September, 1910 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



53 



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THE- TALK- OF - THE • OFFICE 



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RAPID WORK AT GARDEN CITY 



We confess to being much pleased with the 

 progress being made at the new Country Life 

 Press at Garden City, Long Island. The seri- 

 ous work of building was begun only about the 

 25th of May. On July ist about two-thirds 

 of the second floor was complete; on August 

 ist the roof was on, the walls up, the windows 

 set and a large amount of the steam, electric 

 and plumbing work installed. By September 

 ist, when these paragraphs will be in the hands 

 of our readers, we hope and believe that much 

 of the machinery will be installed and during 

 the month the wheels will begin to turn. 



Perhaps this is too early to congratulate our- 

 selves on what has been almost a record-break- 

 ing undertaking, and yet when we think of 

 the people who prophesied that the job would 

 take a year, that all builders were to be trusted 

 only to fail to perform their promises, etc., etc., 

 we are inclined to exult at least a little while we 

 have the chance. 



If the building has gone well it is because it 

 was efficiently organized, and we wish to stop 

 here and thank Messrs. Kirby & Petit, the 

 architects, for rapid work, while preserving 

 their standard of good taste and good build- 

 ing practise. 



We do not wish to make this page a " Who's 

 Who " of the building trade, but we do want to 

 give credit for results achieved, and so speak of 

 Mr. Walter S. Timmis, the consulting engineer, 

 who planned the plumbing, the electrical and 

 steam plant, and the vacuum cleaner system, 

 and did it under great pressure. Another 

 hard worker in the matter is Mr. L. O. Red- 

 den, the contractor for the building; it was 

 his firm who built, among other things, the 

 MetropoUtan Building, on Madison Square; and 

 the resourceful V. J. Hedden & Son Co., work- 

 ing with the Industrial Engineering Company 

 on the concrete construction, have done a won- 

 derfully rapid and excellent piece of work, 

 and so efficiently managed has it all been that 

 the steam men, the electricians and the plumb- 

 ers have all been performing at one time and 

 in harmony. We would like to tell, too, of the 

 interested " hustle " of Mr. Peter Anderson, the 

 superintendent for the Hedden Company, Mr. 

 A. F. Currie, of the Industrial Engineering Co., 

 "the men on the job, " who take the daily grind 

 of petty trials, and without whose interested at- 



"To business that we love we rise betime 

 And go to 't with delight." — A7it07iy and Cleopatra 



tention friction would develop. Both men have 

 worked as though they were building their own 

 homes and felt the winter coming fast. Among 

 others we should like to speak of: Mr. E. Donald 

 Jerome, our own hard-working inspector; Mr. 

 Leonard Barron, the managing editor of The 

 Garden Magazine, who has broken the back 

 of the landscape-garden planning. There are 

 others too to speak of, but we fear to exhaust 

 our reader's patience. 



As to the plant itself: it will not merely be a 

 factory to print books and magazines, but a 

 place to spend one's working hours comfortably 

 and, we truly hope, happily. It will naturally 

 be a year or more before even the actual outline 

 of our entire outside plan will be in full opera- 



A quarter part of the Country Life Press at Garden 

 City as It looked on July 2, 1910 



tion, yet we are making rapid advances. The 

 plan of the plot on which the press is situated 

 we shall print next month. The land lies for a 

 clear half-mile on Franklin Avenue, along which 

 a trolley runs to both the north and south 

 shores of Long Island. Space is left for more 

 building if more room be needed, and yet land 

 a-plenty remains for pools, garage, a green- 

 house, and many gardens. 



Just back of the press are seven acres. Here 

 will be our own railroad station; a ball and recre- 

 ation ground is about ready; and experimental 

 field crops will be planted later. On the west 

 side of Franklin Avenue is a field of about 

 thirteen acres on which experimental vegetable 

 farming is now in actual progress, and of which 

 we shall no doubt have much to say in future 

 issues. 



Beginning October 15th we shall be dehghted 



to receive visitors. The New Pennsylvania 

 Station will be open early in September, and our 

 friends will find Doubleday, Page & Co.'s 

 fully equipped bookstore in the heart of that 

 station. The electric train from there will 

 land the visitor at our door in Garden City in 

 about half an hour. 



COUNTRY LIFE 



IN AMERICA TWICE 

 AND WHY 



A MONTH 



We propose, beginning with November, 1910, 

 to give our readers twice as much Country Life 

 material as before for the same price, and the 

 reason is that: 



We want room so to conduct the magazine that 

 everybody who loves the country will find in it 

 everything he wants to know. , 



24 issues for the old price, $4.00 a ye^r. 



The Mid-Monthly issues will be largely 

 special numbers, and here are the subjects now 

 planned: 



Inside the House Number : Louis C. Tiffany, 

 consulting editor, November 15th. Mr. Tiffany 

 works out the theory that taste and comfort are 

 not aided by large expense, but that the con- 

 trary is true. 



The Winter Joys Number: A happy, spirited 

 holiday issue, to be published December loth. 



The Motor Number. 



The Little House Number. 



The Little Garden Number. 



The Flying Number. 



The Bungalow Number. 



The Hardy Garden Number. 



The Fountain, Pool and Water Garden 

 Number. 



The Home Grounds Number. 



The Old Village Number. 



The Rose Lovers' Number. 



The Economical Readers^ Number. 



The Country Housekeepers' Number. 



Look out for the series "Cutting Loose from 

 the Cities." 



Subscribe or order from your local dealer, 

 because Country Life in America is not a 

 returnable magazine, and j'ou will probably 

 have to order it from most newsdealers. 



Next month the Big Double Building Number 

 of Country Life in America, $4.00 a year. 

 Doubleday, Page & Company, 



133 E. i6th St., N. Y. 

 In October, Garden City, N. Y. 



