HOUSE AND GARDEN 
430 
May, 
1914 
A Prize of 
$ 1000 . 
For the best house of the year 
In the interest of better homes Country Life in America offers a prize of a thousand dollars, which 
will be paid to the owner of that house, occupied for the first t me within the year 1913, which, in 
the opinion of the judges, attains the greatest all around excellence. It is hoped that the award 
will so justify itself as to cause this offer to be repeated year after year. 
('"’(ANTTAT'T'TONS stated. (The owner need not necessarily be a subscriber 
v.uiM /1 1 w u to Q ountr y jjf e { n America). Each house must be repre- 
The house must be a country or suburban home, first sented to the judges with the following material, which 
occupied between Jan. 1, 1913, and Jan. 1, 1914. It must shall be in the hands of the Competition Editor, Country 
have cost not less than 35000, exclusive of the land and Life in America , Garden City. L. I., on or before July 1, 
interior furnishings. It must be a year-round home, com- 1914: (1) — Plans of first and second floors, in black on 
pletely equipped with heating, plumbing, etc. white paper, drawn to a given scale or dimensioned. (2)— 
• Sketch block plan of house and immediate surroundings. 
BASIS OF AWARD (3)— At least 8 photographs, not smaller than 5x7 in., of 
.... , . , , , , . . . .. . , which not less than three shall be of the exterior, nor less 
It . is intended that the best house of the year shall win the than one each of living-room, dining-room and owner’s bed- 
pr i Z r e X^ e COSt n0t e . nter into ne matter at all, so that room . (4)—A typewritten description of about 1000 
a $5000 house will have just as much chance of winning as words> supplementing the photographs and plans and 
one costing many times that amount, io this end the describing materials, color schemes and special points of 
entries will be judged on a point system in which the 100 construc tion, arrangement and furnishing, 
points representing perfection are divided as follows: plan, 
35; exterior appearance, 25; interior equipment and fur- 'T'TLT'C' TTTFiF'F^ 
nishing, 25; setting (by which is meant the arrangement of i III a J L ILo 
paths, garden and planting in the immediate surround- Mr . Guy LowelI> architect and landscape architect, of 
mgs), 15. Boston, Mr. Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect, of Chi- 
TTMT'P V L> ETOT TT T? TTA/TTrNT'TQ cago, and the Editor of Country Life in America will be the 
iLiM 1 JX 1 XviLv^LJ 1 O judges. These three will designate the winner of the prize 
The competition is open to any house built on the North and will award honorable mention to such other houses 
American continent conforming to the “conditions” above entered as may in their opinion merit it. 
$1000 to the owner,—a gold medal to the architect 
$1000 will be paid to the owner of the house selected as the best of those submitted. A gold medal, suitably engraved, will 
be awarded the architect of the same house. 
Plans, descriptions and photographs entered will be returned only to those enclosing postage or express return charges. 
The material describing the prize-winning house will become the property of Country Life in America. The material 
describing houses awarded honorable mention may be retained and paid fOr-at the magazine’s regular rates. 
The prize house and a number of those awarded honorable mention will be published in Country Life in America , “The 
Best House of the Year” appearing in the October (1914) Annual Building Number. Arrangements are now being made 
to exhibit photographs and plans of the successful houses in several of the larger cities. y 
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Garden City, New York 
A NEW OUTDOOR MOVEMENT 
Caravanning and Camping Out 
By J. HARRIS STONE, F.L.S., F.C.S. 
Dr. Gordon-Stables, R.N., the author of the famous 
books of adventure, was the first advocate of this youngest 
offspring of the outdoor movement. He traveled for forty 
years over Scotland and England, preferring van life to 
settled house life. Since then hundreds of caravanners have 
been exploring rural England. Scotland, Wales and Ireland, 
seeing at their leisure and in delightful quietude out-of-the- 
way bits of country. In addition to practical considera¬ 
tions on building a caravan and its fittings, the author has 
delightful chapters about gypsys and caravanning abroad. 
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A New Kind of Bird-House 
( Continued, from page 428) 
home. With a small tack hammer begin 
at the hole and gently and carefully chip 
the original hole in the pot to the size 
marked around it with the lead pencil. Do 
not get it larger, for if you do a larger 
hole would mean that English sparrows, 
who push themselves everywhere without 
an invitation, would probably take posses¬ 
sion of each house as fast as you nail them 
up. 
Now, having the pots ready, saw pieces 
of board a little larger than the outside 
diameter of the pots, and with four wire 
nails having nice large heads to them, fas¬ 
ten the pots to the supports by driving the 
nails into the blocks of wood until the 
heads clamp the collar and hold the pot 
firmly in place. Next, get some branches 
from a tree and clip ofif the limbs so that 
the forks formed by the stumps can be 
fastened with small wire nails around the 
pot so they will form alighting places for 
the birds. 
A bird-house made from a flowerpot 
Now you are ready to nail up your bird- 
houses. Place one under the eaves of the 
porch, one on the garden fence alongside 
of a growing vine or a bush, and maybe 
a third one to the tree trunk, right under 
the first big limb, even if it it’s only five 
or six feet from the ground, for wrens- 
prefer to nest low, since they spend most 
of their time searching for insects along; 
the fences and in the low bushes. 
Have the boxes in place not later than 
the first of April—then watch ! Would it 
not be a pity for any would-be tenant to- 
pass by your home because they could not 
find a house to let? When you awake- 
some April morning, a tiny brown bird, 
just returned from a long visit south of 
the Carolinas, will probably alight on the 
perch in front of one of your homes, peep 
in the door-hole, enter, look about with 
approval, come out and begin his search 
for twigs to furnish his new little home. 
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