House and Garden 
THE GOLF LINKS—LEFT END 
The sewerage system is one of the best any¬ 
where. Cast iron pipes, fully tested, are used 
in the neighborhood of lakes or streams, in 
order to guard these against contamination 
from possible leaks. Stables are drained with 
as much care as dwellings. All plumbing out¬ 
side of buildings is under direct control of 
the 1 uxedo Park Association. No attempt is 
made to carry off surface water, except to pre¬ 
vent washing of roads. Experiments for dis¬ 
posal of the sewage through filtration beds 
near the north gate of the Park were being 
conducted by Col. Waring at the time of his 
death. The system is now working well, and 
the filtered residue passes into the Ramapo 
River. 
Particular attention is given to roads within 
the Park and village of 1 uxedo. 1 he Asso¬ 
ciation's managing director, Mr. Griswold, 
has general charge of them, and he is also a 
supervisor of highways for the township of 
which the property is a part. Much of the 
original work of laying out the thirty odd 
miles of Park roads was done by James 
Smith Haring, of New York, and Ernest W. 
Bowditch, the latter a Boston landscape archi¬ 
tect. The entrance way, passing between the 
lodge and the keep (the latter is now used as 
a guard-house when occasionally necessary), 
is twenty-five feet wide, and is made of three 
sizes of gneiss, crushed on the premises. 1 he 
standard width for roads of the next grade of 
importance is sixteen feet. Drives with hard, 
even surfaces, now form a network of com¬ 
munication in the Park, and they often com¬ 
mand admirable views—some, indeed, such 
as the road leading to The Lookout, have no 
other function. These roads are lighted by 
electricity, furnished by a corporation of 
which the present Pierre Eorillard is the head, 
and which makes terms with the Tuxedo Park 
Association. Light and power are supplied 
all over the Park at city rates. The plant has 
enough water power for its daylight needs, 
steam being added at night. 
The police force consists of a captain and 
fifteen men, of whom only two or three have 
day duty, the rest patrolling the roads and 
grounds all night. Strangers, whether walk¬ 
ing or driving, may not at any time enter the 
enclosure without a permit, while employees 
living outside the inner boundary, as gar¬ 
deners, carpenters, plumbers and the like 
must also show permits, which are not valid 
at night; by a system of numbering, these men 
are checked off at the gates, as they enter and 
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