The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-16
NO LONGER ALL GREEN.
Billiard Tables Now Covered to Match tho
Decorations About Them.

Rich New 1OFkefs now nave the
cloth on their tables 10 match in color
the frescoing of the ceiling and the
furniture of the room. An order OF
thi= kind came from the furniture house
that had the contract 10 furnish Calvin
5. Brice'5 elegant residence in Fifth
avenue. The handsome apartment set
aside for the use Of Chairman Brice's
billiard playing friends was irescoed
in blue and panneled in mating of the
same hue, and, to maintain the harmo-
ny in color, the clOtn, it was reported,
was dyed a dark blue instead OF green,
and the effect is said TO be- decidedly
pleasing to the eye.
The example is being followed now
by other rich house owners. Women
billiard players have more eccentric
whims in this respect than the male
devotees OF the game. A lady who in.
tended having billiard room put into
her new residence near the park saw
veteran John D. UConnor about the
tables fortnight ago He showed her
various patterns all covered in green.
Good gracious; that cloth will never
do" she cried. "Why, it wouldn't
match our ceiling at all.'
Mr.. OConnor playfully suggested
that deal of bother would be saved II
the owners would only remember that
green is the best and most lasting
color; and have their ceiling freocOes
made accordingly. The fair customer
smiled. and finally selected a cloth Of
dark gray hue from sample exhibit
ed on cardboard. Red cloth is ronsid-
crably used now in covering tables,
and yellow is employed, also, in rare
cases to match golden frescOes and
hangings. The climax Of oddity was
reached the other day, though, in an
order received from a large firm 0,
| decorators on behalf Of Il New 10rh
woman OF means who is fond OF fifteen
ball pool. 1t was for the most cE
pensive style of table, to be finished
with a bright yellow cloth, with pork,
cts lined with ycLIo" sLN' anu covers
of Furnished brass. The billiard
table maker would not reveal the
| identity OF the customer for whom the
table was made.
The furnishing Of private bllilarc
rooms is the most profitable OF a.
the work now done by the bllIlaEC
manufacturers. They build table:
nowadays, not from standard designs,
as in former years, but from specI"
patterns designed by the furniture
contractors, calling for the
most elaborate and costly cary
ing and finishing. For years the table
built for Patti, and now in the billiard
room at her castle tralg-y-Nos' II
Wales, was considered the most mag
niicent in the world. 1t cost 5000
and was finished in satin-wood and
other costly woods. Exquisite hand
painted panels and tile work OF mothe
Of pearl helped to make It's sides thing
of rare beauty. But it has been sur
passed in costlines4 and exquisite linist
in the tables built for certain Amerl
can miIlionaires. 4 famous New lort
art decorator received an order for {
table that is to cost 5000 when com
pleted. 1t is to be finished IN ivory
with blue trimmings, and the cushion
rails are to be inIaid with ivory anc
blue jewels. The cloth is being woven
in Brussels. The table is for the wife
OF a New York millionaire.
The popular taste now demands an
tique oak of exquisite carving for the
body of the table. The pretty ginger
bread work of pane-ing and tillng that
was the rage few years ago has been
almost entirely banished. The etfec'
OF the rich carvings and old OAK
appears to be more captivating
to the eye of the wealthy bill
lard players OF to-day. The billiard
table OF famous millionaire IN Flitt
avenue, near the cathedral, is OF an
tique oak, and is set in room that il
finished in the Moorish style with an
amazing splendor Of decoration. The
walls are set with tiles brought from
Spain, and the .nantels are Of Mexican
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