Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26

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| sty. I will tell you more about it another
| time. Several of his pictures and some OF
| his antiquities are in the Metropolitan Mu-
| scum but more packed away in the
vaults of banks and safe deposit companies.
| The greater part of his modern articles are
! still in London because he declines to pay
| duty upon them He is waiting until his
| museum is finished. when he can bring
| them in without duties, because he pro-
poses to make 1t a semi-public institution
| and intrust its contents to perpetual
board of trustees for the benefit of science
! and education. There has been good deal
| of criticism concerning the location of Mr.
Morgan's museum, because within a few
| years it will be in the middle of the retail
| shopping district, but it seems to me that
| is an advantage. People will not have to
waste time in going to see 1t. Mr.. Nor
gan's residence is very modest one. He
| is surrounded by the solid citizens OF
| New York-old families who are very much
disturbed just now because this aristocrat1c
| section (the Madison avenue part of Muir
| ray HID is being invaded by retail shop
| keepers, and some of them will be COM
PEELED to move uptown. Mr.. Cornelius n
| Bliss, who lives diagonally opposite Mr.
Morgan on Madison avenue. is compelled 10
| leave the unpretentous residence he has
| occupied the greater part of his life and
| is now looking for an equally comIoftaple
house uptown.
Ex-Secretary Gage occupies apart
| ment at number IA East Goth street, oppo-
| site the Milionaires' Club, where he is very
| comfortable Frank A. Vanderlip has re-
Gently purchased a home at 80 East DIST
street.
Senator Clark's Palace.
Senator Clark of Montana will soon have
the most costly and magnificent private
residence in the United States, and one of
the finest In the world, when he completes
his palace on 9Th avenue. 1t has been five
years in building and will not be finished
for two years more. 1t has cost million
dollars a year, and when finished and fur
nshed will represent an investment of
somewhere between eight and ten millions.
It's architectural pretensions have been Sc
verely criticised particularly the imitation
of ancient Flemish tower, which rises
from the roof like steeple church.
While it is true that Senator Clarks house
does not suggest a private residence, 1t Is
not entirely intended for one. Although ne
has made public announcement OF ms
plans venture to predict that he Will ulti-
ma tely bestow this princely pile as a gilt
to the public. But before he does SO, he
will fill its walls with his collection OF PIC
lures, which is unsurpassed in this country
and is probably the most valuable owned
by any private individual. Most of the pic
lures now hanging in the Navarro
apartments, on 59th street. where MI
Clark has rented a suite of rooms expressly
for them He lives in the same building in
another suite.
The pictures have never been exhibited to
the public, but the senator is very consid-
crate in giving private exhibitions to art
lists students, critics and others. AS soon
as his palace is completed he expects to
move them into it and 1t will be an appro-
pirate home for them. The house will be
decorated and furnished to correspond with
the exterior walls. and his desire is to have
1t represent the highest standard of archi-
lecture and decoration, as its contents will
I
The Yerkes Art Gallery.
Mr. Charles T. Yerkes of Chicago, New
York and London is also erecting an art
gallery costing 100000 on the lot adjoining
his house on upper 9Th avenue. He expects
to bring all of his pictures here and place
them in it permanently 1 am told that his
collection is almost large and valuable
as that of Senator Clark, but has not been
selected with such refined taste. MIR.
Yerkes' house is of the most beautiful
private residences in America and one OF
the most expensive. The building cost
SO, 100000 and the site upon which 1t stands
100000. The exterior of the house is Sc
verely simple. but the interior is said to be
a purple earthquake of maSnificence. Mr..
and Mrs. Yerkes have not been able to en-
joy it's grandeur very much because bust
ness has kept him in London most of the
time since 1t was completed. But, having
provided Johnnie Bull with complete syS-
tenn of underground railways, it may be
that he will now come back to New York
and settle down in his stately home.
j. B. Haggn, the California miner, has
pur chased the building at the corner of SD
street and 9TH avenue, formerly occupied by
a Jewish club, and proposes to erect there
a five-milion- .lollar palace which shall out
slime those of the Nanderbilts, Yerkes,
Clark Carnegie, Phipps and others along
the 5th avenue side of Central Park. The
club has moved to larger quarters
Charles Schwab's New Home.
Charles Schwabs new house, of which
you have read much, is not in the fash
ionabe quarter. He selected site at the
corner of I'D street and Riverside drive,
where he could have plenty of room and
overlook the Hudson river the Palisades
and the green hills of New Jersey This to
some people would seem more sensible than
to be crowded into smaller area among the
aristocracy and the bill;onaires Mr..
Schwab'S house is very large. 1t resem-
bleS q French chateau. The architecture is
pointed Gothic, and now that the roof is
on and the balconies are finished it is quite
imposing. II contains chapel with a
swimming tank and gymnasium under it,
and there are several other novelties not
usually found in private homes.
But of all the new mansions IN New
York, that of Henry Phipps at the corner
of 9TH avenue and S7th street, is commend
ed by critics as the most beautiful and
artistic and appropriate for the home of a
rich man. IT is not pretentiouS as some