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Show WONDERFUL PALACES .Of THE : 1 . ' A GAUDS: 0TK3?. AST02T- m NEW YORK MULTI-MILLIONAIRES s or 1 I ifijR crpoat Morgan's old Itnlinu in tho heart of Now York city JJonc. Ho toro down a $500,000 M- to niata room for it. ILis $500,-J.Tt $500,-J.Tt Jflery ia read3' lor his pricc-f pricc-f ft ' collection of nrt objects to ouscdin; on its site stood two ,000 city mansions only u low -w ago. Now Mr. Morgan has 'Wffii on rnoro of the adjoining prop- )M-a(l has tot his heart on having JMgvstc park in lUo hcurL of th(J IW city, where Iund for rcsideueo DB"5 Jb worth thousauds of dollars Kit foot. Bfe Y,.rk isn'1 at all Hrpribud at IsTlM,! , t,0.us J,,n8 ambitious ovou Mmi r ual?r ?f fiannce. Tim grout IHtiu. Priced land on Madison JE, J r,y m'n Thirty-sixth and ilKfr llh 3t.rt"ts. wow dominated I 'SflKuainp i ;V0!' d 'l turn his head 5K' Lll,f 'loek: it ia an own 'iJKt ho,i ho, iv"Wn't know tin; Wl ol 1IeT scd to thefio ways i fftf'.. 9tn.r3 ;1 lo'n h ty ' ' t0mrr0VV'- SBn XftJ5 fa,u tnintr into a ted-ltr i citv r,'bui t. It can't ho. , w, Hp' Iodcst brown P fc,up tlo;vn- i 61.000.000 one jH$n &UI,B h5s Murray . I Ufl K? u,i,s quartets" to ftrampodi hD doenn'r build on coble nev. I lot; ae tears down u few houses to jjot room. Living Is High. ThinI: of it 'City where a mnn whoso income ia s'5000 n year cannot can-not livo in a wholo IioiihoI A city whore even $10,000 .meu must dwell in Hats with their wives and children! j What becomes of thorn f Somo jour- ney to xittonnost llarlbm or d?rk'Ht Brooklyn; but the RTeat. majority join tho vast army of commuters, forced out of tho city because the demand for land is so m-cat that they cannot livo in New 1'orK. Tt ia only the very rich who can pay tho price. A whole block of Fifth avenue frontage, consisting of a half a dozen browustone homes, went to make tho Cornelius Ynndcrbilt, Sr., home. Tho As tors took a half block just north of them. Andrew Carnegie has u block frontage higher up. ('. M. Schwab took an entire block on Ktver-sido Ktver-sido Drive, at Seventy-third street, and so it yum. George Gould lias demolished de-molished his $o00,U00 Gothic home at Fifth avenue and Sixt3--scventh street to build a $1,000,000 one, after the French tityle of architecture. William C. Whitney tore n $.100,000 mansion inside out to put in $3,000,000 wortli of interior decoration, only to die soon nfter it was done. James Henry Smith, who inhorited $o0.000,0O0 from a roclufio uncle, bought it for $2,000,-000, $2,000,-000, to die, in his turn. Sonator Clark's Palace. Senator Clark of Montana has just completed his $5,000,000 palace at Pifih avenue and Scwenty-uixth street, tearing; down two flvo-jtory houses. It is built with a separata ontrRuce for tho public, who uro to be admitted to tho sumptuous rt galleries. And jo it ruiiH countless instances might bu given. v( ythgr iSTev.-. York , pulaaas whore from two to ton homes have boon sacrificed to satisfy iho requirements require-ments of one millionaire. . Not many mouths ago three great browustone mansions occupied- tho Madison avenue block between Thirl v-sixth v-sixth and Thirty-seventh streets. The northerly ono was Anson Phelps Stokes's, tho center one was the W. Earle Dodge home, and the southerly souther-ly one was Mr. Morgan's. AH three, were of that, old fashioned brown-stono brown-stono type, with big windows and rather gloomy exteriors. Each had .a sixty-five foot frontage, and there was plenty of air space between the three houses, all being detached and separated by gardens. Morgan's Palaces. But Mr. Morgan was making -plans to extend. Hack of him on Thirty-sixth Thirty-sixth street was the Jivc-storv browh-sione browh-sione home of William Salmon. No. .'lo, and adjoining it nt No. .'57. the homo of James II. Dunham. Mr. Morgan Mor-gan bid $150,000 apiece for tie houses, lore them down, and lodav on their site stands his $500,000 aft gallery of pinkish gray Tennessee marble, with a frontage- of Mo feet on Thirty-Bixth street. Jt was in this superb pile, crowded with tin treasures of Europe, that Mr. Morgan received the moneyed men of Now York when tho financial fabric was tottering, onlv such a little while ago. But this regal addition lo his mansion wasn't enough for Mr. Morgan, lie bought the Dodge home, next door, on Madison avenue. In duo sensou he tore it down. Todny on it site is a severely classic Italian garden, with an antifjue fountain in its center. Some day he. hopes to own the whole block frontage, but the Stokes t family is very rich, too, and loves its old Madison avenue home too much to sell ust yet. In some of the' tenement districts ,1000 souls hi-ve on a plot of ground no larger than the ono where Mr. Morgan dwells in solitary state. George Gould Solves Problem. George Gould found a different problem prob-lem confronting him when his growing grow-ing family of bovs and girls needwl more room than his great half-million dollar doublo mansion could afford. His neighbors along that section of Fifth avenue which fronts Centra! Park hadn't the slightest idea of giving way to Mr. Gould if he wanted to get more room for his house he would have to build up in the air; he couldn't pbsi- j bly spread out sideways. So Mv. Gould 1 gavo his orders to the architects. They have designed for the original site a ' stven-atory palace of granite and Indiana In-diana limestone. The splendid house wiiich his father, tho Into .lav Gould, gave him, has been razed lo the. ground and today the new house is fast going up. Nothing that taste can smrgewt or money buy has been omitted. Thero is a passenger elevator, a moving stair-ens, stair-ens, a freight lift, an electric laundry, laun-dry, a private ice plant, and a huge swimnung pool, thirty-five by sixty feet. 3t will be completed in a vear at a Vst of $1,000,000, which does not include in-clude the land or tho furnishings. Two tloors in this newest New Vork palace , will he for uutertaiuina. . Thu main. i- " ' i 1 trance on Sixty-seventh street leads into a great hall of majestic proper- j lions. Hero will bo a small reception room, library, dining room and loyer. Tho second' floor is arrauged to be thrown all together. Here in the large foyer hall, fifty feet long, twentv-livo j I feet wide and thirtv-live feet higfi. On , the right is the ball room, on tho left j the salon. Tho third floor is for Mi. i and Mrs. Gould, and also lias two guest j chambers. The fourth lloor is for the i children and bus three baths. The fifth floor contains eleven rooms fur servants. J In the basement aro tho kitchen and laundries, pantries, store roomie and the ! ' like, and in the cellar the wino rooms, J trunk rooms aud the pool. Familiar Landmarks. For throe, decades tho great twin brownstono Vanderbilt mansions diagonally diag-onally across from St. Patrick's eatho-drul," eatho-drul," taking up the entire Fifth avenue frontage between Fifty-first street and I Fifiv-soeond street, have been familiar landmarks. Across Fifty-second street is the $1,000,000 City chateau of V. K. Vanderbilt, Sr. A superb pile of white stone designed by the late It. M. Hunt. Two browustone houses to the north of it have gone down to make way for a second mansion for the son. W." K, Vanderbilt, Jr.. of similar ma-trrial ma-trrial and design. This ouo family, therefore, now has a block and a half frontage on Fifth avenue, probably the most costly length of fnmih- homesites in the world, certainly in this country, as well as the longest. Todnv, ' howT-ever, howT-ever, Pittsburg has a foothold there, llrnrv C. Frick has leased Iho souther- i lv house, George W. Vanderbilt 's, for j $100,000 a year, for ten years a mil- t lion for a home, not in purchase price I but in rent alone. I Farther up the avenue is another j great mansion of red brick aud light Bedford stone a whole block frontage. It is ono more Vanderbilt home. Here dwells t ho widow of Cornelius Vauder-bilt. Vauder-bilt. Here, only a few brief weeks ago, Miss Gladvs Vanderbilt, the only unmarried child, breatno the Countras Szcchcuvi. It is modeled after tho fa- J mous Chateau do Blois, near Paris. A lowering iron fence shuts it in, and tho garden where once stood three brownstono homes. It cost fcJ.fiOO.OOO. The Twomblvs and Webbs have a hnlf-bloek frontage between them at Fifty-fourth. street, and tho F. W. Van-dcrbillH Van-dcrbillH another half-block at Fortieth street three and a half blocks front-agu front-agu for this one family on tho costlicit street in tho world. What Money Can Do. When Senator Clark allows the pub-Iiii pub-Iiii to enter his towering new palace at Soveutv-sixth street and Fifth avenue, ave-nue, it ' will be worth while to drop in, no matter who you are ior what you have soen. It will be a rovelation in luxury, a marvel of money 's magic. It is not as Iariro as tho Vanderbilt hoiwcs, nor the houses of the Astom, Mr. Schwab, or Mr. Caruegie, but it cost more. Before Senator Clark sots foot in it ho will have paid out $."3,000,000. It isn't ready yet, though work has boon going on ten years. The hair of Washington Hull, the architect.. was brown when he started: it is gray now, a . manv oerolexitiofj hayo confronted him. Beside the original Fifth avenue jot, Senator Clark bought four adjoining adjoin-ing houses. Three in Severn-seventh street aud one on Fifth avenue, for a site. Then ho started the great pile. Eleven stories high, including basement and tower it looks more like an institution insti-tution than a home. All sorts of difficulties beset the work. Money set them aside. Itnther than- be bled ' by contractors, Senator ('lark bought six different plants to supply material a granite iplarry at North lay, Me.; a stone finishing plant at Bangor. Me.; a marble factory at Kav-enswood, Kav-enswood, Tj. f.; a woodworking factory at Kavenswood. and a bronze foundry in New Vork City. Bronze is everywhere in the white granite structure. The roof and most of tho tower is bronze; so is tho plumbing. plumb-ing. Iho window casings and sashing?, and the balconies. Today the bronze factory pavs a profit, for Senator Clark has underbid the contractors win wanted to bleed him. and does outside work. His work took the grand prize at St. Louis,' where it was exhibited. Tho whole interior is a mass of sculpture, sculp-ture, modeled bv Philip Marlinv. the famous artist, and carved bv the most expert workmen obtainable." Tho enormous enor-mous entrance hall and winding staircase stair-case is of ivory-tinted ti.arble. in pure classic carving. The ceilings are of quartered oak overlaid with gold loaf to show the arain. On the ground floor are reception rooms, offices, billiard aud smoking rooms, all in mahogany, Cau casion walnut or English oak. There are entrances to the ground floor tho private one to the main hall: one for carriages through a great gate in the arch under tho oval conservatory, and one to the court through great bronze gates in the rear. A carriage on ontcrini: discharges its passengers in the middle of tho house at tho mam hall door.- goes on through the court past the marble fountains, and. turning, thrto sides of a square, passes out into the street again by the big gate. A lareo automobile storage room connects with this interior driveway. The faience fai-ence gallery litis an entrance from tho court in the rear so that the public mav cntor without disturbing the household. house-hold. Magnificent Floor. The second lloor is tho glory of this new-world palace. Ascending tho marble mar-ble staircase, one reaches a long hall of Maryland marble, with panels of splendid splen-did old tapestries under ceilings of white Caen stone. This leads to tho grand salon facing Fifth avenue, in Louis XVI, style. All the woodwork was stripped from an old French palace and brought, here. The walls are gray anil gold, with gilded pilasters and magnificently magnifi-cently painted panels. Adjoining ia an elliptical anion taken bodilv from tho Hotel Soubiso, in Paris, behind this is a beautiful morning room furnished with four superb tnpestries by Bcnchor typifying air. earth, fire and water. Uu-(dor Uu-(dor tho tower is the circular sculpture hall with a domed coiling, all in ivory marble, with supporting pillars. Next the conservatory, in pink marble. The dining-room is of English oak, with an elaborately, carved stouo . frieze repre senting hunting and Hporting scones. The ceiling is also of oak, gildcct. ! The principal art gallery has a wainscot of lstrinn marble," with a carved oak coiling, supported by twelve pillars of polished Cipelino marble. Upstairs Up-stairs aro the living rooms, all wonders of luxury and magnificence. There is a secondary staircase, in Caeu stono from j top to bottom. Thirty bathrooms aro I part of the palace's equipment. And a j groat swimming pool in the baeement ; lined with Unrrara glass. Tho ceilings ! aro of mosaic and the floor of marble. The main elevator is fitted up as a huge Sedan chair of the Louis XVT. period.' Besides, there is an elaborate system of i t dumb waiters connecting tho " kitchen and service room with all the floors. Thero is an electric light plant with i power for S500 bulbs, "big and littlo: I a laundry run by electricity, storage i and packing room for objects of ari; refrigerating plant, wine collars, safe deposit de-posit vault and two roof gardens. No omperor of bygone dnys eve'- dreamed of such luxury! Schwab's Home. Charles M. Schwab has today the largest singlo homesito in New Vork City. He owns the entire block bounded b3-"Wcsl End avenue, Riverside drive, Seventy--third and Seventy - fourth streets! and on This great plot he has creo.led a splendid $2,."00,000 turretcd chateau in tho Kenajssance stylo, which looks out upon the lordly Hudson. There ho dwells for brief periods of the year in lonesome isolation, for the Schwabs have no children. It is understood that at tk6ir death the great place will bo turned into an institution housing some charity. The twin Aalor mausions at Fifth avenue ave-nue and Sixty-fourth street havo one remarkable peculiarity. There is no provision pro-vision made for visitors afoot! The front door opens on .the carriageway, and unless you drive up you must pick your way in among the carriages and horses; there is no footpath to the front door. But. then, anyone who mav call a........ ;r. .....;,.,.. i l 0 .... uu nit; ;ianua jr ciiiuauu tu n.i.v; ;i cai- riage, and there is an entrance for others nt tho back. Further, though tho houses look as one, they arc absolutely separate sepa-rate establishments, oue oceupiod by Mrs. William Astor, social arbiter of Now York society, and Iho other by her son. Col. John Jacob Astor, and his beautiful wife and two children. The great gallery in the rear contains the famous Astor collection of puintings, and also servos as a ballroom. "When either Mrs. Astor entertains, the homes are thrown into ono. This is easily done, because both houses open into the grear gallory. Within these dwellings typify j quiet elegance aud the possession of! wealth for generations. Tho main halls in stone are two storieH high, surrounded with galleries. Heav- rugs and tapestries tapes-tries tako away tho chill of tho stone. Drawing-rooms and dining cars are rich, but in the perfect tnste for which the Astors aro noted. Smith's Magnificent Home. . The groat brownstono at Fifth avenue ave-nue ana Sixty-eighth street, which now belongs lo James Henry Smith 's widow, has had many vicissitudes. It, was originally orig-inally built, by Robert L. Stuart, but was sold by him to Aiuni L. Barber in ISOo. before it was completed. Two vear" later William C. WJiitney bought it for SttfO.OOO. The lain "Stanford White, for whose death Harry 1. Thaw is now in Malteawan asylum for the j criminal insane, put his genius into tho house, and Mr. Whitney expended $.'5,50u.O0O. Every room was fronted ae-cording ae-cording to a single' idea. Europe was ransacked for its choicest treasures. Famous Fa-mous old churches, ensiles, palaces and monasteries contributed to the interior. Art lovers say the main entranc hall is tho noblest, picture in New York. Entrance En-trance is through great iron and bronze gates from the Doria palace in Italy. Another old stone gateway comes from Florence. At tho head of the hall is a heavily carved mantel from a Florentine Floren-tine palace, and in front of it stands a hugo black oak table, which for cen turies stood iu an Italian monastery.- fH Tho massive mnrblc staircase came, bod- iflH ilv from a Venetian palace; the cntiroi carved wooden ceiling from a Genoeso; ifl palaco, whero it hnd been placed ccn-t MH turlos before. As ono stands iu the hall'. tlH and looks back on the entrance, stair-' tl case and balustrade, he faces a colon- fH undo of Levantine marble, the; Italian.. tH marblo doorways and a beautiful ar-f jH r&ngoiucnt of stained glass, which forma- the' front of the room. This was oncoT. tM a part of a chapel in the palace of tho.4. ; jHH Ariscount Snuzo in the south of Franoe.f i At tho head of the m:issie staircase in," IH the grand hall. 3G by 3ii feet, tho floor' Vm of mosaic made of marble brought from' IH Greece", Italy and Africa. Some 1 0.00OJ lH pieces of brass were used in laying this. , IIH lloor alone. The walls are of Istrian ) HH marble; the ceiling of carved Floren-- j HH tine woodwork. HiBI From tho grand hall a corridor lcada) I to a great music room, GO fcot long and. Hl :10 feet high. Once it was a room in.. ftlifl the castle of PhocbiiB d'Albert. Burou of Tourd, a chevalier in tho timo oft' Louis XTY. Prom the castle the room'i was transported bodily to Pari3 in th f timo of Louis Philippe; then Mr. Wliitv j noy bought it aud again it was removed- The room is of richly carved panels of , oak gilt; ih ceiling" ii decorated with 1 '-H a hnge painting and splendid lupestrio" I hang the walls. Library, salon and diu j HH j iug room are similarly treated, all fitted. I with decorations which onco wen. itlS i , j houses abroud. Mr. Whitnev died sooi" f 'hH .after his homo was finished, and MrJJ 1 iftBI Smith brought it, only to dii while nn ', ;IH , Japan on his honeymoon. Now it ij I ;,'H ; said that Ilnrr Pay no Whitney want f j 'H I to buy bnck the homo his Vat'ior lovett i pH so well. !'. Canie'gio Home. 4 . i ' ' fll Three-quarters of a mile up Fifth avof i mio past the more modest marblo or: f if.Kl stone homes' of men wno can-only reckon! fWm thoir millions in one figuio one pnusof I i wilh a start at the block between Nino. I lieth aud Ninety-first streets, guarded by- j 'Si 1 a fence of iron palincrs and brick columns.? 1 surmounted with great atone urns. Sofr r i'llw in gardens decked out with flowerJ i'-JBli lawnsfi. terraces, shrubbery and trees, it t l jIkI lawns, tcrrace3, shrubbory and trees, it j 1 .imwJ is a country estate on a o"ity street the j mf. home of Andrew Carnegie. And a won'' I ''.jffle drous place it is. Itisinthoeightccnt.lt I fMSl century English style, built of red brick' , ' IJRft aud Indian limestone Ju is threo and TlPa a half stories high. 70 feet wide and J i-;:Brl ISO feet deep. It is the most " homey y5 t It looking millionaire's houso iu all Nov I $f York. And, what ii; quite Tomarkable ; -r? jJ it. hasn't any ballroom! '"'This will bq , 2 a home, not a show place;" were Mr.' f X ;;1 Carnegie ' orders to his " architect, so i tSl there isn't any ballroom or private the 'Mfj ator or any other apartments for social ' ; mfi functions, and the drawing-room on ih ' first lloor isn't big enough for any great j JEjfl crush. But tho living rooms are linn ;fifl and big and comfortable. They aro t fitted with rcat; caro and supplied with . 1H every comfort nnd convenience. Thcj , apartrnonls of Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie -' H are on tho second tloor. together with a few' guest chambers, with the south o"r ' garden view Horc, too. arc Lite .quar- TbB ters of Mir. Carnegie's little daughter-- Jal playroom. Schoolroom, sleeping-room, ; '!Ja separate bathroom, quarters for nurS) uHk and governess, all within reach of the ' i&M fiimily the unity of the home is ono Mfl i of Mr. Carnegie's bobbies. Tho third JtiM slory is for gucats chieflv. but there m ' Vf3B ono novelty, at least. There are, two 4 separate hospitals, ono for the familv -fl and one for the. servants. AL the eiul I tjM of the house is an annex for the com- ' :JH fortable housing of tho retinue of Car- 'IH negio servants. " Mine is the most mod: ', Yfjl est and roomy houso iu New York.'.' , Mm says Mr. Carnegie. "A grand palacu i '111 would be foreign to our tastes." jfl For all this, the house rejoices in nj . till -elevators, a great $.'15,000 organ, au fW automobile garago and an English bil- i ll liard-room. and enough machinery to nm fl a hotel. It cost $1,000,000 without tho I t (I land, which is worth oven more. And it V II all stands in the name of his fortunate L M j little daughter, to whom he gave it as l,jW i a Christmas gift. jfjf |