The New York herald., 1922-04-02

There are few dwellers within the
metropolitan area who are not more or
less conversant with the residential adj
vantages of the Oranges. Long before
housing famines and own your own
home campaigns were heard of these
delightful Jersey communities, so con-
venient to New York. Were already
drawing their quota of residents from
the city. During the last few years the
scurrying about for homes has sent
thousands upon thousands Of persons
into this suburban section with a vora-
cious appetite for practical information
regarding train service. prices, educa-
tioEal and recreational facilities and the
other cardinal considerations that are
supposed to influence the prospective
homeseeker in his choice of a location.
Then, too, the fine automobile routes
that wind their velvety way through the
Oranges have sent many a tourist or
pleasure rider or, his way with clear
cut impression of the beauties of the
countryside
1t Is no longer a matter of news,
therefore, to recall the fact that East
Orange Is eleven miles from New York,
has miles of fine streets, rows of well
built apartment houses and beautiful
private homes, many splendid schools
and churches, ard can be reached by the
Lackawanna Railroad in thirty-five min
utes from the Cortandt street terminal
of the Hudson and Manhattan tubes
that Orange boasts many Of the same
advantages, Is twelve miles from New
York, and can be reached via the Lack
awanna from Cortlandt street IN thirty
seven minutes: that West Orange can
De reached on the Erie In approximately
thlrty-five minutes and cherishes within
it's confines the famous Llewellyn Park,
far famed as a restricted residential
area: That South Orange is sixteen
miles from Wall street. has well planned
Fairgrounds, with. swimming ponds and
coasting grounds for the children. to-
gether with golf. tennis and country
clubs Of national fame right in it's midst,
and thatit can be reached on the Lack
awanna from Cortlardt street in fnrtv
minutes; or finally, that Maplewood.
situated on the slope of the Orange
Mountains. seventeen miles from New
York city, likewise has its share of ideal
homes. schools, churches and recrea-
tional facilities, and cars be reached on
the Lackawanna in forty-five minutes
from Cortlandt street.
These facts 1have all been mulled over
many times before, and If the truth
were known they could probably be re-
peated verbatim by the majority of
home seekers. Thar very prosiness
would seem to detract from any at
tempt to portray the many allurements
Of the section.
There is one big. important thing
about the Oranges, however,. that has
not as yet become matter of common
knowledge. Few laymen know that
since November I. 1921. the district has
been a laboratory for an experiment
which certain enthusiastic realtors de-
clare will some day revolutionize the
transaction of the real estate business
throughout the country The expert
nlent had already been tried success
fully in the West and 1t remained for
the realtors of the Oranges to apply 1t to
conditions that exist in the East 1t Is
in effect an effort at cooperation in
salesmanship along the broadest possi-
BILE lines.
Just five months have elapsed since
the Board OF Realtors of the Oranges
and Maplewood put the Multiple Listing
System into effect, but the results in
that time from the standpoint of actual
sales closed have been so gratifying
that other communities throughout the
East--and several of them big cities,
too--havc manifested an earnest desire
to know all about this method under
which an owner who offers his property
for sale secures the combined services
OF every member OF the real estate
board. Albany. according to report. Is
about to give the plan try and New
ark is ready to adopt IL. The real
estate board In Syracuse is also making
serious Inquiries regarding the advan-
tages OF the system. Last April eighteen
cities throughout the United States
were using the Multiple Listing system.
To-day over fifty have put II into effect