Show I ti I Jr l L I I IT T ree Glimpses of th the Ap Apartment at Park Avenue New York City for Which Percy Rock Rockefeller feller Pays Per Year Rent Rent r r t j 5 r A Av r l it ni 4 S' S a w v r o t A r yn t F I i t y i I III I II l I t I III I II jl II I k t DI I I II I I Y t. t h IIII en or r I S d III III 1 ea ri ICI Ill I 11 1 1 II Ii II I. I III i Percy Rockefeller Occupies I the r Most Expensive Suite in This Th s 1 Y Apartment for I t d' d 1 i f 1 r Millionaires M l II- II Only 0 n 1 y i r v j ji 3 t 1 x The Position of the Rockefeller Apartment is Indicated 4 Within the Circle Shown Below n I I S SI 1 I V i F NY I Ly k f Y c j a 1 1 1111 i f f j l 3 L ti a Miss Louise l ji F 4 ICE 1 iU 1 r Stedman Wilson l fl r IU t t d Cf f dt if 1 j f G Whose Debut s l ff i f IF Took 1 I 1 t u ual al 1 t f a t lii iI n i t t I Place w in a a jl r r r y k am L Flat Flatt st i oi dY a atY Yr s tY 4 I IdY 11 y 0 A 1 I a i iy f ro M r rr r Lff y 1 I a r ri i r 3 k 5 i i R kP y d i l G G i r st t r y e l r 9 1 t r I By Betty Benthuysen Van B K TONE of of the discomforts of of home That l MONE- MONE strange idea has come to rule the exceedingly exceedingly exceed- exceed jf wealthy men and women women who make 1 op the social backbone of the worlds world's metropolis I Once upon a time it was all so different Persons Per Per- Per Per- sons eons who wanted to rent a house or to procure procuro b boarders advertised All the comforts of home It was the ambition of the man struggling along to own his own home Home signified a aI I single institution tion owned by one man with one f family mily within its walls and whether friend wife did the housework or one had a dozen servants th the entire abode was that of one family That used to be home But there has come a limitation upon the ability ability abil abil- ity to have a home And here too the scheme schema has lias changed Where the limitation used to apply only to a man so 10 poor that he could not pay pay the first instalment on a house and lot it now applies applies ap ap- plies to the man who has so much money that the k keeping of a home on the scale that would woud befi his wealth is a real burden And nd so there has come to being No Park Avenue Av Avenue nue in New York City City City-a a great i pile which serves as a sort of City of Refuge to which millionaires may flee to escape the discomforts discomforts f forts ts of home Here safely tucked away in apartments that range from two rooms for a bachelor suite at a year to two twenty rooms at the mere trifle of per annum annum ft 1 of 01 the ht best known I people c o J r ft 1 of 01 the ht best known I people c o J are now living many othe th tHe city RBy By no means the largest apartment house i ithe ithe ithe the world it is the most expensive and most ee e es elusive Its announced purpose when the was ms first formed was to keep people out of i inot it- it t not to attract them to it And it was no sno snot bish design that prompted this attitude at at atal al alTHe alThe THe house was never built for profit A numbe numb of f rich men finding the servant problem t tt th supply problem and the multitudinous ef private houses very annoy annoying ng decided to buil bull bullan an apartment primarily for themselves and i ider order erder der to do so had to build on one a trifle large h than they required So they rented the surplus apartments to sue suc persons as could pass the eagle eye of Robert Robertl t l x 1 e fr r X t w j 6 it i y t i A Yf fd d' d Elbert former formerly y in the Unit United d States aviation aviation aviation avia avia- tion service and therefore therefore therefore there there- fore thoroughly accustomed accustomed accustomed ac ac- ac- ac to high fly fly- ers Mr Elberts Elbert's tas task was not to find tenants tenants tenants ten ten- ants for the place but butto butto butto to find the right kind of tenants who would harmonize with the 55 5 ideas that suggested the construction of the great building One may well understand understand understand un un- the caution used in passing upon applicants when one notes that the first name on the list of tenants is th that a t of Richard T. T Wilson whose wife a charming charming charming charm charm- ing entertainer and connected by b blood I 0 0 d dand and marriage w wit with i t h some of the leading families of the country country coun coun coun- try was rudely summoned summoned summoned sum sum- to a police court once by a fel fel- tenant low-tenant in a common common common com com- mon s street t r e e t variety of apartment L. L L- L n r Above Above No Park Avenue New NewYork York City the Most 1 i 4 L Expensive and the Most n Exclusive Apartment House in the World n Hj r a Floor Plan of Rockefeller Suite Suit Showing the Arrangement of r t r the Most l Lavish and Completely I l Equipped Apartment That Millions Can Provide Mw c yi 4 wt l k ti I i kt 19 lf l cu c bf l i td t d S S1 H 1 t tY Y NY x r rM cf's Aa A x lCJ Jf f. f i a 7 t 3 e ws f fj j E Y l G 71 S q I f iris y y l s s r fr t 3 lt I Fi 2 x 3 vw rT n nt i s i i WW viX L S T 7 t y Y t a i it I N u have servants ft detailed r c leI Her guests were cn entertained cr with jazz music at an hour that appeared un- un n seemly to the complaining neighbor That you understand could not have happened happened happened hap- hap in our set and anybody who g gets ts into the new Mecca of Millions will have to be jazz i i- broke and able to fa face e an early morning hour 1 without getting a case of nerves er r Two of the seasons season's debutantes are domici domiciled ed he IB 0 under the roof of the great g eat flat fla building For Forns ns 13 twenty-five twenty years the deb debutantes had their first d entertainments under the old Sherry management ht n in Fifth Avenue and most ost of the khe orders recall r ft Louis' Louis as a sort of milestone in their social careers careers Miss Isabel Rockefeller Isabel Rockefeller of the daughter Percy h Rockefellers was given a costume dance by her G. G J. J aunt Mrs William G. G Rockefeller by way of u launching her career in the new home Miss Rockefeller Rockefeller Rocke Rocko- feIl feller r is no a tour of the Mediterranean Miss Louise Louis Steedman Wilson elder daughter of the famous Mrs Richard ard ardT T. T Wilson who had hadI what one might call a a a- preliminary d debut but at Newport Newport New New- I 1 port was also formally introduced as a flat flak dweller of the de order Miss Wilson is one of the most interesting of the debutante crop She is a niece of Mrs Ogden Goelet Mrs Cornelius Cornelius Cornelius Cor Cor- nelius Vanderbilt and Mrs M. M Orme Wilson She has been constantly at the opera with her mother during the season and tHe box o of her aunt Mrs Goelet one of the most prominent in the g golden horseshoe has been at her disposal Hav Having ng fitted the home hom with everything that tha architects could imagine the owners sent over to Paris w whither th r the famous Louis Sherry had fled fied tr I x R W If gelY r t ff J W t a. a 0 s i i y fh j J W j r fI t i l 00 i 1 ip to escape prohibition and induced him to come come back and and assume as assume assume as as- sume cHarge of the restaurant and the service Of the build build- ing Sherry who had hads s supplied the entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- for most of the debutante crops for a quarter of a century undertook the job While his job i on on the surface was to conduct the public restaurant and the 1 dancing and assembly rooms it extended as a of fact far beyond this function function tion and now makes makes' up one of the most interesting studies in domestic science in all the world Sherry was made the key to the servant problem The weal wealthy thy tenants do donot not employ their servants Sherry does that A family may mayI I h. h by 4 the In hour 4 the 1 day the hA a Miss Isa Isabel el ROCKer Rockefeller e elle ler r Ano Another th er of S J This Seasons Season's Buds Who I Made dc Her Debut in Jn Her Tenement H Home e. e She merely says sas that she she will ili arrive at at 5 5 o'clock in the afternoon Friend hus husband and turns turns to they the other telephone calls Louis Sherry and tells him friends will drop op in at 9 9 o o'clock for a dinner dance That is is' all Louis orders m music sic flowers dec orations favors the food the cooks the waiters I valets maids and the hundred of other things needed and all that Mr Rockefeller ever knows of the details is wh what t he gleans f fr from m the bill When Mr Rock Rockefeller starts Rockefeller feller starts home he enters a private elevator that serves no apartment other than his own They The elevator lands at the tho foyer vestibule and through a foyer which is 13 by 33 feet he may enter at will the dining room which is 20 feet by 23 feet from the windows vs of which a good view is s commanded A salon 20 by 20 opens into the dining room room and th the library connecting connecting connecting con con- with the salon is 17 by 21 feet Five master chambers extend tend L fashion from the library around the remote side of the apartment with the kitchen store rooms butlers butler's pantry and service rooms forming The he he barrier between between between be be- tween the masters master's side of the house and the tho servants' servants hall behind which are lined more quarters quarters quarters for servitors than most families with money can afford to have in a modern apartment And yet in this elegant home of two twenty rooms there is one feature that is precisely like that of a flight five flight walk up flat the flat the laundry is done on the roof n. 1 Mo Most t t rt-f rt of 4 the furniture furniture a t is unique Mrs Mrs 1 1 Rocke Rocke- Tn V have servants ft detailed I h. h by 4 the In hour 4 the 1 day the hA n. 1 Mo Most t t rt-f rt of 4 the furniture furniture a t is unique Mrs Mrs 1 1 Rocke Rocke- Tn V ave s s Rockefellers Rockefeller's we week k or the month so that hat it is never necessary fellers feller's father was the late James Stillman president to worry about help or to have more than thau dent of the National City Bank and he passed one needs much of his time after his retirement from the If a butler is wanted press t the bell or use active management in Paris While living Jiving there living there the tel telephone phone If a a. a maid is wanted she is waiting wait wait- he acquired a great deal of valuable furniture ing to answer like a fire engine in a congested Mrs Rockefeller er imported much of this district Cooks Cooks- are shot along to order and a In addition to Mr Rockefeller the flat flat- private household fully equipped d with every pos pos- possible dwellers of millions million's include Mr and Mrs Rich Rich- sible need from a box box- of matches to a liveried iver ed ard and T T. Wilson G Gen n. n and Mrs Coleman DuP DuPont nt servant to strike them can be set up in one of L. L J. J Horowitz Col Coh and Mrs B. B B. B McAlpin F. F these flats de in thirty minutes C. C B. B Page Mr and Mrs L. L M. M Boomer Thomas Thoma Imagine Percy A. A Rockefeller who has the tho Cochran W. W D. D N. N Perrine Louis Louis' Sherry F. F Coit Colt largest apartment in th the house for example in Johnson Mr and Mrs Lewis L. L Dunham G George orge his office Mrs Rockefeller is just telephoning L. L Duva Duval uva R. R E E. Boyd Boy 1 Edward A. A Clark Carl that she will be in town and has sent invitations invitation Taylor John A. A Garver Carver H. H. H M. M Chisholm Herbert dance F M. M Hitchcock and E E. J. J Horton Horto for the following evening for a dinner Doane Deane f t |