East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-06
NEW YORK LETTER

New York, May 6.-Henry Phipps,
former partner of Andrew Carnegie,
is planning a surprise for friends
who visit for the first time his new
home, the Snow Palace at Fifth ave-
nue. and Eighty-seventh street. The
interior of the $1.OOO.O0O structure
will be fitted with furnishings i'm
ported from palace in the Punjab.
India. The household treasures, once
the property of an Indian prince, ar
rived recently in a ship from India,
and are now being transferred to the
Fifth avenue palace
Mr.. Phipps purchased outright the
fittings and furniture of the palace
during his sojourn in India a few
years ago. At that time he had in
mind a palatial home in this country,
but was wavering between his old
home in Pittsburg and New York as
a place to locate. His decision was
reached when his lifelong friend. |
Andrew Carnegie, moved to this city
and built a Fifth avenue mansion.
Since then Mr.. Phipps and Mr.. Car
negie have been at variance on busi-
ness projects, but Mr.. Phipps con-
tinued with his building project on a
plot Just three blocks south of the
Carnegie mansion.
Clipping Pastors Busy.
Vice-president James H. Hyde, of
the Equitable Life, has two men en-
ployed doing nothing these days but
pasting in big scrap books clippings
from newspapers regarding the con-
troversy in his society. These clip
pings are furnished by concerns
which make that sort of work their
business, and include articles from
every country in the world in which
newspapers are printed. Although
the men are busy all day long they
are far behind in their work.
Disgraced COmpeer of Jones
The suggestion that the body of
Paul Jones shall rest here in New
York recalls the fact that in st.
Patrick's graveyard in Mott street is
a plain white slab inscribed: "a la
memoire de Pierre de Landais, ancien
Contre-Amiral au service des Etats-
Unis qui disparut JUN, 1918, age 81
ans"
1t covers the remains of poor old
De Landais, captain of the Alliance,
the French sailor who was disgraced
by congress and deprived of his COM
mand because he did not fight as well
as his associate, Paul Jones, in the
famous battle between the Scraps and
the Bon Homme Richard. For 40
years the old Frenchman walked the
streets of this city in proud and soli-
tary poverty, vainly trying to have
his case reopened. Forgotten by his
generation, as his epitaph says he
disappeared"
May Be Hearst Candidate.
Senator John Ford is being talked
of as the Hearst municipal ownership
candidate for mayor of Greater New
York.
Mr.. Ford was the republican sena-
tor for the Nineteenth New York city
district for two terms and was the
Teputed author of the original fran
chise tax bill, which, after it's passage
at Albany, was declared to be uncon-
stitutional by Governor Roosevelt's
legal advisers. The Legislature had
adjourned, however, and Governor
Roosevelt was compelled to call an
extraordinary session to remedy the
constitutional defects of the bill.
The constitutionality of the fran
chise tax law as amended by Cover
nor Roosevelt is now before the Unit
ed States supreme court for settle
ment.
May Be Gift to the City.
Charles M. Schwab's announcement
that it is his intention, when he and
his wife are no longer alive, to leave
to the city of New York for a muse
um the magnificent palace on River
side Drive, which is approaching
completion, is hailed as something
new in American gift giving. While
Europe is covered with great palaces
which have passed with their price
less collections from private hands to
the public, American millionaires
have almost, without exception, kept
their houses for their descendants.
Mr.. Schwab, by the way, is nego-
tiating for the largest insurance poll
cy ever written on private dwelling,
and it is probable that mis- Riverside
Drive mansion and its furnishings will
be insured for S5.0o0,000. When the
place is finished it will have cost 49,
100000. 1t will be filled with works
of art, and Mr.. and Mrs. Schwab have
been ransacking Europe for tapes
tries bric-a-brac, pictures and an
tiques to fill 1t.