The sun., 1910-05-22

With its broad stairs. lie balconies a,5
rsoeption halls, ia large rQOms .nd /,
m8llFioUs abundance Of ba1ha viii pr,i
ahly never have a tenant and Afl y.
taken pieOs By pieos 20 the stone yari
ThA stage hmd passed over trvorg
Fifty ninth street, and the first of 49,
hOgans there that reveals q HISTORY = .
rod brick pile in the style of the Fr~po6
Renaissance. Il is owned by one M
New York'a old time milliOnaires
That house belongs to a group n two
Or three tho architect said, that A..
the ecraations OF an architect who 49,
done particularly brilliant work In ,n.
French school He put up this ho,S.
for its owner, and they Forapped with ths
peTAisiency possible only to a disiip.
guishsd member 81 hia profession ,rd
a man with more money than TASTE
but with the profound conviction n tle
efficacy OF his money In carrying ont his
points. After q while the situation hs.
came 20 strained that tho architect II,
ths house and VfuEed 70 interfere ary
further with his ,Wn plans In order \,
carry out the oNnsr's IDEAS. That wa,
just Wi'at the owner wanted
-At that time there was an arrhrsrr
in New York Who had put uD a number
Of hotels ami other semi-pubiic buidinFs
Al half tho rate demanded BY first Class
architects. The millionaire called him
In 20 carry out his own ideas and did no,
hesitate 10 make Il known on all OCcasions
that he had engaged the great A 10 huih
his house but had eventually been CON-
PEELED 10 call In the unknown B to finish
it properly.
THE house on the corner. a few blocE
above Il. was not finished without a very
curious encounter between the architect
and tho owners wife. She Announced
at the outset that she proposed TO be very
active in the construction OF this hO,iaa
and she did not allow a point TO escape
her waichful eye. 10 was found how.
ever, when the servants rooms in tho
mansard Of the building were finally con.
pletsd tAat they were only four feet hiRh
and that no normal human being could
stand erect In nthem. There was great con-
aternatiOn on the part OF the lady She
threatened 10 sue for damages and tha
architect threatened 70 sue for his CON.
pensation and for q feW days everybody
connected with the building seemed on
the point Of suing everybody else Il
was to the architect, however. that victory
went finally. He brought the blue prints
30 the lady. showed her where ahs had
examined the measurements Of the room
ana Win Mutu NtuIll MIfl ID NgE nNM tNNF
fingers had marked them o X - Then
there was nothing 10 be done hot hire
dWarfs or increase the height Of thsrOoms
on tho manaard floor. The arcAitects
did that ana it cost Ihs owner an extra
SIS. 600.
The house In the middle Of the next
block was put up by q speculative builder
and he did little or nothing toward deco-
rating the inside. He showed his wisdom
ia that, for its purchaser vas ultimately
a woman who had lived for years down
on Stuyvesant Square. The emptiness
Of the house enabled her TO hll II with ths
brought from the drawing
rooms Of her down town horne. She had
passed her youth In these rooms and she
wanted TO end her life amid similar sur
So the woodwork. the mir
rOFa. the mantels and all details of the
decorations were transferred bodily
from the old place downtown to her
newer quarters. After that. Of course.
Il was very simple 10 put the furniture
there and the pictures IN analogous places
with those they had formerly occupied.
She aaid u IVES all sentiment and afec-
ton for the old scenes that led her 70
reproduce her giFlhood's happy home
Some Of her friends. however, insist tha,
I was only economy