New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03
DRIVES FOURS AT Is.
pI Ronalds, Westchester Whp'
psneots Trip of Fifty Years Ago.

=. ssventv-eteht Peter Lorfard
80. once 4 noted whip Is MAKING -.
- hts home Castle Ronalds, al New =, =.
tour iio'- I.r-York and return Mr.. RonaIds 10
|ONl- ,a5 nv a valet and Eroons ouI ne - ~
accoHll@ : L,-,s.If over the entire route winch
ing the -, no miles as he first went 10 -e
vii Dc ponsIds has been driving talyho' -
town M L.,t-v and abroad for more IMAM ''
in this COUNTY,
years h,s marty left Newtown on
Mr.. Rona -u e. 70 Newport and then 10 New
August n nm his way home. On Iue'uAS
YORK I ,,.ed in Rochelle. whe1e 'nes
INC p-.1 DAYS al Avenal. his nloliiet
- 7 vas nearly half century SIN - ,be
No.. 10 old homestead. which Is oN' -.
Vlsileu ,=r,a-ks of Neur-Rochele Inc cIit'Ae >, =
7bich have taken place IN MY oil NJ the
-, almost unfamiliar TO him. anu u o. to,.bood
llAN7 -e,.11A raople who he knew IN MS oOS
80 ~ found not one now Irving. 49, .o,,- "a
A. Interesting feature OF Mr.. h''i0409 to e,.v
80 he drove a tally-ho over the e same =. ~.
'ii@ m his present tour he stoppeu o. ''-
90, House in New-London where ne AsAeu $3.50
-,ss,on OF the clerk TO inspect the olu 80 -na
,e hack 70 1857 he showed the party MS
,.s.3hed on the book on the corTespoiiu'Ae
forty-eight years ago r visit
Al interesting incident OF the mp W. --tc-
III, the party made to the old Lorilaro
Nh.cII ~ D. The house was erected by Mr.
I,,.15s,S father Peter Lorilard anu NC ,-'-.
-. sAen il for more than fifty years, -,
.,-,a II was almost a days drive run - - ~,
- 1-onertz was acquired several years ago y
-. it, ~ New-York through condeIllaIloii p
oa.5i,qs and is being used now as station 80
-, -tn Bronx Park police. Instead OF pelhs '
- the door by butler the coaching parry On 1's
,,-sl az the house saw q police sergeant st'''iie
h.htnd the desk in what was once me sI'l'N -.
inc room. Nj Ronalds put in nearly an hou1 s0i,is
through the family homestead and nouhs 'he
changes. I'D ~.
Besides being an enthusiastic horsenlah anu ING
ouner of many blue ribbon winners NJ konaIos Is
the inventor of Land yachts" as he calls thern-
The land yacht is really camping outht winch
ts transported on wheels and drawn by four horses
r is fitted up with sleeping berths, commissary ana
vine cellar. While travelling in Europe Win MS
Yacht owing the difficulty in obtaining freSn
eggs and milk Mr.. Ronalds took goat ana chick
ems along The chickens were carried IN a coop
beneath the yacht and laid fresh eggs for break
fast every morning II was Mr.. Ronaldss custom
10 drive through the country in an open victoria
followed by the land yachts" which Were easily
arranged for sleeping in the open air at might IN
order TO accommodate servants and chefs ne rsu-
ally took two yachts
Mr. Ronalds has crossed the ocean hfty-elght
times and he has a villa at Nice where he spends
the winter. On occasion he drove coach RON
Genoa 10 Antwerp and then. crossing 10 London
continued his tour through England, Scotland and
wales. large part OF Mr.. Ronalds's life has
beer spent in Europe. About sixteen years ago he
returned TO this country and built his castle on
hsgh hill al Newtown.