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Show COLONEL JACKLING'S APARTMENTS One night during the month of February Theodore Marks, a well known architect of St. Louis, boarded the private car of Colonel Daniel C. Jackling. It was twelve-thirty when he met the copper magnate; it was three in the morning when they separated. They did not meet again until one day last week when Colonel Jackling, just before leaving for Alaska, took the private elevator to the twelfth floor of the St. Francis and inspected the apartment in the new wing which Marks had just finished preparing for his tenancy. ten-ancy. In that conversation of two hours and a half which the millionaire and the architect had in Colonel Jackling's private car, Theodore Marks learned for the first time that Jackling was to have an apartment in the St. Francis Hotel of San Francisco; that he had chosen Marks as the proper man to design it for him; and that he wanted him to set to work at once. Marks also learned in a general way what sort of rooms would suit Jackling. For the rest, he was given carte blanche. Thereafter Jackling went about his business and his pleasure, never troubling his head as to what Marks was doing. And as I have said, they met again only last week wher Marks' work was completed. That is the way Colonel Jackling does things. He picks out the best man to do his bidding, and trusts him to do it in a thoroughly satisfactory way. Theodore Theo-dore Marks showed me through the magnificent Jackling suite the other day, and I asked him what Jackling had said when he inspected it. "Very little," said Marks. ' He is a man of few words. But I am given to understand that if he had been displeased he'd have had a great many forcible things to say." A Homelike Hotel Suite. From vhich it may be inferred that Colonel Jackling is pleased with he apartment he will occupy when he returns from his present trip to Alaska. Well, I cannot imagine anybody not being pleased with it. "I have had two things in mind," said Theodore Theo-dore Marks as he showed me the apartment. "First of all, to design a refined home for a gentleman; then to prepare it in such a way that it would look as though it had been lived in the day Colonel Jackling took possession." Certainly the architect has accomplished his purpose. This hotel suite could not be carped at by the most exacting esthete, and there is a surprising absence of that tone of newness which usually disappears from a home only after af-ter a considerable period of occupancy. I say "a home" advisedly, for there is no hotel note in this splendid suite. It is so cunningly laid out and so tastefully decorated and furnished that one easily forgets that it is located on the twelfth floor of a hotel. A Place of Entertaining. I shall not attempt a detailed description of the fourteen or fifteen rooms in Colonel Jack-ling's Jack-ling's new home. The drawing room, the dining room, the card room with the stage for theatrical theatri-cal entertainments of which we have already heard a good deal the beautiful vista down the long hall way one enjoys from the drawing room, the bed rooms and guest chambers I haven't space enough even to describe the rugs, the tapestries, the books, the pictures and the countless objects d'art which make all these apartments charmingly homelike. On his paintings paint-ings alone Colonel Jackling has evidently spent .a great deal of time and money; in fact I gather that he has been an enthusiastic and discriminating discrimi-nating art collector for a long time. But what impresses one in going through these rooms, and what will greatly interest Colonel Jackling's friends in this city is that this is a home splendid-(Continued splendid-(Continued on Page 1G.) COLONEL JACKLING'S APARTMETNS (Continued from Pago 11.) ly adapted for entertaining. Tho living rooms seem to have been designed and furnished for the comfort of those little coteries into which a large party almost inevitably breaks up when all are thoroughly congenial and having a good time. Ono can imagine a little knot of guests gathered about the piano, another grouped about a smoking smok-ing table, a tete-a-tete proceeding nicely on a comfortable lounge in the hall, and so on. In fact one can read quite plainly Colonel Jack-ling's Jack-ling's intention to become a noted host in San Francisco. Town Talk. |