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?jje Pamberg Peralb: ESTABLISHED APRIL, 181)1. : Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April i ( 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. , $2.00 PER YEAR. ________ i Volume 29. Xo. 25. Thursday, June 17,1920. Millionaire's Dream Smashes. i The model town of Biltmore, X. C., . built by the late George W. Vander bilt in connection with his magnifi- . cent country estate near Asheville, ] " ' J-1? C< ~ + V> ^,r>n rci il_ I has been sold 10 me ouumciu ^ way and two individual purchasers. So crumble the dreams of men, says the Kansas City Star. I How vast a scheme Vanderbilt conceived for developing his North Carolina estate, no one will ever know. , From 1892 until his death in 1914 he 1 made it his life's work to block to- j( gether 120,000 acres of mountain . land, grub out the forests, plant ^ trees, pipe water, build "roads and level off a mountain peak for his pa latial home, Biltmore house. The project cost him more than $10,000,000. J Two years after his death his wid- , ow transferred to the government 50,- } 000 acres of the estate for a national , < forest reserve. Now the model town of Biltmore is sold and the million- , aire's plan of rural empire begins to disintegrate. Did Vanderbilt dream a fool's paradise on those North Caro- . lina hills? He is dead; the dream is r dust and ashes. i On a rainy day thirty years ago, ' Vanderbilt's private car was on a side track at Asheville waiting to take the . young millionaire back to New York. After a short stay he had become disgusted with the wet weather, the skyline, the hotel, with everything. He was to leave on the morrow*. During the night the skies cleared and the 1 next morning young Vanderbilt, ris- t ing early, watched a North Carolina ^ ? . f sunrise. Standing on the piazza of the Battery Park hotel he looked away to the * + north and saw the peak of the Roan mountain in Tennessee; 60 miles 1 away. Southward was the grim out- c line of Caesar's Head, a mountain in s South Carolina, 50 miles away. To c the southwrest, dim in that blue haze 1 which gives to this mountain range its name, was the Georgia line, 90 * miles away. To the east, standing * bare and bleak, and reflecting the sun's rays from its snow crowned * summit was Mount Mitchell, the f highest peak east of the Rocky moun- * tains. s Remodeled Mountain. c George Vanderbilt looked again and t w*atched the sun come up over the \ peaks of the Blue Ridge mountains c t until it seemed to set the wrhole dome of the sky on fire, coloring every r eloud to a bright copper hue and kind" ling the heavens with long shafts of 0 golden light. His bewildered eyes took * in this brilliant scene, and when he 8 had had his fill of it, he canceled the| * order for his private car and began to look around for a homesite. Q He came first upon the estate of a a wealthy southerner and offered to buy it. The southerner refused all offers. Then Vanderbilt searched the countryside until he found the site he wanted and began to negotiate for the land. Some he got for $5 an acre; other tracts cost him much more, for, when it was learned that a Vanderbilt % was buying, prices went sky high. In the center of his holdings was a high mountain. The peak of this early pile was not intended to hold the kind of a building George wanted, so he set about correcting the error of nature. He sliced off the top and added the earth and rock of the removed portion to that which was left, making a broad plateau. On this plateau he built Biltmore house. And what a "house" it was! To say that it cost more than $2,000,000 and contained 90 rooms gives only a sketchy outline of it. It was?and is ?the finest country mansion in all America, a paradise in the moun foino o "Phatoan of the* Slcvlnrk? " CUiUO) U V"U1,VV4.W. X/J. v.*v It stands upon an esplanade 700x300 feet, bound by retaining walls of masonry and crowned by a coping of finely dressed stone. The outside walls of the palace are 375x192 feet. In architecture it suggests 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 of America's foremost architects. 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 space, 24x25 feet, its plate glass roof supported by 12 large curved ribs. To the west is the salon. 40 feet in length. To the north of the garden and the corridors surrounding it is the banquet hall; beyond it. the breakfast room, and still further north, the kitchen wTing. The banquet hall has a ceiling 75 feet high, and is lighted only from 3ne end and from the ceiling, the remainder of the wall space being reserved for tapestry hangings. It is 72 feet long and 4 2 feet wide with ane span and a dome ceiling. Three colossal fire places are at the western end, and an organ loft, with a balcony for musicians, at the eastern end. Another feature of the main floor is the living hall, 60 feet long and 20 feet wide, running up to the top story. Under the main hall is a swimming pool of exactly the same dimensions. North of the living room is the tapestry gallery, 75 feet long, where three large panels 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 limension. This is trimmed in deep red Xumidian marble, and contains bookcases filled with literary treasires. Emerging from the library, the visitor finds himself on the library terrace, a plaza 35 feet wide which eads down to the south terrace, which is more than 300 feet long and contains a bowling green. The porte mchere, the gun room and the billiard room are to the east of the banquet hall. On the upper floors, reached by the 'anions circular staircase, are a bewildering succession of sleeping rooms, exquisitely appointed. There ire 20 bath rooms so arranged that jvery sleeping room has direct access to one. See Only Extension, Of external appointments, the most nteresting is the "rampe-douce." Through this remarkable structure of tnasonry runs a stream of limpid water, that finds its exit through the nouths of half a dozen gigantic black ron terrapins. Spouting thence, it -ushes away in a little stream and iver artificial cascades into an artiicial lake. On the posts of Bilmore house are narble figures of mythological creaures, half women and half lion, that vere imported by George Vanderbilt rom Rome for the decorative purpose hey serve. To the average visitor, hat is, one who has a permit to drive hrough the Biltmore estate, the ramle-douce and the lion ladies are the mly objects that may be closely inspected. No stranger is permitted to :ome within 100 yards of the house tself. j Tennis courts, flower beds, aeuatic; gardens and an outdoor swimming! )ool complete an external ensemble. | One would suppose that this earthy paradise made a playground onlyi or New York's millionaire "four! mndred," but strange as it may! eem Mr. Vanderbilt's guests morej >ften tn ere' literary or artistic folk | han the merely rich. Edith Whar-j on Ford was often a visitor. Van-1 lerbilt himself was a quiet, introspec-| ive character with a literary turn of j nind. * It was to house the servants and (verseers of his 120,000 acre estatei lat Mr. Vanderbilt originally planned | i ind built the town of Biltmore. But! t soon outgrew the original idea. Arsons of considerable means seized he opportunity to rent the "model ottages" which Vanderbilt construct i-.v?^%???rJhf?' PARTICULARLY AS WITH A STRONG If your Bank is \J count properly In requirements will fast as they arise, %J Whether or not you are licit your account as business requir RESOURCES OV ! ~ I ed. Soon the colony grew to a town of two or three thousand persons. I , In many ways it was a remarkable! little village. Vanderbilt himself was mayor, common council and law maker. He laid down two or three cardinal principles for conduct, as follows: 1. There shall be no dogs or chick; ens in Biltmore. t 2. Xo servant employed within the ; town shall sleep therein. The first law is self explanatory; | the second, Mr. Vanderbilt believed, ! would solve the difficulties of the j servant problem by making it difficult . for housewives to bid against each ; other for the services of the help. i Both rules worked splendidly and ! Biltmore never knew what it was to j have domestic strife. 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 ! treasurer, Vanderbilt always paid the I : bills. The town was quiet and clean, I the soul of order and refinement. ; It is this little town that the ?outhi ern railway and Messrs. Sinclair and j Stephens have purchased from the j Vanderbilt estate. Biltmore house ; still remains in the family, a tribute | to the lavish genius of one of Ameri! ca's most picturesque millionaires. < ? ? Her Memory System. A portly Dutch woman, says the Boston Transcript, applied at the | postoffice for a money order to send to her son in the Far East. She told the clerk she had left her son's letter at home, but said he was in "some place out in China dot sounds like der noise an automobile makes." The clerk smiled and turned to another near by, he said, "What kind of a noise does an automobile make, Joe?" "Honk, honk!" the other suggestjed. "Yah, dot's it!" exclaimed the wo| man, her face brightening: "Honk, honk, dot's der place." So the .clerk made the order payable at Hongkong, and the woman went away happy. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in the Town of Bamberg. S. C., on the loth day of July, 1920, to determine whether or not the Town shall be bonded in'the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars for the purpose of repairing and enlarging the water and lighting plant of the Town. Also on the same day, an election will be held in the Town of Bamberg to determine whether or not the Town shall be bonded in the sum of * Twienty-five Thousand Dollars, for the Durnose of extending the water $ lines, or waterworks, of the Town. ? These elections will be held pur- | suant to petition of freeholders and f ordinances enacted by Council. I The following have been elected | as managers of the two elections: 3 H. N. Folk, C. W. Rentz, Jr., and A. 8 S. Easterling. . j Twenty days before the election 1 the books of registration of the Town | will be opened for the registration | of electors who were not registered | at the time of the last election for | Mayor and Aldermen, and the books | will remain open for ten days. * TOWN COUNCIL OF BAMBERG, 1 SOUTH CAROLINA. ^ ^ 7-15 YOU ARE DEALING LIBERAL BANK. right and your ac- I andled, your credit I4 Lfll yijVVVjVVVtVV II I hohhiihbhiib ; * I Capitalize fY fY fY fY :Y ft fY X Y r? 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