New-York tribune., 1911-12-24
Contents of Home Built for
Miss Emily Crigsby Are
TO Go Under Auc-
tioneer's Hammer.

not digest It. You ask the way 20 sonoS
where else.
The dining room-ahl IL is the heart OF
any home. you murmur softly 70 yourself.
You cross the hall. You get that feeling
again as OF being in a cathedral
From tie Monastery Nuremberg" some
one whispers. You do not know whether
the monastery furnished the chairs or ths
silverware. Perhaps 1t was the tapestries.
It is all good. so no matter
Old English silver. the Gladstone tea
caddy. old blue china. with lovely little
flower in the middle Of each plate; twenty
four iewelled plates-count them, twenty
four-from the collection OF the confess
d'Fernandina Of Paris.
The color scheme is crushed grape, the
draperies are maroon. the carpets, IN a
way are a purplish hue
There are so many instruments arranged
on each side of the plates at table that one
involuntarily thinks OF dentist layout.
And then one moves on. But not until
one learns that the oak in the room IS
Flemish. the great tapestries from Elan
ders. the cabinets filed with Dresden,
Royal Vienna and Salon plates. And there
is an old leathern tankard on which one
reads on the silver rim about the top:
THE Protector oliver Cromwell, 1856
There are five stories 10 the house. Sup
nose we climb at least one flight OF stairs.
In Miss Grigsbys bedroom you note I'M
nediately a marble group life size, over
in the shadow OF an alcove. 1t is The
Temptation OF the Vestal Virgin by
Cupid" the conception of A Rossett,
modern sculptor OF Rome.
Another visitor. a woman, says 20 her
friend, who is also a woman
It wonder IL the statue is meant for Mss
Grigsby?"
How silly" her friend replies. "Don'e
you see II is the Blessed Nary
Nine Du Barry smiles from across the
room. warm though a marble smile.
You walk upon Persian rugs. In corner
stands a fan case, containing perhaps forty
fans There are Irritation fans. with two
little windows in the sticks; wedding fans,
French marriage fans-all the work OF
masters IN the fanmaking art. Indeed.
dreams should be sweet when creamed
here.
The library! Will you linger . little IN
the library?
The room is lighted BY cathedral lamps
Of silvered bronze from the palace OF Car.
dinal Serafno Vanatell There are
great many pieces OF ecclesiastical silver
from church treasures IN this room. in
cIuding ostensorium, the vessel In which
the priest elevates the Host during mass.
Numerous church embroideries are used by
Miss Grigsby as panels for table covers.
on the library table you see an old velvet
cloak worn by a knight Of the Golden
Fleece.
There is a motto over the mantel: God
IS in Heaven and all is we'll"
The chairs are from old Spanish originals
IN the collection. There are nine servants
in the house 70 try TO keep everything
busted.
We had almost forgotten 20 look at the
books in the library. There are complete
sets of first editions, fine collections OF
standard authors and modern poets in fns
bindings-six thousand volumes in all.
The room is sixteenth century. while most
OF the books are nineteenth century, and 10
this extent at least, the library and its
contents fail 10 harmonize. But the color
scheme is perfectly lovely.
Just a few hints as 10 the collection or
iewelry for II would be manifestly an un-
dertaking 10 itemize $4,000 worth OF this
part OF the collection.
An old Norman necklace OF pounded gold.
a necklace Of baroque pearls, sixteen gold
,ewel boxes set with diamonds. a box ot
emerald incrustation, a necklace OF eaoo-
chon emeralds and an emerald turoan pin
which we're once. it is said, the property OF
a Shah OF Persia. one glance makes you
sure that, IN the parlance OF to-day. he
was some Shah.
Miss Grigsby has been variousy de-
scribed. She is u slim, constantly pale.
delicately haggard. agreeably angular
young person, past thirty. according to
one point Of view. Her eyes are dark
shade of grayish blue. seen beneath heavy
lids. which give her a peculiarly mournfui
expression. When dressed In long, clinging
white robes she has been called a poem.
also. under the same circumstances, proud,
cold. like diamond in her disposition.
The house was decided to Miss Grigsby
by Charles T. Yerkes on March IS, 1885.
when she was nineteen years old. Mr..
Yerkes died at the Waldorf on December
81. 1895. lie met her when she was young.
became greatly attached to her, and finally
she became his ward.
Miss Grigsby says she will take her nins
servants with her ana spend her summers
in England and her winters on the RI
vlera. and thus avoid crossing the ocean.
She does not enjoy the ocean.
She SAYS she is treated better in London.
Moreover. the bulk Of the fortune which
Mr. Yerkes left her Is invested in the Lon
don underground railways.
And now, in a short time. she says, shs
Is going TO leave US for good