New-York tribune., 1901-05-31
MRS. CARNEGIE'S HOME.
SHE WILL PRESIDE OVER EIGHTY
ROOMS IN HER NEW HOUSE
IN FIFTH AVENUE.


A huge block Of apartment houses is being de-
molshed and cleared away 10 give additional
to the grounds surrounding the new mansion
O. Andrew Carnegie at Ninerieth-st and Fifth
ave. Already block has been sacrificed and
others ere follow In order 10 make landscape
gardening possible the solid rock has been ex-
oa-ated 10 a depth OF ten feet the huge basin
thus made has been drained and filed in with
loam. and 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 in the quarters below
ground, that S. in the basement, cellar and sub
cellar. Here the plumbers have held possession
for months. laying the foundation of personal com
fort it viii be later enjoyed by the residents
above stairs. With $4,000 worth Of heating ap-
paratus and S55e00 worth of plumbing in its rela-
tion 10 water and the sewage system there is
reason 10 credit the statement that this Carnegie
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 thermostats, the thousand and
details tnat one but engineer can under
stand, viii represent the fortune invested there
In the sub-cellar TWO flights below ground is the
great furnace and the coal bin that holds 200 tons
Of coal over a miniature railroad track runs
small car between the bin and the furnace directed
automatically, that from the coal supply one
quarter Of ton is emptied into the car at once,
after which the makes its way TO the fur
mace and deposits its load into the fire. On this
floor three huge water filters. There
are also improvements in the direction of sewage
that preclude the possibility Of gas The
walls. floors and ceilings are tiled. master
engineer with three assistants. each having
corps of three hands will constitute the force en-
ployed run the mechanism below ground
BELOW STAIRS
In the cellar proper is the connecting link be-
tween the furnace and the registers and radiators
above Only the mechanical mind grasp the
why's and wherefores 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 Gotta walls honeycombed with small
openings each large enough TO hold bottle.
The laundry and ironing 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 basement proper.
Here IS the kitchen, the pastry kitchen,
The housekeeper's private apartment and Office
linen closet, boot room, brush room, ser
wants dining room and the stewards office with
its window looking out upon the servants en-
trance that he may know or the comlngs
walls ceilings and floors are tiled On this floor
also is the telephone Central. OF the carnegie
house in place Of speaking tubes. All electric
I T a6 II h 66 h9gs al are the pTesn IN e HH Re the
mechanism employed in this particular. Every
constructed up 10 the present time The kitchen,
Il is said viii be the most perfect in every detail
AN IMMENSE ORGAN.
One flight up from the basement brings one on
q level with the carriage drive In this hall are
70 be wonders unimagined and unwritten MI
Carnegie has given orders that the wood carving
shall be the most ornate that is procurable AT
the right Of the front door is the room where the
people who cali on official business are TO be re-
ceiVed. At the left is the place where the organ
Will stand II IS said regard TO this organ that
the manufacturers have proved themselves so
grEsp!ng space that the architects recon-
pAec with church organ, the organ be bullt nfst
Sc co.
On this floor are the usual rooms-the drawing
and Gen. and the grand picture gallery which is
S4so the billiard room and when Is Two STORES
nigh. with a skylight overhead. There is the
dining the breakfast room ana the
nan itself, which is the music room only the
experienced and imaginative can picture the ap-
peaTance Of these apartments when supplied with
az that devise But this is all secret
al present.
From the arrangement Of the rooms on the
second floor IL Is evident that the house mas been
designed meet the requirements OF the family
oI the owner, for the entire moor is devoted 10
lhe use OF three persons. The windows OF Mr. and
mrs CarneRies private apartments overlook Cen
lFal Park the drive and the reservoir lake. This
4 Ike view into private park In the south-
west corner is enormous double rOom-the bee
Loofn-and from II toward tho north opens Mr..
,Iarneg1e's dressing room, and opening from that
MS private bathroom From the other side
room, and from that opens her private bathroom.
ne other rooms the floor are the day nursery
Lor ltue Miss Carnegie. a large sunshiny room
overlooking the private grounds; the night nuf-