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Show ) SHEPARD'S NEW HOME. New Tork's Eccentric Editor Will Erect a , Very Handsome Residence. Special Dispatch to The Timet-. NJsw Yokk, May 21. Plans have been drawn for the immense colonial mansion which is to be erected by Colonel Elliot F. Shepard of the Mail and Express upon the Heights of Scarborough on the Hudson river in Westchester county, where he ha3 recently completed the purchase of 455 acres of ground from Archbishop Corrigan, William Wil-liam tt&. feller and several local estates. It viRJtLu-lv a year before the structure is fuiHi, and if the proposed plans are carrjB 't will be tiie finest summer es-tatejTuarY es-tatejTuarY nited States, if not in the world. As I something of a novelty the first wois to bp done will be the erection of a building to be used as a library or reading room and clnb house for the men to be employed em-ployed on the building operations and the decoration of the grounds, and which is intended in-tended to serve also for social, literary and reiitaeus meetings. Col. Shepard will have as nar neighbors William Hockfeiler, presi-derijBbf presi-derijBbf the Standard Oil company whose mil'ifcn dollar mansion is now in course of contftletion, O. B. Potter and Sherilf Gor- |