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VoL. L.—No. 1,292. ESTABUSBED-^JSVåRpH^l^^lSeS NEW YORK, DECEMBER 17, 1893. SUPPLEMENT. ^^ PELHAM MANOR, = Pelham Heights and Vicinity, A Delightful Suhiirhan Section Descrîbeã.— With eĩeven iĩlustrations. "VTATUEE has eadowed New York City with many beautiful ■L^ suhurbs. Science, thehandmaid o£ Nature,hasbroughtthose auburba within easy reacb of the great centres oî toil, It is well that it is so, for tbe metropolis ia much overcrowded and men are aabing for pure air and more room in their habitations. New York has added to ber population some five bundred thou- sand souls in the last teu yeara. "'Whether she will inrrease in num- has thus quadrupled her numbers in tbe short period of ten years. New Eochelle hae in live years increased from 7,000 to 12,000. Scores of otber suburban places, less populous, could be pointed to witb results more or less similar. Sítuated between Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, is Pelham Heights, extending from the New Haven Railroad at the Peibamville Station, southward to Pelham Manor, the latter place extenda southwardly to tbe SouDd, the The Manor Olub. bers proportionately during the nest decade or two ís a matter of conjecture. It ia certain, however, that the increase will be fairly well maintained, and the question arises—where wiH these vast roul- titudespitchtbeir tents? Tbe City of Brooklyn hasafEorded abome for many, while other parts of Lonj; Island, aa well as Staíen Island and New Jersey, have " waxed fat" on the discontented surplus of the great metropolia. A considerable overflow bas taken place to the nortb of Manhattan Island and to tbe cities, towns and villages beyond the boundaries of the 24th "Ward. There are reaaons, of course, for the increased populations of Westchester Couaty, and these reasons will alwaya bave great weigbt with our people. It has easy steam connection to and from the Grand Central Depot, which is in tlie very heart of the city. It has also conaections with the Elevated roads. It doea not necessitate the crossing of ferries and the cbanging from boat to cars. Tbe of t-repeated eaying that people who live in the suburbs prel'er to be where they can travel to New York daily ou terra firma is just as true to-day as it waa tweuty years ago, notwithstanding tbe greater ^omfort of every class of Lravel in oiir day. Yonkers, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle are striking examples of the increase of po'-'il^íion in recent years. Mount Vernon bas jumped from about 4,000 to over 17,000 sínce the Jast census, and distance from the railroad to the Sound, through Pelliam Heights and Pelham Manor. beiug about a njile and a half. It is not a little curious that tens of thousands of New Yorkers, while familiar with the names of the various places surrounding the metropolis, are totally unfamiliar with their topography. Seekers after suburban homes bave often passed by the most desirable places. The ordinary New Yoiker's knowledge of Larchmont would begîn and end with tbe idea that it bad such a place as a yacht club, and the multitudea of people who have visîted Travers Island know of Pelham Manor only as " the etation on tbe New Haven auburban road where you get off to go to tbe New York Athletic Club." Not one in a thousand knows anything of the almost arcadlan beauty of tbe Esplanade to the north of the depot, for tbeir desiination is alwaya to the soutb of it; and there are probably not ten among tbe multiludes that have traversed the Pelhamdale road on Iheîr way to the club who haveseen"The Priory," though from its towers one migbfc almost cast a stone on to the club's grounds. It might be imagined from tbe openiug sentences of this intro- duction that the object o£ this supplement is to describe Pelham Manor with an eye 10 its poasible accominodation for the surplus population of New York Cĩty, The reader should at once disabuse