Arizona republican., 1892-11-30

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 Vanderbilt set about creating the finest estate in the world in systematic manner He employed architects, gar deners, engineers, landscape artists and an army of workmen. His payroll alone is $S,O0O week. About once in six months his hired men, thinking of their employers twenty million fortune, go on strike for higher wages. His man. ager cables for instructions, and the reply always is, "Give them what they ask" So, you see, Vanderbilt is gener- ous as we'll as ambitious, as a young man who has almost million dollars for every year of his earthly existence can afford to be.
 Hundreds of acres are set out to young trees. In this climate all sorts of trees and shrubs, excepting the very tropical, will grow, and Vanderbilt intends add ing to the beauty of the natural forests all varities the world can afford. The greenhouses are to be as large as some of the Worlds fair buildings at Chicago. A herd of eighty fine Jerseys, already on the place, will increase to several hun dreds before their owner is ready to come here to live.
 From the town to the palace site one | of the finest macadamized roads in the world, two miles long and embellished throughout with shrubs, vines and flower plots, has been. constructed. For the transportation of building ma terial railroad of the same length was built, locomotives being used for all but the steepest inclines, where cables are employed. Vanderbilt's private brick yard gives employment to 100 men.
 The crowning feature of the whole work is to be the palace. A palace in- deedl It is maxim that the house which looks large in its foundations is large sure enough. The foundations of this house appear to me to be as large as those of the foundations of the Capitol at Washington. Evidence of the princely manner in which young Vanderbilt does things is found in an enormous masonry work at one end of the foundations of the palace. Massive walls thirty feet high, looking for all the world like some ancient castle, inclose a section of the hill about 325 feet long and 150 feet wide. These were originally intended for the foundations of the house, but Mir. Vanderbilt didn't like this part of the plan and decided upon a new house. And what will he do with the inclosure thus made at an expense of probably $200,000? It is to be his tennis court!
 The foundations of the house, even more massive than the walls inclosing the tennis court, are about 400 feet by 200 in extent. Above the foundations are to rise four great stories. From the character of the foundations oSe may imagine the bewildering beauty of the superstructure. It is to be a stone palace of 100 rooms. Mir. Vanderbilt planned it for ninety-nine rooms, but the architect has taken the liberty of adding another. The banquet hall, the ballroom, the library, are to be baronial
 Vanderbilt travels in Europe, picks up new ideas and comes back here and spends millions upon them. One of his notions is an arcade or gallery running about 500 feet from the house to an as- tronomical observatory, and down a marble cascade from observatory hill is to run a stream of mountain water.
 The stables are to cost half million, and horses are to come from Russia, Arabia, France, England and Kentucky. Deer and elk are to roam in the estate, and all sorts of game are to be preserved l.. Aln II a.. abound.
 When Vanderbilt gets through with this work he will have something ol which America may well be proud. He is one of the most rational millionaires l know of The only mistake he has made is in failing to marry, but he is young yet. A student he is; solid young man who loves his own society and that of books. He comes here and camps out by himself in the wondrous Hand of the sky in the Blue Ridge and Alleghany range, hunts and fshes No dude is young Vanderbilt, for he was seen bath ing in the Swannanoa one morning when there was white frost upon the ground.
 There is no fear of his money giving out Tn the prosecution of this great en- enterprise As yet he is spending only his income upon it. Some of the more sordid members of the family say young George is fool to spend his money in this way, but his mother, 1 learn on good authority, came down here, saw what he was doing, basked in the sun shine of the mountains, and said: George, if your money isn't enough to finish this, call on me. You may have my fortune if necessary"
 l do not think young Vanderbilt is a fool. He is building wiser than he knows. When l look ahead fifty or a hundred years, to time when the Van derbilt family has run to seed, and see this magic palace and this matchless es- tate used as a great university for col ored young men and women, feel like giving the millionaire my blessing,
 have talked so much of Nye and Vanderbilt and the palace that have no space left in which to describe the beauties of "the land of the sky" and the interesting people who inhabit it.. This favored region lies from 2,000 to | z OOQ faat ahayp tha sao hoe nai+bar