The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-04-29

room for her boudoir and dressing
room, while Mr.. Jefferson wrote and
studied and lived in the smaller room.
There was no connection between. the
rooms except overIthe bed. When Mrs.
Jefferson prepared to retire she did 80
in her own apartment and Mr.. Jeffer.
son did the same in his, and then they
both era wled into bed from their re.
spective rooms. Adiourning this set
Of rooms and on the same side of the
hall are tho library and reception
rooms, and on the same floor are two
smaller rooms known ns the Monroe
and Madison rooms. They are so
called because the two Presidents al
ways occupied them on their visits to
Monticello. There are many other
guest chambers, as there needed to be
in the days of Mr.. Jefferson's hospi-
tality. SO commodious was the house
in fact that Mrs. Randolph, Jeiferson's
daughter, has in her letters frequently
stated that on many an occasion she
provided beds for fifty TO sixty guests.
The second story of the mansion, il
IL may be called such, is a curious
architectural hodge-podge. In that
portion of the building are located
the various guest chambers, and il
was Mr.. Jefferson's hobby to have
them all open out upon balustraded
pavilions, which extended clear around
the house. This was because Of the
magnificent view to be obtained from
these pavilions. Over the main salon
q dome was built, and IN this dome
was large circular room designed for
ladies' parlor and reception room,
but instead it was always used as
billiard room. Then again Mr.. Jeffer-
son was q great lover of flowers, and
in the angles formed by the four wings
of his house he had built little glass
Enclosures for flowers. These are still
in existence.
But, after all, the elegance of the
interior does not convey to the visitor
rs much interest as do the exterior
and grounds of the mansion. A very
important feature of the latter was
the servants quarters. Mr.. Jefferson's
house servants numbered thirty.seven,
and they were quartered in what re-
sembles military barracks, built of
bricks, in the slope of one of the ter
races of the lawn. Thus, from the
mansion the quarters were not visible,
for their roof was converted into
platform upon which people would go
out and sit. Connected with these
quarters and leading from the cellar
of the mansion was an underground
passage or covered way, the roof of
which furnished walk from the house
to the pavilion. The object of this
passageway was that the servants
could get from their quarters to their
duties in the house without having to
cross the lawn. But nothing could be
more comfortable than we're these
quarters. They were built of brick,
each compartment having two rooms,
and the whole front was composed OF
q series of archways and pillars, form
ing an arched portico. The same
idea was carried out on the other
side of the mansion, for under or
into the opposite terrace was built
big brick icehouse, huge storehouse
and a fuel room, and this, too, was
connected with the cellars of the
mansions by an underground passage
or covered way, forming walk to an-
other pavilion with seats, which was
the roof of the ice and storehouses. This
last pavilion is covered in the summer
with an awning and provided with
chairs and settees, where guests may
sit and enjoy the magnificent scenery
which has so added to the fame OF
Monticello.
With all the glories of Monticello,
historical and material, it must ever
be source of regret that its construc.
tion, its improvement, its possession
for nearly half century, should have
impoverished its great owner; for, in
spite of all the magnifcence with
which he was surrounded, notwith-
standing the wealth he was supposed
to possess, Notwithstanding the emolu-
ments of his public carear, he died, as
the world knows, poor man, and
worse than poor, for he was hopelessly
in debt. When he left the Presidency