Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04
a monopoly on costly houses by any

a monopoly on costly houses by any
means.
1t is no e~xaggeration to say that among
stately homes of England" there are
many which could not be bought by as
many gold coins as would pave the sites
on which they stand; while some repre-
sent an outlay the mere interest on which
for a year would pay the entire annual
cost Of our abine
Perhaps the most remarkable of these
costly pleasure houses is Mount Stewart,
Rothesay, one of the six palaces of the
many-millioned marquis of Butte. More
money has been lavished on this miracle
of masonry" and sumptuous adornment
than would carpet it's site of an acre two
and a half times over with G5 Bank of
England notes.
To buy it would reduce two millionaires
to their last penny; n every one of its
$50 rooms has cost on an average, over
s65, 900, or more than sufficient, to build a
dozen suburban houses with some pre-
tension to importance-in the eyes Of
their tenants. g ..
One of the largest of English country
seats is Lord Fitzwilliam's Yorkshire
house, Wentworth Woodhouse.
This colossal building has a length of
no less han 200 yards. It's hail is 40 feet
high, and has an area of $500 Square feet;
it is so large, in fact. that a half dozen
suburban houses could be comfortably
placed in it, and it would be possible for
it's owner to live nearly six months in
| Wentworth Woodhouse without spending
two days in the same room.
In addition to this commodious house,
Lord Fitzwilliam has a house in Gros-
venor square and a seat in County Wick
low, while he has an income of over $4,000
a day on which to maintain them.
There are few, if any, private houses
which are $50 greedy of the soiT' as Raby
Castle, Durham, which tan on no less
than two acres of ground. Goodwood,
Chichester, one of the duke of Rich
mond's four houses, has a length of 1876
yards. Eaton Hall, the well known seat
of the duke of Westminster, has a single
corridor much longer than the height of
St. Paul's cathedral. Lord Leconfield's
Sussex seat, Petworth House, is 107 yards
long, and Blenheim Palace is longer still.
Blenheim Palace, indeed, is one of the
most marvellous and bewildering Of all
these mammoth houses. With it's count
less rooms. corridors and staircases it
would be quite possible for two people
to spend a lifetime in it without know
ing Of each others existence. Nothing.
| perhaps, gives a more b~reath-taking idea
of the size and c~ostlinesS of this palace,
built out Of public money for the soldier
duke, thar the fact that a single repair
ing bill is said to v amounted to over
! 81, OUU,UOO, "Illlc llC yCoiiS SAN0ANA oH
runs we'll into four figures.
1t is more than remarkable that one of
the very ugliest houses in England, plain
almost to the verge Of the ludicrous. is
one of the most valuable mansions in
the world. Devonshire House, as seen
from Picadilly, might appea to a casual
eve to be dear at 81, 500 a year; and yet
it's rental value cannot be less than $780,
900 a year. The dukes bedroom in this
treasure of bricks" was, in his ante
nuptial days at any rate, as plain and
unattractive as the building ITSELF and
probably SIS would have bought the en-
tire bedroom suite of a man one alone
of whose seven houses would make him a
millionaire.
Stafford House, st. James. ranks high
| among the stately homes of London.
| Hundreds of thousands of pounds have
been lavished on the house and it's deco
rations. It's magnificent marble stair
case alone represents a small fortune; it's
walls are beautiful from the brushes of
famous Italian painters, and 1T is crowd
ed with pictures and bric-a-brac OF al
most priceless value.
Dorchester House, which gave hospl-
tality to the Ameer's son, is said to have
cost 81. 900, 900, and Lord Burton gave
$3.50, 900 for Chesterfield House, South
Audley street, with it's sumptuous libra
nv and it's unique marble staircase
The duke of Bedford's house In Bel
grave square, Lord Rothschild's in Plea
dilly and Lord Portman's in Portman
SQUARE are among the houses which are