Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

chambers in Jermyn street or in locality
that is similarly 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 ex-
pensive. The Frenchmen have great
fancy for creton hangings and white paint
well gilded. The pictures in their rooms
are invariably good, but the decorations do
not display anything like the magnifcence
that prevails in the homes of New York's
unmarried men. think that this is largely
because there are very few confirmed bache-
lors in Paris. Every man in France looks
upon marriage as his fate. 1t is largely
business transaction and he simply waits
until he can make a good bargain. Pend
ing that time he lives comfortably, but does
not invest fortunes in his surroundings.
had breakfast once in Paris with man
whose reputation as a vivier is more than
national. His name has been associated
with those of a number of famous women,
but aside from this phase of his life he is a
promoter of cable companies, man of title,
a member of the Jockey Club and Partisan
to his 6ngertips. He was just the sort of u
man, in fact, that one would expect to find
housed in magnificent fashion. Ifound that
he lived in an apartment on the first floor of
big house on the Boulevard Haussmann.
His stable was in the rear of the house.
There was drawing room, dining room,
two or three 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 apartment, We took breakfast there
at a 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 thousand flats in New York City.
LUXURIOUS BACHELOR.
Yesterday, on the other hand, met man
on Broadway as 1 was walking up toward
home to dinner whom knew slightly, and
who insisted upon my going into his apart
ment for glass of sherry as an appetizer.
His age is about 40 years, his habits are
stocky and methodical and he is noe particu-
larly attractive. We turned into the Metro
politan Opera House building, went up in
the elevator and entered his apartment. The
reception room wasneutral tinted and every
thing was perfectly harmonized. We went
from there into the drawingroom, and for
moment I was astonished. There were
sixty or seventy thousand dollars worth of
paintings on the walls, and the room might
have served fttinglv for the antechamber of
the Gar. Indeed, doubt if the Gar has
so cozy and beautiful an apartment in either
of his places. The room was octagonal. and
in the middle of it was a plush lounge, or
settee, precisely the shape of the room in
miniature. The back rose to marble base,
which was surmounted by superb bronze
water nymph lite-size and wonderfully
graceful 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 decorations of an adjoining room were
quite the reverse of all this. Everything
was blue and gold. The pictures were water
colors, and the panelling of the doors repre-
sented small fortune. Even the furniture
was of the light French pattern. It was
one of the prettiest little breakfast rooms
have ever seen. The gentleman lives
alone in this magnificent place, indulging
his fancies with a lavish hand.
81 do not care to marry" he said in the
course of our short talk. sIt is so much
better this way"
PHOTOGRAPH F1END.
know another bachelor in New York
whose rooms are interesting from the fact
that he has for several years been an indie
fatigable collector of the photographs of
women. All of the photographs which he
has secured in the course of many years ac-
quaintance with the women OF the stage and
of the lesser strata of society are arranged
around his sleeping room in the form Of
deep frieze. There are two or three hundred
of them, and it is the most remarkable col
lection of notable faces that I have ever
seen. The frames are small and precisely
alike, and beneath the pictures is a fantastic
design which merges into a lot of goblins
and sprites painted on the four walls. The
bed is in the middle of the room, surmounted
by a canopy. The face of every famous
woman in the world is to be found in that
collection. Another row of photographs
may be added when the bachelor has col
lected enough.
This particular suite consists of fourrooms
in one of the most pretentious bachelor
apartment houses in New York. The rent
is 5000 a month. The place is furnished
luxuriously. The bachelors only regular
companions are his servant and his dog. He
swears at them with equal eloquehcc and
treats them precisely alike. One day when
1 dropped in there at noon found the oc-
cupant of the apartments still in bed.
"I can't get up yet, he said testify, "be-
cause my servant hasn't come
While he spoke the servant came in in q
breathless and evidently much agitated con-
dition. He was middle-aged parsonage
who has been in his present service for many
years. He apologized for being late and
asked to be relieved at once. He said his
mother was lying ill in st. Luke's Hospital,
and he didn't know at what moment she
might die.
"Well, this is queer sort of a position
for a man to find himself in,' said the
master, looking at the servant solemnly.
''I'm in blue funk. How can dress? 1
don't know where any of my things are"
"I'll lay everything out if you'll let me
go,' said the man humbly.
tsAll right" said the rounder good-na-
turedly after little deep thought. Put the
studs in the shirt and turn on the bath and
I'll have go at it myself"
AN ECCENTRIC FELLOW.
I suppose that there are no men on earth
more utterly lonesome and unhappy than
the bachelors of big town. Everything
goes well with the first 40 years of bache-
lor life, but after he has passed that limit,
the crankiEess he exhibits at all points is
almost beyond belief.
Another bachelor who interested me yery
much in the course of my more or less ex-
tensive acquaintance with New York and
New Yorkers was man who was known by
the name of Mr.. Davis. But Davis was
not his name, because I ran across him
in London once at dinner and he was there
known by his own and entirely different cog
nomen. One summer in New York friend
Of mine went to Europe suddenly two weeks
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