New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-08-04
4 BONANZA KINGS HOME.
Description OF tho New Palace Of Milo,
0tre Flood.

Description OF tho New Palace of NIillions
atre Flood.
tSan Francisco Cor. Cincinnati Commercially
But the new mansion of James C..
Flood was the subject in hand, and, like
Widow Bedott, l believe If you have
thing to say, go directly to the point.
broad, liberal ideas-when time or my
fo!ks'' arc concerned; he doesn't like
his plcbeian neighbors to come too near
him; he doesn't want curious passers-by
staring him out of countenance; he
hasn't forgotten the 'owld ancestral
hall in me native land" where there
was
Pnrlor and kitchen and pantry
And pig sty-all III one.
And so he builded with due regard for
his elevation from Jim Flood, B. X.
(Which the same means bar-keepcr), to
James c. Flood, Esq, Bonanza King
allie same B. X. you sabe? As was 4.
saying, James C. Flood, Esq, Il. X,
has rather more than IS feet front, he
has-well, figure it out for yourselves,
my arithmetic never was first-class. He
has house and lot, the latter contain
ing trifle over $1,000 acres; quite a
slick little garden patch, you see, where
he can raise sass and things. But it isn't
garden seed he's planting-it's money.
So he's not leaving nature unadorncd,
but is just singing slathers of pretty
artificial lakes, serpcntine walks, drives
which wind about here and there and
everywhere, game preserves, labyrinths,
fountains, terrace walks, bronzes, statu-
ary, flower gardens fit for fairies to
dwell in. The groves of trees would
feel as if they are thrown in the shade
were they not too old and too magnifi-
cent to condescend to notice interlopcrs.
When California trees, clothed in their
natural dignity, lift their broad arms to-
ward the sky, they are not so easily
taken down.
Leaving the lot Just as Edison's cleo
trio light changes the whole scene into
fairy land, we will examine the house
thereon. 1t is of irregular proportions,
the facades being 1870 and 23O feet re-
spectively, with an observatory $50 feet
high. There are turrets and towers,
bay windows and oricl windows, fine
port cochere, grand and still a grandcr
entrance, verandas 20 feet wide-in
fact, every thing which artists could
suggest to contribute to the grandeur of
the building. Examining the interior
arrangements, they prove as excellent
as those of the exterior, and ON the
same grand scale. The basement floor
is divided into wine cellars, larders,
fuel rooms, and has also the heating
AM! vcntilating apparatus. The ground
floor contains the grand halls and stair
eases, the library, dining and billiard
rooms, conservatory of music, dancing
rooms, reception and drawing rooms,
smOking-rooms, a butler's pantry. %
feet square, smaller pantrics, servants
Offices, etc.
There are no seven by nine rooms in
our Il. IS mansion, and when on fete
nights the entire floor is thrown into one
room (as, with the exception of pantries
and servants offices, it can beg the
spectacle will be magnificent indeed.
The picture gallery is on the second
floor. This room is lighted by hand
somcly designed ceiling lights of stained
glass. The remainder of the second
floor is divided into boudoirs, guest
chambers, family rooms, dressing apart
ments, bathrooms, where one may take
a "common folks" bath, or luxuriatc
in the Turkish or Russian process, after
the manner of respectable people,"
The third floor is designed to furnish
room for the small army of servants
necessary to keep the wheels of this fine
establishment creased and in running
order. Slowly descending from tho
heights, the mosaic work of the floors,
the mantels of various colored marbles,
inlaid with onyx, malachite and other
costly stones, the frcscoing of the cell