The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-18
IN SINGLE BLESSEDNESS.
Luxurious Quarters In Which New York
Wealthy Bachelors Reside.

The rich bachelors of New York ar,
to my mind the most comfortably ant
luxuriously housed men in the world
| do not know exactly how to accoun
for it. II seems TO me condition O
things which exists only in New York
The London bachelor may be a tremen
dous swell if he is rich, but in nine
cases out of ten he is satisfied with
quiet chambers in Jermyn street or il
a locality that is similarity near the
clubs, while the larger portion of his
income is expended for guns, dogs,
horses and a 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 Croton hangings and
white paint well gilded The pictures
in their rooms are invariably good, but
the decorations do not disply anything
like the magnificence that prevails in
the homes of New Yorl1's unmarried
men. 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 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. / 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
number of famous women, but aside from
this phase of his life he is promoter
of cable companies, man of title, u
member of the jockey club, and
Partisan to his finger-tips. He was
just the sort of Il man, in fact, that one
would expect to find housed in mag
nificent fashion. found that he lived
in an apartment on the first floor of
big house on the Boulevard Haussman.
His stable was in the rear of the house.
There was q 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 u
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
valuable 1t was precisely
like the interior of any one of five thou
sand flats in New York City.
Yesterday, on the other hand, / met
a man on Broadway as | was walking
up toward home to dinner whom l
knew slightly. and who insisted upon
my going into his apartment for glass
Of sherry MS an appetizer. He is the
or junior partner, or some
hing of that sort, in an importing
house on Worth street His age is
about forty years, his habits are stocky
md methodical, and he is not particu-
arly attractive. / had not seen him
or two or three years. and he evil
lently had an abundant fund of gossip.
We turned into the Metropolitan opera
louse building, wentup in the elevator
hid entered his apartment. The re-
eption room was neutral tinted and
very thing was perfectly harmonized.
We went up from there into the draw
ng room, and for moment | was
stonished. There were 100000 or
10000 worth of paintings on the
rails, and the room might have served
ttingly for the ante-chamber OF tho
Ear. Indeed, | doubt If the Car has
0 coy and beautiful an apartment in
ither of his palaces. The room was
and in the middle of it was
plush lounge or settee precisely the .
lape of the room in miniature. The
acl1 rose to II marble base, which was '
by superb bronze water {
ymph, life-size and wonderfully grace !
Il and perfect in outline. There were
,veral smaller bronzes about the room, I
nd all the divans and chairs were built
, that they fitted into certain inches in |
lie wall or corresponded to the general
ontour OF the room. .
The dry goods man lives alone in this /
agnificent place, indulging his fan
es with lavish hand. do not care
, marry" he said in the course of our
lort talk. at is much better this
ay,"-N. Y. Cor. Philadelphia Times.