American homes and gardens . lic highways. Obviously it was quite timesomething was done. The necessity for the doing has longbeen obvious. Both sides have doubtless been unfair, theone unwilling to concede enough, the other demanding toomuch. It will probably take several years and a good deal oflegislative tinkering to put the automobile question right,and it is likely that some hard knocks will be given toone of the most delightful and exhilarating of sports. Butany sport that endangers life calls for restriction. There isno room for debate on that question. The State legislatures,however,
American homes and gardens . lic highways. Obviously it was quite timesomething was done. The necessity for the doing has longbeen obvious. Both sides have doubtless been unfair, theone unwilling to concede enough, the other demanding toomuch. It will probably take several years and a good deal oflegislative tinkering to put the automobile question right,and it is likely that some hard knocks will be given toone of the most delightful and exhilarating of sports. Butany sport that endangers life calls for restriction. There isno room for debate on that question. The State legislatures,however, do not attack the automobile, even in enactingstringent regulations concerning its use; but are endeavoringto give both parties—the automobilists and the non-automo-bilists equal rights. The situation seems hardly helped by thefact that the former constitute our richest class. July, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 13 Notable American Homes By Barr Ferree Sunnyside, the House of Harleston Deacon, Esq., Tuxedo Park, New York. RITICISM is easily silenced and dissolvedat Tuxedo, the place is so beautiful in itselfand has been so beautifully developed; yetits charms naturally fall into two classes;natural and artificial. This division isreally more literal than it may seem, forthe land development of the Park, has been on ratherstrictly natural lines, with a tine emphasization of the naturalbeauties, and with as little possible assistance in the way ofartificial landscaping. This fortunate circumstance was en-tirely due to the natural qualities of the place. TuxedoPark, as is well known, possesses many of the natural qual-ities of a park. Its gentle slopes, its gracious woods, itsnatural water, embedded and surrounded with higher hills—mountains, perhaps they call them—afford a fine foundationon which, by comparatively little effort, a superb site forcountry houses could be erected. It was the easiest thingto make this place beautiful, for no effort was required otherthan the
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