The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-06-30
HOUSE READY
NATIONS RULER
Line Drawn Betwcea,Sscial
and Official Life--Golf
Links For President

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another mansion on her Burgess Point
estate. At Parramatta the veranda
commands view Of the approaches on
three sides Of the estate. 1t will be
an easy matter to keep out cranks and
the importunate.
The house Is In the best colonial
style. The design was taken by the
architect from several OF Salem's ad-
mirable old mansions, with the result
that It Is beautiful in q characteristic
cally austere manner. Beyond the
spacious entrance hall which leads
from the front door on the veranda is
the living room, and beyond that on
the ground loor is the drawing room,
now converted into the presidents ex-
ecutiye office. This connects with
small room to be used as a waiting
room for official callers. 1t was here
that the private business entrance was
cut through SO that the living room
and the main entrance, together with
all the rest of the house, may be shut
off for the undisturbed use Of the Taft
family. The office as well as the liv.
ing room. dining room and window
of the library looks out upon the ocean
and the rugged coast, which President
Taft says appeals to him so strongly.
On the second floor are FIVE very
large bedrooms, and one OF these over
looking the ocean has been fitted up
for Mrs. Taft On account of her re-
cent illness she Is expected to 20
down to Parramatta with the family
some weeks before the president can
leave Washington. The presidents
chamber Is also on the ocean side of
the house, while the other rooms on
the second floor look out upon pleas
Ing prospect Of trees and water where
the trout brook runs across the mead
ow. On the third floor are FIVE more
bedrooms, and there are of course
many pantries, servants rooms and
bathrooms in the house.
AS for the grounds, there are few
along all this stretch Of shore from
Nahant to Rockport that can be COM
pared with them. They were the hobby
Of the late Henry w. Peabody, mil
lionaire merchant and traveller. The
name Parramatta he took from that Of
town and river in New South Wales,
because he found strong resem-
blance between the scenery Of the
Beverly coast and that Of the antipo.
dean island. Here on a tract Of six
ty-fve acres he set out to realize his
ideas Of beauty in garden and wood
land That was twenty years ago,
and up to the time Of his death in 1908
he added each season to the treasures
of his gardens The Japanese garden,
for example, Mr.. Peabody created out
of bit of swamp near the brook. and
in converting it into the present won.
der place he brought over half dozen
japanese gardeners to care for the
planting and acclimatizing of the fow-
ers and shrubs he procured from the
orient
Where President Shines.
The golf links over the meadow and
rising knobs within the sweep Of the
ocean breeze has been laid out for
ulht hOItS' lie ulut are
difficult to suit a player of President
Taft's rating. Although he will IN
doubtedly continue to motor over of
morning to the unsurpassed Myopia
links, as he has done for the past two
summers. these home links at PARA
malta will give him a chance to keep
up his form at odd moments in the
day. Then, too, If he wants friendly
game with some visiting celebrity the
! home links will offer an opportunity
for the contest to be held privately.
The tees, approaches and bunkers have
all been put into shape. and the course
runs up hillocks and down dales,
through hedges and shrubbery, across
fields and over walls, all of it capable
Of being made entirely private.
The other essentials of q gentle
mans country place are all here-the
greenhouses. the barns, the vegetable
garden. These have been prepared
| with care this year.