The times., 1899-03-12

East side boys. Young Mr.. Goddard lives
portion OF every year in two plain
rooms, practically disappears from the
ken OF his equals and courts the acquaint-
ance OF any sorry youth who needs guild
ance in the art OF plain living and high
thinking. Mr.. Hammond is the moving
spirit in a boys club associated with
Hartley House. Joel Thorn whose father
is one OF New York's most prominent mil
lionaires, deyotes his spare energies TO the
neighboring guild, and young Arson
Stokes has pretty well made up his mind
10 forsake society for the pulpit He has
a mission of his own in helping boys 10
get educations.
The way into the parlors of magnificent
new houses, rising to adorn the upper
gions of New York city with almost painful
splendor. is up stairs that whether they
wind or not are magnificent beyond any
thing ever seen before in America. When
Levi 7. Morton, Coils p. Huntington Mrs
Belmont, Mrs. Paget, and scores of other
housebuilders interviewed their architects
they deeply impressed the men of plans
with their desires TO own grand stairways
The Huntingtons actually set the fashion
and stirred up enviOus emulation by
spending $4,000 on the stairway of their
Fifth Avenue palace. Mr. Victor Newcomb
an effect by using richly carved rose and
black marble, paneed with mirrors That
was the top notch reached until the AS
tors and Ex-Governor Morton adopted curry
ing white marble steps. the balustrade run
ming TO the ceiling, opening at intervals in
ovals through the fretted marble that
the steps seem in reality TO be a series of
exquisite Juliet balconies.
later fashion, however has arrived.
Z ErCf IL rod In Ion zoe
Speyer's, the millionaire bankers. house.
Out of the hallway of his Madison Avenue
home springs a lofty path of wonderfully
wrought black iron. The design for the
baustrade was done in France, and the
pattern of iron Is as richly ornate and
seemingly almost as delicate as Venetian
rose point. The steps are all openwork of
iron, with a verdant way of emerald green
velvet running up the center, while the top
of the rail is bound with green velvet. 4
stairway of this type costs about $4,000
| and seems really more in keeping with do
nestle interiors than the marble gorgeous
ness.
| Housebuilders and owners have put some
| OF their fads behind them. 1t Is too easy
for a dweller in Il fiat or a gingerbread sea
/ side cottage to have cheap imitation of
/ japanese or Turkish rooms for their charm
/ TO retain any hold on the exclusive New
/ Orker, so lne Jap ana ffehcn rooms are
| faded fashions. The fancy now is TO dwell
! In domed apartments. 10 have rooms with
the walls left in the rough and then abso-
! lutely covered with mirrors or tapestry.
! Mrs H. f Dimock, for example, possesses
the finest hall of mirrors in New York. 1t
! is miniature imitation Of the galerie des
miroirs in the palace of Versailles. 1t is
! similarly lighted and is used for a ball and
| reception room on great occasions. In Mrs
! Belmont's, Mrs. Rhinelander's and Mrs.
! Clews' houses the walls of the drawing
! rooms are absolutely unseen for the rich
| tapestries that hang from the ceiling to
the floor, as they did in medieval days
! chiefly then TO keep out drafts and hold
the heat.
One of the very most talked of rooms this
winter in New York is the dining-h hall in
! Mrs. Paget's house. 1t is the first Of a
series of Wedgewood rooms. Others have
been patterned on this one. but none are
SO beautiful. for the dining-hall is long and
| lofty and the gray-green walls, half way
paneled with carved oak, are decorated