The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-24
MILLIONS IN HOMES.
InCOnCeiVablG Wealth LaViShed on
Splendid Country Places.
Estates Like Fairyland-A Vanderbilt
Domain Down South--George Gould's
Hunting Rox
From the New York World.

and million year for their main
tenance. These are facts difficult to
grasp unless you have seen the actual
houses themselves.
And they are wonderful, even then.
George Vanderbilt has spent s.. 0O0, COO
upon Biltmore, his North Carolina home.
He hopes to get OF with the expenditure
of only s, 900, 900 more!
John Wanamaker's house, Lindenhurst,
cost 100000 without the furnishings,
while his electric light plant, landscape
gardening and lake cost five times as
much more-and more He doesn't know
himself
There are eight millions in money
plainly to be counted at John Jacob
/ Astor's Ferncliffe-a million in conserva-
tories alone
George Gould has spent S10,OOO,O0O on
his mountain luxury, Furlough Lodge.
His deer stalking, the best in the world,
| cost nearly $l,OO0,000 to establish and
maintain
Helen Gould spends $1,000 a month
| upon Lyndhurst, and her own income of
more than 1900 week goes upon it, too,
not counting the new buildings erected.
Levi p. Morton has spent several mil
lions on Ellerslie, not mentioning the
library and rare paintings.
In spending his $5,000,000 upon Bit
more George Vanderbilt has chosen ways
doubtless Intentionally by which lie
keeps people at work The neighborhood
Is filled with laborers who depend upon
him for their living. 1t may be roughly
estimated that there are 1000 families
| supported by the work upon the
estate at Biltmore. And it is need
| less TO say that the people of that locality
| OF North Carolina look with Joy upon the
| paragraph which tells them that at least
| S5,OO00O0 more will be spent, and that
without taking into account the cost of
roofing the mansion and finishing the in
| terror.
| The number of interesting things that
might be told about this place, which is
like an earthly fairyland, are too great
| even to be limited at, but the most inter
] esting of them allis the accommodation
made everywhere for Mrs Vanderbilt"
In the architects plans there is a suite of
/ rooms, magnificently appointed, labeled
Mrs. Vanderbilt and all over the house
are cozy hooks, fireplace corners, tiny
Conservatives and womanlike resting
| placeS-often where they will command
| fine view from windOw-and all for
Mrs. Vanderbilt" And the singular
part of it all is that up to date there is
really no person who can be mentioned
with any degree of authenticity as hav-
/
young millionaires household.
$S,000,O goo AT FERNCLIFFE.
The figures upon John Jacob Astor's
| home at Rhinebeck must necessarily be
vague. The estate has been in possession
of the Astor family so many years that
there is no telling what the land would
bring in these days if put up at auction
| The Rockefellers paid 81 900 for each
acre of their new Hudson river home
And the Astor estate stretches over a
space of three miles along the river front
and back into the country twice as far.
1t is said that there are IS, 0O0, 600 of
money plainly to be counted at Ferncliffe
as the country place is called. One of
| these millions is put upon roads, outdoor
| statuary and lanscape decorations.
Then there is million in conservato-
ries. Besides the great number of nur-
| series, there are twelve distinct and
beautiful plant houses. One of these is
filed with chrysanthemums Another
has violets-of which Mrs. Astor never
tires. Two houses are devoted to roses,
| which are brought into the house in bush
els every day and placed wherever Mrs.
Astor's eyes may chance to rest. The
| fifth house has palms. The sixth is the
lily house. The seventh is for mush-
rooms, and back of it is a very delicate
and peculiar structure filed at all sea-
sons with carnations. The ninth house
|
| naming three are immense structures
devoted to the raising of early peaches
and the cultivation of grapes all the year
round
INSIDE the house is of barnlike size
| made agreeable by magnificent yet SER
viceable furniture There are black mar
| BILE fireplaceS, chairs that are cut from
solid walnut as priceless curiosities, and
back of and surrounding all are pale
| green silk draperies that shed sheeny
| mystic light over the great tiled floors
| and give summer GOODNESS in the most
torrid weather.
Fine paintings, marble fountains, tall
vases of rare designs, silk rugs, gathered
as curios from all over the world, and
one.of the finest libraries in the country,
make this retreat of Americas most en-
| terprising young millionaire, as ideal as
possible-and as expensive.
The library must not be counted in the
| s., 00O, 900, nor can the rugs-one of which
is said to be the finest in the world-be
mentioned.
GEORGE GoULD's MOUNTAIN LUXURY.
In getting rid of the millions allotted to
each of the country homes of these half
dozen millionaires, George Gould has had
no difficulty at all. F'urlough Lodge the
great English shooting box, located high
| IN the CatSklllS, consists of 1000 acres of
expensive land-held high to million
airedom. 1t is entirely surrounded with
barbed wire fence Is feet-or eighteen
wires-high. Within this Enclosure is the
finest pigeon warren in the world, and
the richest pleasantly. There is an i'm
mense deer park, a small herd of buffalo
and foxes that run wild all the year
around, inviting visitors to shoot them.
To take care of this great supply Of
game and to keep it in good order, adding
as fast as any are shot, or seeing that the
animals are properly propagated, there
are ten men employed all the year round
| And these are under the direction of a
| head game-keeper, who is personally re-
sponsible for supply of things to be
shot when Mr.. Gould and his friends
come up for holiday. The winter sup
ply of horses is always seventeen and
the summer supply twice that number
| not counting Miss Gould's team, nor
Mrs. Gould's Russian ponies.
The Russian dogs, with Czarina, the
famous foxhound at the head of the
kennels of all other rare, hardy winter
| winter kennel, and the dogs,
have their special keepers; and,
: all told, the place is kept on as large
scale and as luxuriantly as any royal es-
tete. No one on earth spends as much on
a shooting box
The japanese room, with Mrs. Gould
painted in Japanese dress in Its panels;