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THEBROOKLYJV DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. JUNE 1. 1907.

I'C OLD FASHIONED COUNTRY PLACE AT FORT SALONGA, BIG FLUSHING SALE said to be worth $40,000. The sale is made sublect- to a. mortgage of $18,600. Eliza Van Alst sold to the N. and L.

I. R. R. Co. eight lots for a right ot way in Long Island City to the tunnel entrance and yard, with a frontage of 214'4 feet west Side of Honeywell street, 116 feet south of Skillmas street, 25 feet along the property of James Thomson and 214 feet, adjoining Solomon Payne.

Adolph Baumann sold to Louis C. Schroeder two-thirds of eight lots, with a frontage of 100 (tet on the east side of Backus street and 200 feet on the south side of Myrtle avenue. Mary Clements of Schenectady sold Daniel F. Shea thirty-five lots on Colllrfc-avenue and Atlantic and Arctic streets, east of Fresh Pond Junction of the L. I R.

st Maspeth, south of Fresh Pond road. The lots are said to be worth $18,000. Alrick II. Man sold to the L. I.

R. R. Company for the purposes of the Maple Grov cut-off to straighten the line In the Forest Park section a plot of about half an acre, with a frontage of 211 feet along the middle of Lefferts avenue, north of Richmond Hill. The Dickel Construction Company soli to Louise Eschenbrenner and Mary Wiederhold, eleven lots at Wyckoff Park, Woodhaven avenue, Suydam street, subject to a mortgage of $8,880. The New York and New England Realty Company sold to Daniel Collins twenty-two lots at Bprtngfleld Terrace, and George A.

Johnson sold to George W. Cisney eighteen lots In Woods' Addition to Morris Park, subject to a mortgage of $2,700. John Doughty sold to Cornelia Blake and Annio Roxborough plot at Flushing, with a frontage of 300 feet on the south side of the road from Flushing to Astoria, 125 feet in depth. 870 feet west of Aletta Strong property and 125 feet In depth and east, side of Mill Creek and west side Flushing avenue. The Lawyers Land and Improvement sold to Konpel Cohen, 28 lots on map of the property of the Globe Land Company, Jamaica, subject to a mortgage of, 9 lots to Felice Debellonla, subject to a mortgage of $1,800 and lots to George Bengel subject to a mortgage i -test) 7.

i'w tajS2r -'-WJ-. Id Ullrtll! NOT VERY WELL KNOWN Inland Long Island Lake Llkaa Bit of the Adlron-i dacks. IS A SPOT OF RARE BEAUTY. Pishing for Gajney Bass Delight the Angler Lake the Basis of Many Quaint Legends. Nestling snugly among the picturesque bills ot the far-famed pine belt of Suffolk County, and hidden not only from lev.

but likewise, to a large degree, from the knowledge of the average New Torker unless It be known by name only It a mysterious, fresh water lake that, with Its environs, Is so much like one In the that an experienced dweller transported to Its shores could easily lmaarlne himself still at home. This Is Lake Ronkonkoma. There Is mystic data In the queer history ot this pretty little lake that would make a well filled book, and over Its pages those who find delight in trying to fathom nature's puzzles could study for a season. But, however Ronkonkoma Lake Sand Fond in the English translation from the Indian vernacular came to be; however It Is fed; whatever or wherever la its whether It has a bottom or cot, the fact remains that It really Is; that It has an Inlet and an outlet. and that the water doesn't fall through, eves' if the time-honored legend that It fills a "bottomless hole" be true.

Lake Ronkonkoma. as It is, not as it was In prehistoric times. Is one ot the most fascinating spots with which nature has seen fit to endow Long Island. The average New Yorker, who- worries away half the summer and cuts down on expenses In order to spend the other half In proper style at some Adirondack retreat, has no idea that a veritable mountain 'lake lies snugly among the knolls of central Long Island, an hour's ride from home. Ronkonkoma Lake isn't really undiscovered.

It was discovered many, many years ago by the Indians, who Inhabited Long Island before the white man went there. Since the Indian left It Long Islanders and others have settled In his wake, and they now occupy cottages around the sandy beach that frames the lake. But Ronkonkoma Is fairly screaming for recognition among the famous summering places of the Eastern States. If it were 300 miles or more from New York City, It probably would be visited anually by hundreds more than now BOOM HITS PINE LAWN. management of the hotel last year, has leased the property for several years, and the house is now open for the season.

Numerous Improvements have been mads In the hotel property. The Home of "Lady Babie.w One of the largest estates In this locality Is that of Miss Maude Adams, which comprises over 500 acres of rolling land, consisting of fields and largo timber land. Mies Adams has had winding roads constructed through picturesque parts of ber estate, where she enjoys a quiet drive away from the eyes of the public The country house of Miss Adams was modeled to conform to her Ideas of comfort in olden times. Spacious rooms, large fireplaces, furnishings of real antique, collected from various parts of the country by Miss Adams herself, suggest harmony and comfort. What Miss Adams has observed for some time in this beautiful lake country, others are for the first time exploring.

Among the latter are men of position and wealth. Interested in the promotion of the Great Long Island Motor Parkway. It Is proposed to construct the parkway in close proximity to the lake, to build club houses, garages, golf courses, in fact to develop and make this one of the main objective points in the entire course. The company has acquired a strip of land 200 feet in width through Ronkonkoma. The extra 100 feet Is to be used In connection with the races for grand stands, parking accommodations for automobiles and Little Village Near Pai mlngdale Has 'Witnessed Evolution of Farms Into Home Sites.

Pine Lawn, like Farmingdale, has seen many property changes in the last few years. Nearly all the acreage within several miles of the village has been purchased from the farmers who have tilled the soil there for many years. Prices never dreamed of before the present boom came, over the real estate horizon have been paid for acreage. have pocketed their fortunes and departed. Buyers have filed their deeds and bade their property sleep on and increase in value.

An exception to the above rule is offered by Mr. Feigenspann, who has begun the development and Improvement of his own farm. He has cut the large tract into building lots and city blocks, and so far has erected four very neat cottages which contain modern Improvements. Mr. Feigenspann will supply water to occupants of these houses from a well over which a powerful windmill Is ever working.

BANK OF BOCKVILLE CENTRE. With deposits aggregating $1,214,349.96, and with dally balances running well up In the thousands, the Bank of Rockvlllo Centre occupies a very prominent place EXHIBITION HALL AND BAND STAND AT SUFFOLK COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS GEORGE C. RAYNOR'S RESIDENCE AT LAKE RONKONKOMA I Over $550,000 Conveyed Rlckert Finlsy Syndicate for Improvement. to I. R.

R. ENLARGES YARD. Buys a Plot on East Biver Front, Costing for Increasing Facilities at L. I. City.

The bulk of lot transactions still continues unabated In Queens and the total for the first five months up to June 1 will pass the 13,000 mark. The continued cold weather has had a somewhat discouraging effect on buyers, but the intrinsic valua of the bargains offered and the steady approach of the completion of the tunnels keeps up the volume of sales which, bow-ever, with good weather conditions would doubtless have doubled. The conveyance by the Hudson Realty Company to the Broadway Flushing Company of 194' acres east of the village of Flushing, comprising the Bowse farm and adjacent properties, estimated to be worth in all over $500,000, It is said means the final development of this most prominent suburban section that upon the completion of the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel will be brought within 2d minutes of the heart of Manhattan. The property is located about one mile north of Broadway station and is to be traversed by the proposed White-stone trolley line. It has a frontage of 4.897 feet or nearly a mile on the north side of Bayslde avenue, 1.752 feet on the west side of Whitestone road, 3.885 feet south side of Wlllets Point road and 1,341 feet easterly side of Murray lone.

The sale Is made subject to a mortgage of $238,000. The purchasers are Identified with the Rlckert-Flnlay Company, and this means a first-class development backed up by abundant capital. The Broadway-Flushing Company has also acquired from Alfred E. Hanson, a purchasing anent, 23 acres, with a frontage of 1.D00 feet on the south side of Bay-side avenue, about BOO feet west of Whitestone road and three-fourths of a mile east of Murray Hill Park and adjoining the easterly side of the Bowne property. The sale was made subject to a mortgage of $35,000.

The property Is said to be worth $60,000. This will be developed simultaneously with the 194 acre tract above described. Henrietta Hamhlen has sold to Alexander A. Forman, a tract of 40 2-3 acres, with a frontage of 1,004 feet easterly side of Springfield road at South Sp'lngfleld. a short distance south of the conduit and east of tho Brooklyn Water Works pond, said to be worth $100,000.

The sale was made subject to a mortgage of $32,750. Regina Dreyer sold to Herman Dreyer the easterly half of two parcels of land on the south side of Jackson avenue, north of Elmhurst, half way between Francis Meadow road and Junction avenue. The two portions of plots conveyed comprise about 8V4 acres. One a little less than 8 acres has a frontage of 178 feet north side of Jackson" avenue, and the other about 2-5 ot an acre has a ii flMLtfr frontage of 131 feet north side of Jackson avenue. The sale Is made subject to three mortgages aggregating $31,000.

The property Is said to be worth $60,000. Minnie W. Dangler sold to Rawdon W. Kellogg a plot of 64 acres at South Jamaica with a frontage of 785 feet on the west side of Farmers avenue, and 748 I feet on the east side of the Lonx island o. Wants, llii acres at.

Fosters Meadow on the est side of the Fosters Meadow road, east of the Twin Ponds. Tho conveyance is made subject to two mortgages aggregating $12,256.25. Important L. I. B.

B. Purchase. The Long Island Railroad has bought of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company a plot on the East River water front. Long Island City, with a frontage of 608 feet on the north side of the railroad company freight yard and 668 feet on the south sido of Sixth street. The plot has a frontage of feet on the bulk head front of the Kast Kivcr, and at a point 220 feet west of West avenue the railroad company strip takes a turn to the northeast, narrowing down the Barber property conveyed to a frontage of only 60 feet on the west side of West avenue.

Previous, however, to the pur- chase above mentioned the railroad had only a 60- foot entrance on West avenue to its hii freleht vard. extendiue north on the East River front from the ferry Blips to a point between Fifth and Sixth streets. This week purchase will now give the railroad an entrance 100 feet In widih to Its big freight yard, enough for eight tracks Instead of four, and will sod if til feet to its Diuaneaa ironi. on tne East River. It Is said that the Barber Company received for Its plot.

A purchase money $200,000 wae given. Charles E. Twaiibly. who. with David L.

Van Nostrand aud John Eldert. bought the John E. Everett corner lot. 24 feet front on south side of Fulton street and 9" feet front on easterly side of Union Hall street for $37,600, has sold Van Nostrand his third of the plot, giving therefor a purchase money mortgage of Eldert and Van Nostrand each assigns to Twanbly his third of a $17,600 mortgage held on the properly assigned from a previous holder of the same. Prominent Lot Sale9.

Francis K. Pendleton sold to August W. Rabe 19 lots In Long Island City, map I of New ABtoria, located on Third. Fourth iani Fifth avenues, between Graham ave- nue on the north an.1 Washington on the i southeast ot Ravcnswood The lots are staWMjIWJ i SS! SRiB'. Kit Li '-swi) THREE PROSPEROUS BANKS.

Biverhead Institutions Are All Making Money Besources of the Trio Now Total $6,374,618.18. (Special to the Eagle.) Rlverhead, L. June 1 Probably in no section of its size on Long Island are the banks In a more flourishing condition than in Rlverhead. There are three banks two of deposit and a savings bank. The three combined present figures that are interesting.

They owe to depositor alone, according to their recent statements, the tidy sum of' $6,127,717.10. When it comes to total resources an even better series of figures is revealed. The trio have total resources of $6,374,618.16. The Rlverhead Savings Bank was established In 1872, and was conducted for some years In a private residence. Then the old County Clerk's office was taken over as a banking house.

In 1892 it had outgrown this and erected one of the handsomest banking houses on Lonx Island a three-story brick building of handsome design, and tne finest business building in this section. The president is Gilbert H. Ketcham, and Usher B. Howell, a brother of the Rev. Frank G.

Howell of Brooklyn, Is secretary. The bank Is recognized as the wealthiest country savings bank In New York State. Its semi-annual statement (January, 1907) showed that its $4,984,153.36 due depositors was distributed among 8,213 depositors. That same' statement gave the total resources as $5,465,132.73, with over $3,200,000 out on first mortgages on real estate. The amount paid in interest alone foots up to nearly $100,000 every six months.

This interest has been of late 4 per cent, on all sums from $1 to $3,000. The bank's surplus Is now $480,979.37. Since its organization the bank has received a total of $14,702,396.62, and there has been withdrawn $11,796,443.82. The total amount paid as Interest up to January, 1907, was $2,078,200.56. The Suffolk County National Bank was organized by a few prominent Rlverhead men in 1890, and is already well past the half-million mark.

Its total resources being $665,871.01, of which a little over 000 Is due depositors. The sum of out on loans and discounts. The capital is $50,000, and the surplus $25,000. Lately the bank has been paying dividends at the rate of 15 per cent. The stock is In great demand, but there is none on the market, and when a block is sold it sells well up to the $300-a-share mark.

The bank's president is Dr. Henry P. Terry, arid Harry B. Howell, Supervisor of the town, is cashier, with B. Frank Howell assistant cashier.

County Judge Gritting is vice president. Close crowding the Suffolk County National is the Rlverhead Bank, the third bank In the place and the second discount bank, in point of years and wealth. Its officers are: Howell M. Reeve, president; J. Henry Newins, vice president, and John 8.

Howe, cashier. This Institution )was organized In 1901 with a capital of in a field which was then believed to be pretty well covered as to banks, yet it has already accumulated a surplus fund of $22,000, and there are now undivided profits of over $6,000. with $143,274.30 due depositors. The total resources of the bank are $243,614.42, while there are $152,802,98 out as loans and discounts. THOMPSON PARK.

New Suburban Development on the North Shore, Near Glen Cove. Thompson Park, which is a development occupying an elevated tract between Glen Cove and Sea Cliff on the North Shore, is the outcome of the advantage which L. A. Thompson, its founder, who has his own residence upon the property, -found in this locality for a suburban residential center. Mr.

Thompson for five years has occupied, a dwelling here and the establishment of the park Is the result of his conviction as to the desirability of the location and his experience as an architect. The tract includes fourteen acres of chestnut woods, of which every owner is to have the free enjoyment, and the Improvements consisting of streets, cement sidewalks, water, gas and electricity, stone entrances, are in charge of Hinchman, Pllat and Tooker, well-known landscape engineers. Every plot in Thompson Park has at the least a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of from 200 to 300 feet. The property is further safe guarded as a nwidentlal community by adequate and comprehensive restrictions and the tract Is within a five minutes rides by trolley from Sea Cliff and ten minutes from Glen Cove. ST.

JOSEPH AT ss iii Si" I of $S94. I Big Mortgages Becorded. William H. Mc Whiter gave lo William Crawford a mortgage of $78,500 on plot nt Astoria with a frontage of 278 feet oB the east side of Mills street, 203 feet south side of Orchard street, and 3 2 feet west side of Monson and land under water of East River. Evelvn L.

Horn gave a mortgage ol $12,000 to Abram Debevolse on a plot at Hollls, 390 feet, on south side of Je. rome avenue; 100 feet west side of Nyack street, and 450 feet north side Hollls avenue. Charles Chugerman, Mender Basse and Hyman Singer gave to the Bond and Mortgage Company one builders loan mortgage loan of $6,000 and five ofl.loO each on 6 lots at Woodhaven. southwest corner Broadway and Park place. LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY The Long Island Motor Parkway to be built eventually from Floral Park to Rlverhead through the great middle section of the Island is to be one of the most important features of the future development of the great territory soma sixty miles in length and from eight to ten miles in width which has been almost wholly dormant up to within very recent times, looked upon as a sandy region hopelessly given over to scrub oaks and stunted pines.

The route has been definitely located and the right of way acquired for the entire distance between Garden City and Ronkonkoma, and several parties of surveyors are at work i ji driving stakes all ihe way, giving the elevation for grading. The active work of grading Is to begin in about two weeks and will be pushed along rapidly. The best of gravel will be used and the work most thoroughly done, both as to the making of a level road bed and the Insuring of perfect drainage. There are to be no grade crossings, the parkway to pass over or under every public highway, thus insuring absolute Immunity from accident by collision with horses and wagons and pedestrians and permitting a rate of speed limited only by the rapacity of the motor car. The roadway will be 100 feet in width and inilosed on bolh sides with a substantial and ornamental iron fence, thus protecting it from any possible tres.

parsers, whether cattle, horses or do mestlo animals of any other sort. The route east of Ronkonkoma is as yet undetermined. There are three rights of way under consideration a southerly ptni. in a A ntrall.l ft fhn r.ll- road. a northerly one Just south of Wading River within a short distance of Long Island Sound and a middle one about half way between the two.

The northerly one Is preferred, as it Is over a beautiful rolling section of the country and near the Sound, but the land has not all been donated as yet. The Board of Trade of Riverhead has guaranteed as much of the i right of way as lies In that town, and the i thirty miles loop for the speed contests i will be located within the section flf- teen miles west of the village of River- head, the county seat of Suffolk County, One of the most Important features of the proposed parkway is the system ot spurs that will branch to the north nt Oyster Bay. Hnntlngton and Xorthport. Smlthtown and Port Jefferson and Wading River, and to the south to Amityville. Babylon.

Bay Shore and Pau-hogue and other villages. These will bring the parkway within easy touch of Sound and ocean and add much to the attractiveness of the rot'te. ACTIVITY AT WYANDANCK. There is considerable activity in acr age and some development at Wyandanch. The Allied Realty Company is cutting up some territory Into quarter, half and full acre plots, and in placing them on the marker styles them poultry farms.

At Wyandanih the Roman Catholid, Church has purchased a 1.07O acre farr. that belonged to the Colonial Miner Spring Company, a portion of which I very high ground, overlooking the railroad. On the highest ground a seminary is to be erected. through the maze of pine and other trees, are partridges, quail and ducks. To the pleasure seeker who cares naught for angling or hunting there are plenty of attractions at Lake Ronkonkoma.

In the sandy beach that surrounds the lake, forming a white frame that glitters with the ripples In the sunshine, is one ot the mysteries that Ron-konkoma's oldest residents tail to understand. A veritable ocean boacb of sugary white sand, such as Is seldom found on the shores of any small inland- lake, stretches out before the eye, and Invites the bather to a dip in the clear water. Influence of Motor Parkway. Lake Ronkonkoma Is destined to be one of the most prominent resorts on the line of the proposed Long Island Motor Parkway. The route between Garden City and Ronkonkoma a distance of 32 miles, has already been decided upon.

The" land for the route acquired, and surveying parties are actively at work all along the line preparatory to the actual work of grading and construction. A spur will be built from the main line to the shore of the lake and garages will be established in the section where hundreds of enthusiastic automobillsts will locate summer cottages. They will make the run of 48 miles between Ronkonkoma and the East River ferries in about an hour night and morning, easily maintaining a speed of a mile a minute over the section traversed by the Motor Parkway as far west as Floral Park. The coming of the Parkway is looked forward to by property owners as likely to give a great boom to (lie entire section, land already having appreciated in value In of the great changes that will follow the advent of the great popular motor-carriage thoroughfare. Now that all of Long Island appears to be coming into its own, Lake Ronkonkoma real estate is reaching a firmness in price that sets a new record for the local market.

There isn't any lake front property for sale Just now, nor has there been, so all conclusions as to the increasing values of Ronkonkoma property are necessarily drawn from the offers made and prices asked for acreage In the districts back from the summer resort proaer. One of the latest transactions In lake front property recorded Is the sale of a thirty acre strip, sold by Amzl Newton a few years ago for $8,000. Less tnan i year later the real estate concern that bought it disposed of the sams trac for $15,000. Last year $2,000 was aid for less than one acre on the water's idse. Acreage property in the farming districts around Ronkonkoma is becoming more valuable, as indicated by market prices every tim the seasons change.

In one district, where the new Hawkins avenue was recently cut through, has Jumped from $50 to $600 and n-per acre. Sandy as the beach land is at the lake, the Ronkonkoma soil is fertile for vegetation. Agriculturists there declare they can raise peanuts, melons and other of the more difficult species of garden wares, as well as potatoes and the more hardy vegetables that are common to New York State. Lake's History and Mystery. Ronkonkoma Lake's history and mystery present an interesting study.

The legend, handed down from the days of the redskin, is that a subterranean passage provides the inflow and the outlet that keeps Ronkonkoma water fresh. Latter-day investigation shows that the water of Ronkonkoma Lake and that of the Connecticut hilltops tally in their analyses. This leads to the supposition, credited in some quarters and'scouted in ot'a- ers. that a cnannei oi me Connecticut River, onre open all the way through, 'now exists in a hidden underland water- way below the center of Long Island A legend of early-day origin has it that an Indian, disheartened by unrequited loiie, drowned himself and his sorrows in the waters of Ronkonkoma Lake, and his body was latnr found in Great South Bay. This legend strengthens the theory of an underground water passage between Ronkonkoma and the bay on the south of Long Lake Front Hotel, prettily seated on a blurt of green grass back from the lake's adge.

is under new management. Arthur L. Uurnham, who was associated with the ja A if) i among Long Island's financial Institutions outside of Brooklyn. Founded in 1891, the bank's books show a steady and substantial increase in business, reflecting not merely the extraordinary developmsnt of Central Nassau County, but very favorably, as well, upou the soundness of the institution's 'man agement. those conveniences and necessities de- manaea ny tne automoouing puonc.

engineers have been at work in the vicinity of the lake since May 6, mapping the course ot the parkway, and the directors of the company have announced next fall Ss the time for completion of the great roadway to Lake Ronkonkoma. The improovement in railroad service since the Pennsylvania Company secured control of the Long Island Railroad has given considerable Impetus to real es-State development in this section. According to official report twenty-five reBl deuces have been erected in this place during the past year, and now the efforts Of the railroad company are to be supplemented by the great plans of development of the Long Island Motor Parkway Company. Lake Ronkonkoma, with Its great natural advantages, and such forces1 at work in its development, Is unquestionably on the verge of a marvelous transformation. If one Is a lover of nature and unacquainted with this charnflng retreat, he should take the hint conveyed in the following extract from a recent magazine article; "If you want to spend a day to good advantage; if you want to enjoy some Brand and unsurpassed Long Island scenery; if you want to see a sight that will Inspire you with rapture and delight, RonKonkoma, 'The queen of Long Island FULLERTON, WONDER WORKER I.

B. Special Agent Preparing to Repeat at Medford His Soil Tilling Success at Wading Biver. At Medford, In the very middle of Long Island, where thousands and thousands of acres of Jand are covered with scrub oak that for centuries has claimed the soil unfit for cultivation, Hal B. Fuller-ton, special passenger agent for the Long Island Railroad, Is giving a practical demonstration that- at the roots of the scrub oaks Is soil that could -be made to yield as good crops as any other. The wonderful transformation that Mr.

Fullerton worked In the plot that he cut out of scrub oak at Wading River opened the eyes of Long' Island agriculturists. Where it was predicted that nothing could, grow except scrub oak, Mr. Fuller-ton began to grow almost exerything in the category of farm products. That experiment is beyond the experimental stage. Now Mr.

is doing the same thing at Medford. The patch of ground that Mr. Fullerton selected for his test is about ten acres in expanse. It was In the thickest of the scrub oak district. The scrubs were uprooted and the little farm divided off Into potato patches, berry patches, alfalfa fields, etc.

This is Its first season, but when harvest time comes around Mr. Fullerton expects to have some fine specimens of farm produce to lay before the eyes of Suffolk County farmer folks. The Long Island Railroad Company Is doing this simply to prove that scrub oak land isn entirely void of value. The day will probably come when every acre of these wastes will be cleared and cultl- vatcd. The advance step is being taken i to-day at Wading River and Medford.

SEMINARY OF "111 lllll Tfi 1 since its inception tne dhiibi puncy uanroaa snops property east ot been to foster he development of p0ntan race track. Two lots comprising the communities in its territory, large, about a fourth of an acre are exempted issues of local bonds, for school and other 1 from the conveyance. The sale was made purposes, having been taken up on terms to a mortgage of $7,000. exceedingly favorable to the towns. Van Mater Stilwell sold to Mary Jen- The bank occupies commodious quar- nings and the latter reconveyed to James know Its charms.

It deserves greater popularity than It enjoys. Pretty Summer Resort. There Isn't anything at the Ronkonkoma station of the' Long Island Railroad's main line to give a hint that the pretty summer resort lies just over the hills and not tar away. But walk, if you enjoy walking, and In the bracing breezes that sough through the tall pine trees you are sure to enjoy the walk, and after you have wended your way past pretty rural homes and between walls of stately trees, you will suddenly stand upon tho summit ot the hill, with the little Ronkonkoma station at your back and picturesque Ronkonkoma Lake rippling at your feet. Beside you on either slue is woodland, wild and romantic big trees.

shrubs, underbrush, a veritable wilderness seemingly unexplored by man and inhabited by birds and perhaps bigger that unwittingly invite the gunner I game like the mountain wilds. To many minds an inland lake, fringed with woods and untouched nature on every side is far more fascinating than the sea bhore, where 'human handiwork has ornamented cliffs and beaches until the draperies of original creation have vanished from view. It is a place of this sort Lake Ronkonkoma. Almost circular in form, the lake is just about four miles in circumference. Aft elongated mile measures the row or sail across its widest part.

There isn't any homely side to the lake; It is prettily bordered wherever you chance to look. -Pretty, not elaborate, cottages dot the shores, but, as in the Adirondack Mountains, these cottages set modestly back from the lake front and allow the pine trees and pretty fqjiage to predominate as shore decorations. Splendid Pishing in the Lake. Fishing in Ronkonkoma Lake is as good as can be found in any lake of prominence. It Is better than in many.

Lake trout, wall-eyed pike, and perch inhabit Ronkonoma's waters, but the well-known king of the finny tribe the fighter which all anglers delight In wrestling with, the blRok bass, reigns over all the other fish kind. Some notable catches of these joys to fishermen are recorded in the chronicles of Ronkonkoma angling, and perched on pedestals, stuffed "for keeps" and not for eating, are some black bass specimens in the Ronkonkoma Hotel and cottages that weighed seven pounds or more when taken from the lake. In thirteen days one angler is reputed to have taken 250 bark baas. "And that's no fish story, either," add the summer cottagers who tell you about it. As the lake abounds in fish, the surrounding woodland Is alive with winged and fieetfooted game.

Yes, deer hav been plentiful around Ronkonkoma. and in season the underbrush of the Ronkonkoma woods crackle under the feet of these nimble creatures now as the quirk eye ot the timid animals catch a glimpse of a leveled gun. Roaming the wilds with the deer are rabbits, and, Parting ters in the center of the town, But is about to build a yet more roomy and handsome structure because of the pressing need for larger quarters. Hiram R. Smith Is the president and Bergen T.

Raynor is cashier. In another column appears a statement of the bank's present condition. MANOR'S BRIGHT FUTUEE. Manor, a Suffolk County hamlet, surrounded by splendid farming land, is fast becoming an important railroad junction. It Is at Manor that the road leading to the southward, connecting the main line and the south shore divisions of the Long Island Railroad, branches off.

In the early future a line running down from Wading River to Manor will be built. This will give steam railway connections between the north and south shores of the island. BRENTWOOD. ii I i mm I. SI i i.