MILLIONAIRE'S FLAT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13594, 14 May 1908, Page 7

MILLIONAIRE'S FLAT.

Mr Alfred Vanderbilt not only intends to spend the present season in England, to keep his best- horses there, and to drive a coach to Brighton three days »a week during the months of May, June, and July, but "he has also decided to take a permanent residence in London. He has just secured one of the huge flats recently erected at the corner of Park-lane and Piccadilly, the rental of which is £2.000 a year. "

Known for the piesent as the Duveen building, from the fact that Mr ri. J. Duveen is at the head of the company who built the block, purchasing the site of Gloucester House from executors of the late Dnke of Cambridge; these flats are most palatial, and are fitted with every modern convenience to afford the maximum of luxury to their tenants. Mr Vanderbilt has not- taken the first floor, preferring the higher rooms for the sake of the view across the Green Park and Buckingham Palace garden. Each tenant of these princely suites can satisfy his own tastes in the matiter of decoration. Mr Vanderbilt's flat is to be a very palace 91" splendour, and rare old fnrniture. antique tapestries, and gems of are in the way of pictures ate already being searched out for its embellishment. Mis. A. Vanderbilt will come over during the season to join her husband,'and Mr 3. Cornelics Vanterbilt, sen., the millionaire's mother, and Countess Szechenyi and his sister "will very likely make the fiat their headquarters dining the month of Jnne. , __