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Years ago he bought a large estate in Oyster Bay, L. I., hard by Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. Here he designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...
...there still, alone with two trained nurses. In 1918, anxious to help young artists, he deeded the entire property to the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, endowed it with $1,000,000, appointed a board of trustees, arranged that 50 young men and women artists should come each year to Laurelton Hall to paint, spend the summer...
...Albans, L. I., gaunt of frame, seamed of face, James Maiden, professional of the Nassau Country Club, plugged along under a scorching sun and won the Long Island open golf championship. Starting with a dazzling 68, he slipped up ten strokes that afternoon, ran second to young Francis Gallett, Laurelton professional, at the end of the first day. Seventy for his third round helped, 74 for his fourth won the championship by two strokes. Gallett, whose huge drives and tiny putts scampered astray too often, took second money with...