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Show SPLENDOR OF J. ROCKEFELLER'S BIG ESTATE NEW V YORK, Jan. i J-Jbhn D. Rockefeller, In purchasing nearly all the land In the Pocantlco Hills, East VieW and Hawthorne for a series of parks, is planning a chain of artificial lakes, to be formed by the historic Sleepy 'Hollow brook,- which runs I through bis large estate near Tarry-town, Tarry-town, New York. Several waterfalls have been constructed along the brook, Mr. Hockereller Intends to spend more than 1200,000 on this work. Five miles of. private boulevards through his parks are now being laid out, while Buttermilk Hill.- which ha 1 recently bought, will . bo lighted! f 1 hundreds of electric lights. Work Will-, be started immediately on one of the r largest private electrlo plants in the country on his Pocantlco Hills estate. ' i On the rummlt of the hill it Is pro posed to erect an observatory fifty feet ' high so that aa unobstructed view of the Hudson river and Long Island yV sound for mile can be had. i v Another Improvement planned olr ' y I Rockefeller is the construction ' of a grand plaza on the brow of Kykulf hill, near where he will build his new $500,000 mansion, during the coming, spring, and' several large conserva-I conserva-I tories. . |