Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-05

rich mans home Is pretty
fair index generally to his
tastes and his character. II 1t
is city house, the passerby.
looking at 1t from the street, usually
can make a shrewd guess as to the
sort of man who caused 1t to be built.
The architect constructs the house
around his patrons ideas. Nowhere
else do the homes of multimillionaires
rea0 their owners Municipalities as
they do in New York. This Is espe-
cially the case in the new residence
that John. .. Rockefeller. Jr.. 10 hav-
ing built In West Fifty-fourth street.
Every one knows that John D., Jr.,
has so much money he could turn .
whole city block into q garden as q
setting for his mansion. II he wished,
and do 1t without worrying about the
cost. Charles M. Schwab did some
thing like that, but his house on River
side drive stands unoccupied from
one years end to another. Schwab
built his palace, 1t Is said, with the
idea of making a splash in society.
Young MIR. Rockefeller and his wife
care as little for society as they do for
show. and that is not at all. They
have four children, however, the
youngest about two years old. and they
wanted bigger house than the one
thoy have been living in at No. 13
West Fifty fourth street. SO they plan
ned the one that is nearing compile
ton. 1t is just opposite, at No. 10
Of the same street, and just west OF
John D., Sr.'s, home. 1t Is without
doubt the biggest private residence in
New York, and one of the plainest of
the homes Of millionaires. Inside and
out 1t Is severe In it's simplicity, but
there are few mansions in America
that can approach it in comfort.
though more than one along Fifth
avenue and the side streets may sur
pass 1t in cost. BY experts In such
matters 1t is considered the most per-
feHt structure for home that mod
en- ingenuity has devised.
is Unique In Height.
Other mansions-such as the Van
derbilt house, between Fifty-seventh
and Fifty-eighth street. on Fifth ave-
uncover more ground. but they are
less than half in height. The new
Rockefeller house is 40 feet wide and
100 feet deep. 1t Is nine stories, or
about 100 feet in height. Yet it looks
neither like an apartment hotel nor q
fashionable club, although with lit
tie remodeling 1t would fit either pur-
pose.
Between the four-story red brick and
brownstone vine-clad mansion Of John
D.. ST.. and the new house of his son
there 10 a sweep Of lawn. with flower
beds aud trees that is big for that part
OF New York, although 1t covers not
more than three city lots. To the east
of the older Rockefeller house are
more grass and trees. strip Of about
80 feet in width. There is even =
summer house half hidden by trees
and foliage. II q man who had seen
John d. ST., once and was told to
walk through Fifty-fourth street from
end to end and point out his house, he
could not fail to pick the right one
Like it's owner. 1t seems to be In Sc
rene enjoyment Of green old age
It 10 the same kind Of house that
Mr.. Rockefeller would have built had
hs made moderate fortune and set
tied in Titusville or Oil City. Though
the plumbing and heating in 1t may
not be of this, or even of last years,
model. no doubt 1t is satisfactory to
it's owner, and he would not have 1t
Alanged for anything. Probably 80 or
40 years from now young John DIS
house will have taken ON the same
time-mellowed appearance. but today.
with the last of the derricks still peep