Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — RICH MEN BUY LARGE ESTATES [ARTICLE]

RICH MEN BUY LARGE ESTATES

Country Seat* the Fashion of the Hour Amnnc Noted Millionaires. The starting of a new great country estate is always a matter of interest. The tendency in rich city men towards that sort of enlargement is of recent growth, and it is natural that there should be examples of it in increasing number near New York. E. 11. Harriman, railroad giant—the same enterprising man who carried a shipload of scientists to Alaska in 1899—has bought himself 20,000 acres of land in Orange and Rockland counties, New York, to the west and north of Tuxedo, and edging over toward Goshen. Orange county is still famous for its butter, and Mr. Harriman doubtless Intends to keep a cow-. His further intentions have not as yet transpired, except as shown by considerable investments in roads. Much of the fuu in owning a farm two niiles square lies doubtless in planning what to do with it. Mr. Carnegie, whose commodious dwelling on upper sth avenue, is already the biggest bouse in town, is building himself another iu Westchester County, near the St. Andrews golf links, but has not yet given evidence of an acute attack of land-hunger. Mr. Whitney has 1,000 acres on Long Island, nearly twice as many on October Mountain, and a big tract in the North Woods, and there are many other estates of from 500 to 3,000 acres on Long Island and near the Hudson. Dr. Webb has elbow room at Shelburne and leg room in the Adlrondacks; but the greatest and most interesting of American country estates seems still to be Mr. Vanderbilt's Biltmore in North Carolina. There will be great sights in architecture. horticulture, agriculture, floriculture and all the allied industries and arts to be seen in this country fifty years from now, if the steel business and railroad business continue to flourish and government continues stable.— Harper’s Weekly.