Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-15
HOMES OF STATESMEN.
HOW OUR PUBLIC MEN LIVE OUT
SIDE OF WASHINGTON.
of the Country Seats Of Sens-
tors sherman. Edmunds. ingalls,. Vance
and Oth-r~-Th" EIms. Hominy Hill,
Gombroon and PaImer's Log Cabin


( dcnces away from Washington and there are
not few like Senator Stanford and Con
gresham Scutt who keep up three or four
different establishments. Senator Sherman
| lives at Mansfield, O., and he has little farm
| surrounding his residence in the best part of
| the city, His house is on hill and its win
/ dows overlook miles nf the rolling country of
/ central Ohio IL has acres of beautiful lawn
! and trees and there is orchard at its back
| The house itself is large rambling brick
| structure with n Mansari roof, and with
| steps and tniShings Of a wonderfully striped
/ rrd sandstone, which comes from Mrs Sher-
nuns farm near Mansfield. The rooms in
! Senator Shermau's house are very large and
their ceilings are high. wide hall runs
through the center and there are many veran-
,las, the ceilings of which are finished in
Georgia pine.
The senator has a large library on the
ground floor, and the walls Of this, like thuse
i'll his house at Washington, are lined with
books In Mansfield Senator Sherman is
known as plain John Sherman. 1t is not al
uncommon thing To see him out on his place
experimenting the work upon it himself, and
he thinks nothing of driving down town
wearing IA slouch hat and n suit of clothes not
remarkable for their nrwness. He has many
friends visiting him, and his house is gener
aIly full of comuauy during the summer sea
son. Both himself and his wife are fond of
having young people about them, and though
Mr.. sherman is an ACCOMPLISHED society
woman she is very domestic in her tastes
She prides herself uI,on her jersey cows. and
il was not long AGO that she sent some of her
butter TO a county fair. In order that the
award might IL, made without regard to the
sender she put no name ON the exhibit, and
the Judges found the butter so yellow and ~
sweet that they thought it must be cOlored
artifCially They gave the premium on this
ground to a roll which was the color Of
SKINNED milk cheese. and were greatly sur
priSsi when Mrs Sherman aftcrward sent
them a piece of her yellow butter with her
commitments
Senator Edmunds lives ut Burlington, Yer
mont, and his house there is a plain old-fash-
ioneI brick of mfIium sir situated on the,
slope of the hill on which Burlington is built
Il has three or four acres of ground about it,
which are laid out in lawn and park and his
windows command a beautiful view of Lake
Chaniplain and the Adirondack mountains
Their. is nothing snowy about the place, and
the hous. Is As plain and reserved as Senator
Edmunds himself Eslmunds lives here in a
democratic manner. He does not drive about
in livery. nor does he give extravagant reccp-
tions, You NAV often ste him, with his wife
nv his side going over the ,ountry. driving
his hors.s, himself, and his habits are severely
pl,in
Senator Wilson live, in the little town of
Fairfield Iowa His home Is ON tho edge Of
the town, and il consists Of a two-story frame
hons, with ffty-fve acres of lawn AMI
meadow. The hous. is a very comfortable
one. 1t has wide haII runusig through its
CENTER. and nj the right is the library ami par
Ior Near the house stands a waterpipe raiss-d
fifty feet into the air, which supplies the
house with water and which is filled by the
windmill. Senator Wilson has all the mod
ern conyeniences though he Is practically in
the country, for the town of Fairfield is less
than 1850 in size For "A time he made his
own gas but he now gets this from the
city. Their. is "A beautiful fountain in his
ward. and he raises everything upon his place
that the advanced farmer prstends to raise
He has his own fish pond. and he raises his
own pork and chickens He keeps Jersey
cows, and he takes as much interest in the
town of Fairfield as though he owned it
Judge w ID. Kelley has an old homestead in
Philadelphia which he calls THE Elms" He
Dullt IL Tor himself tuIlN Three NtttTs d, dilu
it has been but little changed since then. 1t
is n stone house covered with white >tuccO It
is about forty feet wide by forty three feet
deep and il has II larg,. hall running through
the center There is hay window at the
side, and the interior has one OF the best
poIitico-ecunomical libraries in the country.
The library is ON the ground floor, and there
is "A large desk in its center which is litter"l
IL a -
hard working literary man and statesman.
Though Kelley is we'll up in the seventies he
still works as hard as when he began cOngrs-
sional life during Lincon's presidency. He
keeps up magazine and book writing at tho
same time and he turns out about as much
copy for The Congressional Record and the
editors as any man in congress. Judge
KelIey's father was jeweler, and the judge
himself began life at l3 in a watch shop. Here
in bis library between two Of the Windows
stands one of those old-faShioned clocks, with
a high colored, chubby face looking down, on
the dial This clock was made by Judge
Kelley's father and the Judge bought it in
after time from the widow of the man to
whom his father sold it. A large lawn sur
rounds this house. and this is full of fine old
forest tr,ss, the most Of which the Judge has
seen grow up himself, and some of which he
has planted in connection with his friends.
Sam Randall lives ut Berwyn, in all old
stone farmhouse. which he has rented for
wears The house is surrounded by trees,
and il is perhaps 100 years old Randalrs
farm comprises eighty acres of land, and it is
not an uncommon sight to see him with his
coat OFT, working about it dnring the sum
mer. The country in which it is located is
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farmers who have small and well cultivated