New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-18


20 DO business II they were still among
The living but rayly quiet life where
entertainment will follow entertain
ment and dance follow dance IS looked
FOR
To this the coming Of the President
with bis bride is expected TO con. butte
tho controlling impulse bride in the
White House has ever meant brilliant
season with the influx Of diplomats
and high government officers. who in
other years have gone to the New Eng
land coast for their summers, adding
their fair share. while scores Of well
known people whose fathers and grand
fathers knew what summer was IN that
part Of the country, but who them
selves have been to a great extent
strangers thore, are expected to renew
in part at least the family allegiance.
Shadow Lawn. which In itself stands
as monument TO the glories Of other
days, thus becomes the centre Of the
new glories that are 10 be after years
Of vicissitudcs. in which it passed
through several hands and on each was
the traditional white elephant.
In Shadow Lawn. too. there has been
tragedy for it was the conception of
John a. Mccall. the poor Albany boy
who became a power 90 the insurance
world 90 the height Of his ahluence and
power, only to lose ii in the days that
followed the insurance scandal. Nc
Call built 10 when ElbeIon and Long
Branch were az the peak of their glo-
ries. Upon it he lavished money, but
he never got from 1t q fraction Of the
pleasure he thought the Sl,000000 it
cost him would bring. The show place
in a district devoted 70 show places, IL
passed from his hands when the insur-
ance scandal broke and for several sea-
sons lay idle, an item Of expense to
those who owned it and reminder 20
others OF what might have been.
10 was in 1902 that Mccall. then pres
ijeut of the Now York Life Insurance
Company completed Shadow Lawn.
-Four years later be was forced to part
with 10, the price mentioned at the time
being only 100000. II was then
planned to use the mansion house as a
club and divide the spacious grounds
into bungalow sites, but Myron IL. OPP
pcuheim. who took the property over
for that purpose, could not put his
scheme through. Then il passed 10 the
hands Of Abraham White. who gained
fame and wealth on two cents invested
In q stamp By subscribing 10 millions
IF government bonds 40 a price that
4.Ir T. al rf NOR 10
OF his hands 40 big profit.
White paid even less than Oppcnheim
100000 was the cost 20 him. but he
could not swing il. and two years later
Joseph 3. Grecnhut took il over. That
was DO 1909. Since then Captain Green
hut has used the place. but he, too, has
had his financial reverses, and this
year. when il was known that the place
was again likely 20 be closed for the
summer. a group Of prominent property
holders launched the movement TO ten
der its use 10 the President.
Many Rooms at Shadow Lawn.
I'm the White House by the sea, as
Shadow Lawn will now be known, the
President and his bride will find plenty
Of room. When Mccall built economy
of suace or money was the last thing
thought Of. and the result was suite
after suite. each one seemingly larger
than the other. To run II az least a
score Of house servants will be neces-
sary double that number will be none
too many II there is much entertaining
while as many more are needed TO
keep the fifty acres Of lawn and shrubs
iu order. not 10 mention the work nee
cssarv i'm the garage big enough 10 ac-
commodate a score Of cars. Indeed, the
garage building itself IS larger than
the so-called cottages Of many well
known New York residents in that part
Of New Jersey in the summer months.
Surrounded by fifty acres Of lawns
and nearly thirty other acres under
cultivation or improved as wooded
mark. the house itself is not easily &C
cessible from the outside world. Broad
drives wind out 10 Norwood and Cedar
avenues. which bound the property on
the east and south, and box hedge
running along the entire place discour-
ages the ovor-inquisitive passerby:
Costly shrubs and trees are scattered
everywhere. One group Of rare spruces
that Guards the Norwood Avenue en-
trance. Duncan Kelly, superintendent
Of the place. pointed out with especial
pride yesterday.
"See those silvery ones" he queried.
ats $4,000 that they're worth alone.
Every one Of them ] set out myself.
I've tended every bush and tree and
flower bed on the whole place, and we
amt ashamed to let anybody see it
The north windows OF the house look
out on miniature forest. Although
the effect is that Of perfect wildness,
each tree has its own course of treat
ment and trimming mapped out for II,
and Kelly, whom Mccall brought 20
the place, knows them all. a shaded
tennis court. with canopied seats for
I spectators, hides behind a clump Of
/ naples in the park, and not far away
! Us what the younger McCalls cherished
as the pride of the estatea roomy
I outdoor swimming pool.
Deep enough at one end for the
/ most adventurous diver and shallow
enough at the other for the smallest
/ o. Riddles 20 splash around in. the
I pool nestlcs M "a grove Of overhanCing
trees so naturally that one half ex-
poets 20 see "a deer push its way
through the nearby bushes and come
down for drink az its brim. A rus
DC dressing house AT one end fits per-
fectly into the picture.
Resting Place Near Well.
WanderfuV from, iha nool douu ons