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buildings, between them and the stone 

 foundations, which are also three feet 

 six inches high, thus forming there a 

 working space seven feet in height. 

 Here we have many improvements on 

 our former arrangement, that will 

 greatly facilitate our work. For put- 

 ting up this construction, and also for 

 much new work in the way of an en- 

 trance building and of a triangle to con- 

 nect tw r o buildings, we are greatly in- 

 debted to the careful, personal super- 

 vision of Mr. J. C. Brundage and his 

 skilled workmen. 



Mr. Stephen I. Clason, though not 

 professionally a wood worker, has 

 shown remarkable skill with carpen- 

 ter's tools, in various constructions on 

 the premises in which wood is used, 

 and has added personal encourage- 

 ment by kind words and by liberal con- 

 tributions to Arcadia, which have al- 

 ready been acknowledged in our maga- 

 zine. 



Mr. L. S. Miller, the house painter 

 of Sound Beach, with his corps of effi- 

 cient assistants, added the emblematic 

 finishing touches to the buildings. We 

 are literally in green houses, though 

 our structures of glass are no more 

 numerous than before. Most people 

 admire the fitness of things when they 

 observe our green and white, but some 

 think that we are a little too green. 

 Perhaps we are, but as long as we are 

 in affinity with good Old Mother Na- 

 ture who likes to spread green over 

 everything, and since she is especially 

 fond of raising white birches around 

 Arcadia, Mr. Miller put us in good 

 company when he painted our build- 

 ings green and wdiite. But whatever 

 may be the differences of opinion in 

 that respect, all agree that if we must 

 have green and wdiite, we could not 

 have had them more skillfully applied 

 than has been done by Mr. L. S. Mil- 

 ler. With the coming of spring we 

 think our buildings will blend harmon- 

 iously with the grass and wit!) the 

 numerous trees that have been set out. 



The quality of the paint cannot be 

 excelled. It is sufficient to state that 

 all of it fur the AA buildings came 

 from The Woodlife Company, Brook- 

 lyn. Xew York. The dainty green of 



the "shingle stane" of the residence 

 has attracted universally favorable 

 comment. We cordially recommend 

 The Woodlife Company to all who 

 want a first-class article at a moderate 

 price. 



Lumber was supplied about equally 

 by The Getman cc Judd Company, The 

 St. John Woodworking Company and 

 The Stamford Lumber Company, of 

 Stamford, and The Maher Bros. Cor- 

 poration, of Greenwich. 



The white birch rustic work was 

 furnished by D. P. Van Gordon, of 

 Greenwich, and is so well and so at- 

 tractively constructed that it has, as 

 we are glad to learn, resulted in several 

 large orders for similar rustic work. 



The buildings of the AA Home, for- 

 merly two separate buildings and now 

 one, were lighted by lamps and lan- 

 terns. Now, thanks to The New Eng- 

 land Engineering Company, of Green- 

 wich, we have but to turn the button, 

 and the electric light does the rest in 

 the buildings and the cellar. In place 

 of acetylene for photomicrography we 

 now have the modern Schwan Light 

 supplied by the Chas. Beseler Com- 

 pany, Xew York City. 



We gratefully acknowdedge special 

 courtesies from Lockwood & Palmer, 

 of Stamford, in supplying hardware 

 and some of the paint — that on Botany 

 Bungalow. Other hardware was sup- 

 plied by J. S. Davenport & Son, of 

 Stamford, and The Jaynes Hardware 

 Company, of Greenwich. 



Contributions of much building ma- 

 terial by Sound Beach people and by 

 others have already been gratefully- 

 acknowledged in The Guide to Nature. 

 The full financial report of the cost of 

 reconstructing Arcadia follows. For 

 making all this possible, and for facili- 

 ties even thus far surpassing those ot 

 any time in the previous thirty-seven 

 years of the AA's existence, we are 

 indebted to many friends and we rec- 

 ognize the fact that more than grati- 

 tude is called for. 



"Unto whomsoever much is given, of 

 him shall be much required." We are 

 perfectly willing to accept that respon- 

 sibility, and we rejoice not only in 

 the present equipment, but in the pos- 



