Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-08
LUZURIHS OF RICH MEN.
How Our Cresuses Get Rid of Their
Incomes--A. 7. MitcheIfs 5000
Oranges and Crning's Flowers.

O!diiSeS diiu VuiliflS SrfUWeTS.
Jay Gould's Seventeen Green HouseI
and Bob CARROTS Regal Bath Tub
Ths Bathrooms Of Famous Men.
millionaire walters and His Art Collec
ton, and Senator Tabor's $500
Night shirts.
copyright, 1857, by the Author
Since the time wien Caligula shod hi!
horses with gold and fed them in marbl,
troughs, the worlds rich men have no
spent money more lavishly than they d.
to-day. Their wives wear diamonds
worth kings ransom, and have de
tectives to follow them to protect theil
Jewels. Their tables boast dinners as
extravagant as those of Apicius, and theil
very dogs wear Slo0 collars. Their sta
bles are more grandly furnished than
were the residences OF the mobiles of 2Oe
years ago, and they hang the walls
OF their houses with pictures which
cost more than the Presidents salary
The Vanderbilt galleries OF paintings
were estimated to be worth more than
81 ZOO, 200. 600, and there areleighty rich
families in New York who boast private
collections of pictures, eaeh Of which will
average more than 100000 in value
Alexander L. Mitchell married off q niece
shortly before he died, and the wedding
cost him $500 His SON paid, not long
ago, SIS. 900 for single picture. and his
wife, having once sent him
some fruit from the family orange
grove in Florida, he remarked,
as he looked upon the oranges, thst they
ought to be good, for they cost him 5000
apiece. Yet this man Mitchell came to
this new world poor boy, and 1t was
economy, added to good investments, that
made him wealthy. He believed in get
ting the good Of his millions, and he had
before he died one of the most comfort
able homes of the country. His table was
laden During the winter with pineapples,
strawberries and grapes, and his house
WAS decorated with the rarest flowers
from its large conservatories.
A. T. Mitchell had his special car. ard
this Is q form of luxury which is very
common among the mlllionaires of TO-
day. These cars cost all the way from
$4,000 to 100000 apiece, and there are
ABOUT 200 OF them now in the United
States, representing value of nearly
S5,000.000. The president of every rail-
road has his private car, and President
Cleveland took his wedding journey to
Deer Park in the car of Robert Garrett.
His western trip was taken in Pullmsn's
private coach, and he lived more COM
fortsbly On the rosd than In the hotels.
Senator Stanford goes across the con-
iinent in his own conveyance, and Jay
Gould travels in the same way.
These cars are email houses upon
wheels. They have bedrooms, elegantly
furnished p2rlors, buffers pantries and
kitchens. Their interiors are finished in
costly woods, artisticslly carved aud
richly inls,d, and velvet curtains, Wilton
carpets snd embossed velvet furniture
form part OF their makeup. The sides
of some Of these cars are Almost entirely
of plate-glass, and one can recine and
view the scenery IS he gees across the
country without any obstruction TO the
eye. Some millionsires rent special cars,
and there are cars which rent ct from
$50 to S75 day, not including the fare
of the railroads over which they go. This
rent includes the servants and the farni-
tura.
The modern yacht is still more costly
than the private car. and much more
fashionable. The millionsire's yacht
CT SITS ali the way from $4,000 upwards,
and yachts which cost over 500, 0G0 are
not uncommon. Gould paid more than
this for his yacht, the Atslants, and the
wages of the men employed upon her cost
him $3.50 month. In addition to this,
the running expenses Of the yscht are,
when Gould is upon her ON $50 to $40
q day, and among the employees ara two
walters, two maids, BAKER and
four cooks. 1t req1ires fifty two
men to run the yacht and it's interior is
furnished, the finishing being
made OF inlsnd maple, butternut, CEDAR
and native hard woods. Some of the
rooms are finished in mahogany and an
estimate CT the total cost Of runninaffhs.
vessel is $400 day. II
These yachts are supplied with every
comfort, even to fine libraries andpfenos
and the music CT some mill onaires is
very costly. Henry Msrquand is reported
So having recently bought piano which
cost $50 600 and Jay Gould lst ~ bought
one which cost $4,000 Judge Hilton, A.
T. Stewards executor, owns ? S2500I
piano and C P. Huntington owns one 81
The same value as that of Gould.
The exuavagancies Of the ulip mania
n Holland were not greater than that OF
sopoc of the flower crezes of some of our
rich men. We read OF 5000, 900 worth Of
orchids beng sold at auction, and among
he nillionaires who spend part of their
,u,p.us income Ia flower, is Ecastus
Corning, Of New York. He has thou
) snds CT these choice plants, and some OF
hem cost several hundred dollars apiece.
His gardener offered $500 for an orchid
~ Mrs. Morgan's auction, but . flower
'.ncier from New Jersey oVerbid him
s400 and got the orchid fer $500 Erastus
Con ning's green. houses cover about two
scres, and MS gardener has been in his
employ for thirty years. He Knows all
sbout flowers. and it costs Corning 8
good salary to keep him His fowers are
IF all KINDS, and he raises oranges, lem
ms and bananas in these greenhouses
He has all kinds of tropical plants, and
BE welcomes visitors to his establish
ment.
JAY Gould has seventeen greenhouses,
md beds Of flowers Of all kinds are scat
tered about the conservatory. He keeps
his p ant collections perfectly classified,
,nd q man doesn't nee to carrV bot
shy book along with him to tell the names
D. the plants he locks st. His fern col
/ ction is especially flne, aud he has Or
chi Is Of many varieties. It Is the same
~, tn Hoey, who has the noted summer
,osfdenne at T,nnp Rrench where