The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27

has charming place In which to carry on
the courtship. The bathroom Is not less
magnificent in it's way. The tubs and fix
lures cost some g, 900 and the Mosaic floor
ing must have cost good deal more
Most men would think twice before Civ
ing up nest like this, but Mr. Wander
bilt is in the fortunate position of being
able to furnish even better one for two
or more, in case he does intend TO commit
matrimopy in the near future.
But above all his other possessions
George Vanderbilt prizes his country seat
near Asheyille in North Carolina.
1t is fact that may not be gainsaid
that all the Vanderbilts have a faculty
of making their investments self-support-
ing; and although George Vanderbilt has
never seemed to care much about the fam
lily millions, his ventures even In the pur-
chase of old books and violins have been
such as might be made profitable. But
in no investment made by him has more
shrewdness been shown than in the pur-
chase and Improvement of his mountain
estate in the south. Better still he has
shown in 1t, that in him there is a love of
the artistic, the poetic, the romantic if
you Will, that has been singularly lacking
in other members of his family
AS has been before stated, George
Vandelbilt is many sided man, and this
mountain estate of his furnishes the best
of proof that this is so. There is no home
in this country that can equal it in
natural beauty. Austin Corbin, the rail
road magnate, has a magnificent deer
park in Vermont. DIR. Seward Webb,
Vanderbilt by marriage, has in the
Adirondacks a farm and game preserve
that is the wonder of all who see it. But
Mr.. Vanderbilt's place down on the Dor
ders OF the Tennessee mountains SurpaSs-
es these. There are old castles on the
Rhine, impressive in their wild
and half ruined condition. These are
white chateaus that hang on the sides
of the Alps that one dreams of after see
ing them. There are stately domains in
England with their avenues of oaks and
waving elms that have about them that
glamour that always surrounds the mem
DRY of very great men and Of really
great deeds
1t has been the good fortune of Mr..
Vanderbilt to have seen these old world
architectural Curios and to be capable of
approaching them. And in the building
of his'magnifcent home in the south, he
has used the knowledge that he gained
not Servilely but with good results.
The spot where his 5,0O0-acre farm is
situated is rs beautiful as one may hope
to see On broad plateau that extends
from the Blue Ridge to the Allegheny
mountains, the general level of which is
near TO 1900 feet above the sea and sur
rounded by mountain peaks more lofty
than any east of the Rockies, the place
naturally is a sort of paradise. Most of
these peaks are clothed to their tops in
trees, many of which are of the same
family that may be found in the Alpine
region The wild cherry tree here grows
to a hight of eighty feet and the broad
valley of the Ashe is simply fringed with
splendid white pines, interspersed with
the cucumber tree. The beech, the pop
lar, the locust, the lime tree, all flourish
on the mountain sides, and there are oaks
as noble as those to be seen in England.
That abominable machine that has done
so much to ruin the beauty of this coun-
try, the saw-mill, has not yet mastered
and destroyed the beautiful forest seen
cry.
From his library window Mr.. Wander