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OSEOFTHE MANY HANDSOME HOMES ON THE SOUND WHICH ARE MAKING ORIENTA POINT FAMOUS. MARLETON HOUSE, THE HOME OF ALFRED MARSHALL, AT MAMARONECK. View from the landward side. House facos on the Sound. HARLETOX nOUSE. BJE HAA*DSOME NEW HOME OF ALFRED MARSHALL AT MAMARON'ECK, ON THE SOUND. jlarleton House, the new home of Alfred liar gislL *t Mamaronec k. on Long Island Sound, is . fne sample of what a person practically un iti'tfJ frr time al) d means and having plenty cf artistic taste can do toward establishing an leal country place in the suburbs. About three years agx> Mr. Marshall, who is the owner of tteamboit and other transportation lines, be came tired of city life and resolved to build a Dodd country mansion. He ... be near deyacfct and golf clubs in Larchmont, of which he and Mrs. Marshal] are members, bo he se lected a site of seven acres of shore front on Orients Point, which is known as one of the COft exclusive colonies on the Sound. On the Poirt are the mansions of the late James M. Constable, Henry M. Fiagler. Edwin H. Weath erbee, Albert C. Bostwick, John 11. Hegeman, Henry Siegel, Peter F. Meyer and other wealthy New-Yorkers. Mr. Marshall calls the place Marleton Hall. Tie name is a composite one, the first part of It being made from the first three letters in Mr. Marshall's name, and the remainder from the last five letters of Mrs. Marshall's name, who was befcre her marriage Miss I'endleton. "When Mr. Marshall completed the house, last US, he did something which gladdened the learts of tbe rr.en who had helped to build it i: - caused them to wish him good luck. He fave a dinner in the village hall in Mamaroneck to which every artisan who had worked on the bouse was invited. One hundred and twenty £ve guests sat at the feast, which consisted of I course dinner with wine, music and vaudeville it tractions. Perhaps the finest features of Marleton House are the Dsagn¢ entiance and reception halls, measuring thirty-five feet in one direction and forty-five in the other. Besides the halls, the trst fioor contains the library, dining hall, bill iard room and a cosey little room which Mr. Marshall calls his den. All of these, including '•-•••■ are broken by alcoves with btitiag window seats, overlook the waters of tie Sound. There is no drawing room, the immense recep t.z hail, with its Yule log .... brightly in tie fireplace, taking the place of that. The b^sare finished in Italian walnut and red, this color beir.g also Introduced into the hangings. !*e libra: y Is in Empire green, an I green is ClO the prevailing color in the billiard room, *-cL Is cone in Dutch style. In the d--n AI- tiling has been used for the wains'-.ot ts- A mosaic floor and a domed ceiling, with Bid windows, give a fine effect. Ita iklns room has a seven foot wainscot «*&--k oak. with tapestry in dark blue shades !-".;:.£ a frieze above. A large vera!:.!a overlooking the Hound runs j "-lull length of Ibe east side of the house. It ceiectj the billiard room at the south end of SstaiiSing with the dining room at the ex benetorth. This winter the billiard room and fefcs ha 3 verandas ;;re inclosed and fitted up sr.oi£ins rooms, with antique Dutch furnl- c, swings arid reclining chairs. '"-^ of the guest rooms on the second floor is --ti the Dutch room, and has a dark blue *98. with a Dc:lft blue stencil frieze above a »tf E '" e " WPPOrtlng a collection of quaint old «ab c-gs ad pJecea of ■ hina. The mantel » Mac De^t picture tiling, which, with a NEW-YT3BK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. KXTKAXCH AND UKCKiTION HALL AT MARLHTON HO USK. at ;ir;'i the four i nsted Duti h I : :■ . . • •he ro in ;i •\\i.:. ■ ■ trance. 7/.'"' /;/./.< OF TROLLEY CAR TRAVKLLF.iI ••j have aim t b< • istomed to thi I . . f the i rraen oi Brooklj n ■ • lent of thai h irough the but I n ' f object 1 ■ . th< luotor in the I ; ■ py car yes ■ I had just g 1 inside the door and ■ - about for a nice strap on which to the i • ■ t stoj It i t a quick start 1 I went sailing [f I'd been sent f r. Y< a couldn't have passed i nytl 1 . t the fr rit ;,■ ar • • - al on the front end did it all It didn't s< ' m bo far going ba< k. : ■ bed into the real d or the ■ n 1;• ■ - .. , •■ 'No.' sai i I. '1 ■'• ■ ' ■ in." ■• •W'-:,' . id he. 'if j . rit to ride on thJa ajr > u'll have I - stop rui ning up and down ■ .' •• •]•<] be a bird if I could do that," Bald I. "'Well, be a. bird.' said be. 'but light some v, here.' " •MM. l«i ' \ T MAULKTON H< (USE. M :: ■:■ 3