A CITY OF PALACES.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10348, 22 April 1911, Page 4

A CITY OF PALACES.

Niew York is fast, ibbconring a city c-f paluioes. Mi' t-ioorgu Gould, son of iho Into Jay Gould, tho miiHi-rjiil-lionaire, recently demolished l.is .•£IO,OOO liousu to niKflcC' room for a .£200,000 uno. Nothing that ta^k could suggest or money coukl h-ny has 'Inech omitted in tho building'a ;.•(! furnishing of tills mansion. There is a luxurious pas/senger-lifti, a moving' on which persons may ascend without climbing, an elect lie laundry, and an immense swimming pool in the banemeint. The widow of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt occupies a house on Fifth Avenue, "the; street of millionaires" as it lias been nailed, whidh was modelled from the famous Chaiteau de B'lois, near Paris 1. It cfvsrtj .£300,000 to complete. ■Senator Clark 1!? palace in thei snme opulent .thoroughfare cost «£1.00">,----000. All siortsTof difficulties retarded i3ft),v>vioi Jlc O'E construction in his .citsei ovcrdamc them fill. ISrtth-cr than be i<ofbbed by contractors, as he put it, ■Mr Olark bought a granite quarry, a ma.rblo work factory, a stone finishing factory, a wood working 1 factory, and a bronze foundry. An old French pala'cleiwas stripped to supply much of the woodwork, and the elliptical salon was removed bodiljr from the. Hotel Soubis-o, in Paris. Tho main elevator is fitted up as a huge sedan chair of the Louis XVI. period. Tn live same locality i* the New York horn« of Mr Ar.direw Carnegie. The milliofl-ftire Socialist speaks of it as "'modest," and says "a grand palace ■would have been foreign to our tastes." It nevertheless' cost .£200,----000 to erect, wilhoia'.. the land which is worth as much again. The actual owner is MY Onmegiei's little ■.duihjhter 1. to whom it was a Chri*tinnd trift from her father. To mal;e I'oont for his Italian iyai'doii in the heart of Kk--\\- York City Mr Pic-rpont IMWiran tore down a £100.000 house ;md to pro^ido ;\ site- for his ,£IOO.----000 art gallery in New York he f.wept aw;\y t.wr city maiiisinns. earh valued at■ "£:if),000. * Now, .it serins, he luis set his hcsirt. mi jitis.-x'ssinp :i ■private pai'k in tho busiest p>nrt of tho trreat city and where land for I

residential puipr-ste* is worth thousands of pounds a foo>t," As marking' th<3 contrasts .so notioaaible in New York it may bo mentioned ttutt in s-;o<ni.G of tb.a densely-populated teno mont districts of tho city! three hundred people are living on a piecie of land no largtei" than that occupied l.y Mr Morgan's sumptuous home.