The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-01-06
FLAT AT $4,000 A YEAR.
Senator Roots Apartment Not cramp
ed Cubby Hole.


Senator Roots Apartment. Not cramp.
ed cubby Hole.
New York, Dec. Ex-senator Elihu
Root, who, II was recently announced,
has sold his old home and leased a
fiat, Is not going to be crampea In his
new quarters.
OF course, It's not quite like the
average Harlem fiat. It's little bit
larger-it had twenty-five rooms-and
it's bit more expensive, for he's go
ing to pay $4,000 a year for it. But
that's only $4,000 month, $500 al
week, 81 a day, So an hour, and 5
cents second. Suppose you had to
hold out your hand and drop nickel
| every second?
Senator Roots fiat is NOT ready yet.
It's being built. But there are half
dozen other fats just about like it in
town. So let us have look into one
of them and see what you get when
you decide to- pay $4,000 month for
yours.
To begin, yC,R have to pay part OF
your $4,000 year for Buttons" in
the lobby In Senator Roots fiat
there will be a good many Buttonses
two to open the door when he sends
away the motor at the curbstone, one
| to escort him to the elevator, and q
few very fancy Buttons TO take him UP
to the door of his fiat. Buttons 10
English and has peachbiow cheeks
and a soft, childlike voice. His orna~
mensation is magnificent, gold braio'
epaulets, creased trousers and shoes
with nickel buckles. Just what pro-
portion of the $4,000 a year goes to
pay for his services it is difficult to
estimate on short notice.
The hall of the fiat is also worthy
Of notice Along its mosaic floor are
set at intervals tall brass standards
with Tiffany glass globes at the top.
The standards are coversd with req
velvet. In inches on the wall stand
broazes costing 1900 to $500 each.
TIE Getting OF the hall is covered
with real gold leaf, and the wallis are
of Caen stone from France.
But the hall is nothing TO the, in
terror. Imagine q fiat of twenty-five
rooms, with a duplex arrangement con-
tanning three rooms more above.
Let's peep into she downstairs part
of the fiat This little hall behind the
iron and gf1s door of the fiat is call
ed the mirror gallery. No $4,000
fiat is complete without it. Now in
the reception room. All carved ftal-
ian Renaissance parquet floors, plush
walls in red, bronze candelabra. Very
comfy.
Wen, if ttat isn't a secret door.
Opens right into the plush wall, and
is noe visible from the OUTSIDE at all
Just touch the spring under the cleo
trio tight bafton and it slides open
without a sound. And the electric
light pops up inside automatically
It's a coat closet, Of course.
Here's the dining room Right
through that mirrCFed door. All done
in French oak, paneled and an oper
fireplace. Not the kind we nave in
t Harlem fiat, but real one that burns
logs.
I This" says the superintendent, rs
% the billiard room. Done in Louis XIV
| StNlG, all WnlCe duu CdlNS 'SA' ~
I tractive for people of taste.
\ And beyond the billiard room Il
Il rhe living room. That's what the arch
J. ftects call it now-it used to be tn
1 drawing ROOM" explains the superln
tendent. And the living room is LOU
e XIV, too, and so is the music room
e behind those silent mirgored foldln
u doors over there.
" But, look. Right there in the cer
ter OF all, with all the other gorgeou
rooms opening on it, is the conservi
/! tory. Caen stone again, with aquarf
il ON the floors, and mirrors on tn
- walls, and misty glass chandelier
y falling like cloudy waterfalls at eae
" end. With the mirrOred doors a
open there is 5000 square feet OF Noe
space for entertaining.
~. And here are the bedrooms. Tn
" first is the masters" room, called
"a because the master of the house sieel
-" in it, or is supposed TO. 1t Is all VIM
80 like the rest, and there is the D
~ dressing room, and the marble bal
opening off. And this next Is anot
er bedroom, the same as the first, b
not so large. And the big bath, 10
And at the far end is another b
'ur room.
See the Tiffany glass globes on u
Iar bronze chandeliers. And there In u
NJ wall is a huge panel that opeI
ire though one would never know 1t II q
NO superintendent had not pushed q
n spring. And all the way to the ce
,e ing are dust proof glass compartment