{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3010", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aN\\n-V\\nV", "height": "2896", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "^f\\no *fj\\nV\\nv.", "height": "2932", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2896", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2859", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "2018", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "fKoTp-EflCrCo:", "height": "2864", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "PUBLISHERS NOTICE.\\nThe illustrations in this book arc from original photographs taken by Messrs.\\nB. Miller and Frank P. Jcwett, for this vol nine, and duly protected by copyright\\nAll rights are reserved by the Publishers.\\nCOPYRIGHT.\\nMERCANTILE PUBLISHING CO.\\n1890.\\nFor Contents see last pages.\\nI", "height": "2813", "width": "2003", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "The Oranges make up one of the most attractive\\nand picturesque portions of Essex County. These are\\nfour in number the City of Orange, and the town-hips\\nof East, West, and South Orange. All of them are\\nfamed for their handsome drives, romantic scenery\\nwell paved streets, elegant and imposing mansions, the homes of New\\nYork s merchant princes, leading bankers and eminent lawyers, slates-\\nmen and scientist?, as well as for the energy, public spirit and cul-\\nture of their inhabitants. The Oranges are pre-eminently cities of homes, and\\nfrom the lay of the land, its excellent natural drainage, the elevated situation\\nof the territory, and its freedom from malarial and all epidemic and infectious\\nmake the country eirbraced within the limits of the Oranges, one of the most de-\\nsirable and attractive places of residence near the city of New York. The natural attractions of this\\nsection of country are enhanced by the ease and rapidity with which business men residing there can\\nreach the cities of New York and Newark. The former is reached by two lines of railroad, the Dela-\\nware Lackawanna and We=terr, and the Orange branch of the Erie railroad. Both of these run fre-\\nquent trains be.twe 2 n the Oranges and New York, thus enabling business men to travel to and fro be-\\ntween their residences and offices very conveniently.\\nOrio-nally the whole territory embraced within the boundaries of the Oranges was a part of Newark,\\nthen cllled Our Towne on ye Passaick River. Indeed, the settlement of the Oranges was coincident with\\nthat of Newark The early settlers of Our Towne on ye Passaick located there in 1666, and soon after\\nmore than one of them began casting longing eyes towards the fertile valleys and verdure clad slopes\\nleading up to Watchung, now the Orange Mountains, and it was not long before first one and then an-\\nother of the pioneers of Newark went out towards the mountain and pre-empted land for a homestead.", "height": "2771", "width": "2001", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4 ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nAbout 1678 a party of Newarkers formed the nucleus of the Mountain Society, which afterwards became\\nthe First Presbyterian Church, which for many years was the centre around which the town grew. This\\nvenerable chun h has always been prominently identified with the history of Orange. Not satisfied with\\ngrants of the land from the Lords Proprietors of New Jersey, who then owned, or claimed to own, the whole\\nof the State, the high-minded and God-fearing men who founded Orange were not willing to disregard the\\nclaims of the Indians, and all the land that was acquired by them was duly purchased of the original own-\\ners of the soil. True it is that in these days the price paid does not seem very large, and it is probably equally\\ntrue that it was not exorbitant even in those primitive times, for the whole tract now covered by Orange,\\nWest and South Orange, was pure based of the Aborigines for a small sum of mom a quantity of\\ngun powder, a lot of lead, some old guns, brass buttons and two anchors of Liquor. The whole of the\\ntract where Llewellyn Park now is, and a considerable territory besides, was sold by the Indians for two\\nguns, three coats and thirteen cans of rum.\\nIn 168 1 the settlers who constituted the Mountain Society, had so increased in number that survey-\\nors were appointed to lay out highways as far as the mountain. The surveyors followed the trails made\\nby the eariy settlers in going to and fro between Newark and the mountain, and one of the first roads laid\\nout by them, is described as Ye road leading from ye towne to ye foote of ye mountain, or Wheeler s as\\nye pathe now runs, as straight as ye ground will allow. The road thus definitely described now forms\\nOrange street, Newark, Main street, in East Orange and Orange, and Northfield avenue, West Orange.\\nIt is one of the most attractive and picturesque drives in Essex county. The Wheeler referred to here is\\nNathaniel Wheeler, and his house stood very near where the entrance of Hutton Park now is.\\nIt is impossible within the scope of a work of this kind, which deals chiefly with the Oranges of the\\npresent day, to give any thing like a history of the early years of this rapidly growing section, and, there-\\nfore, only a very brief mention of some of the more important points will be made. In 1806 the popula-\\ntion of the town of Newark had so increased, and the interests of the residents of Orange, which was\\nseparated from Newark by a large tract of unsettled country, had become so diverse from those of the\\nformer place, that it was deemed best to form a separate municipality; accordingly, the Legislature passed\\nan act to incorporate a portion of the township of Newark into a separate township, to be called the\\nTownship of Orange. One of the metes and boundaries mentioned in the act is a spring called the\\nboiling spiring. This spring is still in existence, and forms a portion of the source of the water supply of\\nLast Orange.\\nAs early as 1744 the settlers of Orange became involved in disputes in regard to titles of lands which\\nwere prevalent in this section of New Jersey at this time, and contributions were raised for (laying the\\nexpenses of agents sent to Connecticut and to Horseneck (now Caldwell), for the purpose of obtaining\\npapers and affidavits to confirm their rights. It was voted at a town meeting that whosoever should cut\\nany wood or timber on any of the land called the parsonage land, shall forfeit (or every cart load ten\\nshillings, and so in proportion for a larger or lesser quantity, for the use of the poor.\\nOrange remained a township until 1S59, when the place had grown to such an extent, that the more\\nprogressive and enterprising of the inhabitants felt that a better and more efficient system of government\\nthan that offered by the township laws of the State was needed. The necessity for a change in the\\nmethod of administering the affairs of the municipality was especially felt in the matter of public improve-\\nments, which could not be carried out so readily under the old system as ihey could if the town were in-\\ncorporated. On November 17, 1850, a meeting of the citizens of Orange was held in Willow Hall, pur-\\nsuant to a call of the Township Committee, to consider the propriety of applying to the Legislature for\\nsome change in the laws regulating the township government. Such subjects as the grading of streets,\\nthe establishment of poli e and lire departments, the regulation ol the liquor traffic, and the division of\\nthe towns into wards were fully discussed, I)rs. William M Babbit and William Pierson, Simeon Harrison,\\nNapoleon Stetson, [saai I Everitt and Jesse Williams were appointed to act with the Township Com-\\nmittee and prepare a plan of incorporation. Mils committee subsequent!) drifted an ict providing for\\nthe incorporation of the town of Orange. By this act the town was divided into three wards, which\\nembraced all th im 1 omprised in the limits of Orange, East and West Orange. The act for\\nthe incorporation of the town of Orange was passed by the Legislature in January i860, and approved", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nby the Governor January 31, i860. The first Mayor of Orange was Dr. William Pierson, Sr\u00e2\u0080\u009e who served\\nfrom i860 to 1863, being re-elected each year. There was a decided opposition to the incorporation on\\nthe part of many of the citizens, especially those residing in the limits of what are now East and West\\nOrange. This feeling of opposition was still further engendered by troubles in relation to the public schools,\\nwhich will be referred to in another place. In 1862 a portion of Orange was set off, together with a part\\nof Caldwell and Livingston Townships, into a separate municipality, known as the Township of Fair-\\nmount. In the following year another portion of the town of Orange was added to the Township of Fair-\\nmount, and the name of the latter was changed to West Orange. In the year 1863 the Township of East\\nOrange was also created out of another portion of the town of Orange. Notwithstanding the loss of these\\ntwo important sections of territory, with their large population and great wealth. Orange has continued to\\nsteadily advance in every respect, and to-day is one of the best governed, most economically adminis-\\ntered cities in New Jersey. On April 3, 1872, the corporate name of Orange was changed by the Legis-\\nlature to the City of Orange.\\nRAILROAD FACILITIES.\\nOrange is reached from New York by two lines of railroads, the Delaware, Lackawanna and West-\\nern, and the Orange Branch of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad. The former road was\\noriginally the Morris and Essex Railroad, but has been absorbed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and\\nWestern. The other railroad is a branch of the Erie system. The Morris and Essex Railroad was for\\nmany years the only means of reaching either New York or Newark by rail, and to get there by other\\nmeans than private conveyance the citizens were compelled to have recourse either to an old-fashioned\\nstage line, or, later on, to horse cars.\\nThe Morris and Essex Railroad was\\nthe first to connect Orange with\\nNewark and New York. This road\\nwas organized in 1835, and origin-\\nated in an attempt of several lead-\\ning citizens of Morristown to connect\\nthat place by railroad with Newark\\nand New York. Meetings were held\\nand committees were appointed to\\nsolicit aid and subscriptions from\\nneighboring towns. In response to\\nthe efforts of the Morristown people\\na meeting was held at the South\\nWard Hotel, Newark, on Wednesday,\\nJanuary 14, with Stephen Dodd as\\nchairman. Resolutions were adopted\\nextending the cordial approbation of\\nthe meeting to the project of the\\nMorristown Railroad, and Messrs. J.\\nM. Meeker, Moses Bigelow and John\\nP. Jackson were appointed a commit-\\ntee to present the subject to the Leg-\\nislature. The last named gentleman on this committee was the father of Mr. F. W. Jackson, the present\\nGeneral Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Messrs. Stephen Dodd, L. A. Sykes and William\\nB. Kinney were appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee from Morristown and further\\nthe interests of the new road. On the 26th of January, 1835, the Legislature passed a bill incorporating\\nthe Morris and Essex Railroad Companv. The company was authorized to lay out and construct a rail\\nroad or lateral roads from one or more suitable place or places in Morristown, to inters, t one\\nor more suitable places in the railroad kaown as the New Jersey Railroad and Transporta\\ntion Company, at Newark or Elizabethtown. On the completion of the road to Newark\\na connection was made with the New Jersey Railroad by a track laid through Broad street, New-\\nD., L. W. Depot at Orange.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nark, to the Centre street depot in that city, over which horse cars were run. Early in 1855 a branch road\\nwas built from the New Jersey (now the Pennsylvania) Railroad, in Hast Newark, and across the Passaic\\nto connect the Morris and Essex with the New Jersey Railroad, and for many years passengers from\\nOrange and other places were carried over the Morris and Essex Railroad as far as East Newark, on the\\nline of that company, and thence without changing cars over the New Jersey tracks to Jersey City. In\\n1S60 the Hohoken Land and Improvement Company obtained a charter for a railroad connecting New-\\nark with Hoboken. This railroad was completed November 19, 1862, when the trains of the Morris and\\nRailroad were run direct to Hoboken through the Bergen tunnel. In 186S the Morris and Essex\\nRailroad was leased to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, who, several years\\nsubsequent to this, constructed a tunnel of their own through the Bergen hill, running diagonally acrossa\\nportion of the old Bergen tunnel, which is now used by the Erie Railroad. The Delaware, Lackawanna\\nami Western Railroad runs thirty-seven trains daily each way between Orange and New York, Sundays\\n1 xi pted. Of these three are express trains, that make no stop between the Oranges and Hoboken.\\nIn the year iXs;, when the effects of the financial panic which had visited the country that year were\\nstill severely felt, the directors of the Morris and Essex Railroad, with the mistaken idea that they could\\nlargely increase the revenue of their road, adopted a resolution to increase the fare between Orange and\\nNew York, and Orange and Newark fifty per cent, on commutation tickets and twenty-five\\nper cent, on way fares, and also to reduce the number of trains about one-half. The\\ndirectors of the Morris and Essex Railroad soon found that they had greatly mistaken\\nthe temper of the Orange people when they imagined that the citizens of that place\\nwould quietly submit to such treatment at their hands. Public meetings of citizens were held and\\nthe utmost indignation was expressed. A committee of leading citizens were appointed to wait upon the\\ndirectors of the Morris and Essex Railroad. This committee was met by the railroad directors with a\\ncontemptuous refusal to recede from the position they had taken, and were told to go back to the people\\nof Orange and inform them that the directors of the road understood their business that Orange travel\\nwas not worth having, and if the people did not submit they would bridge Orange over. This insolent\\nanswer to their just demands aroused the residents of Orange to the highest pitch of indignation. The\\npeople decided to be independent of the Morris and Essex Railroad, and to leave it severely alone. In\\nless than two weeks an omnibus company was organized, with a capital of $5,575. Single fare between\\nOrange an 1 Newark was ten cents, and the yearly commutation was $25. From its start the stage line\\nwas an immense success, and it was not long before the Morris and Essex Railroad Directors receded\\nfrom thiir unt isition and reduced the fares to the old standard. This, however, had little effect\\nupon the Orange public, so bitter was the feeling against the railroad, and the stage company continued\\nto do a big business. During the first year it carried 80,000 passengers between Orange and Newark.\\nThe capital stock was increased to $io,coo, besides paying a dividend of ten per cent, to stockholders-\\nThe omnibus line was continued three years, when it was dissolved, its property cold and the money re-\\nturned to the stockholders. Subsequent to this a horse railroad was built between Orange and Newark,\\nwhich at first was a very small affair, but subsequently merged into the Orange and Newark Horse Car\\nRailroad Company.\\nThe Orange branch of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad was built some eighteen or twenty\\nyears ago as a branch of the Montclair Midland Railroad system. It had its origin in the bad feeling\\nthat had always existed between a certain portion of the residents of the Oranges and the old Morris and\\nEssex Railroad and its successor, the Delaware, Lackawanna ami Western. The Watchung Railroad had\\n1 very precarious existence, and for awhile ceased running trains entirely. It was revived and absorbed\\nby thi New York and Greenwood Lake Company, and is now operated by the Erie Railroad Company.\\nIt extends from St. Mark s Church, West Orange, to Forest Hill, Newark, where it joins the main line of\\nthe Greenwood Lake road and forms a short route to New York. This road was the first to run express\\ntrains to New York from Orange, ami has been the pioneer in many reforms in the train service.\\nThe Orange and Newark Horse Car Railroad Company was organized in 1859, when a charter was ob-\\ntained from the Legislature. The project, however, slumbered for a year or two, owing to the opposition\\nof one or two property owners in Market street, Newark, who sought to obtain an injunction restraining", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 7\\nthe company from laying tracks in that thoroughfare. The suit was finally decided in favor of the com\\npany in i860, but the excitement that preceded and followed the breaking out of the war delayed the\\nbuilding of the road, and it was not until the Spring of 1862 that the road was built. Regular trips were\\nnot made until July of that year, when cars were run from the corner of Main and High streets, Orange,\\nto Market street depot, Newark.\\nr- .L~. *.,i..:i i _ Several years ago the Orange and\\nNewark Horse Car Railroad Com-\\npany was absorbed by the Essex\\nPassenger Railway Company,\\nwhich had also secured control\\nof the majority of horse car lines\\nin Newark, and was run by them\\nfor several years. During the latter\\npart of the year 1889 the majority\\nof the stock of the Essex Passenger\\nRailway Company was purchased\\nby Philadelphia capitalists, and\\nthe name of the company changed\\nto the Newark Passenger Railway\\nCompany. They propose to ex-\\ntend their line in Orange up Main\\nstreet to the West Orange line, and\\nthence through Valley street, West\\nOrange, to Tory corner, in that\\nplace. The entire line from the\\nMarket street depot, Newark, to\\nTory corner, West Orange, will be operated by the overhead electric system, with new and handsome\\ncars, and the fare for the entire distance will be five cents each way. The completion of this electric\\nroad will be of inestimable benefit to the citizens of Orange, as it will give them rapid transit to\\nNewark, and bring them into closer relations with that live business centre.\\nEDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.\\nReynold s Terrace.\\nThere is no County in the\\nState of New Jersey, which pos-\\nsesses a better and more thor-\\nough system of Public Schools\\nthan is to be found in the\\nCounty of Essex, and the\\nschools of the Oranges are\\njustly considered by all impar-\\ntial judges, as among the best\\norganized and most efficient\\nin the County. The matter of\\neducation is a subject that has\\nalways received great attention\\nin this progressive and cultured\\ncommunity. The Colonists from\\nNew Haven who settled Orange\\nmore than two hundred years\\nago, brought with them a keen\\nCorner Lincoln and Highland Avenues.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nappreciation of the value and importance of the education of the young. The proportion of those\\nwhose signatures on early town records appear by their mark, is small, and this fact, taken in\\nconsideration with the circumstance thai learning in those days was not as general and as widely\\ndiffused as it is to-day, indicates an intelligent community. :u- of the earliest schools in Orange was a\\nclassical school t ir boys, taught by the Rev. Caleb Smith, who v/as the secondpastor of the Mountain, now\\nl list Presbyterian Church. Exactly how long this school was conducted the records do not clearly indi-\\ncate, but it is known that he was\\npastor of the church from Novem-\\nber 30, 1748, to October 22, 1762\\nnearly fourteen years. The school\\nwas held in his study. Mr. Smith\\nwas a graduate of Yale College,\\nand previous to his settlement in\\nOrange, had assisted his father-in-\\nlaw, the Rev. Mr. Dickinson, in\\nteac hing .1 class in Latin at Eliza\\nbeth, then called Elizabethtown.\\nEvidence of the existence of Mr.\\nSmith s school in Orange is found\\nin an old account book kept by\\nhim with his parishioners. Initare\\naccounts with six young gentlemen,\\nwho are charged with the price\\nof tuition, with Latin and Greek\\nGrammars, and with several clas-\\nsii il books, as well as with\\nthe price of board. The Rev.\\nJedediah Chapjpan, also a grad-\\nuate of Vale College, succeeded Mr. Smith as pastor, and held the pastorate from 1766 to 1800\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthirty-four A portion of this pastorate included the stormy period of the Revolutionar\\nwar, when in all probability educational matters were overshadowed and neglected in the excitement of\\npolitical interests, lint it was only for a brief period that the proper instruction of the young was suffered\\nMain in ab 1 Pi had no sunn, r come than measures were taken to found the Orange Acad-\\nemj A -.ill. hi. building two stories high was erected on Main Street in 1786. The building\\nnly torn down a few years ago, although, for in m. years before that it had been used for business,\\ntot for school purpose.--. From earl) records it appears that the Academy was intended to beapub-\\nhool, foi h u i all the inhabitants ol Orange. The association which built the Academy, \\\\i\\nfirst purely voluntary, as the earliest statute for incorpo 1 institutions of learning, was passed in\\n1791, and the trustees sunn after availed th :ms tlves of it and 1 incorporated body. It had a high\\nreputation as a classical school, and its fame drew patronag from abroad. Among its pupils was John\\nMi Pherson Berrien, afterwards a prominent citi/en of Georgia, who served his State in the United States\\nSenate tor fifteen years, and was also Attorney-General of the United States.\\nJoseph Hornblower, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and one of the\\nii New Jersej has ever produced, was also a graduate of this Academy. Among\\nother schools ot prominence in theearlj histnr\\\\ of Orange, were the old white school house, near where the\\nit Brick Church st inds in East I ind that of Mint Polly Condit, which was started on Main\\nStreet, near Day. The latter was started il t [812.\\nIn the earl\\\\ part of the present century a publfc si hool was opened in that part of Orange known as\\nTory C 1, nov. included in the limits of West Orange. The lirst teachet was a Scotchman named\\nSimon Simpson. lie remained there but a few ,cars. when ned and returned to his native coun-\\ntry, but suiiseipiently 1 am e I. k to Orange, where his daughters established a young ladies seminary\\nCorner Central Aveni i \\\\m Center Street.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 9\\nThe school established at Tory Corner, by Mr. Simpson, was afterwards taught by Mr. Shaler J.\\nHillyer, and under his management it became one of the most noted institutions of learning in the coun-\\nty. Among the most prominent schools of later days were those of Miss Julia A. Dobridge and the\\nRev. Joshua D. Berry, both of them schools for boys and girls; Mr. TenBroeck s school for boys, the Rev.\\nC. S. Stocking s boarding school for boys, the Misses Bradshaw s Young Ladit s Seminary, the Young Ladies\\nSeminary at Brick Church, founded by Rev. F. A. Adams, D. D., who afterwards had one of the leading\\nCorner Scotland Road and Montrose Avenue.\\n(Orange Mountains in distance.)\\nboys schools. The Misses Robinson, whose father. Col. Chester Robinson, was for many years Principal\\nof the Orange Academy, and one of the most noted educators in the place, for many years conducted a\\nYoung Ladies school on the corner of Main Street and Lincoln Avenue, Orange, which they only gave\\nup during the present Summer. This school is now continued by the Rev. C. S. Stocking. The Dear-\\nborn-Morgan school, on Main Street, is one of the best known private schools in this section. It also\\nfits pupils of both sexes for college, as thoroughly as any preparatory school.\\nAs early as 18 1 7 a fund was founded by voluntary contributions of the benevolent for the education of\\nchildren whose parents were unable to pay for their tuition. This fund has been carefully nurtured, and\\nthe revenue therefrom now goes toward the education of children at the Orphans Home. In 1846\\nthe office of Township Superintendent of Public Schools was created. The history of public schools in\\nOrange has been one of continued progress, although the setting off of East and West Orange proved for a\\ntime a great detriment to the establishment of a proper system of graded schools. In 1861 the propriety\\nand advantage of combining the districts in the central parts of the town and establishing a high school\\nbegan to be considered. In 1862 the movement became quite general in the Ashland, Central and St.\\nMark s districts, which embraced territory containing about twc-thirds of the children of the town. This", "height": "2884", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "o ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nlist ri. t extend d from what is now Walnut street, East Orange, to the topof First Mountain. The effort\\nto establish graded schools aroused considerable opposition in the outlying and thinly-settled districts\\nas the residents oi those I alities insisted that they wen- practically deprived of the benefit of the gram-\\nmar si hools, as thi din the centre of the town, and at such a distance that it was difficult for\\ntheir children to reach them. The troubles about the schools in connection with other differences be-\\ntween the central and outlying districts, led to the separation of East and West Orange from Orange. In\\nApril, 1 868, the Legislature passed a law pining the public schools of the town of Orange under tin\\ncare of a Hoard of Edu ation, composed of nine members, three from each ward. This centralization of\\nthe work of public instruction has been attended with excellent results, among which are uniformity in\\nthe course of study and in text books, a thorough system of discipline, the selection of principals and\\nteachers by a system of rigid examinations, and the supervision of the entire educational system by a\\nSuperintendent of Public Schools, appointed by the Board of Education, and responsible to them alone.\\nThe present Board of Education consists of twelve members (three from each of the four wards). The\\nPresident of the Hoard is Mr. Augustus T. Grinsted, who is a former principal of one of the Orange\\nschools. The Superintendent of Schools is Prof. Usher W. Cutts, who has held this position for many\\nOrange has now a high school and grammar and primary schools. The number of children en-\\nrolled in the schools, as appears by the report of the Board for the year 1889, was 2,098, and the amount\\nexpended for the support of public schools in Orange was $35,999.10\\nAll of the public school buildings of Orange are large and substantial structures of brick, with consid-\\nerable architectual beauty all have ample grounds, large and airy court yards, are yvell lighted and ven-\\ntilated, and the 1 lo attention has been paid to sanitary matters, as well as to providing proper egress\\nin case of lire or panic. The capacity of the four principal school buildings is as follows High School,\\nnine rooms, seating capacity, 380 Park Avenue, eleven rooms, seating capacity, 537 Lincoln Avenue.\\neight rooms, seating 380 Valley, two rooms, seating 105.\\nWATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE.\\nUntil 18S4 the City of Orange had no public source of water supply. The citizens were compelled to\\ndepend upon wells and cisterns for all water which they used for drinking and domestic purposes. As\\nthe town began to increase in population and buildings multiplied and yvere placed near together, it be\\ncame evident that at no distant day the citizens of Orange would be compelled, not only by sanitary rea-\\nsons, but for the sake of getting a larger quantity of water, to seek for a permanent supply for the entire\\ntown, This was emphasized by the fact that for fire purposes the city was entirely dependent upon\\nbrooks and cisterns, and that the watei frequently gave out at fires. The late David N. Ropes, as well\\nas the late Dr. William Pierson, together with George J. Ferry, Edward Austin and George H. Hartford,\\nformer Mayors of Orange, all up, iction in this matter. While Mr. Ropes was in the Common Coun-\\ncil from 1866 to 1870, he persistent!) advocated the procuring of anewsupply. The subject was discussed-\\nfor several years, and various sources of suppl) were considered, Mr. Ropes being ably seconded bv\\nGeorge Spotti md a number oi leading citizens of both parties. There were, however, man)\\ncitizens and tax-payers who were bitterly opposed to taking any action in the matter, on account of the\\nexpense, and little or nothing was done until 1882, when it was decided to take the supply from the west\\nbranch of the Railway river. Lands were purchased, water-rights acquired and a large storage reservoir\\nwas constructed on lands between the first and Si 1 iid Mountains, just South of Northfield Avenue, West\\nOrange. The quantity of land taken for reservoir purposes was 100.65 acres. Theareaflowed .3365.647\\nacres. The capai it) of the basin is about 270,0^0,000 gallons, and at a comparative!) small expense this\\n1 apai ity can be increased to 470,000,000 gallons. The dam is 832 feet long from the westerly end to the\\noverflow. It is 20 feet wide on the top, and has a cemented wall ten feet thick at the base, running its entire\\nlength The overflow line is elevated 142 feet above the level of the railroad at Cone Street, thus insuring\\nsufficient pressure to reach the top of the highest building in Orange. Hydrants are set near the street cor-\\nners and along the lines of streets, so that nearly every point in the city can be reached with 250 feet of\\nhose. The works were turned over to the city in 1884. I he cost of construction was $388,875.44. Since then", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. n\\nadditional sums have been expended on the works, and in extending and improving the plant and laying\\nnew mains, so that the entire cost of the water supply is $425,000. The city spends at the rate of $7,000\\nper year for new mains, maintenance of the works, elc. The supply of water for household and fire\\npurposes is an abundant one, and for the latter it is so great that not a serious fire has occurred since the\\nconstruction of the works. There are at present 200 fire hydrants in the city of Orange, n in South\\nOrange and 2 in West Orange.\\nTHE PRESS.\\nOrange has one daily and three weekly newspapers, published in the English language, and one weekly\\npaper in the German language. The oldest paper in Orange, is the Journal, which is published every\\nSaturday morning, by Mr. Edgar Williams. It was first issued July 1, 1854, by Edward Gardner, and\\nwas then the only paper in Essex County, outside the city of Newark. In i860, Mr. Gardner sold the\\nJournal to Messrs. Henry C. Bloomfield and Henry Farmer. These gentlemen retained proprietorship\\nuntil July 13, 1861, when Mr. Gardner again assumed possession, and remained at its head until the\\nSpring of 1870, when Mr. J. M. Reuck of the New York Evening Post, assumed control. During the\\nwar the Journal- was outspoken in its support of the Union and the Republican party. Mr. Reuck also\\nmade the paper a vigorous Republican organ. On April 1, 1876, Mr. Oliver Johnson purchased the\\npaper, changed it\\nfrom a folio to a\\nquarto, made\\nmany improve-\\nments in its typo\\ngraphical appear-\\nance, but made\\nthe mistake of at\\ntempting to make\\nthe paper more\\nof a literary and\\nartistic journal,\\nthan a newspa-\\nper. In 1879 the\\npaper was pur-\\nbased by Mr.\\nSamuel Toombs.\\na former Newark\\njournalist, who at\\nonce changed the\\ncharacter of the\\npaper and devot-\\ned its work to\\nthe home field,\\nmagnifying home\\ninterests, and\\ngiving full and accurate reports of all occurrences in the Oranges. Under Mr. Toombs\\nable management the Journal entered upon an era cf prosperity and influence, such as it had never occu-\\npied before. Mr. Toombs decided to make his paper a semi-weekly in October, 1SS3, and went to a heavy\\nexpense in doing so. For a while the new departure was very popular, and the venture a successful one.\\nIn the following Spring the paper removed to larger quarters. It was soon found, however, that a semi-\\nweekly pap;r could not be made a permanent financial success in Orange, and the Journal returned to\\nits former status as a weekly. In 1887 Mr. Toombs left the Journal to engage in literary work of another\\nThe Toboggan Slide in Orange Valley.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "A .1.Y AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\ncharacter, and Mr. Edgar Williams became editor and proprietor. Under his able management the\\npaper has prospered to a remarkable degree, improvements have been made in the make up of the paper.\\ncareful attention is paid to all loi al news, and the paper occupies a position of influence among the Re-\\npublican press of the State\\nThe Orange Chronicle is an independent paper in its politics, devoting its attention entirely to the\\ninterests of\\nthe city and\\nsupporting or\\nc r i t i c i z i n g\\nmen and meas-\\nures on their\\nmerits, and\\nwithout re-\\ngard to their\\nparty affilia-\\ntions. The first\\nnumber of the\\nChronicle was\\nissued Janua-\\nry 30, 1869,\\nby Frank W.\\nBaldwin and\\nJoseph Atkin-\\nson. During\\nMay, 1870, Mr.\\nHe has ever\\nMain Street, Opposite Chronicle Building\\nthe year 1869, Mr. Atkinson sold his interest to J. B. Loomis, and in\\nBaldwin purchased Mr. Loomis interest and secured full control of the paper,\\nsince conducted the editorial and business management of the paper with marked ability and success.\\nThe Chronicle has been enlarged three times. It is issued every Saturday morning, and is taken by the\\nbest people in all the Oranges. It is bright and newsy and gives detailed and accurate reports of al]\\npublic meetings. in the Oranges, as well as of all local events, and contains a great deal of interesting\\ngossip of the day, while its selected matter is more than ordinarily interesting and readable. It is one of\\nthe best pa\\\\ ing newspapers in the County.\\nThe Orange Volksbote, which is printed in the German language, is devoted to the interests of the Ger-\\nman-American residents of the (range It is Democratic in politics, and is a six-column paper, issued\\nweekly, [t was established in i8- by Darstaedt Erdman. En 1876 Mr. Darstaedt disposed of his interest\\nin the paper to Mr. Erdman, and the latter has been editor and publisher ever sir.c e.\\nThe Orange Mail is a daily afternoon newspaper, with an increasing circulation. It was started\\nApril i, 1888, by Samuel Toombs and Daniel 1 Libby. On the death of Mr. Toombs in March, 1889,\\nthe paper passed into the hands of a stock company, and Mr. Libby assumed full control of the editorial\\nand business management. In politics the Mail is Republican, and it vigorously supports the candidates\\nand policy of the party, and at the same time gives detailed and .11 1 urate reports of all the local events in\\nthe Oranges.\\nThe Orange Herald is a weekly Democratic paper, which has been conducted for about two years past\\nby Mr. Daniel Dugan. It has taken a strong stand against the saloon element in the Democratic party\\nof Orange, and has quite considerable standing.\\nFIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENT.\\nThe Orange Fire Department, though one of the most efficient departments of the city govern-\\nment, is one whose history dates back bul verj few years. to 1857 Orange was without a Fire\\nDepartment. For a year or two previous to i860 spasmodic efforts had been made to establish a fire", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n3\\ncompany in the place, which was then beginning to grow into large proportions, but they were all signal\\nfailures. During the year 1859 Mr. H. M Graham, an enterprising citizen of Orange, raised money suf-\\nficient to partially pay for a hand eng;ne. The engine was procured and brought to the town, and a vol.\\nunteer company organized, but the Township Com-\\nmittee refused to purchase it or to make any appro-\\npriation towards its purchase. The old fogy element\\nin the town was opposed to the formation of a Fire\\nDepartment. They claimed there was no need of it,\\nas there had never been any serious fires in the place,\\nand that a fire of any kind was an almost unheard-of\\nevent, therefore there was no need to burden the tax-\\npayers with the support of a department that was\\npractically useless. It was also urged that if an en-\\ngine were purchased the rowdies in the town would\\nset fire to buildings for the fun of seeing the engine\\nwork. Mr. Graham saw that it was useless to press\\nthe subject, and the engine was finally returned to\\nits owners. When the town was incorporated in i860\\nattention was again called to the subject, and Mr.\\nGraham, who had been dubbed Chief Engineer,\\nmade a humorous report to the public of the con-\\ndition of the Fire Department, in which he stated that\\nits most reliable apparatus was a syringe, a large\\nsponge and a bucket. The satire had but little effect,\\nthough several times later on short-lived hook and\\nladder or engine companies were organized. It v/as\\nnot until 1867 that a permanent hook and ladder\\ncompany was organized. This was the germ from\\nwhich a Fire Department sprang. Later on a\\nsteam fire engine, a hose carriage, a hook and ladder truck and a hand engine were added. I/i 1873 the\\nvolunteer Fire Department was\\ndisbanded and a paid Fire De-\\npartment organized under Chief\\nEngineer John J. Fell. The\\nhand engine was sold and an-\\nother steamer added, and horses\\nwere procured to draw the en-\\ngines. The department at pres-\\nent consists of two steam fire\\nengine companies and two trucks.\\nThe pressure on the water mains\\nof sixty pounds to the square\\ninch is sufficient to give the de-\\npartment all the water they re-\\nquire for fires under ordinary cir-\\ncumstances, and to throw streams\\nover the highest buildings in the\\nplace, and it is but rarely that the\\nengines are called into service.\\nOrange has always borne the\\nreputation of a quiet and orderly Winter Scene Opp. P. O.\\nA Mountain Brook.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTKKI-ST.\\n4\\ncommunity and although constables were elected from times dating back beyond the memory\\nof the oldest inhabitant, yet there was little or nothing for them to do, and it was not until\\nthe incorporation of the town that an effort was made to orgaaize a police force, and then\\nthe force consisted of a Town Marshal, John Grannis, and occasional specials for extra duty.\\nThis state of affairs continued for several years. As late as 1870 the entire police force of\\nOrange consisted of a marshal and two patrolmen. A building in Center street was leased and fitted\\nup for a station-house and police court. Soon after the force was increased and improvements\\nwere made in the discipline of the force. The temporary quarters of the police were found to be uttedy\\nmadequate to the needs of the department, and the present station-house on Center street was erected\\nThe force now consists of Chief of Police William McChesney, two sergeants and twenty patrolmen.\\nPUBLIC BUILDINGS IN ORANGE.\\nWithin the last few years several handsome buildings have been erected on Main street, and others\\nare in course of construction. There is no building in which citizens of all the Oranges take more pride\\nthan Music Hall, forming, as it does, a rallying place for them all. for concerts, lectures and drama-\\ntic performances.\\nThis hall is an\\nelegant three-sto-\\nry structure, in\\nthe English goth-\\nic style of archi-\\ntecture, and is\\nconstructed of\\nPhiladelphia\\nbrick and brown\\nstone, with terra-\\ncotta trimmings.\\nIt stands on the\\nnortheast corner\\nof Main and Day\\nstreets. The six-\\nty feet frontage\\nis divided into\\ntriple bays: gran-\\nite columns, with\\ncarved graystone\\ncaps form the\\nin the centre. A broad, fireproof staircase leads up to\\nspacious lobbies tiled throughout. Beyond this lobby is\\nUALLA\\nMusic Hall and First Presbyterian Church.\\nportals to a twelve-foot\\nthe second floor, where\\nentrance\\ntne seconu uvui, miwt there are .,j,,*w.~-\u00c2\u00ab\\nthe entrance to the main auditorium. The floor of this auditorium slants gradually toward the stage.\\nThe space occupied by the orchestra chairs and dress circle is 61x57 feet. There is a gallery immedi-\\nately above, extending entirely around the sides, this being on the third-story level. At the north end\\nof the hall is adarg ell supplied with scenery, dressing rooms, etc. The interior of the hall is\\nhandsomely decorated, the acoustic properties are excellent, the greatest care has been paid to ventila-\\ntion, and, altogether, Music Hall is in every respect a chaiming audience room. During the amusement\\nseas,, :l it is occupied the greater part of the time lor either musical or dramatic entertainments. In fai t.\\nmore than once so. pie from Newark have been forced to avail themselves of Music Hall for\\nballs and other entertainments, as before Miner s Theatre was completed there was no place in that city\\nsuitable for such entertainments, and even now ihey are often forced to come to Music Hall, for the rea-\\nson that it is impossible always to get Miner s Theatre. Some of the most select balls held in Essex\\nCounty are given in this hall every inter. On the first story of this building are the stores of Parsons", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n5\\nCo., druggists, and S. J. Davis, caterers and confectioners. On the second story of the building,\\non the opposite side of the lobby from the hall are the rooms of the New England Society. On the third\\nfloor is a smaller hall, known as Upper Music Hall.\\nThe Masonic Building, which stands on the north side of Main street, below the First Methodist\\nChurch, is an imposing brick\\nstructure, three stories high.\\nThe facade is of Philadelphia\\npressed brick, with terra-cotta\\ntrimmings. On the first story\\nare the post office and stores,\\nand a broad entrance way open-\\ning upon the staircase leading\\nto the upper stories. On the\\nsecond floor are offices, and on\\nthe third floor is a handsomely\\nappointed lodge room, which is\\noccupied on different nights\\nby Union and Corinthian\\nLodges, F. A. M., and Or-\\nange Chapter, Royal Arch\\nMasons. This building is the\\nproperty of Union Lodge,\\nwhich is one of the oldest Ma-\\nsonic lodges in the Stat- 3 of\\nNew Jersey. It was erected\\n3 years ago, and cost $50,000.\\nIt is the handsomest Masonic\\nbuilding within a hundred\\nmiles of New York\\nThe Orange Memorial\\nHospital, which is a tasteful\\nbrick structure, is situated on\\nEssex ave., near Henry st. It\\nis the only hospital in the\\nCounty outside the city of\\nNewark, and is supported by\\nthe contributions of the benev-\\nolent in all the Oranges. It\\nwas originally founded by the\\nlate John G. Vose, one of the most enterprising and public spirited citizens of Orange, to whose energy\\nand public spirit the thriving settlement of Montrose is largely due. Mr. Vose was prompted to build\\nthe hospital as a memorial to a departed wife, whom he most tenderly loved, but not feeling altogether\\nable to build such a hospital as he wished to see, from his private means, and feeling that others might\\nlike to join him in making this hospital a memorial of their departed ones, he gave it the name it at\\npresent bears. The idea became a popular one. Others gladly contributed to it in memory of their\\nloved ones who had entered into rest, and from this slender beginning arose the present fine building.\\nOnly a few years ago Mr. John Burke, of Llewellyn Park, erected the Burke Pavilion, as an addition to\\nthe hospital, in memory of a departed brother. There are many beautiful memorials of others in ami\\naround the building. The hospital is under the control of a board of lady managers, whose members\\nrepresent the leading families of all the Oranges. There is also an advisory board, composed of the\\nMasonic Hall, Orange", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "If)\\nORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nOrange Memorial Hospital.\\nmost prominent gentlemen of the\\nfour Oranges, while on the sur-\\ngical staff are the leading physi-\\ncians of the four places. Adjoin-\\ning the hospital is the Training\\nSchool for Nurses, the students of\\nwhich care for the patients in the\\nhospital while pursuing their\\nstudies.\\nA handsome edifice for the\\nHome of the Good Shepherd, a\\nhome for aged people supported\\nby the Episcopal churches of the\\nOranges, is also being erected on\\nEssex av., in vicinity of hospital.\\nThe Woman s Christian\\nTemperence Union have a taste-\\nful brick edifice on the southwest\\ncorner of South Main and Com-\\nmerce streets. This also contains\\na fair-sized hall for meetings.\\nThe Orange Free Library occupies a modest frame building on South Main street, near Prince.\\nIt is becoming every year more popular.\\nThe Bureau of Associated Charities, which is a sort of clearing house for all the charitable work\\nof the city, and is designed to prevent fraud and imposition on the charitable, and at the same time to\\nhelp the deserving poor, occupy a large, two-story frame building on Essex avenue.\\nYOUNG MEN S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.\\n419 Main Street, Orange, N. J.\\nBOARD OF TRUSTEE?,\\nIncorporated December, 1887.\\nSAMUEL COLGATE, President,\\nROBERT D. DOUGLASS, Secretary. AARON CARTER, Treasurer.\\nJonathan J. BrGOKE, George Gray, Jacob D. Mills,\\nFreiVk M. Shf.I ARD, Joseph W. Stickler,\\n\\\\nil the President of the Association, ex-officio.\\nOFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.\\nR. M. COLGATE, President\\nA. D. CHAMBERS, Treasurer.\\nDAVID G. HOLMES, Secretary Pro. tern.\\nBOARD OF DIRECTORS.\\nGeo. Battles, M. D., Edw. Green,\\nGilbert Colgate, vv. s. Knowles,\\nEdw. E. Ci W. Richards,\\nSumner P. Dudley, J. W. Stickler,\\nThos. S. P. Fitch, M. I)., Henry ii. Truman,\\nEXECUTIVE OFFICERS.\\nHarold W. Buchan w. Genera] Been t.i\\n.Limn M, Lantng, Jr., Assistant Seen\\nJohn E. Dalphin, i ifflce Assistant\\nEdwin W. Logan, Physical Director.\\nVALLEY BRANCH.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 72 Freeman Strfet.\\nGilbert Colgate, Chi mil John M. Laning, Jr. Secretary, [pi\\nCOLORED DEP IRTMENT.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Willow Hall, Main Street.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nCHURCHES AHD CEMETERIES.\\nOrange may well be called a city of churches. There is scarcely a denomination of any importance\\nthat is not represented within its limits. Many of its churches are models of architectural beauty\\nThe oldest is the First Presbyterian. This is the oldest church organization in the County,\\noutside of the city of Newark. It was organized in 17 19, as The Mountain Society, and was known as\\nsuch for nearly or quite a century. As late as 1753 the parish embraced what is now Orange, East,\\nWest and South Orange, Livingston, Bloomfield, Montclairand Caldwell. In 1720 ground was purchased\\nfrom Samuel Wheeler, on which to erect a house of worship. The site selected was in the middle of\\nwhat is now Main Street, between Day and Cone streets. The roadbed parted at the church and ran on\\neither side of it, meeting again beyond the edifice. In 1754, a second edifice was erected, also in the\\nmiddle of Main Street. It was built of stone and was possessed of little or no architectural beauty. On\\nJune n, 1783 the Legislature of New Jersey incorporated the Church under the title of the Second\\nPresbyterian Church of Newark. When the township of Orange was set off from Newark in 1806, it be-\\ncame necessary for the Church to change its corporate name, and by an act of the Legislature the title\\nwas changed to the First Presbyterian Church of Orange, which name it still bears. In May, 18 r 1, a half\\nacre of land was purchased on the north side of what is now Main street, of Stephen D. Day for $400,\\nand the present church edifice was erected. The corner stone was laid September 15, 1812. The old\\nmeeting house was taken down, and the material, as far as possible, was used in constructing the new.\\nThe stone tablet over the door of the old building was transferred to the inside of the tower of the new,\\nwhere it remains at the present day. The church was dedicated in September, 1813. The old parsonage\\nwas built upon a four-acre lot purchased of Mathew Williams on the north side of Main street, opposite\\nwhere Military Park now is, and included the lot now occupied by Grace Church, the plot being twenty\\nacres in extent. The deed was given September 13, 1748. The price paid was four pounds per acre.\\nThe house was completed in the Summer of 1749, and in September of that year, Caleb Smith, the pastor\\nof the church, with his young wife took possession of the house, which was then one of the best mansions\\nwest of Newark. The house was occupied thirteen years by Mr. Smith, was then leased to tenants, then\\noccupied thirty years by another pastor, and fourteen years by another, and then used forty years as a\\ntenement house, after which it was demolished. Some of the stones of the old parsonage were set in the\\ndwelling of Albert Pierson, in 1854. Others were used in the foundations of Willow Hall, and others\\nwere converted into tomb-stones in Rosedale Cemetery. In 1836 measures were taken to provide a new\\nparsonage. A lot on High street was purchased of Abraham Harrison at two dollars per foot. The lot\\nwas fifty feet front, and Mr. Harrison added a tract equally large by way of donation. The house was\\nfinished in the Spring of 1837 and occupied by the pastor, the Rev. William C. White. When Mr. White\\nretired from active service in 1855 the church donated him the parsonage and lot, and this property is\\nstill in possession of his heirs. Among other means of defraying their expenses the trustees of the old First\\nPresbyterian Church resolved to build a sloop in 1784, and run it between Newark and Albany, the par-\\nish to receive one-third of the profits of each trip. This sloop was known as the Orange Sloop. The\\nsloop and the dock in Newark from which it ran, were sold about 1812. The present church edifice\\ncomprises a large portion of the building dedicated in 1813, but has been enlarged and remodeled\\nseveral times. The church has always been prominently identified with the history of the town, and\\nits members have always been noted for their ardent patriotism.\\nRev. Jedediah Chapman, who was its pastor duringthe Revolutionary War, espoused warmly the cause\\nof the Colonists, and more than once attempts were made to capture him and take him to the British\\nCamp, in order that he might be punished for his outspoken loyalty to the cause of freedom The loving\\nvigilance of his people, however, frustrated all these attempts and he was enabled to escape in safety from\\nBritish and Tory spies. During the civil war the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church were\\nnoted for their loyalty to the Union, and from the outbreak of the war till its close its pastor, the Rev.\\nJames Hoyt, was outspoken in his denunciation of secession and slavery, and in his support of the\\nNational government; indeed, the First Presbyterian Church was the rallying place for more than one", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST\\nUnion meeting, as well as for gatherings to furnish means to aid and relieve the soldiers, who were at the\\nfront cm- suffering from wounds and sickness in hospitals.\\nThe Central Presbyterian Church had its origin from the fact that the First Presbj terian Church and\\nthe Second, now Brick Church, East Orange, belonged to the New School branch of the Presbyterian\\nbody, while there were among the parishioners of both churches, several families who had removed from\\nNew York and Brooklyn, who belonged to the New School. In November, 1866, a meeting was held in\\nSt. Mark s S hool house, on the borders of Llewellyn Park, to confer about a new church. On the 27th\\nMain St., Opp. Common, Looking West.\\not November it was resolved by the same gentlemen to form a new congregation. Subsequent to this\\nCentral Hall was secured and fitted up as a place of worship. Public worship was first held there Sun-\\nday, December 16, 1866. The Church was organized with thirty-three members, by the Presbytery of\\nPassaic, January 20, 1867. In 1869 a lot on the corner of Main and Prime streets was purchased, and\\nthe erection of the present church edifice was begun. The building was finished and dedicated |uly 14,\\n1872.\\nThe German Presbyterian Church, whose edifice is situated on William street, between Park and Hillyer\\nstreets, had its origin in the earnest efforts of Rev. Christian Wismer, of the German Theological Semi-\\nnary, of Bloomfield, who visited the German people of Orange with a view to organize a Mission or Church\\namong them. He was well received by both Germans and Americans. The First Presbyterian Church\\ntendered him the use of their session room for his services, and services were held there until 1866, when\\nthe First German Presbyterian Church of Orange was duly organized, with the Rev. Christian Wismer as\\npastor. The corner-stone of the present church edifice was laid August 28, 1869, and the church was\\nated on the 28th of the following December.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nT 9\\nThe Methodist Church is very strong in Orange, having a large membership, and being very active\\nin its work. The earliest Methodist services of which there are any record in the Oranges, were\\nheld in the old school house at Tory Corner in 1819 and 20, by Rev. Charles Pitman, a missionary. In\\nthe Autumn of 1 828 Rev. Isaac Winner, of Belleville, held occasional services in the house of a Mr. Bishop,\\nnear the corner of Main and Cone streets. On the last Sunday in August, 1829, old Masonic Hall on\\nMain street was hired by the Methodists, and opened for divine worship. On September 20, 1830, the\\nBoard of Trustees of the Methodist Church purchased the lot on which the present edifice stands, and\\nbegan the erection of a modest structure there. The first settled pastor was Rev. E. S: Janes, afterwards\\nMain St., Opp. the Common, Looking East.\\none of the most prominent Bishops of the Methodist Church. The first building was removed in 1859\\nand the present brick structure was erected in its place. It has been enlarged once or twice since, and\\nthe congregation is in a flourishing condition. From this church have sprung several Mission Chapels\\nas well as the large and flourishing Calvary M. E. Church in East Orange.\\nGrace Episcopal Church is the second of the churches of this communion in the Oranges, and is an\\noffshoot from St. Mark s, West Orange. It was organized by the Rev. Joshua I). Berry, who had charge of\\na flourishing school in Orange. The town of Orange, which at that time comprised Orange, East and\\nWest Orange, was just entering upon its career of prosperity resulting from the infusion of New York and\\nNew England blood into the community, and the need of an Episcopal Church more centrally located\\nthan St. Mark s, was beginning to be felt. A meeting was held in Bodwell Hall, corner of Park and Will-\\niam streets, on March 5, 1854, when Grace Church parish was formally organized by the election of Jesse\\nWilliams and Philander J. Bodwell, as wardens, and eight vestrymen The lot upon which Grace Church", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 ORANGE AXD ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nstands, was purchased from the trustees of the First Presbyterian Church for $3,000. Ground was broken\\nfor the new edifice during the Summer of 1856, and on August 12, of the same year, the corner stone was\\nlaid. The edifice is built of brown sand stone, taken from a quarry in Pleasant Valley, West Orange, and\\nwas completed during June, 1857. The Church was consecrated July 16, 1857, by the Right Reverand\\nGeorge W. Doane, D. 1)., L. I.. D, Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, a large concourse of clergy\\nbeing present. The cost of the church edifice and furniture was $1 1,000. At that time there were 113\\n,mmunicants in the parish. The first rector of the church was the Rev. James S. Bush, who entered\\nupon his duties in July, 1856, and resigned in 1867. During the civil war, Mr. Bush was very outspoken\\nin his loyalty to the Union, and in consequence incurred considerable hostility from certain ones who did\\nnot agree with his views. He held his own, however, and the Church soon acquired the reputation o*\\nbeing one of the most patriotic in Essex County. In 1868 Mr. Bush was succeeded by the present rector,\\nthe Rev. Anthony Schuyler, D. D. During this same year a rectory was built on William street, at a cost\\nof $9,000. Under the ministrations of Dr. Schuyler, the history of Grace Church has been one of prog,\\nress and prosperity. In 1872 the congregation had increased to such an extent that an addition to the\\nchurch was necessary, and a brownstone transept and chancel were added, and a new organ was pro-\\ncured, f e cost of these improvements being $20,000. In 1877 another addition was made, consisting of\\na brownstone Chapel and Sunday School room, costing $6,000. During 1888 Grace Church was again\\nenlarged and beautified, and in 1890 the tower erected.\\nThe North Orange Baptist Church is the leading one of that denomination in the Oranges. It was\\norganized in YVaverly Hall, May 11, 1857, at first as a Mission and Sunday School. On August 2, 1857,\\nthirty-nine persons signified their willingness to unite in the formation of a Baptist Church. On Septem-\\nber 23, of the same year, the Rev. J. B. Moss was chosen pastor, and on November 5, 1857, he was\\ninstalled, and the Church was publicly recognized by the council of Baptist churches, under the title of\\nthe North Orange Baptist Church. In December, 1859, the trustees purchased a lot on Main street, and\\nerected a church, this being now a portion of the present lecture room and Sunday School. The present\\nchurch was completed and dedicated May 31, 1874, and cost $75.\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00b0- Il has since been ad ded to and is\\nnow one of the handsomest and most imposing structures in Orange, and forms a conspicuous feature of\\nMain street, standing as it does, on the corner of Main and Prince streets, facing the common. It has always\\nnumbered among its membership some of the wealthiest of the citizens of Orange. The Church has\\nalways been a most liberal contributor to missionary, denominational, and benevolent objects.\\nThe Orange Valley Congregational Church, which stands on Highland avenue, near Lincoln\\navenue, is one of the most unique and beautiful church edifices in Orange. It is built of trap rock from\\nthe mountain side, with brownstone trimmings, and is in the Gothic style of architecture. It was com-\\npleted in in 1868. The site on which the church stands, is a commanding bluff looking down upon the\\nOrange Valley, and over across it upon the sloping sides of the Orange mountain, with its dense growth\\nof forest, broken here and there by elegant villa sites and stately mansions, while in other directions may be\\nobtained a superb view of the Oranges and the surrounding country. A chime of bells is hung in the tall\\nsteeple, and the sweet music of these bells can be heard for miles around. The first church edifice was\\ndown in the Valley, a short distance below, and is now occupied as a Roman Catholic Church. The first\\npastor of the Orange Valley Church, was the Rev George B. Bacon, D. D., son of Leonard Bacon, the\\nfamous abolitionist. Dr. Bacon was very vigorous in his denunciation of slavery, and in his support of the\\nUnion during the war of 6i- 65, and formed one of a brilliant coterie of patriotic pastors, who did much\\nto mould public sentiment in favor of maintaining the Union cause. Dr. Bacon remained pastor until his\\ndeath, in 1876. During his pastorate the church was enlarged and a new organ procured.\\n1 he Roman Catholic Church in Orange had its beginning about 1848, although the parish was not\\norganized until 1850. From its start its career has been one of unexampled prosperity, with the excep-\\ntion of an unfortunate financial disaster which overtook it fifteen or eighteen years ago, when, through\\nsome mistakes in its management it became involved in debt to the extent of several hundred thous-\\nand dollars. The other Catholic Churches of the diocese, however, ra lied to its support and it was saved.\\nFrom 1850 to 1869, the congregation of St. John s Catholic Church worshiped in a modest frame structure\\nwhich still stands on the corner of White and Chapel streets. This is now used as a hall. The present", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nbeautiful structure stands on the corner of Ridge and White streets, the highest point of land in\\nthe city, and is surmounted by a stone spire terminating in a cross, and reaching an altitude of over two\\nhundred feet. The tower contains a chime of bells of remarkably sweet tone. The church edifice is\\nbuilt of red sandstone and trap rock, in the Gothic style of architecture. It has a seating capacity of ooo\\nand the membership of the Church is very large. In addition to this, it is the handsomest church in\\nOrange. The parish owns a tasteful parochial residence, several halls, sisters houses and parochial school\\nNear Valley Road.\\nbuildings. The value of the Church property is in the neighborhood of $200,000. The present pastor is\\nthe Rev. H. P. Fleming, who has been in charge since 1874.\\nOther parishes of the Roman Catholic Church are Our Lady of the Valley, corner of Nassau and\\nValley streets, and a German Catholic Church. Both have large congregations and are in a flourishing\\ncondition.\\nThe most prominent cemetery in Orange is Rosedale. It is beautifully situated in the north-eastern\\nextremity of the city, on Dodd and Washington streets, and contains about 100 acres, tastefully laid out.\\nThe surface of the ground is gently undulating, and the walks and drives are well kept, and shaded by\\ngrand old forest trees, as are also the burial plots. Artificial enclosures are being done away with, the\\nlawn plan adopted wherever practical, and the culture of flowers is enco-iraged A pretty little lake near\\nthe centre of the grounds, forms a charming feature of this silent city of the dead. Among the many", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "ORANGl AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nbeautiful monuments here are .1 massive granite one on the plot of H. B. Auchincloss, a sar ophagus on\\ntin plot ol R. I Westcott, and an elaborate. memorial cross erected by the late John G Vosc, of South\\nOrange, in memor) of a beloved wife.\\nThe Old Burying .round, as it is generally known, was for many years, theonly burial place in the\\n(rang* s, and is the property of the First Presb) terian Church. It was deeded to the Mountain Society (now\\nthe First Presbyterian Chun h), bj Nathaniel Wheeler for a burial place, soon after the organization of\\nthat society. In 1792 about two acres was added to it by purchase, from the heirs of Samuel Ogden. It\\nis situated on the corner of Main and Scotland streets, and contains the remains of all the first settlers of\\nthe Oranges, as well as the ancestors oi many of the prominent families of the place. Some of the tomb-\\nstones date back as far as 1726. Here are to be- found the familiar names of Harrison, Williams, Crane,\\nPierson, Model. Baldwin, Munn, Peck, Condit, Freeman and mam others. For years this cemetery has\\nnot been Used for interment, ex ept in very rare cases, when some descendant of the old families was\\nbrought there to belaid away among his forefathers. The cemetery was in a state of shameful neglect\\nfor a long period, but lately it has been cleared up and put in order, but even now it is anything but an\\nilttic tive place of sepulchre,\\nSt. Mark s Cemetery is situated cm Main street, adjoining the Old Burying Ground. It is in a\\nbetter condition than the latter, and contains the remains of the Right Rev. William Rollinson Whittingham,\\nI). I)., L. L. Bish p oi Maryland, who was the first rector of St. Mark s Church, before his elevation\\nto the episi opate, and who made his Summer home in Orange, and died there in 1879; also the bodies of\\nbenjamin Williams, and Caleb Harrison, the founders of St. Mark s Church, and the Rev. James A. Will-\\niams, for forty-sewn years its rector Interments are but rarely made here now. Rosed ale Cemetery being\\nthe principal burial place in the Oranges.\\nSt. John s Cemetery is situated on the corner of Park avenue and Chapel street, and is entered In\\na drive-way from White street. It is the chief burial place of the Roman Catholics of Orange, and is\\nt.is rlulh laid out.\\nWEST ORANGE.\\nThe township of West Orange is the most westerly and northerly of all the Oranges. It was created by\\nan act of the Legislature. Man li 11, i86j, when the township of Fairmount was formed from portions of\\nIr mge, Caldwell and Livingston. In 1863 the Legislature, in consequence of troubles hich had arisen\\nin regard to the public schools, set of another portion of Orange to the township of Fairmount, and\\nchanged the name of Fairmount to West Orange. The township contains within its boundaries, some of\\nthe most beautiful and picturesipie drives and avenues in Essex County, and some of the most elegant and\\ncostly villas in Northern New Jersey. In its limits are also Llewellyn and Hutton Parks, and the famous\\nEagle Rock. Two mountain ranges cross the township, running nearly parallel to each other from\\nnortheast to southwest. These are known respectively as the First and Second mountains. The former\\nwas called bj the Indians the Watchung mountain. The principal stream in the town-hip is the West\\nbranch of the Rahway river. The mountain heights abound in attractive views, some of which have\\nalready been described. The township is noted for its fine streets and broad avenues, nearly all of wine h\\nare paved with Telford pavement. The principal streets are also lighted with electricity. West I Man-, is\\npreeminently a place ol residences, although there are a few hat factories in the place, as well as the Edi-\\nson laboratory and phonograph works,\\nI In- low n contains some of the finest residences, with extensive grounds, in New Jersey; also, a number\\nof old-fashioned houses, the residences of descendants of the old settlers of the place. Some of them are\\nnearly a hundred years old, while others date back to the Revolutionary period.\\nWest Orange has a fine system of public schools, the principal ones being in St. Mark s district,\\nwhere there are two school buildings, one a large stem structure on Vallej road, near the main entrant 1\\nof Llewellyn Park, the Other in the Valley on Freeman street. The township is governed by a com-\\nmittee I live citizens, elected b\\\\ the people each Spring, and known as the Township Committee. It has\\nan excellent police force, but no fire department.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 23\\nThe township contains within its limits several flourishing churches the oldest and the largest of\\nthese is St. Mark s Episcopal. This may be considered a daughter of Trinity Church, Newark. In the\\nlatter part of the last century, Benjamin Williams, a man noted for his independence of thought and\\naction, his devout and godly life, as well as the sincerity of his religious convictions, felt it his duty to leave\\nthe Presbyterian Church, to which he had hitherto belonged, and connect himself with the Church of Eng-\\nland. The nearest church of that body was Trinity, Newark, which was situated six miles distant from his\\nhome. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Williams, with his family, was in the habit of driving to Trinity Church\\nevery Sunday, for years. In the year 1S0S the Rev. Joseph Willard, Rector of Trinity Church, Newark,\\nWest range R ad.\\nreported to the Episcopal Convention of New Jersey, that he had performed divine service and\\npreached twice at Benjamin Williams s, Orange, where he had large and attentive congregations: that\\nthere were several families who appeared to be attached to the Episcopal Church, and who regularly at-\\ntended at Newark. The families thus alluded to were those of Benjamin Williams and his sons. These fam-\\nilies continued under the care of Trinity Church, Newark, and were favored with occasional services until\\n1810, when Bishop John Croes, the first Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, visited them, and continued\\nfrom this time until his death, to include this neighborhood in his visitations. A portion of the house of\\nBenjamin Williams, where the first service of the Episcopal Church was held, is still standing on Eagle\\nRock avenue, and is occupied by his descendants. In 1825 Orange was made a missionary station, and\\nplaced in charge of Rev. Benjamin Holmes, a missionary. The family of Caleb Harrison, also an\\ninfluential resident of Orange, had joined the Episcopalians, and the little band of worshipers felt en-\\ncouraged to take steps for the formation of the parish On April 7. 1827, the parish of St. Mark s was", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "2 4 ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST\\nincorporated under the laws of the Stale. The corner stone of the Church edifice was laid\\nMa) 12, [828, and the Church was consecrated in 1829, but the venerable Benjamin Williams,\\nits founder, did not live to see the fulfillment of his hopes, having died September 4, 1826.\\nRev. Mr. Holmes reported to the Diocesan Convention in 1829, that there were fifty-four\\nfamilies in the parish. Mr. Holmes was called as rector, but, having received a .similar call\\nat the same time from St. Peter s Church, Morristown, he accepted the latter, and the Rev.\\nWilliam Rollinson Whittingham was called as the first rector. He took charge June 1, 1829. On\\nNovember 1, 1831, lie resigned to give his whole attention to literary work connected with the Church.\\nHe afterwards became bishop of Maryland, and one of the foremost bishops in the Episcopal Church\\nin America. He made his Summer home in St. Mark s parish, and died there October 17, 1879. His funeral\\nwas held in old St. Mark s and he is buried in its cemetery. On November 10, 1830, the vestry of St.\\nMark s called the Rev. Benjamin Holmes to be their rector. He accepted the appointment February 20,\\n1831, ami soon after took chargeof the parish, but was not formally instituted until July 4, 1831. One of\\nthe first acts of the vestr) alter Mr. Holmes institution was to build a tower on the church and procure a\\nbell, and in September, 1S33, an organ was purchased. In 1834 a house and lot was purchased for a\\nrectorv. This house and lot was sold two years later. Mr. Holmes died in 1836, deeply regretted by all\\nhis people, and beloved by the entire population. On his death the eyes of the congregation were turned\\nto the Rev. James A. Williams, a grandson of the founder of the Church, who had just been ordained dea-\\ncon, and he was called to the rectorship. At his suggestion, however, the call was made but for si\\\\\\nmonths, as he was young and without experience. He was formally called to the rectorship January 25.\\n1837, and on September 9, of the same year, he was formally instituted by Bishop Doane. His chargeof\\nthe parish lasted forty-seven years, his death occurring September 2, 1883. He received the degree of D.\\n1). from Columbia College during his incumbency. While he was rector, St. Mark s Church prospered\\ngreatly, and was three times enlarged, and from this Church have sprung directly or indirectly the follow-\\ning parishes, all of which are strong and vigorous: Grace, Orange; All Saints, Orange; Holy Innocents,\\nWest Orange: Christ, East Orange: Holy Communion, South Orange; St. Paul s, East Orange; Christ,\\nBloomfield, and St. Luke s, Monti lair. Dr. Williams talents and great executive ability soon gave him a\\nprominent position in the diocese, and for forty years he was President of its Standing Committee. St.\\nMark s church is and always has been one of the foremost parishes in the diocese, in point of parochial\\nwork, and contributions for missionary and benevolent objects, and its success is largely due to the earn-\\nest, zealous and self-sacrificing labors of Dr. Williams, who possessed to a remarkable degree, the love,\\nconfidence and esteem, not only of his own people, but of the entire community. In 1884 the Rev.\\nBishop Falkner was called to the rectorship, and at once actively entered upon the duties, following the\\nsame wise and prudent course which had been pursued by his predecessor. In 1886 and 1887 the Church\\nwas again remodeled and enlarged. A new sanctuary and chancel were added, and a handsome altar and\\nreredos of Caen stone were erected in memory of the Rev. Dr. Williams. At the same .time a handsome\\nstained glass window was placed in the chancel, in memory of the late Bishop Whittingham, the first rector\\nof the Church. This Church abounds in beautiful memorials of the departed; among them, the pulpit in\\nmemory of Rev. John Lee Watson, D. D., a former assistant, a beautiful font in memory of one of tin\\nWilmerding family, and several fine stained glass windows to commemorate departed parishioners. Under\\nMr. Falkner s administration, St Mark s has prospered greatly, and there are a number of flourishing so\\ncieties connected with the parish. The Church also maintains a chapel on Washington street.\\nAmong other flourishing churches in West Orange are the St. Cloud Presbyterian Church, corner\\nof Ridgeway and Mountain avenues; Church of the Holy Innocents, St. Cloud, Rev Charles S. Stocking,\\nrector; the Second Valley Congregational Church, and the Pleasant Valley Germari Presbyterian Church.\\nWest Orange is more widely known as being the site of Llewellyn Park, than for anything else;\\nindeed, it was this park which first gave a boom to the Oranges, and it has done more to introduce them\\nto public notice than anything else. This park owes its existence to Llewellyn S. Haskell, a New York\\ndruggist, who came to Orange in 1855. Endowed with a keen love of nature, and a remarkably acute\\nartistic perception, he saw at a glance the beauties and possibilities of the forests and glades of the moun-\\ntain side, to make up one of the most beautiful parks that is to be found in the vicinity of New York. He", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n25\\npurchased from the various owners, their wooded tracts, rugged quarries and rolling farm lands, amount-\\ning in all to nearly eight hundred acres, which he proceeded to lay out in winding roads, romantic\\nbridal paths, rustic rambles, cascades, lakes, flower gardens, lawns and attractive villa sites, the whole\\nforming one grand landscape garden of rare poetic beauty. In fact, Llewellyn Park is a combination of\\nrare genius and natural beauty. It belongs to the people who live in it, but the large-hearted and liberal-\\nminded man who founded it, always while he controlled it, insisted that it should be open under proper\\nrestrictions to the public, at all times except on Sundays, and this policy has ever since been maintained.\\nThere is no sameness in the Park, either in its architecture, its landscape gardening, or its views. The\\nroads are smooth and perfectly kept, and nearly all of them are paved with Telford. These avenues carry\\nout the romance of the place in their names. Tulip avenue, Oak Bend, Wildwood avenue. Cliff avenue\\nMountain avenue, Glen avenue and Glenellyn, are all suggestive.\\nThe trees in Llewellyn Park are also a feature of this beauty spot of the Oranges. Many of them\\nare old monarchs of the forest, that were standing when the Williamses and Harrisons bought the land\\nof the Indians, for a few handfuls of gunpowder, some beads, brass buttons, blankets and rum. Others,\\nEntrance to Llewellyn Park.\\nof course, are of more recent growth; others again were brought from distant lands by Mr. Haskell, and\\nset out with his own hand. There are stately tulips, majestic oaks, waving maples, silvery beech, grace-\\nful linden, elm and oak, towering chestnuts, weeping willow, all forming one harmonious whole. Then,\\ntoo, there are superb shrubs and flowers, which go still farther to enhance the beauty of the landscape. A\\nlife-size bust of Mr. Haskell stands upon a granite pedestal at the left hand side of the main entrance to\\nthe Park, and testifies alike to the worth of the man and the affectionate regard with which his name is\\ncherished, not only by the dwellers in the Park that bears his honored name, but by the people of the\\nOranges generally. Among the elegant residences in this Park, are those of Thomas A. Edison, the\\ngreat electrician, John Burke, David L. Wallace, D. A. Heald, President of the Home Insurance Com-\\npany, of New York, O. D. F. Munn, of the Scientific American, George J. Seabury, William Barr, Wen-\\ndell Philips Garrison of the Evening Post, R. C. Browning and H. B. Auchincloss.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "OR l VGL l\\\\/ rrS POINTS of INTEREST,\\nf ther P in lluded in thedrives ab u ^Oranges, is Eagle Rock. It is worthy,\\nwever a l oreex endedn ^\u00c2\u00ab^sformany years, long, in fact, before Llewelly^i Park was thought of\\ni view of the surrounding country, and tourists flocked to ii\\n1 onth toi the First mountain, a short distance above the\\nbeth Newark R e rTt f^ Clint e-ik, Elisa-\\nbeth Newark Bay, he Rills, Staten Island, th, N n New V:irk am the\\nK,V; T\\\\ l i in !l r b een Bloomfield, Montclair and Paterson, in the distance.\\nwhich makl ll Weste stari Orange,\\nV U V Cm PS hC L ,mm the fart twocenturiesagoapfi\\nea f kS b t T e l0ft its t0 P entra r,ds a quaint, ivy-grow\\nose style o architecture belongs to the medieval period. It is the forme, Residence of Mr\\nlskell nhl *e Rock, and is aptly called the Eyrie\\nlabor e jr WM range the scientist ,!l electrician and the ihtol is the\\n**ed Thomas A. Edison. It is visited weekly, and almost daily, by distinguished men\\nde aVenUe Th brick structures. The main one, which is\\n,rectl y\u00c2\u00b0 nthe corner is an imposing edifice, thr. in height. This contains on the first floor a\\nmagnificen hbrary which is finely finished in ash and oak, artistically carved. It s provided\\nJl ld ak0 S b *e upper tiers of book shelve, are J bed, these shelves Tnntg\\nheceih f n g. being filled with valuable works on electricity and kindred subjects.\\n\u00c2\u00b0Pennre ature of this room. Near th ,tre of the library is Mr. Edison private\\n-trie call bells, and speaking tubes with all portions of the series of bS\\nol the hbrary, on the firs, floor, is the store room. This is a veritable museum, or, rather itisa\\nTT g n0n mon s sho P- d e and tinware establishment In-\\ndeed ,t would be hard to mention any article that is not represented there. There are skins, hair horns\\nhinte n r m St kn WD d01UeStiC 3nd ,d a ima indudi g tlIsks of eleph nts, hide of\\nrl mocerou and h.ppototamus, horn of antelope, antler of deer, shark s teeth, lama s wool and pecimen\\nof many .her beasts too numerous to mention. There are also, almost every known variety of /rain and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0reals, fishes from all q\u00e2\u0080\u009e trters of the globe, the rarest and most costly of drugs and chemicals ofeof -old\\no s! r t t ,ier to may be found fl ur s \u00c2\u00abSK\\nStore a woll as a collection of iron and tinware of various sorts. The reason for this remarkable\\ncollection is that Mr. Edison ,s continually making experiments in all directions, and it is necessary for\\no use them. On the second story of this building are a number of small rooms, in which Mr. Edison s\\nassistants are making experiments, conducting researches and completing work under his direction On\\n?e front part of the third story is a large hall, where tests are made of the phonograph, and exhibition\\nen of its wonders Back of this hail are small work rooms, and a well fitted up photograph gallery and\\nroom devoted to the d.splay ol Mr. Edison s inventions in the telegraph and telephone. 8 To the nor .l of\\nmam building ,s a long low, one-story brick structure, known as the galvenometer bui.ding. It s ed\\nh t lL lst f\u00c2\u00ab measuring electric currents, and one peculfarity of he\\n0PPe e r Nor th^f t, 1 IT^ T M andscrelstm\\nopper North of this building are the chemical rooms, where experiments are made. In another\\nportion of the grounds are the boiler and engine houses, forge, etc. A short distance east of the laboratory\\nand just over the Orange line, is another cluster of brick and frame buildings, which form the Edison\\ngraph Works. Here all the cylinders for the phonographs made throughout the country afe pre\\npared, and here, too, are made the famous talking dolls. P\\nDRIVES IN AND ABOUT THE ORANGES.\\nhrnaH 3 haVe l0 s 1,een noted for their man y ^d attractive drive,, with fine paved road beds\\nbroad streets, romantic scenery, ever v.stas of hill and mountain, woodland and fields, wild and\\nrock, mountain ledges, wrought into weird, fantastic shapes, by mighty convulsions of nature age.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF 7N7 EREST.\\nThe i.n Mn.\\nago, in the throes of the world s creation, in one quarter alternate with stately mansions and charming villa\\nsites, with well kept lawns and spacious grounds in the other. The streets are paved with Telford pave-\\nment and are as hard and smooth as a floor. Orange was the pioneer in adopting this pavement, which is\\nnow general throughout Essex County, and the credit of its introduction is due to Daniel Brennan, Jr., and\\nGeorge Spottiswoode. This pavement has all been paid for by the adjacent property owners. There are\\nmore than seventy-five miles of this pavement laid in the streets of the Oranges. Main street is the princi-\\nple thoroughfare of Orange and East\\nOrange. It extends from the Newark\\ncity line in a westerly direction to\\nValley street, West Orange, and is\\nreally a continuation of Orange street,\\nNewark. Its course is irregular, fol-\\nlowing as it does the original old road\\nof a century ago. From Prince street\\nto Willow Hill, Main street proper,\\nis 150 feet wide. On the south side of\\nthe street between these points, is a\\nnarrow strip of land, containing many\\nhandsome trees and dignified by the\\nname of the Common. On the east\\nside of the Common is South Main\\nstreet, which joins Main street at each\\nend of the Common. Main street is\\nclosely built up along its entire route,\\nthrough both Orange and East Orange\\nand on it are many elegant places.\\nThis street, however, is more of a\\nbusiness thoroughfare than a place of residence. On it are situated in the City of Orange, the\\nFirst Presbyterian, North Baptist, Central Presbyterian, First Methodist and Grace Episcopal\\nChurches, and in East Orange, the Brick Presbyterian, First Reformed, Christ Episcopal,\\nCalvary Methodist, Munn Avenue Presbyterian and First Congregational Churches. Here, too, in both\\nplaces are the banks, leading\\nbusiness houses and offices, the\\nnewspaper offices, and in\\nOrange, Music Hall, the Ma-\\nsonic Temple, the Young Men s\\nChristian Association building,\\nthe Woman s Christian Temper-\\nance Union building and the\\nFree Library. In East Orange\\nare the People s Bank, and the\\nCommonwealth building. Park\\navenue, which is 100 feet wide,\\nand paved with Telford, ex-\\ntends from Llewellyn Park en-\\ntrance, West Orange, easterly\\nin an almost direct line to\\nHloomfield avenue, Newark, a\\ndistance of four miles. It is\\nskirted by fine residences, and\\nfrom the many hills over which\\nit passes, fine iews may be\\nAn Old Homesti ad.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nORANGE AXD ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nstr e^and Ivl T2- at the intersection of Park and Washington\\nI o oo t vi 1 7Tr a gh Street Park aVenUC and Pr0S P eCt street Central avenue,\\nand East T v \u00c2\u00b0T Wert range in a drcuitous course \u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\u00c2\u00bbi Orange\\ni; S r h f NeWark llne a d the through that City to Broad street. It is also paved wifh\\no s,; t ,nr; f mo t populardrives in Essex County High cemer Harris n\\no ften r to 1 t 7^ AB,0Bg drives to and around the 0ran S es is\\n^f^^^ e T7^ toWfl,ere a tf,,ldriw, SU ^ed by one who ail\\nFor \\\\r, v I o n r a reS dent f the and is ^miliar \u00c2\u00bbM, every lane and by-path in Essex County.\\nn e thin Tumi 7 7 7 l CaMr S Uth Wto the ,atter road int South Orange\\navenue, hen turning westwardly, cross the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at South Orange\\nhalf a it b i 7 t7 7 n thJS thorou B hfare t0 the crest \u00c2\u00b0f Ae mountain, and continuing about\\nwhich Hem.ock Falls. Here digress from the road for a few moments to view the Falls,\\nthen Jo h r T 3 a 7 Turmn S int0 South 0r ange avenue once more, proceed a short distance, and\\nof St Cloud-H 1 n r a n\u00c2\u00b0 ad runnin S ba ck of the mountain ridge, pass through the beautiful settlement\\nthe residence o U 7 r\u00c2\u00b0T S 7 f r ads g ing eaSt pass t0 the face of the and by\\none o tell I 7 7^ B Wn Ge rge V Hecker the extreme [d Pause again to enjoy\\nOranle iU t T /To D at y Uf feet the of Wes\\nbeZ fi^ J, e f a L SP,r f. f ,d S A Mark sloomi g -P -fore you, beyond that is the City of Orange, and\\nbeyond that still farther, hes East Orange and Newark, the Oranges and Newark, looking from the height\\nrh\u00c2\u00b0 e eaTvouTe .f^N-f the Passaic winds in and out like a silver thread, and looking ti\\nhe Brook n BriT ^J* Ch New Y rk a d off in the distance, the misty outlines of\\nthe Brooklyn Bridge Turn now your eye in another direction, and glance to your right there lies the\\nBel d H 7 m 1USnUmber0fhat faCt0n eS the h0 eS 0f S P-I~ and^Ipp; op to\\nBeyond h,s he Montrose and South Orange, with their beautiful residences, and still farther way a Clm-\\nid s ^77 1 7f and mthe S UtheaSt !n the diStanCe Ca be thehazv outlLofB\\n7 7 7\u00c2\u00b0erty,.a nding on Bedloe s Island, and holding aloft her torch at the gateway of the\\n77 |,0 n COmmg mi li0nS f tHe ,d W rld t0 freed0m Ss and P-sperity. Look\\nnow to your left, a view of surpassmg beauty meets your eye. The country, which is a rolling one is far\\n\u00e2\u0084\u00a2zr ;:r q sr\u00c2\u00a3 in any other Here are to be\\ncluster of brick buildings, a little\\nnorth of St. Mark s Church, are\\nthe laboratory, electrical and pho-\\nnograph works of Thomas A. Edi-\\nson. That first little settlement\\nbeyond is Tory Corner, whose\\nhistory dates back to the Revolu-\\ntion; beyond this again lies Bloom-\\nfield and Montclair, studded with\\nthe country seats of New York s\\nmerchant princes. Leaving this\\nsuperb view with reluctance, you\\nfollow the Ridge road down into\\nNonhfield avenue, take that avenue\\ndown around the turn at Bluebird\\ncorner, pass the residences of O. S.\\nCades and the Collamote family,\\nthe Country Club House, at Hut-\\nton Park, the Heckscher mansion,\\nand the ^residence of Mr. S. O.\\nA Park Residence.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n29\\nIn the Park.\\nRollinson, and come out on Valley road by St. Mark s Church, then go down Main street to the\\nplace of starting, or, if you desire a longer drive, go north up Valley road past St. Mark s Church,\\nup to Lllewellyn Park entrance, but do not attempt to do the Park; that will keep for another drive\\nturn down Park avenue, climb the steep hills, go down on the other side and keep on until Prospect street\\nis reached, turn down Prospect\\nstreet, and through that thorough-\\nfare to Main street, and thence to\\nthe place of starting.\\nFor an afternoon ride the follow-\\ning is suggested. Take Main street\\nto High, thence to Park avenue,\\nand direct to Llewellyn Park en-\\ntrance on Valley road. Drive\\nthrough the main gateway of the\\nPark, take the centre one of the\\nthree roads, which is Glen avenue,\\nfollow this up around the turn by\\nthe quarry, continue up Park way,\\npassing the elegant residence of\\nThomas A. Edison, which stands\\non the corner of Park way and\\nGlen avenue, go on still up this\\nroad until Eagle Rock way is\\nreached, turn to the latter road\\nand drive past the residences of\\nO. D. Munn and D. L. Wallace, stopping to admire the beautiful view which greets your eye at this\\npoint, pass through the park gate, take the road running under Eagle Rock, thence out to Bloomfield\\navenue, Montclair, follow the latter avenue up to Gould avenue, turn aside there and visit the Newark\\nCity Home,^an institution for the reformation of wayward boys and girls, then retrace your course to\\nBloomfield avenue, continue on through Verona and Caldwell to the County penitentiary, which is the\\nmodel penal institution of New Jersey, and well worthy a visit, and having done that turn about, go down\\nBloomfield avenue to any one of\\nthe cross streets going towards\\nOrange, and thence through Wash-\\nington, Park or Prospect street,\\nback to the centre of Orange.\\nAnother charming drive is down\\nMain street to Harrison, thence\\nthrough that street, passing many\\nof the handsomest residences in\\nOrange, thence along South Orange\\navenue past Seton Hall College,\\nthence into the Ridgewood road,\\nthence into Luddington avenue,\\ninto Gregory avenue, and follow\\ning that thoroughfare, pass under\\nthe mountain, coming out on\\nMount Pleasant avenue, and enter-\\ning the gate of Llewellyn Park a\\nshort distance below, drive through\\nWildwood and Mountain avenues,\\nView Near Bloomfield.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "ORANGE 1ND ITS POINTS Ol INTEREST.\\npassing the residence of the Martin family, D. A. Heald, of the Home Insurance Co., Carthwood, the res-\\nidence of Mr. Geo. J. Seabury, thence down Tulip avenue, passing the beautiful country sites of David\\nGreen and William liarr, and continuing down Tulip avenue to the main gate on Valley road, thence\\ndown Park avenue to Day street, and so back to the centre of the city.\\nAnother charming drive may be had by following Main street up to St. Mark s Church, thence tak-\\nalley street and Eagle Rock avenue up to Eagle Rock, and there feast your eyes upon the mag-\\nnificent panorama spread out before you. After leaving the Rock, follow any of the beautiful drives un-\\nder the mountain, take a short trip through Montclair, and thence make your way back to Orange through\\nWashington and Prospect streets. These drives can be multiplied in an almost endless variety by simply\\nconsulting a map of the Oranges\\nand adjacent townships, for go in\\nwhatever direction you will in any\\nol the Oranges, you are sure to\\nfind romantic scenery, stately\\nhomes and magnificent road-beds\\non which to speed your horses.\\nDo you desire a drive through\\nthe more rural part of the\\nOranges? If so, you will find\\nmuch to interest and please you by\\ngoing through the beautiful valley\\nwhich lies between the First and\\nSecond mountains in West Orange.\\nStarting from any point in Orange,\\ndrive up to St. Mark s church,\\nWest Orange, thence up Northfield\\navenue to Prospect avenue, fol-\\nlowing that beautiful avenue in its\\nwinding course, passing on the\\nway the unique and beautiful Summer residence of Dr. Bethuel L. Dodd, continue along Prospect\\nivenue until Eagle Rock avenue is reached, then follow the latter road down through that most\\nlisiteof vales aptly named Pleasant Valley, passing on your way many picturesque and quaint old\\nfarm-houses, follow this road as far as the top of the Second mountain, thence make your way back along\\nthe mountain through Livingston, and so down Mount Pleasant avenue to West Orange, and then down\\nValley road home.\\nMANUFACTORIES.\\nOrange, though known chiefly as a city of elegant homes, is also, and always has been, a manufac-\\nturing place of no small importance. It divides with Danbury, Connecticut, the prestige of being one of\\nthe chief centres of the felt hat industry, and for many years in its earlier days it rivaled Newark in the\\nmanufacture of fine boots and shoes. Of late years, however, this latter business has drifted away from\\nOrange, and this industry is of comparatively small importance here. Two hundred years ago, when the\\nearly settlers arrived in Orange, the first industrial pursuit they were called upon to engage in was the\\nclearing of small patches on which to erect their cabins and rear the crops for the support of themselves\\nand their families. Looking arround them they saw dense forests of sturdy oaks, lofty pines, branching\\nhemlocks, silvery beeches, and graceful ash and maple. The red men, peaceful and friendly, because\\ndealt with in a spirit of honor and fairness, yet roamed the by-paths that led through the forest to the\\nmountain top, or built their wigwams along the brooks that flowed through the grassy valleys below. Bears,\\nfoxes and wild animals ran at large where are now superb drives, crowded with fashionable turnouts. The\\nclearing away of the timber became a source of profitable revenue to the pioneer settlers, as they found a\\nOn i hi Canal, Ni ak Bloomfield.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTER1 31\\nready market for staves and headings in Newark and New York. The purchasers were sloop owners sail-\\ning between those ports and the West Indies, the staves and headings being converted into sugar and\\nmolasses hogsheads. The demand for these articles led to the establishment of sawmills. The pioneer\\nsawmill, as nearly as can be ascertained, was erected on Wigwam brook in 1728, by Samuel Harrison, a\\nson of one of the original settlers. It stood about sixty rods north of the residence of the late Judge\\nJesse Williams, on the corner of Day and Washington streets. Mathew Williams, also a descendent of\\none of the first settlers, built a sawmill still further up the Wigwam brook, and later on two of his descend-\\nants, Samuel and Amos Williams, constructed a tannery on the same brook. This tannery was for many\\nyears one of the leading establishments of the kind in the country. John Condit also built a small tannery\\nand shoe shop near where St. Mark s Church stands. All of these, however, were long ago abandoned and\\ntanneries have become a thing of the past in Orange. The first grist mill in Orange was built in 17S0, on\\nthe site now occupied by the old stone mill building of the late Judge Jesse Williams. The original\\nstructure was a frame one, and the present stone walls were built around the old mill in 1840. During\\nthe last quarter of the last century, Col. John Condit built a paper mill on Wigwam brook, about half a\\nmile above where the Day street bridge now is. The manufacture of fur hats was established in 1785 or\\n1 790. James Condit was the pioneer hatter of the place his shop was on Parrow brook, on the line of what\\nis now Centre street. Previous to 1840 the hatting industry was one of relatively small importance, but\\nfrom that time on it continued to grow, although it is only of late 5 ears that it has developed to its pres-\\nent large proportions. There are now about thirty-five firms and companies engaged in the manu-\\nfacture of hats in the Oranges, employing about two thousand hands, and paying out on an average $20,000\\nweekly for wages.\\nORANGE SEWERAGE.\\nDuring the past summer, Carroll Ph. Bassett, C. E of Newark, presented to the Common Council\\na comprehensive report on a proposed sewerage system for the city, with full plans, profiles and specifi-\\ncations. The recommendations of this report have been endorsed by Messrs. Stearns Gray, consult-\\ning engineers, employed by the city, and approved by a Citizens Committee of uncommon ability, after\\ncareful examination. In view of these facts, it seems probable that the system, as planned by Mr. Bas-\\nsett, will be constructed in the near future.\\nSome description of the plan will therefore be of interest. It is proposed to collect storm water\\nand household wastes separately. In every street will be laid a pipe sewer to receive all household and\\nmanufacturing wastes. In some cases roof water will be taken into these lines.\\nWherever storm water accumulates on the surface in sufficient quantities to cause damage or incon-\\nvenience, it is taken into underground conduits leading to the main drainage channels, where the filthy\\nbrooks now run (which are also to go under ground), and eventually go to the west branch of the Second\\nriver, leaving the city near E. Day and River streets, and flowing to the Passaic, or to the east branch\\nof the Rahway, leaving the city near Montrose, and flowing through South Orange, etc., to Rahway.\\nWherever the ground is wet or swampy, drains will belaid in the trenches with the sewers, and dis-\\ncharged into the storm water conduits.\\nAlthough the surface water flows in opposite directions, as stated above, it is proposed to collect all\\nthe sewage proper to one point in the northeastern section of the city. This is accomplished by an in-\\ntercepting sewer, along Scotland street, running opposite to the surface grade and leading through West\\nOrange to Lakeside avenue, and thence to River and East Day.\\nThe Valley section below Scotland street, is collected at a pumping station near Morris and\\nValley streets, and pumped into the Scotland street sewer just mentioned. The total area of the city is\\nabout 1,400 acres and the district to be pumped is less than 240 acres. The house sewers vary in size,\\nfrom eight inches to twenty-four inches in diameter. The storm sewers increase from twelve inches to\\nten feet three inches in diameter.\\nThe effect of the storm- water system will be to obliterate the unsightly brooks from the surface,\\nreclaim much waste land in the heart of the city, and make it productive property and materially lower\\nthe level of ground-water throughout the city, thereby increasing its healthfulness.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "V\\nORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nThe New Bank Building.\\nOrange National Bank, Main Street, near Cone, Orange,\\nN. J. The Orange National Bank is certainly one of the best\\nknown institutions of any kind in this section of the country, not\\nonly from its having been established so many years ago, but for\\nthe most important of all reasons, that it is as thoroughly sound\\nand reliable a financial institution as can be found in this neigh-\\nborhood. The bank was chartered as a State institution as far\\nback as 1S28, and in 1S65 it was reorganized as a National Bank.\\nDuring considerably more than half a century it has held a high\\nposition among the foremost institutions of a like nature in the\\nState, maintaining its steady, even way through revolutions and\\nchanges of many kinds. This is due to the conservative policy\\npursued by the directors and officers of the bank, who have ever\\nmade ,t their chief interest to preserve the high credit of the bank\\nummpa.red. The names of these gentlemen are as follows-\\nDirectors T. J. Smith, president J. W. Smith, cashier Elias\\nO. Doremus, John L. Blake. James Peck, Charles M Decker\\nJosiah F. Dodd, Charles Williams, Abijah F. Tillon The bank\\nhas a capital of $.50,000, and a surplus of $.75,000, with total\\nassetsof nearly a million and a half of dollars, and enioys the most\\nfavorable relations will, other companies throughout the country\\nThe building occupied is situated next to the corner of Main and\\nCone streets, in a very central position, and when finished will be\\nthe business building of the Oranges.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2South Orange, From the Valley Road.\\nSOUTH ORANGE.\\nThe history of South Orange as a locality, dates back to a period long anterior to the date of its\\norganization as a township. Indeed there never has been the close affiliation between South Orange and\\nthe other Oranges, that has always existed between the three other Oranges with each other, the people of\\nSouth Orange having as a rule been identified more with Newark. The place was originally settled by\\nsome of the pioneers of Newark. Exactly how the name of South Orange originated is not known, but\\ntradition has it that Nathan Squier, an old resident of South Orange, first used it at a sale of wood at ven-\\ndue. Among the old settlers are the Kilburns, Heddens, Lindsleys, Baldwins, Smiths, Cranes and Balls.\\nThe town was incorporated in i860. One of the first records in reference to roads in the vicinity of South\\nOrange, is found in the proceedings of the town meeting of Orange, where reference is made under the\\ndate of October 8, 1705, to the laying out of a road from what is now Main street, Orange, south by a\\nline of marked trees to Joseph Riggs house; this was, undoubtedly, what is now called Valley street in\\nOrange and West Orange, and the Ridgewood road in South Orange. In the records in the same date,\\nreference is made to the laying out of another road from said Riggs to town, to run by a path as straight\\nas may be, and by a line of marked trees from the first mentioned road, north at the foot of said moun-\\ntain. The road referred to is now South Orange avenue. As early as 171S, Or. Arents and Daniel Dod\\ncarried on a saw-mill on the Railway river. Joseph Pierson s two mills, a saw-mill and a grist-mill, were\\nwell known institutions in 1740, and there was also a saw-mill located near where the Mountain station\\nnow stands.\\nThe educational history of South Orange dates back as far as 1787, for records are still extant of\\nrepairs upon a school-house in that place. One of the items charged for in the bill of repairs is one quart", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nSOUTH ORANGL AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nof rum, one shilling, and one quart of spirits, one shilling. Various charges seem to indicate that it was\\none for repairs. In fact, old residents of South Orange have had it from their ancestors that they attended\\nschool in a stone building on a point of land near the intersection of what are now known as South\\nOrange and Irvington avenues. The records of the Columbian school date back to 1814, when the school\\nwas incorporated. The price of tuition in the school was fixed at $1.75 per quarter, with an additional\\nOra.ni. 1 Mountains, From Scotland Street.\\ncharge of 25 cents for arithmetic and an additional 25 cents for grammar, and scholars were also charged\\nfor firewood. The school was not made absolutely free until many years later. At present there are sev-\\neral flourishing schools in the place.\\nThe most noted educational institution in South Orange is Seton Mall College and Seminary, which\\nis one of the most widely known institutions of learning conducted by the Roman Catholic Church in\\nAmerica. It is located upon a commanding site facing the mountain on South Orange avenue and the cor-\\nnice on which it stands being formerly known as Chestnut Ridge. The college buildings stand some dis-\\ntance back from the avenue in the midst of spacious and well kept grounds, and are reached by a broad\\nand winding driveway flanked on either side by a double row of noble trees. The visitor to the college\\nenters a handsome three-story basement building of brown stone, through which broad corridors run east\\nand west and north and south. This is the residence of Bishop Wigger, and is also the Seminary build-\\ning. Behind that is Alumni Hall, a beautiful stone structure two stories high in the gothic order of archi-\\ntecture. This building was the gift of the Alumni of the college. The dormitories and class-rooms are\\nsituated in an L-shaped building connected with the main building. The dormitory and class-room build-\\ning is also three stories and basement high, and has a handsome turret on one end. Here it is that the col-", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "SOUTH ORANGE AND JTS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n.55\\nlege proper is located. The Seton Hall Chapel is also a beautiful stone structure in the pointed style of\\narchitecture. Its sanctuary, choir and high altar are very beautiful. There are also many elegant stained\\nglass windows as well as memorial panes erected in memory of departed students.\\nThe infirmary of the college is situated in a stone building three stories high of a similar style of archi-\\ntecture to the rest of the college edifices. The college was founded in 1856, bv the Right Rev. James\\nRoosevelt Bayley, D. D., the first Bishop of Newark and afterwards Archbishop of Baltimore, and pri-\\nmate of the United States. It was first located at Madison, in Morris County, where there is now a large\\nAcademy for girls, but it was transferred during the summer of i860, to its present site in South Orange.\\nIn 1 86 1, it was incorporated by the Legislature, who granted it all the rights and privileges enjoyed by\\nother colleges in the State. The college was named Seton Hall by Bishop Bayley, in honor of his aunt,\\nthe Saintly Mother Seton, who introduced the Sisters of Charity into the United States, and to whose\\nprayers Bishop Bayley attributed his conversion to the Catholic faith. Bishop Bayley was succeeded as\\nPresident of Seton Hall by the Rev. Dr. Michael Augustine Corrigan, who afterwards became Bishop of\\nNewark, and is now the beloved Archibishop of New York. The Archibishop still retains his interest in\\nthe college, and is a frequent visitor there. Archbishop Corrigan was succeeded as President by his\\nbrother, the Rev. James Corrigan, and he in turn by Rev. Father Marshall, the present incumbent. Every\\nyear a large class of graduates is sent forth from the college, many of the alumni holding important\\npositions in civil and religious life. The seminary also turns out a number of priests and deacons each\\nyear. Bishop Wigger, who succeeded Archbishop Corrigan as Bishop of Newark, resides at the college,\\nand takes a lively interest in its welfare.\\nSouth Orange is well supplied with churches, and many of them are handsome edifices, and all have\\nprosperous and active congregations. The strongest Church in the place is the First Congregational\\nChurch, which was organized in 1831, although the Presbyterians had always been very numerous in that\\nneighborhood years before. The church was built in 1842, and dedicated in August of the same year.\\nA few years before, it was entirely rebuilt and replaced by the present handsome structure.\\nThe earlier churches of the Baptist denomination were at Lyons Farms and Jefferson village, both\\nwithin the limits of South Orange. The records of the Jefferson Village Baptist Church date back to (81 r,\\nbut about 1823 their building was sold to the Methodists. The present Methodist church, however, was\\nnot organized until 1848. The present beautiful edifice of the Methodist Church, which is in the Gothic\\nstyle of architecture, with a handsome spire eighty feet high, was built in 1874. The Methodists have\\nalso a flourishing church at Maplewood, a growing settlement within the limits of South Orange.\\nThe Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion was organized in 1859, as an offshoot from St.\\nMark s, Orange. The present beautiful edifice, which stands on South Orange avenue, just west of the\\nrailroad station, as the avenue begins to ascend the mountain side, was built in i860 and 1861. It was en\\nlarged in 1874. It is in the English gothic style of architecture and is cruciform in shape, with a beautiful\\napsidal chancel.\\nThe Roman Catholics have also a handsome church in South Orange, in addition to the college\\nchapel, where for many years the Catholics of the entire place were wont to assemble.\\nAbout a year ago the South Orange village authorities, made an effort to secure from Orange, an\\nagreement for a term of years, for the purchase of water to be drawn from the main pipe leading from the\\nOrange reservoir west of the mountain, through the village of South Orange, to the city of Orange. The\\neffort was not successful. About the same time the Commonwealth Water Company of Newark had\\nerected and put in operation a plant in Summit, to supply that township with water, for domestic and\\nmanufacturing purposes, and fire protection. The character of the water there furnished was pronounced\\nof remarkable excellence by the citizens of Summit, and expert analysts. It is said to be the purest pub-\\nlic supply in the State. Negotiations were opened by the authorities of South Orange, for the introduc-\\ntion of this water into South Orange. Last August, a contract between the Commonwealth Water Com-\\npany and the village of South Orange was signed. By the terms of this contract, the village is to build its\\nown system of distributing mains in the streets of the village, and into these pipes the Commonwealth\\nWater Company is to deliver water at a pressure equivalent to 375 feet above tide, and to furnish at the\\nrate of 1,000,000 gallons per day if required. The price to be paid the company is ten cents per thcus-\\nand gallons. The contract is for six years, with renewal clauses for five years additional.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Main Street, m vk Brick Church.\\nEAST ORANGE.\\nThe Township of East Orange, which is one of the most prosperous and enterprising municipali-\\nties in the County of Essex, contains only about four square miles of land, yet its population increases,\\nas appears by the census of 1890. Its streets are well built up with handsome residences, as well as\\nwith imposing business structures, and it has the appearance of a thriving suburban city, which, in fact, it\\nis. Its streets are all paved with Telford pavement and lighted with gas, and sewers are laid in nearly all\\nthem. There are excellent police and fire departments, and the public schools of the town are admit-\\nted to be the finest in the State. Few regions have within the last thirty years exhibited such complete\\nges in social and material aspects, as has the vigorous and progressive township of East Orange.\\nThirty years ago the beautiful streets known now as Arlington avenue and Grove street, were then known\\nas Cherry street and Whiskey lane. Both were narrow, dark roadways that were mudholes in the Winter\\nand in time of rain, and in Summer were inches deep in dust. The houses on both of these avenues, as\\nwell as on Munn avenue, all of which are filled now with elegant residences, then had nothing but farm\\nhouses upon them, and these were few and far between. Even after the fame of Llewellyn Park and the\\nbeautiful scenery around the Oranges began to draw people from New York to Orange, East Orange cb d\\nnot feel the effects of the boom to anything like the extent of either Orange or South Orange. It is onh\\nwithin the last twenty years that the influx of population has been so marked. Now, however, East Or-\\nange is growing in a much greater ratio than any of the other Oranges in population and wealth, as well\\nas in local improvements in fact, it is often called the banner township of Essex County.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTERES T. 57\\nThe history of East Orange as a separate municipality dates only from March, 1863. Prior to that\\ntime it formed a part of the town of Orange. The setting off East Orange into a separate township was\\nlargely due to the school troubles in the latter place, allusion to which has been made in the histor\\nOrange. The act incorporating the township of East Orange was passed by the Legislature March 4,\\n1863. The first election of township officers was held on the second Monday of April, 1\\nMunn Avenue, near Central Avenue.\\nEast Orange is a city of homes. Its well paved and well lighted streets, its admirable system of\\nwater supply and sewerage, together with its natural advantages, render it one of the most desirable\\nplaces of residence in Northern New Jersey, and there is no town in this part of the State that contains\\nso many elegant residences of wealthy and prominent New York business men, as does East Orange-\\nThe township has also an excellent police 1 force, which was organized six years ago. It is under the\\ncommand of Henry Blaurock, Chief, v/ho has under him two sergeants, two roundsmen, fifteen patrol-\\nmen and three chancemen. This force maintains excellent order in the town, both day and night.\\nDisturbances of any kind are very infrequent, and burglaries are few and far between. The township\\nhas also a fine fire department, under the command of Chief Engineer Henry Mills. It consists of a\\nhook and ladder company, three hose carriage companies and two hose wagon companies.\\nEDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.\\nIn the matter of education, East Orange occupies a position second to no other place in the\\nState. The public school system, though, as a matter of course, not so extensive as that of the city of\\nNewark, and not having as yet a high school in name, still, as far as it goes, is fully equal to that of any of\\nthe grammar schools in the latter city, and indeed, in some respects, surpasses the Newaik grammar\\nschools, the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of the curriculum, and in many branches the schools of\\nEast Orange are fully equal to a high school. A Board of Education has been formed in the township,\\nand a high school will soon be established there. At present the township is divided into three school\\ndistricts the Ashland, Eastern, and Franklin. The lines of the three districts correspond very nearly with\\nthose of the school districts organized under the old school law, and)also with those of neighborhood organu\\nza ions that were in existence before any systematic foundation of school districts was effected. The\\nAct to Incorporate Societies for the Promotion of Learning passed by the Legislature of New Jersey\\nNovember 27, 1794, furnished the occasion and provided the means for the creation of three school dis-\\ntricts in the section of country now embraced in East Orange, the boundaries of these districts being\\nnearly the same as those of the now existing districts. The three school-houses first erected as the East", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "6\\nORANGE AND TTS POINTS INTEREST.\\nThe New High School Building. (In process of erection).\\nem, which stood in the district bearing its name, the White school-house located at Brick Church, in which\\nis now in the Ashland District, and the third known as the Doddtown school-house, in what is now the\\nFranklin District. From the original book of minutes relating to the Eastern District, it is learned that\\nthe money to buy the lot and build the school-house was raised by a number of subscriptions, the subscrib-\\ners being stockholders. In addition to the names of all the old families in the vicinity, the names of\\nsuch distinguished Newarkers as the Frelinghuysens, Penningtons and Whiteheads, appear among the sub-\\nscribers.\\nThe government was vested in a board of seven trustees, chosen annually by the stockholders.\\nThese trustees held title to the property and managed all the affairs of the school. These same remarks\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2will apply to the other two districts. These schools were of course small affairs, employing but a single\\nteacher, but they served an excellent purpose. Gradually, as the population increased, additional teachers\\nwere engaged, and larger buildings were erected, although up to 1870 all three schools were located in\\nframe buildings. The old school districts had in the mean time given way to districts organized under\\nthe general school law of the State, retaining the old names and the old boundaries. The school houses in\\nthe township are now all large and substantial brick structures, supplied with all the modern improve-\\nments, admirably lighted and ventilated, surrounded by ample grounds, and provided with the most im-\\nproved school apparatus, and furnished with valuable reference libraries. The Eastern District school\\nhouse is situated on Main street, near Maple avenue. It stands some distance back from the street, and\\nhas a large play-ground around it. It is a three-story brick structure, built in 1S70, and enlarged several\\ntimessince that date. The principal, Mr. Vernon L. Davey, has been in charge since 1877. The Ash-\\nland district has two school houses, known as the Ashland and South Ashland. The former is situated", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n39\\non Mulberry street, and the latter on Clinton street. Both buildings are imposing brick structures, and\\nhave every convenience for pupils and teachers. Mr. E. R. Pennoyer is the principal of both schools,\\nand has held that position since 1S69. The Franklin school district has a large brick building on Dodd\\nstreet, between Midland and Glenwood avenues. It was built in 1873, and is valued at about $25,000.\\nIn addition to these public schools, there are also several flourishing private schools.\\nEAST ORAHGE WATER SUPPLY.\\nThe township of East Orange has an abundant supply of pure water for both household and fire\\npurposes. The supply is furnished\\nby the Orange Water Company,\\nunder a contract made with the\\nTownship Committee in 1881 for\\na term of ten years, with the privi-\\nlege on the part of the township\\nauthorities of renewing the same.\\nThe Orange Water ^Company was\\nincorporated by an act of the\\nLegislature in 1865, and was de-\\nsigned to supply the city of Orange\\nwith water, but the citizens of\\nthat place were not ready to move\\nin the matter at that time, and it\\nwas not until December, 1880, that\\nany use was made of the charter.\\nThen the books for subscription\\nto the stock of the company were\\nopened, and almost immediately\\nthe capital of $300,000 was paid\\nin, the majority of the stock\\nbeing taken by citizens of East\\nOrange. The company was immediately organized, and steps were taken to provide a water supply for\\nEast Orange. The first Board of Directors consisted of Frederick M. Shepard, John M. Randall, Joseph\\nA. Minott, John T. Rockwell, Jos-\\neph L. Munn, William Pierson, M.\\nD., and Vernon L. Davey. The\\nDirectors organized by electing\\nFrederick M. Shepard, President\\nJohn M. Randall, Vice-President\\nFrederick M. Shepard, Jr., Secre-\\ntary Joseph A. Minott, Tieas-\\nurer, and Joseph L. Munn, Coun-\\nsel. The company acquired by\\npurchase and condemnation a tract\\nof about seventy-five acres of land,\\nat a point where the townships of\\nOrange and East Orange, Bloom\\nfield and the city of Newark came\\ntogether. This tract contains a\\nlarge number of springs of remark-\\nably pure water. One of them,\\nknown as the great boiling spring,\\nhas been noted for its fine water\\nfrom the earliest history of Es-\\nA Residence on Prospect Street.\\nProspect Street, near P m Street.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nEA. OR,... GE AND I TS POIN TS OF IN TER ES I\\nsex County. In developing these springs the water company has constructed a series of three wells. The\\nlargest of these is fifty feet in diameter, and is excavated to the depth of about fifteen feet below the sur-\\nface of the nid, nine feet of which depth was blasted through a bed of red sandstone rock. It was in-\\ntended to make the excavation much deeper, but the flow of water was so great as to render it practii\\nPossible. The water from these wells has been several times subjected to chemical analysis, and found\\nrel) tree from all organic impurities. In fact, East Orange is conceded by all experts on the\\njectofwater supply to have the finest water of air) place in the State of New Jersey. The pum\\ntion is located on the same trad as the wells, and distribution is made through the mains bj d\\npumping, the\\npressure be in-\\nsufficient to fo\\na stream through\\nhose i onne\\nwith an) hydrant\\nin East Ora\\nor Bloomfi Id\\nover the high si\\nMk\\nI A-\\\\\\nOn Prospe i St.\\nbuilding in either town.\\nIt In i been shown by\\nactual experiment, that\\nh\\\\^ Streams can be sim-\\nultaneously t lllSMl h\\nover the roof of the\\nloftiesl structure in\\neiili r town. In [S83,\\nthel range Water lom-\\ntook .1 1 ontract\\nto supply the township\\nof Bloomfield with\\nwater. It now has\\nse\\\\,,ai nubs of water mains laid in East Orange and Bloomfield, with hydrants\\nimers in the former plai e is very large.\\nCorner Arlington vnd Park Avenues.\\nThe number of priv; te\\nEAST ORAHGE CHURCHES.\\nThe oldest Church in East Orange, is what is usually known as the Brick Presbyterian Church On\\nthe 20th of March, 1830, a meeting of Presbyterians residing in the eastern part of Orange, was held in the\\nold White school-house, .e into consideration the building of a Presbyterian Church, for the benefit o*\\nthe restdents of that locality. After a full discussion, a resolution was adopted, That it is the sense of\\nthis meeting that the time has arrived when it is expedient to erect a second Presbyterian Church in\\nOrange, and thai we proceed to build without delay. A society was formed, trustees were elected and", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n4\u00c2\u00ab\\nthe building nearly completed before the final organization of the Church. The first trustees were elected\\nApril 20, 1830. A building committee was appointed on the same evening, and at the same time Rev-\\nGeorge Pierson was called as pastor. He entered upon his duties in April, 1831, and continued until\\nFebruary, 1835. The Church was finally organized April 26,1831. At this meeting forty-eight persons\\nwere present with letters of dismissal from other churches. The Church edifice was erected in 1832.\\nIt was built of brick, and was for many years the only church edifice in the Oranges that was con-\\nstructed of this material, hence the name of the Brick Church was given to it, and this Church has always\\nbeen a landmark in this part of Orange. Years ago, when the old Morris Essex Railroad Company es-\\ntablished nearly opposite the Church, they gave to the new station the name of Brick Church, and that\\nname has clung to it and to the neighborhood ever since. This Church during the civil war, had a most\\nenviable record for the patriotism of its pastor and its people, and many stirring sermons were heard from\\nits pulpit on the duty of upholding the national government, and many of its members went forth to de-\\nfend their country s honor on the battlefield. In\\nthe Summer of 1878, the church edifice was en-\\ntirely remodeled at an expense of $18,000. It was 4e=\\nagain remodeled and put in its present shape at a\\ncost of $25,000 in\\nRev. Henry F.\\nHickock, D. D.,\\nwho has been in\\ncharge since May,\\n1875. The pres-\\nent membership\\nof the Church is\\n120.\\nThe Munn\\nAvenue Presby-\\nterian Church,\\nwhich is situated\\non the corner of\\nMain street and\\nMunn avenue, is\\none of the most\\nflourishing Churches in\\nin the neighborhood in\\nB\\n[ONVEALTH 1 1 A II\\nl.\\\\i )range Depot.\\nEast Orange. It had its origin in a Sabbath School, which was started\\n1824. The sessions of the school were at first held in the houses of\\nthose favorable to the project, and continued to be so held until 1830, when the old Eastern\\nschool-house was built, and the Sunday school services were transferred to that, meanwhile weekly\\nprayer meetings were held in the neighborhood, and on June 24, 1863, the Church was formally organ-\\nized with a membership of thirty-seven. During the same year a church edifice was erected. This was\\nreplaced by a handsome brown stone structure in the Gothic style of architecture, in 1876. The church\\nwas altered and enlarged in 1888.\\nThe Bethel Presbyterian Church on Dodd street had its origin in a Union Sabbath school,\\nwas held for several years previous to 1866, in the old school-House on Dodd street. In that year a little\\nframe chapel was erected and the Sabbath school was held in that building. There was occasional pre\\ning there, but no regular Church organization until 1868, when a Congregational mission was started. This\\nled to a bitter controversy, the result of which was that the chapel was afterwards transferred to the\\nPresbyterians. Another contest followed, this time being carried into court. The Presbyterians were ic-\\ntorious, and On November 3, 1870, Bethel Presbyterian Church was organ!/.. i The Church is now 1\\nvery flourishing condition and has a large membership.\\nThe First Reformed Church, though among the youngest in East Orange, was organized by t,", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "t- EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nClassis ol Newark, Ma) 1875, at which time it numbered 135 communicants. The Church had its be-\\nginning in the fact that the Rev. George S. Bishop, D. D., became convinced while pastor of the Brick Pres-\\nbyterian Church that it was his duty to preach strong Calvanistic doctrine, which was distasteful to many\\nmembers of that Church. He finally determined to connect himself with the Reformed Church, and in\\nApril, 1875, resigned the pastorate of the Brick Church, left the Presbyterian denomination and con-\\nnected himself with the Reformed. He was followed by a large number of people from his former\\ncharge and as soon as the Church was organized was made its pastor and lias continued in charge ever\\nsince. The Church edifice was erected in 187O. It is situated corner Main and Halsted streets, and is\\nbuilt of brown stone in the Gothic style of architecture, and is cruciform in shape. It has a beautiful\\nspire at one of the angles.\\nChrist Church, Corner Main and Mulford Streets.\\n(Now in process of erection.)\\nThe new Christ Church, now rapidly approaching completion, on the corner of Main and Mul-\\nford streets, East Orange, will be one of the most beautiful church edifices in the State. The parish\\ndates back to 1869, a meeting having been called for the purpose of organization, by a few Episcopa-\\nlians, which was held in the old railway station, on the site of the present Commonwealth Hall. Divine\\nservice was hel 1, and organization completed by the election ol wardens and vestrymen, and the adop-\\nti of a name for the parish, which it now retains. Plans for a church were soon considered, and in\\nthe following year a frame building 33x60 feet was erected. East Orange and the parish grew so rap-\\nidly that the original imivh was enlarged five times, but was totally destroyed by tire December 23,\\nt888. Before the building of the original church the present rector, the Rev. Horace S. Bishop, S. T. IX,\\ned his gratuitous services as minister in charge, which were gratefull) accepted by the parish]\\nand a few years later he was regularly called as rector, which position he has since held. The result of\\nhis labors may be seen in the strong parish and beautiful church now building. He is ably as-\\ntsted b) the Rev. Alexander Allen, late dean of one of the convocations of Colorado. On the day of", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n43\\nResihenci on Arlington Avenue.\\nthe burning of the old church, the vestry resolved to erect a new one of stone, complete in its appoint-\\nments, worthy of East Orange and of its sacred purposes.\\nThe building is substantially constructed of Indiana limestone, and will cost, furnished, about\\n$100,000, and includes in its plan all the arrangements necessary for parish work, such as chapel, guild,\\nchoir and vestry rooms. An or-\\ngan valued at $10,000 is being\\nconstructed for the Church. The\\npews and interior woodwork are\\nof quartered oak. The chancel\\nis forty feet wide by the same\\ndepth, and will be particularly\\nrich in its furnishings. The altar\\nand wains-cotting will be of\\nSienna marble, the chancel rail\\nwill also be of marble, while the\\nfloor will be laid 111 Mosaic mar-\\nble pavement the choir stalls\\nand clergy seats will be of an-\\ntique quartered oak. The pulpit,\\nlecturn, font and other furnish-\\nings are to be of most beautiful\\ndesign, and the windows will be\\nglazed with Cathedral glass of\\nsuch tone as will cast a golden\\nlight on the entire interior. The\\nbuildings are heated by steam,\\nand suitably ventilated, and all sanitary points have been thoroughly considered. The front, including\\ntower is about one hundred feet, by nearly two hundred feet in depth.\\nThe Grove Street Congregational Church was organized in the early Summer of 1866, when a few\\npersons assembled at the house of Aaron P. Mitchell, on Grove street, to discuss the feasibility of form-\\ning a Congregational Church. It was decided to organize such a Church, and to erect a suitable building.\\nA lot on the north-east corner of Main and Grove streets was purchased, the propert.es of the new\\nsociety, with wise forethought securing ample room for the enlargement of the church, if necessary. I he\\nsociety was formally organized August 1, 1866, and the erection of the chapel was begun In December,\\nl8 6 7 a handsome brown stone edifice was completed, at a cost of I5 It was dedicated December\\ni8, 1867. On January 3, 1868, the organization of the Church was completed, with thirty-two members.\\nIn the Spring of 1871, an addition was made to the church at a cost of $5,000. In the Spring of 1890,\\nthe present beautiful church edifice was erected, at a cost of S The former church edifice is now\\nused as a chapel and Sunday school room.\\nCalvary Methodist Episcopal Church, which stands on the corner of Mam and Walnut streets,\\none of the most imposing religious edifices in any of the Oranges. Its congregation is one of the largest\\nand most active in the Methodist denomination in Essex county, and the people are noted for _ the,\\nliberal contributions to every denominational, missionary and benevolent purpose. 1 he Chu c .was\\norganized in the fall of l8 6 9 when a board of trustees was elected, a site for a building secur d and A\\nerection of a chapel begun on Mulberry street. The building, which was of C ^j g s t bec^\\ntrimmings was dedicated June 12, 1870. The Church continued to grow rapidly, and in 18S4 it became\\nevident ttt more room must be had, and the present site on Main and Walnut streets was purchased\\nfor $13,000. The present beautiful church building was completed m 1887.\\nSt. Paul s Episcopal Church grew out of cottage services started in that por, on of Eas Orange\\nknown as Watsessing, in x86 9 by Rev. William H. Carter, D. Dm the residence Isaac K G nffin. A\\nchanel was erected in Myrtle street soon after, and was opened for service by Dr. Carter January 30,", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 EAST OR INGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n,S7 theS P ri g\u00c2\u00b0 f 875 the lot on which the chapel stood was sold and the chapel was removed to\\nf D dd street when ft considerably enlarged and improved. On Easter\\nJK P^dent parish, this organization having heretofore\\nbeenam.ssion. I tn.zation m ted November 17, 1876, and the parish of St P\\nwas admitted into union with the Diocesan Convention. November 22, 1\\nTHE EAST ORAHGE SEWERAGE SYSTEM.\\nThe following description of the sewerage system ol East Orange, is taken from a report of Mr\\narroll I Bassett, the engineer who designed it. to the State Board of Health\\nh K en thetownshi P \u00c2\u00bbt Orange began discussion 0! ilabl system, of sewage removal\\nmth a l 1 1 altogether in municipal development in this\\na !1 :e, due to topographical peculiarities, existed, but\\nthese problems were almost forgotten in a search for a satisfa, tor, outfall tor the collected domesti, and\\nmanufacturing wastes.\\n1 l,N X South Orange and Bloomfield, supplied with excellent water, and\\nP nth manj substantial Telford pavements, East Orange was enjoying an\\nZ7 S I Tl\u00c2\u00b0 P But every rise in the wave of municipal prosperity mad, more\\nurgent the removal ol voided and discarded wastes,\\nT b m P lished? Where were they to be dis. harged rhese were the questions\\nP r r o P P i l,Ml meetin S an times to committees in power during the Winters\\n3 of Newark on red possible outlet to th, river. Pumping\\noverthehl S h d md thence to the Newark b een Newark and Elizabeth was\\n2 f?fj \u00c2\u00b01 r^ r purification of the sewage were presented. To the firs, pro\\nNewark through a Common Council committee, said, emphatically, no! t Newark was of\\nI 1 ^vmg sumcien. trouble in the water supply without accepting contril rom beyond Us\\nlm,tS V liberal subs,d. Pumping to Newark baj involved eight or nine miles of conduit out-\\n5,de oss sev j eral minicipalities, besides the heavy current expen.es of pumping and\\nm 7 tenanc e. f ghta ol way and leg tl complications, added obj, ctions to this plan. Argument, discussion\\nan l mvestigation seemed equall) to favor some method of local disposal of the sewa\\nhC SCWa f e entCTS WOrks in a -3 feet new form, egg-shape brick sewer, terminating in a on-\\nd rectan S lar potion, having lateral projections extending nearlj to its centre on alternate sides\\nat intervals of three feet along the axis.\\nf thi C nduit l 1 U lr, m the building unite with the sewage, the lateral projections of the\\ncarrier givea whirling motton to the sewage, which causes a complete mixture of chemi, als with it The\\nJ 1 n W eads the SC r ge Pre ipitati n t3nks The tanks are onstructed in duplicate, one set\\n7 ym ,dk Whlle the othe is in A brick wall, ten feet in front of the inlet,\\nto the tanks checks the velocity ol entrance flo\u00c2\u00ab I board floatin, i\u00e2\u0080\u009e ve n des inter\\nce Pts he lighter floating 1 insures their satur it, at a depth from th\\nMV tl r V eet cross-walls in each tank divide it into three compartments; over these the flow\\n)ass es with a depth of about .two feet, the heavier matters settling and being intercepted; with a con-\\ntinuous flow ot low velocity ,n the tanks the surface water is being constantl) skimmed off into the car-\\noimd Dra isfloal tswivel-arm compartment which connects\\nr ,tl, I a l sen bottomof e tanks and ^harg, he ground ata low\\nlevel. rhese arms draw water only from the surface, but the drains falling with the ,J e anv\\narm to emptj the compartment in which i, is located, to within n inches of the bottom into the\\nlow service carrier leading to the surface of the grout\\nThe effluent from the precipitation tanks, after entering the earners, is distributed over the sur-\\nfac. tt ttion ground and descendsto the under-drains, which are from three to five feet deep.\\nand twenty feet apart over the entire 14.7 a. res in the tanks\\nThe sewage effluent is applied to the land on the principl f intermittent downward nitration\\nthe flow being applied su. ess.velj to different areas. i ar, of land is laid off i\u00e2\u0080\u009e beds four feel wide.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OE INTEREST.\\n45\\nseparated b\\nof the land\\nwater flows.\\nshallow furrows in which the water flows, soaking laterally into the beds. The remainder\\nis divided into flat beds, ioo feet long by 50 to 100 in width, over the whole of which the\\nThis latter method is preferable where the coarser matters are removed from the sei\\nbefore it pass\\nto the land.\\nItalian rye-\\ngrass has given the\\nbest results on the\\nland, and is now\\ngrown almost ex-\\nlusively. Farmers\\nfrom the neighbor-\\nhood cut the\\nand remove it as\\nnecessary, but up to\\nthe present time\\nthe town authori-\\nties have not been\\nable to secure a sat-\\nisfactory return from\\nits sale. Return-\\ning to precipitated\\nmatter or sludge in\\nthe tanks. After\\nthe supernatant\\nwater is drawn off\\nthrough the swivel-\\narm, a valve-gate is\\nopened and the\\nsludge drawn into\\nthe deeper sludge-well within the building. By forming a vacuum in a cast iron receiver, which is con-\\nnected by an iron pipe with the sludge-well, the sludge is drawn up in the receiver, milk of lime being\\ndrawn in at the same time by a small pipe from a mixing tank in the chemical room. This lime pre-\\npares the sludge for pressing, cutting it so that the water separates more readily from the sol\\nA pressure of 100 pounds per square inch is secured in one of the other receivers, and\\nconnected with the receiver containing the sludge by an air transfer main and the proper valves opened,\\nthe sludge is forced into a Johnson filter-press and pressed into moist, hard portable cakes.\\nHARRIS! IN Si reet.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nEAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nMention has been made of the unusually large percentage of the sewers through the township\\nwhich are under water pressure. The intricate topography of the town made several heavy cuts in some\\ni ases over thirty feet, necessary. In all these deep cuttings the water level is now far above the sewers; a head\\npressure of over twenty feet 0( curring in several places. In addition all the mains located in the valley\\nRailroad Place from Harrison Street.\\nlines were constructed in a quicksand or running sand formation. Under these circumstances, despite\\nthe greatest care and much expense, a considerable volume of ground water finds its way into the\\nsewer pipes. When it is remembered that there are over 2,600 joints per mile, some of them o\\\\er six\\nfeet in circumference, the practical impossibility of making actually impervious sewers under the con-\\nditions named with vitrified pipe and cement becomes apparent. But this flow from the twenty-five miles\\nof pipe sewers was limited to a very small volume, probably about 2.5 gallons per second.\\nIt was necessary, however, to build the outfall sewer with -a size beyond the maximum vitrified pipe,\\nand a brick sewer was therefore constructed for 2,000 feet through a difficult formation, a timber cradle\\nbeing used under the sewer.\\nIn another section of the town a tunnel, at a depth varying from twenty-five to thirty-five feet,\\nwas driven for about 2,500 feet to avoid the interference with surface travel incident to so tedious a work\\nin open cut. The great difficulty experienced in controlling the large volume of water encountered at\\nthis depth practically prevented the construction of an impervious sewer in this place, where the tunnel\\nwas lined with brick.\\nFrom these two pieces of brick sewer, less than a mile in length, about five gallons per second en-\\nters the sewers twice the quantity, it will be noted, entering the remaining twenty-five miles of pipe\\nsewers.\\nThis aggregate flow of 7.5 gallons per second (650,000 gallons per day,) mingles with the house\\nsewage (almost an equal amount), becomes sewage, and must undergo the purification processes.", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n47\\nWater for dissolving the chemicals enters by a pipe from the town water mains. Air from a com-\\npressor is blown in at the bottom of the tank and the active agitation rapidly dissolves the chemicals.\\nThe outflow of chemicals to the sewage is regulated by a gate-valve. At present about 2.5 grains of iime\\nand 1.0 grains of sulphate of alunmia, are added per gallon of sewage treated. 1 he sewage is highly di-\\nluted with a large flow of ground water taken into the twenty-six miles of sewers in the town more than\\ntwelve miles of which are constructed in a saturated sub-soil.\\nRailroad Place (Brick Church).\\nThe filter-press consists of thirty-six cast-iron cells, supported on a simple frame, with a central\\nfeed passage into which the sludge is forced from the receivers. The cells are separated by canvas bags\\nand in the intercellular spaces the sludge remains, while the water is strained out through the canvas mto\\na trough on the rear of the press and returns to the tanks. On the end of the press is a capstan sere*\\nconnected with a throat-block which presses the thirty-six cells of the press into close contact. It ,s the\\nair pressure which separates the water from the sludge.\\nThere is nothing offensive about these cakes when pressed dry and, it protected from wate,\\nafter being taken from the press, may be kept in bulk for weeks without nuisance. But, m the presence\\nof heat and moisture, they become more or less objectionable.\\nAs the sewage enters the tanks, matters in suspension by their own gravity tend to deposit this\\ntendency is fostered by the arrangement noted of the cross-walls and floating interceptors. The coagu-\\nlated film formed by the chemicals entangles finer suspended particles and enticing other matters from\\nsolution, settles, oris precipitated in the tanks.\\nThe effluent water from the tanks is spread out over the surface of the ground in thin stream.\\nComing in contact with vegetation, some of the water is absorbed through the large bulbed roots of its\\ngras-s and more or less oration of the water, resulting in the combustion of nitrogenous matter, oc\\ncurs in its flow through the carriers and over the land.\\nThe soil acts on the effluent water first as a mechanical filter, straining out finer matters in sus-\\npension- it next performs the work of dividing up the water mto minute particles, and presenting an\\nincreased surface to the oxygen contained in the pores of the so,., oxidation or combustion of organic\\n^Tn^se^maintaining the works is about fifty cents per head of contributing population per\\nannum this Lount may be somewhat reduced when a larger part of the populate of the township\\nconnected with the sewers.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OI INTEREST.\\nATHLETIC SPORTS.\\nI isf (range stands in the from rank in F.ssex County in the matter of athletic sports. Not onh\\nomi ol the best wheelmen in the State of New Jersey to be found in its limits, but there are also\\nof the best amateur base ball, tennis, and foot ball players in the country to be found within its\\nii,n,ls Bul the chief I ,ri,1 of East Orange, is in the Orange Athletic Club, whose house and grounds\\n1\\nX III\\n^.._.\\nThe A i hi i i n Ci ub-House.\\nare within the precincts of the township. This organization, though only a little more than three years\\nold, has met with wonderful success, and is one of the strongest and most prosperous athletic associations\\nin the country. The idea of forming an athletic club was conceived by a number of well-known young\\nmi i of the Oranges, who were accustomed to spend their evenings at a local bowling resort. The idea\\nbecame popular at once, and the project quickly grew to proportions beyond any thing which its origin-\\nators had conceived. It was decided to interest the pubiic-spirited residents of the Oranges in a scheme\\nto form an organization which would rival any in the country, and be a monument to the enterprising\\nspirit of the community which the club was to represent. On April 4, r88 S about two hundred of the\\nbest known citizens of the Oranges, assembled in Music Hall to consider the feasibility of forming an\\nathletic 1 lub Plans were presented for a building 99x130 feet, which would contain billiard, reception,\\ndining and reading rooms, gymnasium, bowling alleys and tennis court. The estimated cost was from\\n820,000 to $25,000. It was proposed to raise this sum by subscription, ea h subs riber to receive stock\\nlor his subsi ription. A committee was appointed to canvass the matter among those interested in athletic\\n-ports in the Oranges. This committee met with remarkable success, and in July of the same year", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OE INTEREST.\\n4V\\nanother meeting was held. An otter was then received of a site on Halstead street, 160x270 feet, for\\n$9,000. This was favorably received, but as no subscriptions had been received the purchase was de-\\nferred, a committee was appointed to procure subscriptions, and instructed to purchase a lot as soon as\\n$15,000 was subscribed. In the following February another meeting was held, and the Orange Athletic\\nClub was orgaiized with the following officers President, Robert W. Hawkesworth; Vice President,\\nJ. Montgomery Hare; Secretary, H. B. Thomas; Directors, R. W. Hawkesworth, J. Montgomery Hare,\\nEveritt Frazier, Henry A. Pot-\\nter, John Pettit, J. B. Tilford,\\nA. P. Bailer, J. G. Morgan, G.\\nP. kingsley, A. D. Palmer,\\nWilliam A. Brewer, Jr.; T. B.\\nCuis and H. B. Starbuck.\\nSoon after the lot on\\nHalstead street was purchased\\nand the club-house erected\\nwithout the tennis building.\\nThe cost of this building was a\\nlittle over $13,000. The tennis\\nbuilding was erected in the fall\\nof 1887, at an additional cost of\\n$10,000. The club house was\\nopened in January, 1888, with\\na brilliant reception. The so-\\ncial standing of the club mem-\\nbers was such as to give it a\\nstatus from the outset, and the\\nutmost care is taken now to\\npreserve the social standing of\\nthe club. Ladies are admitted\\nto active membership, and are\\nallowed the use of the club-\\nhouse every day until three\\no clock in the afternoon The\\nladies make up about one-fifth of the membership of the club. The club now has a membership\\nof 600, and applications for membership are received at every meeting. President Hawkes-\\nworth has held his office since the organization of the club, and his zeal for its welfare and his efficiency\\nas an organizer have done much to promote its success. The other officers of the club are illiam\\nM Franklin, Vice President; Lewis H. Hyde, Secretary; and W. R. Hotchk.ss, Treasurer. 1 he Direc-\\ntors are R W Hawkesworth, William M. Franklin, F. Q. Barstow, Henry A. Potter, W. R. hotchk.ss.\\nAlfred P. Boiler, E. B. Aymar, John O. Heald, Lewis H. Hyde, Charles Wiley, Charles B. Gregory,\\nEdward Boote, Caleb Barker, Percy Griffin, Richard S. Storrs.\\nThe club-house is situated or the corner of Halstead street and Railroad avenue, and is sur-\\nrounded by a spacious and well kept lawn. A wide piazza extends along a portion of the front of the\\nmain building. The main doors open into a small lobby, on one side of which is the office. 1 he recep-\\ntion room leads off the lobby. Lis handsomely furnished, and the walls and ceding are tastefull)\\nornamented. In one corner is an old-fashioned fire-place, in which a log fire blazes in the inter Above\\nthe fireplace is a high, old-fashioned oak mantel. To the right of the reception room is the bdhard-roorn\\nwhich like the rest of the house, is well kept and handsomely appointed and decorated. Three billiard\\ntables and one pool table are in this room. The furniture is of oak. The reading and mus.c rooms on\\nthe second floor are also tastefully furnished. The gymnasium is a spacious room, 41x48 feet in dimen-\\nsions and 30 feet in height. It is supplied with the most modern apparatus. It communicates by means\\nof a private stairway with the dressing and bath rooms.\\n...p!\\nK ;.i .J c r\\nh\u00c2\u00bbVv .a.. j \\\\j\\nvC-V\\n-X.-\\n1 \u00e2\u0096\u00a0M^MiH U\\nGrove Street Grounds.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND IIS I Olxrs OF INTEREST.\\nThe tennis building Is one of the features of the club-house, It is in the rear ol the main build-\\ning indt .mmunicates with it by means ol i ivide entrance. This is the only covered tennis building in\\nexisten e. It is 100 feet square and is covered by an arching roof 45 feel high. it contains two full\\nsized double tennis courts. The flooring is ol two-inch Georgia pine, and eight large skylights afford\\nlight during the day. The ten-\\nnis building is also used tor\\nballs, receptions, 1 oncerts, en-\\ntertainments, etc. A temporar)\\nstage may be placed in an\\nappropriate position and seat-\\ning capacity is afforded with\\n800 chairs owned by the club.\\nThe club-house throughout is\\nlighted by gas, experiments\\nwith electricity having proved\\nthat gas was better adapted for\\nlighting purposes. Everything\\nabout the house bespeaks cosi-\\nness and elegance, and all to-\\ngether the Orange Athletic\\nClub has one of the best ap-\\npointed establishments of its\\nkind in the country.\\nThe gymnasium is one\\nof the most popular adjuncts\\nof the club. It is fitted up\\nwith the latest and most ap-\\nproved apparatus, and is in\\ncharge of a competent instruc-\\ntor. In connection with the\\nathletic club there is also a glee\\nclub, which is one of the finest\\nniffi\\niSt. t\\nPhoto Chs.lo. r.\\\\\\nFrom an instantaneous photograph taken September, 1890.\\nWALN1 1 StREI i NEAR Si MMER.\\norganizations of New Jersey, and\\nwhose concerts are exceedingly\\npopular. The glee club is under\\nthe direction of Arthur D. Wood-\\nruff, of the Xew York Mendels-\\nsohn Society. The foot ball team\\nof the Orange Athletic- Club has\\nbeen remarkably Successful in all\\nits contests, and the bowling team\\nhas already taken a high place\\nin the amateur bowling league.\\nA pair of new alleys have recently\\nbeen laid in the bowling depart-\\nment, at a c osl ol $500.\\nf*he 1 (range Vthletic lub\\nis also the owner of large and\\nwell arranged grounds near the\\nGrove streel station. These\\ngrounds contain running tracks", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "EAST ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n5i\\nand spaces for foot ball, base ball, tennis and other outdoor games, and have large and well constructed\\ngrand stands from which all games may be viewed. An instantaneous photograph of a running match\\nheld in September, 1890, on the grounds of the club, appears on the preceding page.\\nFour Oranck Residences.\\n(From Photographs taken by Frank P. Jewetl\\nWe have become so accustomed to associating the idea of rapid growth with towns and cities of\\nthe West that many have come to unconsciously believe that phenomenal development, as it it is gen-\\nerally called, is peculiar to that section of the country,and that the prevailing conditions, and the excep-\\ntionally enterprising character of the people there, combine to make results easy of accomplishment,\\nwhich we of the effete and timid East, as many of the Western papers have it, cannot hop\\nparallel. It is true that the West has developed as much in certain lines in half a century as Xew Jer-\\nsey has in five-fold that time it is true that that section has made gains in wealth and population\\nwhich have excited the wonder and admiration of the civilized world, but the wonderful develo] at ol\\nthe Oranges during the past few years, as a place of residence, can not be paralleled by that of any estern\\ncommunity for it has been accompanied by a corresponding development of culture and refinement,\\nthe Oranges now enjoying every advantage which a cultivated community requires.", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2922", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "x\\np\u00c2\u00bb w- r", "height": "2864", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3015", "width": "2080", "jp2-path": "orangestheirpoin00will_0066.jp2"}}