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LONG BRANCH HOUSES.
John Hoey's Handsome Cottages and
Summer Residences.
Thirteen Extraordinary B~uiIdings-
Some striking Interiors-Rooms
for the servants-The I'Pre-
sidenrs House,


U"Gath," in Cincinnati Enquirer.l
One Of the most remarkable features OF
Long Branch II is the Hoey annex. John Hoey
has a splendid house here in the midst of a
marine garden and woods. The finest tropi-
cal plants, most elaborate beds of geraniums
and %colias, interesting statuary, lawns and
drives and ponds, make a portion of his place.
lie spends most of his time down at his own
gate IN u little yellow lodge or bungalow,
which is beautiful to sec. The entire interior
IS filled with paintings, chiefly Of small genre
kind.
In this little house Hugh Hastings wrote his
3" "reminiscences of Politics. which are soon
10 be published. Hastings was a poor Albany
boy, who Joined the Wing party and held
some offices. Late in life he bought The Com
mercial Advertiser. When Henry Willard
was rich no desired to own a newspaper in
New York, and he and his friends offered
Hastings S5OO,O00 for The Advertiser. Nj.
Hoey told him not 20 refuse 1t. Hastings did
refuse it. About u year ago he was thrown
from his carriage A. Long Branch and rup-
tured Il blood v"-sel o. the heart, which killed
him. His wife received about S25O, 900 for
the paper, which probably was much nearer
its real value than the sum first offered.
Around Mr.. Hoey's own property he has
built thirteen of the most extraordinary
houses in the United States. l went through
some of these with him and Mr.. Hill
drcth. ! have never seen such cottages In the
world. Several cost 10000 apiece. Mr..
Hocy himself designed them, assisted only by
q German carpenter, who has been with him
sixteen years. They are rather in the Queen
Anne style, but are painted In an extraordi-
airy way, the prevailing colors being yellow,
green and dark red mixed, as you nave seen
them on old fashioned oil-cloths. Each OF
these houses has its own gas or gasoline.
Some Of them are completely lined with white
ash, all polished as carefully as furniture,
and one that l saw today had n kin OF ro-
tunda extending to a taine glass dome, and
on every floor are beautiful galleries OF
carved ash looking down.
In none Of the houses are the servants al
lowed TO have bedrooms above the kitchen
floor. They are provided with excellent bed
rooms, well lighted and on the same floor
where they live and laundry and cook. Thus
the entire upper portion of the house Is pri-
vate to the family. Tn smallest of these
homes have about seventeen bedrooms each.
They are ull furnished by the proprietor,
who rents them by tho year. Mr.. George
Lorillard's cottage he pays 5000 a year for.
Tn dining rooms and buffers pantries are
delicious to sec, being upon the most extern
sive scnle. All the on the cabinets,
what-nota, etc, are Of the finest style In art.
The largest Of these houses goes by the
name Of the presidents house, and it has been
supposed that some day it might become the
summer residence Of the president OF the
United States. 1t is more than 100 feet long.
Nearly all these houses have six servants bed
rooms. They are provided with open-air
Gre places on every floor and in nearly every
room, and are designed to become winter as
well as summer houses, and perhaps to have
n large hotel accessory to them. Standing
lately with Mr.. Hoey, he said: How the
old boys are passing away! Garfield took
1T my house his last dinner before he was
sh0t-that il 10 say, the last dinner in any
considerable company. He is dead, and 50
Grs Hugh Hastings, William Garrison, and
William Hunt. Blaine was at that dinner,
and a a delightful impression upon all
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