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= VANDERBILT’S CASTLE.A Mansion That Breaks all / Records for Reside aces.WORK NEARLY FINISHEDI.OCATKU XKAk ASH JtVl U.E ON A SI'OT ONCE OCCUPIED BY A M d'.NTA I N I’KAK.The work on George \Y. Van-11derbilt’s estate near Asheville,, 1 X. C\, on which he has erected a I mansion that breaks all records ( for residences in this country, is reported to be nearly finished.The estate consists cf 30,000 acres. Kach member oi Mr. Vanderbilt’s family can, here*, fore, have all to himself a pi ivate play-ground as large as all the breathing spots set aside for a million and a half of Xew Yorkers.The mansion stands 011 a spot [once occupied by a mountain 1 peak. Mr. Vanderbilt had the peak cut off and carted away. In r order to expedite the construction of his castle a plant was put up that turned out 60,000 bricks and2,000 dower-pots a day, the latterto be used in a sevenlv live acre plot set aside lor green-houscs and nurseries.A 530,000 railroad was built between Biltmore station and the castle for the transfer of mates rials, and this line v. ill be torn up when the work is done.There is a deer park of 3,000 acres, an.1, extensive It out ponds. The greatest curiosity of the estate, however, is til fact that right in the cent- r of it stands the shanty of a colored man, who refused to soil his nine acres to the millionaire.Mr. Vanderbilt offered $900 for the property, which was worth much less than that. But the cok red man was wise. “Say, b ss.” he remarked, “if that's worth $900 to you I guess it’s wortii 510,000 to me. I'm a poor man. I am, and if I can afford to refuse Si 0,000 for a place like that, 1 should think a millionaire like you wouldn't be afraid to pay 540,000 for it. It is said in the neighborhood that this is the sum Mr. Vanderbilt had to pay, and since then the colored man lias had 'possum and sweet potatoes 011 his table three limes a day.The entire enter prise, it is estim. t d, will cost Mr. Vanderbilt about 55,000.'■on. The annual outlay, of course, will be enormous.ItasViso4 .\11cIIh0 s s«1111lt;y11o'1titlO'/1e(eslt;cft
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Fisherman And Farmer
Edenton, North Carolina, US
Fri, Dec 13, 1895
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