Show LIVING IN LUXURY it is ft a little worse than idle for those who toll to rail agai against list the extravagant indulgences and lavish expenditures of some of the wealthier classes but a great many of them do it and persist in it if those chose whose possessions are a so 0 vast were to make a of living economically merely to ad add ada A to their wealth it would be just so much the worse for those who have smaller possessions or none at all since it is chleva by such means that money Is freed fr from om captivity aud set afloat upon the tb brou broad d ocean of trade and commerce some of it coming perchance to some vf very complainants but all of it going antu channels of usefulness one way or r toward another and aid contributing toward lightening the financial d every new mansion that a man ot of erects means so eo much outlay tiding chiefly to workers and de dc and instead of this being found fault with aitu it should bould be encouraged so 0 o long as the builder ran can afford it and does not dot run in debt every new piano jur purchased chased every eat ry new carpet and set not of turn furniture iture or ware of any kind brought into the homes or of those who are able to buy such euch things has the bame ha me effect in a more limited way but all contri contributing to giving toofe who might otherwise be unemployed something 09 to do and those who are employed something I 1 more we learn from the new york press that to at despite millionaire russell sages statement to the effect wat that tf t e rich men of new york are beilig made poor by the stringency of tiie ow money market wealth is ia being lisvia bly spent just juat now fur for new homes toe tito millionaires are keeping beeping up their rivalry in tearing learing palatial man mansions sine and cottages as aa well as other luxuries hali hal a dozen pleasure yachts tL costing each have recently been launched and the rien rico man of today appears to have entered on an era of luxury unparalleled in the hi history stry of this or any other country ot or the last century he buys what he wants regardless gard less of cost it if his neighbor builds a yacht feet in length he gives an order for one feet from stem to stern it if his neighbors s wife buys a string of pearls or a mammoth gen gem for he immediately purchases a rarer and costlier article tor for his wife it I 1 is in building mansions mansion and summer houses and furn furnishing labing thim them though that the greatest rivalry now exists jim am ang new york men of wealth A striking example in point is given in the case of W seward howard webb a relative by marriage of the vanderbilt he has built anew a new railroad U to the Adiron adirondacks dacke bud and acquired IL a splendid estate in that region it is said that he has lonn been ambitious to own the finest private residence in america and his bis hopes are about to be realized this palatial castle will cover covel very nearly halt bull an acre of ground and will be built i t f granite there will be numerous nume rouB turrets and the fortification style of architecture will be carried out in the upper part of the nik ammoth structure tapestries and silks mosaics and woods from foreign lands will be used regard less of expense in ln this mam ninth home irwill it will be filled with curios and bric a brac from me meby many by coun trie sand the picture gallery will be enriched by many old banters ma man itera this house will have rooms and ila total cost coat will be the modest sum gum of of it adds some iome emphasis to the case cage too to be wid told as we are that bat mr webb to is quite a young man and began life utterly penniless penni leee A good many will be prone to say bay that if he keeps on at the rate above set out he Is ie likely to end life la in very much the same way that he be gan it but never mina about that it 11 18 his bla money or his bla wife wilee e and it if they propose to disburse die buree great ww bujna among the people in that or any other way by all means lot let them be u unopposed |