Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-08

| ted. Senator Palmer. the million ire
statesman from Michigan, has nine bath.
rooms in his Washington home, aud
|, Henry Mareusnd has q bathroom whic l
cost $4,000 Its walls are wainscoted
With cream colOred tiles. The ceiling i:
frescoed rs summer sky, and the msr-
BILE bath is sunk down deep iuto
the lcor and reached By several steps.
William 81. Vanderbilt had bathroom
panelled IN mirrors, so that when
be bared his skin he seemed 10 be
ten millionaires, and might hope to spend
8 part OF his immense income Bis son.
William Z Vanderbilt, had also bath
room walled with looking glasses, snd
upon these were painted apole blossoms.
The bath was solid block of m.role, az d
above 1t was niche filed with q marble
Venus apparently preparing to Jump In.
J Another fine bath room was that of the
late millionaire Osborne, richly finished
in Limoges tiles and elegantly decorated.
! Its bath was porcelain lined, and the pic
lures on the wall were Venus with LoyeS
at fountain. Nearly slI these noted
bath rooms are lined with mirrors, and
there is bath room in New York which
looks like q cave Of white marble. Its
walls, ceiling and bath are all of marble,
and the only variations Of tint sre in the
silver fixtures.
Oae Of the most extravagant collections
OF paintings in the United States is that
of the millionaire Walters of Baltimore.
Its value Is at least Sl,0tO, 900, and che
collection OF japanese china and other
porcelain is more than 100000. The
Peach Blow vase and some of the pictures
are worth several times CoDgressman's
salary. The collection is museum, sud
it contains more than 1000 objects. The
first $500 Walters ever made ne spent for
q picture. He has been addiog to hls
collection ever since, snd it is in Lent, l
think, that ne throws his galleries open
to the public.
Speaking OF the rich men of Baltimore
reminds me of Thomas Winsas, the
father OF Ross Winans, whose big house
still hiss its high brick wall around It.
Winans was lover of art, and he had
filed his large yard with statues. The
reignbors complained to the City Council
that the nude statues were Objectionable
to them, and the old CIe,us at once
hired all the idle brlcklayers ne could fl I'D
and built high wall around the whole
square. The jealous neighbors who had
complained now petitioned Mr..
Winans to take down the
wall and they would say nothing
about the statues, but he told them to go
to, and the wall remained. One of the
California millionsires, l think it vas.
Croker, built big wall near his place TO
shut out the view of an obstrepsrous
neighbor, and one of the United States
senators, who is very rich, had o blank
brick wall built up against his dining
room windows By his next door neighoor
because he did not locate his stable to
suit the msn who D ned him, SO you see
with al their luxurles these milionsires
have their troubles as well, AID ell their
money will not free them from worry.
Speaking of rich men and their works
of srt, recalls the residence of mining
millionaire of Denver, Col. The former
owner of the house had bought msny fin
bronze statues, and the yard was filed
with these.
The miner said he would have go cop
per colored Indians in his Yard, and il
Mercury and Venus were to be shaded by
his trees they should at lesst wesr the
skin of the Caucasian. He thereupon
whiteweshed these statues, snd SO they
:re to this day. Ex-senator TABOR row
occupies the house around which th59
stand, and the property is worth S75 600
One of Tsbor's luxuries ia in q BUSINESS
block which rents for S2S 600 year
Tie legend is that the stone out OF which
this block is made wss carried across the
plain from quarry in which Tabor
worked when he was poor Il cost
$3.50. 900, and pays more than 10 per cent
on the investment. His theater, which
the whole west thought extravaganza
when he built it, cost three quarters of a
million, ana it also pays g good interest.
When Tabor was married the ST cond
time he gave his wife magnificent pres
ent of dismonde, and exhibited to the
newspaper correspondents st Washington
night-sn which cost $500 .piece. The
neck ace which formed one OF his wed
ding presents contained 5000 worth Of
diamonds, aud diamonds are fsvorite
extravaganza of cur public men. Tie
day will come when the families of tn e
American eristocracy will have heirloomsf
of this kind like the nobility of EGgland,
and Mrs. Vanderbilt Istelv wore pearl
necklace which costS150, 600. Mrs.S anftrd
IS said to have 81 600. 900 in diamonds, |
and have seen enough precious s.onesf
At White House reception to fill half
pack measure. FRANK G. CARPENTER.