The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-03
THE FINEST RESIDENCE.
Dr.. ". Seward Webb Will Spend
Si,5OO,0OO on His New H0me.

! SerVa nLB-E a4aC1a Tor A444AOualEos.
Many Wonderful Dwelling Places
/ in Course Of Erection in and Around
New York.
From the New York Press.
Despite Russell Sage's declaration that
/ the rich men Of New York are being made
| poor by the stringency of the money mar
ket, wealth is being slavishly spent Just
now for new homes for men of millions.
The millionaires are keeping up their
rivalry in rearing palatial mansions and
| cottages, as well as other luxuries. Halt
a dozen pleasure yachts costing $3.50, 00O
| each, have recently been launched, and
the rich men of to-day appear TO have en-
tered on an era Of luxury unparalleled in
the history of this or any other coun-
try of the last century. He buys what he
wants regardless of cost. If his neigh Dor
builds a yacht 200 feet in length, he gives
an order for one $50 feet from stem to
stern; if his neighbours wife buys a string
of pearls or a mammoth gem for 100000,
he Immediately purchases a rarer and
costlier article for his wife. II is in
building mansions and summer homes
and furnishing them, though, that the
greatest rivalry now exists between New
York's men OF wealth.
The most remarkable of these is that
under way in the Adirondacks for w
Seward Webb, a relative by marriage of
the Vanderbilts, third vice-president of
the New York Central railroad and prin-
cipal stockholder in the Wagner Palace
Car Company. DR. Webb built the new
railroad through the Adirondacks and
acquired a beautiful estate in that
region. For a long time he has been am
bilious to possess the finest private resi-
den ce in America, and, from the plans
which his ARCHITECT has just completed,
it is to be supposed that his ambition will
soon be gratified AL this is particular
" interesting because DIR. Webb is still
a young man and started in life practi-
cally penniless.
The cost of the structure which he
proposes to erect will be at least 81 500 600.
It will be the grandest affair of the kind
in the country. DIR. Webb has travelled
extensively abroad and studied the archi-
lecture of the various countries he
visited. He has inspected castles anu
palaces of England, France, Germany,
Spain, Italy and other nations. The re-
suit Of his study is shown in the accom-
panying design which the Press reporter
secured yesterday.
1ulS pdldJldl CdSbl6 Will COVER very
nearly half an acre of ground, and will
be built of granite. There will be nu-
merous turrets, and the fertilization style
of architecture will be carried out in the
upper part of the mammoth struot-
ure. Tapestries and silks, mosaics
and woods from foreign lands will be
used regardless of expense in this NAM
moth country home. II will be filled with
curios and bric-a-bra from many coun-
T,eia Va TinfnVa rru1 will ba
riched by many old masters.
This house will have 107 rooms. The
entrance TO the main hall to the Webb
parlor will be through covered loggia
This main hall will be 55x100 feet. In the
rear of this large hall will be the living
room, 36XS0 feet. To the left of the hall
and the living room will be a drawing
room 50x50 feet, the library, 50x50 feet,
game room, billiard ROOM BOXES feet, an
Office 2Sx24 feet, large bowling alley and
a swimming bath 2Sx70 feet
As DR.. Webb is an enthusiastic hunter
he will have large gun room in his resi-
dence, 1Sx20 feet.
To the right of the main hall will be
another drawing room 50x50 feet, large
conservatory, breakfast room 20x27 feet
and morning room 30x30 feet.
1t will take three years to complete DR..
Webb's new home. During DR.. Webb's
residence there he will entertain in a
royal scale.
TWO GREAT MANSIONS.
The Cornelius Vanderbilt and Coils P.
Huntington mansions, now nearing COM
pletion on upper Fifth avenue, will be
rivals in costliness and magnifcence of
equipment Art galleries and conserva-
tories, guests chambers and bathrooms,
costing fortunes. will be features of the
Vanderbilt and Huntington and other pal
g,1r I'LL
single ceiling in Mr.. Vanderbilt's new
palace, painted by French artist, cos
$50 000
The proposed new Fifth avenue home
ofC. 7. Yerkes, the Chicago cable king,
who only few days ago purchased a sin
gle diamond at the worlds fair for $780,
600 cash, will be one of the most costly
private residences in the world. 1t was
recently described and illustrated in the
Sunday Press 1t is Mr.. Yerkes' inten-
ton to have the handsOmest home in New
York when he comes east to live
Just what relation that home win bear
to New York society has been an absorb
ing question wit hthe swell set lately 1t
is supposed that Mr. Yerkes will make
determined effort to enter the charmed
and ever charming circle, and the circle
doesn't know what to do with it. He
was mixed up with a financial municipal
scandal in Philadelphia once, which re-
suited in an enforced retirement to the
eastern penitentiary for a season, and
there's the rub.
MIR Yerkes is a man of strange and
strong character. He has made and lost
and made and lost again several fortunes
He ordered a $4,000 Corot painting once
from dealer in this city. Being in town
from Chicago, he stopped into see if it had
arrived. The dealer had it and showed
it to the millionaire.
"How shall have it sent to you, Mr..
YerSesln he asked
Don't bother to send it, - replied Mr..
Yerkes WRAP it up in a package, and
can put thunder my arm. That will save
you the bOther.n
AS it is customary to send expensive
pictures by express, heavily insured the
dealer was amazed. But he did as Mr.
Yerkes suggested and all day the mill
iOnaire carried that little $50, 900 painting
around with him as he might have carried
a picture book for his little boy That
night he intrusted it casually to the porter
of the sleeping car on the train which he
took for Chicago.
The latest entry in the list of house
builders is Mr.. Herman Oelrichs, who
married Miss Tessie Fair, the noted belle
and heiress of California. Mrs. Oelrichs
not only married millions, but had a very
large fortune in her own right. IL is Mr.
and Mrs Oelrichs' intention 70 build the
finest residence at Newport. Architects,
artisans and artists have been given carte