The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-29
TABOR s NEW RANCH.
His Prospective Million Dollar
Mansion at Denver.

Denver Coli News.
Ex-senator Tabor has given up the
idea of building a million-dollar hotel
at the corner of Sixteenth and Arapa-
hoe streets. He no longer has any
doubt that the government building
will be erected there and he is content
with that. Instead of Investing his
money in a house for the entertain
ment of others, he will build one for
the entertainment of himself. Mrs.
Tabor told friend the other day
that the famed palaces of the Cali
fornia bonanzas and the mansions OF
the Stewards and the Vanderbilts
should not be so fine as the house her
husband will build.
The ex-senator is not communica-
tive ON this subject. He doesn't want
to talk about his prospective palace
until his plans shall be more fully ma
tured. At present he has nothing
more than vague but delightful out
line of what his residence shall be.
1t will be built in the middle of a
block of ground covering thirty-two
lots of the regular size. He has his
eve on one of the finest locations on
Capitol hill, and, if he shall set his
heart upon rearing his house there, he
will have ii, whatever the cost may
be. He intends that his residence
shall be to o,her residences what his
tbeater is to other theaters.
The mansion will contain about
thirty rooms, and it will be arranged
much as the dwellings of the ancient
princes were-for the entertainment Of
guests, and to accommodate the far
thest extreme of festivity. There will
be the banqueting halls, long and
wide. each with different furniture
and fittings, which shall be selected
as to serve for any event that is likely
to occur. There will be one room
which can be used for receptions at
tended by more guests than can be
accommodated in the reception rooms
for everyday use. 1t will contain
every beauty which genius can sug-
gest and execute and money pay for.
In the centre there will be a fountain
whose drops of spray. as they sparkle
in the rays of light from a hundred
gas jets, will fall upon the rarest ex-
otics that are known to the hOrticul-
turist. The floor will he q grand mo-
sale of Colorado's most beautiful min
erals, cut and polished by skillful lap
diaries, and arranged in eddand beau
tiful conceits by one o. York's
most noted artists. Thsny who will be
colored in beautiful tint eos the SOFT
swelling dome will seem % e away
in the blue distance of the which
will be there represented. Here and
there in inches gracefully cut will
stand the form of Venus, Psyche
or a Diana, chiseled in the most vir-
gin marble, and these will be relieved
by rare paintings. which shall be exc
cuted upon the walls themselves, not
hung there. Each gas jet will have
prisms of glass 80 arranged upon it
that light of any color can be made to
suffuse the whole room, and to give
the flowing mountain-waters the color
of fair rainbow. At one end of
this room the wall will be so cleverly
constructed as to seem real and solid
like those around it but it will be so
thin that the weakest sound can es-
cape through it. Behind this diapha-
nous partition musicians will, on state
occasions, be concealed. and discourse
sweet music which shall fall upon the
ear like the warbling of hidden birds.
This room will be more than or entail
in its sensuous loveiness and richness.
The sleeping apartments will be en-
suite, and the furniture as truly ele-
CANT as the suggestions of an accom-
plished designer can make them.
There will be every facility for amuse-
ment-a billiard room with its con-
slant attendants. bowling-alley and
a wide lawn-tennis when the weather
will not permit the game to be played
in the level ground prepared for it OH
the grounds outside. The stables will
be on the same scale of elegance
that the house is, and there will be
saddle-borses and driving-horses to
suit the taste of the most fastidious
horsemen. The grounds surrounding
the mansion will, in time, become a
garden of beauty /; and in a park. in
closed in one corner. red deer and
antelope will raise their pritty hesds
aud look, shy curiosity, upon their eur
roundings. In the tower of the house
there will be an observatory fitted
I'D, where one may look miles awav