The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-29

y great zone Of enor
enough territor:
lRS "A real estate sharp who has helped
SSS find country places near New York for
Ri several new miionnlres inside the last
Few years told this writer the other day
THAT III his opinion at least 500. 900 is
now invested In such property within a
territory extending one hundred miles to
,&the north and east Of the city. and less
than fifty to the west and south. 53ss
An Lying largely Just outside the web OF
trolley lines which make the territory
G they reach accessible, the region OF sbis
SEestates encompasses the metropolis isilKc
aEf q broad band. It'll Is broken TO the south
NJ east by the sea, and here and there, Of
x course on the land, but every year II
gE more nearly approaches com pletcness.
S8B Just inside this belt lies the true subur.
81 ban district, peopled by those who can
4g afford neither country estates nor 4athe
b automobiles that make them accessible,
b and so have been such an import ant rae
Il TOR In increasing their number. BY and
" Nv when the suburban district becomes
~ 0yercrowded, there Will be something
M a Ding. The Beautiful and expensive css'- -S5
81 tates which have been created at,9the
~ cost OF so much time and thought ana
4 money may be broken5u into lots Tor.
Ssuburbanites. In that case the pr esent
wealthy holders. made even weal thier py
n the advance In their lands. lust 90 stu
Farther away from the ci ~. 55S .s{S a
#si SHINE OF them. probably, will decline to
l move. and before there Will be iced OF y +
\ most OF the suburbs will be transformed
II into regions closely blu lit up With wooden
n two-family houses, like those which now
III give the Borough OF The Bronx Its dis
h tinctive character, or Into great areas or
tall brick and stone and steel apartment
W houses. like those on Manhattan. Island 8
s5$$iis The most talked about area given over
M chiefly to country estates near New York
Il Is on Long Island, probably because the
a people who live on them are gayer than
those dwelling to the north, the west and
{ the south of the metropolis. Ofhand the
Il expert quoted above mentioned eighty
~ nine noteworthy Long Island estates and
still left many a ~ ~;
H Long island boasts at least of hundred
suc h places. besides several hundred
y smaller ones, probably slco. 1000 has been
expended upon these splendid homes.
81 The ma tority5 OF them have been created
within the last dozen or fifteen sears;
i some OF them by men whos while winning
1.-THE wealth to support such places, nave
IL also won worldwide fame for themselves =
some OF them by society figures With
#inherited riches who play no active part
In the affairs OF the world, and some hy
u men who have won the needed wealth
/. and but little else.
Began in CROSSE Country Riding.
5f The great aggregation OF country estates
& on Long Island had Its beginning IN
cross-country riding after the anise -seed
fbag on the meadows which make up the
j Hampstead Plain. though nowadays they
! hunt real foxes, and the first estates, N
1.-THE modern sense We're established py4
The members OF the famous .AfeadowbrookI
Club, In which President Roosevelt was
9lsuch figure before he began to devote
most Of his time to governing his fellow
5Citlzens. 35a . 5,GGG
His estate at Oyster Bay and the other
Roosevelt estates near there were es-
8tnblIshed years before the Madowbrook
hunts began, however; his father. Theo-
#dore, and his uncle, Robert b.. lately de-8
ceased, having migrated from up the
Hudson" to Long Island more than eighty
Years ago The Rooscvelts. however,
i have never lavished such great sums Of
money upon their places as many OF the
newer people have, partly. perhaps, be-
I cause the Roosevelt millions haven't been
Numerous enough
Il 81 these newer estates Clarence Mack
Though fifteen miles. away, on clear days
4 oyster Bay is plainly to be seen from
Harbor Hill, the Mackay house.
sd HArbor Hill Is built Of gray stone, and
II sta ndinp on the top of the second highest
a of the famous 5Wfeatley Hills as u does.I
Is very slightly It has many apa rtments,
z ~ course, hut one OF them excels all the
Snthers In size so much that the interior OF
the house seems TO ne ch'el'y o'te ei se'0S'
z lofty stone hall - =,
tanned In the vast apartment. Caen stone,
y Wonderful tapestries and tropnles o. Wy
hunt, arranged as an English lord Woula
q have them arranged In a genuine paFo-
NAL hall, add to the lmpresslvenesss OF
Il lne whole. The dining room, Wh'cn
would be remarkable apartment ~
many pretentious mansion, Is secon-
Diary, hut q hundred people might pam
ST quet In It, It is finished and furnished
58irl rare C!rcassian walnut and It IS from
ATS French windows that the most re-
Fmapkable View of oyster Bay and the IN
terventng country from Harbor Hill may
bas had, n, m y "a 4. 5F5 ~
81 In this great banquet4ng hall, when there
8is S''compnny'-which Is almost always
4 the celebrated and fabulously costly
Il N1ackay gold plate Is kept on view, con-
Il staptly guarded by man whose sole
Il duty Is to- look after Its safety. This SER
4 vice includes eight great flower vases
4 whose value some of us would con-
I slider, u fortune, The Louis Ky. and
u XVI drawing rooms. In series, at Har-
4 uor Hill, are also noteworthy apart
nlents. wy HEltG7d it4 +etsSss 5.;t Fl {54H