The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JANUARY s. 1902

surprises, 1aSnlonS ana lads. AND So
| ciety has not been disappointed.
Mrs. Mackay is a new type of the
fashionable woman, and from every
| viewpoint she is interesting. She has
| almost everything that one can wish
Tor, lnoluding princely palace.
She is beauty, with dark hair, dark
| eyes and an exquisite figure.
She is the idolized wife of young
! Clarence Mackay, whose fortune may
! be estimated at S35. 900, 900, whose name
| is power in the financial world, and
| whose busines ability is equal to that
| of his famous fathers.
She is the pet of her millionaire ia
ther-in-law, John w Mackay, the min
ing prince
She is mistress of one of the most
beautiful country homes in America
The. house is situated on the highest
! point on Long Island-Harbor Hill
! where the view is unsurpassed. 1t is
400 feet above the level of the sea. 1t
| is about two miles from the little rail-
road station of Rosyln, L. l. The es-
tate is one Of the finest and most pic
turesque in this country, the land ly
! ing to the west of the Wheatley Hills,
| among which nestle the mansions of
such we'll known New Workers as Will
liam c. Whitney, Perry Tiffany, Lloyd
! Bryce and Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.
The house is built of gray granite.
and is most imposing. 1t is 1888 feet
long from east to west and 100 feet
/ broad from north to south. The en-
trance, with its series of marble ter
races and wide steps. is ON the south
| side.
When the great oaken doors are
opened one finds himself within a pal
ace of surprises.
! A palace with twenty-siX bathrooms,
l each wonder in itself.
4 A palace where the mantels nave
been transported from ancient Euro
pean palaces; where the staircase and
| the panels are a study in carving, and
| where the electric lights CLEAN
and glow from out all sorts
| of curious places, and beneath
such fanciful formed and eX-
| quisitely tinted shades that one is quite
sure he has stepped straight into fairy
land.
A palace with a separate room for
every one of Mrs Mackay's thirty
servants, and culinary department
| which is perfection.
No such wonderful bath has ever
| been seen in America as Mrs. Mackays
own bath at Harbor Hill. The bath
was brought over from Italy, and is
cut from a solid block of marble.
It is hard to describe its beauty, but
better appreciation of it may be had
when one realizes that it actually cost
$40, 900. The bathroom itself is another
wonder. 1t is all in white-all of mar
BILE. 1t is 20 feet square. The bath is
sunk in the floor, and broad marble
steps-hve of them-lead down to it,
OF course, the water is not turned on
form ordinary faucets. Oh dear, no!
1t spouts from the mouths of exquisite
ly carved marble dolphins.
! Another feature of the bath room is
| a great fire. place, built into the side
| wall of the room. Each one of the other
twenty-five bath rooms in the house
has a luxurious Pompeiian bath, let
down in the marble floor in the same
! way.
| Mrs. Mackay's suite of rooms are in
the western section of the house. The
color scheme is lavender and the wood
| work French mahogany. The rooms are
decorated by high priced artists, and
an odd feature of the doors is that
they are sectioned in plate glass panels
and have cut glass handles. There are
| many and big windows in each room.
A big portion of this sumptuous
house is reserved exclusively for little
Miss Katharine Duer Mackay, who is
| most important member of the house
| hold. Her apartments are connected
with Mrs. Mackay's own suite. There
are three rooms for Baby Mackay,
which are furnished in the daintiest
manner imaginable, with the trimmings
of solid silver.
At the western end of the house is
| also the Salon and the library, and
these magnificent rooms look out upon
a grand conservatory and a series of
Pompeiian columns, which support a
great piazza. From the windows at
this side Of the house New York can
be seen on a clear day, while the north
ern outlook shows the ripping waters
of Hampstead Bay, and from the south
| one can see the ocean beyond a pic
| turesque landscape.
The ball room is another feature of
! this palace of splendor. When one first
enters the door, this room appears like
an immense hallway. 1t runs the en-
tire length of the house and measures
so feet in length by 40 in width by %
in hight. Wide balconies of carved old
English oak decorate the upper story
To the left of this great room is a
| magnificent staircase of English oak
which leads to the southwest wing
| Other passages to the right terminate
in Mr.. Mackay's rooms, the billiard
rooms and the dining rooms.
There is also a roof garden to this
house of wonders
1t was Mrs. Mackays own idea that
each of her thirty servants should have
| a separate room. The rooms are small
| but are sunshiny and comfortable.
The culinary section of the house
would certainly make the chatelaines
of the chateaux in Europe gasp with
| surprise, The kitchen alone is modern
marvel. The tradesmen will come and
go unseen, for they are to enter be-
| hind great screens of shrubbery and
pas into a court yard cleverly hidden
behind a stone wall.
The day has gone by. says the Phil
| adelphia North American, when dane
| ing as an amusement was looked at
askance. Even chruch people, the ma
\ jorfty of them, 40 longer frown on it.
Thus it has come about that dancing
! was never more popular than now. The
| American Society of Dancing Teach
| ers, at it's annual meeting. keeps it,
| self busy evolving something new that
! shall strike the youthful fancy and
| the dances of the season are now look
ed forward to as eagerly as are the
newest fashions in clothes.
/ The dances this winter are to be par
ticularly picturesque. Pretty figures
and odd combinations are their dis
/ tinctive characteristics. 1t is said that
| people who have been whrling around
! in waltzes and two-steps longer than
! they care to remember had best get
comptent instructor and take lessons
| Immediately. To know only the old
| dances is a dreadful give away of your
date,
| Not that the two-step and the waltz
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