Arizona republican., 1892-11-30
CELESTIAL SCENERY.
WALTER WELLMAN GOES TO PAR
 ADlSS VIA PULLMAN CAR.

He Visits Bill Nye and George Vanderbilt at AshevilIe-The NIillionaire's MagniH- cent Mansion-No Dude Is Young Van derbIIt--A GIorious Indian Summer. Correspondence of THE REPUBLICAN.
 AsHEvILLE, N. O., Nov. 24.-Until to- day did not know that one could go to paradise via Pullman car. But here am in country which the celestial land scape artists might well initiate, even if they don't.
 It is Indian summer here in the noun tains of western North Carolina. The nights are so cool that one wears an overcoat out of doors, and within draws anigh the big fireplace in which the ash logs are cracking right merrily. The days are deliciously warm, hazy, lan- guid, yet not wearisome. Around the mountain tops is thin bank of blue smoke. The air seems to be all ozone and the sunshine all nectar, and you can't drink in enough of either.
 It is time and place in which to loaf and invite ones soul. You forget the cares of life, its habits and its weak nesses-all save the habit of eating In Asheville your appetite-gross, material and ravenous-will remind you that though this is paradise it is only para disc of the earth earthly.
 Bill Nye, who was once tenderfoot out in Wyoming, has been in the effete east long enough to have his eyeteeth ,.t 10 n xxvt,at Ina sees it, and Bill Nye lives in Asheville, swhere he is the towns most dis tinguished citizen. To look at him in bis pictures one would think he could live without eating, but he doesn't, and he says that while Asheville is a para disc for the poetic man, and the man who loves to get near the great heart of nature, and the lazy man who wants lots of sunshine and lots to do-with colored servitors to do it all-it is also a paradise for man with an appreciative and industrious stomach. Bill Nye has all of these qualifications for residence in paradise, and so he has chosen Ashe- vile for his home.
 Mir. Nye lives like a prince in Ashe- vile, as he can well afford to do upon an income of $25,0O0 a year, the said in come being the funniest thing there is to Nye--in Bill Nye's humor. He has a fine house on the mountain side, beauti- ful grounds, splendid carriage and pair, and so many colored servants that he doesn't have to pull his own boots of. MT. Eye Is the most popular citi- zen of Asheville. When times are dull in the fashionable hotels the community clubs together, gets up banquet to Nye. and, after filling his capacious skin with the good things for which this mountain region is famous, sit and listen to one of MT. Yves speeches. Lucky Nyel To be feted in paradise and to have the floor as long as he wants it is felicity indeed.
 There is another distinguished citizen of the United States who believes this is paradise That is Mir. George Wander. bilt. Perhaps you have read or heard something of the home Mir. Vanderbilt is building for himself here. It is not exactly summer cottage, nor yet a winter lodge. When it is finished and Mir. Vanderbilt has company, there will be no need of any one sleeping on the floor or going out to the barn to bunk.
 Mir. Vanderbilt has more money than MT. Nye, and therefore he is building a larger house than that occupied by the great humorist. Just how large the Vanderbilt house is to be don't know, but got lost in the cellar of it today, and probably should have been there yet if that gallant fellow, Colonel Me Kissick, hadn't rescued me.
 The Vanderbilt house is as yet all eel lar and foundations, and these have cost the snug sum of $450,0 How much will the,house have cost when fnishedi The architects estimates are about $4, O0,000, but I'll wager something that the total runs to $6, 100000.
 George Vanderbilt is millionaire after my own heart. have definitely determined not to be millionaire, but if anything could tempt me to change nay mind it would be chance to emu. late young Vanderbilt's example. This fortunate young man came to Asheville a few years ago hunting and fishing. He fell in love with the country, as every one does. Then he looked around, thought some deep thoughts and said to one of his frionds
 "I have an idea. The greatest trouble with my life is that l have no aim, nc purpose, nothing on which to concen. trate my energies. In the safety deposit vaults in New York have millions of dollars in bonds and securities. When look at them they disgust me. They seem so useless, so unproductive, noth. ing but white and green paper. l can't play with them, work with them, nor do anything with them. They simply worry me, without giving me any pleas. ure in return. Now l am going to make those pieces of paper serve me some use. ful purpose"
 "What are you going to doT'
 "I am going to create right here in Asheville the finest gentleman's seat in the world. It will take me ten years and don't know how many million dol, lars to do it, but it shall be done."
 The foregoing conversation actually