St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06
LONG BRANCH:PICTUREs.
JoI.n HoeD's Handsome Cottages and the
Summer Houses ne has Built.
lNCath', In Cincinnati Ennnirar

John HoeD's Handsome Cottages and the
Summer Houses he has Built.
"Gath'' in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Longh Branch is the Hoey Annex. John
Hoey has splendid house here in the midst
OF marine garden and woods. The finest
tropical plants, the most elaborate beds of
geraniums and colas intcrestings statuary,
lawns and drives and ponds make por
ton of his place. He spends most of his
time down at his own gate in a little yellow
lodge or bungalow, which is beautiful to see.
The entire interior is filed with paintings,
chiefly of a small genre kind. In this little
tie house Hugh Hastings wrote his
"reminiscences of Politics." which are soon
to be published. Hastings was a poor Albany
boy who joined the Wing party and held
some offices. Late in the life he bought
the Commercial 44dyertiSey. When Henry Vii
lard was rich he desired to own a newspaper
in New York. and he and his friends offered
Hastings $500, 900 for the Adgertiser. Mr. Hoey
told him not to refuse it. Hastings did refuse
it. About Il year ago he was thrown from his
carriage at Long Branch and ruptured
blood-vessel OF the heart, which killed him.
His wife received about $3.50, 900 for the pa
per which probably was much nearer its val
ue than the sum first offered. Around Mr.
Hoey7s own property he has built thirteen of
the most extraordinary houses in the United
States. | went through some of these to-day
with him and Mr.. Hildreth. / have never
seen such cottages in the world. Several
cost $50, 600 apiece. Mr.. Hoey himself de-
signed them assisted only by Il German car
Denter, who has been with him sixteen wears
They are rather in the Qucene Anne style,
but are painted in an extraordinary way, the
prevailing colors being yellow, green and
dark red mixed, as you have seen them on
old-fashi0ned oil-cloths. Each of these houees
has It's own gas or gasoline. Some of them
are completely lineG with white ash, all pol
ished as carefully as furniture, and one that
| saw to-day has kind of rotunda extend
ing to a stained glass dome, and on every
floor are beautiful galleries of carved ash
looking down. In none of these houses are
the servants allowed to have bedrooms above
the kitchen floor. They are provided with
excellent bedrooms, well-lighted, and on the
same floor where they live and laundry and
cook. Thus the entire upper portion of the
house isssprivate to the family. The smallest of
these homes have about seVcnto ten bedrooms
each. They are all furnished by the propri-
etor, who rents them by the year. Mr.. George
Lorilard's cottage he pays 5000 year for.
The dining-rooms and the buffers pantries
are delicious to see, being upon the most eX-
tensvc scale. All the ornaments on the
cabinets, what-nots &C., 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 one hundred feet long Nearly all
these houses have six servants bedrooms.
They are provided with open-air fire-places
on every floor and in nearly every room. and
are designed to become winter as well as
summer houses, and perhaps to have large
hotel accessory to them. Standing to-day
with Mr.. Hoey he said: GLOW the old boys
arc passing away Garfield took at my house
his last dinner before he was shot-that is to
say, the last dinner at any considerable com
pany. He is dead, and so are Hugh Has
tings, William Garrison and William Hunt
Blaine was at that dinner, and made de-
lightful impression upon all present"