Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-10-27

times beaten the best professionals. The
residence is old Dutch, built more than
century ago. 1t has been enlarged and mod
ernized in some parts for comforts sake and
enriched with the spoils of many transat-
lantic Journey. The taste and wealth lavish
ed upon the parlor, dining room and halls in
the way of painting, statuary and other ar
tistic decoration have produced an unique
effect. 1t is pretty generally known that
Mr.. Dana is an epicure-a gentleman who
makes dining fine art-and there are few
more delicate or richer tables in the vicinity
of this city than that spread before the mas
ter of Dorosis. He pays his cook $4,000
year, l am told, sum exceeding
that paid to the great French cook,
Trompette, who drives through the streets of
Paris in coach as splendid as that of Louis
XIV. have heard Mr. Danas name coupled
with those of Sam Ward and Sam Barlow,
one of the most accomplished diners in town,
and certain it is that those who have stretched
their legs under his mahogany and partaken
of the viands there served know something
of what the word Lucullus means. His wine
cellar is marvel, and contains some vintages
that are never sold, but are made only for
presents to royal or noble psrsonages. When
Provost Paradot died, Mr.. Dana managed to
get some of his choice wines through the GUS
tom house. His city mansion is equally at
tractive He bought two large houses on
Forty seventh street, near the Windsor Hotel
and made them into one, which is now
equipped and decorated in a magnificent
manner. The parlor walls are hung with
tapestries, one of these, very old, represent
ing Spanish battle of the fifteenth century.
His collection of statuary, pictures, PLAQUES,
and especially vases, is exceedingly fine, the
latter being, perhaps, unsurpassed In any
private residence here. He has a special
fancy for old green china, and he has vases
of this sort for which he paid $4,000,
S., 600 and even $1,000. Throughout the
house are indications of opulence and senti-
ment.
Mr. Danas family consists of his wife, his
only son Paul and three daughters OF the
latter one is married, one a widow and one
un married Mrs. Dana is a woman of schol-
arly tastes, delicacy and fine sensibilities-of
those qualities, in short, which are compress
ed into the word culture" Paul Is prob
ably predestined to be his fathers successor.
He is now thirty or so, tall and strong; he
writes, now and then, something for the
paper, and, while without his fathers genius
for journalism, he possesses that strong sense
| and good literary judgment which sometimes
serves as well as the more shining qualities.
He is from Harvard, of course I under
| stand that twenty of the Sun staff are Har-
ward graduates. And he likes wrestling
and boxing match and a cock fight, as his
father does, who went and enjoyed the spec
tacle of seeing Sullivan hammer Wilson. Mr..
Dana has a double nature like all of us. On
one side he is bullet headed, business
man, sharp for dividends, hard, pugnacious,
aggressive, blase, sarcastic. fond of holding
an adversary's mug in chancery; on the other
he is studious, sentimental, tender, capable
of emotion and enthusiasm, quoting from
imperial Marcus, Montague, Plato. Descar-
ties, and reciting to his friends with all the
JUNCTION of youth the best poem of Byron or
Browning His persistent hunt on the track
of George Washington Childs, A. NJ, and
the good Dea Smith indicates that there
may be a sore spot in his heart somewhere.
OF course he is not really angry all these
years at these respectable and worthy gentle
men whom he derisively pursues, but the
fountain of bitterness seems inexhaustible.
There is Mephistophelian mockery that is
worse than malice.