The New York herald., 1922-11-26

miles from Broadway, Manhattan. and
is within thirty-five minute run from
Broadway. 1t is served by the Erie
and the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western railroads. The Greenwood
Lake branch OF the Erie has four sta
tions within the town limits. There
are also buses which operate to New
ark and Paterson. Many persons re-
turning late from Manhattan at night
use the Hudson tubes to Newark and
the buses to Montclair.
Called "Ideal Suburb"
''Montclair has been rightly called the
ideal suburb the town beautiful and
tho mountain town The Orange
Mountain runs through and forms the
western boundary Of the town. the ele-
walton being from $50 to $50 feet. The
mountainside Is dotted with beautiful
homes OF wealthy and cultured persons
and the view from that vantage can
hardly be surpassed in any other sub
urb Of New York. The air Is pure. dry
and bracing and the elevation makes
Montclair one Of the most healthful
communities In New Jersey.
"The public schools are among the
best In the United States. It has one
of the finest high schools In the coun-
try and one of the best boys acad-
emies. 1t supports six banks. more
than twenty churches, six fire COM
panies, many clubs. golf. social and
otherwise. a public library and free
postal delivery to all parts OF the town.
"The town can boast of It's splendid
sanitary sewerage system as well as OF
It's water supply, which comes from the
upper water she'd OF the Pequannock
River. The water Is filtered before II
lot nd q
lutely pure.
During the last year there has been
a remarkable activity in business prop
critics, especially along Bloomfield ave-
nue.. ono reason for which was the pub
lie spirit of ex-Mayor Ernest G. Hinck
in building the Hinck Building. That
imposing structure, with its fine moving
picture theater, has acted as stimulus
to the owners of smaller properties, who
have been remodeling frame structures.
putting brick fronts on and there have
been several sales of properties to out
of town buyers who see good profits In
them from a speculative standpoint or
for purely investment purposes. Values
along Bloomfield avenue have risen re-
Gently to from 800 TO $500 a front foot.
Continuing from Great Notch the
Greenwood Lake division continues
through three sections which have shown
great development during the last four
years. They are Mountain View and
Pequannock, on the Pequannock River.
and Pompton Lakes. which Is also
reached by the Susquehanna road. From
bungalow colonies they have grown to
districts OF summer homes.
Montclafr's Background Hills.
The fine sweep Of hillside forming the
wooded background of Montclair has Of
fered and still offers several most In
terestins and unusual possibilities for
development OF residential sites.
II Is on that terrain that three OF the
houses illustrated herewith are situated.
The house designed for Charles Hill Is
on the down hill side Of the gradual
ascent of Lloyd road. and those OF Eric
Mueibergor and Arthur Hunter further
up on the hillside. Although In general
the desire in planning the setting and
the arrangement was to take advantage
OF the extensive view afforded by these
sites, the real problem was to develop
possible approaches to tho houses for
vehicles and service without marrlng the
foreground.
The CHARLES Hill house In one. there
fore. that IL long and narrow In plan
(32xss feet), set comparatively near 70
the street and reached by a slightly de-
scendng curved driveway. Consequently