Connecticut western news., 1880-10-27
HIS BRIDES MAUSOLEUM.
The Memorial Church Erected by
 Pennsylvania's Iron King,

A new church edifce, the princely gift of Pennsylvania iron king, was con- secrated in Lebanon, Penn, on Monday. There IS quite @ romantic chapter of love and sorrow connected with it. The new ed1tice cost a very large sum of money, and 1t is generally known that every dollar was paid by MT. Robert Coleman, one of the leading members of the "house of Cornwall, 7" founded upon three mountains of iron ore. in Lebanon County, about 40 miles west of New York. The church is in the borough proper. Cornwall, few miles distant, IS the home of the Colemans, the richest iron family in the State. Monday, be- ing the festival of St. Luke, was chosen for the consecration of the magnificent edifce, and it was dedicated with all the rites and ceremonies of the Episcopal Church.
 Several years ago Mir. Robert Cole man met young lady of very prepos- sessing appearance in tour he made of New England. She was the daughter of respectable family of Connecticut in moderate circumstances. A mutual at tachment followed, and not long after ward the couple were married. A short time after the marriage the young bride was suddenly taken ill, and trip on the Continent was arranged by her hns- band. It was Thought that the climate of the south of France, Italy or Spain would be the best for her. All that love and boundless wealth could give was furnished with most liberal hand. The husband was compelled to remain at home by business engagements. It was confidently believed that the bride would soon be restored to good health, and very soon after her departure the hus- band set about preparing 8 surprise for her. He supposed that she would be abroad about year, and he determined to erect one of the most costly residences she had ever seen and have it all finished and furnished in time for her arrival home. She was to know nothing about it until the carriage should drive her to the door from the railway station. A Philadelphia architect was instructed to prepare the plans. The structure was to be in the Scottish baronial style, and MT. Coleman cared very little about the cost. A fine site was chosen, broad and level and elevated, with command ing view of 8 long stretch of the beauti- full Lebanon valley.
 The Coleman estate comprises about five thousand acres. In one part of 1t is a brown stable, containing some thirty thoroughbred horses. The most valua- ble are quartered in rooms having mir TOTS on the walls and Brussels carpet on l portions of the floor. Five monstrous furnaces are smelling ore night and day on the estate. Three hills contain an inexhaustible supply of ore. These furnaces have made millionaires of a dozen families or more. Robert Cole man is the youngest of the iron kings of the present lines of owners. Interested
 parties and heirs are scattered in every
 cline, but MT. Coleman remains in com
 plete charge of the vast estate. Every
 thing IS conducted in princely style.
 Every employee lives on the place rent
 free. The cottages are models of neat
 ness, cleanliness and convenience. A
 church, store, Sunday school, and other
 necessary wants are fully supplied. The
 great farm supplies employees with
 wheat, corn, potatoes, and vegetables al
 far below market price. Splendid fam.
 fly mansions occupy prominent places.
 Tally-ho coaches, drawn by fourth hands, convey the members of the Cole.
 man family and their many visitors tc the neighboring towns and railway sta. tions. Hence the new mansion that was to be erected by MT. Robert Coleman as
 surprise to his bride, it can readily be imagined, was to be something exceed ingly grand. The foundations were massive, and built of granite and lime stone. The underground divisions were commodious, and finished in the mos modern style. A hard cement floor wa laid. The frames of the large bay win dows for the first floor weighed severa tons apiece. The superstructure was tc have been of marble, iron and granite
 The interior was to be finished in har( didly, and some fifty men were steadil.
 employed. Gar load after car load o material was arriving and being put il , place. All efforts were made to rapidly push on the completion of the work Every detail of furniture had been de cidsd upon. The gardener had received
 his special instructions. In fact, every
 thing had been fully arranged looking
 to the rapid completion of the mansion ) when telegram came over the sea tha l the young bride was very i'll in Paris Quickly followed another dispatch that she was dead. Every tool in tn } new house was dropped. The young l husband stricken with grief was not to b. ) consoled. He ordered the workmen o1 l the new mansion to go to the office anc l draw their pay, and then to remove thei tools and other prop erty. In few day l orders were given to tear down what hat been put up; to throw in the excava l tions, and blow the place over. Al r that remained of what was to have beel , palace was ordered to be obliterated l The construction of the beautiful X church dedicated concludes the story :, The remains of the dead bride were em l balmed and brought back to America e and were then placed in a vault until tn : construction of the church walls ha' n been sufficiently advanced to receiv
 them. The new edifce is cruciform, g
 by 75 feet. The floor is of Spanish til
 From Valencia Tbo woodwork js f