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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-09
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bule from side to side as one emerges from
beneath IL into the large central hall.
This spacious apartment Is, indeed. a
thing OF beauty and a Joy forever, stretch
ing a. IL does fifty-seven feet in one direc-
tion and thirty feet In the other; it's floor
oi polished yellow French marble shining
like mirror and rejecting the glare of
light over the cleaning walls of yellow
marble. the great statues In the inches,
the massive columns supporting the
splendidly frescoed roof Sixty feet above
and bringing out the lightness aud deli
cate adornment OF the small balcony run
ming along the ends and front of the hall
midway aud communicating with the
rooms upon the second floor. Through
the great windows can be seen the wings
extending seaward or either side enclos-
Ing the court between with its floor laid
in tiles In fanciful designs and stretching
out beyond them toward the cliffs in n
broad terrace OF marble, sixty-four feet
long and thirty five feet wide.
Turning again his gaze to the marble
carv1ngB about him, the spectator is
struck BY the magnificent frieze as white
~ snow and animate almost with life
size figures that reclipe easily aud grace
fully, and glance serenely downward into
the observers very soul. as IL were. In
addition TO these bas reliefs, marble
faces peep out from every nook and niche,
while an imposing statue OF white marble
occupies each corner OF the hall aud per-
sonif1es with great dignity one OF the
arts. The walls about them are Of pol
ishcd yellow French marble in panels and
columns. sunk In the wall, until IL reaches
Che frieze above described Above the la, :
Der II q heavy marble cornice surrounding
~ ceiling and finely decorated with the
(enfal ornamentation. Where the wall Is
noroed by the Sinclair windows look
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-09
4 PALACE AT NEWPORT.
vanderbiIt's Marble Monster De-
scribed for the First Time.
BIG, BEAUTIFUL AND COSTLY.
~. Hunf's Classic Competition Richly
Kxseutsd in Most Beautiful stone
Costly Carving. Inlaid Floors. Paneied
OK ana = Tunnel Under the Lawn.
ESPECIAL TO THE xEwsi

NEWPORT, r. l., May s.-The Newport
Observer publishes this morning the first
detailed description ever given to the
splendid marble palace OF w. K Van
derbilt here, as follows:
The house stands facing Bellevue ave-
nue with two wings running from the
main portion of the building eastward
toward the sea. II is 1876 feet 9 inches in
length and 106 feet 9 inches in depth. The
exterior facing of the walls Is granite be-
low the level of the courtyard whose mar
bic flags form roof for the roomy store
rooms beneath light columns supporting
the outer edge or this covering.
The appearance of the exterior is Sc
verely plain, so much so, indeed, as tn
repel one at the first glance because of its
chilly cheerlessness. This impression
fades, however, as one examines one after
the other the unobtrusive details in the
design and finish, and begins to appreciate
the beauty of the proportions: and the
perfect harmony of the parts The bits of
sculpture here and there. the delicate
frieze. the graceful columns and Corinth-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-09

feet square. the walls being sheathed and
wainscotted in carved black walnut, sur.
rounding panels. each four feet square, or
figured silk, padded. The fireplace Is OF
chiseled cane stone, with carved marble
panels and fittings of deftly wrought pol
ished brass in fancy figures. The iioor is
of oak. A door communicates with bath
room, made throughout of white marble
with fittings of polished brass. A board
containing the entire assortment OF cleo
trio aununciators is near at hand, and a
table near the bath permits the occupant
to combine eating with cleansing. The
rooms on this floor are sixteen feet IN
height.
MIR Vanderbilt's chamber is similar in
arrangement, but it is finished in light
colored woods, chiefly cedar. There Is u
corridor between THESE two chambers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt's apartments oc-
cupy the entire front half OF The building
The hall OF the entresol without their
chambers Is finished in beautifully carved
oak panels, the balustrades at the hall
end being of yellow marble. AT the south
east corner is u spiral stairway Leading
down from the floor above. There is an
other room on this floor which is worthy Oh
attention as IL Is the only one IN the build
ing with panelled oaken ceiling. The
walls are wainscotted in the same wood
in plain squares OF polished oak. Inc
carved cane mantel is supported On small
exquisitely carved caryatides standi ng on
pillars. Elaborate carvings hlling the
space between. The floors are all OF oak:
There is besides this apartment school
room, child's bed room, and room hand
somely finished in blue for IL; and we'll
furnished room for the governess.
The third floor, which also opens upon
the portico, is 10 feet : inches in height,
containing seventeen large sleeping rooms
and two smaller ones. These Apartments
are intended solely for the servants and
comprise sitting-room, dining-room,
wash-room. bathrooms and the necessary
closets and clothes presses. There Is
perfect maze Of electric call bell and light
wires, many of the rooms being depend
ent wholly ON artificial light.
In the northeast corner or the building
a commodious stairway leads direct to the
basement without any communication
with any other part of the house. Below
there are private parlors for the house
keeper and butler.
The exterior Of the house Is set OIL by
grounds OF great beauty. The cliff walk
runs under the lawn in "a tunnel, SO that
an unobstructed lawn Is obtained to the
waters edge. This arrangement Is not
likely TO be popular IL often adopted.
The house has been two years and hall
building. The foundations were very
deep and heavy and the cost OF the whole
structure has been enormous.
How muchp Who knows?
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ing seaward the stonework Is especially
noticeable, the chief objects of interest
being, however. two large medallions
placed over them. one bearing the name
X. M. Hunt and the other "Monserrat."
The eye naturally travels to the ceiling
which Is marked off into panels by the
huge rafters and already prepared for the
painters and frescoers. The centre panel
rs very large and Is intended for u picture
that will beat the ceiling painting in the
Goelet cottage that caused 30 much ad-
miring comment last season. This great
said, by six large pillars. Each is two
tons in weight, cut from one piece of
marble aud is valued at 81, 200 II is sur
mounted by Roman capital heavily
gilded. When they were shipped hither
sufficient care was not taken in storing
them. so that one was lost overheard.
When the captain reached New York he
reported the mishap to Mr.. Vanderbilt,
who, in place of striving to fish up the
lost marble, ordered another straightway
from the quarry in Italy.
The dining room measures As feet by 30
feet, and has three windows on the west
and "a very large fireplace though the flu
ishing touches have not yet been given
this nor that in the room opposite, owing
TO the fire i'm the building of the New York
marble worker having destroyed the elab-
crate morales especially designed in most
artistic fashion. They are now being re-
placed as speedily as possible. The walls
of the dining room are remarkable for the
skill shown In contracting the shades OF
the reddish brown African marble used
i'm panelling this room from floor TO cell
ing with this stone. Additional effect Is
pro iuced by the contrast afforded by the
snowy Wilderness of the marble used for
the statues placed on pedestals and filling
the corners aud inches, rendering more
IL IA.
streaks of the polished marble walls. A
heavy marble eernice of this material
juts out from the wall about six inches
over busts of caryatides. which are sup
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-09
A BODY in THE BROOK.
A Student Creates a Sensation in a
New Hampshire Town.
IN THE WATER TO DECOMPOSE,
Offended Farmers Will Demand an Ex-
planation-They Have Driven Their
Cattle to the Stream to Water-Th
Town Authorities Interested.

WEST OssIPEE, N. H., May o.-The dis
adult person in box lying in the bed OF
small brook about one mile from Tam
worth Village, N. H., and not far from
the well-known ordination rock, on
Thursday last caused no little consterna-
tion among the inhabitants of that quiet
town.
Numerous theories were at once rife as
to the case.
The selectmen were notified and began
an investigation forthwith. They finally
ascertained that a native resident OF the
town, Edwin Remick, young medical
student, as was stated, had obtained the
body while pursuing studies at Portland,
Me-, early in the winter, and 1t had been
brought to Tamworth by him, smuggled
in box. The body was placed in the
brook to go through q process OF decay,
that he might have the skeleton for use
i'm his studies. 1t was placed there in
February last. During this period some
OF the people on the neighboring street
have watered their cattle and horses at
this brook in which the body was de-
composing, only one-quarter OF q mile
above.
Some are so indignant over the affair
that they express a determination to
take legal measures against the con-
veyor of the body. Besides being
an insult to tho community, this
act was In direct violation OF the
law. How the body was obtained is not
known as yet, Mr.. Remick being away
pursuing his studies at Burlington, VT.
The body may have an interesting histo-
ry, although the character of young Rem
ick is not as yet called in question In the
matter, except as to the wisdom OF the
means taken to obtain the "dry bones"
by bringing the body to town and thus
disposing of it. The town authorities
will demand an explanation of the mat
ter.
Edwin Remich, the student who pro-
cured the body while In Bowdoin Medi.
cal College, is about 26 years of age, has
always lived with his parents In Tam
worth until last fall and has borne first
class reputation.
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age is Is years, the Young Providence
Grays preferred. The Young Elmwoods
hereby challenge the Trinities TO play
match game of ball on Saturday, May III,
at $50 o'clock. The game TO be played at
Gorhams. Address all challenges to Is.
Il. Moulton; 1885 Greenwich street, city.
The Favorites of Smiths Hill defeated
the Silver Springs Oh Saturday by score
Of ~ to 5. and would like TO hear from
any nine in the State, under 10 years OF
age. Address all challenges 70 Charles
McNally, 43 Whipple street, city.
The Young Filmores would like to hear
from ary nine in The State, under IL years
of age. Address all challenges To Fred
Hackett, "a Fillmore street. city.
The Phenix Stars went to Moosup,
Conn, on last Saturday and defeated the
nine of that place. they refusing to play
the game out at the eighth inning the
umpire gave the game TO the stars by
score Of D 10 o. The battery for the Stars
was Catterson and Phillips; for the
Moosups, Kennedy and Smith. The fea-
lures Of the game was the batting OF Cat
terson, Phillips, Freddo and Marsh, the
base running of Duffy, the long running
catch by Gilland in the left field for the
Stars, and the battery work OF the
Moosups.
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and lacework carving in waite marble.
From flour to ceiling this carefully
wrought woodwork fills the walls of this
room, the spires touching the stalactites
from the ceiling twelve feet about, the
pinnacles surrounding the inches for th
owners books. The same Gothic treat
ment is displayed in cutting the broad
blocks of light pink and yellow cane
stone forming the fireplace seven fee { in
height, and eaten by The chisel into in
tricato and graceful patterns. the orna-
ments and facings OF the mantel being of
white marble also finely carved. IL is
fioored with oak.
In the other wing aross the court Is the
breakfast room in the northeast corner.
IL has two windows facing the rising sun
and one on the terrace. The room is Is
feet by about 30 feet.
Issuing from the breakfast room into
the main hall, one passes TO the white
marble staircase, ten feet wide, that rises
gradually To the second floor twenty feet
above. One OF the most remarkable
things I'm the cottage Is the splendid
frieze that runs up the staircase IL il "A
beautiful piece OF carved and scrolled
white marble, n marvel of frosty leaves.
flowers, grapes, vines and tracery. IL
alone cost $4,000: The stairs make n
perfect square, and at each angle arc life
s,zeu hgures IN bronze. allegorical studies
OF the seasons
OF course tue chief rooms on this 400
arc the chambers OF Mr.. and Mrs. 4. ".
Vanderbilt That Of the mistress of the
house Is In the front, In the northeast cor
iier over the dining room. The calling is
in the highest style of carved black wal
nut panelling the lozenges panclled with
silks OF light color aud fancy designs and
imported from Paris. The room Is thirty
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The Wasp at MIR. Rogers, Home.

Archibald Rogers new 46footer, the
Wasp, has arrived at the home of it's
owner at Hyde Park kone-the-Hudson. Mr..
London on May 8. You remember that
thunderstorm of Tuesday nightg Well,
we caught it off Old Field Point, and a
pretty lively time we had of it for a while
The wind had been blowing southeast,
and it suddenly jumped around to north
and blew harder than ever. The boat
behaved splendidly under all conditions.
After the storm we had good deal Of
light weather, so we did not reach New
York until Thursday. That night,
through the stubbornness of a tug boat s
pilot, we had u collision that might have
resulted fatally. Our bowsprit stove in
a lot of windows in the tug's cabin. We
heard the glass smash. My boat was not
injured to speak of"
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ported by pedestals. The columns be-
meath them are plain, rectangular, eigh-
teen inches broad and six inches deep.
On the front OF the building are three
windows flanked by pillars and with half
round tops containing bas reliefs. They
look out upon the avenue Turning ones
back, he Is surprised to see three other
windows on the opposite side of the room
also looking out on the avenue. They
are nothing more than panels sunk i'm the
wall like window frames aud backed by
plate glass mirrors SO made ,ts to give n
complete illusion. The ceiling is divided
into Illuminated panels, grouped about
large central opening which is to be
finely frescoed The floor Is of polished
oak. On the north side of the room en-
trance is gained TO the buffers pantry.
Passing across the vestibule one enters
the drawing room with its white marble
escutcheon above the door. This apart
ment is 48 feet by 80 feet. The ceiling is
panelled for elaborate frescoes, the centre
oblong being reserved for a special sub
ject. Bright as are these mural paintings
they pale to insignificance beside the glory
OF the walls which are one blaze of gold
and crystal. the surface being split up in-
to panels and some of these being filed
by large plate glass mirrors with frames
elaborately carved from the surrounding
stone. 1t Is estimated by competent
judge that enough gold foil was wasted
In covering the walls with the yellow
metal to pay for a new city hall for New
port. The floor is of oak. The fireplace
Is not yet completed, as stated above.
Across the ball In the south wing extend
ing seaward is the library. Probably the
best hint as to its appearance is given by
the byword among the French workmen
employed at the cottage, who speak of a
visit to the library as going to church."
The apartment is 30 feet by 40 feet, and its
two large windows at che end give a
splendid view of the Atlantic. Two
others open into the central court yard,
and yet two others look across the mar
row lawn at the side to the Astor estate
at the south. The basic principle
of this room Is gothic The ceiling
is of plaster, moulded into pointed
figures and panels Of this pattern,
with impost ornamental cornices. What
few panels have been left are filled by
paintings of floral subjects especially i'm
ported from Paris. But the chief feature
of the room is the carving. Those who
have seen Sir Walter Scott's monument
at Edinburg would declare that the at
tempt had been made to copy that marvel
of graceful spires, pinacles, and trefoil
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ian capitals. the imposing porch and the
artistic finish given by the balustrade sur
rounding. the promenade on the roof OF
house all merit study and awaken a new
interest with careful attention. Before
the house sweeps the hoe
gates at both extremities of the
high marble wall with its big
funeral urns Gaping the posts shut
ing of view OF the spacious
lawn within the horseshoe before the
mansion. AS the driveway curves into
tho porch over the front door two posts
bearing largo marble vases rise on either
side, the marble balustrade on the one
side meeting the pillar supporting the
porch and the other joining the balus-
trade that fences in the broad marble
veranda surrounding the house. Between
the front pillars OF the porch the balus-
trade Is omitted and view Is obtaiued
Of the crystal streams gushing from the
Dryad and Naiad faces so skilfully cut In
it's marble face. On the front the windows
are unadorned but on the north and
south sides the tops wind upwards into
bas reliefs cut with u medallion finish,
the design taken from mythology of the
Greeks and executed by The best artists OF
the day. The window caps of the four
huge windows at the rear of the main
building within the court are also bes re-
llevO8 OF Lue trOuS anu UOuueSSeS reclining
amid the encircling garlands.
The first story stands six feet above the
grade and is over twenty feet high. he
main entrance beneath the porch. which
is thirty-fiye feet nine inches wide, is
about twenty-five feet wide and leads be-
tween fluted Corinthian columns on either
side, each being three feet seven inches in
diameter Over the entrance are large
panels with continuation of those skill
fully carved allegorical scenes in bas re-
lief already mentioned. Between these
columns will swing entrance grilles of
wrought steel in the blush black tint of
the gun barrel.
Between these gates, through which
coach and four could be driven
into the central hall, the visitor will step
passing the inner bronze door, ten feet
high by four feet wide with its multi oned
glass windows, through the entrance into
the vestibule, whose walls are of yellow
French marble, with heavy mouldings at
the jogs. The same bright stone forms
the floor and ceiling panelled in plaster
and decorated. Most noticeable, as one
looks upward Is the immense beam run
ming across the farther end of the vesti-
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Inthe Roped Arena.

To night the Coney Island Athletic
Club Will open its doors to the public and
give its inaugural fight. It will be u bat
tie Tor the bantamweight championship
of the world and "A $1,000 purse. between
Billy Plimmer, champion of England, and
Spider" Kelly, champion 1l0-pound man
of this country. This same pair has
been matched on two previous occasions,
but each time Kelly has been taken sick
in time to prevent a meeting. They will
come together tonight without fail and
tomorrow morning we will know who is
the bantam champion OF the world. The
winner tonight will be challenged by
George Dixon, who. il the challenge is
accepted, will get down to 10 pounds and
battle for the bantam championship.
This seems pretty fine for a man who
generally fights men at 116 pounds, to get
TO, but IL is n fact that in nearly all of
his battles Dixon has weighed i'm the
neighborhood of Ill pounds, while his op-
ponents have tipped the beam at from
The Metropole Club has secured n star
att raction for the ten-round contest on
the night OF the goth, when Cooney and
Hubbard come together. The ten-round
contest which will precede the main event
Will be between Cliff Gordon, the 1l5-
pound. .colored boy, and spider" Mack,
who put the mittins on for four rounCs
with young Murry at the last meeting OF
the Gladstone Club.
The New Bedford Athletic Club is bid
ding against the Gladstone for ego" be-
tween I'd Binney and Tommy Mccarthy
The New Bedford club has offered 5000
and Binney wants them to make it S700.
IL IL no certainty that Mccarthy will 20
TO New Bedford even IL Binney consents.
lie wants to come here and Binney wants
to 20 TO New Bedford and the chances are
that they won't come together in either
place. Il. w. A.
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IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Friday Will Wind Up the Series
With the Grays at Kome.

The game on Saturday at Adelaide
Park was the poorest exhibition of ball
playing that has yet been put up by the
home team. 1t was not much better on
the part of the visitors. Every club is
liable to have its "off day." but it is espe-
-eially unfortunate that the Graysi I" off
day" should have fallen on Saturday
when so many of the home cranks were
there to see them play their prettiest.
With all of the poor playing on both sides
it was one of the most interesting
struggles seen here this season. 1t was
anybody's game up to the time of putting
out the last man. There was hardly a
person on the grounds who did not be-
lievc that the Grays could beat the Syra-
cuse men. hands down, il they had been
playing tho game they have shown them
selves capable of putting up. There are
few who do not believe that the Grays
will make up for the defeat to-day
Tomorrow and Wednesday the Albanys
will be here, Thursday and Friday the
Troys will be the Grays' opponents, aud
then we will see no more OF the team for
two weeks. To ask them to win four out
of the five games at home this week is not
too much. We are now in second place,
and should get back to first again, II pos
sible, before the trip begins.
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Fishing and Yachting Notes.

Louis Horton caught two big tautog
yesterday off Fuller's Point Light. One
of them weighed six pounds and the other
seven.
John Adamson brought his fast catboat
Jessie" up from the cove yesterday and
moored her off Kettle Point She has had
two feet taken off her mast and has been
refitted by Lon Crandall Of Pawtuxet.
She will be entered in all the races for
boats of her class this season.
There were about 100 boats fishing off
Pawtuxet yesterday, and tautog and
other fish bit quite lively.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May s.-After
the regular morning services at the North
Congregational church, yesterday, reso-
lutions were adopted protesting against
the series of prize fights that have been
allowed i'm this city, unmolested by the
police. The subject caused much com.
ment in the city, and at the churches last
night the matter was referred to. At the
Young Mems Christian, the County street
church and Trinitarian church, the reso.
lutions were endorsed.
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A Desperate FIuht.

About o'clock this afternoon Officers
Simonds and Bennett were called 10 the
yard of n tenement house on Clemence
street where two women were engaged ia
n drunken row. They were throwing
bottles at each other and the house aud
yard were covered with debris. Both
women were locked up. One of them at.
tempted to escape from the Hurry up
wagon
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Per Cent.
Boasting Doesn't Take Tricks.

Two Providence men and two Boston
merchants have had series of games of
whist during the past year. Last Satur-
day night the series was closed by the
Providence men running up a great score
against their opponents. The Boston
men did great deal Of boasting at the
start, but like some other boasters they
forgot that they must also take tricks.
The result was q fine supper.