THE ATLANTIC SEASHORE DEVELOPMENT 
NORTII] SHORE BREEZE 
Article V. Long Island—The Motor Parkway in the Pines. 
Jamaica, where the Penn.-L. I. R.has cost millions to plan and _ per- 
R. is building its three million dol- 
lar station, is destined to be the gate- 
way of the ‘‘Garden of the Gods’’ of 
this world. This old town is fast 
building up as one of the metropoli- 
tan centres of the great city of New 
York. <A beautiful range of hills to 
the north extending back to the Kast 
river and the Long Island Sound is 
rapidly developing as a de luxe sec- 
tion of suburban homes on the lines 
of the ‘‘Jamaica Estates’’ with its 
artistic and quaint stone wall en- 
trance giving it the tone of some old 
English town. 
Here is a railroad terminus for 
trains anywhere of unlimited num- 
ber, and the beginning of a straight- 
away course for great Conifer centre 
of the island, a region of great pines 
and lakes and hills touched with 
elimpses of Adirondack beauty all 
laced together with roads and boule- 
vards to delight the heart of the au- 
tomobilist. That this'is to be the 
land of vast wooded estates, where 
already is seen the beginning of a 
wonderland springing up under the 
magic word of the millionaire is 
evident. 
Here is the projected aeroplane 
course and aerodrome of huge pro- 
portions on Hempstead plains and 
beyond, where the coming great in- 
ternational aviation meet for 1910 
is to take place in October next, 
where will be concentrated all the 
great aviators of the world and the 
millionaire backers and sportsmen of 
Europe and America, to contest for 
the world’s aviation championship 
that Glenn H. Curtiss, as member of 
the ‘‘Aero Club of America’’ won at 
Rheims, France. This contest will 
be over a course of thirty thousand 
acres or more of level fields, where a 
grandstand will be .immediately 
erected and where will be assembled 
all the latest paraphanalia of the 
world’s aero clubs that goes with 
such a great meet and permanent 
venture, an ideal course near the 
metropolis, the largest and_ best 
planned flying grounds in the world, 
that .will become the -meeting place 
of an international sport and 
achievement in the conquest of the 
air until now undreamed of. 
Just beyond ‘Jamaica, where the 
towns of Mineola, Garden City, and © 
Hempstead combine to make a su- 
burban tri-city beautiful, begins the 
now famous new Motor Parkway that 
fect. After a flight over the Queens- 
borough bridge or one of the other 
great East river bridges, through 
eity highways and suburban boule- 
vards the motor car enthusiast soon 
reaches Belmont Park, the entrance 
to the Motor Parkway, with its pub- 
- lie and private speedways and trib- 
utary roads, a very lure for the 
devotees of the horseless tar, an ar- 
tery of modern fast independent 
travel that will: prove. to. be the 
means of developing hitherto isolated 
beauty spots, a highway that stands 
alone today and will be duplicated 
only when the projected automobile 
boulevard between Boston and New 
York is completed. ‘ 
Here is a unique highway one 
hundred feet wide, with all grade 
crossings eliminated, with straight- 
away stretches and long sweeping 
eurves to lure the spirit of flight 
to its utmost with no ‘‘big hand’’ 
to check that thrilling ride into the 
region of the rolling West Hills and 
Half Hollow Hills.. On, in winding 
sweeps rivalled only by the aviators’ 
wings, the flying cars skim the erest 
of ridges affording views of Long 
Island Sound to the north and of 
the ocean to the south. On, cireling 
placid lakes, streams and bays, with 
their varied sumer outing seenes or 
winter sports. On, plunging into 
the heart of great pine forests. On 
past rural communities nestled 
sound asleep for ages in these slum- 
berous depths of green, leaving be- 
hind a stir of awakened lfe and 
progress that must be put to the 
eredit of the ‘‘red devils’’ in strik- 
ing balances. 
Brentwood, in the resinous heart 
of the largest pine belt in the state 
outside of the Adirondacks, is des- 
tined to duplicate the fame and 
fashion, and frivolity of Lakewood, 
New Jersey. 
The half way resort between Ja- 
maica and Riverhead of this motor 
highway is the beautiful lake with 
the pretty Indian name of Ronkon- 
koma. Here is a rare beauty spot 
like a genuine mountain gem that 
sparkles in its setting of picturesque 
hills and green knolls, mirroring a 
picture that can be duplicated only 
in the mountain regions to the north. 
Lake Ronkonkoma, one of the fas- 
cinating resorts of the Atlantic coast, 
is reached by both automobile boule- 
vard and railroad from New York 
city in less than an hour. The Mo- 
tor Parkway company is here laying 
out a landscaped resort on the lake 
front, ineluding a club house and 
luxurious inn, also a grandstand; 
for a racing section is included, a | 
gigantic loop of two parallel stretch- — 
es, ten miles long, of perfect speed- 
way around which cars will hurl 
themselves with record-breaking 
speed, making a racing course that 
can be eclipsed only by the aeroplane 
club’s. course in the sky. 
Not a point on the borders.of this — 
long neglected lake is there that has 
not its charming vista. Its clean 
rippled sands are more like an ocean 
strand setting it apart from ordinary 
lakes with their marshy and muddy 
borders. A strange ebb and flood 
takes place on its shores that has no 
connection with the ocean tides. It 
is fed by springs within its depth 
that reach ninety feet in places and 
it is perched fifty-five feet above the 
level of the sea. It is inhabited by ~ 
many varieties of delicately flavored 
‘fish that are the delight of the epi- 
cure, and as an anglers’ resort is a 
lake that cannot be surpassed. : 
A pretty legend invests these wa- 
ters with the spirit of an Indian 
maiden that glides over the moonlit 
surface of the lake looking for her 
lover, to the chiming bells of ‘‘St. 
Mary’s in the Pines.”’ 
Everything that has made Lake- 
wood, New Jersey, famous is found > 
in these forests of eternal green, 
making this region an ideal all year 
resort or suburban home section, for. 
the nature of the soil is such that 
golf can be played at all seasons of 
the year, and combined with hunting, 
fishing, skating, ice boating and | 
seootering there is nothing to pall 
upon the spirit of the sportsman. 
When the great electric highways 
to the number of sixty-with their six | 
hundred trains hourly radiate like a 
fan in all directions and the motor 
parkway is in full swing the length 
and breadth of the island, it requires 
no shrewdness to see where the rush 
will be with the pressure of a city of 
five million to give it foree, to say 
nothing of the nation and the world 
behind the movement, for the devel- 
opment of Long Island has not only 
interested capital from all over the 
United States, but the financiers of 
Europe and the world. 
The logical trend of New York 
and New England motorists is now 
