Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-05-30
lMagnate May Get Away From
Fault-Firders as EfectualIy
as Did Van Wrinkle.
CAN SEE LONG
Cable Running in Channel Hewn
Rock, Carries the Workmen
and the Material for the
Structure.

New York, Special: A long time
Rip Van Winlie ound rest and qu.ec
on the summit OF the catskill mounA
tains. He wanted to get away from
fault finders. Perhaps ". III. liair!iiali
will think OF this when lie peers
through the window of his S2.UUo, J00
palace on the highest ridge OF the Ram
apo mountains.
"Harriman's palace mats wha'
they call it, and Elore.! 10 quote the
technical details of the buiiuing over
awes one.
New York granite. partly dressed
gneiss. with Indiana limestone liihi-
nings and steel. This is the matcriai
that gives :Iarrinlaa's palace the
grandeur of so.iaity.
Rugged simplicity is it's Keynote. ~
is in the Norman or fornanespue s'yie
OF architecture. entirely lacking III pr
lars, marble orna,nentatiol on any saB-
gestion of classic architecture. lne
chief beauty OF it will be the majesty
of M2ss.vencss
%Swimmins Pool.
e. From the main building tc!r2ccu
wings will extend TO thre, points OF
the compass. In each OF these Wigs
there will he an entrance with AN APP
f.4aaeA-o-eaeh-np the SIDE OF thd
mountain. Near the principal entraIIce
may be seen the foundation walls OF a
SN IILAIlIlIIs EptI. iI'I' sAA'' 10
or garden terrace, ZIG feet square, w!th
Il lily pool and fountain beyond. Near
by, on the slope of the hiil. is the con-
%serva,ory. Tnr north front of the
building will be 1925 feet long and Will
contain the main dining hall. The
view is toward Miadlctown and the
distant Ca,skill mountains. The east
front faces the Hudson river and In
the wing is the library. This is APP
preached through AN arched entrance
INSIDE of which are three logsihs at
the first story, with other arched en-
frances to the second floor of the H.
brary.
Towering over the adjacent country.
standing coldly aloof. observing and
observed, like its %tinancier owner, grim
and gray. 1t may look down upon the
little world of men that work and play
and love and die in the busy marts
below.
Lockout Tower.
Lookout Tower surrnounts the
whole, and when in the long summer
nights, Mr.. HERMAN sits alone. plan
ming perhaps "A coup that will startle
the world, his eyes will rove over a
stretch of picturesque territory. One
after another, mile after mile, In ev-
cry direction, the mountain tops re-
veal themselves. Orange, Ulster.
Duchess ana Rockland counties may
be seen giinting gold in the moon
light.
some men leave monuments for their
dead selves; this is a monument for "A
living man. Il man OF IRON IN the tWI-
light hour OF rest.
Day after day an army of men arc
hewing this palace mo form. Day
after day for a year, masons. carpen-
tiers and plas,erers, artist and artisan
working side by side. have labor"d.
Day after day for at least three more
years they will hammer and PAINT :ial.
cnisol and carve before the ling l.
satisfied.
TWO millions &c money win make the
mountains come to Hartman. Two
million dollars is not a great pi.ce ior
u money king 10 pay fer solitude.
A cable running in a channe hewn
in the rocky side OF the mountain con-
yeys workman and material to the
task each Gay. Do you realize the nag
nitude Of this task? 4 " million aol-
lar palace on the peak Of the highest
cry stone, every nail must be hoiste.
TO this toprnost peak by a cable rail-
road.
This railroad vas especially con-
riman would dream of building :; rail-
road up the side Of a naountai,. en-
ploying an army of mon 10 hlas; the
way and lay tn" cable merely as u
means to a beginning?
Most magnates are conten, wish a
private car. hartman has Il private
railroad.
Every stone. cvcry nail il hois.ed
2.3o0 feet before it ran b. used.
Think OF those blizzard Gays when
those of us who could lowered close TO
the fire: think of those men woisir~
On the summit OF . mountain. the SNOW
piled man high. and the wind cutting
like a whip of steel.
Summer and winter this moUrf4.a
tr1mwaH creaks and srcans il tas
its burden to the men awaiting a..
Slowly and surely this painting giant
crecps up the rocl.-iageed eide of Tie
mountain. and all for Eariiman's man
sion in the clouds.
Phone TO Wall Street.
In the hot summer evenings wien
the foul air of the city snnp ners III
streets. Hartman will HE himself 10
his home In tho mountains. breathe In
the exhilarating ozone of the night
aad two millions will be deemed II
small matter for the comfort. - ms;
hand will be a telephone; tarough II
he may hear the rush and rumble NJ
Wall street. H may be of the world
and yet not In it.
The foundation Is hewn from the
living rock at the summit Of Tower
hill, up which runs the cable road 200
feet long.
There are many considerations which
Influenced Mr. i!arriman's choice Of II
iihorac site. The air is always pure ;iad
possesses at this altitude cG,a.i,.
properti-N for almost all ailments. 'Tae