Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-29
Ogontz-Pen Picture OF Jay Cookies
Late Home.

Late Home.
Beginning on Monday the furniture Of Jay
Cooke WIS sold at his late home, "ogontz, A
Philadelphia Times reporter thus describes the
interior OF the building
Built of light gray stone, il rises, in the CEN
trs part, to height OF three stories and is sup
ported by three wings Of two high stories each,
the space between the north aud south Wings
being covered with a roof of glass, forming a
conservatory, in which are blooming the choic-
est flowers. There is pleasing irregulauty
about the whole place, which is increased when
the visitor finds that the main tower, the central
front OF the building, though apparently three
stories high without, measures five full stories
within, with high ornamented ceilings. and an
iron or stone yerandah to almost every window.
Once inside the door, and everything shows un-
mistakably the presence Of d fat purse
and the disposition to draw on it freely.
The main hall, which is entered through
the wide, heavy carved front door,
Is almost, 81 one OF the visitors remarked yester-
day, q" wide enough to turn coach and six in
As you step over tue sill you sink inches deep,
seemingly, into the brilliant carpet that covers
the floor. You cannot hear anybody step, and
the further in you 20 tho deeper you seem to
sink. On both sides OF you, quite through to
the other end OF the house, are rows and tiers of
exquisite oil paintings hiding the walls, and al
most. some OF them, STOPPING down to speak TO
you, 0le of the most ife-like 81 those is a
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Another represents fire on the prairie, a great
sheet of flame, with beautiful edging of black
smoke. On the left is a handsome hat rack in
the form of a steer head, carved in walnut,
with two genuine horns. just over your
head ss YOU enter the front door is carved
black walnut platform, with an expensive rail-
ing, and this is the laudag that you hrst reach
when YOU go up the wide main stairway. But
you don't reach the landing till you have passed
on the way up a real bronze deers head, a bronze
urn, two walnut pedestals and one OF Rogers
groups of statuary. The second story, like ali
OF the stories above it il one of the best places
in the world to get lost in. 1t s full OF long en-
| tries and winding stairs and unexpected Corners;
and when you once turn one of these corners
| look to the fates and good guide to get back
| again One Of the side rooms in this story was
| Mr.. Cookies private Office. 1t was handsomely
fitted with leather covered furniture, chairs, ta-
| bles and desks. On an open desk, yesterday, lay
| an excellent ambrotope of DR.. Kane the Arctic
explorer. Immediately above this office in the
next story is the billiard room, where still stands
| fine table, supplied with roundest of balls
| and gilded cues to play them with. The furnish
| ing Of the second and of.eyery subsequent story
| is fully on par with that of the great entrance
| hall Paintings are everywhere and statues and
mirrors. The cstaogued list Of single cham
| bers contents is sample Of the whole ''Snt
of carved walnut chamber furniture, silk terry
walnut COUCH four walnut chairs, walnut rock
er, two walnut reception chairs, walnut oval CEN
| tire table with Italian marble top, walnut towel
| rack decorated china toilet-ware, composition
| group, Joe's Farewell, two decorated French
china mantel vases, French plate rnantel mirror in
walnut and gilt frame, 63 by sc inches, suit lace
window curtains with gilt coruices, two suitr
| blue silk terry window curtains, with silk cords,
tassels and cornices." That's all. On the out
side everything is on the same scale gray
| stone palace for the horses, long stretches
| of hot-houees. stone balconies, stone walks,
| and long shaded lanes over the overhanging
| trees. One of the longest, and shadeat, and
prettiest of these leads down a gentle slope,
| over q rustic stone BRIDGE past shaded pond,
| and ends in front of magnificent white mar
| bic mausoleum, almost hidden beneath the
| weeping willows and towering chestnut trees
| 1t is white marble all ovor, foundation, walls
| and roof and through the latticed iron door the
| visitor may see that in six Of the twenty spacet
] are buried the father, the wife and several OF
| the children of the overthrown banker. This
| is the saddest sight of all the sad scenes thai
must ensue when homo ID broken up anG
| strange hands are laid upon everything and the
| visitor turns away feeling that
1.-The paths OF glory lead but TO the ave
aud not always to nearly so comfortable gray,
either Sitting i'll the conservatory. and looking
due east up a long gravel walk, bordered by
flower bedl shaped like stars, and oyals, anC
| crosaes relieved here and there BY rtiat
| fountain and snowy swan Is an imitation of
| ruin. The builders art has been called on t,
| initiate an old stone building rapidly falling t.
| pieces, aud lie has succeeded we'll. Within it
uncovered walls is a reservoir from which Tia
house was supplied with water.