The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-03-10
MN. VANDERBILr's NEW HOUSE.
The Recent RsseptiOn In It and what II
LOOkl Like.

| Looks Like.
NRw YoRK, March 9.-The other after
noon Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt gave q recep
ton in his new house in Fifth avenue, ant
for the tlrst time the interior, fully fitted VI
with all Its furniture, carpets, and It's va
rious ornamentations, was open to guests
Nothing can equal its magnifcence in q
decorative sense, All that an endles.
purse could command isvEsible in the orna.
mentAtion, and the great terupitrs Oesraui
Of France could not have surpassed in the
In the splendor Of their mansions this
Vanderbilt mansion. They might have
raised q lottier structure, built higher gal.
leries, given 70 architecture more grandiose
proportion, but, as far as the art Of decora.
ton goes, they would have failed had they
attempted to make their hotels more or.
nate.
The most carefully selected woods,
elRborAtely carved and contrasted as to
shades, form portion Of the interior or
namentation. Room after room follows
on each story, where the ceilings are
painted, where marbles OF all colors are
applied, or delicately tinted glass Is in
crusted on the walls In the drawing
room there Is pale pink damask all
heavily embroidered in gold bullion, and
there are mother.of.pearl butterflies on the
wall covering There are plinths OF that
Mexican marble Of delicate color and quiet
gloss which assorts with the general feel.
ing Of the room. In the corners OF this
drawing room arc four figures in Rilded
metal holding glass urns, through which
the light filters. These forms are made up
OF innumerable pieces OF glass Of quiet
color, which rather subdue the light than
otherwise. On one side Is the dining room,
most elaborate in its fitting. There Is a
Chinese room alongside OF this, with orna.
mentations in keeping with the peculiari.
ties Of the style. Differences OF color are
evident in every room. There are blue,
green and maroon colored chambers, all
equally gorgeous. Scattered throughout is
furniture Of the most sumptuous and elab-
crate character. To see it all at once is 10
dazzle perhaps even the most comprehen-
siye OF critics, Wonderful skill seems to
have been shown by the designers and dec
orators. There is nothing exactly loud, or
anything which "swears." Still, the effect
Is crushing. Eyes distended to their ut
most are palled, as the gustatory sense
IS sometimes cloyed by everlasting.
One longs to find out II there
Is not one single room where
there might be found some repose. The
marvellous effects OF the modern stained.
glass worker has been taxed everywhere
to its utmost. There is one lovely room,
where the wallsar covered with glass Of q
delicate neutral tint. The plastic material
bad rosettes imprinted on It, which show
dAintily, but without too much glitter,
through the thickness Of the glass. It is
impossible even for the most captious OF
observers not to be delighted as new effect
after new effect rises before the vision. It
IS the fault Of this prosaic age that the
fairy visions oil ones childhood lose their
gleam and sparkle rs years advance. Had
Alladin's Palace been built to-day, there
would have been many men vino would
have gone mad had they been forced TO
live init
On the floors were stretched Persian and
Turkish rugs ofgreat thickness, and modern
carpets, assorted carefully as to colons, still
ed the noise Of thousands Of footsteps,
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It was composed Of many colored woods,
following intricate patterns. An artistic
hand had been at work, and here and
there were strewnI about in a natural way
women's work. A basket had its colored
crewels, workbox its humble silver thin
Bile. These seemed to have been put
there to recall this 10 the guests that the
house was inhabited by ordinary mortaIs,
and that even clothes were mended some
times, and the possessor Of all these splen-
dors sometimes wanted button sewed on.
In almost every room there was Cabi-
net on whose shelves were stored the
quaintest and richest OF ornaments. Here
nestled flock Of SAKE and Dresden figures,
not one, but fifty Of them. There were
piled up japanese ivories, curious, and fine
oric'a-brac. On mantel-pieces were 0rien.
"a! urns, all enameled, and cloisonee on
Others, precious vases OF the costly pate sur
pate. An inventory Of all these separate
onamentations, hardly appreciable in the
general magniicence, would count up in
the Thousands.