House and Garden 
THE LAKE, FROM MR. POOR’S COTTAGE ON TOWER HILL 
lie school in I uxedo village, which, be it 
remembered, is owned entirely by the Tuxedo 
Park Association. In the Park proper is a 
small private school and kindergarten, for 
study from nature and out of hooks. 
Near the 1 uxedo Club is the Winter House, 
a brick structure of English style, which is 
used in cold weather, instead of the larger 
wooden building. Its air of cosiness will be 
apparent from the illustration, though the best 
view is from the front. It stands by the lake, 
between the I uxedo Club and the Court Ten¬ 
nis Club. Behind the latter is a modern fish 
hatchery, for stocking the waters of Tuxedo 
and the other lakes. The Tuxedo Club con¬ 
ducts this hatchery, and there one may in¬ 
spect assorted sizes of steelhead salmon, 
ouananiche or landlocked salmon, and trout 
of various kinds. More than half the Park 
is set aside for game preserves, from whose 
edges deer may often be seen, wandering 
through stretches of woodland, screened from 
the roads by fences of many wires. 
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Nature and the established line of the Erie 
Railroad left little choice to Mr. Lorillard and 
his engineers, in the selection of a centre for 
the life of the new community. Obviously, 
the foot of the largest lake (which attained its 
present size only by careful damming) on the 
side nearer the railway, was the strategic posi¬ 
tion for the Tuxedo Club house. From this 
point, the view extends to the other end of the 
lake, and includes the two ranges of wooded 
hills that help to give it perspective. Facing 
the club house is a high ridge, accessible over 
the neck of land lying between 1 uxedo Lake 
and what is called Pond No. 3, into which 
latter falls the overflow from the lake. East 
of the house rises the slope of Tower Hill, now 
crowned by the stone cottages of Henry W. 
Poor and the present Pierre Lorillard, at an 
altitude of some 900 feet above the sea. 
Clearly, the Tuxedo Club was put where it 
belonged. Between the broad piazza, where¬ 
on, in warm weather, tables are spread, and 
the lapping waters of the lake, extends a lawn, 
