Life — November 1, 1894 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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TIGRE: AY A Maine soldier tells how he got a tidbit while his regiment was marching along a hot and dusty road in southern Pennsylvania. Orders were very strict against foraging, but in spite of them a soldier suddenly sprang out of the ranks in pursuit of a fat gobbler standing among the sumach bushes on the roadside. The turkey started off in a hurry, with the man after him. Major Brown called out angrily: ‘Halt! What do you mean! Halt!" A few hurried steps and the soldier laid the turkey low with a blow from his rifle barrel. ‘* There, dum ye!" he exclaimed, as he picked it op “T reckon you'll understand that when the major says halt he means halt !"—Portland Express. IT’S A PALACE. PROMABLY the most palatial office building in America is the one recently erected by Hiram Walker & Sons, Limited, at Walkerville, Canada. That the Canadian Club Whisky was well known in every country in the world has long been an undisputed fact, but that the Walkers, its distillers, had become multi- millionaires through its enormous sales, those who were the fortunate recipients of an invitation to the opening of its new building were quite convinced. ‘The exterior resembles an Italian palace of the severe Florentine style. Two stories face the river front, and entrance is made by a double stairway of piok stone, curving gracefully about a handsome fountain. The walls are of Potsdam sandstone and Canadian terra-cotta. There is no attempt at elaborate decoration ; apart from the carved cornices and bases, the only further ornaments are two car- FOR FLORIDA touches—one bearing the firm monogram, the other reading Hiram Walker & Sons, Limited, ‘The entrance is through a lofty archway, with heavily grated doors of ham- mered bronze, ‘These ponderous doors admit you to a roomy vestibule, the wails and ceiling of which are of majolica, Up a few steps, a pair of heavy oak doors, studded with bronze rosettes, divide the vestibule from the corridor entrance. A great blue vase on a pedestal stands at the entrance. The floor of the vestibule is & mosaic, after the design of San Miniato, the oldchurch at Florence. Its curious Arabesque ae illuminated at night by an antique lamp, like that of the Borghes ce. PatThe general offices are on the street level, and their fittings are those of a metropolitan banking house. All the desks and vaults are in inclosures formed by polished oak wood-work and great panes of plate-glass, with railings of ornametal rass-work. Every desk and chair exactly matches the woodwork, and conforms to the style of architecture in which the room is finished. The various Walker Companies occupy the entire building. Each member has a private office, which is in excellent taste, while sumptuous toa degree. In each is some artistic bit reproduced from a famous museum or palace. In one, the elaborate fireplace is a fac simile of the one in the Museum of Orleans, France ; in another, is a fireplace patterned after one in a chamber of the Doge's palace, in Venice ; a'third fireplace is inspired by the one in the ducal palace at Urbino, Italy. ‘The reception-room is a Guplicate of the interior of the Chateau Blois. The furniture in this room was secured from the Italian exhibit at the World’s Fair, and was made in Venice. There are richly carved tables and numerous chairs of exquisite design and workmanship, Rich rugs decorate the floor, and several great urns have positions in which they add new suggestion to the elegance of all A room where many of the guests lingered was the sample-room, where a wroug! iron antler lamp, quaintly carved chairs, and the cases on the walls filled with all sorts of sample bottles, showing the produce of the great Walkerville distilleries, brought to recollection ‘the wine rooms of Nuremburg. The Walkers are men of integrity and intelligence, who have displayed a love of art combined with business sagacity. May they all live long and prosper. ee eee Chocolat Suchard The name ‘‘Suchard" on a piece of Chocolate typifies the highest order only of purity and excellence. Cheep Chocolates are not manufactured by the Fabrique Suchard at Neuchatel. Drinking Chocolates. Cocoas, Bo.Bors, Noisettes, Giandujas, Gift Packages, ete., ete ,all unique, ad all of the best quality. 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