc FOR this practical worio
hbTsrs1 over the Brentwood community
4 ~. founders hoped 10 regensrate me
r"lH. 70 cut ogt wrong and misery, 10
simulate a general ana lasting bfothff-
'''vi " man. n was a sharing of ideai
$40 fnbfiance. u needed, but Ike fnos'
slr'DSie movements the colG. practcaI
ne " me vori1 about II failed 10 mp
bfl1sir y. sno ~ ~ parsed gradually.
me town hss about I'VE hundred inhhb'
"~Dn u has .1,eiient retail shops,