The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-19
A NEW JERSEY SHOW PLACE.
Sunken Gardens and Bridge Features
 of Its Landscape Work.

From the New York Tribune.
 The country home of Daniel O,Day al Deal, N. J., on Deal lake, which was completed about year ago, has become known as one of the show places of ths Jersey coast. It is called Kildysart.
 The estate includes about twenty-five acres, and the development of the ground Is now nearing completion. The landscape work is more extensive than that around any other home on the Jersey coast Tie electric illumination of the grounds is placed below the level of the eye of a per son walking therein, and the fixtures thus do not interfere with the landscape in the daytime.
 The building is Elizabethan in architec- ture, the material being stone. brick and cement. The main house Is about 200 feet long and is so arranged that the larger part can be shut off In the winter, hay ing the part near the lake which is a comfortable house by itself, for. occu- pancy. There is large tower which has a two-fold purpose-it Is used as an ob- servatory and it also contains water tanks.
 One of the strong features of the in- terior is the great hall, extending three stories in height, with continuous gal .ery about the second and third stories, from which the suites of bedrooms are approached. In this hall is a Caen stone mantel with life-size figures of Miranda on the chimney breast, a group repre- senting the union of the ocean and the lake.
 The first story contains, besides the great halls reception rooms, music room, main dining room, annex dining roon breakfast room. library. childrens parlor, billiard and lounging room. and in the annex are dining room. separate kitchen, buffers pantry, etc, for winter use, the principal kitchen, pantries, etc., being in the main part of the building. There is complete gymnasium in the third story.
 The grades and slopes of the ground were sound to be of such a nature that an economical use of material for grad ing required the adoption of one of the most attractive features of the place namely, the sunken gardens, which begin at the greenhouses and are stepped down at various points until at the lake they reach the level of the aquatic gardens. Spanning this sunken portion of the grounds is a substantial brick and terra cotta bridge 150 feet long, over which the main avenue to the house passes.
 A bridle path, about one and one-half miles long, winds through the various portions of the grounds The stables are extensive and contain all the latest i'm provements. These, with the gardeners cottake gate lodge, praperies and boat house, complete the outbuildings.
 The hall is decorated with eight life size statues, which support the ceiling. They represent sea gods and goddesses all half draped with nets and carrying tridents. The figures harmonize with the spacious apartment The mantel in the great hall shows a group of fabled mon sters and the upper part of the fireplace contains a life size group of figures rep resenting Neptune and nymph with a cupid between them. This group is symbolic of the union of the sea and the lake. and is regarded by F. Miranda, the scu1por, as one of his best produc- tions. t v