San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-06
WHERE LUNATlc MlLLloNAIRss LIVE.
Several Gorgeous Rooms in the Big
BIoomingdale Insane Retreat.

Several Gorgeous Rooms in the big
Bloomingdale Insane Retreat.
| BEGINNING with the cottage, there are
eleven inmates in it, Each inmate has
| anywhere from one to three private keep
ers, whose sole duty is to watch their re-
| spcctiTe charge day and night.
While the building is called cottage il
| would be no misnomer to call it a man.
sion. 1t is massive three stored brick
structure, with wide verandas, hospitable
entrances and large Conservatives. With
the exception of the iron gratings on the
windows it looks like the country residence
of some merchant prince.
Inside the delusion is carried out. The
floors are polished and waxed. The deco
rations are of massive cherry. The wide
entrance hall has large open fireplace
bordered with costly tiles. The wide stair
case has several large landings, on which
are valuable pieces of bric-a-brac and
statuary.
On the first landing is a beautiful old
standing clock of solid mahogany, fully
eight feet high. The polished floors are
covered with soft and luxurious rugs of
different sizes, spread about so as to create
artistic effects. The furniture is also of
highly polished solid cherry. Paintings,
etchings and engravings. all of bright and
cheerful subjects and extensively framed,
adorn the walls. Everything is spotlessly
bright and clean, and there is not the
slightest sound to be heard.
There is but one popularity noticeable on
entering the hospitable and luxurious hall,
which is fitted up as parlor, and that is
that all the doors opening into it are Kept
locked. The click of these locks is about
all that is heard day and night.
One can pass from this beautifully fur
pished parlor into the dining room just
back of it without locking or unlocking
anything This room is also exquisiteiy
furnished. The massive dining table is Of
highly polished cherry. The chairs are
also of cherry.
The large buffet, laden down with two
score pieces of heavy silver and costly bits
of cut glass, stands just to the right of the
table. In the drawers of the buffet are
kept the massive napkin rings, fine snowy
linen aid other paraphernalia of an elabo.
rately set table. AS in the other rooms,
handsome pictures adorn the walls and
heavy rugs cover the floor.
Passing up the wide staircase another
ROIStOuSly fOOu Is W Ut seen.
1t is called the music room" The furn-
ture in this room is also of cherry, with the
exception of large grand piano, which is
finished in dark colored oak Luxuriously
upholstered chairs and lounges are in Il,
corners and hooks of the bright, comfort
able room, and magazines and papers cove
the small tables.
Back of this room and directly above Il.
dining room is the billiard room. 1t has I
large table, withivory balls and inlaid cues
This apartment is fitted up the same as
hundred others in the country club hous
of a fashionable crowd of city men
As on the lower floor opening from these |
two general rooms are apartments, the doors |
of which are kept locked night and day
On the third floor the apartment directly |
above the music room is fitted up as sit. |
ting room, and is furnished in accordance |
with the elaborate character of the rest OF |
the house, New York Journal,