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...five years British and Scottish stonemasons chipped and hammered in the Asheville woods while Mr. Vanderbilt toured Europe, sending back carload after carload of French furniture, Gothic cabinets, Jacobean tables, Japanese ivories. On Christmas day, 1895, Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York's Central Park, to attend the official housewarming of Biltmore House. An assembled chateau, it is designed chiefly after the Chateau de Blois. There was nothing in North America to approach it; no other Vanderbilt had so fine a home...
...average citizen is, of course, zero. As if any confirmation of the dismal aesthetic condition of Boston were necessary, after Chicago's opera company came and conquered when Boston had earlier thoroughly snubbed two trembling representatives of its own in that field, Chicago intends to ship east another carload of mid-west Kultur, in the shape of its Civic Shakespeare Company. Boston, too, discovered Shakespeare for a time this autumn, but hurriedly let him drop and went back to the talkies. But perhaps the dominant mid-west will mark up another triumph. It suffered an apparent defeat a year...
While the police raids were going on, two white boys in an automobile were shot dead by a carload of Negroes after a traffic dispute, four burglars were caught breaking into a fashionable hotel, a detective was shot by robbers and two men almost succeeded in kidnapping a patrolman. Other crimes during intense police activity: holdups, 60; burglaries...
...first carload of no million British-made bas-reliefs of eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania was being circulated in Bucharest last week. The portraits (see cut) are being struck by the British Royal Mint, 5 million on Rumanian 20-lei (12?) pieces and 60 million on 5-lei (3?) coins, all of a base metal which the governments concerned refuse to describe more fully than as a "new alloy...
...North Dakota State College also won second on a carload of fat lambs which sold for 23? per pound...