Show 13 UNDER THE GROUND how it Is lasted by day and night the gardens overhead the underground ballroom at wel beck has nono of the gloomy characteristics te of a collar says tho the london chronicle dy flay as well as hy by night it Is perfectly lighted being designed and built by the old duke as a picture gallery it is lighted entirely from above the hat flat wonderfully decorated root roof being pierced by 27 big octagonal skylights built up ill of prisms and recessed froni from view the light falling thus Is softened by passing through rich crimson silk tho the IS exquisite glass chancellors which illuminate the room by night were an object of the mysterious dukos particular care many sets after bi wing ieng specially made wore were ruthlessly rejected before his taste was pleased one notable feature in the room it if the marble e bust of the invisible as his tenants called him who constructed the apartment by b the simple process of excavating a quarter of an aero acre of ground lining tho the clay bass ba ls with a double wall sandwiched with asphalt to exclude damp spanning it with iron bearns beams weighing over 29 tons each and resting on oa arches to form tho the root it is quite hat flat and level with the gardea ardea above so that one walks over a beautifully lawn little dream ing that balow this sylvan spot Is the splendid chamber IGO feet long and cl 61 feet wido which has boon described by competent judges as the most noble and amazing private room in europe |