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Show It I HOME A KING MIGHT COVET I J SENATOR CIiAUK'S NEW TOILS PALACE IS A MAKVEL. j I? When Senator "William A. Clnrk's new . 'cslrtenco at tho northenst corner of 1 I'lfth avenuo and Seventy-seventh street H ' i completed It Is expected to bo uniQuo mong the gorgeous private residences In 'his country. In tho basement will be an up-to-date Turkish bath, with a plunge sixteen fret wide and twenty-eight font. long. Tho full i quipmcnt of a modern Turkish bath cs- t ibllshmcnt will b Installed, including at- l- ndnnts' rooms, a stcamroom, holroom, I massage-room, rubbing and cooling-rooms cooling-rooms and dressing-rooms. There will bo no less than twenty-five bathrooms throughout tho house, all of them finished" In whlto marble, with vaulted colllngH of Fnlcncv marble. The two upper floors of tho house will be reserved for tlin nervunts. thirty bed-ruomn bed-ruomn belns: provided for the help alone. A largo sitting-room In th tower on tlic fifth Iloor will furnish a. place for tho servants ser-vants to meet socially. For tho protection of the plato and other valuables the re will bo a safe on the mczzunlno Iloor, adjoining a gallery over I tlw serving-room. Thern all tho glass and plato are to bo handled and washed. A 1 bljr saffl deposit vault with walls of steel will bo built In the basement. Tho hpad steward and head butler will lmvo bedrooms on the ground floor, and cloctrlo burglar alarm systems, connect od with gongs over their beds, will ring on the opening of a window or an outstdo door anywhere In the houso. A central telephone service Is to be Installed in tho porter's IocJko and an operator will bo In constnnt service night and day. A driveway entering tho building from the Scvonty-sevenUi street slilo will pass I almost through tho house, turning through a big "vestibule" and ending at the street again along tho east wall of the building. The walls of the driveway will bo Tennessee Tennes-see marble- A big dome over I lie "vestibule" also will bo built of solid .stone, as will the whole colling throughout tho driveway's length. A very raru sandstone has been brought from the Kcttlo river district In Minnesota for tills dome. It is of a peculiar pinkish color nnd Is cxpoctcd to blifiul with the marble of tho Avails and produce a mont unusual effeot. Tho ceilings In many parts of the. houso will bo mndc of stone. Such construction novor has bocn uEod horctoforo in prlvala dwellings in tills country nnd tho structural struc-tural difficulties in tho work havo been enormous. Tho gnmd staircase Is to bo made entirely en-tirely of Maryland marble, of it rich cream color. Tho walls of tho hall at this point will be of tho same material and will continue up to tho celling of the first Iloor, a perpendicular height of more than thirty thir-ty feot of unbroken marble surface. An nulomoblln garauo opening off the driveway, Is planned to havo room for a dozen machines at one time. Much space has been devoted to plcturo galleries and there will bo fivo separate halls for this uso alone. A fully (xiulpped stago with a sccno dook and drenslmr-rooms and extending two stories upward Is also provided for on tho northerly side of tho building. Tho nuditorlum of the theater will bo fitted up with movablo chairs ajid when a performance perfor-mance Ik not going on the floor may bo cleared of tho scats. Tho walls will bo hung with pntntluK nnd tho big room Is to be tho largest of the picture galleries. Except fo"r performances tho stago will rot be In evidence at all. Tho top of tho stage proper Is constructed similarly to tho tloor of tho auditorium and built on ft. hydraulic lift. So tliH entire stage can be lowered or raised at will. "When lowered tho top Is to form part of tho tloor of tho auditorium. Tho wall bohlnd tho back drop will ho covorcd with paintings, so that when tho stago is down all four walln of tho room will present a continuous lino of pictures, The main dining-room is In tho southeast south-east corner of tho houao on tho first floor, with three, balconies, overlooking Sevonty-seventh Sevonty-seventh strout, tho driveway, and an Inner In-ner court, A wainscot of EngiJyh oak will rise twenty foct In height around iho room, topped by a frlwio of French mar ble. Tho coiling will be of Engliflh oak, with rxposed bourns. A circulnr sculpture hall will bo a feature fea-ture of this Iloor, directly over tho rotunda ro-tunda of tbo driveway below. Its walls will bo of spotless white Greek marble. Tho Fulenco galle.ry on this tloor will bo situated in the northeast corner of tho house nnd open on to a balcony running around tho walls of tho theater on tho floor below. From this gallery entrance may be had to another picture gallery, opening Into the music-room, beyond which on the Fifth avenuo front is still another picture gallory. Theso three rooms may b thrown Into ono long hall, twenty-nlno feet wide nnd over 100 foot In length, which will bo used na a, ballroom Sonator Clark bought the decorations for tho grand Halon, which will bo on this floor in the southwest corner of tho building, build-ing, In Franco. They will bo In tho style of Louis XVI. Tho potlt salon behind It will bo furnished exactly similar to a .1.-. Paris, anu I'llll 1-iotol SoublfC.'ln iar,n' ' "uch n "-! -l 0 hKcl laundry In the ; W be intrusted to tho &jeSt f stablc.-New lork nm. ,ai |