People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
Copeland Medical Institute
Room 3Is Kiser Building, Atlanta, Ga.
VANDERBILT'S PALACE.
Young Millionaire is Buying Treasure.
For His Home.

| For His Home.
Many strange looking boxes. bearing
foreign marks and labels, have been
coming to Ashville, N, G., these days.
Some are marked Paris, Rome, Naples,
Vienna, and there are others from
Athens, Greece, no doubt sent out hur-
riedly TO avoid complications in the
event of occupation by the Turks.
AS the queer-looking boxes are un-
| loaded from the Southern's cars, they
are sent out to Biltmore, and native
says:
"Mr. Vanderbilt has been a-buyin
more of them old foreign things, and
the dagoes are cheatin' him because
he's rich. Why, can go down thar to
CHARLOTTE and buy brand new pictures
and new statutes of the legislature and
sculptuary for half what he pays for
old broken-up things that amt got a
whole arm or leg to their heather
Names"
And the mountaineer shakes his head
and looks genuinely sorry for the young
millionaire who is now in Europe pick
ing up more treasures for his $6,000,-
600 palace up here in the Land of the
Sky" It is the most wonderful private
residence in the world, and today is
dividing honors with Western North
Cardinals glorious climate and scenery
which for years have been the saliva
ton and delight of thousands of men,
women and children who, broken in
health, come here seeking rest; invig-
Grating air and pure water. Mr.. Van
derbilt himself selected this point for
his home after travelling all the known
world over, because it had the most
perfect climate to be found anywhere.
The Southern Railway officials say
that this section is the most popular
resort on their great system, and they
attribute it to the pure air and the
grandeur of the mountains.
And around and about, and above all,
stretching away further than eye can
reach are the towering mountains,
clad in mantles of green and flmy
hoods of azure. This is scenery sub
lime-the kind which speaks a various
language ''to him who in Che love of
nature holds communion with her Wis
ible FORMS" If what Byron called
"the hum of human Cities" is torture
to your overstrained nerves, here is
rest and balm. Here it is pleasantly
cool when Georgians, Floridians and
Alabamians are distressed by the mer-
curry at 95 to 100.
A great factor in Ashville's growth
is the Southern Railways excellent
train service and convenient schedules,
One can leave Macon, Savannah or
midnight, and be here the next morn
ing for breakfast Jacksonville, Col
umbus, Montgomery, Mobile and New
Orleans are also all within an easy
ride by this systems fast and luxuri-
GUS trains.
Mr.. Vanderbilt allows the public to
visit his grounds and admire the pal
ace, though it is not every one who
gets a glimpse within the chateau
where he has stored so many treasures
of art and history. No king, nor queen
nor prince, nor lord, on this earth has
such magnificent palace as the quiet,
studious book and art-loving young
bachelor has built for himself high up
here among the mountains, just short
distance from Ashville. He has spent
more than $4,000, 600 on it, and intends
to put So. 900, 600 more into it, and if he
lives to enjoy it, no doubt it will cost
him all of $40, 10000 before many years.
He has $4,000 acres, and can travel
thirtyfve miles in straight line from
his door without reaching the bound
aries of his estate. Mammoth drive.
: ways and cycle roads run everywhere,
} and there are miles of them, carefully
graded and kept smooth. Seldom does
J any one ever come here without going
: out to see Biltmore.
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