The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-17

peel ally for bread and pastry-a wo-
man vegetable cook, a kitchen house
Keeper, and a brace of scullery maids.
Although the number of servants Is
between thirty and forty, without
counting the companion. two private
secretaries, and the almoner, who dis
penses charity and investigates such
appeals for aid as are not upon the
SURFACE fraudulent. The electric en-
gineer lives outside, although his
helper is reckoned among the house
hold stan.
And the Cost Is s3.OOO,OOO.
This is the merest outline of few
salient points. The house, with its
furniThings, represents an investment
a little beyond $1,000 000 That is far
less wonderful than that it is hardly
exceptional. 1t is merely a conspicu-
Gus type among the palace built for
the modern captains of industry There
are finer ones. and very much costlier.
where the owners are connoisseurs,
with weakness for collecting art OBJ
jects of fabulous cost. These gentle
men collectors often store within a
single room art riches surprising a
kings ransom.
Possibly the owner of millions pre-
fers to display them mainly in a great
country estate. Then for his scant
city soJourns he wants only what the
French happily call a foot of earth. a
place where he can rest and poise him
self between flights. 1t must be lux
urious, of course; even in camps and
lodges, so called, there is a palpable
trail of gold dust over everything. He
mas choice between several excel
lent things, all warranted costly
enough, yet not entailing too great
burdens. He may establish himself ut
one of the great hostelries, built, says
an irreverent wit, ito provide exclu-
slVeness for the masses" Or he may
set up his foot of earth in an apart
ment hotel; or, if he is willing to 20
to the level of mere millionaires. he
may live under his own vine and zig
tree, In a cosy apartment, renting for
anything between three and twenty
thousand dollars.
Roman LuxurIes of the Big Hotel
1t is the big hotel which most often
catches the cream of the gilded cream.
Life goes trippingly there, with a holt
day aspect, to the liveliest piping.
The very spectacle is inspiring and
better than half those the play houses
offer. That is. to a mind wholly ma
terial and seeking surcease from vac
ulty, with no sort of mental or emo
tional strain intermixed. If the in
dweller is newly rich, and yearns to
be known and noted, he has but to
make himself severely exclusive in
order to become the center of interest.
lie may rent the state apartments; the
cost is but paltry thousand a week.
and several gentlemen have tried to
take them upon yearly lease. That
will set all the folk who know of it
to staring and talking whenever he
ventures forth, so that all in a breath
the state apartments occupant finds
himself a celebrity. He can increase
the celebrity by having meals served
in private, and if he wishes to APP
proach semi-sensational climax there
must be a man in the corridor keep
ing weather eye upon all who APP
proach the door. Privacy of this Sc
we're and unbending description brings
a reward of publicity truly grateful to
aspiring climbers.
A Royal Disregard of Cost
A royal atmosphere and a truly roy
al disregard of cost mark and dignity
state apartments. There are, perhaps,
ten rooms in them-music-r room. par
Tor, breakfast and dining rooms, recep-
ton cabinet. private secretary's den,
chamber, dressing room, and a bath
lit for Roman emperor. All the wood
work is solid mahogany, the floors are
deadened. the walls hung with bro
cade at ten dollars the yard, or price
less, genuine antique tapestry; or pam
eled In rich woods and OVERLAND with
marvels of the potter's skill The big
bed stands upon a dais, out of defer
ence, possibly, to a royal shade, for it
belonged originally to famous king
The rugs came straight from Persia,
and more than half the furniture is
costly antique stuff. The other moiety
is all hand made and beautifully
wrought. Each room has a separate
color note. but all melt insensibly into
an 1ndescribably harmonious whole
Here is something beyond the glare
and gliding, the fiamboyant frescoes,
onyx, and brasses. and mosaic. so
plentiful elsewhere in the great struc-
ture. Taste and genius, severely re-
lined, wrought here for the perfecting
of all things. 1t is not strange that
some few occupants find themselves
out of harmony with their surround
lngs, bored and in a degree envious of
the folk who have lighter and gayer,
II less distinguished quarters. These
mingle with the throng in palm-room
and smoking-room; mount with the
awed sight-seers to the dizzy nights of
sun parlors up in the fifteenth story,
and take afternoon tea in the palm
room and the corridors where the dress
parade warns the hearts cookies of
feminine onlookers. while men play
softly on stringed instruments as the
tea drinking and gossip go forward.
The ''sweII" Apartment Hotel.
The apartment hotel is very unlike
all this. 1t is no more than an ordi-
nary handsome apartment, with ex-
emption from housekeeping cares. Ma
terially, it is less gorgeous than the
big hotel, yet more ornate than the
average apartment house. In 1t one can
be truly private person If one choos-
es. One can also dine in public with
almost the same show of damask, gilt
ter of silver. and glow of flowers in
evitable on the dinner tables of the
Digger places. There are great ball
rooms, foyers, and roof garden dining
halls. The buildings are light and airy
throughout, we'll built. but each bears
in some subtle fashion, the ear-marlx
OF its construction era. Change is the
apartment hotels law of being What
was the hight of fashion five years
back is distinctly out of architectural
fashion In this present year of grace
one can rent here apartments COM
plete TO the finest detail or wholly
empty, or only partly furnished, so as
to leave room for ones special Lares
ana Penates The tenant has little TO
DO beyond paying the rent. Light, heat,
service meals. all are looked out for
by the management IL is an easy life.
ana SO easy that IL often ends by be-
coming strenuous. Variety is inpossi-
Die In the menu. or rather that sort OF
variety which satisfies palates. strong
~ individual So in the main Il Is a
we suited only to very lazy, or very
busy people, There must be "a great