American homes and gardens . s a share of the first purchase price. It is estimated thatthe second mortgage can be paid off in five or six years, andthe first mortgage then liquidated or interest continued. Thepromoters of one such scheme have provided for a board ofgovernors chosen from the members of the colony whosefunction it will be to settle any differences between the ten-ants, and an overseer is provided to buy supplies and attendto the repairs. December, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 357 Notable American Homes By Barr Ferree Woodlea, the Estate of Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, Scarboroug
American homes and gardens . s a share of the first purchase price. It is estimated thatthe second mortgage can be paid off in five or six years, andthe first mortgage then liquidated or interest continued. Thepromoters of one such scheme have provided for a board ofgovernors chosen from the members of the colony whosefunction it will be to settle any differences between the ten-ants, and an overseer is provided to buy supplies and attendto the repairs. December, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 357 Notable American Homes By Barr Ferree Woodlea, the Estate of Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, Scarborough, New York HE hundreds of thousands of persons whoannually pass up and down the HudsonRiver by the railroad that borders its easternshore, are for the most part completely un-aware of the beautiful country that risessharply above them. The hillsides comedown so steeply to the waters edge that for many miles therescarce seems room for the railroad bed. And the gleamingwaters of the Hudson and the towering fronts of the Pali-. eler thinks the outlook from his car window the chiefest ofthe river sights. The foot of the hills being cut away for the railnthere is little to be seen on the land side. One knows, in-deed, that there arc Places far up above, for all the worldhas heard of the splendors of the Hudson River palaces. Butthey are so far above the train that one can not so much ascatch a glimpse of them, and unless a deliberate journey ismade among the beautiful roads ol Westchester County they
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