The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-29
MRs. oARNEeIE.s 49, HolIE.
Mansion VIII Contain so Rooms
Half Of Them Underground

huge block of apartment no

CNeW York Tribune-)
A huge block of apartment houses is
! being demolished and cleared away to
give additional area TO the grounds
surrounding the new mansion of An
drew Carnegie, at Ninetieth street and
Fifth avenue Already one block has
Z been sacrificed and others are TO fol-
low In order 10 make landscape gar
deninE possible, the solid rock has been
/ eXCaVated TO a depth of ten feet, the
huge basin thus made has been drained
and filed in with loan, and in this bed
thirty maple trees have been planted.
/ The landscape gardeners work VIII
come later
There are eighty rooms in the Car
Z neSie house, and of these easily half
are in the quarters below ground. that
IS IN the basement, cellar and sub
cellar Here The plumbers have held
possession for months. laying the foun-
cation Of personal comfort as L. viii
De later enjoyed by the residents above
[ stairs With $4,000 worth Of heating
apparatus and S55,ge0 worth of plumb
ing 10 its relation to water and the
sewerage system, there is reason TO
credit the statement that this Carne-
gle mansion viii have the most perfect
system Of plumbing in the world.
AT present. OF course, everything is
rough, but the boilers, cylinders, brass
pipes, the zinc air boxes. the thermO-
no one but an engineer can under
stand viii represent the fortune in
vested there
In the sub-cellar. two fights below
GROUND, IS the great furnace. and the
coal bin that holds 200 tons of coal
over a miniature railroad track runs
q sIndil car between the bin and the
furnace, directed automatically. so that
from the coal supply One-duarter of 2
s9a Is emPtled into the car at once.
aLleI winch the car makes its way to
tii1 furnace ana deposits load into the
IRE on this same floor are three. huge
water nlters. There are also improve
HenJs m the direction Of sewerage that
preclude the possibility of sewer gas
ne walls, floors and ceilings are tiled.
master engineer, with three assist
ants. each having corps of thee
hands, viii constitute the force en-
ground.
On this floor are the usual rooms
the drawing room. the library. Mr.. car
nesle's private library and den. and the
grand picture gallery. which is two
stories nigh, with a skyIight overhead
There are the dining room. the breal~-
LasJ room and the hall itself. which is
a music ROOM Only the exDerienced
ana imaginative can picture the an
peaIance OF these apartments when
2uliIled with all that art can devise.
out tnlS Is al a secret at present
From the ARRANGEMENT Of the roo-,,s
On the second floor it is evident that
we mouse has been designed to meet
1ue requirements of the family of the
NHef' Tor the entire floor is devoted
' - lI-e use OF three persons The win
.o"S OF Mr.. and Mrs. Carnegfe's prf-
Nate apartments overlook Central mark
me QflFe and the reservoir lake This
- 4lhe view into private park. In
tie southwest corner is an enormous
NOuDle room-the bedroOm-and from il
so"eIu lhe north opens Mr.. Carnegie's
u. V9SiuS room, ana opening from that
MS private bath room
ivHl the other side of the doubIe
Deu room IS Mrs Carnegie,s d-essirq-
room and from that opens her privafs
60 - room. Inc other rooms on the
IiDoI are the day nursery for little
Mss Carnegle, large, sunshiny room
ot Il loohlhB the private grounds: the
IilshL nursery, the private bath room
- - Hti9e private sitting room. and
tne private pantry. where the
cllid FOOD may be prepared in go 4
Of emergency There is p Dasser7e-,-.
elevator, which runs from the cellar to /
tl-e tpp moor, where are the servants /
quarters Inc third floor contains the /
: uest rooms ana is arranged to accom- (
&c large house party when oc-
: S-sloh requires The apartments Of 1
Mrs Carnegie's sister. who is a 7,e,,9 !
floor. 'iiIu
. ,- MI -arnegie has given instructions 4
sLe the most elaborate woodwork in /
me mouse be placed in his own ana his
VIE s private apartments.
a. present the stone coping that fs
70 support the iron fence is being laid /
- ~ intervals Of twenty feet stone col
- VIII add decorative and substan-
Ilal value 10 the wrought iron IF fbo
Lence, which is to be ten feet high.
many people are disappointed bv the
, .alhness of the house. but. as il is
llI. carnegie has pronounced it too
pleted in about one year.