The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-08-07
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/ graph To each of the hundred i'm.
mortals was to be delivered one copy
Of the book. and each of them was to
put his signature in indalible ink on
an Of the hundred copies Anything
would do for a Fad or a Fancy for
posterity's perusal SO long as it was
accompanied with 81 500 or more. So
Clevelands duck shooting Morgan's
art collection. Thomas W. Law
sons pinks. Yerkes rugs, Whitney"s
horses and probably Woodrun's fancy
waistcoats were all protected from
oblivion. II a man had no particular
fad CT fancy he was devoted to au-
tomobiles, fancy chickens. or in cases
of extreme desttuton. to the interior
decoration of his home.
Here are a few selections from the
proposed book
One wonders at times if the all.
powerful genii Of the Arabian Nights
could have accomplished more than
have our resourceful American al
addins. who. by touching the lamp
of glittering gold, have produced what
seems a vertiable dream city by The
sea of a magnifcence rivallng the ia.
bled cities of legend and romance. IT.
S not surprising, therefore. that the
casual visitor to Newport is so en-
thrilled by the splendor of the panor
anna fhof ba r,.g,,fl ...-r
surprise to find on some broad lawn
the bronze elephants from Cleopatra's
banquet hall spouting perfume from
their trunks a false idea of the
Rhode Island resort has gone abroad
and since SO,OO0,O0O people in
manner turn to the Newport set for
example and precedent the result has
been in a way demoralizing It must
not be forgotten, however. that p}aeh
Of the reported galvanized sham and
its glittering polish are seen only
through eyes that are green with en-
Wy In the roster of Newport homes
that magnificent palace The Break
e's,' with a han rising sixty-five feet
to the roof, is invariably named first
yet it is scarcely more massive or eor
geous than The Elms OF Edward J.
Berwin; the famed Marble House.
,vwned by Mrs. Oliver H. p, Belmont;
the new 'Roseclin' Of Mrs Herman
Oelriehs; the two Goelet palaces, on
Ochre Point the bewtching white
pills of Dr. and Mrs Henry Barton
Jacobs. or that gorgeous new castle
of the Italian renaissance period,
Gray Crag, Of Mr. and Mrs John
Mitchell Clark"
And so on through the whole list
Of millionaire cottages. The writer
then turns to pour sweetness over the
Newport colony en- masse after this
fashion, When and why the New
port term cottage was given to these
massive piles Of stone and marble IS
not known Governor Lawrence and
George Bancroft invariably spoke
of their yiallas at Newport, but in
those old days life was a stately affair,
and the words describing it and its
admncts were necessarily more pom
derous than those required today
/ Cottage however, is indeed a mis-
nomer for these million-dollar homes.
so rich in construction and adornment
with stairways as imposing as that of
the opera at Paris. with alabaster pl
lars carved from Numidan marble
friezes formed of onyx medallions, and
walls hung with Gobelin tapestries,
embellished and furnished, in fact,
with practically an utter disregard Of
cost, word, by the way, not in the
vocabulary Of the smart Newporter
Is there any wonder that with such
lavish display. the newer Newport
makes a lasting impression of concen-
trated grandeur upon the discerning
visitor?"
The following noted people had sub
scrbed for the book, and are now be
ing universally laughed at Washing
ten Ccnnor; Amzi Barber. Washington.
d c. the widow of Levi y. Let
er; James j. Hin; J Pierpont HMor-
gan; o. C Barber; Mrs. C. p. Hun
tington James r. Keene: Levi p.
Morton; oliver Hartman. Jr; Da-
/ vid r. Francis, ST. Louis; d. A. C.
Smith; Stamford White; the late
William C Whitney; Chauncey NJ.
Depew: w H. Vanderbilt. ST.. Reg
inald c. Vanderbilt: Alfred G. Van
delbuilt; Perry Belmont: John ia
cob Astor; Timothy L. Woodmn
Charles r. Yerkes: Daniel O'Day;
Thomas w lawson; Pembroke
Jones' oliver Payne; II. L. Ter
rell; Harry Lehr; e. J. Berwyn.
A. j. Julliard; o. C. Jennings: r.
Shaw Safe Rollo Wells. Mayor of
ST. Louis; Francis T. f. Love1oy
Pitsburg; Francis Robbins. presi
dent Pittsbu-g Coal Co.: Peter Marie:
Julius Fleischman mayor OF Cincin-
Inltl: John H. Patterson. president
National Cash Register Co. These
We're invited without cost; Grover
Cleveland; Theodore Roosevelt