{"1": {"fulltext": "3q\\nC35\\nW^B.", "height": "3149", "width": "2350", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ".^WJ^Vw/^-^v\\n^iyi.;^ W,\\nw^^j^iAS\\nW\\nD \u00c2\u00a7K S^ S^ ^5*- W I\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\n,^u^t;uu^w\\nj7^/e// .Alt\\nUNITED STATES OF A MERICA\\nw,n~.;^^\\nyv ^wv/ \\\\;,.X\\nv;;.:2v\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab ^\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abP\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J u^^ A^\\n^dB*^\\n;;;-;f^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0OO^rJ^\\n-vw^^^*^.\\ni", "height": "3132", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "r.y/w Wi\\n^v^w^ ^f^wuy\\nV w. y W.\\n^V\\n#to\\nL^b^fe**\\nV t-J*. 4.", "height": "3124", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3132", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3124", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3132", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3124", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3142", "width": "2173", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Cv\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2for\\nNew York:\\n1873.\\nEntered according to Act of Congress, by G;?orge L. Cati.iNj in the j ear 1873,\\nin the Office ol the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.", "height": "3124", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "HAVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND\\n.A. Greneral A^ar-iet.y of\\n1 1\\n7\\nLiDtels, Stess, Briflsiiig-Roci, c., k.\\nALSO,\\nFINE-AXED SILLS, LINTELS AND WATER-TABLE,\\nAnd a general assortment of Stone of all dimensions.\\nGeneral Offices^ MitUllefoirn^ N, T.\\nGeneral Receivhig Yardf Wesibroohvif/e, N, Y,\\nBranch lieceiving Yard^ Jil/envil/e, N, Y,\\nBranch lieceivint/ Yard, Qutn ryville, N,\\nGeneral Transfer and Shix P*no Yard,\\nSaniinittville, N. Y,\\nBlue Stone Delivered at all Points on the Montclair R. B\u00c2\u00bb\\nThe principal Quarries are located at and around Westbrookville, on the Del.\\nand Hudson anal, aid at Sandburgh, and between Deckertown and Unionville,\\non the N. Y. and Oswego Midland K. K., from which Quarries are developed\\nStone superior to any yet offered in the market by com))eting dealers. It will\\nreadily be seen that the Company have unequalled facilities for shipping Stone\\nboth by Rail and Water to all parts of the United States.\\nFor further information regarding prices, c., communicate with\\n]WLici ileto vii, 3N. Y.\\nJ. P. KILGOUR, General Manager, Widdletown, N. Y.\\nJ. S. FREER, President Ellenville, N. Y.\\nW. J. GROO, Sec. and Treas., Middletown, N. Y.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "V\\nHOMES S MONTCLAIR\\nEAILWAY,\\nFOR\\nNEW YORK BUSINESS MEN.\\nA DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY ADJACENT TO THB\\nJersey City and Greenwood Lake.\\nTogether with a Statement of the Inducements offeeed con-\\njointly BY the Company, and by Real Estate and Propeett\\nOWNTEES along THE LiNE TO PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT\\nResidents from the Metropolis.\\nBY\\nFind me a bower in silent dells embayed,\\nAnd trebli/ guarded from each wind that blotos;\\nWhere the blue noon o erronfs the tranquil shade,\\nAnd poppies breathe an odor of repose;\\nWhere never noises from the distant trorld\\nDiuturb the happy calm of soul and sense.\\nBayard Taylor.\\nNew York\\nIPviblished. by the ZSIontclair Railway Coinprvny.\\n1873-", "height": "3124", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION,\\nNext to the construction of the railroad itself, nothing con-\\nduces so largely to the rapid and healthful development of a\\nnewly-opened section of country as a systematic effort to fa-\\nmiliarize the pubHc mind with the advantages, whether man-\\nufacturing, agricultural, or as a region for residences, which\\nit offers and it will invariably be found upon observation,\\nother things being equal, that wherever energy and capital\\nhave combined to keep constantly before the public, in an\\nattractive form, the claims of different suburban localities,\\nthere has been a steady progress, and a growth almost mag-\\nical. Convinced of this fact, the publishers adopt this\\nmethod of bringing into general notice the claims of the pic-\\nturesque and fertile region, which the recent completion of\\nthe Montclair Railway has opened to direct communication\\nwith the Metropolis and the candid reader, if he be bur-\\ndened with the cares and struggles incident to the mainten-\\nance of a home and family in the crowded city, will find\\nherein facts worthy of his careful and prompt consideration,\\nand which, it may be, will open to him a new vista of pros-\\nperity and happiness for his future.\\nG. L. C.\\nC.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "br^C--\\nHERE said Scruggs, one\\nafternoon. There what s\\nto be done now?\\nScruggs was seated on a\\nhigh stool at a desk, in an\\noffice down on Broad Street.\\nHe had been sitting there from nine to\\n^^^^five o clock every day, save Sundays\\nand holidays, for the last eight years.\\n^And now Scruggs was twenty -seven\\nyears old, and liis salary was eighteen\\nhMudred a year.", "height": "3124", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "4 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nThere he repeated, just what I ve expected. And\\nhe took up a newly opened letter that was lying on the desk\\nbefore him, and read it over again, to be sure he had not\\nbeen mistaken. No, there was no mistake about it. It said\\nNew York, February 28th, 1873.\\nMr. ScRANTON Scruggs,\\nDear Sir\\nThis is to inform you that after the first of May next,\\nthe rent of the house No. Seventy-first Street, now occupied by you, will\\nbe raised from nine hundred to twelve hundred dollars per annum.\\nYours truly,\\nTERENCE DONOHUE.\\nAnd this was the intelligence which had elicited from the\\nyoung man on the tripod the despairing soliliquy, What s\\nto be done now\\nWell, what was he to do Even with a rent of nine hun-\\ndred dollars to pay, he had found housekeeping a burden to\\nhim. His family there were only three of them to be sure\\nhad to be housed and fed, clothed and shod. Now and then\\nthere came a bill from the doctor, and there were quite a\\nnumber of little unforeseen expenses, which, small in them-\\nselves, aggregated a considerable amount in the course of\\nthe year. Scruggs had just managed to pull through th^\\nyear 1872 without getting into debt. He had foregone a\\ngood many Httle luxuries and comforts, and so had his wife\\nand even then, at the end of the year they found they had\\nbut fifty dollars balance to commence the new year on.\\nPoor Scruggs That letter of Mr. Donohue s who, by the\\nway, had done some work on the new Court House during\\nthe previous year or two, and was talked of as Alderman in\\nhis ward, was as a thunderbolt in the domestic camp of\\nthe Scruggs and plainly necessitated a removal somewhere.\\nBut where No further up town, certainly. There were\\nsome houses to be got in Harlem at pretty reasonable rates,", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 5\\nand convenient houses at that but Scruggs calculated that\\nit would cost him at least an hour more e ery day to live up\\nthere, while it already required between two and three hours\\nto go to and from his house on Seventy-first Street so Har-\\nlem was out of the question. Then he might board some-\\nwhere, and give up housekeeping altogether. But that would\\nbe out of the frying pan into the fire. He would be subjected\\nto the tyranny of some one or another of the various types\\nof landlady, who would dictate his diet, gossip about his wife,\\nand perhaps embitter his leisure moments at home, with tear-\\nful reminiscences of her dear departed husband one of\\nthe best of men, Mr. Scruggs, only, he would drink liquor.\\nAnd then, viewed in a pecuniary light, boarding-house life\\neven if roseate in its other surroundings promised him no\\nchance of laying aside any money from his income. He had\\nonce thought of hiring a floor or a flat, as it is called\\nover on Fiftieth Street and th Avenue. But there\\nwas no privacy about that people tramping up and down\\nstairs continually the wrong people getting your letters and\\nnewspapers half a dozen families crowded under one roof\\nNo sir said Scruggs. My own house, all to myself, or\\nnone at all.\\nSo there v\\\\ as only one other course left open to move to\\nthe country to find a home in one of the quiet, pre .ty\\nvillages or towns which encircle Manhattan in a beauteous\\ncoronet. But Scruggs knew but little more about these\\nplaces than an Esquimaux does of sunny Italy. He had\\nonce taken a trip to Niagara Falls his wedding-trip had\\nvisited Staten Island, Long Branch and Fort Lee on as\\nmany different holidays in past summers, but when you\\ncame to talk of Newark, Paterson, Montclair, or Pompton\\nto Scruggs, he remembered them only as places he had seen", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "6 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\noccasionally mentioned in the morning papers under the\\nhead of Suburban News. But, as luck would have it,\\njust as Scruggs was revolving in his mind this idea of going\\nout into the country to find himself a home, the door opened,\\nand in came Mr. Coupon, one of the firm, and with him\\nanother gentleman whom Scruggs remembered as a bR)ker,\\ndoing business a little further up the street. They were\\ntalking about the value of Montclair Bonds as an invest-\\nment. Why, said the gentleman, that Montclair road,\\ninside of two years, is going to be one of the great trunk\\nlines between New York and the West. You ve no idea of\\nthe magnificent scheme its projectors have in contemplation.\\nThere s a demand for more through lines every year sees a\\nwonderful increase in the freight and passenger traffic be-\\ntween the sea-board and the Mississippi Valley, and, mark\\nmy words, there s no better investment in the market than\\nthat which anticipates the enormous demand of a few\\nyears hence for facilities in this direction. By-the-way, I\\nlive out on the road myself at Montclair. I bought a place\\nthere for nine thousand dollars three years ago, and now I\\nwouldn t take twenty for it. The railroad has increased its\\nvalue at least a hundred per cent. And then, see how con-\\nvenient it is only three-quarters of an hour s ride from\\nCortlandt or Desbrosses Streets. The ferry-boats are spa-\\ncious, and run regularly the cars are positively superb.\\nWe read our papers and smoke our cigars when we come in\\nin the morning we chat comfortably with our friends going\\nhome in the evenings, and consume less time in going to and\\nfro than I used to spend in the horse-cars when I lived up-\\ntown. And then, you ve no idea how the place is growing.\\nWhy, sir^ there are homes enough, and good ones, out there\\nfor all the young married men in New York, did they but", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 7\\nsee the advantage of coming over there, and exchanging\\ntheir high-priced houses in the crowded, unhealthy city for\\nthe clear, pure air and peaceful dwelling-places of the sub-\\nurbs. But, and the speaker glanced at his watch, I must\\nbe going, Coupon, to get that three-thirty train. We have\\na Httle family reunion dinner to-day at half-past four, and I\\nwouldn t miss it. Good day. Don t forget about those\\nbonds the first thing in the morning.\\nScruggs had listened intently to all this, and his mind was\\nmade up. Defiance to Donohue, and a Home on the Mont-\\nclair was the form his conclusions had taken. So he pres-\\nently asked Mr. Coupon if he had any objections to his\\ntaking a holiday some day next week. Mr. Coupon didn t\\nsee anything at present to prevent it. So that evening, Mr.\\nScruggs, after he had got home, had his supper, and put on\\nhis slippers, read to his wife the letter of the honored Ter-\\nence, acquainted her with his conclusions in regard to it,\\nand proposed a trip together over the Montclair Railway for\\nsome day during the coming week. So now, reader, you\\nhave a full and authentic explanation of the circumstances\\nwhich brought Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs at nine o clock, one\\nfine morning, to the foot of Desbrosses Street (they might\\nhave taken the Cortlandt Street Ferry had they preferred it),\\nand resulted in the purchase of two excursion tickets from\\nNew York to Greenwood Lake and return.\\nIt is a delightful ride at any season of the year, even in\\nwinter. But in the green and budding spring-time, when\\nnature, throwing off her frosty cerements, dons her robes of\\nverdure and attunes her strains to those which the season\\nawakens in the heart of man, few journeys for so short a\\ndistance around the Metropolis develop so many scenes\\nof romantic and picturesque beauty. An ever-changing", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\npanorama of city and forest, meadow and crag, river and\\nglade, greets the eye, and nestling here and there amid the\\nsmiling landscapes may be descried villages and hamlets,\\nhalf hidden among the foliage, and each marking with its\\nsnowy church-towers and chimneys, the home of a prosper-\\nous, Christian community.\\nSo, if Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs will permit the writer to ac-\\ncompany them, he will probably be able to point out to\\nthem, as they pass over the road, many little points of inter-\\nest which might otherwise escape their notice. There are,\\nalso, some matters of a historical nature connected with\\nvarious points along the line, which will prove entertaining,\\nperhaps. There is a good deal in having a good guide,\\nwhether you are visiting Rome or St. Petersburg, or making\\na little one-day trip over the Montclair Railway. Here\\nthese are our cars, and we ve no time to lose. All aboard,\\nand off we go off through the busy thoroughfares of Jersey\\nCity, through Bergen Cut, where no noisy, dingy tunnel de-\\nlays or endangers our progress towards the open country be-\\nyond, past that busy scene of industry, the United States\\nWatch Company s Works at Marion, past the shady lanes\\nand cosy villas of West End to the junction overlooking the\\nvast stretch of meadowland beyond. What a glorious view\\nhere presents itself a sea of verdure, bounded on the west\\nby a ridge dotted with villages, and terminating in the great\\npile of edifices which marks where the princely city of New-\\nark has arisen within a little over two score years here and\\nthere a wooded knoll rising, island-Hke, against the sky; the\\nHackensack River winding in a thread of silver through the\\ngreen near at hand a network of railroads diverging in all\\ndirections, and far away, just visible in the distance, the", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 9\\nblue hills which mark where the beautiful Passaic finds its\\nway seaward.\\nBut while we are contemplating this inviting scene, the\\nlocomotive whistle announces that we are off again, and in\\na moment or two we have passed over a substantial trestle-\\nwork spanning the track of the Morris Essex road, and\\nare brought by an easily descending grade to the level mea-\\ndow beyond. Away now we speed over the landscape. To\\nthe north, may be seen, marked out by occasional passing\\ntrains successively the Delaware, Lackawana Western,\\nthe Erie, the Midland, and the Northern Railroads to the\\nsouth, the Pennsylvania, the Newark New York, and the\\nNew Jersey Central in the distance. What a network of\\niron and steel these arid meadows have come to be. And\\nof all the roads traversing them our own is the shortest and\\nmost direct to the hilly country beyond. For mark how\\nquickly we shall reach it, Now we cross Pen Horn Creek,\\nwhere a draw bridge permits the passage of vessels to the\\ngreat oil works, a short distance above next, we come in\\nsight of the twin hills, large and small Snake Hill, which\\nrocky, yet verdure clad, rise abruptly from the plain skiriing\\nthe southern edge of the larger hill, and gaining glimpses here\\nand there of precipitous slopes, and great piles of boulders\\nstrangely contrasting in wildness with the cultivated scenery\\nwe have so recently left behind, we reach the Hackensack,\\nand can trace its silvery waters as they wind through the\\ngreen, far away in either direction now on again with re-\\ndoubled speed, we cross the Belleville turnpike, and note by\\nits side the great water pipe through which Jersey City re-\\nceives its daily supply of Passaic River water from the works\\nat Belleville now, the grade ascends and we leave the mea-\\ndows before us is the fertile cultivated ridge which forms", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "lO HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\ntheir western limit a ridge already dotted with cottages and\\nvillas, and destined in a very few years to become as thickly\\ninhabited as Bergen Heights here we pass through a heavy\\nearth cutting, dash under a bridge, over which passes the old\\nPollifly turnpike, connecting Newark with the Hackensack\\nregion, and in another moment behold us at the depot at\\nARLINGTON,\\n(6 miles 30 m n. 15 trains each way daily.)\\nTo the locality immediately adjoining the depot at Arling-\\nton, the recent coming of the railroad, with its direct communi-\\ncation to and from the metropolis, has imparted an unwonted\\nactivity and hfe. For the reader will bear in mind that this\\nfertile ridge upon which we are now standing, and from the\\nsummit of which, sloping down gently to the level of the\\nmeadows on the one hand, and picturesquely to the Passaic\\non the other, we obtain such a glorious and wide spread view\\nof the surrounding country, is the first terra-firma available to\\nNew Yorkers for surburban residences after they have passed\\nthe portals of the Bergen Tunnel or Bergen Cut. It is the\\nsame fertile, healthful upland on which have already sprung\\nup, on the line of other and older roads, flourishing and rapidly\\ngrowing villages, chiefly populated by New York business\\nmen.\\nIn comparing this locality with others equi-distant from\\nthe City Hall, let us take a map, and with the dividers strike\\na circle eight miles distant. We are at once surprised to see\\nhow small a portion of the area touched by this line can\\never be made available for residence. Commencing at Har-\\nlem, near 140th Street (which, being a populous part of New\\nYork City, may be omitted from our consideration), let us\\npass easterly and southerly on the circle, and we find that a", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "H. H. LLOYD CO.,\\n\\\\\\\\.t^ tp\\nMaps Drawn, Engraved and Mounted to order.\\nRAILROAD MAPS PREPARED.\\nA large assortment of Local and United States always on hand.\\nCall and. See IVIap of\\n1200 SQUARE MILES AROUND NEW YORK CITY.\\n21 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAm.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nARLINGTON LAND COMPANY\\nARLINGTON, N J.\\nOffice, 218 Fulton St,, N. Y.\\nThis is the most desirable location in the vicinity of New-\\nYork for rural residences.\\nFor full description of its advantages, see page lo\\nBlakiston, Hoffman Williamson\\nREAL ESTATE AGENTS\\nFor Purchase, Sale and Exchange of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\nAT AUCTION OR PRIVATE SALE.\\nSpecial inducements and easy terms offered in\\nBUILDING LOTS AT ARLINGTON.\\n[[See advertisement above.]\\nOFFICES Fulton St., IN. Y\\nand\u00c2\u00abArlington,:N. J", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. II\\ncomparatively narrow ridge on Long Island, east of Williams-\\nburgh, is the only locality at all elevated. South of this lie\\nthe lowlands of East New York, Canarsie and Gravesend\\nthence westerly the circle strikes Staten Island, Newark Bay,\\nNewark Meadows, ArUngton, Hackensack Meadows, Pali-\\nsades, and across Hudson River to the point of beginning.\\nThus, in a circle having a circumference of 48 miles, we find\\nnot more than one-third the extent capable of being used\\nfor residences.\\nThe localities which can be made available are Long Island\\nRidge, Staten Island, Arlington and the Palisades. The high-\\nest portions of these respective localities do not differ much\\nin elevation, say 125 feet to 150 feet in height. Let us now\\ntake a trip from the City Hall to each of these places. To\\nreach Long Island at or near Newtown, we can cross to\\nBrooklyn, thence by horse cars to Bedford, and reach our\\ndestination in about two hours, or, for a change, can cross\\nto Hunter s Point, and thence by steam in little less time.\\nTo reach Staten Island we can sail down the Bay, and hav-\\ning landed, can go inland on foot or otherwise, reaching our\\ndestination in from one and a half to two hours. If we have\\na house on the Palisades, we can go up the Island by horse\\ncar to 85th Street, and cross Weehawken Ferry, and walk\\ninland as far as we please, or we can go by Pavonia Ferry\\nand the Northern Road, and walk two miles from the Station\\nto our Palisade home, occupying two hours time. To reach\\nArlington we cross from Cortlandt or Desbrosses Street, and\\nin ten minutes are seated in luxurious cars, which, in fifteen\\nminutes more we leave, and step out into the cool shades\\nand rural retreats of Arlington, two miles nearer than the\\nCity of Newark, and occupying an elevation which com-\\nmands a perfect view of all the surrounding country. This", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "12 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\ndelightful section, hitherto inaccessible, is now brought to\\nnear proximity by the Montclair Division of the Midland\\nRailway.\\nHere is the site of a great future city, and those who secure\\nhomesteads now will be rewarded by a rapid increase in the\\nvalue of their property. The old fogies who are usually\\nfound opposing improvements in country places, have already\\nbeen swept away, leaving a clear field for the progressive\\narmy of occupation. We can say with truth, that no locality\\nwithin the same distance from the City Hall, presents to the\\nman of salary or of moderate means so many and so great\\nadvantages as are offered here at Arlington. But is it\\nhealthful That is just the question that the writer\\nof this asked one of the natives whom he found liv-\\ning there. He was a rugged looking man, of sixty odd\\nyears. Well, says he, I reckon I don t look sick\\nif I do, my looks are deceitful, for no doctor ever darkens\\nmy doors. There is my wife in the garden, she has always\\nlived here does she look sick I looked and behold an\\namazon, who could lift a barrel of cider into a cart. There\\nis my father just over the fence what do you think of him\\nI looked, and the old man was moving around as lively as a\\ncricket. He has always lived on that place, and is now 105\\nyears old. His name was John Van Emburgh, and he has\\nsince died at the age of 107, as all the inhabitants there can\\ntestify. No argument is needed to supplement such facts.\\nProperty owners at this point, in anticipation of the com-\\ning demand for Homes on the Montclair, have already made\\nimprovements upon a scale indicating a determination to\\nrender it a favorite home for New Yorkers. Every reason-\\nable encouragement will be offered to actual settlers in the\\nway of low prices and easy terms by the Rural Homestead", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 13\\nOFFER FOE SALE\\nBUILDING LOTS\\nIN\\nARLINGTON,\\nA lew Eods Norlli from tlie Monlclair Railway Station.\\n5@* These Lots are nearer New York City than any land\\nwest of Bergen Hill, being\\nSix Miles from Jersey City Ferry,\\nand adjoining the first station on the Montclair Division of\\nthe New York Midland Railway.\\nAddress\\nJ. H. PRATT, President,\\nNo. 25 Nassan St., New YorL", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": ".14 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nCompany, (advertisement of which company will be noted\\nby the reader herewith).\\nGrand Avenue, eighty feet wide, extending southward a\\ndistance of one and a half miles from the railroad to the\\nStone Bridge at East Newark, has been laid out, graded,\\nplanted with shade trees, and is now adorned with several\\nhandsome residences. Kearny Avenue, another street of the\\nsame width, and destined to extend from East Newark to\\nRutherford Park, six miles north, is also opened through the\\nproperty, as are also a number of other fine highways inter-\\nsecting at right angles, and dividing the land into convenient\\nand desirable sites, each commanding a view of superb\\nscenery. To the Eastward, or from almost any point upon\\nthis hillside, on a fair day, one can follow with his eye the\\nline of the Palisades till it loses itself in the haze to the\\nnorthward; can trace the silvery line of the Hackensack\\nwinding through the intervening meadows see every hour\\na score of whizzing trains gliding serpent-Hke in distant\\nsilence across the plain, and to the southward scan the\\ngleaming waters of New York Bay, and the misty heights of\\nStaten Island beyond. Nor is the view alone the claim upon\\nwhich this lovely spot bases its desirableness as a home. In\\npoint of convenience it offers too its attractions, the churches,\\nschools and stores of both Belleville and Newark being within\\neasy distance and these too are soon to be brought nearer\\nby the proposed establishment on Kearny Avenue of a line\\nof horse cars to Newark.\\nLand can be purchased at Arlington in lots at prices vary-\\ning from $250 to $500, while it sells at $2500 or $3000 by\\nthe acre.\\nLeaving this attractive spot; we hurry on toward the sum-\\nmit of the ridge, where our attention is attracted by the first", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE iMONTCLAlR, 1 5\\ngreat engineering work encountered in the construction of\\nthe road. For, in order to reach the Passaic Valley beyond,\\nit became necessary to open a long deep cutting through the\\nhill, and through this great gap with its jagged walls, re-\\nechoing with a deafening rattle the clatter of the wheels, our\\nway now lies. If the passenger in riding through the Kearny\\nCut (for such is the name by which it is known), will take a\\nglance from the rear window or platform, he will perhaps\\ngain a better and more comprehensive idea of the enormous\\namount of work necessary to complete this great passage way\\nfrom valley to valley this new link between the Hackensack\\nand Passaic regions. The rock-ribbed battlements towering\\nup eighty feet high on either side, until they almost exclude\\nthe sunlight, seem to look down menacingly upon the ^en-\\ncroachments which man s handiwork has wrought, to break\\nin upon their ages of undisturbed repose, and our train,\\nwinding its rapid way between them, loses for the nonce its\\nwonted suggestion of grandeur and force, and assumes in the\\ndepths of this lonely chasm an air of unmistakable insignifi-\\ncance. But ere this thought has fairly presented itself to\\nthe traveler, the sides of the cut grow rapidly lower, the\\ntrees that line their verge come once more into view, and\\nthe Engineer whistles down brakes for\\nKEARNY, OR Passaic Bridge,\\n{6)4 miles, 33 min.; 15 trains each way daily,)\\nderiving its first mentioned name from the township, which\\nin turn derives its name from the time honored Kearny\\nfamily, whose name is inseparably and honorably linked with\\nthe militaryand naval history of New Jersey, and to whom\\nformerly belonged a large tract in this immediate vicinity.\\nThe residence of the late Gen. Philip Kearny, a stately", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "1 6 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nStructure, evincing, in the elegance of its appointments and\\nsurroundings, the cultivated taste of its former distinguished\\ninmate, stands upon the Passaic River bank, about two miles\\nto the south, and the Kearny homestead, once occupied by\\nthe General s uncle, Robert Watts Kearny, Esq., is still\\npointed out on the other side of the river.\\nIf the prospect a moment ago in the cut was gloomy and\\noppressive, how gloriously in contrast with it is the magnifi-\\ncent spectacle which now breaks upon the vision. For our\\nroadway emerging from the bowels of the hillside, leads us\\npast a dense grove of cedars, which line the river, and in\\nanother instant carries us upon the bridge which here spans\\nthe Passaic at a height of forty-five feet. If one were sud-\\ndenly shot out into mid-air over the river from its precipitous\\nbank, the eff ect could hardly be more instantaneous and\\nstartling; while the variety and beauty of the picture so\\nquickly presented on all sides, inevitably elicits a regret that\\nthe train cannot come to a stand still for a few moments at\\na point so commanding. For, glancing from the car window,\\none gains a birds eye view of the river, up and down stream,\\nand of a landscape as thoroughly cultivated probably as any\\nto be found in this wide world. Looking north, or from the\\nright hand side of the car, we discern on the east bank the\\ngreat brick chimneys of the Belleville Water Works, (whence\\nJersey City is supplied), and of the Belleville Laundry, re-\\ncently quite famous as the spot where the question of Chinese\\nlabor has been satisfactorily solved. On the west bank the\\neye rests upon the charming town of Belleville, nestling amid\\na dense growth of foliage, with here and there a spire or\\nchimney peering through skyward. Then, if we turn and\\nglance down the stream, a scene of equal beauty awaits us,\\nthe east bank lined with beautiful villas the west dotted", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONICLAIR. 17\\nwith the dwellings, and shops and factories which, gradually\\ngrowing more numerous, as the eye follows them southward,\\nterminate in the grand pile of brick, and stone and mortar,\\nand the forest of masts which mark the adjacent City of\\nNEWARK (WooDsiDE),\\n(7 miles, 33 minutes 15 trains each way daily.)\\nFor speedily rega ning terra fir/iia, we pass over the river\\nroad to Belleville, the Paterson and Newark Railroad, the\\nBelleville Plorse Car Line, all of them spanned by substantial\\nbridges, and then once more come to a stand still.\\nHere, then, behold us arrived at a city of an hundred and\\nthirty thousand inhabitants, and that too within a brief\\nride from New York. The frequent tinkle of the horse car\\nbell, the wide well graded streets, the long line of gas lamps,\\nand the occasional policeman, all tell us that we are no longer\\nin the country, but in an extensive and well regulated city^\\nwhich year by year is spreading out its hands and redeeming\\nfrom solitude fields and woodlands, once deemed inaccessible\\nand remote. It was but two years ago that the beauiifut\\nvillage of VVoodside, forming that portion of Newark through\\nwhich our line passes, was incorporated into the city limits,\\nbut since that time its growth has been magical. On the\\nnumerous streets and avenues that have been opened there\\nhave sprung up rows of attractive residences, many of them\\nof brick and stone, and all of them in the finished modern\\nstyles of architecture. Washington Avenue, one of the great\\nBoulevards, which a far seeing system of public improvement\\nhas projected, from the heart of the city to its remotest\\nSome interesting facts concern ng the growth of Newark will be found pub-\\nlished in Appendix A.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "1 8 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nsuburbs, trav^erses this section of Newark, and crossing the\\ncity boundary line at Second River about three hundred\\nyards north of our track, continues en thence through Belle-\\nville to the line of the adjoining county of Passaic. This\\ngreat artery of travel is to be macadamized during the present\\nyear.\\nA ride of twenty minutes in the horse cars brings one\\nfrom the Newark Depot of the Montclair Railway to the\\nbusiness center of the city. The cars run at intervals of fif-\\nteen or twenty minutes. Frequent communication is thus\\nafforded to those desiring to do shopping, marketing, or\\ntheatre-going; but in the matter of the purchase of the\\nnecessaries of daily life, the resident of this section will find\\nample accommodation in the numerous stores in his imme-\\ndiate vicinity.* Another fact well worthy of mention with\\nregard to the ^yoodside section, is that while possessing the\\nadvantage of being within the police, fire and mail district,\\nit contains not a single rum shop, or nuisance of any descrip-\\ntion within its borders. Those residing here enjoy too, un-\\nusually good educational and religious facifities. In Wood-\\nside alone there are Episcopal, Dutch Reformed and Presby-\\nterian churches, a good public school and several private\\nschools while in Belleville, not over ten minutes walk dis-\\ntant are to be found also Episcopal, Dutch Reformed, Method-\\nist and Roman Catholic churches, and sirailiar facilities for\\ninstruction of the young. In fact, Belleville, connected by\\nhorse cars and by intimate business relations with Newark,\\nthough nominally divided from it, is virtually a continuation\\nof that city, and will probably at no distant day be incorpor-\\nated with it.\\n*See advertisements of F. Tomkins and J. P. Bradley elsewliere.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 1 9\\nFOR SALEatWOODSIDE\\nA Tract of Eighteen Acres\\niA^ joi!iif!\u00c2\u00a3^ Mo fclni; /^ai/ii av Depot.\\n-A^vailciljlo for Dwelliniis and. INI an vi factories.\\nThis propert}^ has a frontage of about 500 feet on tlie Passaic\\nRiver, is interseoted by the Patersoii and Newark Railroad, is with-\\nin the city limits of Newark, and is mapped out in streets\\nand squares on the official map of the city* Its facilities for\\nrailway and water transportsition render it especially valuable for\\nmanufacturing purposes, Avhile it also includes many desirable\\nbuilding sites. To be sold as an undivided whole.\\nALSO,\\nBELLEVILLE LOTS BUILDING SITES!\\nImproved property for s;ile, graded, curbed and flagged, within\\nthree minutes walk of the Depot. Gas and water facilities cer-\\ntain within a few months. No more convenient or desirable loca-\\ntion for a Home ou Ihe Montclair. Address\\nS. V. C. VAN RENSSELAER,\\n744: Broad Street, JSrtvark.\\nThe attentive reader will not therefore have failed to ])er-\\nceive tliat as an available place for the selection of a subur-\\nban residence, the Woodside section of Newark in its ])rox-\\nimity to, and frequent connection with New York, and its\\nintrinsic attractions, offers claims well worthy of the intending\\npurchaser s careful consideration. And it may be remarked,\\ntoo, that there will be found oiTered for sale near this point,\\nsome very desirable property, available either lor dwellings or\\nmanufacturing purposes. Adjoining the Depot is a fine tract\\nof eighteen acres, mapped out into streets on the city map,\\nhaving a river frontage of five hundred feet, intersected by\\nthe Paterson and Newark Railroad, and possessing therefore\\ngreat facilities for transportation by manufacturers as well as\\nconvenience and beauty of location for those who build there\\ntheir homes. This tract, together with a number of improved", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "20 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nlots at Belleville, (within 800 feet of the depot), and on streets\\nalready graded, curbed and flagged, and through which both\\nwater and gas pipes will be laid within a few months, will be\\nfound advertised for the reader s information herewith.\\nWithin the city limits at Woodside, single lots are, owing\\nto the demand for property, already scarce in the market.\\nThose that are offered, arc quoted at $1000 for a space of\\n25x100 feet, and $2500 for a space of 50x150. The adver-\\ntisement of Mr. John W. Joralemon, published below, calls\\nthe reader s attention to some very desirable property which\\nhe offers for sale. His office which was est?^blished four\\nyears ago at this point, will be found to be the Real Estate\\nHeadquarters for this vicinity.\\nLOTS, PLOTS VILLA SITES\\n-AT\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCottages and Country Seats S2,000 to $100,000.\\n^P My Tlegister contains a complete list of all Real Estate oflFered in Wood ride\\n^^T Plans and specifications furnished and\\nJBuildimgs Erected, to order,\\nJOISN W. JORACE^SOIV,\\n^Vashington Aveniae, (near \u00c2\u00a3$epot\u00c2\u00ab)\\nBefore resuming our journey, let us pause for a moment\\nto note the scene presented on the north or right hand side\\nof the track, as we tarry here at the Depot. The antiquated\\nbut comfortable looking residence, with its numerous out\\nhouses which stands a little in front, and to the right of us is\\nthe property of the Bird family, wealthy and old residents of\\nthis vicinity. Yonder among the trees which line the bank\\nof Second River, are the ruins of an extensive hat factory,\\ndestroyed by fire a few years ago, and shortly, it is said, to be", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLATR. 21\\nrebuilt and put in operation. Upon the knoll overlooking\\nhouse, river and ruin, stands the Belleville Roman Catholic\\nchurch, a neat and shapely structure, and about it cluster\\nnumerous dwellings us evidence of the growth and progress\\nwhich of lale years has been swee})ing over all these New\\nJersey hillsides.\\nBut now we are off again, and in another moment Newark\\nis behind us.\\nWe are now traversing the summit of the western ridge of\\nthe Passaic Valley, a wide plateau upon which are visible in\\nmany newly opened streets and numerous dwellings, abun-\\ndant indications of its proximity to the advancing city. Now,\\nwe see on our left the cutting through which diverges the\\nBranch to the populous town of Orange, and a short distance\\nbeyond we come suddenly upon a heavy grove of cedars,\\nfringing at its western limit the abrupt gorges through which\\nthe Second River finds its way. Along our entire route we\\nshall perhaps find no more romantic bit of scenery than this.\\nThe high, almost perpendicular banks of the chasm covered\\nwith moss and verdure, and shaded into a twilight darkness\\nby the overhanging evergreens the black, deep waters\\nflowing between the glimpse, down the stream, of smooth\\nshaven lawns, and luxuriant foliage, and here and there a\\ndwelling half concealed amid the green the view up the\\nstream, of successive piles of brick walls and chimneys,\\nwhence comes the unceasing whir and rumble of machinery,\\nall combine to make up a picture, which truthfully portrayed\\non canvas, would charm the connoisseur.\\nBut while the scene still Hngers in the retina, we stop\\nagain, and this time, at the depot at", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "22\\nHOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nHENDRICKS BROTHERS,\\nPROPRIKTORS OF THE\\nRoUiii Mills,\\nMA NUFA CTURERS OF\\nBRAZIERS BOLTS AND SHEATHING COPPER,\\nIMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN\\nIngot Copper, Block Tin, Lead, spelter. Antimony, Copper Rivets,Wire, Tinners solder.\\nNo. 49 CLIFF STREET.\\nBetween Beekman and Fult on Sis., W W YORK.\\nMONTGOMERY,\\n(8 miles 36inin. 15 trains each way daily.)\\nwhere land advantageously situated, can still be bought in\\nlarge tracts at low prices. The natural beauty of location\\ncombines with a high dry soil and a beautiful atmosphere to\\ninduce the seeker for a Home on the Montclair, to give\\ntheir united claims a careful consideration before searching\\nfarther. Montgomery, in addition to her railroad faciUties,\\nenjoys frequent and rapid communication with Newark by\\nthe Bloomfield line of horse cars. Nor should her business\\nlife and industries be overlooked, for visible from the car\\nwindow is a little city of brick walls and chimneys with scores\\nof cottages about them, which make up the works known", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCI.AIR. 23\\nsince time immemorial as the Belleville Copper Rolling\\nMills, one of the first of the kind established in the United\\nStates. For in the year 1813, owing to the blockade upon\\nour ports by British cruisers, and the consequent discontinu-\\nance of importations of manufactured copper, as well as the\\nlarge amount of raw material in the country at that time\\noffered at less than cost of production, the occasion was\\ndeemed a favorable one for the establishment of an enter-\\nprise of this kind. How successful it has been, and how\\ngreat its growth, may be inferred from the simple statement,\\nthat while five hundred pounds of finished copper was then\\nconsidered a good day s work, the capacity of the mills is now\\nten times as great, w^iile it is further a source of national\\npride and gratification that, by enlarged machinery and im-\\nproved processes of refining, the enterprising proprietors,\\nMessrs. Hendricks Bros., have so far reduced the cost as to\\nbe able to compete successfully with the markets of the old\\nworld. Here in this busy hive of industry are produced the\\nlargest and heaviest sheets of copper in the world, measuring\\nten and a half feet in diameter, weighing nearly a ton, and\\nyet coming as smoothly and easily direct from the roller as a\\nsheet of paper from a printing press. To such perfection\\nhas the art of copper rolling been carried by the Messrs.\\nHendricks.\\nFrom Montgomery, our course still lying a little north of\\nwestward, soon brings us in view of the spires and chimneys\\nof\\nBLOOMFIELD,\\n(9 miles; 39 m;n. 15 trains each way daily.)\\nAnd first crossing the Morris Canal, which traverses this, the\\neastern end of the village, we find ourselves once more at a", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "24 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nStandstill in a good old-fashioned New Jersey tov/n, the his-\\ntory of which is identified with the history of the State, and\\nwhich, though now feeling the inevitable impulse of modern\\nimprovement, yet contains many quaint and interesting land-\\nmarks and relics of the olden time. The substantial stone\\nchurch, distinctly visible to the southwest of the depot, was\\nerected in 1796, and in other more remote portions of the\\nvillage may still be seen by the lover of antiquities many\\ncurious old dwellings, telling unmistakably their stories of a\\ncentury ago.\\nBloomfield was originally settled by a part of the colony\\nof New Englanders, which founded Newark. During the\\nRevolution, its people were subject to frequent depredations\\nby bands of marauders and freebooters from the British\\nposts, and especially from the garrisons at Bergen Heights,\\nopposite to New York. Some noble acts of daring are nar-\\nrated in illustration of the patriotic spirit which animated the\\npeople of Bloomfield to repel these invasions, one of which\\nwill be found recorded in another part of this work. (See\\nAppendix B).\\nOf late years Bloomfield has enjoyed an annually increas-\\ning popularity as a place of residence for New Yorkers,\\nespecially during the summer season. But now, with its ex-\\ntended railway facilities, with horse-car communication with\\nNewark, and with frequent trains to and from the Metropolis\\npassing through both the upper and lower portions of the\\ntown, it assumes an attractiveness as a place where people\\ndoing business in New York may conveniently reside all the\\nyear round. Its population is about eight thousand, and its\\nmanufacturing industries are numerous and productive its\\nstreets ard avenues are wide, straight, shaded and well kept;\\nits sidewalks are generally planked or flagged its public", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "HOMF.S ON iHK MONTCLAIR. 25\\nsquare, or military common, as it was once called, forms\\nan attractive place for recreation and strolls, and its public\\nenterprises are conducted upon a scale of liberality most\\ncreditable to its people. There are here seven churches,\\nthree Presbyterian, one Episcopal, one Roman Catholic, one\\nBaptist and one Methodist) a German Theological Seminary,\\na well conducted paper. The Bloornjield Record^ published\\nby Messrs. McDivitt Hulin, a Free Reading Room, several\\npublic Halls, Masonic, Odd Fellows and O. U. A. M. Lodges,\\nthree Public Schools, (one high school and two primaries),\\none or two Select Schools, and for the accommodation of the\\ntransient visitor an excellent Hotel, (Archdeacon s) and flor-\\nists greenhouses, which will be found advertised elsewhere.\\nThe handsome brick School House, standing near the old\\nPresbyterian Church, previously mentioned, was erected at a\\ncost of thirty thousand dollars, and is a model of architectural\\nbeauty.\\nDuring the present summer it is expected that gas will be\\nintroduced into the village, thus offering another inducement\\nto those contemplating removal hither. Ti^ere are many\\nvaluable and eligible building sites within easy distance of\\nthe depot at this point, and the adjacent country abounds in\\nlovely drives and rambles. The rates at which lots can be\\npurchased vary of course according to location, but it may\\nhowever be stated that good lots can be had at from $700 to\\n$1,000, and villa sites at $2,000 and $2,500 per acre. De-\\nfinite information regarding particular localities can be ob-\\ntained by addressing Mr. Horace Pierson, whose advertise-\\nment will be found on the next page.\\nLeaving the Bloomfield depot, we pass in full view of the\\nold church and new school house, in which are so plainly con-\\ntrasted the ancient and the modern, cross by a high embank-", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "26 HOMES ON IHE MONiCi-AIR.\\nReal Estate aiid liisii ranee Agent.\\nOffice adjoining Archdeacon s Hotei,, (within 10 minutes walk of Montclair\\nRailway Depot, BL.OOMFIELD, New Jersey.\\nResidences, Building Lots and Farms to cut up into Villa Plots tor Speculative\\nPurposes for sale on money making and accommodating terms.\\nment and bridges the turnpike road, connecting the upper\\nand lower extremeties of the village, and leading thence\\nto the country beyond and then, by an ascending grade,\\ntraverse the ridge overlooking Bloomfield from the west. On\\nthe left^ the eye rests in passing upon a beautifully laid out\\ncemetery, its avenues bordered with dense well trimmed\\nhedges of box, and shaded by a wealth of evergreens. From\\nthis point, too, one looking back gains a^pleasing view of the\\nvillage which he has just left. Upon this ridge is located the\\ndepot called\\nCHESTNUT HILL,\\n(lo miles 41 mi 1. 15 trains each way daily.)\\nwhich is in reaUty another depot for the accommodation of\\nthat portion of the peoi)le of Bloomfield who have already\\navailed themselves of the advantages of the immediate vicin-\\nity as a place of residence. This ridge is admirably adapted\\nfor villas where commanding views and picturesque surround-\\nings are required to perfect the ideal of landscape gardening.\\nWe next reach\\nMONTCLAIR,\\n(For distance, time and trains see, further on\\nthe thriving and beautiful town which gives our railway its\\nname. And the arriving traveler, viewing for the first tim.e", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 27\\nthe Stately churches and the substantial brick bui dings,\\nwhich adorn the village center, or glancing further off at\\nthe numerous clusters of elegant private residences which\\ngrace its outer Umits, at once perceives that he has reached a\\nplace of no ordinary enterprise and attractiveness. If he\\ncontinue his observations still further, and, alighting from the\\ntrain, devote an hour or two to a stroll through the town, he\\nwill be more than ever convinced that his first impressions\\nwere correct. He will find good sidewalks upon every street\\nstores at which can be purchased all the necessities of daily\\nlife at New York prices churches representing the Episcopal,\\nCongregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Unitarian and\\nRoman Catholic denominations, one of them, the Congrega-\\ntional church, having been recently completed at a cost of\\n$75,000 a graded public school (including a High school in\\nwhich youths are fitted for college or business), employing\\neight teachers, with an average attendance of nearly four\\nhundred pupils, and occupying a brick school house which\\ncost $25,000 a Young Ladies Seminary for boarding and\\nday scholars, and a Kindergarten a free Library and Read-\\ning Room conducted under the auspices of the Young Men s\\nChristian Association a fine PubUc Hall, available for lec-\\ntures, concerts and theatrical entertainments and many use-\\nful industries, prominent among which may be mentioned the\\nSteam Saw and Planing Mill of Taylor Bros. Co., which\\nis advertised herewith.\\nThis much the visitor will find that the hand of man has\\ndone to render Montclair a place of growing attractiveness\\nand importance. But, Nature, he will find, has done fully as\\nmuch or even more. For, situated on the gently sloping moun-\\ntain side, which affords both a genial shelter and an admirable", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "2 8 HOMES ON THE MONTCI.AIR.\\nTAYLOR BROS. CO.,\\nSTEAM SAW AND PLANING MILL,\\nAnd Doalsrs in all kinds of\\nBUILDn^a MATEPvIAL. GAOL, KINDLIHG WOOD. etc.\\nyear Delntvave, Iiachaucanna Western It. li. Depot, Montclair, N. J.\\nWakken S. Taylor, William M. Taylor, Thomas McGowan.\\nnatural drainage, and surrounded by an undulating land-\\nscape, in which no swamp land exists to give forth its un-\\nhealtliful miasmas, Montclair may justly claim, in its natural\\nadvantages, an inferiority to no suburban town or village\\nabout New York. It is said to be the only place within\\nfifteen miles of that city that is absolutely free from fever\\nand ague, while the wonderful salubrity of the atmosphere\\ncompletely eradicates the disease from the system of any\\nnew comer who may have been previously afflicted with it.\\nMany people with bronchial or lung diseases, have been\\nrestored to health by a residence here. The annual visita-\\ntions of dysentery or typhoid, common elsewheie, have\\nnever prevailed here, an 3 there is so little use for a ceme-\\ntery, that the people have just voted to dispense with the\\nground which was appropriated for that purpose by the first\\nsettlers of 1660, and herea ter to patronize the more populous\\ncemetery of a neighboring town.\\nSo much for the subject of health. But in picturesque\\nbeauty of surroundings too, Montclair challenges our admira-\\ntion. Let the visitor who would appreciate this fact, ascend\\nto the summit of Washington Rock, and take his stand in\\nthe summer house which crowns its topmost crag. Below\\nhim I es spread out the village with its closely built center,\\nand its villa lined avenues, stretching out antennae-like in all\\ndirections. Beyond are Bloomfield and Newark further still", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 2g\\nthe heights of Bergen, and in the background, standing out\\nclear and distinct against the sky, the spires and chimneys of\\nthe Metropolis. From this rock the great General whose\\nname it bears, watched our enemies while they occupied New\\nYork City and Harbor. Their ships could be seen witli the\\nnaked eye, and their flag descried by the telescope. Turning\\nwestward the observer looks down upon the fertile Verona\\nValley, beyond which lies the village of Caldwell. Almost di-\\nrectly under his feet, a distance of nearly an hundred feet down\\nin the rock and clay, passes the tunnel, which in its completion\\nis to open connection between the two valleys, and alford a\\npassage way for our Morristown Branch, which here diverges\\nfroin the main line, and the embankment of which may already\\nbe seen extending up to the mountain s base.\\nThe early history of Montclair is indentical with that of its\\nsister town of Bloomfield, for, prior to 1868, Montclair was a\\nportion of Bloomfield township. But with the infusion of\\nprogressive ideas, there came a proposition that the former\\nbe set off as a separate township, a proposition which was in\\nNew York s Most Attractive Suburb.\\nSamuel W. Tubes,\\nNEW YORK OPPIOE, No. 71 BEOADWAY,\\nROOM 78.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "30 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAH^.\\ntlie year specified confirmed by Legislative enactment. Since\\nthat time the growth and popularity of Montciair as a place of\\nresidence for New York businessmen, have been assured. The\\npopulation has already increased to 3500, and property which\\na few years ago sold for merely nominal prices, is now valu-\\nable and in frequent demand. Some beautiful avenues,\\namong which may be mentioned Bloomfield, Mountain, Ful-\\nlerton and Orange Avenues, Park Street and Valley Road are\\nopened or improved, thus rendering available many desirable\\nbuilding sites. Upon such avenues, land can be bought at\\nprices varying from $500 to $1,000 per lot (50x100), or from\\n$2000 to $4000 per acre.\\nThere are four depots in Montciair, the first of which is\\nWalnut Street Station. (11 miles, 45 minutes; 15\\ntrains each way daily.) At this point a spacious and beau-\\ntiful iron depot, a turn-table and wind-mill (which supplies a\\nwater-tank) have been erected, and here too diverges the\\nbranch to Morristown just m.entioned. This station is nearest\\nthe business center, and the more closely built portion of the\\ntown,\\nPassing northward toward the base of the mountain, with\\na fine rolling farm land on our right, and the mountain\\nslope, here and there diversified by meadow land and\\ndwellings, on our left, we suddenly find ourselves at the second\\ndepot,\\nWatchung Station (12 miles, 48 minutes; X5 trains each\\nway daily), where our attention is attracted by another\\nhandsome depot, constructed entirely of iron. The dis-\\ncovery of this shapely structure gives the alighting traveler\\ngratifying assurance that there exists about it a population", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "32 HOMES ON THE MONiCLA.k.\\nwho appreciate the benefits and conveniences of a railroad,\\nbringing new Hfe and prosperity to tlieir very doors.\\nThere are some charming bits of scenery about Watchung\\ndepot, looking both north and south. The attractions offered\\nby the neighborhood as a place of residence are generally the\\nsame as at Walnut Street, with the difference only of three\\nminutes additional ride.\\nStill running northward and on an ascending grade, we\\ncome next to the third depot,\\nCliffside Station. (13 miles, 52 minutes; 15 (rains each\\nway daily), the point at which our railway touches the base\\nof the mountain, and one consequently which is especially\\nworthy the attention of those who may desire to secure\\nhomes upon the mountain side, and yet be within a -few\\nminutes walk of the casr.\\nThe natural advantages of the locality had, previous to the\\ncoming of the railroad, induced the settlement here of quite\\na number of famihes, and the opening of a school, and\\nhave more recently been greatly enhanced by the estabHsh-\\nment of a general store, and the opening of an avenue to\\nconnect with the Newark and Pompton turnpikes, or Bloom-\\nfield Avenue, on the other side of the mountain. In the\\nopposite direction, Bellevue Avenue atfords direct communi-\\ncation with Stone House Plains, less than a mile distant,\\nwhere can be discerned the spire of a substantial brown\\nstone church. Nor is this vicinity devoid of historic tra-\\nditions. It was here that General Lafayette was encamped,\\nand one, looking from the car window, may see on the edge\\nof the woods, on the left of the road, an old house^\\nmany of the stones in the foundation of which were pre-\\nviously used in the floor of the General s tent.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 33\\nHere at Cliffside, as indeed elsewhere in Montclair, one\\ninvesting in land can hardly go amiss the salubrity of the\\natmosphere, the healthfulness of the surroundings, the beauty\\nof the scenery, and the faciHties for communication all\\ncombine to render a large advance upon present prices almost\\na certainty.\\nPassing hence northward along the base of the mountain,\\nwe reach the fourth and last Montclair depot.\\nMountain Ave. Station. (14 miles, 56 min. 15 trains\\neach way daily), which the Company has selected as the\\nstarting point for its local trains, and where will be erected\\na turn table and a round house, in which the iron horses\\nwhich pull these trains will be stabled over night, ready for\\ntheir trips to town in the morning.\\nResidents at Mountain Avenue are thus able to t^ke their\\ntrain at its starting point, an advantage which those who\\nhave lived at the terminus of a line of railway will appre-\\nciate.\\nHere, as at Cliffside, one may avoid the expense of car-\\nriage and horses, and yet live upon the mountain side. For\\nthough there has been but little apparent ascent, we are now\\nactually some two or three hundred feet above the level of\\nthe Walnut Street station, which we left a few moments ago.\\nIndeed, after a walk of three minutes from the depot, the\\nvisitor is surprised to find that unconscious of ascent, he has\\nreached an elevation, from which, to the south, he may see the\\nNarrows, whitened with the sails of countless vessels to the\\nnorth, the Fishkill mountains, blue in the distance, and be-\\nneath him an intervening country, dotted with wide spread\\ntowns and villages.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "34 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nThe visitor, on alighting at this highly picturesque point, will\\nfind that unusual attractions have been offered to purchasers\\nby some of the more enterprising adjacent property owners.\\nWithin a stone s throw of the depot, are numerous available\\nbuilding situations of rare attractiveness, for persons of both\\nlarge and moderate means, while a short distance beyond^\\nand rendered accessible by the newly-opened Beauvais Av-\\nenue, commencing at the Valley road, on the east of the\\nFirst mountain, and extending to the west of it, near the\\nresidence of Mr. C. N. Bovee, (whose advertisement see),\\nand opening some of the grandest views in the vicinity of\\nNew York, are many villa sites, equally unsurpassed in at-\\ntractiveness, and accessibiUty to New York business men.\\niMt%^ ^^near The Glove, or Mountain Ave. Station,Montclair township, for sale\\nAdvantages Few minutes walk to Depot distance to New York 15 miles yearly com-\\nmutation less than 12 cents each way admirably adapted for division into places of resi-\\ndence for New York Business Men partly divided into half acres or 200 by 200 ft. lots,\\nthe rest divisible into 1, 2, 3^4, 5. or more acres: scenery singularly varied and striking,\\nviews similar to those from Eagle Rock, Llewellyn Park, with level approaches to them\\nvery attractive drives near and over the properties road lines nearly two miles in length\\nhalf-mile of finest natui*al Trout Brook near New York, known as Pearl Brook good and\\nplenty of water perfect drainage abundance of Freestone, easily got out, suitable for\\nDuilding beautiful chestnut, hickory and cedar grove 600 apple, pear and plum trees,\\nyoung and of choice varieties the best fruit and farm garden between Paterson and\\nNewark healthfulness unsurpassed large improvements in immediate vicinity by en-\\nterprising capitalists who have lately bought a number of farms various and fine resi-\\ndences soon to be built near part of the properties\u00e2\u0080\u0094 73 acres a little to west of First\\nMountain on the very handsome ridge dividing Verona Valley, and commanding one of\\nthe most magnificent i)rospects in New Jersey the rest a little to the east of Firsli\\nMountain, and overlooking New York, the Narrows, Ac. Owner, C. N. BOVEE, Cedar\\nGrove, near premises; office of Bovee Richakds, Counsellors, 52 Wall St., N. Y.\\nAppreciating the lovely scenery, the healthful surround-\\nings, the facilities for communication with the city, and the\\ncertainty of a rapid development of the adjacent region, fol-\\nlowing the completion of the new railroad, quite a number\\nof professional and business gentlemen from the Metropolis,\\n(among whom may be mentioned, Hon. S. L. Woodford,\\nWm. H. Arnoux, Esq., and Drs. T. C. Brainerd and Daniel\\nAyres), have already secured handsome properties for Summer\\nretreats, in and near this most charming of rural localities.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONJ CI AIR.\\nTHE STONE CRUSHER.\\nFour miles from Montclair, up the Clove, which is a\\nnorth and south canon in the First Mountain, and just where\\nthe Great Notch cuts it at right angles, are located the\\nworks of The Telford Pavement Co. They have four\\nsteam-driven stone crushers in operation, and here is\\ntheir source of supply for the material used in macadamizing\\nBloomfield Avenue\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a fine four mile Boulevard, stretching\\nfrom the Mountain Top at Montclair, to the city of New-\\nark. Trap rock is hauled from their quarry in the imme-\\ndiate neighborhood, broken to the required grades, and\\nscreened directly into the cars of the Montclair Railway by\\ntheir ingeniously arranged machinery. They have a daily\\nfurnishing capacity of about three hundred (300) tons of\\nbroken trap, giving employment to a large number of men\\nand teams.\\nThe Company s operations are of manifold benefit to this\\nsection of the country, by utilizing the hitherto useless rock\\nof this mountain range in constructing the finest macadam\\nroads to be found on this continent.\\nMr Danl. Brennan, Jr., the President of the Company,\\nwas the first to introduce this excellent system of road\\nmaking in this State a few years since, and through the tire-\\nless efforts of himself and his associates in the Company,\\nit has continued to develop and extend until it has become\\nthe popular road of the counties adjoining New York City.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nTHE TELFORD PAVEMENT CO\\nINCORPORATED 1872.\\nDANIEL BRENNAN, Jr.\\nGEO. SPOTTISWOODE,\\nPres t Sup t.\\nSecy. Treas.\\nPRIHGIPAL OFFICE, ORANGE, II J.\\nThe Telford Pavement Co., have quarries and stone cutting machines\\nAT GREAT NOTCH ON THE MONTCLAIR RAILWAY,\\nAT CENTERVILLE, ON THE MORRIS CANAL,\\nAT FIRST OR ORANGE MOUNTAIN,\\nAT ORANGE AND SOUTH ORANGE, N. J., and\\nAT PLAINFIELD, UiVION CO., N. J.\\nThey have made miles of their road for the cities of Newark, Orange, Plain-\\nfield and Bayonne, the towns ot East and West Orange, and for the Essex\\nCounty Road Board.\\nTheir roads are invariably constructed in a FIRST-CLASS MANNER,\\nupon a foundation of large trap stone and successive layers of crushed rock,\\nrolled with a steam roller.\\nEleven steam engines, three steam road-rollers and eight stone ciushers, are\\nconstantly in operation, enabling the Company to do an unlimited amount of\\nwork in the counties of Essex, Passaic, Union and Hudson.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON IHE MONTCLAIR.\\nPROPERTY OF EAST JERSEY LAND CO. CEDAR GROVE.\\nCEDAR GROVE.\\ni6 miles i hour. 6 trains.\\nSouth of Little Falls we have Cedar Grove, one of the most choice\\nlocalities within an hour of the great city. Beautifully sloping from the\\nbanks of Peckham river to the tops of several mountains, its wide\\navenues and rectangular squares, give assurance of present and increas-\\ning attractions, as its fine villa sites find occupants. The look-out over\\nthe valley of the river to the spires of Paterson in the distance, gives a\\npleasing picture of unequaled variety. The soil is well adapted to\\ngardens, lawns, and ornamental shrubbery. Abundance of excellent\\nwater exists for wells where the living streams flowing between the two\\nmoimtains, will give at a future day an ample supply for hydrants, if\\nrequired. The location is misurpassed for health. The land above\\nplotted is owned by the East Jersey Land Co., Office, 38 Montgomery\\nSt., Jersey City, where apply.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 35\\nOur next stopping place is\\nGREAT NOTCH or Ridge Road.\\n(15 miles i hour. 15 trains each way daily.)\\nWe are now in the great mountain passage known as the\\nNotch, the only point within a range of eleven miles at\\nwhich, without tunneling, the engineer could carry his road-\\nway over to the Peckman River Valley, which bounds the\\nmountain s western slope. During the Revolutionary days\\nWashington regarded this wild defile as an important point,\\nand close at hand are dug up to this day, relics which mark\\nthe camp ground of the riflemen whom he stationed here as\\nadvanced posts to give notice of the approach of predatory\\nparties of the enemy. The scenery of the Notch is extremely\\nHOI^ES ON THE IIONTCLAIH\\nAT\\nGREAT NOTCH,\\nFAMOUS AS A\\nROMANTIC AND PICTURESQUE MOUNTAIN RESORT,\\nAnd this season, for the first time, open to railroad connection with\\nthe Metropolis.\\nOR ANY PANTITY FROM ONE TO ONE HOPRED ACRES,\\nFOR SALE AT\\nJMIoderate ^Prices IJasy Terms of I\u00c2\u00bbaymeTit.\\nI St Tract 1 00 ACRES and upwards, situated only ]4 mile northfof Mountain\\nAvenue station, and }i mile south of Great Notch station, or Ridge Road.\\n2cl Tract\u00e2\u0080\u0094 31 ACRES, situated mile west of Great Notch station.\\nIW All the above property commands a magnificent view of the surround-\\ning country. For fuller description see pages 36 and 37.\\nFjor farther information, address\\nEDWARD FRANCISCO,\\nJAttle I alls, New Jertey.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "3 6 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nrugged and picturesque nor any the less so when viewed\\nfrom the car platform, as one moment we whirl through a\\ndeep cutting next whiz around a long curve, describing\\nmore than a semi-circle then suddenly shoot over a great\\ntrestle work bridging a chasm, and from the summit of which\\nwe catch a long vista of forest and hillside then through\\nanother rock ribbed cut, and around another curve, until, no\\nmatter how sensitive or well trained maybe the travelers\\nbump of direction, he will probably be obliged to confess that\\nhe has lost the points of the compass for just this once.\\nThe advertisement of Edward Francisco, Esq., one of the\\nlargest land owners in Passaic County, will be found on\\npage 35, and calls the attention of the prospective purchaser\\nof a Home on the Montclair, to some choice and attrac-\\ntive sites at this point, which he places upon the market for\\nthe coming season. The visitor can either alight at Mountain\\nAvenue, and by a ride of half a mile reach a portion (or the\\nfirst tract), of this property, or can go on to the station at\\nGreat Notch or Ridge Road, and thence by a walk or drive\\nof only a quarter of a mile, reach the same spot, comprising\\na tract of upwards of one- hundred acres, every foot of which\\nis eligible for residences. A quarter of a mile west of the\\nlatter depot, on the slope overlooking the lovely Passaic Val-\\nley, he can reach, too, another tract of thirty-one acres, con-\\ntaining numerous desirable building sites. The view ob-\\ntained from almost any point on this property is superb.\\nA bill has been introduced into the Legislature making the Directors ot\\nthe Board of Freeholders of Passaic, Bergen and Hudson Counties, Com-\\nmissioners with full power and authority to lay out and construct a public road\\nfrom the Notch to Weehawken, via the Paterson Plank Road near Secau-\\ncus, and passi ig over the Passaic River at Rutherford Park, which will give a\\nsuperior outdrive for the wealth and fashion of New York, and connect these\\ntwo great points of interest, Central Park and the picturesque Great Notch.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 37\\nIndeed, it is safe to say of this and of Mr. C. N. Bovee s\\nlarge neighboring homestead properties, that the views from\\nthem are among the most magnificent to be found within an\\nequal distance (14 miles) of New York city. To the\\nnorth is Paterson, to the west Boonton and the Fairfield\\nValley, below are Little Falls and Singack, with the Verona\\nValley stretching away to the southward while if the eye\\nwanders away to the northwest, it discerns the spire of the\\nPompton Plains church, and finally rests upon the hazy blue\\noutlines of Long Pond Mountain, near the northern confines\\nof the State. And if the visitor ascend the mountain to the\\neast, a walk of ten minutes brings him to a glorious view of\\nMontclair, Bloomfield, Newark, Manhattan, and the rounded\\nhill tops of Staten Island in the distance. The healthfulness\\nof this vicinity is unsurpassed springs of the purest, coolest\\nwater abound the soil is fertile, and in some places indi-\\ncates the presence of rich veins of iron ore beneath, awaiting\\ndevelopment the drives are unusually fine, Paterson and\\nMontclair being each only four miles distant, and new\\navenues, affording convenient access to the adjacent depots,\\nare opened or being opened through the property.\\nTo purchasers in large tracts Mr. Francisco will sell at\\n$500 per acre, and his offer is well worthy of attentive con-\\nsideration.\\nWe next cross the Peckman River by a high bridge, catch\\na view of Cedar Grove, and in a few moments more, are\\nat the village of\\nLITTLE FALLS,\\n(18 miles i hour and 3 minutes. 6 trains each way daily.)\\nSituated on the Passaic River, and deriving its name from\\nthe rapids which here descend fifty-one feet in half a mile,", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "38 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nand are to some extent utilized for manufacturing purposes.\\nThe Morris Canal here crosses the Passaic by a beautiful\\nstone aqueduct of 80 feet span, The City of Paterson is\\nonly four miles to the north, and even at this distance the\\nriver, winding between overhanging bluffs, high enough to\\ncontain a river of twenty times its depth, gives in the forma-\\ntion of its banks, here and there rising in perpendicular faces\\nof rock crowned with cedars, indications of its approach to\\nthe great chasm into which ere long it is to leap, at the\\nfamous Passaic Falls.\\nFor Little Falls, the coming of the Montclair Railway,\\nwhich passes through its center, is an incalculable benefit,\\ninasmuch as a ride of a mile has hitherto been necessary to\\nreach the nearest railway station. As a consequence, there\\nare expectations, and just ones, of a large increase in the\\nnumber of residents, permanent and transient, from the Me-\\ntropolis. It is to be regretted, however, that much of the\\nproperty available for residences is held by parties who are\\nnot desirous of selling it, a fact which may to a considerable\\nextent retard what would otherwise prove a rapid and profit-\\nable development.\\nThere are here two churches (Methodist and Dutch Re-\\nformed), a Public School, a Carpet Factory, two Hotels and\\nseveral stores. Stages run twice a day to Paterson, and\\nthere are three mails to and from the rest of the world.\\nDuring the coming summer horse cars will probably be run-\\nning from Paterson to Little Falls, making the entire distance\\nin about one hour.*\\nA mile beyond Little Falls, we come to old fashioned\\nSee adrertisement of Allen Dunning published elsewhere", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\n39\\nPASSAIC FALLS.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "40 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR,\\nSINGACK,\\n(19 miles; 1 hour and6 min. 4 trains each way daily.)\\nan antiquated relic of the days when High Dutch and Indian\\ntogether formed the only jargon spoken in this part of New\\nJersey. The Singack Creek passes through the village,\\nwhich is scattered over an area of a square mile or so, and\\nin the vicinity are some of the most extensive brick yards in\\nthe State.\\nBeyond the Singack Depot, we again cross the Morris\\nCanal, and reach the intersecting point of the Delaware,.\\nLackawanna and Western Railroad, at\\nMOUNTAIN VIEW, (formerly mead s basin),\\n(si milss 1 hour, 16 min. 4 trains each way daily.)\\nHere we are well up in the world, or topographically so at\\nall events, but there is, it must be confessed, but little in the\\nsurroundings to woo one hither in search of a residence. The\\nvillage itself, (it retains its name of Mead s Basin), is a small\\nand unpretentious one, situated hard by, and can claim no\\nespecial attention unless it be on account of its wonderful\\nresemblance to a dozen other sleepy canal villages to be\\nfound within as many miles on either side.\\nAnd now, for the second time in our journey, we cross\\nthe Passaic River, and at a point not far from its confluence\\nwith the Pompton River, which, in turn, is formed a few\\nmiles above by the united waters of the Pequannock, the\\nWanaque and the Ramapo, issuing from as many valleys,,\\nwhich, fan like, open off from the upper end of Pompton\\nPlains, which we are now approaching. And here we stop\\nat the little station of", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 4I\\nPEQUANNOCK,\\n(23 miles i hour and 20 minutes 6 trains each way daily.)\\nDeriving its name from the township, and boasting a store,\\nschool and post office, and a considerable population living\\nwithin a distance of a mile or more about the depot.\\nAnd now, looking from the car window, on both sides, we\\nsee a wide stretch of level and well cultivated farm land,\\nbounded in each direction by gently sloping mountains. No\\nlonger do we look down through long ,vistas] of mountain\\ngorges, or hear the clatter of our wheels reverberated back\\nfrom rocky precipitous walls here the prospect is open,\\npeaceful, fair we see a landscape dotted with farm houses\\nof the more substantial kind, well watered by running\\nstreams, and evidently in a high state of cultivation here and\\nthere a church spire rises, or a curl of blue smoke from a tall\\nchimney, showing where men s hands and brains are at work.\\nYes, this is\\nPOMPTON PLAINS,\\n(25 miles i hour and 24 minutes. 6 trains each way daily,)\\nA locality famous for its fertility and prosperity even since\\nthe earlier days of New Jersey s settlement. Here upon our\\nleft we see the Pompton Plains Church, the congregation of\\nwhich was first organized in 1736. Within its congregation!\\nlimits were then included what are now the congregations of\\nsix churches. At the commencement of the Revolutionary\\nWar a Hberty pole was put up on the ground near the par-\\nsonoge, which the Tories cut down several times. At length\\nthe people put up one and defended it with bars of iron, at-\\ntaching it to a sign board, with these significant words,", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "42 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nLiberty, Property, No Popery. The traveler will observe\\nthat a liberty pole stands near the church to this day, proba-\\nbly as a land-mark which the people are averse to removing.\\nPurchasers of property about Pompton Plains depot will\\nfind it a pleasant neighborhood, with many agreeable and\\ncultivated families residing there. There are also store and a\\nhotel, while up and down the valley the roads are good and\\nthe drives attractive.\\nPompton, which covers an area of six miles or more, has,\\nit may be said, three centers of population the first of these,\\nPompton Plains, we have just visited the second one we\\nreach, and probably the most densely populated, is known as\\nthe Pompton Steel Works, and to reach this we alight at the\\nnext station,\\nRIVERDALE,\\n(26 miles i hour, 28 minutes. 6 trains each way daily.)\\nSituated about in the center of the Plains, and surrounded by\\ncharming meadow lands, rising here and there into attractive\\nelevations for building sites. But, as is previously intimated,\\nRiverdale is chiefly important as the point at which passen-\\ngers alight for the quite populous village lying half a mile to\\nthe south, under the shadow of Colfax Mountain, and within\\nsound of the unceasing roar of the Pung-tong Falls of the\\nRamapo, which, here emerging from the seclusion of Arrareek\\nLake, through which it finds its way, hurries forward down\\nthe valley to join its sister streams on their march to the sea.\\nIn addition to the steel works, which employ a large force\\nof workmen, there are here an Episcopal church, a good ho-\\ntel, a post-office, several stores, and a very handsome iron\\nMemorial Sermon of Rer. J. V. N. Schenk, Nov. 22, 1871.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 43\\nbridge, spanning the Ramapo. Hard by is the ancient resi-\\ndence of the Colfax family, which in revolutionary days,\\nfurnished the country a gallant commander for General\\nWashington s body-guard, and in modern times a Vice-Pres-\\nident. In the little square enclosure, adjoining the family\\nmansion, can be seen the simple shaft which marks the last\\nresting place of the former.\\nFrom Riverdale diverges on our left; a track by which\\nthrough trains can run direct to Bloomingdale, and thence\\non over the main line, instead of going around by way of\\nPompton Junction.\\nThe third center of population is known as Pompton\\nChurch, and to reach this we must aUght at the station known\\nas\\nPOMPTON,\\n(27 miles i hour, 30 minutes. 6 trains each way daily.)\\nwhere our road crosses the Bloomingdale turnpike, on which\\na short distance to the right stands the church referred to,\\ntogether with a few dwellings and an hotel. But, we scarcely\\nstop here, for a few hundred feet ahead of us is the double\\nbridge spanning the noisy Pequannock, and on its further\\nside is\\nPOMPTON JUNCTION,\\n(27X miles i hour, 32 minutes. 6 trains.each way daily.)\\nwhere we cross the Une of the New Jersey Midland, and en-\\nter the portals of the picturesque Wanaque Valley. To the\\nright stands Ramapo Mountain to the left, Federal Rock,\\ntwin pillars, guarding the entrance to a region so compara-\\ntively unknown, and yet so wildly beautiful.\\nHere at the Junction there appears to be prospect of con-", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "44 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nsiderable development. A hotel to accommodate fifty\\nguests is being built, one or two streets have been cut and\\ngraded, and several small dwellings put up, and the Com-\\npany propose to erect, at the intersecting point of their two\\nlines, a handsome depot for their joint use.\\nAnd we now are hastening up the Wanaque, (sometimes\\nerroneously written Wynockie) Valley, the same wild region\\nwhich one reaches by taking the Sterling Railway, from Ster-\\nling Junction on the Erie Railway. Passing up this valley^\\nwhich seems to grow narrow as we advance, we see here and\\nthere old stone houses marking the homes of the descendants\\nof those pioneers who first dared penetrate and establish their\\nhomes in this secluded spot and presently we cross the\\nWanaque River, and stop at the village of\\nWANAQUE,\\n(31 miles i hour, 42 min. 4 trains each way daily.)\\na small scattered settlement lying principally on the west, or\\nleft hand side of the track, and boasting a Methodist church,\\na store or two, and a public school. About two miles west\\nof the village, on High Point Mountain, are the Wanaque\\nmines. There is also a small mine about half a mile north-\\neast of the station.\\nA little, perhaps not over three quarters of a mile, further\\nup the valley, we reach\\nMIDVALE,\\n(31^ miles 1 hour, 52 min. 4 trains each way daily\\na Station better known to the residents of the country for\\ntwenty miles around as Coon Tice s. Ask a man in the", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 45\\nWanaque Valley, the way to Midvale, and ten to one he ll tell\\nyou there s no such place but there s not a. man, woman or\\nchild from Ringwood Furnace down to Pompton Plains, but\\ncan point straight to Coon Tice s, no matter what hills and\\nbrakes intervene.\\nCoon Tice, Esq., has kept a tavern here since a week or\\ntwo after the date on which Columbus discovered America\\nand no ordinary tavern either, but a good old time hostelry,\\nwhere genuine cheer for man and beast can be found winter\\nand summer. Does a sleighing party start out from Mont-\\nclair on a moonlight night in winter To Coon Tice s they\\ngo. Do the Paterson City Fathers determine upon an offi-\\ncial spree Roast Pig at Coon Tice s. In fine, of all land-\\nlords in all Jersey, none more enticing than Tice.\\nWell, here is his place. Look out the window here on\\nthe left. A number of barns and stables, and behind\\nthem the house, a rather more pretentious frame building\\nthan most we have thus far seen in the valley. There is\\nan air of cultivation visible, too, in the presence of a bird-\\nhouse or two, and neat fences. In fine, without affectation\\nor ceremony, the people at Coon Tice s always make the\\nvisitor comfortable, and send him away with a joyful coun-\\ntenance and an appetite knocked to splinters.\\nGO AND SEE COON.\\nHalf a mile beyond his haven of rest is another one of\\nanother kind, the Midvale Methodist Church, a modest edi-\\nfice, standing within a few feet of the track. If it were Sun-\\nday, we should, doubtless, in passing, see horses and wagons\\ntied up at all the trees and fences near by, with groups of\\nhalf-grown youths lounging about the front steps or, per-", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "46 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nhaps, it might be our good fortune to catch a faint wafting\\nof the quaint harmonies of the choir, or the sound of the\\nexhorter within.\\nBut next we cross Stony Road, a highway well named if\\never one was, and come afterward in full view (on the left\\nhand side) of Furnace Pond, formed by the widening of\\nWanaque River at this point. In olden times, a furnace in.\\noperation at the lower end of this pond gave it the name it\\nstill retains.\\nAnd now the mountains on our left rise in successive\\nknolls or points to a surprising height, giving a new gran-\\ndeur to the scenery. Winbeam and Bear Mountain in tura\\nrear their wild crests, while beyond them are Green Hill and\\nTory House Hill, the latter named, presumably, from some\\ninteresting revolutionary incident. While we are admiring\\nthe vastness of these long declivities, a glance to the right\\nsuddenly discloses the valley opening off on that side into a\\nwide and comparatively level tract, through which flows the\\nRingwood River to join the Wanaque. And now, here we\\nare at\\nRINGWOOD, OR BOARDVILLE,\\n(35 miles, 2 hours; 4 trains each way daily.)\\nThe last name to this immediate vicinity is the most ap-\\npropriate, for hereabout are the possessions of the Mr.\\nBoard, in whose honor it was bestowed. But here, too,\\ndiverges the branch road to Ringwood, a little mining village\\nof 500 inhabitants, three miles distant, situated within half a\\nmile of the State Line, and known by many as the place of\\nresidence of Messrs. Abram S. Hewitt and Edward Cooper,\\nthe proprietors of the mines, and whose dwellings, though lo-", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 47-\\ncated here in this comparatively remote spot, are marvels of\\nelegance and completeness.\\nThe Ringwood Branch transports large quantities of coal\\nto and ore from the Ringwood Works, the only outlet of\\nwhich hitherto has been the Sterling Railway, which, ope-\\nrating in connection with the Erie, has furnished but one\\ntrain per day.\\nLeaving Boardville, our course turns off to the north-west,\\nand we skirt the mountain side, looking down upon some\\ncharming sylvan scenes. Yonder, in the valley, embowered\\nin foliage, can be seen a comfortable residence of the olden\\ntime, part of it stone, and constructed a hundred years ago.\\nThink of the manhood and adventure it required to come\\nand build a home over a century ago in this wild region to\\nwhich the railroad has only now brought its welcome clatter.\\nYet those walls are suggestive of comfort and good cheer,\\nand are occupied by Messrs. Schermerhorn of New York,\\nwho have purchased a large and valuable tract just above,\\nwith the intention of developing at once its wealth in lumber\\nand minerals, and of utiHzing for manufacturing purposes the\\nfine water power furnished by the Wanaque just above we\\nshall see where they have already constructed a dam and\\nerected a mill, and where, too, on yonder mountain, whole\\nacres have been clean shaven of timber by the axes of their\\nsturdy workmen. And, look, here we are at\\nMONK S,\\n(38 miles 2 hours, 10 min. 4 trams each way daily.)\\nderiving its name from the occupant of the neighboring farm\\nhouses. Here a much traversed county road crosses th", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "48 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\ntrack, thus affording easy railway communication for the\\npopulation of the adjacent country. For a while this was\\nthe terminus of the road; but the completion of the heavy\\nrock cutting just beyond opens the way now to\\nRINGWOOD FURNACE,\\n(41 miles 2 hours 15 min. 4 trains each way daily.)\\nWhere there is also quite a mining village and a post office,\\nand whence stages connect for\\nGREENWOOD LAKE,\\n(43 miles 2 hours 30 min. 4 trains each way daily.)\\nHave you, reader, ever been to Greenwood Lake Every\\nyear the number of pilgrims to this sylvan Mecca has been in-\\ncreasing have you helped to swell the throng For a long\\ntime passengers had to reach it at the expense of a three\\nhours ride on the Erie cars to Monroe, and thence stage it\\nover the mountains for nine or ten miles. But they came,\\neven in spite of that. Then last year the Midland carried\\nthem to Newfoundland, and so saved them about an hour s\\nstaging. With those faciHties, the crowd of visitors to the\\nLake increased perceptibly. But what will be the rush this\\nsummer, with the Montclair Railway cars running direct\\nto the Lake itself, and transporting sweltering passengers\\nfrom New York and Newark, in a comparatively short ride,\\nto this most delightful of mountain lakes For, weary of\\nthe threadbare joys of Long Branch, Lake Mahopac and Fire\\nIsland, the wealth and fashion of New York will eagerly\\npounce upon this last and most beauteous pearl in the coro-\\nnet of adjacent summer resorts.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 49\\nBut here in the mountain soUtudes, the arriving traveler\\nwill find amid the most romantic and varied surroundings,\\nall the comforts and appliances of civilized life. For years\\npast, knowing tourists have made Greenwood Lake an indis-\\npensable part of their summer trip but how few there are\\ncomparatively who have really known what a charming\\nplace it is, this cool, quiet lake, sparkling like a jewel in the\\nemerald setting of the mountain top. How few, on reaching\\nits wooded marge, will be prepared to find in waiting a lively\\nlittle steamboat, (brought up in pieces all the way from New\\nYork), with steam up and all ready to convey them to their\\ndestination. There are accommodations for hundreds of\\nguests, good pure water, bracing air, glorious scenery, fine\\ndrives, boating, bathing, fishing and flirting, and all these too\\nwithin daily business distance of New York. To such a.\\nterminus as this, then, does our newly completed railway bring\\nthe traveler, carrying him over no hum-drum, common-place\\nsection of country, but through a scenery as varied and\\nbeautiful as any in the world past cities, over rivers, through\\nmountain gorges, across smiling, peaceful landscapes, and,\\nfinally, landing him here on the mountain top at the verge of\\na lake as beautiful as Como or Maggiore. And hard indeed\\nto be pleased must he be, who, desiring a home in the rural\\nregions whither daily he may fly from the dust and turmoil of\\ncity business life, cannot somewhere or another in this\\npanorama choose a spot where,\\nFull in the center of some shady grove,\\nBy nature formed for solitude and love.\\nOn banks arrayed with ever blooming flowers,\\nNear beauteous landscapes, or by roseate bowers,\\nfor the remainder of his days he may dwell under his own\\nvine and fig tree, and with Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs, bless the\\nday that he set out to look for a home on the montci..air.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "50 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\n^APPENDIX A.\\nFrom the New York Times^ December 30, 1872.\\nIt was in the month of May when those old emigrants from\\nConnecticut pitched their tents on the site of the present large and\\nthriving city of Newark. Had they arrived later in the year\\nthey would probably have chosen some favored spot for their fu-\\nture home which was not quite in so close proximity to the\\nmarshes and their annual Autumn pestilence in the shape of\\nmosquitoes. But in spite of marshes and mosquitoes, Newark has\\ngrown, as the old ladies say, beyond all knowledge, and with a\\nrapidity, of late years which throws the growth of New York and\\nBrooklyn into the cold shade. In twelve years the population of\\nthe city has more than doubled, (in 1858 it was estimai ed at {50,000,\\nat the beginning of this j ^ear it was estimated at 125,000,) factories\\nand mills of all descriptions have sprung up, others are in course\\nof erection, banks and wholesale trade are coming to the front,\\nand Newark dives its hands deep down into its well-filled pockets,\\nand looks complacently around with an air of satisfaction and\\nhonest pride.\\nCapt. Robert Treat, of Milford, and Parson Abram Pierson, of\\nBranford, the first with a following of forty-one, the second with\\na company of twenty-three persons, took possession of their new\\nsettlement in 1666, having bought it of the Indians for the stereo-\\ntyped collection of guns, blankets, knives, liquor, c. Fifteen\\nyears afterward Newark had a population of 500 souls, and owned\\n10,000 acres of town lands and 40,000 acres of outlying plantations.\\nIn 1713 it was made a township by Queen Anne, but still its early\\ngrowth was very slow and tedious, and in 1810 the population was\\nless than \u00c2\u00a3,000. The Sentinel of Freedom, the oldest newspaper in\\nthe State of New-Jersey, its first number having been issued 5th\\nOctober, 1796, gives the following census returns for 1810, in its\\nnumber for 19th March, 1811:\\nNumber of inhabitants in 1810 in the town plot of Newark, 4,388\\nNumber of dwelling houses, 668\\nNumber of stores, barns, stables, c, 644\\nIn those days the principal business of Newark and the other\\ntowns of Essex County was the maaufacture of cloths, stuffs and\\ngeneral woolen goods, boots, shoes, and slippers, distilling and\\ncarriage building. The value of the aggregate product of the\\ncountry was only $1,210,471. To-day the manufacturing business\\nof Newark alone is not less than $90,000,000 a year. The Board", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MoNTCLAIR. 5 1\\nof Trade returns for 1871 give tlic number of manufacturing\\nCBtablishments at 1,015, the capitil invested, $;U,4()7,(;70; the\\nnumber of hands employed, 29,147; the amount of wages paid,\\n$14,7G7,257, and the value of the products $72,H70,0;5(;.\\nWith regard to the convenience of Newark as a place of resi-\\ndence for men doing business in New York, nice plots of land, 25\\nby 100, in desirable localities, for the erection of a house, can be\\nbought for $2,000 to $2,500. Six to twelve-roomed houses, with\\nevery convenience and all the modern improvements, can be rented\\nin the best parts of the city at from $500 to $800 a year.\\n4: K\\nThe present area of the city of Newark is about 17 j square miles\\n11,200 acres, and the population is estimated at 125,000, of whom\\nnearly 40,000, chietly Germans and Irish, are foreigners. The\\nvaluation of real estate in the city, as assessed for 1871, is )2,\\n208,535, and f personal property, $21,717,800; together, $80,\\n980,341. The amount raised by taxation during the year was\\n$1,390,020 and Newark can point with pride to the fact that this\\nsum is only an increase of $3,900 over the taxation of 1870. ome\\nof the local politicians must either be blind to opportunities, or else\\nthere can be no opportunities on which to seize. Here is a splen-\\ndid opening for some coming Tweed\\nNewark now boasts nine banks though many of the business\\nmen here, having branch houses in New York, have also a banking\\naccount there. There are five savings banks, the oldest of which,\\nthe Newark Savings Institution, incorporated in 1847, has\\n$12,022,844.50 deposits. The aggregate deposits of all the savings\\nbanks amount to $18,084,008.41. There are sixteen local life and\\nfire insurance companies, with an asfgregate capital of $3,723,817,\\nand the I^tutual Life Office of New York has a Newark branch.\\nm\\nAs for the means of education the city seems comparatively rich.\\nThere are twonty-two public school houses, nine of which are\\neach capable of accommodating from eight hundred to one thous-\\nand pupils, and have both primliiy and grammar departments the\\nother buildings are smaller and confined to one department. J^ut,\\nin addition, there are five evening schools, a Normal school, and a\\nHigh school, under the charge of a principal and ten assistants,\\nwhere the rising generation is prepared for commercial life or for\\ncollege.\\nForemost among; the public institutions of interest in Newark is\\nthe New Jersey Historical Society. The settlement of New Jersey\\nis coeval with the earliest history of this country, and it is there-\\nfore not surprising that the citizens of ko conservative a State\\nshould have organized an institution the duty of whose officers it", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "52 HOMES ON THE MONTCLATR.\\nis to discover, procure, and preserve, whatever relates to any de-\\npartment of the history of New Jersey, natural, civil, literary, or\\necclesiastical, and generally of other portions of the United States.\\nBesides being a depository for numerous curious and interesting\\nrelics of the past, many intimately connected with the romance\\nof history, the Society s rooms contain the nucleus of a most valu-\\nable historical library. The collection already includes six thou-\\nsand bound volumes, among which are twelve volumes of the mi-\\nnutes of the Long Parliament, and the l^entinel of Freedom^ from\\nits first issue, dated 5th October, 1796, down to the present day.\\nThe Sentinel of Freedom is the weekly edition of the Newark\\n])aily Advertisey^ which is by far the leading paper here, an i which\\nthough forty years of age, appears to be in the heyday of its youth.\\nThe library also possesses ten thousand pamphlets, some of which\\nare doubtless of little value, while others are equally valuable.\\nThere is loo, a small collection of manuscrii)ts, said to be of great\\nvalue and rarity. This Historical Society, lilse those of New-York,\\nBrooklyn. Boston, and other cities, is doing a work which men of\\ncultured minds deeply regret was so neglected by their forefathers.\\nThey are collecting materials for some future Gibbon or Hallam,\\nor even somj brilliant, but untrustworthy, MacAulay, on which the\\ncoming History of the United States may be founded. And New-\\nark boasts a Library Association, an incorporated stock institution,\\nandtberfore smelling of thlrdnte works. But I am told that this\\nis not so. Of course, I have had no time or opportunity to exam-\\nine the contents of the shelves. But there is the best part of some\\neightecM or twenty thousand volumes; and. setting aside all assu-\\nrances of their high character of literary works, there must bo a\\ngoodly sprinkling of valuable literature somewhere on those sltelves\\nwherewith young Newark can enlighten and develop its budding\\nmind. At all events, there are all the daily and weekly journals, the\\nmonthly magazmes, and quarterly reviews; and there is a little\\nlearning, if it be of the cramming order, to be gathered from\\nthem at least the history of the day. And then if some-\\nthing austere is more congenial, there is the Young Men s Christian\\nAssoci.ition. with everything from prayer-meetings to lectures, and\\neven entertainments in the Winter season. But if something more\\nlively be desired, a distraction from the tiioughts and cares\\nof the daily life, something lighter than books, and yet not so\\nfrivolous !is to be detrimental, tliere is the Newark Opera-House,\\nwhich, thanks to the dramatic aspirations of Young America, and a\\nconstant in^ux of foreign mercenaries of the Thespian profession,\\nis almost always tenanted by some star company of actors, or, if\\nall other things fail, by a wandering troupe of minstrels. But\\nthere, again, the great railroad facilities of the city come in. If\\nthe Jiant ecole of young Newark think themselves above local", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 53\\nperformances they caa listea to Lucca s harmony in the New-York\\nAcademy of Music, cry over Miss Neilswn s Juliet, or huigh them-\\nselves sore in tlie sides at Mr. Sothern s drollities. and yet catch\\nthe last train for home and sleep under the patrrual roof. What\\nwould they have more\\nAPPENDIX IJ.\\nIt was upon a cold, dark wintry night, near the close of the war,\\nthat a part} of dauntless spirits, consistino; of Capt. John Kidney,\\nCapt. Henry Jaroleman. Jacob Garlaw, and Halmach Jaroleman,\\nleft their faWlies and their firesides in search of adventure. A\\ndeep snow covered the Earth, and the howling wind gave admoni-\\ntion to all to remain witliiu but our party were bent on having\\nprisoners that night. Having provided themselves with a pair of\\nfleet horses, attached to a common wood sled, they left the neigh-\\nborhood of the above village (Bloomfield) and laid their course\\ntoward the heights of Bergen. They soon arrived in the vicinity of\\nthe garrison, and leaving their horses tied to the fence they went\\non to reconnoitre. They returned shortly aft^^r, having ascertained\\nthat a school-house, some distance from the posts, was filled with\\nofficers and soldiers, rioting and dancing. Their plan of taking\\nprisoners being matured, the company started with Kidney at their\\nhead. Coming upon the house. Kidney commenced giving hit\\norders to his different divisions to surround the house, while he\\nimmediately forcing himself in at the door, took good care that\\nhis guard should show themselves and their bayonets at the thres-\\nhold. Those within were struck with astonishment. Every one\\nof you are my prisoners, cried Kidney, surrender, or you die.\\nHaving ordered them into line, he select( d first a British officer,\\nthen a refugee, passed them along to the door, where they were\\nmuffied and hurried away to the sled Kidney taking care to warn\\nthem that the first one who attempted to escape, was a dead\\nman. When they reached the meadows they heard the alarm gun\\nfire, but they were too far for pursuit. The prisoners were secured\\nin the Morristown jail, and our heroes returned well pleased with\\nthe night s adventure, leaving their prisoners much chagrined at\\nthe way they were i-d,keii. Rirbo ir s Hist. Col N.T.", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "56 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR.\\nPARTIES DESIGNING TO ERECT\\nHomes on the Montclair\\nShould not fail to call on\\nFDBlA.ISrOIS TOi!^K:iisrs,\\nWOODSIDE, iNElVARK,\\\\ N. J.\\nMANUFACTUKER OK\\nG-ROUND LIME AND CALCINED PLASTER.\\nAlso, Dealer in\\nMasons Building* Materials!\\nFARMERS supplied with Lime and Plaster for agricultural purposes.\\nBloomfield Ave., Bloomfield, N. J.\\nThis Hotel has been enlarged and handsomely refitted. A first-class\\nRestaurant connected with the Hotel.\\nJOHN REAMSCH, Florist,\\nGREEN HOUSES ADJOINING ARCHDEACON S HOTEL, BLOOMFIELD, N.J.\\nWhere may be found at all times, and at reasonable prices, an assortment of\\nNEW AND RARE PLANTS,\\nPlants of special interest, plants for the flower garden, plants for rustic vases,\\nbaskets, etc. Cut flowers at all seasons, for all and every occasion. Bouquets.\\n\\\\vreaths, and all kinds of devices prepared to order, and on the shortest notice.\\nFlower seeds, a superior variety, selected with great care. Annuals a specialty\\nAlso, for the vegetable gar 1 en, a fine stock of Tomato, Cabbage, Celery,\\nPepper, Egg and other plants.", "height": "3137", "width": "2123", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "flB Sales o[ last to!\\nNEW TRIUMPHS!\\nThe Statistics from sworn returns of the Sales of Sewing\\nMachines in 1872 (reported in 1873), show that the\\nSinger Manufacturing Company sold, last year, ov^r\\nFORTY-FIVE THOUSAND more machines than ANY\\nother Company, and over one quarter of all machines\\nsold during that year. Nine out of ten of said Singer\\nMachines were for FAMILY use proving the great\\npopularity of the Singer in the household. Annexed are\\nthe Sales of the different makers\\nTlie Siiipr Maiinfactnriiig CoDipauy so i 219,758 MacMiies.\\nWheeler Wilson Manufacturing Company 174,088\\nHowe Machine Company (esfcimatedj li, ),(H){)\\nGrover Baker Sewing Machine Company n^.OlO\\nDomestic Sewing Machine Company +5),r)r)4\\nWeed Sswing Machine Company 41^,44-1:\\nWilcox Gibbs SsMdng Machine Company 3;5,(;;i9\\nWilson Sawing Machine Company 22,( }()C)\\nAmer. B. H. O. Sewing Machine Company 18,0:50\\nGold Medal Sawing Machine Company 18,897\\nFlorence Sewing Machine Company ir).7. 8\\nB. P. Howe Sewing Machine Company 14, JOT\\nVictor Sewing Machine Company 11,!)01\\nDavis Sewing Machine Company 11. 870\\nBlees Sewing jNIachine Company ),058\\nRemington Empire Sewing Machine Company 4,982\\nJ. E. Braunsdorff Co. 4,262\\nKeystone Sswing Machine Company 2, W;,5\\nBartlett Reversible Sewing Machine Company 1,000\\nBartram Fanton Manufacturing Company 1,000\\nSecor Sewiuj Machine Company ;U1", "height": "3129", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "homesonmontclair00catl_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "FOR SALE BY ALL PROMINENT DEALERS.\\nOrange Lightning Powder,\\nThe best Powder made. Sizes, Nos. 1 to 7. Packed only in\\nsealed one pound canisters.\\nC^ Care must be taken to use no finer size than No. 5 in\\nmetal shells or fine breech-loading guns, as it is too quick for\\nthe strength of either.\\nOrange Ducking Poivder.\\nExpressly prepared for shooting water-fowl. Very strong and\\nclean. Sizes, Nos. 1 to Packed in metal gold band\\nkegs of 6:1^ lbs., and canisters of 5 lbs. and 1 lb.\\nAadahon Powder,\\nVery quick, for woodcock and other shooting from muzzle-\\nloading guns. Sizes, Nos. 1 to 4. Packed in metal kegs of\\n12^ and 6j lbs., and canisters of 1 lb.\\nOrange Rifle Poivder,\\nThe best for rijles^ and good for all ordinary purposes. Sizes,\\nFG, FFG, and FFFG. Packed in wood and metal kegs of\\n25, 12^, and 65^ lbs., and canisters of 1 lb. and lb.\\nThe above are the principal brands only, and will\\nbe found to give high velocity with less residuum\\nthan other Powders.\\nLiVFLIN RAND POWDER CO.\\n21 PABK ROW, NEW YORK.\\nMining and Blasting Powders of aN kinds. Dualin.\\nSafety Fuse. 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