The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-09
new HOME
Steel King Building a Palatial Resi-
dence in New York City.

huge block Of apartment houses IS
being demolished and cleared away to
give additional area to the grounds sur
rounding the new mansion of Andrew
Carnegie, at Ninetieth street and E1fth
avenue. says the New York Tribune Al
ready one block has been sacrificed and
others are to follow. In order to make
landscape gardening possible, the SOHO
rock has been excavated to a de th or
ten feet, the huge basin thus made has
been drained and filed in with loan, a7d
in this bed thirty maple trees have been
planted. The landscape gardeners work
will come later
There are eighty rooms in the Carnegie
house, and Of these easily half are in the
quarters below ground that is, I'm the
basement, cellar and su0celar. Here the
plumbers have held possession for
months laying the foundation OF per-
sonal comfort, as it will be later enjoyed
by the residents above stairs With 49,
coo worth of heating apparatus and $780,
900 worth of plumbing in its eaton to
water and the sewage system there is
reason to credit the statement that this
Carnegie mansion will have the M s.
perfect system OF plumbing n the Ww Id
At present. of course, everything Is
rough, but the boilers, cylinders, brass
pipes, the zinc air boxes, the thermoS tats
the thousand and one details that no one
but an engineer can understand, viii rep
resent the fortune invested there.
In the subcellar two fights below
ground Is the great furnace ard the
coal bin that holds zoo tons of coal. Over
miniature railroad track runs a small
car between the bin and the furnace, di-
rected automatically. that from the
coal supply one-quarter of a ten Is
emptied into the car at once. after which
the car makes its way ID the furnace.
and deposits its load INFO the fire. en-
this same floor are three huge water
filters. There are also improvements in
the direction Of sewage that p.eclude the
possibility Of sewer gas The walls, fl 1ors
and ceilings are tiled. A master eng. neer,
with three assistants, each having
corps of three hands, VIII constitute the
force employed to run the mechanism be-
low ground.
BELOW STAIRS.
In the cellar proper Is the connecting
link between the furnace AMI the reg
listers and radiators above Only the me-
chanical mind can grasp the why's ana
Wherefores of the network Of machinery
that here abounds in every direction. On
this floor everything in sight is tilsd. The
wine cellar has it's terra Gotta walls
honeycombed with small openings, each
large enough to hold ore bottle. The
laundry and ironing room are situated in
a corner of the cellar, and the dying
room is also there. These rooms are all
small.
Another fight up leads to the basement
proper. Here is the kitchen. the pastry
kitchen. the housekeeper's private apart
ment and Office, linen closet, boot room,
brush room. servants dining room ana
the stewards Office with its window look
ing out upon the servants entrance, so
that he may know Of the comings ana
goings Of the world below stairs Again
the walls, ceilings and floors are tiled.
On this floor also is the telephona Cen
tra1" Of the Carnegie mansion. There are
twenty telephones In the house in PLACE
OF speaking tubes. AL electric wires In