Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-22

my hard earned money by lie" let
alone thousands of them. with the wives
and little ones to whom death comes as
welcome messenger.
During the excitement over the Sierra
Nevada mining stock, which, in a few
days, rose from 81 to near $500 share,
and then in day, dropped to $50,
beggaring many who had staked their
all and were carrying on margin,
then was a time when, perhaps, James
Flood looked back to the rollicking bar
room days and thought them his hap
piest, for an indignant public felt its
fingers itching to grasp the throat of
the man who, because he could not rule
had determined to ruin.
Somebody, presumed to be well in
formed on the subject, says 1.-THE devil
is not as black as he is painted. So,
perhaps our bonanza bouquet is COM
posed of angels in disguise. their full
grown wings tucked carefully beneath
the fine broad cloth they wear. Their
prayer-books their constant companion,
and their particular mission to scatter
blessings. If blessings brighten as they
take they flight, how jolly will be the
brightness in San Francisco some time
or other.
But the new mansion of James G.
Flood was the subject in hand, and like
Widow Bedott, believe if you have
thing to say. 60 directly to the point.
AS l was a-saying: Mr.. Flood has broad
liberal ldeas-where .'me or my folks"
are concerned he doesn't like his pie
ban neighbors to come too near him !;
he doesn't want curious passers-by star
ing him out of countenance; he hasn't
forgotten the "owld ancestal hall in me
! native land" where there was
"Parlor and kitchen and pantry
! And pg-sty-all in one"
and so he builded with due regard for
his elevation from Jim Flood, B. K,
(Which the same means bar keeper to
James G. Flood, ESQ.,. Bonanza King
alice same B. K, as John Chinaman
would say.
AS was a-saying, James G. Flood,
ESQ.,, B. K. has rather more than twen-
ty-fve feet front, he has-well, figure it
out for yourselves, my arithmetic never
was frst-class. He has house and lot,
the latter containing trife over fifteen
thousand acres; quite slick little gar
den patch, you see, where he might
raise truck" and things. But it ISM
garden seed he is planting-its money,
80 he is not leaving nature unadorned,
but is just putting pretty things all
about his lot. With artificial lakes,
serpentine walks, drives which wind
here and there and everywhere. game
preserves, labyrinths, fountains, terrace
walls, bronzes, statuary, and flower gar
dens fit for the home of fairies, the
groves of trees would feel as if they are
thrown in the shade, were they not toe
old and too magnificent to condescend to
notice interlopers. When California
trees, clothed in all their natural digni.
ty, lift their broad arms toward the sky
they are not easily taken down.
Leaving the lot just as the electric
light changes the whole scene into fairy
land, we will examine the house thereon
1t is of irregular proportions, the
facades being l20 and 2l0 feet respec
lively, with an observatory 100 fee
high. There are turrets and towers
bay windows and veil windows, a fin,
port cochere, a grand, and still grand
er entrance, verandahs 20 feet wide-il
fact, everything which artists could sug
gest to contribute to the grandeur of tn,
building.
, Examining the interior arrangement
/ they prove as excellent as those of tn
} exterior and on the same grand scale
: The basement floor is divided into win
7 cellars, larders, fuel rooms, and has ais
the heating and ventilating apparatus
The ground floor contains the gram
. halls and stair cases, the library, dinin
l and billiard rooms, the conservatory Q
music, dancing rooms, reception an
drawing rooms, smoking rooms, but
, ler's pantry, twenty-four feet square
smaller pantrles, servants offices, etc.
: There are no seven by nine rooms i
e our B. KS mansion, and when on fet
a nights, the entire floor is thrown int
0 one grand room, (as with the exceptio
a Of pantries and servants offices it ca
/; be), the spectacle will be magnifcer
q indeed.
It The picture gallery is on the secon
: floor. This room is lighted by hant
J. somely designed ceiling lights of staine
: glass. The remainder of the secon
e story is divided into boudoirs, que
|. chambers. family rooms, dressing apar
e ments, bathrooms of various kind
), where one may luxuriate in the Turl
i ish or Russian bath, or such an one
J. plain people make use of.
The third floor is designed to furnis
g apartments for the army of servan
/ necessary to keep the wheels of tn