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TOWNSEND’S TRIPLEX 
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S. P. Townsend & Co. 
17 Central Ave., Orange, N.J. 
Coal , gasolene-gas and electric range in 
residence of Russell A. Cowles, Greenwich , 
Conn. A rchitect, Henry VS- Rowe , Brooklyn. 
Culinary Success 
Depends on the rLanyie 
Good food becomes more appetizing when 
prepared on a Deane Range for it is made to 
order on plans approved by half a century 
of experience. 
Deane's c JrenoJhL Flange 
Built in sections, is made to burn your choice of fuels. 
The one shown here burns coal or wood in one sec¬ 
tion, gasolene-gas in the other, and electricity in the 
left hand broiler, which is set in a double plate shelf 
of Russia iron. 
Above the gasolene-gas section, with its top of 
interchangeable bars, is a 24-inch broiler and a break¬ 
fast or roll oven 18 inches wide, both burning gas¬ 
olene-gas. Over the the entire range is a mitered 
corner hood and ventilator to keep food vapors from 
escaping into the room. Both range and hood are 
trimmed with black nickel. 
Ask your architect about Deane’s French Ranges 
and ask us for our portfolio of unusual ranges made 
to order for homes of the better class. 
Bramhaill, Deane Co. 
263-265 'Wkst 36 th St.,New'¥biik.'RY 
The public is warned 
not to purchase mowers 
infringing the Town¬ 
send Patent, No. 1,209,- 
519, Dec. 19th, 1916. 
The Greatest Grass- 
Cutter on Earth. 
Cuts a Swath 86 
inches wide. 
Floats over the 
uneven Ground as 
a Ship rides the 
Waves. 
House & Garden 
A New Phase of an Old Fashion 
( Continued, from page 58) 
sideboards. We are indeed fortunate in 
having such a variety to choose from, 
as it saves a repetition of the same idea 
in our decorative schemes. 
It is the grouping in the dining-room 
that is so important and contributes 
largely to an attractive room. The one 
thing to be avoided is overcrowding. 
A few pieces artistically arranged are 
far more effective than many in the 
wrong places. Take, for instance, a 
putty colored room, where the uphols¬ 
tery is peacock blue. Here a console 
with richly carved legs is used in place 
of a sideboard. Chairs are placed on 
either side, while above hangs a silver¬ 
framed, oval mirror, relieving the plain 
space of wall. 
It is by contrasting the dining-room 
of Colonial days \yth one of the 20th 
Century that we realize what a progress 
has been made in our furnishings. Then 
things meant little save as connected 
with family traditions, while today 
much else must be taken into considera¬ 
tion to gain in the end the effect that 
means charm. This is produced not 
only by right grouping of artistic pieces, 
but through the addition of window 
boxes, colorful flower stands, and bow 
windows, filled during the winter 
months with bright blossoming plants 
of selected colors. 
“What an attractive dining room.” 
This means something more than a 
room correctly and beautifully fur¬ 
nished. It means some unusual touch— 
a mark of the owner’s individuality—a 
room where the whole atmosphere is 
one of charm and distinction. 
Old Irish Glass 
( Continued ft 
Glass was also made at Dungannon 
and Belfast. The Tyrone Collieries ad¬ 
vertised “all sorts of the newest fash¬ 
ioned wine, beer and cyder glasses; 
enamelled, cut, flowered, and plain de¬ 
canters, with flint stoppers; water 
glasses, plates, epergnes and epergne 
saucers, candlesticks, cans^ jugs; cut, 
flowered and plain salvers, jelly and 
sweetmeat glasses; hall bells; globes 
and shades; confectioners’ jars; with all 
kinds of glass fit for chemists and mathe¬ 
maticians; salts and salt linings; mus¬ 
tard casters; white phials, and all kinds 
of bottles for perfumers; retorts and 
receivers; green phials; green and white 
mustard bottles; enamelled, cut and 
plain wine glasses; crofts; common, 
dram and punch glasses; green garde - 
de-vins; cruets; goblets, etc. The manu¬ 
factory is equal to any in England, and 
can supply glass with initials or en¬ 
graved to design.” 
The Cork Cutting 
Glass was also made in Cork, Newry, 
Londonderry and Ballycastle. Cork was 
distinguished for her sharp diamond 
cutting, her classical four-light Grecian 
lamps and the generous proportions of 
the glass made there. The lips of the 
Cork and Waterford bottles are large, 
while those made in Belfast are small. 
Thrift and economy for the North — 
open-handed hospitality for the South. 
How often the traits of a race are re¬ 
produced in the inanimate objects which 
they fashion! The Cork bowls, the 
beautiful pale green milk pans and fat 
barrels for whiskey and brandy are of 
noble size, and that celebrated town 
with characteristic wit, advertised her 
wares in verse: 
*** “With choicest glass from Waterford, 
Decanters, Rummers, Drams and Ma¬ 
sons, 
Flutes, Hob-nobs, Crofts and Finger 
Basons, 
Proof Bottles, Goblets, Cans and Wines, 
Punch Juggs, Liqueurs and Gardevins, 
Salts, Mustards, Salads, Butter Keelers, 
An’ all that’s sold by other dealers, 
Engraved or cut in newest taste, 
Or plain — whichever pleases best, 
Lustres repaired or polished bright, 
And broken glasses matched at sight. 
Hall globes of every size and shape, 
Or old ones hung and mounted cheap.” 
A hand across the sea has ever con¬ 
nected America with Ireland. As early 
as 1785, a quantity of glass was ex¬ 
ported from Newry to the Carolinas. 
In 1784 over 20,000 drinking glasses, 
and 532 dozens of bottles were exported 
to America. In 1797, 30,000 drinking 
glasses were sent to New York, and two 
thousand pounds of fancy glass, proba¬ 
bly Grecian lamps and lustres among 
them, arrived from Cork. In 1784 
om page 29) 
Williams Glass Factory in Dublin had 
orders from New York that would keep 
the glass house at work for a year. 
And in 1798, the principal proportion 
of glass, if not all of it, was exported 
to America, while the Irish themselves 
used the cheaper goods made in Bristol. 
There must be many specimens of old 
Irish glass even yet to be found in this 
country. I know of several. Two 
lately came under my observation, 
which are the property of Miss Van 
Cortlandt of the Manor House, Croton- 
on-Hudson. Twin jugs, heavy, lustrous, 
and cut with a broad sweep that show 
a sure and master hand. They were a 
present to her unde, William Caldwell, 
from Mrs. Butler of Dublin, and in 
1836, he gave them as a wedding present 
to Miss Van Cortlandt’s mother. What 
has become of the Waterford epergne 
of my childhood I know not, but I saw 
some fine lusters and candlesticks in 
Charleston which have passed carefully 
through the hands of several genera¬ 
tions. 
In 1902 a small quantity of clear 
white flint glass was exhibited at the 
Cork Exhibition. It was made of 
Muckish sand—where a whole mountain 
of it waits to supply factories which 
might so easily be developed in Ireland. 
The National Museum, having preserved 
the wonderful designs, could supply 
them to a manufacturer, and it is im¬ 
possible to find more lovely shapes. 
Modern Reproductions 
Large quantities of cut glass have 
been made in England, America and 
Germany; they are exact copies in cut¬ 
ting and form of old specimens and are 
sold as such to the unwary. But to a 
practised eye there is a wide difference. 
The color is more relentlessly white, 
there is a harder glitter, never the ten¬ 
derness that one finds in old glass, and 
it is lighter in weight. Doubtless glass 
manufactories would still be flourishing 
in Ireland, but May 1st, 1797, England 
began her tax on Irish glass. The final 
blow came when a duty of £12 10s. Od. 
was placed on every 1,000 lbs. of metal. 
Ireland lost heart, the manufacture of 
glass instantly declined. When the ex¬ 
cise duty was removed in 1845 the glass 
industry in Ireland was practically dead. 
Prof. M. S. D. Westropp of the Na¬ 
tional Museum is probably the greatest 
authority on glass, and Miss Eleanor 
Persse, a lady of cultivation and dis¬ 
cernment, usually has a number of rare 
pieces in her shop in Kildare Street, and 
there is a vast difference between the 
prices of her collection and those of the 
London dealers. 
The price of a boat-shaped bowl in 
perfect condition in Regent Street is one 
hundred guineas. The same thing in 
Kildare Street would be not more than 
fifty guineas. 
