New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-26
Popularity of City as
Warm Weather Resort
Largely Due to 1t.
MANY L. |. BEACHES
WITHIN EASY REACH
Numerous Chances for Visitors
and Residents to Enjoy
Outdoor Sports.

In the July number Of the monthly
bulletin published by the Chamber Of
Commerce Of the Borough Of Queens
an article sets forth the advantages
and attractions of Queens Borough as
a summer resort:
One reason for the great popularity
Of New York City as a summer resort
is due. it says. TO the great stretches
Of beaches that lie at its very door
on the south side OF Long Island, eX-
tending from Coney Island 10 MontauA
Point. and the picturesque harbors and
bays on the north shore Of the island
from Astoria to Port Jefferson.
Queens Borough Offers the tonic Of
the ocean air, the sweep Of the bree es
over sunlit fields air untainted by SCOT
and smoke the charm Of nestled bays
and the beauty Of thousands Of acr9i
Of natural parkland.
In the Borough Of Queens there -
every advantage, not only for the sum
mer visitor. bat for the permanent
resident. to enjoy outdoor sports. win
its ton miles Of beaches on the Atlantic
Ocean. extending from Far ROckaway
to Rochaway Point; the many yacht
clubs on Jamaica Bay. East River and
Long Island Sound; the beautiful golf
and country clubs: its many amuse-
ment parks and popular picnic grounds
in the vicinity of College Point. and
its newly paved highways for auto
MODELLING. which are considered the
fines. stretch Of roads in the country.
The Rockaway peninsula. al tho
southern portion Of the Borough OF
Queens. is about ton miles in length
and lies between Jamaica Bay and the
Atlantic Ocean. All Of the built up
section Of the peninsula is 30 20 80
minutes from Wall Street. Manhattan.
via electric trains Of the Long Island
Railroad. and from 80 10 80 trains are
run each way on weekdays and twice
this number on Sundays. All OF tins
section is one of the finest seaside re
sorts along the coast. with its board
walk on the ocean and its broad mac
adamized streets. modern hotels, ornate
residences and public parks.
Seaside Boulevard. at Belle Harbor.
skirting Jamaica Bay. where yachts by
the score may nc tied up, makes this
noted resort. Seaside, Holland and
Hammel are filled with amusement re-
sorts of many kinds. and their hotels
end bathing pavilions often have many
hotels have ,commodati for two
thousand boarders ard are tilled every
season Here is a boardwalk fronting
the ocean for two or three miles Ar
verne. fifteen and half miles from
Manhattan. has fourteen or fifteen
hotels for the accommodation Of about
fourteen hundred people. Edgemcrc.
seventeen miles from Manhattan. has
a splendid hotel clubhouse which ac-
commodities two hundred and fifty
guests. who mus; be approved by the
club members. There are q great many
all-thc- year-roGud residents IN this see
ton.
Far Rockaway. eighteen miles from
has a permanent pop .
uation Of over ten thousand people +
and many fine business blocks. Hun
drcds Of fine cottages are rented at
prices ranging from $3.50 70 $4,000
season. This is ? prominent business
Of the place. It's hotels accommodate
over two thousand guests. There j.
one OF the largest bathing payllious
10 be found in the country ut Far Rock
away Beach. Visitors or the Eockaway
peninsula have the advantage Of fine
surf bathing at the ocean front and
still water and aquatic sports on ia
nndiCd Day
Among the Yacht clubs throughout
the borough are Jamaica Bay. Belle
IIarbor and Jefferson. on Jamaica Bay;
the College Point. milestone and
on the East River where it
hroadens into Long Island Sound, and
the Bayside. on Little Neck Bay.
Among the golf ard country clubs .
are the Oakland Golf Club. which has
one of the finest ciShtecn-holc links IN
the United States. situated on beauti-
full, high rolling country: tho attrac-
tive nine-hole course at Flushing. and +
the eighteen-hole public links at Forest .
Park.
The latest addition to the clubs OF .
the borough is the West Side Tennis I
Club. at Forest Hills. the largest organ
ization OF it's kind in the United States. i
having about six hundred members. (
fourth OF whom are women. The .
grounds. which comprise ten acres, adj
jaccnt TO the property OF the Sage
Homes Company, are being
laid out in sixty courts. The club
formerly had it's quarters far uptown
on the West Side. near Van Cortlandt .
Park.
To the automohilists Queens Borough
offers the combined charm of excellent