The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-01
Mr.. CARNEGIE'S NEW HOME
The Fifth Avenue Mansion to Have
Over Eighty Rooms.

New York Apartment Houses Being
Demolished to mike Space for
Landscape Gardening Costly
Plumbing and Heating Apparatus.
NEW YORK June IA huge block of
apartment houses Is being demolished and
cleared away to give additional area to
the grounds surrounding the new mansion
Of Andrew Carnegie, at Ninetieth Street
and Fifth Avenue. Already one block has
been sacrificed and others are to follow
In order to make landscape gardening pos
Sible. the solid rock has been eXcaVatsd to
q 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 gar
dener's work viii come later
There are eighty rooms in the Carnegie
house. and of these easily half are in the
/ quarters below ground. that is. IN the
/ basement. cellar. and sub-ce,lar. Here the
! plumbers have held possession for months,
/ laying the foundation Of personal com
/ fort as it viii be later enjoyed by the res
J iGents above stairs With S1IaG@1 worth Of
/ heating apparatus ard S55,eJg worth of
! plumbing in its relation to water and the
| sewage system there Is reason to credit
( the statement that this Carnegie mansion
| viii have the most perfect system of
plumbing in the world.
| At present. If course, everything IS
! rough, but the boilers. cylinders. brass
| pipes, the zinc air boxes. the thermo-
| stats. the thousand ana one details that
| no one but an engineer can understand,
| will represent the fortune invested there
| In the sub-celIar two flights below
| ground is the great furnace, and the coal
/ hat of a
miniature railroad track runs a small car
| between the bin and the furnace, direct
| ed automatically, SO that from the coal
| supply one-quarter Of a ton IS emptied
! into the car at once. after which the car
| makes its way to the furnace, and depos-
! its its load into the fire On this same
/ floor are three huge water filters. There
| are also improvements il the direction of
! sewage that preclude the possibility Of
| sewer gas. The walls. floors. and ceilings
| are tiled a master engineer with three
! assistants, each having q corps Of three
| hands, viii constitute the force employed
/ 70 run the mechanism below ground
In the cellar proper Is the connecting
link between the furnace and the registers
/ and radiators above. Only the mechani-
! cal mind can grasp the why's and where
1 fores Of the network Of machinery that
mere abounds in every direction. On this
floor everything in sight is tiled The wine
cellar has its terra Gotta walls honey
Combed with small openings. each large
/ enough to hold one bottle The laundry
/ and ironing room are situated in corner
/ Of the cellar, and the driving room is also
| there. These rooms are all small.
Another flight up leads to the basement
! proper Here is the kitchen, the pastry
kitchen, the housekeepers private apart
(
brush room. servants dIning-room. and
the stewards Office with its window look
ing out upon the servants entrance, so
/ that he may know Of the COmtngS and
! gOings OF the world below stairs. Again
| the walls ceilings, ana floors are Llgd-
/ On this floor also is the telephone cen
! traI' Of the Carnegie mansion. There are
/ twenty telephones in the house in place
/ of speaking tubes All electric wires in
! the house are enclosed in iron PHI =, and
/ the unlaiG floors at the present time re-
/ veal the mechanism employed in this par.
/ ticuiaT- Every thing III the building Is
/ fTepTO0f as far as il Is constructed up 10
I the present time The kitchen it is said
VIII be the most perfect in every details
OF any that has ever been built
one flight up from the basement bring:
one on level with the carriage drive II
this hall are 20 be wonders UuiIna giueC
ana unWTltten- Mr. Carnegie has gIEeT
orders that the wood carving shall be tn,
most ornate that IS procurabIe- At th'
right of the front door IS the TOorl whert
!
are 10 be received At the left IS tbs
i / place where the organ viii stand 1t /!
! said IN regard to this organ that TIT
/ manufacturers have proved themSelve!
so grasping as to space that the archi
| tects recommend that in future when
] house is to be supplied with 4 churcl
/ organ, the organ be built first and tht
; ! house built around it. The organ IS L
| cost $4,000.
. on this floor are the usual rooms-th.
; ! drawing-TOOm, the library, BIT. CaTHe
! ria'S nd
/ grand picture gallery which IS also tn
| biIliard-rOOm, and which is two stOrie!
/ high. with a skyIight overhead Their
! IS the dInlng-TOOm. the DTedkfaSt-TOOm
and the hall itself, which IS the music
| room. Only the experienced and the i'm
| aginative can picture the appearance OF
these apartments when supplied with al
that art can devise But this IS all q Sc
| Cret at present
From the arrangement Of the rooms or
the second floor II Is evident that tho
! house has been designed to meet the re
| quiremeUts Of the family Of the owner
! for the entire floor IS devoted to the use
| of three persons The windows Of Mr. anc
Mrs CaTnegie'S private apartments over
look Central Park, the drive and the res
/ eTvOir lake. This Is Ike view into {
private park IN the southwest corner Is
I an enormous double rOOm-the bedroom
/. and from il toward the north opens Mr.
/ CGTnegie's dressing room, and the open
| ing from that his private bathroom + ron
the other side Of the double bedroom Is
Mrs. CaTuegie's dressing room, and from
/ that opens her private bathroom The
other rooms on the floor are the day nuT.
sery for little Miss Carnegie. a large
sunShiny room overlooking the private
grounds. the night nursery. the private
bathroom, the nurses private sitting
room and, last, the private pantry. where
the Child's food may be prepared in case
OF emergency There IS q passenger eIe.
vatJr which runs from the parlor floor
to the third floor only, and the servants
/ elevator. which runs from the cellar e
the top floor where are the servants
! quarters. The third floor contains thC
guest rooms and IS arranged to accomno-
! date large house party when occasion
requires. The apartments Of MIS-. Car
uegie's sister. who IS q member of Tho
| family. are on the third floor
/ Mr.. Carnegie has given instructions
! | that the most elaborate woodwork in the
! house be placed in his own and his wife's
private apa rtTuents- At present the stone
| coping that Is 10 support the iron fence
/ is being laid. At intervals Of twenty feet
| stule columns VIII add decorative anC
substantial value 70 the wrought iron OF
the fence, which is to be ten feet high
Many people are disappointed by the
Dlainness Of the house. but. as it IS. Mr.
Carnegie has pronounced It too fancy
/ TO suit him. 1t viii be completed in about