The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1901, Page 5

ONE OF A PAIR O CANDELARRA ¥ NAPOLEOoON I TS PRES. < EFFERSS) lated eight or uld ne anybe thing for writers to v reets, parks, art ments in the wrong he sun rise and ¥ he compa We book for a whole season the author located the Wind- which, of vases of royal Worcester, 2 gift to Pres- dent Arthur. These are finely colored, and each is prettily decorated with a draped female figure. Disectly over the fireplace is a large and handsome plaque of old Vienna ware, around whose edgé(a distingulshing mark of this ware) runs an exquisite border, wrought in giit. The burnished andirons, which date New Or- | from the time of Washington, arg of curi- ous antique design. THE ACCUMULATION OF A CENTURY. . GYFTS TO_ FORMER VASE PRESENTED To THE \vHITE House BY PrREsIicENT ARTHUR. VASE PRED BUCHANAN Between the windows are a clock and a pair of alabaster and gilt vases, pur- chased by President Van Buren for the ‘White House. A highly ornate basin and cover, in THE SUNDAY CALL. STEEL SHIELD IN HALL LEADING TO PRESIDENTYS OFFICE_ ClLock LAFAYETTE. . black repousse, on a gilt ground, which stands on a smalil .table, were, strangely enough, rescued from a garret by Mrs. Grant during her husband’s first term. Their origin is unknown. PRESENTE SES. WASHINGTS vsan—‘;3 ENTED TO PRESIDEMNT BY THE KING OF SsiAM. SNE OF A PAIR SUPPOSED TANAVE BEEWN PURCHASED BY THEIR FIRE SCREEN GIFTOF THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT TO MRS. SRANT. Another relic of the Grant regime is a screen which formedipart of the Austrian exhibits of old gobelin tapestries in the Centepnial Exposition at Philadelphia, and was subsequently presented by Aus- SEVRES VASE PRESENTED BY FRANCE. To PRESIDENT PIERCE. . NOTABLE FOR THEIR BEAUTY INTEREST & TH D'éTVNGUISHEE'R Frewed Lovelutlon. Tall and slender are | K/ VAN BUREN HISTORYC to Mrs. Grant. The rich and mellow i the e al In the next ro r cabinet, are a cha a gift by nment to President Gra bra, s or the been Van nial intere ‘White which acquire a Suren, from the fact that 1sed at Cleveland wed- the only of this sort v President celebrated with him- thin the precincts of the were the emony Executive The ma of the Blue Room 1is decorated with clock presented to Weashington by Lafayette, always known as the Lafayetie , and the companion vases which the First Frenc Republig sent to the first President of the first republic of the New World. Clocks and vases are all of solld bronze gilt. The former is three feet long. It ls surmounted by a female fig- ure In a sitting posture, wearing a Phry- glan cap, symbolical of liberty and the the vases, anfl thoroughly representative of the beatty and delicacy of the best seventeenth century work. Their bas-| relief designs represent scenes in Lhel earlfer history of France. On the other side of the room are the huge vases which President Faure, shortly before his death, sent to Presi- dent McKinley—a graceful gift from one republican chief to another. These are | of royal Sevres blue, overlying a white | ground. A touch of gilt on the handles is the sole ornamentation. | Another White House gift from the | French Government is a large steel | shield, placed in the hall leading to the President’s office, whereon Adam and Eve are depicted In the Garden of Eden, USED AT eurrounded by a sence of the of tneffable in the ab- an expression and empha- . who, size th ous gesture. There furniture in the ‘White Hou no regal as- Iways been a fons attach great favorite booke made from t ld frig: te the Constitution, th “0la Irons of Oliver Wend Holmes’ poem, which, er suce commanders, but notably under Commo- dore Charles Stewart, ifather of Charles ewart Parnell, ts ht Great Britain t at la as in the Whits ars, e present y table. of Years to RBUild These- the Co- laid on HILE the first stone of logne C Cathedral was the edifice was August 15, 1848, 600 years building t > vears. The castle of Ki at the uthern ex 24 years from the tion stone to the r annd on its highe dation stone was t occupied & day he was thrown into p e son of the man whose skull lay in the earth as goberg's foundation st In this man- er master after master of Kingsgo- toward the completion of the founder's work till civilization intervened Between Perth and Kingussie, in Scot- ct Jbhn o' Groats to stands Murthley castle, zabethan struc e, de- t of resent ely to be. finished, ris declare, for at distant, on the same . unfinished palaco It was begun by who died in 183, who most sumptuous style. one of tha main of the dukes the fourth Duke, planned it on the When complete finest ate residences m the kingdom. For over twenty years Lord Bute has been busily building a great, maasion on the tsland of that uame. It is not yet completed, nor likely to be for another | ten years. At the end of that period Mount Stewart, as the place is to be called, will be one of the most gorgeous establishments In the world. Restormel cas In_ Cornwall, took ninety years to build, Yof which period exactly one-third was occupied In exca- vating the foundat The solid rock upon which it st as hard as fron. Indeed, med m Cornish, “the palace of the iron rock." Milan hedral begun In 1356 and finished dnder Napoleon in 1505419 years. The Duomo at Florence s commenced by "Arnuifo in the year 1204, the last block of marble being placed in position in the facade in the presence of the King on May 12, 1887, a period of 39 years.—Strangs Stories.