Show Jas C Floods Palatial Home His city residence is a plain comfortable com-fortable house on Eddy treet but hie home in San Mateo some twenty miles from San Francisco on the San Jose Railway is one of the most elegant ele-gant and palatial residences in America It was constructed under the supervision of Cornelius OCon nor who also supervised the construction construc-tion of the Nevada Block the pride of Ban Francisco The designer of this modern castle of Monte Christo seems to havo commenced biB work without any precise notion of ending and the result is a gorgeous and fanciful combination of which it is difficult to give an accurate idea Its magnificent magnifi-cent facade and broken outline unite all the grace and symmetry of an edifice which is characterized by a sumptuousness all the more striking on account of its isolated position The interior is very interesting not only on account of its magnificent frescoes but because of tbe local and historical associations of some of the pictures that adorn ita walls The ubjeots are drawn from the vicissitudes vicissi-tudes of historythe lives and deaths of great personages or those wh divided the world by their contests the triumphs and misfortunes of humanity during the dark ages aDd contemporaneous ecenes Mosaic crf toil chandeliers and Bevrea porcelain porce-lain meet the eye on every side while many of the historical treasures ol the Louvre disposed of a ter the overthrow of N < poleon III find a resting place in the museum of antiquities anti-quities belonging to the bonanza king of Menlo Park The lawns Burrounri ing the mansion are embellished with terraces and artificial fountain wbUe lights of granite steps fringed with a rich luxuriance of tropical flowers lead to artificial grottoes containing lakes heated by steam BO that on a sudden visit from the bonenz king be may find the temperature to h e la ten te-n his acquatic pastimes To the songs of nightingales and other tropIcal warblers is added the lui aoy of murmuring waters which emerge from beds of flowers Ban Fr ncieco I Cor Chicago Advance |