New-York tribune., 1910-11-09
4 NEW KIND OF WORKSHOP
The Home of a Publishing Firm
on Long Island.

A manufacturing plant that could be
mistaken for a country estate of eX-
tensive proportions is indeed unique, and
IA find one within short distance of
this city is TO experience AN emotion of
mingled surprise and delight RusEin's
exbortations on the duty Of eXpelling
ugliness from the world OF labor as an
evil intruder have stirred thousands of
readers. but the putting of his ideas into
practice has been another story alto
gether. William Morris had the cour-
age of his convictions. and did his prac
tical work as an artist and craftsman
amid the beautiful surroundings of
Kelmscott Manor, but the few who have
ernuIated him have been printers, book
binders and the like. carrying on COM
paratively small enterprises. 1t has
been left to American energy to de
velou along broader lines this idea of
giving business home in gracious con-
trast to the hard matter-of-factness al
most unavoidable in the city. The eX-
neriment has been made before in this
country, but never more judiciously than
nv the publishing firm of Doubleday,
Page & Co.
They have erected at Garden City
kind of new Temple of Aldus, in the
presence of which, especially as it ap-
pears against a background filed with
the riotous colors of autumn, one misses,
but surely does not mourn. the angular
monotony of the limestone and terra
Gotta facades Of New York. Facing
broad avenue of approach several
blocks in length and hordered with
double rows of full grown naples there
stands a long and comparatively low
structure OF brick, cement, steel and
glass. It is in the shape of three sides
of a rectangle, surrounding in part
forecourt in which the landscape archi-
feet has been given full sway. A walk
Of brick. laid herringbone fashion,
leads TO the main entrance, and on
either side are gravel paths winding
through beds of rhododendrons, azaleas
and other Towering shrubs. The ram
bier passes an italian fountain and pool
surrounded by cedars, and to the right
of the building, down friendly vista,
he goes to a formal rose garden and
then to certain model vegetable plots
beyond which lie the wild garden and
the pinetum. Nature everywhere holds
sway, but mostly it is nature dlScl-
plined. and room is found. too, for senti-
mont There is a Remembrance Car
den. for the cultivation of specimens
having associations with famous persons
or pIaces. Here will be gathered IVY,
say. from Windsor Castle. and plants to
car-a as roementos of their donors or
introducers.
I-pon entering the building the visitor
is received in a library decorated IN rlch
brown tones The light falls softly
through mulIioned windows containing
symbolical designs in stained glass. In
a fireplace of massive proportions a log
fire crackles invitingly. In one wing OF
this building the printing and manu-
featuring plant is housed, plant with
2 capacity of 1900 magazines and 5.Voo
books a day, ample provision having
been made for future growth. The cen
trail and connecting section IS given
over TO the clerical force, while the edl-
torial departments are sheltered in the
remaining wing. completely freed from
the noise and vibration of the presses
and other machinery. Save for two
small sections. there is no place In the
building more than twenty-five feet from
outside light and air. The workers are
provided with excellent tennis courts
both turf and clay. with baseball field
and with other means of recreation; but
every suggestion of paternallsm ana
colonization is disavowed. the employees
being free to live where they choose. In
their hours of labor they have certainly
an enviable environment. Mr.. Roose-
velt's interest in laying the cornerstone
of this establishment is easily under
stood. John Ruskin and William Morris
would have confirmed his sympathy for
an admirable idea.
THE Little King" is the title of Mr..
Charles Majors forthcoming book. 1t
is Louis XIV whose juvenile life is here
treated from the point of view of a real
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