Interiorly, as I learned later, this place was most cleverly and
sensibly arranged for the purpose for which it was intended. It was airy
and well-appointed, with, on the ground floor, a great gymnasium
containing, outside of an alcove at one end where hung four or five
punching bags, only medicine balls. At the other end was an office or
receiving-room, baggage or store-room, and locker and dining-room. To
the east at the center extended a wing containing a number of
shower-baths, a lounging room and sun parlor. On the second floor, on
either side of a wide airy hall which ran from an immense library,
billiard and smoking-room at one end to Culhane's private suite at the
other, were two rows of bedrooms, perhaps a hundred all told, which gave
in turn, each one, upon either side, on to the balconies previously
mentioned. These rooms were arranged somewhat like the rooms of a
passenger steamer, with its center aisle and its outer decks and doors
opening upon it. In another wing on the ground floor were kitchens,
servants' quarters, and what not else! Across the immense lawn or campus
to the east, four-square to the sanitarium, stood a rather grandiose
stable, almost as impressive as the main building. About the place, and
always more or less in evidence, were servants, ostlers, waiting-maids
and always a decidedly large company of men of practically all
professions, ages, and one might almost say nationalities. That is as
nationalities are represented in America, by first and second
generations.
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