Rose-coloured silk was stretched from the panelling
up to the heavy frieze, consisting of "swags" of fruit and foliage
modelled in high relief, and brilliantly coloured in their natural
hues. The domed ceiling was painted sky-blue, covered with golden
stars, gold and silver suns and moons, and the signs of the
Zodiac. I may add that the effect of this curious apartment was
not such as to warrant any one trying to reproduce it. The house
also contained a white marble swimming bath; an unnecessary
adjunct, I should have thought, to a dwelling built for winter
occupation in Montreal.
The Ice-Castle erected by the Municipality was really a joy to the
eye. It was rather larger than, say, the Westminster Guildhall,
and had a tower eighty feet high. It was an admirable reproduction
of a Gothic castle, designed and built by a competent architect,
with barbican, battlements, and machiocolaions all complete, the
whole of gleaming, transparent ice-blocks, a genuine thing of
beauty. One of the principal events of the Carnival was the
storming of the Ice-Castle by the snow-shoe clubs of Montreal.
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