Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-16
MRS. CARNEGIE'S NEW HOME

A 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 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 excavat- ed to 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 landscape gardeners work will come later.
 There are eighty rooms in the Car negie house, and of these easily half are i'll the quarters below ground, that is, in the basement, cellar and sub-cel- 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 S110,000 worth of heating apparatus and $55,00O worth of plumb ing i'll 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 i'll 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.
 Tn tho c11hoa11a~ Two A;pb+e, I,o1ox1y 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 fur. mace, directed automatically, so that from the coal supply one-quarter of ton is emptied into the car 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. 4 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 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 it's terra cotta walls honey-combed with small openings, each large enough to hold one bottle. The laundry and iron ing room are situated in 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 housekeepers' 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 floors are tiled On the floor also is the telephone Central, of the Carnegie mansion. There are twenty telephones ill the house in place of speaking tubes. All electric wires in the house are in- closed in iron pipes. and the unlaid floors at the present time reveal the mechanism employed in this particular. Everything i'll 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 i'll every detail of any that has ever been built
 One flight up from the basement brings one on level with the carriage drive. In this hall are to be wonders unimagined and unwritten. MT Car negie 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 call on official business are to be re- ceived. At the left is the place where the organ will stand. It is said in re- gard to this organ, that the manufac- turers have proved themselves so grasping as to space that the archi- tect recommend that ill future when a house is to be supplied with church organ, the organ be built first and the house built around it. The organ is to cost sixteen thousand dollars.
 On this floor are the usual rooms-the drawing room, the library, Mr Carne- gie's private library and den, and the grand picture gallery, which is two stories high, with skylight overhead. There are the dining room, the break fast room and the hall itself, which is the music room. Only the experienced and imaginative can picture the ap- pearance of these apartments when supplied with all that art can devise. But this is all a secret at present.
 From the arrangements of the rooms on the second floor it is evident that the house has been designed to meet the requirements of the family of the owner, for the entire flood is devoted to the use of three persons. The windows of Mir and Mrs Carnegie's private apartments overlook Central park, the drive and the reservoir lake. This is like view into q private park. Ill the southwest corner is an enormous double room-the bedroom-and from it to- ward the north opens MT Carnegie's dressing room, and opening from that his private bathroom.
 From the other side of the double bedroom is Mrs Carnegie's dressing room, and from that opens her private