Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-06-22
f.uxuI Hes. Quarters In Which New York;
MeaIIhx Rache lnrs Keaidc

wealthy Bachelors Reside,
The Hith bachelors of New York are
20 my A;lnd the most comfortably and
,uxuri b,nsif housed men in the world.
don BIT h,tbw exactly how to account
things which exists only in New York.
The kond0l bachelor may be a tremen-
1ous SVEN if he is rich, but in nine
cases out of ten he is satisfied with
1uiet chambers in Jermyn street or in
! locality that is similarity near the
clubs. while the larger portion of his
tneOane is expended for guns, dogs.
horses and house or shooting box
somewhere in the country. In Paris
the apartments of bachelors are nearly
always pretty and tasteful. but seldom
expensive. The Frenchmen have a
great fancy for Creton hangings and
white paint we'll gilded. The pictures
in their rooms are invariably good, but
the decorations do not disply anything
like the magnifcence that prevails in
the homes of New York's unmarried
men. | think that this is largely be-
cause there are very few confirmed
bachelors III Paris. Every man in
France. looks upOn marriage as his
fate. 1t is largely a business trans
action. and he simply waits until he
can make good bargain. Pending
that time he lives comfortably, but
does not invest fortunes in his sur
roundings, | had breakfast once in
Paris with a man whose reputation as
viveur is more than national. His name
has been associated with those of
number of famous women, but aside from
this phase of his life he is promoter
of cable companies, a man Of title,
member of the jockey club, and a
Partisan to his tinger-tips. He was
lust the sort Of man, in fact, that one
would expect to find housed in mag
nifcent fashion. | found that he lived
in an apartment on the first iio0r of
big house on the boulevard Haussman.
! His stable was In The rear of the house.
| There was u drawing-rOOm, Il dining
room, two or throe bedrooms, and
then a long passageway at the end OF
which were the servants quarters and
the kitchen. The dining-room was the
! most pretentious room in the apart,
ment. We took breakfast there at n
table that would Accommodate about
| ten guests, The decorations were in
blue and gold, The table was oval, to
match the room; the chairs we're oak
| and the hangiags neither notable nor
! particularly valuable. 1t was precisely
| like the interior of any one Of Ave thou
sand flats in New York City,
Yesterday. on the ather hand, | met
a man on broadway as | was walking
up toward hoTe 10 dd din 4 " " hui{fT
lxne&-sff9Hfly, and who insisted upon
/ my going into his apartment for glass
/ Of sherry as an appetizer. He is the
manager or Junior partner, or some
thing of that sort, in an importing
house on Worth street His age IL
about forty years, his habits are stocky
| and mcthodcal, and he Is not particus
| larly attractive. had not seen him
| for two or three years. and he EVIL
| IDENTITY had an abundant fund of gossip,
| We turned into the Metropolitan opera
| house building, went up ii the elevator
and entered his apartment, The re-
| ception room was neutral tinted and
every thing was perfectly harmonized.
| We went up from there into the draw
| ing room, and for a moment | was
astonished. There were 100000 OF
| $40, 000 worth Of paintings on the
walls, and the room might have served
| fittinrly for the ante-chamber of the
| Gar. Indeed, doubt If the Gar has
40 coy and beautiful an apartment IN
| either Of his palaces. The room was
octagonal and in the middle of 1t was
plush lounge or settee precisely the
! shape Of the room in miniature. The
| back nc, e to marble base, which was
surmounted ny superb bronze Watel
| uymnb. life-siZe and wonderfully grace
full and perfect IN outline, There welf
several smaller brOnzes about the room,
| and All the divans and chairs were bulll
30 that they fitted into certain inches 10
the wall or correspondent to the general
| contour Of the room.
The dry goods man lives alone i'll this
magnificent place, indulging his fan
cies with a lavish hand. do not care
to marry" he said in the course OF our
short talk. 1T is much better this
way, IN. Y. Cor, Philadelphia Times.