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 1873. 
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, by G;?orge L. Cati.iNj in the j'ear 1873, 
 in the Office ol the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
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 HAVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND 
 
 .A. Greneral A^ar-iet.y of 
 
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 LiDtels, Stess, Briflsiiig-Roci, &c., k. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 FINE-AXED SILLS, LINTELS AND WATER-TABLE, 
 
 And a general assortment of Stone of all dimensions. 
 
 General Offices^ - . - - MitUllefoirn^ N, T. 
 General Receivhig Yardf - Wesibroohvif/e, N, Y, 
 Branch lieceiving Yard^ - Jil/envil/e, N, Y, 
 
 Branch lieceivint/ Yard, - Qutn'ryville, N, «/. 
 General Transfer and Shix>P*no Yard, 
 Saniinittville, N. Y, 
 
 «^° Blue Stone Delivered at all Points on the Montclair R. B» 
 
 The principal Quarries are located at and around Westbrookville, on the Del. 
 and Hudson ('anal, aid at Sandburgh, and between Deckertown and Unionville, 
 on the N. Y. and Oswego Midland K. K., from which Quarries are developed 
 Stone superior to any yet offered in the market by com))eting dealers. It will 
 readily be seen that the Company have unequalled facilities for shipping Stone 
 both by Rail and Water to all parts of the United States. 
 
 For further information regarding prices, &c., communicate with 
 
 ]WLici<ileto>vii, 3N. "Y. 
 
 J. P. KILGOUR, General Manager, - Widdletown, N. Y. 
 J. S. FREER, President - - . Ellenville, N. Y. 
 
 W. J. GROO, Sec. and Treas., - - Middletown, N. Y. 
 
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 HOMES S MONTCLAIR 
 
 EAILWAY, 
 
 FOR 
 
 NEW YORK BUSINESS MEN. 
 
 A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY ADJACENT TO THB 
 
 Jersey City and Greenwood Lake. 
 
 Together with a Statement of the Inducements offeeed con- 
 jointly BY the Company, and by Real Estate and Propeett 
 
 OWNTEES along THE LiNE TO PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT 
 
 Residents from the Metropolis. 
 
 BY 
 
 *' Find me a bower in silent dells embayed, 
 
 And trebli/ guarded from each wind that blotos; 
 Where the blue noon o'erronfs the tranquil shade, 
 
 And poppies breathe an odor of repose; 
 Where never noises from the distant trorld 
 Diuturb the happy calm of soul and sense." 
 
 Bayard Taylor. 
 
 New York : <? 
 
 IPviblished. by the ZSIontclair Railway Coinprvny. 
 
 1873- 
 
INTRODUCTION, 
 
 Next to the construction of the railroad itself, nothing con- 
 duces so largely to the rapid and healthful development of a 
 newly-opened section of country as a systematic effort to fa- 
 miliarize the pubHc mind with the advantages, whether man- 
 ufacturing, agricultural, or as a region for residences, which 
 it offers ; and it will invariably be found upon observation, 
 other things being equal, that wherever energy and capital 
 have combined to keep constantly before the public, in an 
 attractive form, the claims of different suburban localities, 
 there has been a steady progress, and a growth almost mag- 
 ical. Convinced of this fact, the publishers adopt this 
 method of bringing into general notice the claims of the pic- 
 turesque and fertile region, which the recent completion of 
 the Montclair Railway has opened to direct communication 
 with the Metropolis ; and the candid reader, if he be bur- 
 dened with the cares and struggles incident to the mainten- 
 ance of a home and family in the crowded city, will find 
 herein facts worthy of his careful and prompt consideration, 
 and which, it may be, will open to him a new vista of pros- 
 perity and happiness for his future. 
 
 G. L. C. 
 
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 HERE ! " said Scruggs, one 
 afternoon. " There ! what's 
 to be done now?" 
 
 Scruggs was seated on a 
 
 high stool at a desk, in an 
 
 office down on Broad Street. 
 
 He had been sitting there from nine to 
 
 ^^^^five o'clock every day, save Sundays 
 
 ^"and holidays, for the last eight years. 
 
 ^And now Scruggs was twenty -seven 
 
 years old, and liis salary was eighteen 
 
 hMudred a year. 
 
4 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 " There !" he repeated, *' just what I've expected." And 
 he took up a newly opened letter that was lying on the desk 
 before him, and read it over again, to be sure he had not 
 been mistaken. No, there was no mistake about it. It said . 
 
 New York, February 28th, 1873. 
 Mr. ScRANTON Scruggs, 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 This is to inform you that after the first of May next, 
 
 the rent of the house No. Seventy-first Street, now occupied by you, will 
 
 be raised from nine hundred to twelve hundred dollars per annum. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 TERENCE DONOHUE. 
 
 And this was the intelligence which had elicited from the 
 young man on the tripod the despairing soliliquy, — " What's 
 to be done now ? " 
 
 Well, what was he to do ? Even with a rent of nine hun- 
 dred dollars to pay, he had found housekeeping a burden to 
 him. His family — there were only three of them to be sure — 
 had to be housed and fed, clothed and shod. Now and then 
 there came a bill from the doctor, and there were quite a 
 number of little unforeseen expenses, which, small in them- 
 selves, aggregated a considerable amount in the course of 
 the year. Scruggs had just managed to pull through th^ 
 year 1872 without getting into debt. He had foregone a 
 good many Httle luxuries and comforts, and so had his wife ; 
 and even then, at the end of the year they found they had 
 but fifty dollars balance to commence the new year on. 
 Poor Scruggs ! That letter of Mr. Donohue's — who, by the 
 way, had done some work on the new Court House during 
 the previous year or two, and was talked of as Alderman in 
 his ward, — was as a thunderbolt in the domestic camp of 
 the Scruggs', and plainly necessitated a removal somewhere. 
 
 But where ? No further up town, certainly. There were 
 some houses to be got in Harlem at pretty reasonable rates, 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 5 
 
 and convenient houses at that ; but Scruggs calculated that 
 it would cost him at least an hour more e . ery day to live up 
 there, while it already required between two and three hours 
 to go to and from his house on Seventy-first Street — so Har- 
 lem was out of the question. Then he might board some- 
 where, and give up housekeeping altogether. But that would 
 be out of the frying pan into the fire. He would be subjected 
 to the tyranny of some one or another of the various types 
 of landlady, who would dictate his diet, gossip about his wife, 
 and perhaps embitter his leisure moments at home, with tear- 
 ful reminiscences of her dear departed husband — " one of 
 the best of men, Mr. Scruggs, only, he would drink liquor." 
 And then, viewed in a pecuniary light, boarding-house life — 
 even if roseate in its other surroundings — promised him no 
 chance of laying aside any money from his income. He had 
 once thought of hiring a floor — or a " flat," as it is called — 
 
 over on Fiftieth Street and th Avenue. But there 
 
 was no privacy about that ! people tramping up and down 
 stairs continually — the wrong people getting your letters and 
 newspapers — half a dozen families crowded under one roof — 
 "No sir !" said Scruggs. ''My own house, all to myself, or 
 none at all." 
 
 So there v\'as only one other course left open — to move to 
 the country — to find a home in one of the quiet, pre'.ty 
 villages or towns which encircle Manhattan in a beauteous 
 coronet. But Scruggs knew but little more about these 
 places than an Esquimaux does of sunny Italy. He had 
 once taken a trip to Niagara Falls — his wedding-trip — had 
 visited Staten Island, Long Branch and Fort Lee on as 
 many different holidays in past summers, but when you 
 came to talk of Newark, Paterson, Montclair, or Pompton 
 to Scruggs, he remembered them only as places he had seen 
 
6 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 occasionally mentioned in the morning papers under the 
 head of ''Suburban News." But, as luck would have it, 
 just as Scruggs was revolving in his mind this idea of going 
 out into the country to find himself a home, the door opened, 
 and in came Mr. Coupon, one of the firm, and with him 
 another gentleman whom Scruggs remembered as a bR)ker, 
 doing business a little further up the street. They were 
 talking about the value of Montclair Bonds as an invest- 
 ment. " Why," said the gentleman, " that Montclair road, 
 inside of two years, is going to be one of the great trunk 
 lines between New York and the West. You've no idea of 
 the magnificent scheme its projectors have in contemplation. 
 There's a demand for more through lines ; every year sees a 
 wonderful increase in the freight and passenger traffic be- 
 tween the sea-board and the Mississippi Valley, and, mark 
 my words, there's no better investment in the market than 
 that which anticipates the enormous demand of a few 
 years hence for facilities in this direction. By-the-way, I 
 live out on the road myself — at Montclair. I bought a place 
 there for nine thousand dollars three years ago, and now I 
 wouldn't take twenty for it. The railroad has increased its 
 value at least a hundred per cent. And then, see how con- 
 venient it is — only three-quarters of an hour's ride from 
 Cortlandt or Desbrosses Streets. The ferry-boats are spa- 
 cious, and run regularly ; the cars are positively superb. 
 We read our papers and smoke our cigars when we come in 
 in the morning ; we chat comfortably with our friends going 
 home in the evenings, and consume less time in going to and 
 fro than I used to spend in the horse-cars when I lived up- 
 town. And then, you've no idea how the place is growing. 
 Why, sir^ there are homes enough, and good ones, out there 
 for all the young married men in New York, did they but 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 7 
 
 see the advantage of coming over there, and exchanging 
 their high-priced houses in the crowded, unhealthy city for 
 the clear, pure air and peaceful dwelling-places of the sub- 
 urbs. But," and the speaker glanced at his watch, " I must 
 be going, Coupon, to get that three-thirty train. We have 
 a Httle family reunion dinner to-day at half-past four, and I 
 wouldn't miss it. Good day. Don't forget about those 
 bonds the first thing in the morning." 
 
 Scruggs had listened intently to all this, and his mind was 
 made up. Defiance to Donohue, and a Home on the Mont- 
 clair was the form his conclusions had taken. So he pres- 
 ently asked Mr. Coupon if he had any objections to his 
 taking a holiday some day next week. Mr. Coupon didn't 
 see anything at present to prevent it. So that evening, Mr. 
 Scruggs, after he had got home, had his supper, and put on 
 his slippers, read to his wife the letter of the honored Ter- 
 ence, acquainted her with his conclusions in regard to it, 
 and proposed a trip together over the Montclair Railway for 
 some day during the coming week. So now, reader, you 
 have a full and authentic explanation of the circumstances 
 which brought Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs at nine o'clock, one 
 fine morning, to the foot of Desbrosses Street (they might 
 have taken the Cortlandt Street Ferry had they preferred it), 
 and resulted in the purchase of two excursion tickets from 
 New York to Greenwood Lake and return. 
 
 It is a delightful ride at any season of the year, even in 
 winter. But in the green and budding spring-time, when 
 nature, throwing off her frosty cerements, dons her robes of 
 verdure and attunes her strains to those which the season 
 awakens in the heart of man, few journeys for so short a 
 distance around the Metropolis develop so many scenes 
 of romantic and picturesque beauty. An ever-changing 
 
8 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 panorama of city and forest, meadow and crag, river and 
 glade, greets the eye, and nestling here and there amid the 
 smiling landscapes may be descried villages and hamlets, 
 half hidden among the foliage, and each marking with its 
 snowy church-towers and chimneys, the home of a prosper- 
 ous, Christian community. 
 
 So, if Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs will permit the writer to ac- 
 company them, he will probably be able to point out to 
 them, as they pass over the road, many little points of inter- 
 est which might otherwise escape their notice. There are, 
 also, some matters of a historical nature connected with 
 various points along the line, which will prove entertaining, 
 perhaps. There is a good deal in having a good guide, 
 whether you are visiting Rome or St. Petersburg, or making 
 a little one-day trip over the Montclair Railway. Here ! 
 these are our cars, and we've no time to lose. All aboard, 
 and off we go ! off through the busy thoroughfares of Jersey 
 City, through Bergen Cut, where no noisy, dingy tunnel de- 
 lays or endangers our progress towards the open country be- 
 yond, past that busy scene of industry, the United States 
 Watch Company's Works at Marion,' past the shady lanes 
 and cosy villas of West End to the junction overlooking the 
 vast stretch of meadowland beyond. What a glorious view 
 here presents itself — a sea of verdure, bounded on the west 
 by a ridge dotted with villages, and terminating in the great 
 pile of edifices which marks where the princely city of New- 
 ark has arisen within a little over two score years ; here and 
 there a wooded knoll rising, island-Hke, against the sky; the 
 Hackensack River winding in a thread of silver through the 
 green ; near at hand a "network of railroads diverging in all 
 directions, and far away, just visible in the distance, the 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 9 
 
 blue hills which mark where the beautiful Passaic finds its 
 way seaward. 
 
 But while we are contemplating this inviting scene, the 
 locomotive whistle announces that we are off again, and in 
 a moment or two we have passed over a substantial trestle- 
 work spanning the track of the Morris & Essex road, and 
 are brought by an easily descending grade to the level mea- 
 dow beyond. Away now we speed over the landscape. To 
 the north, may be seen, marked out by occasional passing 
 trains successively the Delaware, Lackawana & Western, 
 the Erie, the Midland, and the Northern Railroads — to the 
 south, the Pennsylvania, the Newark & New York, and the 
 New Jersey Central in the distance. What a network of 
 iron and steel these arid meadows have come to be. And 
 of all the roads traversing them our own is the shortest and 
 most direct to the hilly country beyond. For mark how 
 quickly we shall reach it, Now we cross Pen Horn Creek, 
 where a draw bridge permits the passage of vessels to the 
 great oil works, a short distance above ; next, we come in 
 sight of the twin hills, large and small Snake Hill, which 
 rocky, yet verdure clad, rise abruptly from the plain ; skiriing 
 the southern edge of the larger hill, and gaining glimpses here 
 and there of precipitous slopes, and great piles of boulders 
 strangely contrasting in wildness with the cultivated scenery 
 we have so recently left behind, we reach the Hackensack, 
 and can trace its silvery waters as they wind through the 
 green, far away in either direction ; now on again with re- 
 doubled speed, we cross the Belleville turnpike, and note by 
 its side the great water pipe through which Jersey City re- 
 ceives its daily supply of Passaic River water from the works 
 at Belleville ; now, the grade ascends and we leave the mea- 
 dows ; before us is the fertile cultivated ridge which forms 
 
lO HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 their western limit ; a ridge already dotted with cottages and 
 villas, and destined in a very few years to become as thickly 
 inhabited as Bergen Heights ; here we pass through a heavy 
 earth cutting, dash under a bridge, over which passes the old 
 Pollifly turnpike, connecting Newark with the Hackensack 
 region, and in another moment behold us at the depot at 
 
 ARLINGTON, 
 
 (6 miles ; 30 m n. 15 trains each way daily.) 
 
 To the locality immediately adjoining the depot at Arling- 
 ton, the recent coming of the railroad, with its direct communi- 
 cation to and from the metropolis, has imparted an unwonted 
 activity and hfe. For the reader will bear in mind that this 
 fertile ridge upon which we are now standing, and from the 
 summit of which, sloping down gently to the level of the 
 meadows on the one hand, and picturesquely to the Passaic 
 on the other, we obtain such a glorious and wide spread view 
 of the surrounding country, is the first terra-firma available to 
 New Yorkers for surburban residences after they have passed 
 the portals of the Bergen Tunnel or Bergen Cut. It is the 
 same fertile, healthful upland on which have already sprung 
 up, on the line of other and older roads, flourishing and rapidly 
 growing villages, chiefly populated by New York business 
 men. 
 
 In comparing this locality with others equi-distant from 
 the City Hall, let us take a map, and with the dividers strike 
 a circle eight miles distant. We are at once surprised to see 
 how small a portion of the area touched by this line can 
 ever be made available for residence. Commencing at Har- 
 lem, near 140th Street (which, being a populous part of New 
 York City, may be omitted from our consideration), let us 
 pass easterly and southerly on the circle, and we find that a 
 
H. H. LLOYD & CO., 
 
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 Maps Drawn, Engraved and Mounted to order. 
 RAILROAD MAPS PREPARED. 
 
 A large assortment of Local and United States always on hand. 
 Call and. See IVIap of 
 
 "1200 SQUARE MILES AROUND NEW YORK CITY." 
 
 21 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAm. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 ARLINGTON LAND COMPANY 
 
 ARLINGTON, N J. 
 Office, 218 Fulton St,, N. Y. 
 
 This is the most desirable location in the vicinity of New- 
 York for rural residences. 
 
 For full description of its advantages, see page lo 
 
 Blakiston, Hoffman & Williamson 
 
 REAL ESTATE AGENTS 
 
 For Purchase, Sale and Exchange of 
 
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 AT AUCTION OR PRIVATE SALE. 
 
 Special inducements and easy terms offered in 
 BUILDING LOTS AT ARLINGTON. 
 [[See advertisement above.] 
 
 OFFICES -^ ^'^ Fulton St., IN. Y 
 "' and«Arlington,:N. J 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. II 
 
 comparatively narrow ridge on Long Island, east of Williams- 
 burgh, is the only locality at all elevated. South of this lie 
 the lowlands of East New York, Canarsie and Gravesend ; 
 thence westerly the circle strikes Staten Island, Newark Bay, 
 Newark Meadows, ArUngton, Hackensack Meadows, Pali- 
 sades, and across Hudson River to the point of beginning. 
 Thus, in a circle having a circumference of 48 miles, we find 
 not more than one-third the extent capable of being used 
 for residences. 
 
 The localities which can be made available are Long Island 
 Ridge, Staten Island, Arlington and the Palisades. The high- 
 est portions of these respective localities do not differ much 
 in elevation, say 125 feet to 150 feet in height. Let us now 
 take a trip from the City Hall to each of these places. To 
 reach Long Island at or near Newtown, we can cross to 
 Brooklyn, thence by horse cars to Bedford, and reach our 
 destination in about two hours, or, for a change, can cross 
 to Hunter's Point, and thence by steam in little less time. 
 To reach Staten Island we can sail down the Bay, and hav- 
 ing landed, can go inland on foot or otherwise, reaching our 
 destination in from one and a half to two hours. If we have 
 a house on the Palisades, we can go up the Island by horse 
 car to 85th Street, and cross Weehawken Ferry, and walk 
 inland as far as we please, or we can go by Pavonia Ferry 
 and the Northern Road, and walk two miles from the Station 
 to our Palisade home, occupying two hours time. To reach 
 Arlington we cross from Cortlandt or Desbrosses Street, and 
 in ten minutes are seated in luxurious cars, which, in fifteen 
 minutes more we leave, and step out into the cool shades 
 and rural retreats of Arlington, two miles nearer than the 
 City of Newark, and occupying an elevation which com- 
 mands a perfect view of all the surrounding country. This 
 
12 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 delightful section, hitherto inaccessible, is now brought to 
 near proximity by the Montclair Division of the Midland 
 Railway. 
 
 Here is the site of a great future city, and those who secure 
 homesteads now will be rewarded by a rapid increase in the 
 value of their property. The old fogies who are usually 
 found opposing improvements in country places, have already 
 been swept away, leaving a clear field for the progressive 
 army of occupation. We can say with truth, that no locality 
 within the same distance from the City Hall, presents to the 
 man of salary or of moderate means so many and so great 
 advantages as are offered here at Arlington. But is it 
 healthful ? That is just the question that the writer 
 of this asked one of the natives whom he found liv- 
 ing there. He was a rugged looking man, of sixty odd 
 years. " Well," says he, " I reckon I don't look sick — 
 if I do, my looks are deceitful, for no doctor ever darkens 
 my doors. There is my wife in the garden, she has always 
 lived here — does she look sick ? " I looked and behold — an 
 amazon, who could lift a barrel of cider into a cart. " There 
 is my father just over the fence — what do you think of him ?" 
 I looked, and the old man was moving around as lively as a 
 cricket. '' He has always lived on that place, and is now 105 
 years old." His name was John Van Emburgh, and he has 
 since died at the age of 107, as all the inhabitants there can 
 testify. No argument is needed to supplement such facts. 
 
 Property owners at this point, in anticipation of the com- 
 ing demand for Homes on the Montclair, have already made 
 improvements upon a scale indicating a determination to 
 render it a favorite home for New Yorkers. Every reason- 
 able encouragement will be offered to actual settlers in the 
 way of low prices and easy terms by the " Rural Homestead 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 13 
 
 OFFER FOE SALE 
 
 BUILDING LOTS 
 
 IN 
 
 ARLINGTON, 
 
 A lew Eods Norlli from tlie Monlclair Railway Station. 
 
 5@* These Lots are nearer New York City than any land 
 west of Bergen Hill, being 
 
 Six Miles from Jersey City Ferry, 
 
 and adjoining the first station on the Montclair Division of 
 the New York Midland Railway. 
 
 Address 
 
 J. H. PRATT, President, 
 
 No. 25 Nassan St., New YorL 
 
.14 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 Company," (advertisement of which company will be noted 
 by the reader herewith). 
 
 Grand Avenue, eighty feet wide, extending southward a 
 distance of one and a half miles from the railroad to the 
 Stone Bridge at East Newark, has been laid out, graded, 
 planted with shade trees, and is now adorned with several 
 handsome residences. Kearny Avenue, another street of the 
 same width, and destined to extend from East Newark to 
 Rutherford Park, six miles north, is also opened through the 
 property, as are also a number of other fine highways inter- 
 secting at right angles, and dividing the land into convenient 
 and desirable sites, each commanding a view of superb 
 scenery. To the Eastward, or from almost any point upon 
 this hillside, on a fair day, one can follow with his eye the 
 line of the Palisades till it loses itself in the haze to the 
 northward; can trace the silvery line of the Hackensack 
 winding through the intervening meadows ; see every hour 
 a score of whizzing trains gliding serpent-Hke in distant 
 silence across the plain, and to the southward scan the 
 gleaming waters of New York Bay, and the misty heights of 
 Staten Island beyond. Nor is the view alone the claim upon 
 which this lovely spot bases its desirableness as a home. In 
 point of convenience it offers too its attractions, the churches, 
 schools and stores of both Belleville and Newark being within 
 easy distance ; and these too are soon to be brought nearer 
 by the proposed establishment on Kearny Avenue of a line 
 of horse cars to Newark. 
 
 Land can be purchased at Arlington in lots at prices vary- 
 ing from $250 to $500, while it sells at $2500 or $3000 by 
 the acre. 
 
 Leaving this attractive spot; we hurry on toward the sum- 
 mit of the ridge, where our attention is attracted by the first 
 
HOMES ON THE iMONTCLAlR, 1 5 
 
 great engineering work encountered in the construction of 
 the road. For, in order to reach the Passaic Valley beyond, 
 it became necessary to open a long deep cutting through the 
 hill, and through this great gap with its jagged walls, re- 
 echoing with a deafening rattle the clatter of the wheels, our 
 way now lies. If the passenger in riding through the Kearny 
 Cut (for such is the name by which it is known), will take a 
 glance from the rear window or platform, he will perhaps 
 gain a better and more comprehensive idea of the enormous 
 amount of work necessary to complete this great passage way 
 from valley to valley ; this new link between the Hackensack 
 and Passaic regions. The rock-ribbed battlements towering 
 up eighty feet high on either side, until they almost exclude 
 the sunlight, seem to look down menacingly upon the ^en- 
 croachments which man's handiwork has wrought, to break 
 in upon their ages of undisturbed repose, and our train, 
 winding its rapid way between them, loses for the nonce its 
 wonted suggestion of grandeur and force, and assumes in the 
 depths of this lonely chasm an air of unmistakable insignifi- 
 cance. But ere this thought has fairly presented itself to 
 the traveler, the sides of the cut grow rapidly lower, the 
 trees that line their verge come once more into view, and 
 the Engineer whistles " down brakes " for 
 
 KEARNY, OR Passaic Bridge, 
 
 {6)4 miles, 33 min.; 15 trains each way daily,) 
 
 deriving its first mentioned name from the township, which 
 in turn derives its name from the time honored Kearny 
 family, whose name is inseparably and honorably linked with 
 the militaryand naval history of New Jersey, and to whom 
 formerly belonged a large tract in this immediate vicinity. 
 The residence of the late Gen. Philip Kearny, a stately 
 
1 6 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 Structure, evincing, in the elegance of its appointments and 
 surroundings, the cultivated taste of its former distinguished 
 inmate, stands upon the Passaic River bank, about two miles 
 to the south, and the Kearny homestead, once occupied by 
 the General's uncle, Robert Watts Kearny, Esq., is still 
 pointed out on the other side of the river. 
 
 If the prospect a moment ago in the cut was gloomy and 
 oppressive, how gloriously in contrast with it is the magnifi- 
 cent spectacle which now breaks upon the vision. For our 
 roadway emerging from the bowels of the hillside, leads us 
 past a dense grove of cedars, which line the river, and in 
 another instant carries us upon the bridge which here spans 
 the Passaic at a height of forty-five feet. If one were sud- 
 denly shot out into mid-air over the river from its precipitous 
 bank, the eff"ect could hardly be more instantaneous and 
 startling; while the variety and beauty of the picture so 
 quickly presented on all sides, inevitably elicits a regret that 
 the train cannot come to a stand still for a few moments at 
 a point so commanding. For, glancing from the car window, 
 one gains a birds eye view of the river, up and down stream, 
 and of a landscape as thoroughly cultivated probably as any 
 to be found in this wide world. Looking north, or from the 
 right hand side of the car, we discern on the east bank the 
 great brick chimneys of the Belleville Water Works, (whence 
 Jersey City is supplied), and of the Belleville Laundry, re- 
 cently quite famous as the spot where the question of Chinese 
 labor has been satisfactorily solved. On the west bank the 
 eye rests upon the charming town of Belleville, nestling amid 
 a dense growth of foliage, with here and there a spire or 
 chimney peering through skyward. Then, if we turn and 
 glance down the stream, a scene of equal beauty awaits us, 
 the east bank lined with beautiful villas ; the west dotted 
 
HOMES ON THE MONICLAIR. 17 
 
 with the dwellings, and shops and factories which, gradually 
 growing more numerous, as the eye follows them southward, 
 terminate in the grand pile of brick, and stone and mortar, 
 and the forest of masts which mark the adjacent City of 
 
 NEWARK (WooDsiDE),' 
 
 (7 miles, 33 minutes ; 15 trains each way daily.) 
 
 For speedily rega'ning terra fir/iia, we pass over the river 
 road to Belleville, the Paterson and Newark Railroad, the 
 Belleville Plorse Car Line, all of them spanned by substantial 
 bridges, and then once more come to a stand still. 
 
 Here, then, behold us arrived at a city of an hundred and 
 thirty thousand inhabitants, and that too within a brief 
 ride from New York. The frequent tinkle of the horse car 
 bell, the wide well graded streets, the long line of gas lamps, 
 and the occasional policeman, all tell us that we are no longer 
 in the country, but in an extensive and well regulated city^ 
 which year by year is spreading out its hands and redeeming 
 from solitude fields and woodlands, once deemed inaccessible 
 and remote."^ It was but two years ago that the beauiifut 
 village of VVoodside, forming that portion of Newark through 
 which our line passes, was incorporated into the city limits, 
 but since that time its growth has been magical. On the 
 numerous streets and avenues that have been opened there 
 have sprung up rows of attractive residences, many of them 
 of brick and stone, and all of them in the finished modern 
 styles of architecture. Washington Avenue, one of the great 
 Boulevards, which a far seeing system of public improvement 
 has projected, from the heart of the city to its remotest 
 
 * Some interesting facts concern ng the growth of Newark will be found pub- 
 lished in Appendix A. 
 
1 8 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 suburbs, trav^erses this section of Newark, and crossing the 
 city boundary line at Second River about three hundred 
 yards north of our track, continues en thence through Belle- 
 ville to the line of the adjoining county of Passaic. This 
 great artery of travel is to be macadamized during the present 
 year. 
 
 A ride of twenty minutes in the horse cars brings one 
 from the Newark Depot of the Montclair Railway to the 
 business center of the city. The cars run at intervals of fif- 
 teen or twenty minutes. Frequent communication is thus 
 afforded to those desiring to do shopping, marketing, or 
 theatre-going; but in the matter of the purchase of the 
 necessaries of daily life, the resident of this section will find 
 ample accommodation in the numerous stores in his imme- 
 diate vicinity.* Another fact well worthy of mention with 
 regard to the ^yoodside section, is that while possessing the 
 advantage of being within the police, fire and mail district, 
 it contains not a single rum shop, or nuisance of any descrip- 
 tion within its borders. Those residing here enjoy too, un- 
 usually good educational and religious facifities. In Wood- 
 side alone there are Episcopal, Dutch Reformed and Presby- 
 terian churches, a good public school and several private 
 schools ; while in Belleville, not over ten minutes walk dis- 
 tant are to be found also Episcopal, Dutch Reformed, Method- 
 ist and Roman Catholic churches, and sirailiar facilities for 
 instruction of the young. In fact, Belleville, connected by 
 horse cars and by intimate business relations with Newark, 
 though nominally divided from it, is virtually a continuation 
 of that city, and will probably at no distant day be incorpor- 
 ated with it. 
 
 *See advertisements of F. Tomkins and J. P. Bradley elsewliere. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 1 9 
 
 FOR SALEatWOODSIDE 
 
 A Tract of Eighteen Acres ! 
 
 iA^>'joi!iif!£^ Mo fclni; /^ai/ii'av Depot.') 
 
 -A^vailciljlo for Dwelliniis and. INI an vi factories. 
 
 This propert}^ has a frontage of about 500 feet on tlie Passaic 
 River, is interseoted by the Patersoii and Newark Railroad, is with- 
 in the city limits of Newark, and is mapped out in streets 
 and squares on the official map of the city* Its facilities for 
 railway and water transportsition render it especially valuable for 
 manufacturing purposes, Avhile it also includes many desirable 
 building sites. To be sold as an undivided whole. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 BELLEVILLE LOTS & BUILDING SITES! 
 
 Improved property for s;ile, graded, curbed and flagged, within 
 three minutes walk of the Depot. Gas and water facilities cer- 
 tain within a few months. No more convenient or desirable loca- 
 tion for a •' Home ou Ihe Montclair." Address 
 
 S. V. C. VAN RENSSELAER, 
 
 744: Broad Street, JSrtvark. 
 
 The attentive reader will not therefore have failed to ])er- 
 ceive tliat as an available place for the selection of a subur- 
 ban residence, the Woodside section of Newark in its ])rox- 
 imity to, and frequent connection with New York, and its 
 intrinsic attractions, offers claims well worthy of the intending 
 purchaser's careful consideration. And it may be remarked, 
 too, that there will be found oiTered for sale near this point, 
 some very desirable property, available either lor dwellings or 
 manufacturing purposes. Adjoining the Depot is a fine tract 
 of eighteen acres, mapped out into streets on the city map, 
 having a river frontage of five hundred feet, intersected by 
 the Paterson and Newark Railroad, and possessing therefore 
 great facilities for transportation by manufacturers as well as 
 convenience and beauty of location for those who build there 
 their homes. This tract, together with a number of improved 
 
20 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 lots at Belleville, (within 800 feet of the depot), and on streets 
 already graded, curbed and flagged, and through which both 
 water and gas pipes will be laid within a few months, will be 
 found advertised for the reader's information herewith. 
 
 Within the city limits at Woodside, single lots are, owing 
 to the demand for property, already scarce in the market. 
 Those that are offered, arc quoted at $1000 for a space of 
 25x100 feet, and $2500 for a space of 50x150. The adver- 
 tisement of Mr. John W. Joralemon, published below, calls 
 the reader's attention to some very desirable property which 
 he offers for sale. His office which was est?^blished four 
 years ago at this point, will be found to be the Real Estate 
 Headquarters for this vicinity. 
 
 LOTS, PLOTS & VILLA SITES 
 
 -AT— 
 
 Cottages and Country Seats S2,000 to $100,000. 
 
 ^P"My Tlegister contains a complete list of all Real Estate oflFered in Wood ride 
 ^^T" Plans and specifications furnished and 
 
 JBuildimgs Erected, to order, 
 
 * JOISN W. JORACE^SOIV, 
 
 "^Vashington Aveniae, (near £$epot«) 
 
 Before resuming our journey, let us pause for a moment 
 to note the scene presented on the north or right hand side 
 of the track, as we tarry here at the Depot. The antiquated 
 but comfortable looking residence, with its numerous out 
 houses which stands a little in front, and to the right of us is 
 the property of the Bird family, wealthy and old residents of 
 this vicinity. Yonder among the trees which line the bank 
 of Second River, are the ruins of an extensive hat factory, 
 destroyed by fire a few years ago, and shortly, it is said, to be 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLATR. 21 
 
 rebuilt and put in operation. Upon the knoll overlooking 
 house, river and ruin, stands the Belleville Roman Catholic 
 church, a neat and shapely structure, and about it cluster 
 numerous dwellings us evidence of the growth and progress 
 which of lale years has been swee})ing over all these New 
 Jersey hillsides. 
 
 But now we are off again, and in another moment Newark 
 is behind us. 
 
 We are now traversing the summit of the western ridge of 
 the Passaic Valley, a wide plateau upon which are visible in 
 many newly opened streets and numerous dwellings, abun- 
 dant indications of its proximity to the advancing city. Now, 
 we see on our left the cutting through which diverges the 
 Branch to the populous town of Orange, and a short distance 
 beyond we come suddenly upon a heavy grove of cedars, 
 fringing at its western limit the abrupt gorges through which 
 the Second River finds its way. Along our entire route we 
 shall perhaps find no more romantic bit of scenery than this. 
 The high, almost perpendicular banks of the chasm covered 
 with moss and verdure, and shaded into a twilight darkness 
 by the overhanging evergreens ; the black, deep waters 
 flowing between ; the glimpse, down the stream, of smooth 
 shaven lawns, and luxuriant foliage, and here and there a 
 dwelling half concealed amid the green ; the view up the 
 stream, of successive piles of brick walls and chimneys, 
 whence comes the unceasing whir and rumble of machinery, 
 all combine to make up a picture, which truthfully portrayed 
 on canvas, would charm the connoisseur. 
 
 But while the scene still Hngers in the retina, we stop 
 again, and this time, at the depot at 
 
22 
 
 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 HENDRICKS BROTHERS, 
 
 PROPRIKTORS OF THE 
 
 RoUiii Mills, 
 
 MA NUFA CTURERS OF 
 
 BRAZIERS' BOLTS AND SHEATHING COPPER, 
 
 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Ingot Copper, Block Tin, Lead, spelter. Antimony, Copper Rivets,Wire, & Tinners' solder. 
 No. 49 CLIFF STREET. 
 
 Between Beekman and Fult on Sis., W £ W YORK. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, 
 
 (8 miles ; 36inin. 15 trains each way daily.) 
 
 where land advantageously situated, can still be bought in 
 large tracts at low prices. The natural beauty of location 
 combines with a high dry soil and a beautiful atmosphere to 
 induce the seeker for a " Home on the Montclair," to give 
 their united claims a careful consideration before searching 
 farther. Montgomery, in addition to her railroad faciUties, 
 enjoys frequent and rapid communication with Newark by 
 the Bloomfield line of horse cars. Nor should her business 
 life and industries be overlooked, for visible from the car 
 window is a little city of brick walls and chimneys with scores 
 of cottages about them, which make up the works known 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCI.AIR. 23 
 
 since time immemorial as the Belleville Copper Rolling 
 Mills, one of the first of the kind established in the United 
 States. For in the year 1813, owing to the blockade upon 
 our ports by British cruisers, and the consequent discontinu- 
 ance of importations of manufactured copper, as well as the 
 large amount of raw material in the country at that time 
 offered at less than cost of production, the occasion was 
 deemed a favorable one for the establishment of an enter- 
 prise of this kind. How successful it has been, and how 
 great its growth, may be inferred from the simple statement, 
 that while five hundred pounds of finished copper was then 
 considered a good day's work, the capacity of the mills is now 
 ten times as great, w^iile it is further a source of national 
 pride and gratification that, by enlarged machinery and im- 
 proved processes of refining, the enterprising proprietors, 
 Messrs. Hendricks Bros., have so far reduced the cost as to 
 be able to compete successfully with the markets of the old 
 world. Here in this busy hive of industry are produced the 
 largest and heaviest sheets of copper in the world, measuring 
 ten and a half feet in diameter, weighing nearly a ton, and 
 yet coming as smoothly and easily direct from the roller as a 
 sheet of paper from a printing press. To such perfection 
 has the art of copper rolling been carried by the Messrs. 
 Hendricks. 
 
 From Montgomery, our course still lying a little north of 
 westward, soon brings us in view of the spires and chimneys 
 of 
 
 BLOOMFIELD, 
 
 (9 miles; 39 m;n. 15 trains each way daily.) 
 
 And first crossing the Morris Canal, which traverses this, the 
 eastern end of the village, we find ourselves once more at a 
 
24 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 Standstill in a good old-fashioned New Jersey tov/n, the his- 
 tory of which is identified with the history of the State, and 
 which, though now feeling the inevitable impulse of modern 
 improvement, yet contains many quaint and interesting land- 
 marks and relics of the olden time. The substantial stone 
 church, distinctly visible to the southwest of the depot, was 
 erected in 1796, and in other more remote portions of the 
 village may still be seen by the lover of antiquities many 
 curious old dwellings, telling unmistakably their stories of a 
 century ago. 
 
 Bloomfield was originally settled by a part of the colony 
 of New Englanders, which founded Newark. During the 
 Revolution, its people were subject to frequent depredations 
 by bands of marauders and freebooters from the British 
 posts, and especially from the garrisons at Bergen Heights, 
 opposite to New York. Some noble acts of daring are nar- 
 rated in illustration of the patriotic spirit which animated the 
 people of Bloomfield to repel these invasions, one of which 
 will be found recorded in another part of this work. (See 
 Appendix B). 
 
 Of late years Bloomfield has enjoyed an annually increas- 
 ing popularity as a place of residence for New Yorkers, 
 especially during the summer season. But now, with its ex- 
 tended railway facilities, with horse-car communication with 
 Newark, and with frequent trains to and from the Metropolis 
 passing through both the upper and lower portions of the 
 town, it assumes an attractiveness as a place where people 
 doing business in New York may conveniently reside all the 
 year round. Its population is about eight thousand, and its 
 manufacturing industries are numerous and productive ; its 
 streets ard avenues are wide, straight, shaded and well kept; 
 its sidewalks are generally planked or flagged ; its public 
 
HOMF.S ON iHK MONTCLAIR. 25 
 
 square, or " military common," as it was once called, forms 
 an attractive place for recreation and strolls, and its public 
 enterprises are conducted upon a scale of liberality most 
 creditable to its people. There are here seven churches, 
 ('three Presbyterian, one Episcopal, one Roman Catholic, one 
 Baptist and one Methodist) a German Theological Seminary, 
 a well conducted paper. The Bloornjield Record^ published 
 by Messrs. McDivitt & Hulin, a Free Reading Room, several 
 public Halls, Masonic, Odd Fellows and O. U. A. M. Lodges, 
 three Public Schools, (one high school and two primaries), 
 one or two Select Schools, and for the accommodation of the 
 transient visitor an excellent Hotel, (Archdeacon's) and flor- 
 ists' greenhouses, which will be found advertised elsewhere. 
 The handsome brick School House, standing near the old 
 Presbyterian Church, previously mentioned, was erected at a 
 cost of thirty thousand dollars, and is a model of architectural 
 beauty. 
 
 During the present summer it is expected that gas will be 
 introduced into the village, thus offering another inducement 
 to those contemplating removal hither. Ti^ere are many 
 valuable and eligible building sites within easy distance of 
 the depot at this point, and the adjacent country abounds in 
 lovely drives and rambles. The rates at which lots can be 
 purchased vary of course according to location, but it may 
 however be stated that good lots can be had at from $700 to 
 $1,000, and villa sites at $2,000 and $2,500 per acre. De- 
 finite information regarding particular localities can be ob- 
 tained by addressing Mr. Horace Pierson, whose advertise- 
 ment will be found on the next page. 
 
 Leaving the Bloomfield depot, we pass in full view of the 
 old church and new school house, in which are so plainly con- 
 trasted the ancient and the modern, cross by a high embank- 
 
26 HOMES ON IHE MONiCi-AIR. 
 
 Real Estate aiid liisii ranee Agent. 
 
 Office adjoining Archdeacon's Hotei,, (within 10 minutes walk of Montclair 
 Railway Depot, BL.OOMFIELD, New Jersey. 
 
 Residences, Building Lots and Farms to cut up into Villa Plots tor Speculative 
 Purposes for sale on money making and accommodating terms. 
 
 ment and bridges the turnpike road, connecting the upper 
 and lower extremeties of the village, and leading thence 
 to the country beyond ; and then, by an ascending grade, 
 traverse the ridge overlooking Bloomfield from the west. On 
 the left^ the eye rests in passing upon a beautifully laid out 
 cemetery, its avenues bordered with dense well trimmed 
 hedges of box, and shaded by a wealth of evergreens. From 
 this point, too, one looking back gains a^pleasing view of the 
 village which he has just left. Upon this ridge is located the 
 depot called 
 
 CHESTNUT HILL, 
 
 (lo miles ; 41 mi 1. 15 trains each way daily.) 
 
 which is in reaUty another depot for the accommodation of 
 that portion of the peoi)le of Bloomfield who have already 
 availed themselves of the advantages of the immediate vicin- 
 ity as a place of residence. This ridge is admirably adapted 
 for villas where commanding views and picturesque surround- 
 ings are required to perfect the ideal of landscape gardening. 
 We next reach 
 
 MONTCLAIR, 
 
 (For distance, time and trains see, further on ) 
 
 the thriving and beautiful town which gives our railway its 
 name. And the arriving traveler, viewing for the first tim.e 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 27 
 
 the Stately churches and the substantial brick bui'dings, 
 which adorn the village center, or glancing further off at 
 the numerous clusters of elegant private residences which 
 grace its outer Umits, at once perceives that he has reached a 
 place of no ordinary enterprise and attractiveness. If he 
 continue his observations still further, and, alighting from the 
 train, devote an hour or two to a stroll through the town, he 
 will be more than ever convinced that his first impressions 
 were correct. He will find good sidewalks upon every street ; 
 stores at which can be purchased all the necessities of daily 
 life at New York prices ; churches representing the Episcopal, 
 Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Unitarian and 
 Roman Catholic denominations, one of them, the Congrega- 
 tional church, having been recently completed at a cost of 
 $75,000 ; a graded public school (including a High school in 
 which youths are fitted for college or business), employing 
 eight teachers, with an average attendance of nearly four 
 hundred pupils, and occupying a brick school house which 
 cost $25,000 ; a Young Ladies' Seminary for boarding and 
 day scholars, and a Kindergarten ; a free Library and Read- 
 ing Room conducted under the auspices of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association ; a fine PubUc Hall, available for lec- 
 tures, concerts and theatrical entertainments ; and many use- 
 ful industries, prominent among which may be mentioned the 
 Steam Saw and Planing Mill of Taylor Bros. & Co., which 
 is advertised herewith. 
 
 This much the visitor will find that the hand of man has 
 done to render Montclair a place of growing attractiveness 
 and importance. But, Nature, he will find, has done fully as 
 much or even more. For, situated on the gently sloping moun- 
 tain side, which affords both a genial shelter and an admirable 
 
2 8 HOMES ON THE MONTCI.AIR. 
 
 TAYLOR BROS. & CO., 
 
 STEAM SAW AND PLANING MILL, 
 
 And Doalsrs in all kinds of 
 
 BUILDn^a MATEPvIAL. GAOL, KINDLIHG WOOD. etc. 
 
 year Delntvave, Iiachaucanna & Western It. li. Depot, Montclair, N. J. 
 
 Wakken S. Taylor, William M. Taylor, Thomas McGowan. 
 
 natural drainage, and surrounded by an undulating land- 
 scape, in which no swamp land exists to give forth its un- 
 healtliful miasmas, Montclair may justly claim, in its natural 
 advantages, an inferiority to no suburban town or village 
 about New York. It is said to be the only place within 
 fifteen miles of that city that is absolutely free from fever 
 and ague, while the wonderful salubrity of the atmosphere 
 completely eradicates the disease from the system of any 
 new comer who may have been previously afflicted with it. 
 
 Many people with bronchial or lung diseases, have been 
 restored to health by a residence here. The annual visita- 
 tions of dysentery or typhoid, common elsewheie, have 
 never prevailed here, an<3 there is so little use for a ceme- 
 tery, that the people have just voted to dispense with the 
 ground which was appropriated for that purpose by the first 
 settlers of 1660, and herea'ter to patronize the more populous 
 cemetery of a neighboring town. 
 
 So much for the subject of health. But in picturesque 
 beauty of surroundings too, Montclair challenges our admira- 
 tion. Let the visitor who would appreciate this fact, ascend 
 to the summit of Washington Rock, and take his stand in 
 the summer house which crowns its topmost crag. Below 
 him I'es spread out the village with its closely built center, 
 and its villa lined avenues, stretching out antennae-like in all 
 directions. Beyond are Bloomfield and Newark ; further still 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 2g 
 
 the heights of Bergen, and in the background, standing out 
 clear and distinct against the sky, the spires and chimneys of 
 the Metropolis. From this rock the great General whose 
 name it bears, watched our enemies while they occupied New 
 York City and Harbor. Their ships could be seen witli the 
 naked eye, and their flag descried by the telescope. Turning 
 westward the observer looks down upon the fertile Verona 
 Valley, beyond which lies the village of Caldwell. Almost di- 
 rectly under his feet, a distance of nearly an hundred feet down 
 in the rock and clay, passes the tunnel, which in its completion 
 is to open connection between the two valleys, and alford a 
 passage way for our Morristown Branch, which here diverges 
 froin the main line, and the embankment of which may already 
 be seen extending up to the mountain's base. 
 
 The early history of Montclair is indentical with that of its 
 sister town of Bloomfield, for, prior to 1868, Montclair was a 
 portion of Bloomfield township. But with the infusion of 
 progressive ideas, there came a proposition that the former 
 be set off as a separate township, a proposition which was in 
 
 New York's Most Attractive Suburb. 
 
 Samuel W. Tubes, 
 
 NEW YORK OPPIOE, - - No. 71 BEOADWAY, 
 
 ROOM 78. 
 
30 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAH^. 
 
 tlie year specified confirmed by Legislative enactment. Since 
 that time the growth and popularity of Montciair as a place of 
 residence for New York businessmen, have been assured. The 
 population has already increased to 3500, and property which 
 a few years ago sold for merely nominal prices, is now valu- 
 able and in frequent demand. Some beautiful avenues, 
 among which may be mentioned Bloomfield, Mountain, Ful- 
 lerton and Orange Avenues, Park Street and Valley Road are 
 opened or improved, thus rendering available many desirable 
 building sites. Upon such avenues, land can be bought at 
 prices varying from $500 to $1,000 per lot (50x100), or from 
 $2000 to $4000 per acre. 
 
 There are four depots in Montciair, the first of which is 
 
 Walnut Street Station. — (11 miles, 45 minutes; 15 
 trains each way daily.) — At this point a spacious and beau- 
 tiful iron depot, a turn-table and wind-mill (which supplies a 
 water-tank) have been erected, and here too diverges the 
 branch to Morristown just m.entioned. This station is nearest 
 the business center, and the more closely built portion of the 
 town, 
 
 Passing northward toward the base of the mountain, with 
 a fine rolling farm land on our right, and the mountain 
 slope, here and there diversified by meadow land and 
 dwellings, on our left, we suddenly find ourselves at the second 
 depot, 
 
 Watchung Station (12 miles, 48 minutes; X5 trains each 
 way daily), where our attention is attracted by another 
 handsome depot, constructed entirely of iron. The dis- 
 covery of this shapely structure gives the alighting traveler 
 gratifying assurance that there exists about it a population 
 
32 HOMES ON THE MONiCLA.k. 
 
 who appreciate the benefits and conveniences of a railroad, 
 bringing new Hfe and prosperity to tlieir very doors. 
 
 There are some charming bits of scenery about Watchung 
 depot, looking both north and south. The attractions offered 
 by the neighborhood as a place of residence are generally the 
 same as at Walnut Street, with the difference only of three 
 minutes additional ride. 
 
 Still running northward and on an ascending grade, we 
 come next to the third depot, 
 
 Cliffside Station. — (13 miles, 52 minutes; 15 (rains each 
 way daily), the point at which our railway touches the base 
 of the mountain, and one consequently which is especially 
 worthy the attention of those who may desire to secure 
 homes upon the mountain side, and yet be within a -few 
 minutes walk of the casr. 
 
 The natural advantages of the locality had, previous to the 
 coming of the railroad, induced the settlement here of quite 
 a number of famihes, and the opening of a school, and 
 have more recently been greatly enhanced by the estabHsh- 
 ment of a general store, and the opening of an avenue to 
 connect with the Newark and Pompton turnpikes, or Bloom- 
 field Avenue, on the other side of the mountain. In the 
 opposite direction, Bellevue Avenue atfords direct communi- 
 cation with Stone House Plains, less than a mile distant, 
 where can be discerned the spire of a substantial brown 
 stone church. Nor is this vicinity devoid of historic tra- 
 ditions. It was here that General Lafayette was encamped, 
 and one, looking from the car window, may see on the edge 
 of the woods, on the left of the road, an old house^ 
 many of the stones in the foundation of which were pre- 
 viously used in the floor of the General's tent. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 33 
 
 Here at Cliffside, as indeed elsewhere in Montclair, one 
 investing in land can hardly go amiss ; the salubrity of the 
 atmosphere, the healthfulness of the surroundings, the beauty 
 of the scenery, and the faciHties for communication — all 
 combine to render a large advance upon present prices almost 
 a certainty. 
 
 Passing hence northward along the base of the mountain, 
 we reach the fourth and last Montclair depot. 
 
 Mountain Ave. Station. — (14 miles, 56 min. ; 15 trains 
 each way daily), which the Company has selected as the 
 starting point for its local trains, and where will be erected 
 a turn table and a round house, in which the iron horses 
 which pull these trains will be stabled over night, ready for 
 their trips to town in the morning. 
 
 Residents at Mountain Avenue are thus able to t^ke their 
 train at its starting point, an advantage which those who 
 have lived at the terminus of a line of railway will appre- 
 ciate. 
 
 Here, as at Cliffside, one may avoid the expense of car- 
 riage and horses, and yet live upon the mountain side. For 
 though there has been but little apparent ascent, we are now 
 actually some two or three hundred feet above the level of 
 the Walnut Street station, which we left a few moments ago. 
 Indeed, after a walk of three minutes from the depot, the 
 visitor is surprised to find that unconscious of ascent, he has 
 reached an elevation, from which, to the south, he may see the 
 Narrows, whitened with the sails of countless vessels ; to the 
 north, the Fishkill mountains, blue in the distance, and be- 
 neath him an intervening country, dotted with wide spread 
 towns and villages. 
 
34 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 The visitor, on alighting at this highly picturesque point, will 
 find that unusual attractions have been offered to purchasers 
 by some of the more enterprising adjacent property owners. 
 Within a stone's throw of the depot, are numerous available 
 building situations of rare attractiveness, for persons of both 
 large and moderate means, while a short distance beyond^ 
 and rendered accessible by the newly-opened Beauvais Av- 
 enue, commencing at the Valley road, on the east of the 
 First mountain, and extending to the west of it, near the 
 residence of Mr. C. N. Bovee, (whose advertisement see), 
 and opening some of the grandest views in the vicinity of 
 New York, are many villa sites, equally unsurpassed in at- 
 tractiveness, and accessibiUty to New York business men. 
 
 iMt%^ ^^near "The Glove," or "Mountain Ave." Station,Montclair township, for sale 
 Advantages — Few minutes walk to Depot ; distance to New York 15 miles ; yearly com- 
 mutation less than 12 cents each way ; admirably adapted for division into places of resi- 
 dence for New York Business Men ; partly divided into half acres or 200 by 200 ft. lots, 
 the rest divisible into 1, 2, 3^4, 5. or more acres: scenery singularly varied and striking, 
 views similar to those from Eagle Rock, Llewellyn Park, with level approaches to them ; 
 very attractive drives near and over the properties ; road lines nearly two miles in length ; 
 half-mile of finest natui*al Trout Brook near New York, known as Pearl Brook ; good and 
 plenty of water ; perfect drainage ; abundance of Freestone, easily got out, suitable for 
 Duilding ; beautiful chestnut, hickory and cedar grove ; 600 apple, pear and plum trees, 
 young and of choice varieties ; the best fruit and farm garden between Paterson and 
 Newark ; healthfulness unsurpassed ; large improvements in immediate vicinity by en- 
 terprising capitalists who have lately bought a number of farms : various and fine resi- 
 dences soon to be built near part of the properties— 73 acres — a little to west of First 
 Mountain on the very handsome ridge dividing Verona Valley, and commanding one of 
 the most magnificent i)rospects in New Jersey ; the rest a little to the east of Firsli 
 Mountain, and overlooking New York, the Narrows, Ac. Owner, C. N. BOVEE, Cedar 
 Grove, near premises; office of Bovee & Richakds, Counsellors, 52 Wall St., N. Y. 
 
 Appreciating the lovely scenery, the healthful surround- 
 ings, the facilities for communication with the city, and the 
 certainty of a rapid development of the adjacent region, fol- 
 lowing the completion of the new railroad, quite a number 
 of professional and business gentlemen from the Metropolis, 
 (among whom may be mentioned, Hon. S. L. Woodford, 
 Wm. H. Arnoux, Esq., and Drs. T. C. Brainerd and Daniel 
 Ayres), have already secured handsome properties for Summer 
 retreats, in and near this most charming of rural localities. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONJ CI AIR. 
 
 THE STONE CRUSHER. 
 
 Four miles from Montclair, up the " Clove," which is a 
 north and south canon in the First Mountain, and just where 
 the ''Great Notch" cuts it at right angles, are located the 
 works of "The Telford Pavement Co." They have four 
 steam-driven "stone crushers" in operation, and here is 
 their source of supply for the material used in macadamizing 
 Bloomfield Avenue— a fine four mile Boulevard, stretching 
 from the " Mountain Top" at Montclair, to the city of New- 
 ark. Trap rock is hauled from their quarry in the imme- 
 diate neighborhood, broken to the required grades, and 
 screened directly into the cars of the Montclair Railway by 
 their ingeniously arranged machinery. They have a daily 
 furnishing capacity of about three hundred (300) tons of 
 broken trap, giving employment to a large number of men 
 and teams. 
 
 The Company's operations are of manifold benefit to this 
 section of the country, by utilizing the hitherto useless rock 
 of this mountain range in constructing the finest macadam 
 roads to be found on this continent. 
 
 Mr Danl. Brennan, Jr., the President of the Company, 
 was the first to introduce this excellent system of road 
 making in this State a few years since, and through the tire- 
 less efforts of himself and his associates in the Company, 
 it has continued to develop and extend until it has become 
 the popular road of the counties adjoining New York City. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 THE TELFORD PAVEMENT CO 
 
 INCORPORATED 1872. 
 
 DANIEL BRENNAN, Jr. 
 GEO. SPOTTISWOODE, 
 
 Pres't & Sup't. 
 Secy. £ Treas. 
 
 PRIHGIPAL OFFICE, ORANGE, II J. 
 
 The Telford Pavement Co., have quarries and stone cutting machines 
 
 AT GREAT NOTCH ON THE MONTCLAIR RAILWAY, 
 
 AT CENTERVILLE, ON THE MORRIS CANAL, 
 AT FIRST OR ORANGE MOUNTAIN, 
 
 AT ORANGE AND SOUTH ORANGE, N. J., and 
 AT PLAINFIELD, UiVION CO., N. J. 
 They have made miles of their road for the cities of Newark, Orange, Plain- 
 field and Bayonne, the towns ot East and West Orange, and for the Essex 
 County Road Board. 
 
 Their roads are invariably constructed in a FIRST-CLASS MANNER, 
 upon a foundation of large trap stone and successive layers of crushed rock, 
 rolled with a steam roller. 
 
 Eleven steam engines, three steam road-rollers and eight stone ciushers, are 
 constantly in operation, enabling the Company to do an unlimited amount of 
 work in the counties of Essex, Passaic, Union and Hudson. 
 
HOMES ON IHE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 PROPERTY OF EAST JERSEY LAND CO. CEDAR GROVE. 
 
 CEDAR GROVE. 
 i6 miles ; i hour. 6 trains. 
 
 South of Little Falls we have Cedar Grove, one of the most choice 
 localities within an hour of the great city. Beautifully sloping from the 
 banks of Peckham river to the tops of several mountains, its wide 
 avenues and rectangular squares, give assurance of present and increas- 
 ing attractions, as its fine villa sites find occupants. The look-out over 
 the valley of the river to the spires of Paterson in the distance, gives a 
 pleasing picture of unequaled variety. The soil is well adapted to 
 gardens, lawns, and ornamental shrubbery. Abundance of excellent 
 water exists for wells — where the living streams flowing between the two 
 moimtains, will give at a future day an ample supply for hydrants, if 
 required. The location is misurpassed for health. The land above 
 plotted is owned by the East Jersey Land Co., Office, 38 Montgomery 
 St., Jersey City, where apply. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 35 
 
 Our next stopping place is 
 
 GREAT NOTCH or Ridge Road. 
 
 (15 miles ; i hour. 15 trains each way daily.) 
 
 We are now in the great mountain passage known as " the 
 Notch," the only point within a range of eleven miles at 
 which, without tunneling, the engineer could carry his road- 
 way over to the Peckman River Valley, which bounds the 
 mountain's western slope. During the Revolutionary days 
 Washington regarded this wild defile as an important point, 
 and close at hand are dug up to this day, relics which mark 
 the camp ground of the riflemen whom he stationed here as 
 advanced posts to give notice of the approach of predatory 
 parties of the enemy. The scenery of the Notch is extremely 
 
 "HOI^ES ON THE IIONTCLAIH" 
 
 — AT — 
 
 GREAT NOTCH, 
 
 FAMOUS AS A 
 
 ROMANTIC AND PICTURESQUE MOUNTAIN RESORT, 
 
 And this season, for the first time, open to railroad connection with 
 the Metropolis. 
 
 OR ANY PANTITY FROM ONE TO ONE HOPRED ACRES, 
 
 FOR SALE AT 
 
 JMIoderate ^Prices &, IJasy Terms of I»aymeTit. 
 
 I St Tract — 1 00 ACRES and upwards, situated only ]4 mile northfof Mountain 
 Avenue station, and }i mile south of Great Notch station, or Ridge Road. 
 2cl Tract— 31 ACRES, situated ^ mile west of Great Notch station. — 
 
 IW All the above property commands a magnificent view of the surround- 
 ing country. For fuller description see pages 36 and 37. 
 
 Fjor farther information, address 
 
 EDWARD FRANCISCO, 
 
 JAttle I'alls, New Jertey. 
 
3"6 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 rugged and picturesque ; nor any the less so when viewed 
 from the car platform, as one moment we whirl through a 
 deep cutting ; next whiz around a long curve, describing 
 more than a semi-circle ; then suddenly shoot over a great 
 trestle work bridging a chasm, and from the summit of which 
 we catch a long vista of forest and hillside — then through 
 another rock ribbed cut, and around another curve, until, no 
 matter how sensitive or well trained maybe the travelers 
 bump of direction, he will probably be obliged to confess that 
 he has lost the points of the compass for just this once. 
 
 The advertisement of Edward Francisco, Esq., one of the 
 largest land owners in Passaic County, will be found on 
 page 35, and calls the attention of the prospective purchaser 
 of a '^ Home on the Montclair," to some choice and attrac- 
 tive sites at this point, which he places upon the market for 
 the coming season. The visitor can either alight at Mountain 
 Avenue, and by a ride of half a mile reach a portion (or the 
 first tract), of this property, or can go on to the station at 
 Great Notch or Ridge Road, and thence by a walk or drive 
 of only a quarter of a mile, reach the same spot, comprising 
 a tract of upwards of one- hundred acres, every foot of which 
 is eligible for residences. A quarter of a mile west of the 
 latter depot, on the slope overlooking the lovely Passaic Val- 
 ley, he can reach, too, another tract of thirty-one acres, con- 
 taining numerous desirable building sites. The view ob- 
 tained from almost any point on this property is superb. 
 
 A bill has been introduced into the Legislature making the Directors ot 
 the Board of Freeholders of Passaic, Bergen and Hudson Counties, Com- 
 missioners with full power and authority to lay out and construct a public road 
 from the " Notch " to Weehawken, via the Paterson Plank Road near Secau- 
 cus, and passi ig over the Passaic River at Rutherford Park, which will give a 
 superior outdrive for the wealth and fashion of New York, and connect these 
 two great points of interest, Central Park and the picturesque Great Notch. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 37 
 
 Indeed, it is safe to say of this and of Mr. C. N. Bovee's 
 large neighboring homestead properties, that the views from 
 them are among the most magnificent to be found within an 
 equal distance (14 miles) of New York city. To the 
 north is Paterson, to the west Boonton and the Fairfield 
 Valley, below are Little Falls and Singack, with the Verona 
 Valley stretching away to the southward ; while if the eye 
 wanders away to the northwest, it discerns the spire of the 
 Pompton Plains church, and finally rests upon the hazy blue 
 outlines of Long Pond Mountain, near the northern confines 
 of the State. And if the visitor ascend the mountain to the 
 east, a walk of ten minutes brings him to a glorious view of 
 Montclair, Bloomfield, Newark, Manhattan, and the rounded 
 hill tops of Staten Island in the distance. The healthfulness 
 of this vicinity is unsurpassed ; springs of the purest, coolest 
 water abound ; the soil is fertile, and in some places indi- 
 cates the presence of rich veins of iron ore beneath, awaiting 
 development ; the drives are unusually fine, Paterson and 
 Montclair being each only four miles distant, and new 
 avenues, affording convenient access to the adjacent depots, 
 are opened or being opened through the property. 
 
 To purchasers in large tracts Mr. Francisco will sell at 
 $500 per acre, and his offer is well worthy of attentive con- 
 sideration. 
 
 We next cross the Peckman River by a high bridge, catch 
 a view of Cedar Grove, and in a few moments more, are 
 at the village of 
 
 LITTLE FALLS, 
 
 (18 miles ; i hour and 3 minutes. 6 trains each way daily.) 
 
 Situated on the Passaic River, and deriving its name from 
 the rapids which here descend fifty-one feet in half a mile, 
 
38 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 and are to some extent utilized for manufacturing purposes. 
 The Morris Canal here crosses the Passaic by a beautiful 
 stone aqueduct of 80 feet span, The City of Paterson is 
 only four miles to the north, and even at this distance the 
 river, winding between overhanging bluffs, high enough to 
 contain a river of twenty times its depth, gives in the forma- 
 tion of its banks, here and there rising in perpendicular faces 
 of rock crowned with cedars, indications of its approach to 
 the great chasm into which ere long it is to leap, at the 
 famous Passaic Falls. . 
 
 For Little Falls, the coming of the Montclair Railway, 
 which passes through its center, is an incalculable benefit, 
 inasmuch as a ride of a mile has hitherto been necessary to 
 reach the nearest railway station. As a consequence, there 
 are expectations, and just ones, of a large increase in the 
 number of residents, permanent and transient, from the Me- 
 tropolis. It is to be regretted, however, that much of the 
 property available for residences is held by parties who are 
 not desirous of selling it, a fact which may to a considerable 
 extent retard what would otherwise prove a rapid and profit- 
 able development. 
 
 There are here two churches (Methodist and Dutch Re- 
 formed), a Public School, a Carpet Factory, two Hotels and 
 several stores. Stages run twice a day to Paterson, and 
 there are three mails to and from the rest of the world. 
 During the coming summer horse cars will probably be run- 
 ning from Paterson to Little Falls, making the entire distance 
 in about one hour.* 
 
 A mile beyond Little Falls, we come to old fashioned 
 
 * See adrertisement of Allen & Dunning published elsewhere 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 39 
 
 PASSAIC FALLS. 
 
40 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR, 
 
 SINGACK, 
 
 (19 miles; 1 hour and6 min. 4 trains each way daily.) 
 
 an antiquated relic of the days when High Dutch and Indian 
 together formed the only jargon spoken in this part of New 
 Jersey. The Singack Creek passes through the village, 
 which is scattered over an area of a square mile or so, and 
 in the vicinity are some of the most extensive brick yards in 
 the State. 
 
 Beyond the Singack Depot, we again cross the Morris 
 Canal, and reach the intersecting point of the Delaware,. 
 Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at 
 
 MOUNTAIN VIEW, (formerly mead's basin), 
 
 (si milss ; 1 hour, 16 min. 4 trains each way daily.) 
 
 Here we are well up in the world, or topographically so at 
 all events, but there is, it must be confessed, but little in the 
 surroundings to woo one hither in search of a residence. The 
 village itself, (it retains its name of Mead's Basin), is a small 
 and unpretentious one, situated hard by, and can claim no 
 especial attention unless it be on account of its wonderful 
 resemblance to a dozen other sleepy canal villages to be 
 found within as many miles on either side. 
 
 And now, for the second time in our journey, we cross 
 the Passaic River, and at a point not far from its confluence 
 with the Pompton River, which, in turn, is formed a few 
 miles above by the united waters of the Pequannock, the 
 Wanaque and the Ramapo, issuing from as many valleys,, 
 which, fan like, open off from the upper end of Pompton 
 Plains, which we are now approaching. And here we stop 
 at the little station of 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 4I 
 
 PEQUANNOCK, 
 
 (23 miles ; i hour and 20 minutes ; 6 trains each way daily.) 
 
 Deriving its name from the township, and boasting a store, 
 school and post office, and a considerable population living 
 within a distance of a mile or more about the depot. 
 
 And now, looking from the car window, on both sides, we 
 see a wide stretch of level and well cultivated farm land, 
 bounded in each direction by gently sloping"; mountains. No 
 longer do we look down through long ,vistas] of mountain 
 gorges, or hear the clatter of our wheels reverberated back 
 from rocky precipitous walls — here the prospect is open, 
 peaceful, fair ; we see a landscape dotted with farm houses 
 of the more substantial kind, well watered by running 
 streams, and evidently in a high state of cultivation ; here and 
 there a church spire rises, or a curl of blue smoke from a tall 
 chimney, showing where men's hands and brains are at work. 
 Yes, this is 
 
 POMPTON PLAINS, 
 
 (25 miles ; i hour and 24 minutes. 6 trains each way daily,) 
 
 A locality famous for its fertility and prosperity even since 
 the earlier days of New Jersey's settlement. Here upon our 
 left we see the Pompton Plains Church, the congregation of 
 which was first organized in 1736. Within its congregation! 
 limits were then included what are now the congregations of 
 six churches. At the commencement of the Revolutionary 
 War a Hberty pole was put up on the ground near the par- 
 sonoge, which the Tories cut down several times. At length 
 the people put up one and defended it with bars of iron, at- 
 taching it to a sign board, with these significant words, 
 
42 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 •'" Liberty, Property, No Popery."* The traveler will observe 
 that a liberty pole stands near the church to this day, proba- 
 bly as a land-mark which the people are averse to removing. 
 
 Purchasers of property about Pompton Plains depot will 
 find it a pleasant neighborhood, with many agreeable and 
 cultivated families residing there. There are also store and a 
 hotel, while up and down the valley the roads are good and 
 the drives attractive. 
 
 Pompton, which covers an area of six miles or more, has, 
 it may be said, three centers of population : the first of these, 
 Pompton Plains, we have just visited ; the second one we 
 reach, and probably the most densely populated, is known as 
 the Pompton Steel Works, and to reach this we alight at the 
 next station, 
 
 RIVERDALE, 
 
 (26 miles ; i hour, 28 minutes. 6 trains each way daily.) 
 
 Situated about in the center of the Plains, and surrounded by 
 charming meadow lands, rising here and there into attractive 
 elevations for building sites. But, as is previously intimated, 
 Riverdale is chiefly important as the point at which passen- 
 gers alight for the quite populous village lying half a mile to 
 the south, under the shadow of Colfax Mountain, and within 
 sound of the unceasing roar of the Pung-tong Falls of the 
 Ramapo, which, here emerging from the seclusion of Arrareek 
 Lake, through which it finds its way, hurries forward down 
 the valley to join its sister streams on their march to the sea. 
 In addition to the steel works, which employ a large force 
 of workmen, there are here an Episcopal church, a good ho- 
 tel, a post-office, several stores, and a very handsome iron 
 
 * Memorial Sermon of Rer. J. V. N. Schenk, Nov. 22, 1871. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 43 
 
 bridge, spanning the Ramapo. Hard by is the ancient resi- 
 dence of the Colfax family, which in revolutionary days, 
 furnished the country a gallant commander for General 
 Washington's body-guard, and in modern times a Vice-Pres- 
 ident. In the little square enclosure, adjoining the family 
 mansion, can be seen the simple shaft which marks the last 
 resting place of the former. 
 
 From Riverdale diverges on our left; a track by which 
 through trains can run direct to Bloomingdale, and thence 
 on over the main line, instead of going around by way of 
 Pompton Junction. 
 
 The third center of population is known as Pompton 
 Church, and to reach this we must aUght at the station known 
 as 
 
 POMPTON, 
 
 (27 miles ; i hour, 30 minutes. 6 trains each way daily.) 
 
 where our road crosses the Bloomingdale turnpike, on which 
 a short distance to the right stands the church referred to, 
 together with a few dwellings and an hotel. But, we scarcely 
 stop here, for a few hundred feet ahead of us is the double 
 bridge spanning the noisy Pequannock, and on its further 
 side is 
 
 POMPTON JUNCTION, 
 
 (27X miles ; i hour, 32 minutes. 6 trains.each way daily.) 
 
 where we cross the Une of the New Jersey Midland, and en- 
 ter the portals of the picturesque Wanaque Valley. To the 
 right stands Ramapo Mountain ; to the left, Federal Rock, 
 twin pillars, guarding the entrance to a region so compara- 
 tively unknown, and yet so wildly beautiful. 
 
 Here at the Junction there appears to be prospect of con- 
 
44 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 siderable development. A hotel to accommodate fifty 
 guests is being built, one or two streets have been cut and 
 graded, and several small dwellings put up, and the Com- 
 pany propose to erect, at the intersecting point of their two 
 lines, a handsome depot for their joint use. 
 
 And we now are hastening up the Wanaque, (sometimes 
 erroneously written Wynockie) Valley, the same wild region 
 which one reaches by taking the Sterling Railway, from Ster- 
 ling Junction on the Erie Railway. Passing up this valley^ 
 which seems to grow narrow as we advance, we see here and 
 there old stone houses marking the homes of the descendants 
 of those pioneers who first dared penetrate and establish their 
 homes in this secluded spot ; and presently we cross the 
 Wanaque River, and stop at the village of 
 
 WANAQUE, 
 
 (31 miles ; i hour, 42 min. 4 trains each way daily.) 
 
 a small scattered settlement lying principally on the west, or 
 left hand side of the track, and boasting a Methodist church, 
 a store or two, and a public school. About two miles west 
 of the village, on High Point Mountain, are the Wanaque 
 mines. There is also a small mine about half a mile north- 
 east of the station. 
 
 A little, perhaps not over three quarters of a mile, further 
 up the valley, we reach 
 
 MIDVALE, 
 
 (31^ miles ; 1 hour, 52 min. 4 trains each way daily ) 
 
 a Station better known to the residents of the country for 
 twenty miles around as ** Coon Tice's." Ask a man in the 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 45 
 
 Wanaque Valley, the way to Midvale, and ten to one he'll tell 
 you there's no such place ; but there's not a. man, woman or 
 child from Ringwood Furnace down to Pompton Plains, but 
 can point straight to Coon Tice's, no matter what hills and 
 brakes intervene. 
 
 Coon Tice, Esq., has kept a tavern here since a week or 
 two after the date on which Columbus discovered America ; 
 and no ordinary tavern either, but a good old time hostelry, 
 where genuine cheer for man and beast can be found winter 
 and summer. Does a sleighing party start out from Mont- 
 clair on a moonlight night in winter ? To Coon Tice's they 
 go. Do the Paterson City Fathers determine upon an offi- 
 cial spree ? Roast Pig at Coon Tice's. In fine, of all land- 
 lords in all Jersey, none more enticing than Tice. 
 
 Well, here is his place. Look out the window here on 
 the left. A number of barns and stables, and behind 
 them the house, a rather more pretentious frame building 
 than most we have thus far seen in the valley. There is 
 an air of cultivation visible, too, in the presence of a bird- 
 house or two, and neat fences. In fine, without affectation 
 or ceremony, the people at Coon Tice's always make the 
 visitor comfortable, and send him away with a joyful coun- 
 tenance and an appetite knocked to splinters. 
 
 GO AND SEE COON. 
 
 Half a mile beyond his haven of rest is another one of 
 another kind, the Midvale Methodist Church, a modest edi- 
 fice, standing within a few feet of the track. If it were Sun- 
 day, we should, doubtless, in passing, see horses and wagons 
 tied up at all the trees and fences near by, with groups of 
 half-grown youths lounging about the front steps ; or, per- 
 
46 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 haps, it might be our good fortune to catch a faint wafting 
 of the quaint harmonies of the choir, or the sound of the 
 exhorter within. 
 
 But next we cross Stony Road, a highway well named if 
 ever one was, and come afterward in full view (on the left 
 hand side) of Furnace Pond, formed by the widening of 
 Wanaque River at this point. In olden times, a furnace in. 
 operation at the lower end of this pond gave it the name it 
 still retains. 
 
 And now the mountains on our left rise in successive 
 knolls or points to a surprising height, giving a new gran- 
 deur to the scenery. Winbeam and Bear Mountain in tura 
 rear their wild crests, while beyond them are Green Hill and 
 Tory House Hill, the latter named, presumably, from some 
 interesting revolutionary incident. While we are admiring 
 the vastness of these long declivities, a glance to the right 
 suddenly discloses the valley opening off on that side into a 
 wide and comparatively level tract, through which flows the 
 Ringwood River to join the Wanaque. And now, here we 
 are at 
 
 RINGWOOD, OR BOARDVILLE, 
 (35 miles, 2 hours; 4 trains each way daily.) 
 
 The last name to this immediate vicinity is the most ap- 
 propriate, for hereabout are the possessions of the Mr. 
 Board, in whose honor it was bestowed. But here, too, 
 diverges the branch road to Ringwood, a little mining village 
 of 500 inhabitants, three miles distant, situated within half a 
 mile of the State Line, and known by many as the place of 
 residence of Messrs. Abram S. Hewitt and Edward Cooper, 
 the proprietors of the mines, and whose dwellings, though lo- 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 47- 
 
 cated here in this comparatively remote spot, are marvels of 
 elegance and completeness. 
 
 The Ringwood Branch transports large quantities of coal 
 to and ore from the Ringwood Works, the only outlet of 
 which hitherto has been the Sterling Railway, which, ope- 
 rating in connection with the Erie, has furnished but one 
 train per day. 
 
 Leaving Boardville, our course turns off to the north-west, 
 and we skirt the mountain side, looking down upon some 
 charming sylvan scenes. Yonder, in the valley, embowered 
 in foliage, can be seen a comfortable residence of the olden 
 time, part of it stone, and constructed a hundred years ago. 
 Think of the manhood and adventure it required to come 
 and build a home over a century ago in this wild region to 
 which the railroad has only now brought its welcome clatter. 
 Yet those walls are suggestive of comfort and good cheer, 
 and are occupied by Messrs. Schermerhorn of New York, 
 who have purchased a large and valuable tract just above, 
 with the intention of developing at once its wealth in lumber 
 and minerals, and of utiHzing for manufacturing purposes the 
 fine water power furnished by the Wanaque ; just above we 
 shall see where they have already constructed a dam and 
 erected a mill, and where, too, on yonder mountain, whole 
 acres have been clean shaven of timber by the axes of their 
 sturdy workmen. And, look, here we are at 
 
 MONK'S, 
 
 (38 miles ; 2 hours, 10 min. 4 trams each way daily.) 
 
 deriving its name from the occupant of the neighboring farm 
 houses. Here a much traversed county road crosses th& 
 
48 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 track, thus affording easy railway communication for the 
 population of the adjacent country. For a while this was 
 the terminus of the road; but the completion of the heavy 
 rock cutting just beyond opens the way now to 
 
 RINGWOOD FURNACE, 
 
 (41 miles ; 2 hours 15 min. 4 trains each way daily.) 
 
 Where there is also quite a mining village and a post office, 
 and whence stages connect for 
 
 GREENWOOD LAKE, 
 
 (43 miles ; 2 hours 30 min. 4 trains each way daily.) 
 
 Have you, reader, ever been to Greenwood Lake ? Every 
 year the number of pilgrims to this sylvan Mecca has been in- 
 creasing ; have you helped to swell the throng ? For a long 
 time passengers had to reach it at the expense of a three 
 hours' ride on the Erie cars to Monroe, and thence stage it 
 over the mountains for nine or ten miles. But they came, 
 even in spite of that. Then last year the Midland carried 
 them to Newfoundland, and so saved them about an hour's 
 staging. With those faciHties, the crowd of visitors to the 
 Lake increased perceptibly. But what will be the rush this 
 summer, with the Montclair Railway cars running direct 
 to the Lake itself, and transporting sweltering passengers 
 from New York and Newark, in a comparatively short ride, 
 to this most delightful of mountain lakes ? For, weary of 
 the threadbare joys of Long Branch, Lake Mahopac and Fire 
 Island, the wealth and fashion of New York will eagerly 
 pounce upon this last and most beauteous pearl in the coro- 
 net of adjacent summer resorts. 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 49 
 
 But here in the mountain soUtudes, the arriving traveler 
 will find amid the most romantic and varied surroundings, 
 all the comforts and appliances of civilized life. For years 
 past, knowing tourists have made Greenwood Lake an indis- 
 pensable part of their summer trip ; but how few there are 
 comparatively who have really known what a charming 
 place it is, this cool, quiet lake, sparkling like a jewel in the 
 emerald setting of the mountain top. How few, on reaching 
 its wooded marge, will be prepared to find in waiting a lively 
 little steamboat, (brought up in pieces all the way from New 
 York), with steam up and all ready to convey them to their 
 destination. There are accommodations for hundreds of 
 guests, good pure water, bracing air, glorious scenery, fine 
 drives, boating, bathing, fishing and flirting, and all these too 
 within daily business distance of New York. To such a. 
 terminus as this, then, does our newly completed railway bring 
 the traveler, carrying him over no hum-drum, common-place 
 section of country, but through a scenery as varied and 
 beautiful as any in the world ; past cities, over rivers, through 
 mountain gorges, across smiling, peaceful landscapes, and, 
 finally, landing him here on the mountain top at the verge of 
 a lake as beautiful as Como or Maggiore. And hard indeed 
 to be pleased must he be, who, desiring a home in the rural 
 regions whither daily he may fly from the dust and turmoil of 
 city business life, cannot somewhere or another in this 
 panorama choose a spot where, 
 
 " Full in the center of some shady grove, 
 
 By nature formed for solitude and love. 
 
 On banks arrayed with ever blooming flowers, 
 
 Near beauteous landscapes, or by roseate bowers," 
 
 for the remainder of his days he may dwell under his own 
 vine and fig tree, and with Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs, bless the 
 day that he set out to look for a " home on the montci..air." 
 
50 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 ^APPENDIX A. 
 
 From the New York Times^ December 30, 1872. 
 
 It was in the month of May when those old emigrants from 
 Connecticut pitched their tents on the site of the present large and 
 thriving city of Newark. Had they arrived later in the year 
 they would probably have chosen some favored spot for their fu- 
 ture home which was not quite in so close proximity to the 
 marshes and their annual Autumn pestilence in the shape of 
 mosquitoes. But in spite of marshes and mosquitoes, Newark has 
 grown, as the old ladies say, beyond all knowledge, and with a 
 rapidity, of late years which throws the growth of New York and 
 Brooklyn into the cold shade. In twelve years the population of 
 the city has more than doubled, (in 1858 it was estimai'ed at {50,000, 
 at the beginning of this j'^ear it was estimated at 125,000,) factories 
 and mills of all descriptions have sprung up, others are in course 
 of erection, banks and wholesale trade are coming to the front, 
 and Newark dives its hands deep down into its well-filled pockets, 
 and looks complacently around with an air of satisfaction and 
 honest pride. 
 
 Capt. Robert Treat, of Milford, and Parson Abram Pierson, of 
 Branford, the first with a following of forty-one, the second with 
 a company of twenty-three persons, took possession of their new 
 settlement in 1666, having bought it of the Indians for the stereo- 
 typed collection of guns, blankets, knives, liquor, &c. Fifteen 
 years afterward Newark had a population of 500 souls, and owned 
 10,000 acres of town lands and 40,000 acres of outlying plantations. 
 In 1713 it was made a township by Queen Anne, but still its early 
 growth was very slow and tedious, and in 1810 the population was 
 less than £,000. The Sentinel of Freedom, the oldest newspaper in 
 the State of New-Jersey, its first number having been issued 5th 
 October, 1796, gives the following census returns for 1810, in its 
 number for 19th March, 1811: 
 
 Number of inhabitants in 1810 in the town plot of Newark, 4,388 
 Number of dwelling houses, ------ 668 
 
 Number of stores, barns, stables, &c, . - - - 644 
 
 In those days the principal business of Newark and the other 
 towns of Essex County was the maaufacture of cloths, stuffs and 
 general woolen goods, boots, shoes, and slippers, distilling and 
 carriage building. The value of the aggregate product of the 
 country was only $1,210,471. To-day the manufacturing business 
 of Newark alone is not less than $90,000,000 a year. The Board 
 
HOMES ON THE MoNTCLAIR. 5 1 
 
 of Trade returns for 1871 give tlic number of manufacturing 
 CBtablishments at 1,015, the capitil invested, $;U,4()7,(;70; the 
 number of hands employed, 29,147; the amount of wages paid, 
 $14,7G7,257, and the value of the products $72,H70,0;5(;. 
 
 With regard to the convenience of Newark as a place of resi- 
 dence for men doing business in New York, nice plots of land, 25 
 by 100, in desirable localities, for the erection of a house, can be 
 bought for $2,000 to $2,500. Six to twelve-roomed houses, with 
 every convenience and all the modern improvements, can be rented 
 in the best parts of the city at from $500 to $800 a year. 
 
 « « 4: « >K « « 
 
 The present area of the city of Newark is about 17 j square miles 
 — 11,200 acres, and the population is estimated at 125,000, of whom 
 nearly 40,000, chietly Germans and Irish, are foreigners. The 
 valuation of real estate in the city, as assessed for 1871, is $(')2, 
 208,535, and <. f personal property, $21,717,800; together, $80, 
 980,341. The amount raised by taxation during the year was 
 $1,390,020 ; and Newark can point with pride to the fact that this 
 sum is only an increase of $3,900 over the taxation of 1870. ^-'ome 
 of the local politicians must either be blind to opportunities, or else 
 there can be no opportunities on which to seize. Here is a splen- 
 did opening for some coming Tweed ! 
 
 Newark now boasts nine banks ; though many of the business 
 men here, having branch houses in New York, have also a banking 
 account there. There are five savings banks, the oldest of which, 
 the Newark Savings Institution, incorporated in 1847, has 
 $12,022,844.50 deposits. The aggregate deposits of all the savings 
 banks amount to $18,084,008.41. There are sixteen local life and 
 fire insurance companies, with an asfgregate capital of $3,723,817, 
 and the I^tutual Life Office of New York has a Newark branch. 
 
 m ***** * 
 
 As for the means of education the city seems comparatively rich. 
 There are twonty-two public school houses, nine of which are 
 each capable of accommodating from eight hundred to one thous- 
 and pupils, and have both primliiy and grammar departments ; the 
 other buildings are smaller and confined to one department. J^ut, 
 in addition, there are five evening schools, a Normal school, and a 
 High school, under the charge of a principal and ten assistants, 
 where the rising generation is prepared for commercial life or for 
 college. 
 
 Foremost among; the public institutions of interest in Newark is 
 the New Jersey Historical Society. The settlement of New Jersey 
 is coeval with the earliest history of this country, and it is there- 
 fore not surprising that the citizens of ko conservative a State 
 should have organized an institution the duty of whose officers it 
 
52 HOMES ON THE MONTCLATR. 
 
 is "to discover, procure, and preserve, whatever relates to any de- 
 partment of the history of New Jersey, natural, civil, literary, or 
 ecclesiastical, and generally of other portions of the United States. " 
 Besides being a depository for numerous curious and interesting 
 relics of the past, many intimately connected with the romance 
 of history, the Society's rooms contain the nucleus of a most valu- 
 able historical library. The collection already includes six thou- 
 sand bound volumes, among which are twelve volumes of the mi- 
 nutes of the Long Parliament, and the l^entinel of Freedom^ from 
 its first issue, dated 5th October, 1796, down to the present day. 
 The Sentinel of Freedom is the weekly edition of the Newark 
 ])aily Advertisey^ which is by far the leading paper here, an i which 
 though forty years of age, appears to be in the heyday of its youth. 
 The library also possesses ten thousand pamphlets, some of which 
 are doubtless of little value, while others are equally valuable. 
 There is loo, a small collection of manuscrii)ts, said to be of great 
 value and rarity. This Historical Society, lilse those of New-York, 
 Brooklyn. Boston, and other cities, is doing a work which men of 
 cultured minds deeply regret was so neglected by their forefathers. 
 They are collecting materials for some future Gibbon or Hallam, 
 or even somj brilliant, but untrustworthy, MacAulay, on which the 
 coming History of the United States may be founded. And New- 
 ark boasts a Library Association, an incorporated stock institution, 
 andtberfore smelling of thlrdnte works. But I am told that this 
 is not so. Of course, I have had no time or opportunity to exam- 
 ine the contents of the shelves. But there is the best part of some 
 eightecM or twenty thousand volumes; and. setting aside all assu- 
 rances of their high character of literary works, there must bo a 
 goodly sprinkling of valuable literature somewhere on those sltelves 
 wherewith young Newark can enlighten and develop its budding 
 mind. At all events, there are all the daily and weekly journals, the 
 monthly magazmes, and quarterly reviews; and there is "a little 
 learning,' if it be of the cramming order, to be gathered from 
 them — at least the history of the day. And then if some- 
 thing austere is more congenial, there is the Young Men's Christian 
 Associ.ition. with everything from prayer-meetings to lectures, and 
 even entertainments in the Winter season. But if something more 
 lively be desired, a distraction from the tiioughts and cares 
 of the daily life, something lighter than books, and yet not so 
 frivolous !is to be detrimental, tliere is the Newark Opera-House, 
 which, thanks to the dramatic aspirations of Young America, and a 
 constant in^ux of foreign mercenaries of the Thespian profession, 
 is almost always tenanted by some star company of actors, or, if 
 all other things fail, by a wandering troupe of minstrels. But 
 there, again, the great railroad facilities of the city come in. If 
 the Jiant ecole of young Newark think themselves above local 
 
HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 53 
 
 performances they caa listea to Lucca's harmony in the New-York 
 Academy of Music, cry over Miss Neilswn s Juliet, or huigh them- 
 selves sore in tlie sides at Mr. Sothern's drollities. and yet catch 
 the last train for home and sleep under the patrrual roof. What 
 would they have more ? 
 
 APPENDIX IJ. 
 
 It was upon a cold, dark wintry night, near the close of the war, 
 that a part}' of dauntless spirits, consistino; of Capt. John Kidney, 
 Capt. Henry Jaroleman. Jacob Garlaw, and Halmach Jaroleman, 
 left their faWlies and their firesides in search of adventure. A 
 deep snow covered the Earth, and the howling wind gave admoni- 
 tion to all to remain witliiu ; but our party were bent on having 
 prisoners that night. Having provided themselves with a pair of 
 fleet horses, attached to a common wood sled, they left the neigh- 
 borhood of the above village (Bloomfield) and laid their course 
 toward the heights of Bergen. They soon arrived in the vicinity of 
 the garrison, and leaving their horses tied to the fence they went 
 on to reconnoitre. They returned shortly aft^^r, having ascertained 
 that a school-house, some distance from the posts, was filled with 
 officers and soldiers, rioting and dancing. Their plan of taking 
 prisoners being matured, the company started with Kidney at their 
 head. Coming upon the house. Kidney commenced giving hit 
 orders to his different divisions to surround the house, while he 
 immediately forcing himself in at the door, took good care that 
 his guard should show themselves and their bayonets at the thres- 
 hold. Those within were struck with astonishment. "Every one 
 of you are my prisoners," cried Kidney, " surrender, or you die." 
 Having ordered them into line, he select( d first a British officer, 
 then a refugee, passed them along to the door, where they were 
 muffied and hurried away to the sled ; Kidney taking care to warn 
 them that ''the first one who attempted to escape, was a dead 
 man." When they reached the meadows they heard the alarm gun 
 fire, but they were too far for pursuit. The prisoners were secured 
 in the Morristown jail, and our heroes returned well pleased with 
 the night's adventure, leaving their prisoners much chagrined at 
 the way they were i-d,keii. — Rirbo>ir's Hist. Col'. N.T. 
 
56 HOMES ON THE MONTCLAIR. 
 
 PARTIES DESIGNING TO ERECT 
 
 Homes on the Montclair 
 
 Should not fail to call on 
 
 FDBlA.ISrOIS TOi!^K:iisrs, 
 
 WOODSIDE, iNElVARK,\ N. J. 
 
 MANUFACTUKER OK 
 
 G-ROUND LIME AND CALCINED PLASTER. 
 
 Also, Dealer in 
 
 Masons' Building* Materials! 
 
 FARMERS supplied with Lime and Plaster for agricultural purposes. 
 
 Bloomfield Ave., Bloomfield, N. J. 
 
 This Hotel has been enlarged and handsomely refitted. A first-class 
 Restaurant connected with the Hotel. 
 
 JOHN REAMSCH, Florist, 
 
 GREEN HOUSES ADJOINING ARCHDEACON'S HOTEL, BLOOMFIELD, N.J. 
 Where may be found at all times, and at reasonable prices, an assortment of 
 NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
 
 Plants of special interest, plants for the flower garden, plants for rustic vases, 
 baskets, etc. Cut flowers at all seasons, for all and every occasion. Bouquets. 
 \vreaths, and all kinds of devices prepared to order, and on the shortest notice. 
 Flower seeds, a superior variety, selected with great care. Annuals a specialty 
 Also, for the vegetable gar 1 en, a fine stock of Tomato, Cabbage, Celery, 
 Pepper, Egg and other plants. 
 
flB Sales o[ last to! 
 
 NEW TRIUMPHS! 
 
 The Statistics from sworn returns of the Sales of Sewing 
 Machines in 1872 (reported in 1873), show that the 
 Singer Manufacturing Company sold, last year, ov^r 
 FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND more machines than ANY 
 other Company, and over one quarter of all machines 
 sold during that year. Nine out of ten of said Singer 
 Machines were for FAMILY use — proving the great 
 popularity of the Singer in the household. Annexed are 
 the Sales of the different makers : 
 
 Tlie Siiipr Maiinfactnriiig CoDipauy so'i 219,758 MacMiies. 
 
 Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company " 174,088 "" 
 
 Howe Machine Company (esfcimatedj " li,"),(H){) " 
 
 Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company " n^.OlO " 
 
 Domestic Sewing Machine Company *' +5),r)r)4 " 
 
 Weed Sswing Machine Company " 41^,44-1: " 
 
 Wilcox & Gibbs SsMdng Machine Company " 3;5,(;;i9 " 
 
 Wilson Sawing Machine Company '* 22,('}()C) . " 
 
 Amer. B. H. O. & Sewing Machine Company " 18,0:50 " 
 
 Gold Medal Sawing Machine Company " 18,897 " 
 
 Florence Sewing Machine Company ^' ir).7.'8 " 
 
 B. P. Howe Sewing Machine Company " 14, "JOT " 
 
 Victor Sewing Machine Company " 11,!)01 " 
 
 Davis Sewing Machine Company " 11. 870 " 
 
 Blees Sewing jNIachine Company " <),058 *' 
 
 Remington Empire Sewing Machine Company '* 4,982 " 
 
 J. E. Braunsdorff & Co. " 4,262 " 
 
 Keystone Sswing Machine Company " 2,<W;,5 " 
 
 Bartlett Reversible Sewing Machine Company" 1,000 " 
 
 Bartram & Fanton Manufacturing Company " 1,000 " 
 
 Secor Sewiuj Machine Company " ;U1 '* 
 
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 Orange Lightning Powder, 
 
 The best Powder made. Sizes, Nos. 1 to 7. Packed only in 
 sealed one pound canisters. 
 
 C^ Care must be taken to use no finer size than No. 5 in 
 metal shells or fine breech-loading guns, as it is too quick for 
 the strength of either. 
 
 Orange Ducking Poivder. 
 
 Expressly prepared for shooting water-fowl. Very strong and 
 clean. Sizes, Nos. 1 to />. Packed in metal ("gold band") 
 kegs of 6:1^ lbs., and canisters of 5 lbs. and 1 lb. 
 
 Aadahon Powder, 
 
 Very quick, for woodcock and other shooting from muzzle- 
 loading guns. Sizes, Nos. 1 to 4. Packed in metal kegs of 
 12^ and 6j lbs., and canisters of 1 lb. 
 
 Orange Rifle Poivder, 
 
 The best for rijles^ and good for all ordinary purposes. Sizes, 
 FG, FFG, and FFFG. Packed in wood and metal kegs of 
 25, 12^, and 65^ lbs., and canisters of 1 lb. and ^ lb. 
 
 The above are the principal brands only, and will 
 be found to give high velocity with less residuum 
 than other Powders. 
 
 LiVFLIN & RAND POWDER CO. 
 
 21 PABK ROW, NEW YORK. 
 
 Mining and Blasting Powders of aN kinds. Dualin. 
 
 Safety Fuse. Electric Blasting Apparatus. 
 
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