The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-06
ACTORS HOMES.
How Some of Them Live in Lux
ury and Others Hug Lamp.
Posts and Bill Boards,

0AAN 0OA0Ao Lux AdA1Us
Posts and Bill Boards.
AS rule, only the small fry are
left lounging abont the lamI-post
and blll-boards Of Union square.
The better people-perhaps no bet
ter than those who remain, but the
people who earn the better salaries at
any rate-have found rest and recre-
alton in many shady ncOks 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 sup
port.
Why, along the New Jersey coast
from sandy hook to the ocean there
are two dozen actors homes as ele-
CANT and comfortable as any man
would wish t @ see. On the brow %
the highlands of Nav sink looking
out upon the boundless waters three
or four of them have established
their lares and penates. Joseph
Wheelock Was the pioneer here. He
has d plain little cottage but Infinite
ly comfortable and cosy. But within
a stones throw there IS the more
%pretentious and more mOdern home
of the Websters-John Of that iIk
and Nellie McHenry his wife, the
cleverest of sOubrettes-and beside
this again is the still larger place of
w. K. Hayden, manager of Tom
Keene. The house, which will be a
large one, is not yet finished, and
will cost altogether some $40, 600. The
view that is tc be obtained from the
front stoop of these three homes is
not to be surpassed in all America.
Halfa mile inland is the beautiful
house Neil Burgess is building. Four
or five miles over the coast there is
the Queen Anne baDd-box of Olive
Doud Byron. 1t runs from the road
right down to the spacious beach,
and Byron is never tired putting &C
ditional bits to this house, and by
the way, though seldom spoken of
because he runs to the low order of
art, Byron is one of the wealthy
actors. He has three or four lots in
Monmouth beach aud half a dozen
houses in Brooklyn. All this has
been obtained at the price Of great
%frngaiity; but at home Byron is lone
of the boys Driving down Ocean
avenue a little further OIL there is a
tract Of land fronting the sea belong !
ing to little Maggie Mitchell. 1t is
worth $4,000. Beyond the United
States, one of the handsomest cot
taees. seer on the great drive is |
Theodore Moss. But he has rented |
it of late years and lived near Red
Bank, on the Shrewsbury, with his
family. Frar k Maeder's and Nate
Salisbury's little places are On Pleas
ure Bay.
Beyond the West End Hotel there
is the famous Actors row, beginning
with john Hoey's magnificent place.
Further on there is Mary Ander-
sons pretty estate, which she &C.
quired from Matt Canning the
1t is about eight acres in
and increasing in value ev-
cry year. Next door, so to speak, is
John w. Albaugh's place. 1t is COM
Portable and pleasant, but one of the
smallest of all Of them. Almost OPP
poslte is the house aud extensive
grounds belonging to Mr.. William
late the manager of the
Theater, and the gentle
who thinks that, by process of
he can prevent Lillian Russell
from singing in London. Mrs. Hen
is the Wife of MI. Henderson,
but Elite Henderson is more. She
has written at least one successful
kjlay, and ON years back was a
star actress of renOWn. ~he has a
daughter. Further up the
rnad there is the Chanfrau, among
all the most homelike and
The old house stre;c ,es
v g a good area of ground. From
he low porch we enter the Dlaln suite
rooms, in the principal of which
IN amble side board is full of hospit-
'ble reflections. No kinder host, no
more beautiful hostess than rule this
home. A side road rum
ling toward Elteren leads to Mag
gle Mitchell's home. Nature, too,
beautifully endowed the place
With its old and rare trees, its beauti-
ul shrubbery and its general old
world air. 1t forms n of the most
ubstantial and certainly II of the
.'leasantest to visit of all the actors
ZONES. Diagonally opposite here is
he old Wa}Iack estate, where the
'rince of all the Wallacks, James
", had his home. Here he died.
Here MIR. William Wallack passed
way some two years ago, aud the
state went to Miss Fanny Prestyr,
distant relative of Mr.. Wallack. Its
asst noted tenant was MIR John Rus
ell Young, just before he was ap-
minister to China.
Looking down the coast and leav- l
Dg Actors row behind. we find no !
homes of them till we come j
D Ocean Grove, but then we are we'll !
eWarded. Here Lewis Morrison, +,
ne of the very first of our American s
ctors, has built him a house that is
pretty as anything along the {
hole coast. Here his wife, Rose /
Wood, passed all almost ideal lie be-
her two charming daughters,
ON whom Mabel Rose villa derives .
8 Lame. This is the newest of the Z
ctors' homes along this coast, but !
'veral more are going up this coming :
Ear. 1t may be worth while to de- !;
ote a few pages by and by to other =
homes in other places, for this .
does not include one quarter Of '
lem.-AeW York Morning Journal.
Mr.. Beecher and His Enemies. n