SOUND BEACH 



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SOUND BEACH 



It is a Sound Beach, thoroughly sound 

 in every particular needed to make an 

 ideal community. Its soundness is 

 generally recognized, not only because 

 it is located on the beautiful Long Is- 

 land Sound with a wide expanse of at- 

 tractive beach, but it is sound in its 

 community spirit ; sound in its high 

 class hotels ; sound in one of the best 

 boarding houses to be found anywhere 

 along the coast ; sound in its efficient 

 and spiritual churches ; sound in the 

 good scholarship and the pedagogy of 

 its schools ; sound in the possession of 

 one of the best fire companies in the 

 United States for a community of its 

 size or even for one much larger ; sound 

 in its various supply houses, stores, 

 new post office building ; sound in its 

 equipment for sending sounds to every 

 resident in a new and thoroughly 

 equipped telephone exchange opened 

 in May, 1917. 



Sound Beach is sound in the sound- 

 ness that accompanies ideal golf links, 

 a clubhouse, automobile facilities, spa- 

 cious grounds, picturesque scenery, en- 

 ticing ravines, yes, even an artistic ra- 

 vine in a golf course. Who ever heard 

 of such a thing? But here it is, not onlv 

 one of the natural obstacles but one of 

 the natural invitations. Here the busi- 

 ness man of New York City finds the 

 quiet and the beauty in sharp contrast 

 to the turmoil of Broadway and Wall 

 Street. N,o longer the clang of cars 

 and other discordant noises, but the 

 hills, the lakes and the fields, the song 

 of the wood thrush among the trees, 

 and the call of good cheer from his 

 jovial comrades. 



It would be difficult to find elsewhere 

 in the state of Connecticut, or perhaps 

 in any other rural community, so much 

 of wild and primitive country, so many 

 picturesque roads and such scenery as, 

 for example, is exemplified in its 

 unique Laddin's Rock Farm. Where 

 in all the world can one find so magni- 

 ficent an estate so unselfishly and cor- 

 dially — yes, beautifully — devoted to the 

 services of the public as this property 

 of Mr. William L. Marks? A stranger 

 would find it difficult to realize it to 

 be a private estate ; it would tax his 



credulity if asked to believe that the 

 place is — not under community owner- 

 ship. 



Sound in that unique institution, Ar- 

 cAdiA, which is willing not only to take 

 everybody to the beach and to tell them 

 of the interests available there, but to 

 ground them and help them in their 

 knowledge of every other phase off 

 nature. 



The world may well be challenged* 

 to show an institution equivalent to< 

 that of ArcAdiA in its wild and pictur- 

 esque scenery, extending to the finest 

 concrete road in the region, and to the 

 railroad station and trolley line. Here 

 is a beautiful grove well equipped in its 

 Little Japan for use of church or school. 

 Here are trees eleven feet in circum- 

 ference. Here are more than five hun- 

 dred white birches growing as we ex- 

 pect to find them growing far from 

 thickly settled centers. Here are huc- 

 kleberry bushes that are really high, 

 for they tower upward for twelve feet, 

 densely laden with their bloom, rnd a 

 few weeks later with the lucious ber- 

 ries. Here grow the shy cardinal' 

 flower and the dainty lance-leaved vio- 

 let, not the ordinary white violet 

 found elsewhere, but the rare and 

 dainty kind that covers the ground 

 with a rich carpet of green leaves and' 

 white blossoms. 



And last but not least sound in The- 

 Sound Beach Association, an ideal lo- 

 cal organization for keeping the ideals 

 of community life at the highest stand- 

 point and for putting those ideals into 

 practice. 



In every direction away from the 

 Sound are lots awaiting the builder. 

 Let us sound the keynote to the people 

 everywhere, and invite them to Sound 

 Beach. Here the most beautiful build- 

 ing sites have been utilized to best pos- 

 sible advantage by skilled architects, 

 carpenters, plumbers and painters. The 

 new residences are adapted to every 

 grade of pocketbook and size of family, 

 and make this an ideal place of resi- 

 dence, one in which it is easy to secure 

 and establish a thoroughly modern 

 home. Few- country communities have 

 better railroad facilities. Sound Beach 



