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Show J. J. HILL'S FhTE APARTMENTS Five-Room Sulto in New York Hotel Costs Mngnato ?G5 a Day. NEW YORK, OoL 29. James J. Hill, president of the Groat Northern North-ern railway, will close his home In St. Paul for the first time In fifteen years and during the winter he will practically make his home at Hotel Gotham, which has been open only two weekf. Mr. Hill haa taken a nulte of six rooms. Including' four bedrooms, Qv bathrooms, a reception room and a dining-room, all facing on Fifth avenue, ave-nue, directly across the street from the St, Rezls. Are Severe Colonial. The Hill apartments arc on the fifth floor of the new Gotham, and are the typical aportmentB for the home of a man of means. Colonial throughout, of the severest style of that severe period, an air of quiet elegance 1b obtained which Is vastly different from the rather glided and ornate decoration of mopt of New York's palace hotels. Groen and gold worn chosen as the color scheme of the apartments, which colon were approved by Mr. Hill, who, however, has not seen his future home since it was merely a pile of stone and mortar. One room, the reception room, Is entirely in green, the mahogany chairs of colonial make, being upholstered uphol-stered with green rep, the walls of solid white In panels and a green velvet carpet covering the entire floor. One of the advantages of Mr. Hill's new home Is that It Is ultra fireproof. Rose and Green Bedroom. One bedroom has an embossed velvet wall paper of old rose with a caroet of green velvet, with upholstery of old rose and with damask Inner curtains of old rose. The next bedroom exactly reverses re-verses .this order, while the third and fourth have one of the two tones predominating. pre-dominating. Portieres are of satin damask dam-ask In either green or old rose, finished with a plain border of silk braid In the same color. No lace curtains are used In the entire en-tire apartment, plain ones of net with a small Insertion and edce of Renaissance Renais-sance lace finishing them. A dressing table, a bureau, a small desk, several chairs and a small night table over which hangs a drop light, furnishes each of the bedrooms. Great fireplaces of sandstone In exact reproduction repro-duction of the old-time stone fireplaces of the Revolutionary period are In each room. Interested in Hotol. In the dining-room, which Is the largest of them all, there Is a large, round table of mahogany with diamond shaped panes, a colonial sideboard and a serviette. Mr. Hill in financially Interested In-terested In the Gotham hotel, having advanced part of the money to Manager Man-ager Frack V. Bennett with which It was built. The Hill suite costs J65 a day. |