The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-30
NEW YORK PALACES.
TEN DOMEsTTCS THE AVERAGE
NUMBER, But TWENTY-FIVE
NECESSARY.


John Sloan often Has a Dozen
FOotmen for One Entertainment.
This Is the Day of SpeciaIties in
Beauty as Well as science-Mrs.
Lee Tailor Famous for Her Red
Hair, Mrs. Jack Aston Has the
| LoVeIiest Neck, and Mrs. Thorn "a
Cinderella Foot.
In the good old days, when genuine re-
| publican simplicity reigned in New York,
the wives OF the most wealthy nabobs in
the city conducted their households with
! tire aid of five servants at most; nowadays
! ten domestics is the essential number in
! anything like a smartly managed house,
| twenty-five the rule in one of the lesser
! town palaces, and there are at least seven
| houses on upper Fifth avenue where, in
! Guiding stable and house help the list of
| employees numbers nearly fifty busy men
! and women. Just take a look at the win
! doWs Of the Cornelius Vanderbilt, Gerry
| and Aston houses, and any shrewd woman
! will calculate that it would need the ex-
! elusive labOrs of at least one woman 20
| keep the sashes as crystal clear and the
| lace hanginss as frostily white as they
| always are. What with the increasing
| size of the houses, the amount of lavish
| entertaining done, the quantities of sill
| verware steadily in use, the masses of all
| most priceless bric-a-brac to be cared for.
! and bowers of expensive plants 70 be
! tended, it is no idle waste for a fashion
able hostess 10 call a number OF expert
| domestics to her aid
The great ladies of New York as it stood
/ naf a century ago, would, however, Won
! der at some of the servants now setdown
/ on the domestic pay roll. For example
| Mrs. Burden, Mrs. Twombly and their
! friends not only employ housekeepers. but
! a so what is known as a confidential maid.
| This woman waits on nobody, but usually
| gets $50 a month, and her business is 10
| keep big, richly stocked linen closets in
! order, dust the precious bric-a-brac. see
! that no moths get into the invaluable rugs,
| prune, wash and water the house plants
and with her own hands wash and put
away all the costly glass and china used
| at every luncheon, dinner or supper party.
| The amount of excitement and actual cash
| her efforts save in a splendid New York
mansion more than Justify her wages. Be
/ sides the confidential maid in these big
! homes, where SO much money is laVished
! in decoration, so much plate used and jew
! cry worn, il is necessary to keep a door
man He is one of the three men usually
employed in a fine house. one of the trio
uaiting ar tatla r,,bhiny ,,Iato ora I-oIet
mo +be ee,+;arr,a,, h. ~ tbird o,,,r,Ia,,,
rarely. les',.ee ,I,o front door and be is I,a,-
sonally responsible for the safety of the
! valuables Three times in the night he pa
| trols the entire house, and all day ne is On
| duty, bur especially is he alert when an
entertainment is given, and a crowd of
| guests offer opportunities for the en-
trance of sneak thieves.
to haiF al rrY1 In, . Lo.
! house, these male dOmestics are consid-
cred excessively mOdish and ornamental
| and it was Mrs. Pierpont Morgan who set
the now prevailing fashion of three men
in attendance on lat home days and
| made IL obligatory for the front door bell
| to be answered on the instant. At Mrs
| Morgan's great Madison avenue residence
touch at the bell swings back imme-
diately two massive oak doors, and be-
| hold! a stately footman stands al either
SIDE of the entrance, the butler in the
middle boWng ever so slightly, ready to
conduct and announce The caller at tho
drawing room door Among fashionable
domestics the Pierpont Morgan, the Ger
~ and the john Sloan houses are regard
ed as offering quite the most desjrab be po-
stions in New York. They are the mecca
Of the ambitious, and in event of large
entertainments IN these houses, il is no
uncommon sight 10 find handsome foot
ment posted at nearly every door on the
first floor, quite after the fashion in the
royal European palaces.
Women With Famous Features.
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tenn 10 a DOint of nprfectiOu that cannot
fail 70 aroi1se interest and 'adrriration no