Show HOME OF HARRIMAN mansion on top of mountain 40 miles from new york with a park three times the size 6 ze of manhattan island the country cou n try estate will be most moat remarkable in north ame america rica new york it was once sail said of at E H harraman Harrl man by an attorney as skilled in the rules ot bf the game of law as aa the great real transport transportation atton king Is in the complex shifting shit ting of blocks of bonds an and d stocks that represent his big title to more miles of railway tha ono one man ever dominated before that mr harriman moved on a plane and in an at mo sphere so that no ordinary mortal might hope hopa todo to do more than contemplate his eminence from afar that was true in it a figurative sense perhaps when it was wag announced at any rate tho the adulatory attorney appeared to think it was but now it la Is about to become literally true so BO tar far as aa mr homo home in the country la Is concerned ills house on the top tol of one of the mountains of at the range at arden not tar far fora the dejected town of suffern on tho edo Is ori od such a height and surrounded by so many leagues of pathless forest that are his by right of purchase that he can dwell there if he chooses in an isolation so BO splendid as to jio be incomparable with that enjoyed by another american multimillionaire it la is doubtful it if air harriman Harrl man in his wanderings a ver over captin continental tin europe this summer will see apy any castle that can equal hla his in its majesty of view and aloofness from yet geographical nearness to a vast center of population the harraman Harrl man home at arden has been building tor for nearly three years and when he went abroad a few days ago ho he left orders that it must be ready for his occupancy when ho he returns in f t arly autumn that no expense waa to io be spared that the work must be pushed forward night and day it if necessary but that it must be finished the house at ardon arden conforms to the rules of at no style of architecture ac gac I 1 N a iri 1 I I 1 J 0 one blaw of home except the rectangular school the dormer windows la in the attic root fire are more english in their d design than anything else eise that la Is the only feature to which any architectural nationality tiona tion lity allty can be assigned it looks more like an attempt to reproduce in stone on a largo large and modernized scale some old new england farmhouse it Is undoubtedly designed m more ore for use and comfort than for anything else it contains 70 rooms and 22 of these are bathrooms set on abe th e apex of one on the highest a and rid steepest mountains in the ramn pos the tha land originally sloped abruptly away from the site elto of the house the art of the landscape artists has broken and softened these declivities by the formation of a series of terraces many of them had ts to bo be blasted out ot of solid rock and their sharp outlines smoothed over with earth and turf so that now the once rugged outlines of at the bowlder boulder strewn hillrod are graceful in their descent to the edge of the forest in other places the terraces rise vertically fro rathe edge edga of a cliff hard by the house lg Is a great swimming pool of stone atone and cement a bath whose size even caesar or nr Ca might have envied had harraman Harrl man lived in rome in their day and built his palace a there about the tha grounds too are many s unken sunken courts that in summer will bo be filled with lowers flowers through the green bery will shine the whiteness of marble statuary and cool fountains in the tha courtyards sand and italian gardens wll plash and whisper all night coq loaft in midsummer when the cities orthe odythe lowlands toward the sea are swathed in torrid humid air beneath this commonplace looking mauston mansion Is in a network of tunnels for th the e passage of servants the conveyance a of everything needed some soma are ways for the ot of things to and fro everything contributing to comfort that tho the skill ot of the echan ro leal ical engineer could adapt to use luse in a dwelling has been installed human hand service brig been supplemented supplement eti everywhere so far ar as possible by steam electricity anil air for indoor amusement thero there are billiard parlors and bowling alleca enough for the tha entertainment of all the guests the house con can hold the estate in tho the ramapo mountains ino Is probably the largest in area of any private property of RE its kind in america though there the a are sev oral eral that far surpass it in magnify cence tower hill however la 14 unique in the isolation and solitary grandeur that it will afro afford rd its ita master |