The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-07
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JAY COOKIES GO 4ona usnEe THE
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Inc fn'iad' s.pbis Times reports the sequel
o. reckis IS extravaganza in speculation
sno hviD 2. The sound OF the auctioneer's
hsmme'. rang through the wide balls and
long corridors of jay Cookies magnificent
RESP denee. "Ogontz," yesterday. By order OF
| u o trustee, NJ. Thomas Il Sons began a. ii
| O'clock yesterday morning to sell the
y furniturs and fxings, works OF art,
plants and the entire movable property
connected with this fine country seat. A
rush of visitors, both buyers and sight-seefs,
was expected, aud Extra trains were run To
and from the York road station, and great
six horse coaches were In waiting at the de-
pot to carry the tbrong TO the sale. The
spectators were not disappointed. The ii
O'Clock train from the citv was almost
stripped of its passengers when the old York
road was reached, and each succeeding train
did its share toward swelling the numbers.
The sale was late ss sales always are. end
the curious whiled away the time before the
auctioneeT's 2libtODgue began To rattle, In
| walking about the extensive grounds and in
inspecting
THE INTERIOR OF THE VAST BUILDING,
aud it is we'll worth inspecting. Built of a
light gray stone, it rises, In the central part,
to height of three stories, and is supported
by three wings of two high stories each, the
space between the north and south wings
being covered with a roof of glass, forming a
conservatory, in which are blooming the
choicest flowers There is a pleasing irregu-
larity about the whole place, which Is In
creased when the visitor finds that the main
tower, the central front OF the building,
though apparently three stories bigh
without, measures five full sto-
ries within, with high, ornsmented
ceilings, and an iron or stone versEdah To
almost every window. Once inside the
door, and everything shows Enthusiastically
the presence OF q fat purse and the DISPOSE
tion to draw on IL freely. The main hall,
which Is entered through the wide heavy
carved front door, is almost, as one of the
visitors remarked yesterday, vide enough
| to turn coach and six in." AS you step
| over the sill you sink inches doep, SEEM
ingly, into the brilliant carpet that covers
the floor. You can not hear anybody step,
and the further in you go the deeper you
seem to sink. On both sides of you, quite
through TO the other end of the house, are
rows aud
| TIERS OF EXQUISITE OIL PAINTINGS
hiding the walls, and almost, some of them,
stopping down to speak to you. One of the
most liie-like of these is full-siZe portrait
OF President Grant, life-like, but much too
straight and sober 70 be natural. Another
represents fire on the prairie, a great sheet
of flame, with a beautiful edging OF black
smoke. On the left is a handsome hst-rack
in the form OF a steers head, carved in wal
nut, with two genuine horns. Just over
your head as you enter the front door is
carved black walnut platform, with an ex-
pensive railing, and this Is the landing that
you first reach when you go mp the wide
main stairway. But you don't reach the
landing till you have passed on the way
up real bronze deer's head, al
bronze urn, two walnut pedests.s, and
one of Rogers's groups of ststuary. The
second story, like all the stories above 1t, Ia
one OF the best places In the world to ge:
lost in. 1t is full of long entries and wind
ing stairs and unexpected corners; and when
you once turn one of these corners look to the
fstes and a good guide to get back again.
One of the SIDE rooms in this story was Dir.
Cookies private Office. 1t was handsomely
fitted with leather covered furniture, chairs,
ia bles and desks. On an open desk, yester-
day, lay an excellent ambroLy pc of DR.. Kane,
the Arctic explorer. Immediately above this
ofics 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 furnishing of the second
and every subsequent story Is fully on par
with that OF the great entrance hall.
| PAINTINGS ARE EVERYWHERE,
and statues and mirrors. The catalogued
list of single chambers contents is ssno-
pie of the whole: "Suit of carved walnut
chamber furniture, silk terry walnut couch,
four walnut chairs, walnut rocker, two wal
nut reception chairs, walnut oval cen. er
table with Indian marble top, walnut tewel-
rack, decorated china tableware, compost
ton group, "Joe's Farewell, )" two decorated
French china mantel vases, French plate
mantle mirror In walnut and gilt frame, 81
by So inches, suit lace window curtains with
gilt c)rnices two suits blue terry windo "
curtains with silk cords, tassels aud COR |
nices." That's all. On the outside
everything Is on the sans scale, gray
, stone palace Tor horses. long sire, ehes |
| n halQnuioz afr 10
and long shaded lanes under the ovarhsDg-
ing trees. One of the longest, and shadiest, |
and prettiest of these leads down g gentle
slope, over rustic stone bridge, past shaded |
pond, and ends in front of q magnificent |
white marble mausoleum, almost hidden |
beneath the weeping willows and towering
chestnut trees. It Is white marble all over, |
foundation, walls and roof, and through the
latliced iron door the visitor may ses that In |
six OF the twenty spaces are buried the
father, the wife and several OF the children
ofthe overthrown banker. This is the sad
dest sight of all the sad scenes that must en-
sue when
HOME Is BROKEN UP
and strange hands are laid upon every
thing, and the visitor turns away feeling
that
The paths OF glory lead but to the grave"
and not always to nearly so comfortable a
grave, either. Sitting in the conservatory
and looking due east Up long gravel walk,
bordered by flower-beds shaped like stars
and ovals and crosses, relieved here and
there by rustic fountain and a snowy
swan, is an imitation OF q ruin. The build
er's srs has been called on to initiate an old
stone building rapidly falling to pieces, and
he has succeeded well. Within its ivy-cov
cred walls IL reservoir from which the
house was supplied with water. i
was nearly twelve O'Clock when tibet
| auctiOneerfs voice callgd eyervbOdy to
the dining room, and when the
catalogues were opened, all was ready. At
the head OF the list were "l5 cut-g glass cham
psgnes, "a French-glass champagnes, tall