Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-22

fslonians. and they did. They took US first up
Delaware avenue, street lined with handsome,
roomy houses, surrounded by beautiful lawns
and strawberries, and well calculated TO cOntes,
hODors with Clevelsnds famed Euclid avenue.
- The residence Of Willard Fillmore is on
Delaware avenue, a comfortable looking, I'M
pretentious, drab-colored house, with red win
dow fscings, and picturesque, clustered chin
neys. Mr. Fillmore Is greatly respected in But
fslo. His bust, portrait, and photograph meet
one at every turn. His life is one Of compare
tive leisure. and his friends think he is a little
enHUy'd by the dignified repose that seems 20 be
considered the proper thing for an ex- President
He had been hard worker up to the time thai
he took the Presidential chair. and would now
probably he happier wearing out than rusting
out Mr.. Bowen, the railroad lawyer, tells M
that twenty hve years ago he went 90 school 60
Willard Fillmore at Aurora, Erie county. The
teachers pay was SIS per month. Mr.. Fillmore
was not graduate in the modern school OF
Christian Statesmanship, and did not profit by
his opportunities. The earnings of his busy life
though sufficient for his comfortable but uaos-
entatious style of living, are estimated 10 be less
than $4,000, aud his income Is moderate for the
reason that he will not invest in ANYTHING bear
ing higher rate of interest than three or four
per cent, believing that any investment prom
lsing higher rate is unsound. Mr.. Fillmore's
family consists of his wife and a bachelor son
who is a court clerk in Buffalo.
Buffalo has many "reminiscences OF Mark
Twain, and of his remarkable attempt at pub
fishing newspaper on an entirely new plan.
After his return from the Holy Land, (per
Quaker City, Mark took q wife, and purchased
the third interest in the Buffalo Express, owned
by A. NJ. Clspp, Public Printer. They say that
Marks style of newspaper work was unique.
He is not an early riser, and is as slow Of move
ment as ofspeech, consequently he didn't get 70
the Office very early in the morning. And when
there his movements were not characterized by
nervous haste. Seating himself in a capaciou.
pivot chair, his first move was 20 deposit
his boots in the waste basket. aud re-
place them with roOmy slippers. Then Gle
waiting his slIppered feet to a comfortable
cushion on the exchange papers. (their only
legitimate use in his estimatOn,) it WAS his
wont to lay back in his chair, swinging himself
lazily on its pivot, and tell stories of wit ami
wisdom by the hour to the associate editors.
This was vastly pleasant TO all concerned, bat
somehow it did not work in the way Of making
a newsy paper, and at the end of six weeks
Mark came TO the conclusion that publishing
newspaper was not his forte. He, however, re-
tanned his interest in the ETpreSS for about
year and half, though, as aforesaid, he did not
take part in the ''aCtiye" management tor mere
than six weeks. Mark married the daughter OF
Jarvis Langdon, Of Elmra, \. Y, the heaviest
coal operator in the West. His property was
valued as high ten million dollars in his life,
and Of h1 tba ne ,o lived 70 get an ms Foh
have been realized, but leaving everything by
the ends, there has been a great ''shrinkage'
lthe word / believe) in the value Of assets.
Still there is enough left TO di vide trihe of
few millions between Marks wife and her
brother, Charles LangdOn. lt was through this
brother, by the way, that Mark got his wife.
"CharIey'j WAS one OF the .sInnocents Abroad"
who accompanied Clemens on his famous trip
on the Quaker City, and wrote home so euthu-
Siastically about Mark Twain that Mr.. Lang
don, senior, sent him cordial invitation TO
visit them at Elmira. The result was the meet
ing of Mark and Miss LangdOn; a case of love
at hrst sight; and the tirdiH becoming one
One of the shows Of Buffalo is the 'pala-
tial' residence of VIM. q. Fargo, the express
man. With the exception, perhaps. OF Stew
arts big marble house in New York, II /,
the most costly and pretentiOus private resi-
dence in America. 1t is an odd freak in human
nature that men childless, or almost without
family should have such mania for erecting
these huge structures for a home. A. I. Stew
art, without chick or child, builds great cold,
gloomy edifice of marble, that looks more like
public building than a private house, and Far
90, with no living children, puts up this i'm
mense structure that towers above Buffalo
| almost as the Capitol does above Washington
| As we drove past the house in the chilly autumn
evening a single light IN, one of the smallest OF
the forty or fifty rooms of the great building,
showed where the little group of occupants had
gathered for snugness. Mr.. Fargo, the founder
| of the express business in this country is much
| esteemed by his fellow-citizens as a liberal
| large minded business man. Like most of the
| leading Buffalonians, he has made his way from
small be ginnngs, and il is told here how his en-
terprise endangered at its outset by the diff
| fculty he experienced in raising the means to
| buy his first horse and wagon.
The pride of Buffalo is its shade trees. II
is almost as truly a "forest city, as was Port
land, Maine, before the fire, though the trees
are younger and smaller than were those OF
Portland. The Buffalo pavements are OF stone,
mostly; kind of free-stone that seems TO do
well for the purpose, being easily worked IN
small Oblong blocks. few streets are paved
in wood, but wood is not popular here.
Buffalo was incorporated in 1852, and now
clsi ms with her recent new GROWTH pOpula-
ton of 100000. The people seem thoroughly
imbued with the purpose of bringing the city
up to leading rank amongst the busiest cities
OF the country.
ADDBNDA.
OCTOBER 1s.-We are on the return trip to
day, having parted with the hospitable and
public-spirited citizens of Buffalo with real re-
gret. Passing over the new road by daylight on
the return trip, we have had a chance TO see the
fine rich country trayersed for many miles after
leaving Buffalo, and the nne, and at times
grand, scenery OF the passage over the
Alleghanies on this route. We miss on
our return trip Colonel ID. NJ. Boyd, the
General Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania
road, "a young man of unusual capacity and
executive ability, ana who will be heard from
notably yet in the railroad world if he does not
break himself down by over-work), but
have Jared excellently in the care of the genial
Captain +. ID. May, Travelling Agent of the
Philadelphia & Erie road, who has all the wit
and huency of George Francis Train, with
the brains and ballast that Train lacks.
To that unassumlng but most gentlemanly and
efficient railroad man, Mr.. Sam I. DeFord.
southeastern agent of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, our whole party find themselves greatly
indebted for his judiciOus aid as "guide, phil
osopher, and friend" c. s. y.
The YELLOW FEVER STILL RAGING.-The
latest reports from Memphis are not 50 favor