The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
strife, the life-and- death struggle. pitt

strife, the life-and- death struggle.-piti-
less, MEMORABLE.
what would have been a. hostile biyouac
within the city's gates but for the mat
ter Of q few centuries Is now, to select
an example which remotely concerns us,
a noble structure on Riverside drive, fac
ing the lordly Hudson and the majestic
Palisades that form its farther wall. And,
for the horde OF Goths and Visigoths
Huns and yandals, drunkenly Keeling in
the fitful light OF camphres, chanting
weird battle runes, fighting for captive
yestals, and pickering in uncouth tongues
over the golden spells, what have we now
to make the parallel convince? Why, the.
same barbarians, actually; the same hairy
! rudeness, the same unrefined, all-con-
quering, animal force; red-faced, big
handed lot, imbued with hearty good ma
lsture and an easy tolerance for the ways
| Of those upon whom they have descended. I
| Here are chiefs of renoWn from the far
| thest Businesses; they and their curious
/ households, the ironmonger from Pitts |
burg the gold miner from Dawson, the
copper chief from Butte, the silver chief |
| from Denver, the cattle chief from Okla |
homa, lord OF three hundred thousand
good acres and thirty thousand cattle, the
lumber prince from Michigan, the founder
Of a later dynasty in oil, from Texas.
4 And, for the unaesthetic but effective
4 Attila, an able fashioner Of pork products
from Chicago.
Here they make festival, carelessly, UNI
afraid, unmolested. For, in the lapse Of
time, the older peoples have learned not
only the folly Of resisting inevitables,
but that the huge and hairy invaders may
be treated and bartered with not unprof1t-
ably. Doubtless it often results from this
amity that the patrician strain Is COR
rupted by the alien mountaineering bust
. ness has been business since as many as
!, two persons met on the face of the new
earth.
. For example, this particular shelter is
builded upon land which one of the pa
? trician families had held for a century
solely because it could not be disposed Of.
I. Yet the tribesmen came, clamoring for
7 palaces, and now this same land, with
some adjoining areas of trihing extent,
, produces an income that will suffice to
maintain that family almost in its an
a cient and BETTING estate.
In this mammoth pile for the petty
;, rental Of ten or fifteen thousand dollars
. a. year, many tribes of the invaders
/, have found shelter and entertainment in
: apartments of many rooms. Outwardy,
| in details of ornam entation, the building
y Is said to duplicate the ChateauX Blois,
y = those splendid palaces of Francis I. In
y side arc all the line and color and device
& Of elegant opulence, modern to the last
. note.
, To this palace Of an October evening
~ comes the tribe of Bines, and many an
= abode of Barbarian Silas Higbee. The
carriages pass thru pair of lordly iron
;, gates, swung from massive stone pillars
| under an arch of wrought iron with its
:, antique lamp, and into the echoing court
- yard f1anked by trim hedges of box.
~ Alighting, the barbaric guests of Hig-
~ bee are ushered thru marble-walle6
- vestibule, from, which a wrought-iro ant
8 = bronze screen gives way to the mair
~ entrance hall. The ceiling here repro
i lol L. n
e. e, with some trif1ing and effective touches
- of decoration in blue, scarlet and gold
The walls are Of white Caen stone, will
- ornate windows and balconies jutting on
~ | above. In one Garner is a stately ston
- - mantel with richly carved hood, bearin,
:. in its central panel the escutcheon of tn
:. - gallant French monarch. Up little fiigh
-. Of marble steps, guarded by its hand-ra
10 Of heavy metal. shod with crimson velvet
one reaches the elevator Il; This pretty en-
49, closure of iron and glass; of classic deta
,,1e in the period of Henry rII3, of Circassia
20 walnut trim, with crotch panels has NOR
' the aspect of boudoir than elevator. TIL
~ deep seat is of walnut upholstered wit
80 fat cushions Of crimson velvet edge
~ in dull gold galleon. Over the seat is
no no mirror cut into small squares by woode
~ muntins. At EACH side, are electr
= candles softened by red silk shades One
last view before the door closes noise
-, lessly lis of a sbayYswind dow opposite, ST
-. with, cathedral glass easement light
=; ~ which sheds its soft roolorsiupon the hal
He 49, 49, ~ 500 S - 80 80
- 49,. The door to the Higbee domain is of pc
a., ished mahogany, set between lights of al
a ,ni tique verte Italian glass, and bearing {
Nc ancient brass knocker. From the rece
a a-la ton room, with it's walls of green empi
e 81 silk, one passes thru a foyer hall, Of Co
~, doya leather hangings,' to the DRAWN
- room with it's three broad windows O
49, posite the entranceto this superb room
~. a mantel Of carved Caeni stone, faced wi
Us golden Pavanazza MARBLE with
, s Roman andirons Of gold ending in t
81 ~ f1eur-de-lis. The walls are hung with bl
- Florentine silk, embossed in silver. B
~ ~ yond bronze grill is the MUSHROOM,
~, - library done in Austrian oak with stain
burlap panelled by dull-forged nails,
49,. conservatory, a billiardroom, a smokir
ing room. This latter has walls of red c
oo,. mask and a rnante1 with Post Tenebl
ing. $50 - ,,,;a, ~ ,,.ar+t,,, Ioseaa ~
7sus this splendor is wont often to glance w
respectful interest.
The admirable host-if one be bros
minded-is now in the drawing
les seconding his worthy wife and daugh
o ,,l who welcome the dinner guests.
Ivy (To be continued Monday