Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 44, 23 December 1910 — Page 2

THE RICHMOND PAWlADIU3I AND SUX-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23,

CLARK'S PALACE 1017 COMPLETED

It Has 12! Rooms, 31 Baths and Four Picture Galleries as a Chaser. TAXES $200 PER DAY It Is a Peculiar Looking Pile and the Architects Are V Roasting It. New York, Dec. 2fl. The'lt.OOO.OOO Fifth avenue residence of ex-Senator William ' A. Clark of Montana, has been completed after eight years' of work, and will be occupied early In the new year. It Is said to be the costliest residence ever built In America, and perhaps the costliest private house In the world. The taxes assessed on It by New York City mount to more than $200 a day. The mansion contains 121 rooms, thirty-one baths and four picture gal leries. No building in the world, ac cording to experts who have Inspected the Interior carries as much bronze as has been worked Into this mansion. Although the best architects and decorators in this country were em ployed. Senator Clark himself designed much of the Interior, as well as the exterior of the mansion. The building contains one of the largest pipe organs In the world, which was Installed at a cost of $300,. 000. There are $$2,000,000 worth of pictures and $500.000 . worth of rugs. Its Style Criticised. During the years the Clark mansion lias been growing towards completion It has been the subject of many critl rlsms as being the "last word" In ostentation. The "tower" that looms up above the side facade has been the esoeclal butt of attacks. "A more fa tuous and .meaningless feature than this steeple," writes an architect, "would be Impossible to find even In the wildest vagaries of our domestic architecture. It Is entirely without architectural relation to anything else In the building. It Is devoid of apparent use' as of meaning or beauty. No human creature can decently pre tend to admire anything about It. The same architectural critic compares the stone cutting with the fortified palssos of Venice. "The ferocity of the stone cutting is In fact, so unmitigated that the basement seems to have had aa Its prototype rather a log house than any extant construction of masonry. "A certified check to the amount of all thts stone carving, hung on the outer wall, would serve every artistic purpose attained by the carving itself. Pine View from "Steeple." 1 The much criticised cupola, or steeple, consists of a white granite tower, decorated with bronze, and surmounted by an open loggia which rises 163 feet above the street and two hundred feet above sea level. From, the cupola a wide expanse of Central park Is seen to tho west, with the Hudson and the Palisades beyond, while to the touth there Is a flno view of all lower New Lork and the bay. Beneath the lower portion of tho tower Is placed the conservatory, which projects over Seventy-seventh street In a circular bay, while beneath It Is the porte cochere. ' On the ground floor are the reception room, private office, billiard room and smoking room of Senator Clark. On the principal floor, the first floor above the ground floor. Is the grand aalon. North of the main staircase Is the music room. On each side of the gtuslo room Is a picture gallery. The rooms on the main floor are Snlsbed la painted, carved and gilded woodwork. The dining room Is dec orated with Normandy stone and English oak. The hall of the main stair tut la built of cream white Maryland marble. How Ha Got Material. - In order to build this house Senator Clark purchased six great Industrial plants, Including a granite quarry at North Jay, Me.: marble working, wood working and plaster working plants at Ravenswoon, L. I.: a atone finishing plant at Bangor. Me., and the Henry Uonnard bronge foundry in New York, Senator Clark was forced Into buy Ing up these plants when he found that the various corporations and firms working for him were charging him much more than he was wilting to pay or aubjectaing him to great delays. There are about one million pounds of bronse In the building. j. Transported Chateau Celling. In France Senator Clark came across a chateau which had a wonderful cell ing and elaborately carved, .wood, lie bought the chateau and transported the celling to New York, where It is used In one of the saloons. The basement, or as many persons would vulgarly term it, the cellar, of Senator Clark's house is perhaps lt most amaxing feature. It la Infinite ly more luxurious than any other eelcar ever created. Instead of being finished with rough stone and so forth, like other cellars, it Is filled with marble and bronse and hardwood decorations. A modest estimate of Its cost would be f 1.000. Lota of Things In Cells . The architect's plan shows that this cellar contains, among other things, a swimming pool, a Turkish bath, a hot room, a cooling room, a dressing room. brine tank, receiving room, steam room, ammonia condenser, distilling apparatus, brine pump, service eleva tor, passenger elevator, wineroom, tur bine room, reservoir tank and almost endless tanks, storage rooms, heating chambers and fresh air inlets. It need hardly be added that the kitchen is not la the cellar. The most luxurious part of this Wonderful cellar is perhaps! the Turkish hath. The bath. It la said surpasses

la luxury and magnificence the celebrated ones created by the Roman emperor. Nero and Tiberius.

It Is well known that Senator Clark has . planned this wonderful bouse largely with a view of pleasing bis young wife. She was Miss Ada La Cbappelle, the daughter of a FrenchCanadian doctor, who was a friend of Senator Clark's youthful struggling days In Butte, Montana. THIS SCRIBE HAD FRUITLESS CHASE Fails to Learn if Col. Bacon Is Engaged to Widow of E. H. Harriman. New York, Dec. 23. Following the publication of a rumor that he was paying assiduous court to Mrs. Mary Harriman, widow of E. H. Harriman, Colonel E. R. Bacon, a prominent clubman and formerly a member of the law firm of Field, Dorsbeimer, Bacon & Deyo, was very suddenly "transport ed" to Europe yesterday. At his borne, at No. 247 Fifth avenue, a reporter who called to Inquire about the report was told that the Colonel was taking his bath. Ten minutes later the Colonel was reported to bo eating his breakfast. When the reporter returned, five minutes later, he was told that if he would call up on the telephone Colonel Bacon would talk to him. The reporter called up and was positively assured that the Colonel was In Europe. "But you told me he was eating his breakfast a few minutes ago," the reporter persisted. "Well, they eat breakfast In Europe, don't they?" was tho reply, and the receiver was hung up. At. Mrs. Harriman'a home, at No. 1 East Sixty-ninth street, it was said she could not be seen. A butler, however, gave the assurance that there was no truth in the report. "I know about everything that goes on here," he declared, "and if Mrs. Harriman Intended marrying I guess I would know about it" At the office of the Harriman estate, No. 475 Fifth avenue, it was said that nothing was known there of the report. Colonel Bacon Is a bachelor about 60 years old, and has long been a distinguished figure In tho world of affairs. He retired from active practice at the bar in 1888 and became connected with various railroads, including the Baltimore and Ohio. The report grew out of the fact that Mr. Bacon and Mrs. Harriman have fre quently been seen together at art sales. The death of the railroad magnate made Mrs. Harriman one of the rich est women in the world. It is said her friends have advised her to share the heavy responsibilities of managing her huge estate. WARSHIP TO CARRY BODY OF DIPLOMAT (American News Service) Washington, Dec. 23. President Taft's offer of a warship to convey the body of Senor Don Anlbal Cruze, Chlilean minister to the United States to Valparaiso, has been formally accepted by Senor Coucham, charge d'affaires of the legation. The body will be taken from Wash ington about February 1, and will be placed aboard the warship at Hamp ton Roads. From Hampton Roads the ship will proceed around the Horn and will arrive at Valparaiso about the 15th of March. OO

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A PLEA FOR HELP IS MADEjy TAFT President Tells Solons He Wants Laws in Line with His Last Message.

Washington, Dec. 23. President Taft has begun a series of conferences with various Senators and Representatives looking to the formation of a legislative program for the present congress. President Taft has reason to believe that such rapid progress has been made with the big appropriation bills that congress will find Itself in a position to take up at least four of the various subjects of legislation he recommended in his annual message. It Is too early to say upon just what measures the legislative sentiment will crystaliie. The President hopes to take a real holiday following the recess adjournment of congress. All of his family will be at the White House during the holiday season. There is much discussion, both at the White Houbc and the Capitol, over the outlook for the Administrator's program. The President has indicated his strong desire that as many as possible of the measures he recommended be pressed through congress without delay, in view of the coming change of political complexion of the House. It is in accordance with this policy that the appropriation bills have been rushed unprecedently. No conclusions have been reached as to the order in which the program will be brought up in 'congress, but the regular Republicans have warned the insurgent members of their party that they must accept the onus if they put any obstructions In the way of the proposed Republican legislation. The mail subsidy, the Tariff Commission plan for collating and assimilating and tolls and a bill to regulate the Issuing of Injunctions in equity without notice in accordance with the best practice in vogue in the United States Courts are all matters upon which the President especially wanted action. Congress adjourned for the holiday recess yesterday, until January 5. Lit tle business was done In either House owing to the difficulty of keeping enough members in their seats to insure a quorum. Those Roosevelt Tours. A determined fight will be made by Representative Rainey of Illinois, one of the Democratic leaders, to bring the question of Former President Roosevelt's traveling expenses square ly before congress. One of the stock holders of the Southern railway to-day wrote to Mr. Rainey that if Mr, Roose velt had paid for all the transportation furnished him on his orders while he was in the White House, it woud have nwt him 175.000 ran that line alone and Wta furnished Mr. Rainey, he says, Includes an estimate' of $120,000 as the amount that Mr. Roosevelt as a matter of right owes the Pennsylvania rail road. Mr. Rainey's recent resolution de manding information as to all of Mr, Roosevelt's traveling expenses' while he was President has brought oat a large correspondence, including let ters from a number of railway stock holders who agree with Mr. Rainey's view that the railroads should not be saddled with the expense of the spe cial trains and special cars. Paraguay Laee. Lacemsklng was taught the natives of Paraguay by missionaries two centuries ago. Today in all towns of 8,000 inhabitants many of the men and nearly all the women and children make lace colllareta, handkerchief and la dies' ties. GroBe&Keocedy 803 r.binSt.

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JUST HALF Thirty Minutes After Getting Divorce, Mrs. White Licensed to Marry. Friday afternoon within thirty min utes after Judge Henry C. Fox of the circuit court had severed the knot which held Prudie White and Charles White in matrimonial bonds, Mrs. White, accompanied by Rollo Wiggans. Urine on North H street, for whom she has been housekeeper for several years, visited the office of county clerk Harry E. Penny and secured a marriage license. They re fused to state who would perform the ceremony but the name of Judge Fox was suggested. This was the quickest action of its kind ever recorded in the Wayne cir cuit court. There have been several instances where divorced persona secured licenses within a week after the time the divorce was granted. Mrs. White, probably Mrs. Wiggans now, in her testimony for divorce declared her first husband was too neglectfulforgetting that bills had been run with the grocer, the butcher and others at Tipton where they lived from December 6, 1905, to February 12, 1906. One day, two months and six days after the marriage, the first husband left the bouse telling his wife that he would look for work, naming a farmer, whose existence was a myth, and since then Prudie White has made her own way .In the world. TEDDY'S SPEECHES WRECKED HER MIND (American News Service) Lawrenceburg, Ind., Dec. 23. Mrs. Christina Ahrens, aged 71, a wealthy widow residing on a farm in Hogan township, has been adjudged of un sound mind, by a board of insanity commission, and will be taken to the new Southeastern insane hospital in Madison, Ind., for treatment. Mrs. Ahrens is a great reader and became deeply interested in the political is sues of the recent campaign. She tried to memorize, it is alleged, the recent speeches of President Roose velt, delivered on his tour in Indiana, and it is believed this caused her mind to become blank. HOTEL GUESTS ARE ROUTED BY BLAZE (American New, Service) Hagerstown, Md., Dec 23. Fire that Btarted in the Fabrney building early yesterday spread to the Franklin hotel. driving the guests into the bitter cold in their nightclothes. Only the heroic work of the firemen saved the entire block from destruction. George W. Riley, a blind man, who was a guest at the hotel, started to carry his trunk down stairs on his back but slipped. The trunk fell on his leg, breaking it The loss is $100,000. Si"

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ORANGES, 30c per Doz. Large, extra fancy Indian River Oranges, regular 40c size, Thursday, Friday and Sat- . urday 30c per dozen. ORANGES, 19c per Doz. ALSO A REGULAR 30c SIZE, same quality as the large ones, 19c a dozen the balance of the -week. FANCY ALMERIA GRAPES, LARGE AMBER CLUSTERS. Tangerines, Grape Fruit, Fresh Cocoa nuts, Figs, Dates, Layer Raisins, all kinds of Nuts, Nut Meat, Candied Cherries, Canned Pineapple, Marlschino Cherries, Washed Figs, Marshmallows, English Fruit Cake, In fact an abundance of everything that's good. Turkeys, Ducks, Geese and Chickens We will have a good supply of the above and will assure you of a good fowl. XK1AS CANDY, 2 lbs., 25c This we mix ourselves. AM Pure Candles, ranging from 15 to 25c a lb. compote this mix; lots of chocolates. If you want as good as the money affords we can give it to you and will appreciate your order. M. G. HADlLiEY Phone 2292. 1035 Main Street

TOMO WL ROW THE LATE BUYER Will find it to his advantage to .-trade at RatliH's Jewelry Store... We will give substantial discounts "on all Comb, Brush and Mirror Sets, Military Sets, Manicure Sets, Back Combs, Belt Pins, La Vallieres and small fancy Clocks. Rogers Triple Plated Knives and Forks at $2.75 per dozen ; also some specials in Rogers Spoons, Pearl Handle KniVes and Forks, and Chests of Silver. Cut Glass Punch Bowls' at less than cost; or If you want a Watch, don't fail to get our prices. ..Raflliffi, The Jeweler.. 12 North Ninth St.

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