The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-05-18
IN SINGLE BLESSEDNESS.
Luxurious Quarters in Which New York.
Wealthy Bachelors Reside.

Luxurious Quarters in Which New York's
Wealthy Bachelors Reside.
The rich bachelors of New York are
to my mind the most comfortably and
luxuriously housed men in the world.
/ do not know exactly how to account
for it. 1t seems to me condition of
things which exists only in New York.
The London bachelor may be tremen-
dous swell if he is rich, but in nine
cases out of ten he is satisfied with
quiet chambers in Jermyn street or in
locality that is similarity near the
clubs, while the larger portion of his
income 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 IL
great fancy for Creton hangings and
white paint well 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. l think that this is largely be-
cause there are very few confirmed
bachelors in 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 a good bargain. Pending
that time he lives comfortably, but
does not invest fortunes in his sur
roundings. l had breakfast once in
Paris with a man whose reputation as a
viveur is more than national. His name
has been associated with those of q
number of famous women, but aside from
this phase of his life he is promoter
of cable companies, man of title, Il
member of the jockey club. and Il
Partisan to his finger-tips. He was
just the sort of Il man, in fact, that one
would expect to find housed in mag
niicent fashion. found that he lived
in an apartment on the first floor of u
big house on the Boulevard Haussman.
His. stable was in the rear of the house.
There was a drawing room, a dining
room, two or three bedrooms, and
then 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 II
table that would accommodate about
ten guests. The decorations were in
blue and gold. The table was oval, to
match the room; the chairs were oak
and the hangings neither notable nor
particularly valuable. 1t was precisely
like the interior of any one of five thou
sand flats in New York City.
Yesterday, on the other hand, l met
a man on Broadway as l was walking
up toward home to dinner whom I
knew slightly, 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 is
about forty years, his habits are stocky
and methodical, and he is not particu-
larly attractive. | had not seen him
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IDENTIFY had an abundant fund of gossip.
We turned into the Metropolitan opera
house building, wentup in 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 q moment | was
astonished. There were 5000 or
$4,000 worth of paintings on the
walls, and the room might have served
fittingly for the antc-chamber of the
Gar. Indeed, l doubt if the Gar has
so cozy and beautiful an apartment in
either of his palaces. The room was
octagonal, and in the middle of it was
plush lounge or settee precisely the
shape of the room in miniature. Tho
back rose to a marble base, which was
surmounted by superb bronze water
nymph. life-size and wonderfully grace
full and perfect in outline. There were
several smaller bronZes about the room,
and all the divans and chairs were built
so that they fitted into certain inches in
the wall or corresponded to the general
contour of the room.
The dry goods man lives alone in this
magnificent place, indulging his fam
cies with a lavish hand. do not care
to marry" he said in the course of our
short talk. ut is much better this
way,"-N. Y. Cor. Philadelphia Times.