Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-07
A ElREPRooF PALACE.
Desorip lon OF California Millionaire's
ProIected Home OF Metals.

Prolected Home OF metals.
Ralph Brisbane Nonesuch, who is
reputed to have made q fortune OF
sos. 600, 900 in South African diamond
mines, has purchased a 900 acre
tract In the remescal district, near
San Francisco, where he will erect a
novel residence, palace in fact, upon
which S1.500,000 will be expended
aside from the finishing This is to
be structure built almost entirely
of steel and glass,
The building. says the American
Contractor, is to be about 2S0 feet
long by about 100 feet wide At one
end it will be surmOunted by q tower
ll5 feet high, at the other end by q
similar tower, but OF less size and
height.
4 striking feature will be the sides
below the cornice, which slope TO the
ground with curve at an anglo OF
about forty-fve degrees In the
sloping sides are to set huge oval
windows twelve feet long and made
TO conform TO the lines of the sides
OF the walls. The roof will be a
huge gable extending the entire
length OF the-buiiding, and terminal
ing in another gable at right angles.
in which are placed immense stained
glass windows. one of which will BIO
fifty feet long and thirty feet wide.
Not foot OF lumber or wood in
any shape is to DO used in the build
ing. The materials will be iron,
steel, aluminium, brass. bronze,
platinum. silver, concrete, cement
and stone. And the only stone used
will DO sculptured marble In the
stairways and tho main frieze. and
onyx aud decorative marbles in the
bathrooms, tho stairs and a few
other places. Even the foundations
will be OF steel and concrete. The
floors will be OF concrete. brass and
aluminium, 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
a preparation that protects the bum
ish OF the metal. some copper, some
nickel. and so on TO correspond with
the decorations OF the room. The
ceilings will be arcked and relieved
here and there with great brass me
dallions. The partition walls will
be composed OF metal grilles extend.
ing from floor TO ceiling. arranged IN
various designs: forming u vast
network through which the Wis.
itor can see from the grand
stairway at one end 10 the
great ballroom at the opposite end.
Rish tapestries will ordinarily cover
the metal grilles. and divide the in
terror thus into fourteen apartments.
I eight OF which will be chambers and
consist each OF suit Of four rooms
IA sleeping room. dressing room,
bath room and study. All tho heat
ing. lighting, ventilation and cook
ing will be done by electricity. The
servants quarters. the kitchen. the
machinery and the laundry will all
/ be in the basement. The water wheel
and dynamos will be located at the
I foot OF the hill, considerable dis.
lance from the building The sole
/ entrance to the basement from with
out will DO at the foot Of the hill
/ through a tunnel. so that no one
from within or about the house will
see the approach or entrance Of scry-
ant. grocer. butcher, or delivery
wagon OF any kind The structure
itself will be surrounded by a
broad walk and outside OF the walk
will be an artificial lake surround
ing the building and forming
moat to be crossed over moyea-
Bile drawbridge. thus placing the
house practically upon an island.
The lake will be fed by water from
artesian wells already In operation
and pumped, up by powerful pumps.
The water OF the lake will also serve
to run tho dynamos that furnish
light. heat and power for use in the
building. The doors OF the building
will be of brass and aluminium grille
work OF ornamental design, the inter.
stices filed with a new Hungarian
cement. which Is said to become hard
as granite when set and to admit 81
as high and durable polish. The &c
ment will DO of several colors and sc
laid with the metal grille as to sur.
pass in effect any mosaic flooring In
existence. Everything about the
building Is 10 be fre-proof. except
perhaps a part Of the furniture.
Even the draperies and tapestrie.
will be dipped in solution OF glycer-
inc and ammonium borate, render
inc them DePmaueutIy unfnnamnble