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mi" 1 jll the.sole building upon It, at Roslyn as well, has just been purchased, tho buyer being, according to the beat authorities, young Clarence Mackay, who married Miss Katharine Dtier, though It Is claimed, by others that thin is a secret purchase of the Vanderbilts. Ami. last of all, General Lloyd Bricc has acquired the hill at Ro3lyn. opposite the Bryant house, the Dewey cottage, owned by the sister of that famous clergyman, toe llcv. Orrille Dewey.

The sketch maps accompanying this article show lu rough outline, yet comprehensively, how these estates ilt into each other, how thev are spreading over the farm lands and littlo by little absorbing tho county. Beginning at the center of the flat plain where, surrounded by a clump of trees, there Is set the house, polo Held, stables and kennels of the Mcadowbrook Hunt, they stretch far to the north, well over the center of the island. private parks, though nianjr. owners. The latter was, originally, the' old Jackson, farm.

Red" Spring was taken from the; Weeks farms. The Pratt 800 acres came from many an estate and individual. "Winthrop farm of 260 acres was the original purchase. Others that followed included the John Valentine property of 36 acres, a part of the Thomas Jackson farm (33 acres), the Franklin Coles property of 125 acres, extending from Dosoris lane well over to Laetlng town to the east; the George Allen property (purchased after Mr. Pratt's death and where the Mausoleum now stands), and the holdings of George Wilcoxson (30 acres) and R.

M. Bowne (22 acres). Much of this Pratt estate is woodland, through which and along the shore the public have the right of driving on all days but Saturdays and Sundays. On the hill sloping to the north and overlooking the sound the brothers and one of the sisters of the family have built fine dwellings. Where the estate goes down to the water's edge a breakwater has been erected.

DONE IN THE NAME OF SPORT. Robert L. Stevens (twenty acres), the Frederick Wattrous" ''(ten the Mrs. Kinsley Magoun (175 acres), the Perry Tiffany (forty acres) and the Charles G. Peters (150 acres).

Two of theso deserve special words. The Magoun place was the old estate of the late General Torrace, Mrs. Magoun's father, purchased from Stephen Hicks and the Seaman family. The old Hickfi homestead, standing on a back road, now knowu as Gebhard's lane, for Frederick Gebhard has leased this country seat for several years, dating from a year ago, has been modernized into the present dwelling, though It yet preserves its old. fashioned exterior of grayish brown.

By a long driveway, commencing at a modern lodge, this house is now approached from Westbury's center road. New in every detail, by way of comparison, far to the west of Westbury, is the Perry Tiffany estate. A rustic fence incloses this and lodge, stables, terrace and mansion are all of red brick, trimmed with white. The terrace effect is especially attractive and tho gate is red brick, as well. All Is In extraordinary harmony and designed with much skill.

The first glimpse of this estate is of a quaint flower garden alongside of tho lodge and directly on the public road. In East Williston, seventy acres comprise the estate of Edward T. Cushing, who married Miss Roby. Thi3 is the old 'William Alfred Willis place and is "one of the county's representative new country seats. The great section of interest at the moment, however, Is Roslyn, because of the estates newly planned there, Perry Belmont, Clarence Mackay and General Lloyd Brice are a notable trio of names, even in comparison with those of the famous society people already settled in the county.

There are no further particulars as to these lands and their new owner's plans beyond what has already been said above. It will be another summer before any changes are made. But meantime these purchases have forged new links in the growing chain of Nassau County's estates. Glen Cove Estates Cover an Area of 1,500 Acres, Nearly 1,500 acres make up the new holdings at Glen Cove. Half of this the Pratt estate owns, meadow land, shore front and woodland, as fine a strip of property as money can buy.

The Pratts, Ladews and the srtaller holders of estates have now the last I sin SOv is Ji WV o2 (COTJNETJ VV fc 2J (hitchcock! i 3ec rod of that very beautiful headland to the east of where Hempstead harbor joins the sound. A dozen and more old farms have gone to make up this domain, which, under the art of landscape gardening, grows more beautiful each year. None of the group of estates" just here is very old. It was about the year that WESTBURY THE ESTATES AT WESTBURY ASTD WHEATLY HILLS. Sketch Map Showing the Great Purchases Made Within the Past Ten Years by W.

C. Whitney, E. D. Morgan and Other Wealthy Men. ESTATES OF NASSAU COUNTY.

JWestbury and Wheatley Hills Now Have More Than a Local Significance. FARMS. TURNED INTO PARKS. Millionaires Have Been Buying and Planning. It" is only of recent years that the titles Westbury, Plaiu ami Wheatley Hills have come to have a more than local Lock It land significance, that Glen Cove and Roslyn have been mpro.

than village names. Settled ia great part by old Quaker families, took root oa the Island soon after the Mayflower had lauded her historic passen 'gers Plymouth Rock, ail these localities tor over two centuries were far removed "from fashion and the touch of increasing wealth. Now the opposite may fairly be said 'of them. That part of I.cng Island that has been renamed Nassau County is witnessing the Iciylng out of Qualterdom and the jilani ing of superb estates, net a few of them mighty arrays of acres, arranged after the 'English county park order, where the old "Homesteads and farms ouco stood. The picture cannot be painted too forcibly, nor too emphatic sentences be used to "describe the change.

The entire face of Nassau County is altering and iu a marvelous manner. Multi millionaires have been for half score of years buying and planning. The Quaker farms have been metamorphosed into wide areas of park lands. There is co end to the building of very beautiful coun THE PESKY TIFFANY try mansions, each set on its own rise of ground, framed in lav. ns and landscape gar dens.

Roads are being spread with macadam, and, more than this, the new landowners, when they see a road that is a jarring note in the picture, get permission from the au I thorities, close that road up and. in its place, at their own expense, build a new highway, It is, in all completeness, a new dispensa tion, and the country is fast growing to be one "great pleasure ground, from Hempstead to the Sound. Hew Purchases Being Constantly Made. Each month sees new purchases, the older estates extending. swallowing yet other farms, and new members of the wealthy sets; following their leaders and choosing some portion of this vicinity for country gentleman's life.

It has gone far beyond the old Jox hunting stage that brought the central plain of Long Island into fame some fifteen year ago. Tho pink coat is but one of the factors in this remarkable new development that does not seem to have reached its zenith yet. Only this spring there has been added urtlvitv in all this region, further spreading out, further important acquisitions that prove beyond a question what the ultimate destiny will be in very great part. This Bummer again has witnessed more iin portant movements. There is little beside these new estates left in quaint old West bury now, the Westbury that but a few years go was simple farmland, the Westbury of PieTURESQUE Whitney stables these are probably the best stables in this great colony, though there are not tho steeds in them that pranced here onee upon a time.

This was another Titus homestead and farm. Save for its interior the old house has been little altered and is a delightful residence of strange quaintness. Wefl under the trees, with antique old white gate posts marking Its entrance and with finely bred collies tumbling about inside is the Rawlins L. Cottonet place of nearly thirty acres, next door to Hitchcock's, now taken by Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Payne nitney. Here, again, is a house that is old and of memories that, too, has been left unchanged. There is little of especial interest about the Cottonet house, however, and the eye is attracted to the Lanier mansion just beyond, perched on a high hill, with a wonderful view to the south of Meadowbrook, Hempstead, Garden City, with even a sight of the sea beyond the beaches and of ocean liners on clear days. This is the house that the Clarence Maek ays have been occupying and still hold, though in common with the other city dwell STABLES OF THOMAS HITCHCOCK, AT WESTBURY. At Roslyn there is now a new spot of estate holdings upon the map.

But a little further on the estates of Glen Cove stand out, every fresh purchase closing in the gaps. At Westbury the movement started. Some of the estates here have been so long established that, with their finest of grassy lawns, their well completed buildings and their perfect reads, it would seem to be impossible to put further finishing touches upon them. Yet appearances deceive. The modern multi millionaire of these estates seem never to have finished.

Tho great estate at Westbury. that has no wcrkmen toiling upon "improvements" somewhere upon its acres is rare. Beside this new narks are constantly being created and new buildings are rising, such as this summer the very notable bouse of Foxhall Kcene. Even ten years of planning have not made Whom ley Hills and Westbury one half of what they will eventually be. Directly in the vicinity of the Hunt Club there has been little of this estate planting, the preference being for the uplands, a little further to the north.

But even here in Mondowbroek Park, as this locality is called there is at least one estate of considerable size. This belongs to Mrs. Adolph Laden burg, and is very nearly 200 acres in extent. There arc several dwelling houses upon this that Mrs. Ladenburg leases, one of her tenants being Miss May Bird of hunting fame.

Near neighbors nf Mrs. Ladenburg are George Eustis. a property of fourteen acres, on which Mr. Eu.stis has recently built himself a new house, and Ralph N. Ellis, master of Meadow brook hounds, with a place of thirty acres.

Within the Bounds of Westbury. It is not until one has crossed the railroad track, however, and is well within the bounds PLACE AT ESTBURY. of Westbury that he commences to drive past estates of note. Three roads, northwardly bound, make up Westbury's driveways to Wheatley Hills. Take the easterly of these, sometimes called Hitchcock's lane, and keep on until it crosses the old Jericho turnpike.

Here the great estates have their commencement. Along here there stretch J. F. D. Lanier's, Robert Dudley AVinthrop's, E.

D. Morgan's and Whitney's, with Albert Stevens'? Stanley Mortimer's and Foxhall Keene's up roads to the left of these, all gathered into one great bunch, joined together, with here and there a gap, clusters of eld trees and an ci nt. lawns, with an antique dwelling half hidden, some homestead that lavishly offered money has not been able to buy. Sur a homestead is that of one of the Hir ks families, kinsfolk of that Elias Hicks who proved such a force in Quakerdom, now occupied by Rachel, Robert and Isaac Hicks, surrounded" by immense trees and superb box, a house over a century old, opposite Robert Dudley Winthrop's 'remarkable new mansion, brave "on its hillock. Such a homestead, too, is that of John D.

Hicks, the authority on Long Island birds. And yet another must be added to this list, the old Titus homestead, 200 years of age, but a short distance away, a tree sheltered dwelling of great quaintness with manv interesting traditions hanging about it. "British officers lodged here at the time of the Revolution, it is said, and sat by the yawning kitchen iireplace. The path to the kitchen doors is to day paved with cobblestones and this is said to have been the work of the British soldiers. A further story relates that when these worthies left the heap of coffee grounds at the kitchen doors measured three feet in circumference and three in height.

But the Westbury of to day has little heed of such old wives' tales and of antiquarian M. Hempstead Harbor. research. It concerns itself with its park lands, each month more beautiful, ils mettlesome horses, its visiting from estate to estate and its never ceasing building. Hitchcock's is the first estate on what is called Hitchcock's lane.

Extending to the right of this road driving toward Wheatley to the oast for a ditanc of perhaps a quarter of a mile, it is not in comparison with the Morgan and the Whitney holdings a large estate, yet its meadows are widespread. Eighty to ninety acres is its extent, and the horse rules it in iill its entirety. This could scarcely bo otherwise, given such an owner a Thomas Hitchcock, oive one of the greatest polo players of tho country and still perfect horseman. The Attractive Stables of the Hitchcock Estate. The low lying bunch of brownish stables to the cast are this estate's chief point of iu Edwin D.

Morgan started out on Wheatley that the late Charles Pratt commenced to pick up parcels of real estate beyond Glen Cove village. This was in 1887 1888. The old L. S. M.

Barlow property at Glen Cove Landing, then in the market, was the only piece of ground of any size that was not original farms. Charles Pratt bought to the east of this, fields and woods on old Dosoris lane, leading to the wonderful island for many a year owned by Charles A. Dana, 'until he had close to 800 acres. In the meantime E. R.

Ladew, the "leather king," had purchased the Barlow place and his mother Mrs. Rebecca Ladew, and brother, Joseph Ladew, had acquired property adjoining, all to the extent of 210 acres. The gap in between the Pratt and the Ladew estates, somo of the finest farms, was promptly secured by two associations for the building of coun east side ends in a 'mall, and the road drops down from here, the house, stable and paddock being on a platform terraced up just below. Wide acres of meadow land surround this in every direction, the drive from highroad to house being considerably over mile. Mr.

Morgan does not possess the stock he had several years ago, though there are still over twenty capital horses in his stables. His estate is also notable for its great barns, the farm barn being 250 feet long by 40 wide, a structure where the grey eaves sweep very nearly to the ground, and two other barns having the dimensions of 100 feet by 30. Considerably over two hundred dollars has already been spent on the land and buildings of this estate. William C. Whitney's New Racing Stable.

Long before his stable was burned several months ago, Mr. Whitney had prepared plans for a new racing stable, which is, in many respects, the most wonderful stable in the world. It is now very close to completion, and an excellent idea is to be obtained of just how it will appear when finished. It is 850 feet long and 60 feet wide and in its center has a cross 100 feet square. Around it, a part and portion of the building.

Is a. covered gallery, to serve as a winter track for the exorcising of horses, with windows along its entire length, in effect an inclosed piazza, half a mile long. The foundation of this stable is of red brick and these brick walls come up to the windows of the inside track, making an excellent bit of color effect against the brown grey of the building and the blackish gabled roof. This is, of course, close to the famous Whitney track, a mile In length, with its half mile straightaway. Gleason, the trainer, can be seen on it each morning, jogging the horses around.

It ie a superb stable of horses that Mr. Whitney has. They are much scattered now, owing to the lack of accommodation on the place. Some are in Mr. Morgan's stables, others elsewhere.

Seventy five carpenters have been busy on this stable all the summer. There is much new road making here, and at least as many more workmen now on this. An old road has been closed up and Mr. Whitnev and Mr. Morgan are building this new highway between their estates at their own expense.

There ts, too, on the Whitney estate a private golf course and a host of smaller buildings, one of the most picturesque and attractive of which is the engine house, built on the brow of one of the golf hills, its eaves of red quite touching the ground, its entrance literally through the side hill. Isaac Hicks' Place the Only Farm Land Remaining. Between Westbury and Wheatley all that is left now is the Isaac Hicks place (fifty acres) already mentioned. At Wheatley the sole bit of old farm land remaining is the John Davis holding (the old Townsend Rushmore farm, 200 acres), on the north side of the hill. In the heart of Westbury but 400 acres are yet in the hands of those to whom they descended, but a fourth of the original area.

The Post farm, a long strip between the east and central roads (lying between Mrs. Kinsley Magoun's and the Hitchcock and Winthrop places) cannot be bought at any figures, and WE.KS PTjJzi prices the old farm lands have brought. When they were thought of as only farm lands 40 to an acre was a good price for the old holders to receive. But when the millionaires began to come into the market and started in with the buying of lands right and left, values, naturally, went a kitlng. Mr.

Morgan bought the Henry Post farm of 200 acres for $20,000, an average of $100 an acre. Some of his other land he got for much less, one in particular, forty to fifty acres of back cleared land, esteemed of little value, at $33 an acre. Three more farms that he purchased cost him less than $100 an acre on the average, and his highest price per acre is said to have been $100. Mr. Whitney's land, on the other hand, came to hien at a much higher figure.

Certain pieces cost $250 an acre and the average he paid is stated on the best of authority to have been not less than $150 an acre. These two men, however, had their proverbial good fortune in this as well as in other affairs of the world. The prices of land at Westbury and at Wheatley have run very much higher than these figures. Two hundred dollars an acre Red Spring Colony and has been quite a common price, and as high as $000 has been paid. Foxhall Kcone paid this latter figure for an estate of twenty acres a yettr ago, an especially choice bit of land, however, and one that, is going to lend itself admirably to landscape gardening effects.

The Roslyn sale of the Harbor Hill property noted above, understood on tho inside, as has been said, to have been purchased for Clarence Mackay. shows the same appreciation of values throughout the county. Harbor Hill, including about 200 acres of woodland of the Stephen S. Tabor estate and a M' How the Great Sandhill Stag Lost HIb Mate at the Hands of the Hunter. Ernest Seton Thompson, who not so long ago achieved prominence in literary circles through his charming book "Wild Animals I Have Known," ha3 contributed a story to the August number of Scribner's.

He calls it "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag" and like "Lobo" and "The Pacing Mustang," it tells with rare sympathy the story of one of those kings of the forest and field with whom every man who has led the free life of the hunter sooner or later comes into contact. Here is a passage from the adventures of the Sandhill stag: "Within half a mile they found blood on the trail; within another half mile the blood was no more seen and the track seemed to have grown very large and strong. The snow va3 drifting and the marks not easily read, yet Yaa knew very soon that the track they were on was not that of the wounded doe, but was surely that of her antlered mate. Back on the trail they ran till they solved the doubt, for there they learned that the stag, after mal ing his own escape, had come back to change off; an old, old trick of the hunted whereby, one deer will cleverly join on and carry on the line of tracks to save another that is too hard pressed, while it leaps aside to hide or fly in a different direction. Thus the stag had sought to save his wounded mate, but the hunters remorselessly took up her trail and gloated like wolves over the slight drip of blood.

"Within another short run they found that the stag, having failed to divert the chase to himself, had returned to her, and at sundown they sighted them a quarter of a mile ahead mounting a long snow slope. Tho doe was walking slowly with hanging head and ears. Tho buck was running about as though in trouble that he did not understand, and coming back to caress the doe and wonder why she walked so slowly. In another half milo the hunters came up with them. She was down in the snow.

When he saw them coming, the great stag shook the oak tree on his brow and circled about in doubt, then fled from a foe he was powerless to resist. "As the men came near the doe made a convulsive effort to rise, but could not. Duff drew his knife. It never before occurred to Yan why he and each of them carried a long knife. The poor doe turned on her foes her great lustrous eyes; they were brimming with tears, but she made no moan.

Yan turned hi3 back on the scene and covered his face with his hands, but Duff went forward with the knife and did some dreadful, unspeakable thing. Yan scarcely knew what, and when Duff called him he slowly turned, and the big stag's mate was lying quiet In the suow, and the only living thing that they saw as they quit the scene was the great round form bearing aloft the oak tree ou its brow aa tt haunted the nearer hills." One of the cotton mills at. Atlanta, has been compelled to give up its night rua becauso of a lack of competent labor. During the tremendous excitement of gold discovery in California the greatest production In tho United States was $65,000,000 per THE GLEN COVE ESTATES. Sketch Map Showing the Holdings or the Ladews.

the Pratts, North Country Club. THE LANIER MANSION AT WESTBURY. Clarence Mackay Is Living Here. Remarkable for Its Landscape Gardening Effects. ELSINORE.

at Glen Cove, Overlooking E. R. Ladew's Estate that famous Quaker, Ellas 1 licks. Nearly all the best land of Wheatley Hills has passed Into these millionaires' hands. William C.

Whitney has added still further to his holdings. And the "es'ate movement." now limited somewhat to this direction because the most pleasing bits of country side have already been bought, is spreading in other directions throughout the country. Very nearly all the line shore front of Glen Cove has been secured and has been laid out in goodly sized tracts. There is an estate or two down by East Williston. Perry Belmont's Lease of the Old Bryant Mansion.

No less a celebrity of the world of fashion than Perry Belmont has finally come to Nassau County, he having leaded the old try seats in park like surroundings, the Red Spring colony, 71 acres; the North Country Club, 120. Dana's Island has 40 acres and the East Island of Leonard Jacob, 60 acres of upland, 150 of beach, 150 acres under water in the "pound" (the meadow between this island and the Pratt property coming down to the main shore), and an extensive grant of land under the waters of the sound. The sketch map of this section of Nassau County appended shows how all these acres fit into and adjoin one another. The Ladew, though smaller than the Pratt, somewhat equalizes matters by its stretch of water front on Hempstead harbor, just at its opening into the sound, of very close to a mile. "Elsinore" is the name of the old Barlow place, and the original acreage here was 132.

The Swiss chalet that the great attorney of a quarter of a century ago was so proud of has been added to by Mr. Ladew untl it is very nearly twice as large. To the Ladew THE HOME OF ALBERT STEVENS, WHEATLEY HILLS. Noted for Its Fine Stretch of Lawn. the others that stay are the Tltuses of the William P.

Titus farm (130 acres), W. E. Hawxhurst (20 acres) and Katharine Willis (80 acres). Close to the Whitney estate (to proceed further with the list of newcomers), there are at least three notable country seats. To the west Is that of C.

Albert Stevens, well to the north of Wheatley, a house with an ample stretch of green lawn in front of it separated from the road by a hedge. The house itself is low lying and sets against a background of forest. It is of gray, with yellowish shutters and chimneys and a terrace in front with white steps. Seventy acres of ground sur round this structure, which is quite new and gains its effect more from its environment than from any elaborateness or especial beauty of its own. A private road, connecting this and the Whitney place, leads to it, and the commencement of this estate is marked by a rustic arch over the driveway.

The Stanley Mortimer estate adjoins those of Stevens and Whitney, but is set high up on the Wht alley Hill ridge. There is a drive of more than a mile over a private road before the house is reached, not a vestige of it appearing in view until one is fairly upon it, though its red tile roof of French motif and many turrets show out splendidly from well down on the Westbury plain. The 120 acres of this estate center and here the house is placed on the crest of a heavily wooded hill. The house itself is of brown, 200x40 feet, and 1 set in a grove of cedars. Even nearer the Whitney acres is the new, yet incomplete estate of the great polo player and golfer, Foxhall Keene.

Though but twenty acres in extent, this country seat will be charming. Thero is a broad sweep of country to delight the eye from its portico that reaches to the roof in an architectural effect that is not unlike that accomplished in the Lanier mansion. Dull red brick is tho material, with white pillars and ornament. A flower garden is being laid out along the driveway. Duval's Place Now Being Rebuilt.

Yet another place lose at hand is the 14,000 acres of Raoul Duval, which is being rebuilt after its burning somo months ago. At Wheatley, hard by Morgan's, the Harrimans of New York have recently purchased close to thirty acres. Other estates of tho colony are the Sydney Smith (twelve acres), the ers in Westbury and at Wheatley they are' passing the summer at Newport. Thus is this land strangely deserted at this season of the year. It is the spring and the late fall that sees life on these estates and the roads never empty of traps and steeds.

By degrees winter is growing to be a favorite time as well for these estates on Long Island. Already are people commencing to make them their chief homes. The Dudley Winthrops and Mr. Whitney officially spent much of the year here, and others are following their example. A dignified mansion of white, pillared at the rear, with a broad lawn here, from which the ground sharply drops this is the Lanier i house.

It has the colonial effect, sharply ac centuated by graceful lines and this fine rear portico with an imposing pediment. Close red window curtains add to the picture. There arc hedges of California prinet. American and Siberian arbor vitae and in the white vases on the portico's steps have been placed Russian fir. No other house on Long Island has such beautiful landscape gardening.

At the side there is a wonderful terrace carpeted with turf, which was originally intended for a flower garden, and may be put to that use later. In front of the house tho driveway is set in a square of daintily blooming bushes, roses of Sharon and peremnial phlox, pink, white and very nearly blue. Robert Dudley Winthrop's Mansion. Robert Dudley Winthrop's mansion and lands, second only to the estates of Morgan and Whitney, adjoin tho Lanier place and extend to the boundaries of Morgan's. Here the Wheatley Hills begin, this estate lying Just between Westbury and Wheatley.

There are 250 acres in the Winthrop holdings, this in main one of the old Hicks' farms, and it reaches over to tho Titus farm to the east. The Winthrop house is newly built and is a very beautiful mansion, of a peculiar shade of Drown, touched with white, and with a highly decorative white portico. Close at hand and a feature of the landscape is a water tank and windmill. Away from this house tho land gently slopes In all directions, and the buildings stand out vividly in the sunlight. More especially is there keen interest in the Morgan and Whitney places, which now appear covering together a great portion of tho Wheatley Hills, and not alone because of their size.

The two extend over somo 1,350 acres, very nearly as much ground as all of the other holders of estates in this immediate region possess. It Is the features of theso two places, their locations and the buildings upon them that have given thc such enduring fame. Neither Is complete as yet, though Morgan cnade his first purchase of ground as far back as 1SS8, being, In fact, tho second man to purchase au estate near the Westbury plain. The first man of all was Charles Russell Hone, a portion of whose purchases still remain in tho possession of Ills widow, Mrs. Josephine Hone.

Mrs. Hone now holds seventy acres. Charles Russell Hone bought. 120, paying $12,000 for them, or $100 an acre. As Farm Lands These Estates Only Brought $50 an Acre.

This, the first of these latter day estate sales, furnishes tho opportunity to give many ttu iuterestins fact and figure regarding the farm, of 120 acres, owned by Mary Jane Wil lcts, sold at an average of $300 per acre, some of it as high as $:100 an acre. Six hundred and fifty acres comprise the estate of Mr. Morgan, 700 that of Mr. Whitney, tho latter figure including 100 acres that Will lam C. Whitney has just bought; a piece of land extending north to the East Norwich turnpike.

The Morgan land has all of it been purchased for some time, Mr. Morgan having even sold a little of his holdings to Whitney. To the east of the road on these Wheatley Hills stretches the Morgan estate, to tho west that of Mr. Whitney. Their boundaries and shape In general are shown on the accompanying sketch map.

The Morgan house is on the very tip of the Wheatley Hills, the spot that is said to be the highest on Long Island. Though far inland there is an admirable view of the Sound and to every quarter of the surrounding country. On clear days even the Connecticut shore can be seen. A brown gray is the tint of the line modern mansion with its short terrace abutting on a square through the center of which extends the driveway. It is the plan to eventually inclose three sides of this square.

Two sides and a half are now already occupied. The house takes up a side and a third, then adjoining this portion of the mansion at right angles to the main building comes a structure of capped with a white turret, through which the driveway comes in. A chapel of stucco, also connected, finishes out this west side of the square, the effect of this continuous pile of building being very artistic. Northward on the square stands a great grey windmill witli a clock upon it. The square's ENGINE HOUSE AND PORTION OF RACE TRACK On William C.

Whitney's Place at Wheatley Hills. Mr. Whitney's Private Golf Link! Commence Just Over This Hill. holdings have been added the Charles L. Perkins property of 47 acres and that some years ago owned by Wright Duryea, these taking in the old William T.

Carpenter land. Red Spring Colony and North. Country Club. The Red Spring colony adjoinB this with a handsome bit of water front; the North Hnlintrv Club follows on with a short strip of land on. the shore.

Both prouertles are jFOXHALL NEW HOUSE, NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED AT WESTBURY. iWllliam Cullen Bryant rion, Ceuarmere, terc t. To east and south broad meadows of Roslyn. The rumor is that he will tioon buy turf stretch out. There is, too, a mile track, tnacy acres here.

Harbor Hill, now a thickly I little used now and grass grown. Horses are wooded hisalaud only, with aa observatory yet schooled ou It, however. Nest to the i'n'itVi' Si.