The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-28
A MHLIONAIRES PALACE.
TO BE BUILT ALMOST WHOLLY Oh
STEEL AND GLASS.
The Novel Structure That a CaIifor.
- C.Bsus win Erect-Sot
Foot Of Wood VIII Be Used.

- such, who is reputed to
have made q fortune of S2J,
900, 900 in South African dis.
mond mines, has purchased 300
acre tract in the Temescal district, ne 81
San Francisco, where no will erect a
novel residence, palace, in fact, upon
which $1,000, 600 will be expended
aside from the finishing. This is to be
structure built almost entirely OF
steel and glass. The building, ac-
cording to the American Contractor
il to be about $50 feet long by about
100 feet wide. a: one end Il viii i'e
surmounted by a tower 115 feet high,
at the other end by similar tower,
| but of less size and height. A strik-
ing feature will be the sides below the
cornice, which slope to the ground,
| degrees. In the sloping sides are set
! oval windows twelve feet long and
made to conform to tho lines of the
sides Of the walls The roof will be
huge gable extending the entire length
of tho building and terminating in
another gable Mt right angles in wh n
are placed immense stained glass wins
dows, ono Of which will be fifty feet
long ana lhlrly leeJ Wiue.
Not foot of lumber or wood in any
shape is to be used in the building.
The material will be iron, steel, alumi-
mum, brass, bronze, platinum, silver,
concrete, cement and stone. And tho
only stone used will be sculpturcd
marble in the stairways and tho main
frczc, and onyx and decorative marbles
in tho bathrooms, the stairs and few
| other places. Even the foundations
| will be of steel and concrete. The floors
will bc Of concrete, brass and alumi-
mum, the walls of steel and tho roof or
steel, brass and copper. The inside
walls will be somo of oxidiZcd sheet
| iron, some brass covered with prep
nration thut protects tho burnish of
metal, some copper, some nickel and
so on to correspond with tho dccora-
tions Of the room. The ceilings will
be nrchcd and relieved here and there
with great brass mcdallions. The par
tition walls will be composed of metal
Gril!cs extending from i,oor to ceiling,
arranged in various designs, forming Il
vast network through which the visit Oh
can see from the grand stairway nj one
end to the grcnt ballroom mt the op.
pusitc end. Rich tapestries will or.
diuarily cover the metal grillcs and di'
vide the interior thus into fourteen
apartments, eight of which will uC
chambers and consist each of II suite ol
four rooms a sleeping room, dressing.
Room, bathroom and study. All tle
heating, lighting, ventilation and cook
ing will be done by electricity. The
servants quarters, the kitchen, the
machinery and the laundry will all he
in the basement. The water wheel and
dynumoS will bc located at the foot Of
the hill, II considerable distance from
the building. The sole entrance to
the basement from without will be nt
the foot of the hill through II tunnel,
so that no one from within or nh"ut
the house will see the approach or en-
trance of servant, grocer, butcher VI
delivery wagon OF any kind.
Tho structure itself will be sur-
rounded hy broad walk, and outs L
of the walk will be mn artificial lax,
surrounding the building and forming
IL moui to be crossed over II movab!,
drawbridgc, thus placing the h"us,
practically upon an island. This lnk,
will he f"d by water from artcsaI
wells nlrcndy in operation and pump",
mp by powerful pumps. The water Z"
the lake will also serve to run tn
dvnnmos Tint furnish light, heat an,
power for use in the building. Tn
floors of the building will be of bras
md aluminium grille work of ornn
mental design, the intcrsticcs file,
with new Hungarian cement which i
said to become hard ns granite whc,