The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-13
MRS. CARNEGIE'S NEW HOM \
PLAIN BUT ELEGANT MANSION
That WilI Contain Eighty Rooms
 Half of Them Underground.

Carnegie, at Ninetieth street and Fiftl
 | avenue, Already one block has beer sacrificed and others are to follow. II order to make landscape gardening pos
 sible, the solid rock has been excavat l ed to a depth of ten feet, the huge bas in thus made has been drained and fill | ed in with loam, and in this bed thirty
 maple trees have been planted The 1 landscape gardeners work will come l later.
 There are eighty rooms in the Car | negie house, and of these easily half are in the quarters below ground, that | is, in the basement, cellar and subcel- | lar Here the plumbers have held pos | session for months, laying the founda- | tion of personal comfort as it will be later enjoyed by the residents above stairs. With $11C,000 worth of heating apparatus and $55,000 worth of plumb ing in it's relation to water and the sewerage system there is reason to credit the statement that this Carnegie mansion will 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 ther- mostats, the thousand and one details that no one but an engineer can under stand will represent the fortune in- vested there.
 In the subeellar two flights below ground, is the great furnace and the coal bin that holds 200 tons of coal. Over a miniature railroad track runs a small car between the bin and the fur mace, directed automatically, so that from the coal supply one-quarter of a ton is emptied into the cor at once, af- ter which the car makes it's way to the furnace and deposits it's load into the fire. On this same floor are three huge
 water filters. There are also improve
 ments in the direction of sewerage that
 preclude the possibility of sewer gas.
 The walls, floors and ceilings are tiled
 master engineer, with three assist
 ants. each having corps of three
 hands. will constitute the force em-
 ployed to run the mechanism below
 ground.
 In the cellar proper is the connect
 ing link between the furnace and the
 registers and radiators above. Only
 the mechanical mind can grasp the
 why's and wherfores of the network of
 machinery that here abounds in every
 direction. On this floor everything in
 sight is tiled, The. wine cellar has its
 terra cotta walls honey combed with
 small openings. each large enough to
 hold one bottle. The laundry and iron
 ing room are situated in a corner of the
 cellar, and the drying room is also
 there. These rooms are all small
 Another flight up leads to the base
 ment proper. Here is the Kitchen, the
 pastry kitchen, the housekeeper's pri-
 vate apartment and office, linen closet,
 bootroom, brushroom, servants dining
 room and the stewards office with it's
 window looking out upon the servants entrance, so that he may know of the comings and goings of the world below stairs. Again the walls, ceilings and the telephone Central of the Carnegie mansion There are 20 telephones in the house in place of speaking tubes All electric wires in the house are inclosed in iron popes, and the unlaid floors at the present time reveal the mechanism in this particular. Every thing in the building is fireproof as far as it is constructed up to the present time The kitchen, it is said, will be the most perfect in every detail of any that has ever been built
 One flight up from the basement brings one on a level with the carriage drive. In this hall are to be wonders unimagined and unwritten. Mir. Car negie has given orders that the wood carving shall be the most ornate that is procurable At the right of the front loor is the room where the people who all on official business are to be re- 2eved. At the left is the place where he organ will stand. It is said in re- gard to this organ that the manufac- urers have proved themselves so srasping as to space that the arch- ects recommend that in future when louse is to be supplied with a church | organ, the organ be built first and the l house built around it. The organ is to | ,ost eixteen thousand dollars.
 On this floor are the usual rooms--the lrawing room, the library, MT. Carne- ,ies private library and den, and the grand picture gallery, which is two tories high, with a skylight overhead. 'here are the dining room. the breat- ast room and the hall itself, wAich is he music room. Only the experienced
 md imaginative can picture the ap- tearance of these apartments when upplied with all that art can devise. 'ut this is all a secret at present.
 From the arrangement of the rooms n the second floor it is evident that he house has been designed to meet he requirements of the family of the wner for the entire flood is devoted to he use of three persons. The windows f MT and Mrs Carnegies private ! partments overlook Central Park, the rive and the reservoir lake. This is ke view into a private park, In the 0uthwest corner is an enormous double oom-the bedroom-and from it to- ard the north opens MT. Carnegies ressing room, and opening from that Is private bathroom.
 From the other side of the double 2droom is Mrs Carncgie's dressing ,om, and from that opens her private The oth her rooms on the DOT are the day nursery for little Miss arnegie large, sunshiny room over oking the private grounds; the night lrsery, the private bothroom the lrse's private sitting room, and last, e private pantry, where the child's cd may be prepared in case of emer- ncy. There is a passenger elevator hich runs from the parlor door to the ird floor only and the servants ele- tor which runs from the cellar to l