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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORE. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1910.

.29 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 the search for suburban home sites lake. Among them are Uncas, Pequot, Hawkeye and Montauk. Plans are being made for building looking the lake is already under way and will be opened this fall. LAKE RONKONKOMA PARK A NEW iEVELOMENT. It is in this region that the Lake Ron- EQUABLE CLIMATE.

The healthfulness of the central part of Long Island has been attested by many observations by physicians and others. Dr. William H. Ross of Brentwood, near Ronkonkoma. in an article in the operations to begin in the early spring, and already a large number of lots have been sold to persons who purpose erect cottages bungalows.

many matters have to be taken into consideration. Proximity and ease of access, salubriousness of climate, without excessive tendencies in either direction, beauty of surroundings, nature of developments in the vicinity and. prospects for the future are Brooklyn Medical Journal, said that its being the only considerable portion of the Atlantic coaBt entirely surrounded by water diminished the difference between the temperature of winter and summer and day and night. Its glacial formation of, sand and gravel gives excellent drainage; the water is especially pure; the mean summer temperature is 70 degrees and the mean winter temperature 30 degrees, with an annual range of less than half of that of the rest of the country. The temperature of Suffolk County averages in summer five degrees cooler than New York City.

The winter temperature is higher by sixteen degrees than the rest of New York State. There is low relative humidity, especially in the pine regions, and the average number of clear days is 72 more than in New York City and 120 more than in the western part of the state, while the evergreen forests have a powerful purifying effect on the atmosphere. PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE POSSIBILITIES. "No region has more attractive present advantages or prospective possibilities," said a resident of Ronkonkoma, "than this Long Island lake region. It is bound to become not only the Lakewood of Long Island but a center of outdoor sports, not only for the metropolitan region but also for the entire country.

If the Gould estate made Lakewood, New Jersey, what will not the Vanderbilt influence- do for Ronkonkoma? The terminus at the lake of the among the chief of these. In all these requirements there is no region within easy reach from this city which surpasses Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island. LONG ISLAND'S INLAND LAKE. This is the nearest large body of water to the metropolis, and it compares favorably with Hopat-cong and Greenwood Lakes in northern New Jersey and Lake Mahopae in Putnam County, each of which is a little farther away. The Lake Ronkonkoma region surpasses greatly in attractiveness the inore famous Lakewood region in New Jersey, being surrounded by high ground and a picturesque rolling region.

There are same healthful pine forests and a well-drained sandy soil, conducive to physical well-being. Motor Parkway, for the present, and the establishment here of the clubhouse and race track are bound to create a center of interest which will not be rivaled in any other part of the country. The decision to build the toll road for automobiles to this point insures the continuance of interest here on the part of owners of machines, for, with the extensive grounds and the nroviRinn to he made for nil nnrtji nf aiiK. door sports, there will always be especial attrac- t.irvns. "The beautiful lake, the picturesque surrounding country, the delightful atmosphere, fanned by breezes from both ocean and Sound, the ease of reaching the region and the prospect of extensive building of suburban homes combine to make Ronkonkoma i Lake a place of ever increasing interest.

THE ROADS IMPROVEMENT. "The improvement of the roads of the region will be one of the advantages gained in the near future. Steps are to be taken immediately to make a Lake Ronkonkoma, the Indian name of which means glittering white sand, is situated at what may practically be termed the geographical center of Long Island, forty-eight miles from Brooklyn. A beautiful sheet of water is Lake Ronkonkoma. It lies in a valley of its own, surrounded by heights of rising ground which overlook the charming appearance it presents.

There is neithor inlet nor outlet to this body of several hundred acres of deep water, but it derives its supply from the same underground sources which give all Long Island an inexhaustible flow of water. It is a distance of over three miles around the lake, the extreme length of which is about a mile, and it has an area approximating 600 acres. It is a little less than a square mile in extent, and is about as large as the whole of Prospect Park and Institute Park adjoining. While as a fresh water body it has ho tide, there is a distinct beach between high and low water-mark, made by the rise and fall of the water from year to year. A roadway encircles the lake on the top of the bluff which forms its bank, and from this many diversified and picturesque views of the lake and its surroundings are to be secured.

a short distance on the northwest side the roadway is not close to the lake, but is separated from it by a considerable tract of territory. But it is hoped soon to secure a connection through this, so that the lake drive may become one of the most attractive and satisfactory roadways for the enjoyment of natural scenery, with a view of the water for the entire distance. THE ELECTRIFICATION OF THE I. R. R.

AND COMPLETION OF THE MOTOR PARKWAY. But now two things have served to bring the region into prominence. One is the expected reduction in time to all Long Island points by the opening seventy-five-foot boulevard of the road from Smith- konkoma Park tract is being developed by The Administrator's Realty Company of 65 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, and plots are being put on the market at prices particularly advantageous to early purchasers, with the promise of a development which will rank among the best in any rural section. Lake Ronkonkoma Park is situated on both sides of the Central Islip boulevard, the main highway from Central Islip to Lake Ronkonkoma. The tract extends from the Motor Parkway on the south to the Smithtown line on the north.

It is a rolling region, from the highest part of which an extended view of the lake is to be secured, and the entire country can be surveyed from the hills bor- dering the Sound on the north to the beach of Fire Island on the south. While it is a virgin tract for development, being covered in the main with pines, the work of grading and laying out the streets is well under way. Central Islip boulevard has been widened from a mere country road to a 60-foot highway, with curbs and sidewalks. Where it cuts diagonally through the rectangular plan of the property, triangular blocks have been set apart for park 'purposes, which will be beautified with shrubs and flowers. Wherever possible, the trees will be retained to town and St.

James to the lake. The Central Islip boulevard will be made a broad highway. "Perhaps the reason so little has been known of this beautiful section is because the Long Island Railroad runs more than a mile south of it, and it is only by leaving the train and journeying to the lake that one gains any idea of it. But this will be remedied at Ronkonkoma by running a spur of the railroad to the lake in order to reach the new automobile course, which is bound to attract 'much travel there. "I would not be surprised if in the near future an aviation meet were held at the same nlnre.

which will be admirably adapted, with its grandstand, for meet4" me accommodation ot spectators for the witnessing of air contests, about which as much interest will center as about auto speed tests. The greatest sporting center in this country, if not in the world, will in all probability be created at Lake Ronkonkoma, and its name will become a household word everywhere. A word to the wise ought to be enough." Any one who would like to investigate Ronkonkoma can secure illustrated literature and full particulars by addressing THE ADMINISTRATOR'S REALTY 65 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. add to the beauty oi the region. The main highway from south to north through Lake Ronkonkoma Park tract will be Mohican avenue, and it is proposed to park this in the center with a 20-foot roadway on each side.

The names for the intersecting streets are all of Indian origin oi tne tast Kiver tubes to tne Pennsylvania depot, together with the electrification of all the Long Island Railroad tracks, and the other is the construction of the great automobile toll highway to Lake Ronkonkoma and the purchase of 900 acres there Views of Lake Ronkonkoma. JTI as a center for outdoor sports by the Motor Parkway Association. A large clubhouse and hotel over and fit in with the aboriginal name for the growth In numbers, energy, productive A BIG VARIETY OF SOILS CLIMATE ness and wealth of the people. The value of land must rise; the means Almost Every Fruit and Vegetable Can Be Grown. or pleasant and attractive intercourse must Increase the desirableness of the Island as a place ot residence and rest.

The Eagle does well to mark this auspicious advance. EPHEB WHITAKER, D.D. Southold, L. I. and 77, and at Atlantic City, 87 and 83.

Among the few places making a better showing for dryness of the air than Long Island, are El Paso, at 62 and 44, respectively; Denver, 45 and 39, and Phoenix, 44 and 38. About 65 per cent, of relative humidity is classed as very dry, 60 to 65 dry, and 65 to 75. medium. The equable temperature of the Long Island climate makes It a favorite place of residence for thousands from the Interior cities of the country. The midsummer mean temperature at Block Isl Island Is Sunny Almost Always PROFESSOR WHITNEY'S VIEWS.

TESTS GIVE PROOF A NEW DAY FOR QUEENS. -urn John W. Rapp Thinks It "Will Be Eagle Bureau, 808 Fourteenth Street. residents of the City of New terially reduced. As It is, Investlga tions of the department show that In i vast number of Instances the city mar First to Feel the Influ-ence of Growth.

York are probably aware of the fant fh.t --n A- yy I fessor Milton Whitney, chief ketg not only depend on supplies of vegetables, chickens, eggs, pork and beef shipped from long distances, but a Island, within from one to three and, 67.6 degrees, ls very nearly that of Malone, at the northern boundary of the state, while the temperature for January ls between that of New York City and that of Washington, D. and this about represents the conditions at the easterly end of Long Island. Long Beach, with a mean temperature of 70 degrees In July, represents the condltionB at the southerly shore of Long Island. These localities have the coolest climate in midsummer on the Atlantic Coast, between Florida and Maine with the Blngle exception of Nantucket. The first frost at Seatucket last fall was on November 18.

and the last frost of the Bureau ot sous of the Department of Agriculture, a mm hours of their homes, a climate that for sunshine and dryness of vast amount of canned goods Is used whereas, if the large tracts of unculti vated lands closely contiguous to the atmosphere will rank with such noted W. (EL j. post cities were cultivated with a view to supplying the home markets with these necessities of life, a considerable saving national expert on soils, and their crop adaptations, believes that the farms of Long Island have a prosperous and profitable future and will eventually solve the problem, to a large extent, of the high cost of living in Greater New York. Professor Whitney health resorts as Denver, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, N. and Jacksonville, Fla.

In an annual report made by the United would be effected. In addition to. getting fresh and thereby necessarily more wholesome eatables. "In my opinion, the time must come last spring was on March 27, says Mr. I Strong.

"Alexander L. Stevens, presi-1 GLEN HEAD, L. I. Established in 1886, at East Williston, L. I.

Moved to Glen Head, L. in 1903. Have a steam drier of 40,000 brick per day. Supply, the locar trade and ship by L. I.

R. R. to all points on Long Island. States Government, a sunshine table was given. Arrayed In order of number of clear and partly cloudy days, Los Angeles had 332, Phenlx, 330; El Paso, Texas, 330; SanDlego, 317; Fresno, 314; Jacksonville, 814; Cutch-ogue, L.

312; Denver, 312; Sante Fe, N. 310; Olkahoma City, 297, and Setauket, L. 266. Arranged in order of clear days, San dent of the Gallatin Bank, once told me," said Mr. Strong, "that he had traveled all over the Old World and had never anywhere found such a splendid climate as that of Long Island." The mean temperature at Setauket for twenty-two years has been 48.9 degrees; at Southampton during the year 1907 it was 47.865 degrees.

Dr. Denslow In his address sayi: "Th best field for Long Island as a health resort would be In those cases of heart, lung, kidney and rheumatic troubles. In which rapid oxidization Is desired In a sunshiny, dry, slightly stimulating climate, at a low level, where during from four to six months, or from May to October, almost every day may be with comfort passed out of doors, under a sky Diego had 291; Yuma, 287; Fresno, 262; Phenix, 269; Oklahoma City, 233; Cutchogue, 233; Santa Fe, 201; Los Angeles, 160; Denver, 160, and Setau siv.rV ket, 146. Dr. Ls Grand N.

DenBlow, In an ad The opening of the Pennsylvania tunnels on September 8 will be a big boom for Long Island. Queens Borough, which la oue ot the beat residential places in the world, has been asleep for years, despite the fact It has been a part of the great City of New York since 1898. Ita transportation facilities have been responsible, but I am willing to wager that with trains running from Herald square, Manhattan, under the East River, this place will grow very rapidly. Nowhere in this country, outside of Long Island, can be found such Ideal cllmata, winter or good roadis, churches, schools, excellent bathing, boating and fishing, good hunting, boat and country clubs and good citizens. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Mayor William J.

Gaynor, two ot the most prominent men In America to-day, have selected this place for their homes, and when men of their standing come here to live. Long Island certainly must be the ideal home center. The new tunnel will Increase our population. Mora people will come here to reside, because they can get good transit facilities and in return we will be able to build up our business and make more money. Queens Borough will be tha first to grow, but it will not be long before NaBsau and Suffolk Counties will come Into the limelight and berore many years you will bear of large manufacturing firms purchasing siten in these two counties and erecting factories.

College Point, which is the most popular plcnlo resort In New York State, will be greatly benefited by the tunnel. The trolley service between the village and Manhattan has been bad for years and part ot the line is only single tracked. A tired business man, after a day's work in Manhattan, does not feel like getting into a trolley car and being stalled at various switches before he arrives at his home. The tunnel will do away with all this, and according to the Pennsylvania officials a person will be carried dress read before the section on medicine of tha New York Academy of Medicine, and published In tha Medical Record. says: 'The question of the amount of sun light ls of the highest Importance In es when these uncultivated lands near the cities will produce the larger part of the foodstuffs consumed therein." Fifteen Types Soils.

"An Investigation of the soil conditions on Long Island, by the Bureau of Soils, developed fifteen different types ot soils, namely, Alton stony loam, Sassafras gravelly loam, Norfolk sand, Norfolk coarse eandy loam. Miami stony loam; Galveston clay, Hempstead loam, Hempstead gravelly loam, Meadow, Galveston sandy loam, Galveston loam, Plalnwell stony loam, Sassafras sandy loam, Norfolk gravel, Norfolk coarse sand. A total of 640,928 acres of land was surveyed on Long Island. "The Hempstead loam produces good yields of oorn, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, grass and rye. The late truck crops do well on this type.

The Hempstead gravelly loam produces successfully corn, peas, beans, potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus and celery. "The Galveston sandy loam Is capable of producing rhubarb, onions and radishes. "The Sassafras sandy loam successfully produces early potatoes, peas, rhubarb, lettuce, onions and similar crops. The bureau surveyed over 6,000 acres of this land In very close proximity to Brooklyn. "The Alton stony loam Is especially adapted to the growing of fruit, such as Kelffer pear, grapes, peaches, cherries, plums and quinces.

"The Miami stony loam produces In the early spring kale, spinach and rhubarb; later, lettuce, radishes and early peas; and later still, cabbage, parsnips, carrots, beets, turnips and onions, thereby yielding three truck crops In the same year. Sugar oorn. potatoes, squash and cucumbers can also be grown profitably. More timating the value ot a health resort, it has been found that a want of it will de velop symptoms of general depression ana condition analagous to intermittent fever, while an abuandance, on the con trary. Invigorates, acts as a general has made a study of the farming and trucking possibilities of Long Island and is of the opinion that the agricultural sections could be profitably and successfully developed, especially in light and heavy trucking.

"Now that transportation facilities are becoming more modernized and, therefore, more convenient to the Manhattan markets, the agricultural sections of Long iBland should be developed scientifically along agricultural lines," said Trofessor Whitney In an interview for The Brooklyn Eagle. "There Is no reason why the soils of Long Island should not profitably produce nearly every known variety of truck crop, such as Btrawberries, watermelons, cantaloupes, lettuce, beans, peas, beets, tomatoeB, cucumbers, cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, celery, Irish potatoes, turnips, and all along down the line, that will supply a large portion of the New York markets. To do this, up-to-date methods of farming will be required, but such methods are now comparatively easy; In fact, more so than the old style methods. It is only necessary for one to know. Such knowledge of up-to-date practical trucking is easily obtained through the different agricultural and educational agencies.

The Island Could Supply New Tork Markets. "There Is great opportunity on Long Island for poultry raising. The Island could go a long way towards supplying the markets of Greater New York with chickens and eggs, and there Is no reason why this Industry should not flourish profitably. Too little attention has been paid by farmers to supply the nearby city markets with vegetables and poultry, and I regret to say that this Is still true, especially In the East and a large, portion of the Piedmont section In the South. Recent Investigations or the Department of Agriculture have shown that there are millions of acres of undeveloped and uncultivated lands In eastern and Bouthorn stntes, within easy reach of tho local markets, which could supply a large extent the total; that for absence of clouds nas no rival in the United States outside of Arizona and California, with the exceptions of Ama-rlllo, BndOklahoma City, Okla.

"Five elements go to make up a ell-mate earth, air, water, sunlight and temperature. The best possible soil to Insure good drainage, pure water and th least amount of moisture to be given off to the air is sand and gravel, such a constitutes almost the entire body of Long Island. The configuration of tho land Is good, a central ridge, with gradually sloping plains to tho sea on one side, with boldly Indented shores and an Inland sea on the other. "The air is both ocean and shore, with groat mobility, due to the constant daily ocean winds. The water from the wells and springs ls of the purest, freer from tonic, purifies the air and allows the fullest amount of out-of-door life.

The writer Is satisfied that this one element of aunllght In the highest degreo ls a great if not the most Important climatic curative factor In tuberculosis of the lungs and that which has deservedly given to the climates of Southern Cali fornia and Arizona their recogntzea vaiuo in the treatment of that disease. 'The amount of sunshine on the east salts and vegetable matter man mar drawn from ordinary soil or even mountain regions." end and south shores of Long Island la the most marked characteristic of the climate, Cutchogue, for example, having 100 We are in hearty sympathy with the efforts to increase the advantages of Long Island and stand ready to do our share in the work from Herald Bquare to College Point over their line in neventeen minutes. Think of It from tho center of Manhattan to your suburban home In such a ishort time. It sounds like a dream but It's true. If Queeneboro bad the transit facilities that the new tunnel will give us, five years ago, It would have a population today greater than any place its size in the world.

I have been engaged In the manufactur GOOD TIMES COMING. The opening of the new Pennsylvania tunnels under the East River from Long Island City to Manhattan will make Jamaica nearly a half hour nearer Manhattan, and that In Itself will raise the value of property within a radius of twenty-five miles of the center. It Is going to help all towns materially that lie between the old Mac and Vailcy Stream. It will encourage many who are looking for homes to come out along the than 62,000 acres of this type of soil were Purveyed by the bureau, principally In Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. "The Norfolk coarse sandy loam Is adapted to late truck crops and berries.

"The Sassafras gravelly loam Is well adapted to market garden crops, except In seasons ot extreme drought. "The Norfolk sand Is particularly adapted to early peas, potatoes, sweet corn, rhubarb, carrots, parsnips, beets, radishes, string beans, tomatoes, cabbage. HOME TITLE INSURANCE CO. JAY AND WILLOUCHBY STREETS, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

OPFICKKW: Henry B. Pnvcnpnrt. and Gen. Msr. I Frank O.

WHib. General Manager Alexander O. CaMer Vice President T'tlvo II. NMoii Assistant Secretary George H. Rnherts Vice President 'Iris.

.1. Olif rniayer. tit Exec. Tom. Georfre W.

Maynard Treasurer Henry .1, Davenport Counsel D. S. Coe Secrt-tary i Harry Perry David Solicitor more clear days than New York city ana 162 more than Rochester. Again at Cutchogue, which will represent the eastern end during the months of June, July, August and September, 1899, there were but eleven cloudy days, and during the corresponding months of 1900 there were but seven." Selah B. Strong, In charge of the Government Observation Station at Setauket, has told The Eagle that there were 193 clear davs 79 partly cloudy and 93 cloudy days from August 1, 1909, to August, 1910.

In tho month of July, 1910, there wore 21 dear dnys, 9 fair anJ only 1 cloudy. W. L. Jnggar, In charge of tho United States Government station nt Southampton, tells The Eagle that the number of clear dayB at that place from August 1, 1909, to August 1, 1910, was 183, partly cloudy 133 and cloudy 49. The minimum tomperature was on February 7, 1910, one degree above zero, and the maximum on August 8 nnd 9, 1909, 89 degrees.

The first frost last fall was on October 14, and the last in the spring of 1910 was on April 13. As to the relative humidity of Long Islanda feature that mutt be taken Into consideration when relief Is sought for In lung, kidney and rheumatic troubles-observations taken at Long Beach, L. In August. 1900, showed the average barometer marking at 60 per and lines of the Long Island Railroad, bo-cause Long Island will then be as near New York, in point of time, as the towns of New Jersey. It will especially appeal to the man who demand of the home markets for vego-.

tables, fruits, chic kens nnd pers, beef and pork. If these lands were cultivated I with a view to supplying the home mar-1 kots with the dally consumption of foodstuffs, tbo cost of- living would be ma onions and lettuce. "So It can be seen that Greater New York has right at the doors of of Its markets agricultural sections that are capable of feeding largely Its millions of DR. WHITAKEK'S COMMENT. ing business sliire 1688, and up to five years ago my plant was In Manhattan.

Some six years ago I took a trolley ride to Long Island and one of the first places I vliilted was College Point. The place seemed to strike me at once and It was not long before I bad my plant moved there. Many otber Manhattanltes have followed me. and not one In a hundred has been disappointed. The tunnel will without a doubt bring thousands here because wbst a man wants to-day la good trannlt facilities.

It ran get home In a few minutes with very little trouble that Is the place he will reside. There are almost 1,000 men employed In my factory at College Point, the majority of whom reside In the village. Many of my men have been born and brought up In Manhattan, but when they learned that they could wcure a nlre little house for lee money than they were obliged to pay for' a fiat, or apartment. In Manhattan, they came here to reside. JOHN w.

hapr Uvea In the heart of New York and wants to get out Into the country. He will come to Long Island in preference to going to either New Jersey or the Bronx. Nassau County will especially he benefited by the Improvement, for the towns throughout that section will have better service Into tho heart of New York City than the Bronx. By this Improvement the population of Long Island will be vastly Increased within a short time, aud the prosperity of the whola Island will be doubled theroby. WALTER T.

EDOERTON, Secretary of the Richmond Hill Rcpub- Mean Club. Richmond Hill. L. I. years for the coming of Its day of Immense Increase In population and wealth the Increase which befits the Island's unique geographical position, peerless climate, beautiful scenery, rich fields, attractive shores, and the living and illimitable treasures of Its waters.

All thee peerless advantages of the Island are brought Into greater prominence by this enriching enterprise of the railroad. The effect must be far-reaching upon this maritime suburb of the city In the i 1 affected to a considerable extent. Realty values will, I believe, feel the effects ot the. new transit facilities within a short period. Facilities for travel make population and population makes values.

With tho new connection for travel in ex Istence I believe the fictitious values oC realty will be made substantial by the Increased demand, and the values made better where they are now normal. WILLIAM O. MILLER, Member of Assembly Nassau Count Freeport, La VALUES TO BECOME HEAL. Judging from what has been the effect of opening the tunnel under the East River from Brooklyn, and tho tunnel under tho Hudson River to New Jersey, and the opening of the subway to the Bronx, I believe that the opening of the tunnels from Long Island City to Manhattan will be a repetition ot the sucoess which has attended the suburban sections In development. Tractlcally every portion of Lc-nx Island uiL na aoubx be beneficially Southold Divine Looks for a Great long Island Growth.

The opening of the Pennsylvania Railroad's tunnels to the millions who will throng them practically, moves all Long Island fifteen miles nearer to the financial and commercial center ot the continent. Island has been waiting many 1 during Septembor at 84. At Los Angeles It was 71 and 69. resnectlvalv: rr ritv Tfi Q.n 1' College N.I, VTV, I.