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George Vanderbilts' Dr? Vanishes With the Sale the Model Town of Bil more. (From the Kansas City Sta: The model town of Biltmon C., built by the late George W. derbilt in connection with his nificent country estate near / ville, has been sold to the Sout Railway and two individual pun ers. On the site chosen by Mr. derbilt for an adventure in Uti the railway company will build a million dollar passenger station crumble the dreams of men. How vast a scheme Vanderbilt ceived for developing his North olina estate, no one will ever ki From 1S92 until his death tn 1 he made it his life's work to bloc! gether 120,000 acres of moun land, grub out the forests, p trees, pipe water, build roads level off a mountain peak for his latial home, Biltmore house. The ; ject cost him more than ten mil dollars. . Two years after his death his i ow transferred to the governn fifty thousand acres of the estate a national forest reserve. Now model town of Biltmore is sold, the millionaire's plan of rural pire begins to disintegrate. Did V derbilt dream a fool's paradise those North Carolina hills? He dead; the dream is dust and ash' On a rainy day thirty years a Vanderbilts' private car was or side track at Asheville waiting take the young millionaire back New York. After a short stay he 1 become disgusted with the wea er, the skyline, the hotel, with eve ching. He was to leave on the m row. During the night the skies cle ed and the next morning young Vi derbilt, rising early watched a No: Carolina sunrise. Standing on the piazza of the B tery Park Hotel he looked away the north and saw the peak of t Roan Mountain in Tennessee, si> miles away. Southward was the gr outline of Caesars' Head, a mounts in South Carolina, fifty miles awi To the southwest, dim in that bl haze which gives to this mountain i name, was the Georgia line, nine miles away. To the east, standii bare and bleak, and reflecting t sun's rays from its snow-crowm summit, was Mount Mitchell, tl highest peak east of the Rocky Mou tains. Remodeled a Mountain. George Vanderbilt looked agai and watched the sun come un ove the peaks of the Blue Ridge Mour tains until it seemed to set the who! dome of the dey on fire, colorin every cloud to a bright copper hu< and kindling the heavens with lon shafts of golden light. His bewildere ?yes took in this brilliant scene, anc when he had had his fill of it, he can celed the order for his private ca and began to look around for a home site. * He first came upon the estate o a wealthy Southerner and offere< to buy it. The Southerner refused al offers. Then Vanderbilt searched th* country-side until the found the sit? he wanted and began to negotiate foi the land. Some he got for five hun dred dollars an acre; other tract! cost him much more, for, when it was learned that a Vanderbilt was buying prices went sky high. In the centre of his holdings was a high mountain. The peak of this earthly pile was not intended to hold the kind of building George wanted. So he set about correcting the errol of Nature. He sliced off the top and added the earth and rock of thc re moved portion to that which was left, making a broad plateau. On this plateau he built Bilmore house. And what a "house" it was! To say that it cost more than two miilion dollars and contained ninety rooms, gives only a sketchy outline of it. It was-and is-the finest country man sion in all America, a paradise in the ^-mountains, a "Chateau of the Sky Jarks." It stands upon an esplanade 700 x 300 feet, bound by retaining walls of solid masonry and crowned by a coping of finely dressed stone. The outside walls of the palace are 375 x 192 feet. In architecture it sug gests some of the famous chateaux of the Loire; yet it is no slavish copy. It has an individuality, a personality all its own. It is considered by many to be the crowning work of Richard M. Hunt, one pf America's foremost architects. * Winter Garden Under Plate Glass. Entering the main floor from the terrace, the visitor is struck by the beauty of the winter garden. This is an octagon shaped space, 24 by 25 feet, its plate glass roof supported by twelve large curved ribs. To the west is the salon, forty feet in length. To the north of the garden and the cor ridors surrounding it is the banquet hall; beyond it, the breakfast room, and still further north, the kitchen ? wing. The banquet hall has a ceiling sev enty-five feet high, and is lighted on ly from one end and from the ceiling, the remainder of the wall space be ing reserved for tapestry hangings. It is seventy-two feet long and forty two feet wide with one span and a dome ceiling. Three colossal fire places are at the western end. and an organ aloft, with a balcony for mu sicians, at the eastern end. Another feature of the main floor is the living hall, sixty feet long and thirty feet wide, running up to the top story. Under the main hall is a swimming pool of exactly the same dimensions. Noi'th of the living room is the tapestry gallery, seventy five feet long, where three large pan els have been built into the wall to receive rare works of art. To the south of this is the library, 60 by 40 feet in 1 dimension. This is trimmed in deep red Numidian marble, and contains book cases filled with liter ary treasures. Emerging from the library, the visitor finds himself on a library ter race, a plaza thirty-five feet wide which leads down to the south ter race, which ii more than three hun dred feet long and contains a bowl ing green. The porte ?cchere. the gun room and the billiard room are to the east of the banquet hall. On the upper floors, reached by the famous circular staircase, arc a bewildering succession of sleeping rooms, exquisitely appointed. There are twenty bath rooms so arranged that every sleeping room has direct access to one. Stranger See Only Exterior. Cf the external appointments, the most interesting is the "rampc douce." Through this remarkable structure of masonry runs a stream of limpid water that finds its exit through the mouths of half a dozen gigantic black iron terrapins. Spout ing thence, ii; rushes away in a little stream and over artificial cascades into an artificial lake. On the posts of Biltmore House are marble figures of mythological creature?, half women and half lions, that were imported by George Van derbilt from Rome for the decorativo purpose they serve. To the average visitor, that is, one who has a permit to drive through the Biltmore estate, the rampe-douce and the lion ladies are the only objects that may be closely inspected. No stranger is per mitted to come within one hundred yards of the house itself. Tennis courts, flower beds, aquatic gardens and an outdoor swimming pool complete the external ensemble. One would suppose that this earth ly paradise made a playground for New York's millionaire "four hun dred," but strange as it may seem, Mr. Vanderbilt's guests were more often literary or artistic folk than the merely rich. Edith Wharton was a frequent guest, and Paul Leicester Ford was often a visitor. Vanderbilt himself was a quiet, introspective character, with a literary turn of mind. It was to house the servants and overseers of the 120,000-acre estate that Mr. Vanderbilt originally plan ned and built the town of Biltmore. But it soon outgrew the original idea. Persons of considerable means seized the opportunity to rent the "model cottages" which Vanderbilt construc ted. Soon the colony grew to a town of two or three thousand persons. In many ways it was a remarkable lit tle village.'Vanderbilt himself was mavor, common council, and law maker. He laid down two or three cardinal principles for conduct as follows : 1. There shall be no dog3 nor chickens in Bilnnore. 2. No servant employed within the town shall sleep therein. The first law is self explanatory; the second, Mr. Vanderbilt believed j would solve the difficulties of the servant problem by making it -diffi cult for housewives to bid against each other for the services of the help. Both rules worked splendidly and Biltmore never knew what it was to have domestic strife. A Fine, But No City Treasury They fined a drunken man $6 once within the confines of Biltmore and had a hard time disposing of the money because there was no city treasury; Vanderbilt always paid the bills. The town was ouiet and clean, the soul of order and refinement. It is this little town that the Sou thern railway and Messrs. Sinclair and Stephens have purchased from the Vanderbilt estate. Biltmore House still remains in the family, a tribute to the lavish genius of one of America's most picturesque million aires. I ara pelling Cement, Brick. Lime, Plaster, Plaster Pari*, Shingles, Coal, Hulls ana MP?JI at close prices. See me before buying. I aro still buying cotton sepd. M. A. TAYLOR. PEPTO-MANGAN MAKES "WARM" FRIENDS Successful Tonic That Builds Up the Blood and Puts Col or Into the Cheeks Cold "Hand-Shakes" Remedied Public Warned of Imitations Real Pepto-Mangan Always Bears Name "Gude's" A cold hand does not mean a warm heart, the old saying to the contrary notwithstanding. People whose hands are cold have insufficient warmth all over the body because their blood is thin. How can ono. express any warmth of feeling when greeting a friend by the clasp of a cold hand? And how very pleasant is the warm hand-it is so eloquent of good feeling! lt cer tainly does indicate good health. 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I These Are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors, or parties interested, to show cause before me a tmy office at Edgefield Court House South Carolina, on the 10th day of May 1920, at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of discharge should not be granted. I W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P. C., E. C., S. C. - FOR SALE: Pure bred Duroc ?fer- | sey pigs, entitled to registration. Will ! be ready for delivery May 15. j J. H. NICHOLSON. 4-21-3t i_ Bear in mind every inch of the suits are STRICTLY ALL V SPECIAI FOR A FEW WITH EVERY TWO PIECE To Order FULL SUIT AND EXTRA PANTS . . m This price is muc ask for s We Gu? The Materi These suits and extra pant dividual measure by thor Perfect fit, good workman and everything guarantee that this is the greatest tai fered. We will make to Suit from Fine All Wool $48, and include an extra Order now while patterns i QUARLESfc'] EDGEFIELD, SO The store where your and we do act! 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