The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-18
CARNEGIE DWELLS IN REGAL PALACES He Has a Splendid Residence
 in New York HE ENTERTAINS LAVISHLf Although He Breaches the Simple Life Iron Master Lives Surrounded
 by Every Luxury That
 Money Can uy.
HE EN1ERTAINS LAvISHLY

found place in recent print recall the fact that MT. Andrew Carnegie in the last five years has placed himself in a position to entertain lavishly. In that time he has purchased an ancient estate of 40,O00 acres in the highlands of Scotland, and over the ruins of the old feudal castle built at a million dollars expenditure, the splenlid edihce, Slribo Castle, in which he is now residing. For $S9O,00O he pur- chased plot of land on Fifth avenue. in this city between Ninetieth and Ninety first streets, and built thereon a mansion that is the most sumptuous private res- idence in this city, and which cost the ironmaster more than a million dollars. On the heights overlooking the St. An drew golf links at Chauncey, in Vest chester county, he has built pretty res idence, costing $S0,0OO, and within the pe- riod of half decade he has become the possessor of an island In the sea off the southern Georgia coast and built upon 1t a stately mansion. He has made the island hunting preserve of extraordina- ry attractiveness to all who love the l sport, which he himself does not care for.
 When Mir. Carnegie planned the mag nificent residence in this city, which on completion he presented to his little daughter Margaret on Christmas day, 1902, he declared: "It will be the most modest and roomy house in New York A grand palace would be foreign to our tastes"
 Yet 1t Is doubtful if any residence In New York is more palatial-not only more roomy, but more splendid.
 In Wealth and It's Uses," MT. Car negie, in 1895, wrote;
 The epithet to which every rich man should wish himself justly entitled Is that seen upon the monument of Pitts He lived without ostentation as he died poor."
 MT. Carnegie is still very robust man. 1 Among his earliest guests in his mag nificent home in the Scotch highlands was the king of England, Edward VII. Since then the guests at Sdbo have numbered far into the hundreds. They come and go at the beautiful castle where MT. Carnegie, the American mill lionaire, is the highland chieftain.
 Skibo is the most splendid private res- idence in Scotland, as the Carnegie house in Fifth avenue surpasses all others in New York. Is there ostentation in all this? The answer is:
 There is butt
 
 It all depends on the definition of the word
 l MT. Carnegie is an apostle of the simple life. He desires to make others happy. The simple life" is not impossible amid spacious and magnificent surroundings. It Is not impossible to escape into the quiet from retinues of servants Il and to live simply where there are expensive | furnishings
 Skibo Castle has fifty rooms and the house in New York has eighty One can not make others happy by entertaining l them lavishly, without rooms and ser wants and the comforts of life many also require the luxuries to be completely comfortable, and these the laird of Skibo Castle has also provided for.
 Vast Fifth Avenue Mansion.
 MT. Carnegie has entertained but little | in the great New York house, but that 1t was planned to contribute to others a similar happiness to that to which skibo is being devoted by affording entertain ment to many guests Is argued by it's I spaciousness. MT. Carnegie's family is small-himself, his wife and his favored | little daughter-yet half a hundred per- sons could be pleasantly entertained in | the vast Fifth avenue mansion Four hundred could be seated in the great hall of the house and listen to the stately music of the organ.
 Until today no plan of the interior of | this house as 1t was finally constructed has ever been published. The main en- trance to the house is on Ninety-frst street. Through the grand yestibule, with its grated door and it's inner gate l or bronze, one aScends a short and broad marble stairway to the sumptu- 1 ous hall that runs through the center of the building. It is a stately corridor. more than one hundred feet in length with fine rooms opening from it. afford ing to the gaze beautiful vistas wherever one stands. At the east end of the great hall Is the organ, which cost s35, ,OO0 half a hundred gilded tubes of its 5000 pipes showing above the three-decked key board. At the west end is a large fire place.
 l At the east of the entrance from Nine 1 ty-first street a grand stairway leads up from the hall to the floors above, and the wide and brilliantly lighted opening | through which 1t ascends lends altitude to the scene and gives the mellow notes of the organ access to the rooms above.
 At the west end of the house facing on Fifth avenue are the business office of MT. Carnegie, his private reception room | and his personal library and reading room. This suit of small chambers Is cut on from the rest of the house by a | lobby that is entered only by the general library, which is one of the five rooms overlooking the garden at the south of the house. In the picture gallery, which Is building at the east of the house connected with it by short corridor and lighted from the roof, are S50O00 worth of pictures and statuary, and in the con- l servatory, which opens out of the pretty breakfast room in an elliptical-shaped round-roofed building of bronze and glass, are a wealth of rare plants, in- cluding the most beautiful of orchids
 Many Other Rooms.
 Besides MT. and Mrs. Carnegie's apart ments on the second floor, there are a number of rooms for guests each with it's private dressing and bath rooms. On this floor also are the well lighted quar- ters for the children-playrooms sleep ing rooms, separate bath rooms, conven- lent quarters for nurses etc. On the third floor are most guest chambers and apartments. There are also on this floor two small but fully equipped hispital wards.
 The upper floors are reached by ele- vato-s, of which there arr four In the house. all operated automatically by the touching of a button. The button near the elevator shaft will not only bring the elevator to the desired floor, but the elevator cannot be started up or down again until the person has entered 1t or has released it by pressing the button | l~~ nIo k<>x- t.of