St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-28
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S. J. Tilden.
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1t is fine four-story building. with
basement and high steps, and is twice as
wide as most of the city residences. 1t is
in fact double house in one. There are
two front bay windows in each story. The
neighborhood is rather aristocratic. On the
opposite side of the park live Cyrus w.
Field and his brother David Dudley, and
there is a general air of ex clusiyeness in
the vicinity; but the Tilden mansion is
almost ghoStly in its silence. The doors
and windows are always closed, and the
blinds pulled down to their full length. In
the evening there is no CLEAN of light from
it. The passer-by looks from the darkened
home to the naked trees in the little park
opposite. and then back again. and wonders
if the hOusekeeDer and the porter, the sole
occupants, do not become frightened at the
sound Of their own footsteps as they wan
der through the rooms. Nobody seems to
know what will be done with the
house. Indeed, there seems to be
very little curiosity about the matter
The house is monument to the wealth of
Tilden rather than to whatever measure of
greatness he attained, and its present idle
ness does not tend to cultivate respect for
the memory of its late owner. 1t stands a
silent sermon from text well worn. Life
is a vain thing. and its vanity is aWfully con-
spicious when rich man dies and leaves
will which seems to begrudge his rightful
heirs their just dues. The property will
probably be the subject of lingering litiga-
ton. Notwithstanding the reputation Mr..
Tilden enjoyed as an astute business man
and keen lawyer, he seems not 10 have
been able to draw will strong enough to
keep itself out of court. The clause pro-
posing to disinherit any beneficiary of the
will who should take any steps to dispute it
looks to a layman utterly untenable and un-
lawyerlike, not to say arrogant and selfish.
1t will probably turn out to have no more
force than the clause in a warranty deed
prohibiting the owner from using or allow
ing the premises to be used for the sale of
liquor. Mr.. Tilden rather detracted from
his memory when he tried to perpetuate it
by giving the bulk of his property for public
uses.
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Another monument to wealth is the
Stewart mansion at the corner of Thirty
Fourth street and Broadway. The death
of Mrs. Stewart has darkened another
rich mans palace, and the wonder is who
will finally occupy the tremendous pile of
marble which is now pallid in the moon
light, with only dim CLEANS of life from the
servants rooms. New York has many pal
aces which the wealthy owners cannot take
with them when they depart for that
bourne from which no traveller returns"
and a great majority Of them represent sue
cess in trade or Wall street. The higher
lines of intellect aud education have few
such testimonials.
Returning to the gossip about presidents,
past, present and futuTe-Frank HattOn
was probably the most talkative politician
of those who came to the city to attend the
ex-presdent'S ObsequieS He was post
master general during the latter part of the
Arthur adminiStratiOn-TaiSed to that inn
portant position because he had been an as
siStant in the pOstoffice department, and be-
cause it wouldn't pay to hunt up broad
gauge statesman to fill out the remnant of
the term after the position of postmaster
general became vacant. HattOn was origin
ally from Ohio. He was the son of country
editor named Richard Hatton, who. for a
long time, published paper called the Re-
publican. at Cadiz in Harrison county, a
town accessible by a kind of jerk-water
branch of the Pan Handle railroad. Frank
used to attend the McNeely normal school
at the village of Hopedale, about six miles
from CadiZ. The primary object of the
school was to prepare young men and
women to teach. but it departed from this
plan far enough to make itself kind
of gateway to college, and it was
patronized by many Cadiz people more
children had got beyond the common school
facilities. Frank was an exceedingly poor
student He was bright. but detested
books, and preferred to dodge his lessons
rather than learn them. He was the wag
of the school and put on the antic DISPOSE
tiuns on all occasions. Many of the students
were educating themselves by their own
efforts. Many of them laboring in the har-
vest fields in summer to get money to put
them through school in winter. They
looked in dismay at Franks frivolity. and