The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-03-17

| sCOrleS uISn, anu IS Sltu2I2u at LQe
southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and
55th Street. This is in the heart ol
the millionaire district of New York.
There is no room on the first floor for
wide parade corridor, like the one
which has made the Waldorf famous
to its out-of-town guests. On this
floor, however, there are three dining.
rooms, opening one into the other,
which even to the art connoisseur are
a study and a delight.
The main dining-room has its en-
tire ceiling of a shimmering gold
bronze-a work of art in itself; the
color tone of the room is deep red; the
chairs are richly upholstered in silken
brocade to match, while in the center
of each round table is cut-glass bowl
filed with American Beauties,- = the
sort that sell at one dollars and fifty
cents apiece. The china is Royal,
Worcester, Minton, Sevres and Dres-
den, and there are ten different SER
vices used in the three diningrooms,
so it is not hard to imagine the
amount Of money it costs just for the
china at the St. Regis.
The tea room, as it is called, connects
the state dining-room with another
dining-room known as the room, where
the woodwork, the fireplace, tables
and chairs are all magnifcently carved
Flemish oak.
But the tea room, that surely is the
most delightful spot imaginable in
which to eat simple little ten dollar
luncheon. The ceiling is stained glass
!vidcd into three sections while the
upper part OF the walls are frescoed
and framed in white mahogany. From
the arches Of the ceiling hang huge
baskets filled with Boston fern and
trailing ivies. At the sides OF the
walls, here and thele, are bronze Gu
pids holding Towering branches hav-
ing as the center of each flower an
electric light bulb.
A suite of five rooms is the feature
Of the second floor at the St. Regis.
The ballroom is in white and gold,
and contains one Of the sixty-seven
pianos which are used in the hotel,
this particular piano being gold lac
quered and hand-painted. The other
rooms are a library, a writing-room
and two receptien-rooms.
But for regal elegance these rooms
are as nothing compared with the
royal suite-the state apartment-the
six rooms which the man who would
live like king may occupy if be hap
pens to have one hundred and twenty
five dollars day to spare after he has
satisfied his appetite. There is nc
gorgeous display in these rooms; in
stead, there is an air of quiet elegance
about them, while every appointment
is an art treasure in itself.
1t is in the bedroom of this suite
there is the ten-thousand-dollars bed,
which the proprietor of the St. Regis
bought from Jansen, the great Pari-
sian dealer in antiquities. This bed
is made of beautifully matched tulip
wood OF shaded brown color. The
headboard shows an inlaid design OF
tulips in different shades of wood,
while the decorations of the bed are in
gold bronze. Above the headboard is
a silken drapery, and-just think Of
it!-ths bedspread is rare old piece
of genuine gobelin tapestry. To those
III" fad com fort in the old saying.
u neasy lies the head that wears a
CROWN" it may be said that the first
multimillionaire to occupy this regal
couch found his legs too long for solid
comfort. Off from this bedroom is a
marble walled bath which is entirely
in white and silver.
In the Du Barty rose reception
room of this suite there is the msg-
nificent ten-thousand-dol,ar piano
which won the first prize at the ST..
Louis Worlds Fair. There is no
other piano in the United States eq IA
to it excepting the famous one in Tia,
White House at Washington.
The private dining-room of ''e
royal suite is walled in beautiful,
carved Flemish oak. A magni6c,l.
Persian rug covers the polished wood
floor. The table is round and also O.
carved Flemish oak, while the chairs
to match are upholstered in tapestr.
Upon the table is bowl which is a
treasure in itself. 1t is of japanese
cloisenne, each one Of its many pam s
differing from the other. The buffet
in this room is filed with rare chil,a,
and there are can0elahra and side.