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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1947)
i Boyfe's Column Ringling's Fabulous Home Now Tourist Attraction By HAL BOYLE SARASOTA, B'lii., March 20 (A) If you think oltipliiinUi work (or poauut you should mis Una palace hero by thn buy. 11 li puliu'u bnlll from tho labor of puradtnit Rlopliniitn, ronrliiK I Ions, aiiui'lliiK Uuer. laiiKlilntl clowns milt tlio.pciinlri of niilllonii of kids sipping pink Imviouadii, Tlioy finrnlsliori tlu money for John hinullnii. thn circus mini, to erect a million dollar mini. Ion fashioned aflor a demo's palace In Venice, it la by far tho most pre tentloui homo In KlorUlu, fit for a Ciu-sar, a mi'dlcvnl prince of tho church, an cinpi'mr nnd fit, John KluulliiK tlioutflil, for the wife he loved. Art Colltclor But thn ureal palace, net off by apphlrc water and exotic lrc from many land, la only the (hell. An asltilc art collector, he culled the world and spent $2,000,0(10 for trcaimrcd an tuples to furnish It In way he thouilht suitable for the wife of the world'a iireatcut circus mas ter. Tho ularliim had priceless, marble busts from Italy and fan backed chalra from Haiti. It Hold-leafed doors came from an old Astor Mouse In Manhattan. The leakwood fluora were put toiiethor with peua. The Lou in XV furniture in thn ballroom wai upholstered in red cut vel vet. The cullluit ol the iireut living hall Im'KO enouilh (or a wild animal act waa limbered with lnie cypreiia beams. Win dow! of tinted hand-blown Ve netian tiliiss tempered tho glare of the sun. Six iiomloliis were anchored In the bay at all times, uvullable to KUCltH. Tlte (Itnlng room had two prlcelesa Titian palntliiK and a solid walnut table aentinu 42 people. The bar in the next room came from the celebrated old Waldorf hotel In New York. It had a musical bottle that tin kled "How Dry 1 Am." In his library Rlnullim had 1000 rare art volumes. In hla bathroom he had hla own pri vate barber chair and a bathtub made from one chunk of pure Sienna marble. The faucet waa of solid gold. It leuked. Handmade Bedcovers The hoime waa opened just before Christmas. 1020. Her ex pansive husband had built her a museum a much aa a home, but Maliel HIiikIIhii made 11 her own In a womun's way. She acwed her own lampshadca and bed covers. Her handiwork helped five It a "llvcdln" flavor. "She was a lovable, demo cratic, well-liked woman," said one who knew her. But In 1020 lews than three years after the mansion waa completed she died. From then on John Rlnullnu had little pleasure In hla palace by tho bay. He died In lfKIO and willed It to the Sliuo oi norma, It wa closed for yean, Fif teen thousand alahtaeeri tried to net In to view It when It waa opened to the public last Dec. IS. Now i)00 to 400 tourist) come dally to gawk at the Hold faucet and put their feet on the old Waldorf bar rull. Dark-eyed, aweet-faccd Mabel IthiKlliiK looks down at them from ono portrait, Dlx, tall John Rlnidlnit, his hand thrust Im periously Into hla pocket, stares down from another wall, Proud of this portrait, Rln Hiik onco showed It to Will RoKora, "Don't look natural," aalrt Ronera critically. "Whv7" asked tho crestfallen circus magnate, "Cause you've got your hand In your own pocket, laughed Will. Special Train Moves Patients STEILACOOM, Wash., March 27 (fl'j A special train was en mute today to Eastern State hos pital at Medical Lake with 159 mental patients who have been bcdlcis since Tuesday's destruc tion of their four-ward building at tho Western Stato hospital here. An additional 90 patients will bo transferred to the Northern Statu hospital at Sedro Woolley sometime next week, Dr. W. N, Keller, hospital superintendent, said today. Former Resident Dies In Eugene Word has been received of the death of William II. RoborU, 54, of Hlaehley, a former resi dent of Klamath Kails. 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