St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-06
LONG BRANCH:PICTUREs.


Sannler Houses he has Built.
"Gath' in Cincinnati Enquirer.
One Of the most remarkable features of
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 coias interestings statuary,
lawns and drives and ponds make por-
ton of his place. He spends most of his
time down at his own gate in little yellow
lodge or bungalow, which is beautiful to see.
The entire interior is filled with paintings,
chiefly of small genre kind. In this little
tie house Hugh Hastings wrote his
"reminiscences of Politics." which are soon
to be published Hastings was poor Albany
boy who joined the Wing party and held
some offices. Late in the life he bought
the Commercial Ad0ertiser When Henry Viii
lard was rich he desired to own q newspaper
in New York, and he and his friends offered
Hastings $500, 900 for the Advertiser. Mr.. Hoey
told him not to refuse it. Hastings did refuse
it. About a 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..
Hoey's 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, 900 apiece. Mr.. Hoey himself de-
signed them, assisted only by German car
Denter, who has been with him sixteen years.
They are rather in the Quecne 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-fashioned oil-cloths. Each of these hOuees
has its own gas or gasoline. Some of them
are completely lined 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-hghted, and on the
same floor where they live and laundry and
cook. Thus the entire upper portion of the
house is''private to the family. The smallest of
these homes have about seventh ten bedrooms
each. They are all furnished by the propri-
etor, who rents them by the year. Mr.. George
Lorillard's cottage he pays $4,000 year for.
The dining-rooms and the buffers pantries
are delicious to see, being upon the most ex-
tensve 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 a large
hotel accessory to them. Standing to-day
with Mr. Hoey, he said: Glow the old boys
are 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-
lghtful impression upon all present"