The County of Nassau is composed of the towns of Oyster Bay (70,000 acres), North Hempstead (29,000 acres), and that part of the town of Hempstead not in Queens Borough (63,000 acres). The total area is about 162,000 acres, including only waters well inclosed by land. The act creating the new county passed the Assembly on March 24, 1898, and was signed by the Governor on April 28 following. It was the outgrowth immediately of the new conditions caused by the creation of Greater New York and the consolidation of the western towns with the metropolis. The new county is sixteen miles in width from the eastern boundary of the borough of Queens to the western boundary of the County of Suffolk, and twenty-two miles in length from Long Island Sound to the ocean. It had, in 1892, a population of 42,613-twenty-two counties in the state at that time had less. It has an assessed valuation of about $25,000,000. It has the following villages: Hempstead, with a population of 5,000; Glen Cove, 4,000; Freeport, 2,500 Rockville Centre. 2,000; Oyster Bay, 2,000; Hicksville, 1,500; Lynbrook, 1,000; Port Washington, 1,250; Garden City, 800; Sea Cliff, 1,300; Roslyn, 1,300; Farmingdale, 1,100, and Manhasset, 800. It has about 70 public school buildings, costing, some of them, from $25,000 to $60,000. It has also the splendid parochial schools of St. Paul's and St. Mary's, at Garden City, costing near $500,000. It also contains 91 churches, including the mag 209 June 16, '97 421 Nov. 4, 97 nificent Garden City Cathedral. It has two fine libraries, cathedral and school, at Garden Olty, of 5,000 volumes each; public libraries at Hempstead, Great Neck, Massapequa, Oyster Bay, Rockville Centre, Roslyn, Sea Cliff, and school libraries accessible to the public connected with nearly all of the schools, both public and private. It contains several fine harbors, including Cold Spring, Oyster Bay, Hempstead Bay and Little Neck Harbor, and a number of navigable streams and bays on the south side of the towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay. It has about 200 miles of fine new macadamized roads, completed January 1, 1899. Over two and a half million dollars have been expended on the construction of these highways. The grounds and buildings of the Queens County Agricultural Society, upon which a hundred thousand dollars have been expended, are located at Mineola, in the new county. The government of the county, officials of which were elected November 8, 1898, consists of a County Judge and Surrogate, the LWO offices united, at a salary of $3,000; a District Attorney, Sheriff and County Treasurer, $2,500 each; County Clerk, $3,000, and a Superintendent of the Poor, salary $1,500 per year. The present officials of Queens County, living in Nassau County, will serve out their terms. All searches as to titles of property in Nassau County now have to be made in the County Clerk's office of both counties. 1900] THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ALMANAC. LIFE SAVING Point of Woods Point Lookout Rockaway Point Short Beach.. Zach's Inlet STATIONS ON THE LONG ISLAND COAST. Abreast the village.. Locality. Four miles south of the village.. Four miles and a half south of Patchogue. Three and a half miles southwest of Montauk light. East side of entrance to Huntington Bay, L. I. Sound. Half a mile west of Fire Island light. One mile south of the village of East Hampton Half mile southwest of Fort Pond. East end of Jones Beach. Eight miles east of Fire Island light. Near west end, Long Beach Two miles south of the village of Bridgehampton Two and a half miles southwest of Speonk village. East end of Oak Island One and a half miles southwest of Potunk village Four miles east of Fire Island light. Two miles west of New Inlet Half a mile south of the village. West end of Rockaway Beach Keepers. Jesse B. Edwards. Daniel B. Abrams. Near Rocky Point, L. I. S.,about 4 m. north'ly from Greenport Harvey S. Brown. Half mile east of Jones Inlet.. Two miles southwest of Shinnecock light Nelson Burnett. John Edwards. LIGHTHOUSES ON LONG ISLAND AND VICINITY. Stations. Montauk Point Shinnecock Bay. Fire Island, L. V. 68. Little Gull Island. Long Beach Bar.. Locality. On the extreme east end of Long Island Light Vessel 9.7 miles south from Fire Island Light House On outer end of Breakwater, Greenport Harbor.. In Long Island Sound, nearly opposite Port Jefferson Keepers. James G Scott. D. H. Caulkins, Master. Charles M. Fenton, Robert Ebbitts. Elmer E. Gildersleeve. A. Ferreira. Laborer in charge. Laborer in charge. Laborer in charge. Laborer in charge. Samuel Wright. Samuel Wright. Laborer in charge. Laborer in charge. Laborer in charge. Thomas Higginbotham. Detlef Larsen. William Boyle. A. L. Carlow. On Romer Shoal, N. E. side of Swash Chan., N. Y. low. bay Albert H. Porter. Scotland Lt.vessel No.74 miles N. E. E. from Navesink light... S'dy Hook Lt.ves. No.4884 miles N. E. by E., E. from Navesink light. Robert A. Bishop. Henry Harrison, Master. On Sandy Hook, 7 miles W. N. from S. H. light vessel.. Samuel Jewell. North Hook Beacon...On north point of Sandy Hook. Sandy Hook. On Staten Island, near entrance to Raritan Bay. On Staten Island, near New Dorp... On Staten Island, at the Narrows In Kill Van Kull, at Newark Bay entrance In New York Upper Bay. Inside Fort Wood, Bedloe Island, New York Harbor Jeffreys Hook, P. L... In Hudson River at Fort Washington... Wm. Stanton. Patrick Roch, Laborer |