Show FINEST PALACE IN THE WORLD tonne yount geogre I 1 ander bilts aim alm ills E ef tate in north carolina it Is 1 interesting to loam learn that an american gentleman for tho the lack ol 01 bottor better employ mont haa has set himself tho the task of constructing tho the most magni magnificent fl bouso to bo be surrounded by tho the moet most beautiful landscape and park effects in all tho the world barring no palace mansion castle royal or ducal county seat whatsoever Ere everyone to his castol to plan plans perchance to achieve such a triumph as thia this Is at least as rational an undertaking as to strive to own a horse that will trot 9 mile in two seconds less time than maud S or tho the fastest yacht afloat or more miles of railway than any other man living but it Is 19 a whim that very few could afford to gratify and our readers may be prepared to hear that the gentleman who has taken this extensive contract Is at least a vanderbilt mr george IV W vanderbilt the site of mr vand chateau op or castio castle lies three miles from the ut tle station of butmore biltmore on the western north carolina railroad two miles east cast of aho ARM ille 1110 A small manufacturing and industrial community has sprung up at biltmore solely on oa account of the vanderbilt chateau it la is estimated that this great country seat will require ton ten years for completion and an expenditure of 8 or 10 millions of dollars tho The whole echeme scheme is a hopeless riddle to tho the un catch natives in tho the vicinity but they are not disposed to quarrel with the whim or quest question aon tho the sanity ol 01 a man who sees fit to furnish an army of f laboring men with employment for a term of years in thia this manner when it is fial finished shed although money money cannot buy some of the historical associations and other accessories which give bruy of the old world piles their chief distinction it is possible that tho the place will indeed be so rare and fine a thing in its way to give thoI the HOLSO that vanderbilt real arti artistic stio distinction of its own an honorable and worldwide world wide fame wo cannot help regarding it nc ac a hopeful sign when croesus begin begins to feel feet an impulse to try to do something or make something that shall excel anything of the kind yet accomplished if it is 12 only a noble house act in an bidoul landscape |