THE ATLANTIC SEASHORE DEVELOPMENT 4 
ARTICLE IV.—Long Island—The North Shore. 
Through Hell Gate into paradise 
seems paradoxical, but such is the 
ease as the wealthy suburbanite sails 
his pretty motor craft or steam yacht 
through the tortuous and turbulent 
channel with the noted name to his 
summer home on Long Island. 
For many years the peninsulas on 
the North Shore have been growing 
in favor for summer recreation and 
homes, for here nature has expend- 
ed some of her rarest talent now 
combined with the art of man. 
This territory has also been reach- 
ed from Long Island City by rail- 
road and such towns as Flushing, 
College Point and Whitestone are in 
the annals of Long Island’s ancient 
history; but today they are spread- 
ing out into home sites beyond com- 
pare. ‘The peninsula surrounded by 
the East River and Flushing and 
Little Neck Bays is now brought 
within a twenty-minute zone of ex- 
press transit to the heart of New 
York City and is eagerly sought for 
as an ideal section combining all the 
conveniences of the city with the 
pleasures of country elub and yacht- 
jug, a veritable revelation of coun- 
try life perfected obliterating city 
congestion and suburban isolation in 
a situation unique so close to a colos- 
sal city. 
Beyond Little Neck Bay the Great 
Neck peninsula topographically per- 
fect in undulating hills and fertile 
valleys and fields is undergoing, as 
Brookline near Boston did, .a trans- 
formation. Originally a section of 
large estates, now seeking locations 
along the eastern end of the island 
made as accessible today as the close 
in estates were formerly, and 
planned now on the most colossal and 
elaborate scale in keeping with the 
ever-increasing. fortunes of the mil- 
lionaires, these American lords are 
selling their Great Neck holdings at 
high figures to corporations catering 
to a wealthy class of home seekers 
from all over the country and men 
of affairs in Manhattan seeking 
more room beyond the city’s ever- 
contracting air spaces. All year 
homes of pretentious designs are 
spreading along the shores and over 
the hills insuring to Great Neck one 
of the most select of suburban cen- 
ters. 
The above is in a measure true of 
Manhasset Neck surrounded by 
beautiful bays and the Long Island 
Sound. <All this territory has the 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
possibilities of paradise overlooking squadron often 
a varied landscape and sea to the 
erowing metropolitan district on the 
north and the Palisades of the Hud- 
son and beyond. In the evening the 
marine and metropolitan pictures of 
this new world’s center blending in 
dissolving views from sunset leghts 
to the shore and skylights of the 
great city is a scene that eannot be 
excelled if eqnalled anywhere. 
Nestled in the hilis ou beautiful 
Tiempstead Harbor is Roslyn famed 
as the home of William Cullen Bry- 
ant where at times this great poet 
gathered friends like EKmerson, 
Whittier, Mabie, Beecher and others. 
And in his poems, one familiar with 
the scenes, hears the strains that 
poets all hear in Roslyn’s sylvan 
glens and over her wind-swept cliffs. 
Extending inland to the Wheat- 
ley Hills and Westbury, as also along 
the harbor hills and promontories, 
an ever-increasing number of  pal- 
aces, with landscaped estates that 
compare favorably with the finest 
old world estates, are growing in a 
continuous territory that must in 
time make this one of the most 
famous garden spots of the world. 
Crowning the east banks of the 
harbor are several popular towns 
lke Sea Cliff, with its bold bluffs, 
and Glen Cove increased each sea- 
son by an ever-growing population 
of summer residents. - Here, swept 
by the breezes of Long Island Sound 
is Dana’s Island, the estate of the 
late eminent editor of ‘‘New York 
Sun,’’ a place famous for its horti- 
cultural beauty as Shaw’s Gardens 
in St. Louis, a veritable Eden of 
rare plants and blooms and trees. 
Matinicock, Point, settled by a com- 
pany from Sandwich, Cape Cod, 
who bought the land from an Indian 
by that name, and the whole penin- 
sula, now heing obsorbed by wealthy 
land- -owners, is adding to the fare 
of this extensive territory of million- 
aires. Here is one of the finest 
country clubs and golf courses on 
the island or to be found anywhere, 
numbering among its membership 
list names that are world-wide in 
exclusive American society. 
A spin through winding reads and 
fascinating landsenpes soon brings 
us to Oyster Bay rescued from its 
long obseurity and auiet beauty to 
be made world famous as the home 
of Roosevelt and the Sewanhaka 
Yacht elub. Here the Atlantic 
maveuyvred during | 
Koosevelt’s term of office. 4 
Further on Iuntington, noted for — 
is superb harbor, its yachting inter- 
csts that are of international repute, 
and where Hurope and America wiil ~ 
struggle for supremacy in hydro- 
plane models this summer, opens up 
« surprise to the stranger that may_ 
happen to ecme upon it wmexpeet-— 
edly. Here under the mellowing 
ratlueuce of the chef of the ‘‘Chateau — 
des Beaux Arts,’’ a half million dol- 
iar hostelry, lured by the strains of — 
famous orchestras, and inspired by 
the sieht of the American craft lead-— 
ing all others. life is worth living ac-— 
cording to a consensus of opinion. 
Northport divides honors with 
IIuntington in the favor of devotees — 
o! the North Shore and many beauti — 
ful homes are located among its for- 
est-clad-hills and along its bluffs and — 
nothing is lacking among its towns 
people, augmented by» its summer 
colony, to make this one of the notedil a 
is it is slready one of the most 
charming of resorts. fi 
At Port Jefferson visitors from 
abroad are regaled with stories of — 
Paul Jones who fitted out here for 
is historie exploits and where Cap-9 
tuin Kidd is said to have rendez-— 
voused: In some of the cid harbors — 
whalers fitted. out for the famous ~ 
Aretie whaling regions and there is_ 
hardly a village nestling in these — 
Nerth Shore harbors that has not — 
its quaint houses and wharves anda 
traditions dating back three cen-— 
turies. 
At Port Jefferson are the United 
States fish hatcheries, biological, — 
horticultural and agricultural sta-_ 
tions. And not to lag behind in pre- — 
tentious development of its magnifi- é 
cont coast country many wealthy — 
men and corporations are engaged — 
in an attempt to improve upon the 
ecnivs of nature in elaborate and ar- 
tistic effects in forest and field, roll- 
ing hills, sandy shores and select — 
colonies 
All along the bluffs and promon- 
tories and inland as far as the end — 
of the north fluke of the = 
colonies of beautiful bungalows be- 
vin to crown the heights, and landed 
estates in their setting of grand scen-_ 
ery, all link a chain of rejuvenated 
eentury old villages and towns. 
Here are colonies of famous play-_ 
er folk building their chateaus and 
castled homes in compliment to 
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