The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-24
THE MORRIS MANSION AT 153TH STREET,
NEW YORK CITY, WHICH WASHING
TON TOOK OR HIS HEADQUART-
ERS DURING THE REV.
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During Washington's occupancy of

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During Washington's occupancy of
the house, three hundred copper
skinned Indian chiefs, from variou
sections, called in state to oler their
allegiance to the struggling American
colon es, and in the large room, the
windows of which are marked +. Il.
in the above pictg re. Washington re-
ceived them all, and the pipe of peace
was passed round. This room, with
the huge chandelier under which the
assembled chiefs met, is one of the
greatest $ ghts of he old build ng.
Wash ngton does not seem TO have
been a very generous enemy. When
the war was over he had a bill intro
duced into the New York Leg stature
and passed, which confiscated all the
old Philipse Manor-the property of
his old lady love and her brothers, sis
tiers and children. Colonel Morris,
who had rescued some money from
the wreck. soon died, but his widow,
1.-The pretty Mary Phil pse," lived to
be "a, surviving Washington a quarter
of a century, and breath ng her last in
London. When Lafayette revisited
America in 1924, he took dinner once
more in the old Morris Mansion,
where he once had been a member OF
Wsshington's military family.
UNDER THE JUMELs.
The state of New York sold the 3d.
900 acres under the hammer, and the
Morris place was bought by John Jacob
Aston, and finally became the property
of that fantastic old hairidan, Madame
Jumel. l was shown the spot where
she stood and married that faded gal
liant, Aaron BUR-, Just before he got a
divorce from her and died.
Madame Jumel dwelt upon the earth
till 1860, when she was gathered to her
fathers, not wholly faded or jadcd at
81. Meantime she had adopted as her
own daughter one May BOVINE, the
child of one of her former cronies, or
as she alleged, of her own sister Phebe..
and fifty years ago this adopted waif
gave her heart and hand to n Nelson
Chase. To them Madame Jumel left
her 81, 600, 600 home.
The old Morris or Jumel House,
looks to be so years old, instead of $50.
There is a little decay at t he foot of
the long plain, white columns that
hold up the broad, h gh porch, but not
much elsewhere. Frequent pa Mt has
preserved everything. The great bal
cony gives a supurb view Of New York
and distant Brooklyn. Entering the
central door, the visitor fnls himself
in a hall as big as a moderate sized
barn, completely equipped, like a mu-
scum, with the furniture and trappings
of the last century,.
Straight through the hall at the end
a door enters into the spacious draw
ing-room, with a g eat fireplace of
brass at the end. The furniture is of
solid ebony upholstered in pearl dam
ask. and a cha + is as much as a we'll
grown boy can lift. These came from the
Tulleries, being q present from Louis
XVI. or Charles X.-they were both
acquainted with Madame Jumel. The
chandel er is ag'gantic old machine OF
glass and brass with t~wenty-iour burn
ers. and Madame Jumel bought it OF
Moreau, one of Napoleon's marshals;.
The paper is the same that "a on the
walls during the revolution. when
Washington gave his part es here and
when the Indian tr hes came to V sit
him and cast their laurels at his feet,
1t was the conventional broad frieze
and dado, with birds flying through
a labyr nth; the groundwork is a | ght
blue, and the chief figure is a morning
glory vine. very set in appearance and
rising perpendicular from dado to
frieze. The whole seems new and
fresh.