The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-08-25
Actors Homes.

AS a rule, only tho small fry actors
are left lOunging around the lanlp-posts
and bill boards of Union Square. The
better people-perhaps no better than
those who remain, but the people who
earn the better salaries at any rate
have found rest and recreation in many
shady hooks around about the country
side. 1t Is only necessary to visit some
Of these actors retreats to realize how
trite is the notion that actors are all
Bohemians, living from hand to mouth
without visible means of support.
Why along the New Jelsey coast
from Sandy Hook TO Ocean Grove
there are two dozen actors' homes us
elegant and comfortable as any man in
good circumstances w&s;,,l g8islilto see.
On the brow Of the. Highlands of Nave
sink, looking out upon the boundless
waters, three or four of them have es-
tablished their larcs and penates.
Joseph Wheelock was the pioneer here.
lie has plain little cottage, but in
definitely comfortable and cosy. But
within Il stones throw there is the
more pretentious and more modern
home Of the Websters-John of that
ilk and Nellie McIIenry his wife, the
cleverest of soubrettes-and beside
this again is the still larger place of
w. II. Hayden, manager of Tom
Keene. The house, which will be a
large one, is not yet finished, and will
cost altogether some S2O,OUO. The
view that is to be obtained from the
front stoOp Of these three houses is not
to be surpassed in all America. Half
a mile inland is the beautiful house
Neil Burgess is building. Four or
five miles over the coast there is the
Queen Anne band-boX of Oliver Doud
Byron. 1t runs from the road right
down to the spacious beach, and Byron
is never tired of putting additional
bits to this house, anu hy the way :,
though seldom spoken of because he
runs to low order OF art, Byron
is one of the wealthy actors. lie has
three or four lots on Monmouth Beach.
and half a dozen houses in BROOKLYN.
All this has been obtained at the price
of great frugality; but at homo Byron
is zone Of the boys" Driving down
Ocean avenue a little way further on
there is a tract of land fronting on the
sea, belonging to little Maggie Mitchell.
1t is worth $4,000. Beyond the
United States, one of the handsomest
cottages seen OH the great drive is
Theodore Moss's. But he has rented
IT OF late years and lives near Red
Bank, on the Shrewsbury, with his
family. Frank Maedcr's and Nate Sails
Dury's little places are on Pleasure Bay
Beyond the West End Hotel there is
the famed Actors Row, beginning
with John Hoey's magnificent place.
Further on there is Nary Anderson's
pretty estate, which she acquired from
Matt Canning, the ;, manager. 1t is
about eight acres in extent and increas-
ing in value every year. Next door,
so to speak, is John W. Albaugh's
place. It is comfortable and pleasant.
but one Of the smallest of all Of them.
Almost opposite is the house and eA-
tensive grounds belonging to Mr..
William Henderson, late the manager
OF the Standard Theatre, and the gen
tleman who thinks that, by process of
law, lie can prevent Lillian Russell
from singing in London. Mrs. Hen
derson is the wife of Mr.. Henderson.
but Ettie Henderson is more. She
has written at least one successful
play, and some years back was a star
actress Of renOWn. She has Il charm
ing daughter. Further up the road
there IS the Chanfrau, among them all
the most h0melke and beautiful. The
Old house stretches over good area of
ground. From the low porch we enter
the plain suite OF rooms, in the princi-
pal OF which an ample sideboard is
full Of hospitable reflections. No kin
der host, no more beautiful hostess
than rule this charming home. 4 side
road running toward Elberon leads to
Maggie. Mitchcll's home. Nature, too,
has beautifully endowed the place with
it's old and rare trees, it's beautiful
shrubbery and its general Old World
air. 1t forms one of the most pleas
ant to visit of all these actors
homes. Diagonally opposite here is
the old Wallack estate, where the
prince Of all the Wallacks, James w.,
had his home. Here he died. Here
MIR. William Wallack passed away
some two years since, and the estate
went to Miss Fanny Prestyr, a distant
relative of Mr.. Wallack. Its last
noted tenant was Mr.. John Russell
Young, just before he was appointed
Minister to China.
Looking down the coast and leaving
Actors Row behind we find no further
homes of them till we come to Ocean
| Grove, but then we are well rewarded.
| Here Lewis Morrison has built him Il
house that is as pretty as anything
along the whole coast. Here his wife
Rose Wood, passes an almost ideal life
between her two charming daughters
from whom Mabel-Rose villa derives
it's. name. This is the newest OF the
actors homes along this coast, bl,
several more are going up this comm.
year. IL may be worth while to devote
few pages by and by to other actors
homes in other places, for this list docs
| not include ono-uuarter of them.
Evergreens the Farm.