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...dazzlingly newfangled electric lights that gleamed on the first two floors. There was a fireplace in every living room, a gilded chamber pot under every bed, a brass cuspidor in every room. The washstands were marble, with brass legs; many a wall was hung with imitation Fragonards and Watteaus. The largest and best suite was set aside for Grover Cleveland. When Cleveland went to the White House in March 1885, the food for the inaugural ball was rushed to Washington by special train from the Murray Hill's kitchens...