The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-28
A MHLI0NAIRES PALACE,
TO BE BUILT ALMOST WHOLLY oB
STEEL AND GLASS.
The Novel Structure That a Califor
MIA Cresus VIII Erect-Not
Foot of Wood VIII Be Used.

MA Cr9suS VIII Erect-SOt q
Foot Of Wood VIII Be Used.
~ ALPH BRISBANE NONE.
~ such, who is reputed to
have made q fortune of S25,
900, 900 in South African dis-
mond mines, has purchased BOO
acre tract in the Temescal district, near
San Francisco, where he will erect
novel residence, palace, in fact, upon
which $1,5OO,OO 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,
is to be about $50 feet long by about
| 100 feet wide. At one end it will re
surmounted by 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,
| with curve at an angle of forty-ive
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 a
huge gable extending the entire length
of the building and terminating in
another gable at right angles in VIII h
| are placed immense stained glass win-
dows, one of which will be fifty feet
long and thirty feet wide.
| 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 the
only stone used will be sculptured
marble in the stairways and the main
frieze, and onyx and decorative marbles
in the bathrooms, the stairs and a few
other places. Even the foundations
will be of steel and concrete. The floors
will be of concrete, brass and alumni
mum, the walls of steel and the roof OF
steel, brass and copper. The inside
walls will be some of oxidized sheet
iron, some brass covered with q prep
aration that protects the burnish of
metal, some copper, some nickel and
so on to correspond with the decora-
tions of the room. The ceilings will
be arched and relieved here and there
with great brass medallions. The par
tition walls will be composed of metal
grilles extending from floor to ceiling,
arranged in various designs, forming
vast network through which the visitor
can see from the grand stairway at one
end to the great ballroom at the op-
posite end. Rich tapestries will or
dinarily cover the metal grilles and di-
vide the interior thus into fourteen
apartments, eight of which will be
chambers and consist each of suite of
four rooms-a sleeping dressinS-
room, bathroom and study. All tne
heating, lighting, ventilation and cook
ing will be done by electricity. Tho
servants quarters, the kitchen, the
machinery and the laundry will all be
in the basement. The water wheel and
dynnmos will be located at the foot of
the hill, n considerable distance from
the building. The sole entrance to
the basement from without will he ut
the foot of the hill through tunnel,
so that no one from within or about
the house will see the approach or en-
trance of servant, grocer, butcher or
delivery wagon of any kind
The structure itself will be sur
rounded by broad walk, and outside
of the walk will be an artificial lake
surrounding the building and forming
moat to be crossed over movable
drawbridgc, thus placing the house
practically upon an island This lake
will be fed by water from artesinn
wells already in operation and pumped
up by powerful pumps. The water Of
the lake will also serve to run the
dynamos that furnish light, heat and
power for use in the building. The
floors of the building will be of brass
and aluminium grille work of orna.
mental design, the interstices filed
with new Hungarian cement which is
said to become hard rs granite when
set and to admit Of high and durable
polish. The cement will be of various
colors and So laid with the metal grille
ns to surpass in effect ans mosaic
flooring III existence. The winter
palace at st. Petersburg is now having
floor laid of this material and on
similar lines. Everything about the
building is to be freproof except per-
haps part OF the furniture. Even the
draperies and tapestries will be dipped
in solution of glycerine and ammo-
mum borate, which renders them
permanently uninhammabic.
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