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The top floor was filled with carriages and sleighs, 

 and each ready to be run onto the elevator and 

 taken to the lower floor for use. The kitchen was 

 on the top floor, over the dining room, a dumb waiter 

 between them. 



A $750 velvet spread covered the table in the 

 dining room, where a dinner was never served. Over 

 it was a crystal chandelier. The walls and furniture 

 were of mahogany. 



The down with which the dining room couch was 

 stuffed cost $17 a pound. In the china closet were 

 the finest dishes, each with the monogram on it, 

 *'D. E. C." made at the Haviland pottery in France. 



The china closet and contents cost $5,000. The 

 closet was of satin wood with white mahogany trim- 

 mings, artistically carved. 



There were $3,000 portiers at both ends of the 

 parlor, pictures of wild duck in flight on one set 

 and on the other domestic fowls. In this room were 

 costly bronze statues, and a $25,000 pair of vases. 



The rug on the floor was the skin of a Bengal 

 tiger, and over this was a chandelier like that in 

 the dining room. The walls were of mahogany. 



From the parlor were doors opening into the 

 barber shop and billiard room. In the barber shop, 

 on a pedestal in the bay window, was a statue of 

 Venus bathing in a shell-shaped fountain. At one end 

 of the room was a $2,000 mahogany cabinet, inlaid 

 with a fine tracery of brass work. Japanese antiques 

 and vases were other decorations. 



An onyx wash bowl was near the barber chair. 



