House & Garden 
water and electric 
light plants are 
superior in some 
respects to those 
found in communi¬ 
ties with far greater 
population. The 
water supply is 
drawn from eight 
artesian wells and 
various springs, 
and the plant is a 
gravity system in¬ 
suring a continuous 
and unvarying 
pressure from a 
centrally located 
water tower which 
is seventy feet in height and has a capacity 
of 165,000 gallons. This is supplemented 
by several reservoirs. The water works 
system, the mains of which are laid in every 
avenue in the park, has a capacity of 350,000 
gallons a day, whereas the present daily con¬ 
sumption is but 125,000 gallons. The rate 
charged to consumers is twenty cents per 
thousand gallons, with a minimum charge of 
one dollar per month. 
The residents of Roland Park are practi¬ 
cally dependent upon the electric plant 
inasmuch as the city gas mains have not been 
extended to the suburb, but electric current 
for illuminating purposes is supplied at io 1 /^ 
cents per thousand watts, the same rate which 
prevails in the city of Baltimore, so that there 
MR. CLYMER WHYTE’s HOUSE 
Designed by Messrs. Wyatt & Nd/ring 
is no ground for a 
charge of extortion. 
The sewerage sys¬ 
tem, an important 
if somewhat com¬ 
monplace adjunct, 
represents the 
latest develop¬ 
ments in sanitary 
science, and was 
designed and 
superintended by 
the late Col. 
George E. Waring, 
Jr., formerly Street 
Commissioner of 
New York. All 
houses are con¬ 
nected to this system, all the lines of which 
are flushed automatically twice every twenty- 
four hours. 
In a settlement made up almost exclu¬ 
sively of frame dwellings, the matter of fire 
protection is obviously an important con¬ 
sideration. At Roland Park a chemical engine 
is stationed and is maintained by the county. 
T his is supplemented by a steamer provided 
by a volunteer fire-fighting organization 
made up of residents. The police protection 
afforded by the county is likewise supple¬ 
mented by a private protective system, the 
expense of which is borne by park residents. 
A branch of the Baltimore telephone ex¬ 
change and a postal sub-station afford 
residents excellent communicative facilities. 
MR. HERBERT R. STUBBS* HOUSE 
Designed by Messrs, Ellicott & Emmart 
. itl 
A? 
£ 
PLANS OF MR. WILLIAM M. ELLICOTT S HOUSE 
Designed by the Owner 
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