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Show EUROPE'S ART TREASURES, M Oar Mllilonalrea Haying th. tlaat ot H tha Wond'a Sloff H The Importation of foreign antique H for 'rich Americans Increases every) BBS year, Tho custom house official! wilt H tell you to, and the bric-a-brac col- H lectors echo the assertion. What, with BBB their fortunes and their determination H to own what Is best, our millionaires H so far outbid all ambitious European BBB buyers ot tho sales that by and by H very few of the really good antique H will be loft on the other tide. In ox- H empllfleatlon ot this was a recent In- H ttrestlng duel played between Lord H Ilotebery and Mr Berwlnd ot New BBV York over a desk ot richest Inlay ones H used by Napoleon, Lord Iloscbery It BBh a rich man, but tha American capped BBb every bid till the earl could not follow BBb his rlrar, and reluctantly let tbe desk BBb go. Tho other collectors felt, as Lord H Kosebery asserted, Jhat tho Americana BBj aro grasping everything, Benjamin BBa Cable, the wealthy ex-congressman, B who Is preparing to build In Washing- BBg ton a copy ot a Parisian hotel of tho BBb Louis XV. period, has purchased for BBl Its Interior adornment a perfect ex- BBl ample ot the Louis Qulnto decoration BBl In Venice. Though ho buys this great BBa Venetian palace, ho proposes to "use a BBl halt of It only. All the Inside walla BH UI bo aaratulty alUod out brought. BB over and applied to the Washington BH house, Mr. Cable Is not experiment- Ing; old Dutch and English houses, BBJ Flemish ceilings and English stair- H ways are brought over whole or la H part every year. M To propose to her husband that sho H would like to Import a palaco Is no BBJ unusual whim. Mrs. Forbcs-Lellb, H whose husband Is one of the great M western tteel manufacturers, procured; BBJ the walls, stairway and floor for the, BBJ halt In her splendid bouse on Park' BJ avenue. In New York, from the home B ot a Dutch nobleman. Our wealthy BBJ ambassador to Italy, Oen. Draper, has M purcbaaed a magnificent room In th H famous Borghesl palace In Home. Hla BBJ purchase Includes not only tbe tapes- M tries and furniture In It, but the floor, BBJ celling, wall, doors, window casements, H chandelier and fireplace. J J, Van H Alen, In his Elizabethan house In New- H port, bas Imported room after room H for tbe lovely mansion, as ho was ablo M to find what ho wanted In Elizabethan; BH houses abroad and could arrange to, fl purchase. Bo far as the Interior shell M of the houso goes, It Is as genuine and" BBJ at old as Cbarlecole park Itself, This BBJ Is all perfectly done, because there aro jBJ men In Europe who understand to a BJ nicety tbe art f dismantling ancltnt BBJ buildings, pscklng all tbe parts and H setting them up ngtn, while as to the H price, our mllllonqlrc are able to at H tend to that. BBJ |