The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-08-21
Actors Homes.


A. q rule, only the small fry actors
are left lounging around the lamp-posts
and bill boards of Union Square. The
Detter peOple-perhaps 10 better than
those who remain, but the people who
earn the better salaries at any rate
nave found rest and recreation in many
shauy hooks around about the country.
SIDE. 1t is only necessary to visit some
| OF these actors retreats to realize how
Crlte IS the notion that actors are all
| B0hemlans, living from hand to mouth
| Without visible means Of support.
| why along the Now Jcisoy coast
from Sandy Hook to Ocean Grove
there are two dozen actors homes Us
elegant aud comfortable as any imam in
i 90 Qtectimstances would wish to, sec
! Or the brow 6ftke Highlands of NaVe
sink, looking Souts,ipoM, the bountlless
waters, three Or four 0f' them have es
| CaDllSleu their lures and penates.
| Joseph Wheelock was the pioneer here.
lie has a "lain little cottage, but in
| definitely comfortable and cosy. But
within Il stones throw there is the
more pretentious and more modern
home of tho Wcbsters-Jolln of that
llk and Nellie MclIenry his wife, the
| cleVereSt OF s0ubrctteS-lnu beside
THIS again is the still larger place of
W. IL. Hayden, manager Of Tom
hcene. The house, which will be i.
large ono, is not yet finished, and will
cost altogether some S2O,OUO. The
Wow that is to be obtained from the
front stoop OF these three houses is not
TO be surpassed in all America. Half
mile inland is the beautiful house
Neil burgess is building. -Four or
llVe 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 nYron
Is never tired OF putting ado. :. .onal
DltS To tins house, and by the way,
Ihougll seldom spoken OF because ho
runs 10 low order OF art, Byron
Is one of the wealthy actors. lie has
Three or fourlots OH Monmouth Beach,
ana half dozen houses in BROOKLYN.
All this has been obtained ut the price
ol great trugility; but ut home Byron
~ lone OF tho boys" Driving down
Ocean avenue Il little way further on
there is Il tract t land fronting on the
sea, belonging to little Maggie Mitchell.
IL is worth $4,000. Beyond the
United States, one of the hands0mesL
cottages seen Oh the great drive is
Iheodore Moss's. But he has rented
IL or late years and lives near Red
Bank, Oh the Shrewsbury, with his
family. Frank Maedcr's and Nate SAILS
bury's little places are OH Pleasure Bay.
Beyond the West End Hotel there is
The famed Actors Row, beginning
with John IIoey's magnificent place.
Further Oh there is Mary Andcrson'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,
30 TO speak, is John W. Albauyh's
place. 1t is comfortable and pleasant,
but one of the smallest Of all of them.
tcnsiVe grounds belonging to Mr.
OF the Standard Theatre, and the gen
tlcnan who thinks that, by process of
law, he can prevent Lillian Russell
from singing in London. Mrs. Hen
dcrSon is the wife of Mr.. Henderson.
but Elite Henderson is more. She
has written at least one successful
play, and some years back was Il star
actress OF renoWn. She has Il charm
ing daughter. Further up the road
there is the Chanfrau, among them I'LL
the most hOmclike and beautiful. The
Oil iiOiisc stretches over Il good area Of
glound. From the low porch We enter
The plain suite Of rooms, in the prilci-
pal OF which al ample Silcboard is
iHll OF hOSpltaDle reflections. No kim
dor host, no more beautiful hostess
Than rule This charming home. a side
road running toward EIberon leads to
Maggie Mitchell's home. Nature, too,
has beautifully endowed the place with
it's old and rare trees, its beautiful
ShruDbcry and it's general Old World
air. 1t forms one of the most pleas
amt to visit of all these actors
homes. Diagonaily opposite here is
tho old Wallack estate, where the
prince Of all tic W;tii;iukS, JtinU; W.,
had his home. Here he died. Here
MIR. William WaIack passed away
some two years since, and the estate
went TO Miss Fanny l'rcstyr, Il distant
relative Of MIR. Wallack. It's last
noted tenant was MIR. John Russell
Dung, just before he w;,S 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.
llcre Lewis Morrison has built him Il
house that is as pretty as anything
along the whole coast. Here his wife,
Rose Wood, ps;;jiso;; iii almost idea! !ic3
between her two charming daughters.
from whom Mabcl-ltose villa derives
It's. name. This is the newest OF the
actors homes along this coast, but
several more are going up this coming
year. 1t may be worth while to devote
lew pages by and by TO other actors
homes III other places, for this list does
not lhcluGe one-qIIartcr of them.
Evcrgreons on tho Farm.