Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1898-03-03 | Page 5 | Vanderbilt's Unique Chandelier

Vanderbilts Unique Chandelier I New York Press Dr Depew was particularly par-ticularly happy on Sunday night in his stories of Commodore Vanderbilt and Dr I Deems but he failed to mentlouthe formers famous chandelier A friend I called on the old gentleman In his Wash ington place home and gazed upon a tearful tear-ful and wonderful contrivance that hung from the ceiling in the commodores private priv-ate room Well do you like It he asked I Is utterly unlike anything I ever saw before was the diplomatic reply re-ply The commodore wanted his friends to like whatever he had and would readily give away an article appreciated The chandelier was of his own designing He had gone to Mitchell desiging Coos and selected his own fittings from a hun frsd or more completed fixtures taking from this a burner from that a curved tube from the other a cluster of lights and so forth Having chosen what his ancy dictated he had the several parts put together and hung in his room It I was the only thing of the sort ever con