Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-07
HERE AND THERE.


weeks lNTELIIuESCER was not tho father
OF the late Judge Henry L. Ross OF Mont,
gomery county, but his grandfather. Another
grandson is Geo. Ross, ios a long time a
leader at the bar of Bucks county, aud in
Democratic politics in that region.
hear that the book called "Kiug Solomon's
Mines is having a great run in London.
Robert Lewis Stevenson, who by the way
writes the prettiest of children's poetry, has
made great hit with kidnapped" From
London an American wh) keeps abreast
| with current events at home writes high ap-
| probation of the lNrELLlGENCHR' anita
gonism TO the anti-oleomargarine legislation,
and apropos OF the discussion, sends this,
| copied from London journal
| "professor sheldon, who delivered an eN-
| hsustiye paper on the 'Butterine Question at
| a meeting of the Farmers Alliance, said that
| the quantity ot butterine produced in Great
| Britain was not known, but was understood
| TO he considerable: nor was the volume Of
! imported hutterine known before the begin
ming Of lSS5, because, up to the end of lSSl, it
| was entered III the board of trade returns
under the heading OF butter The weight of
butterine imported in the tour months end
ing April, l>>S, was SOS, as cwt., and in the
corresponding months of the current year
the volume of 1t had risen tO S2L275 cwL The
quantity of butterine imported, at the rate OF
the past four months amounts to one hundred
and thirty tons day, dsv in and day out
| Sunday and Monday alike, or getting ON
| towards fifty thousand tons year and this
| over and above what is produced in the
| United Kingdom. The effect of the enor-
nous trade on the dairy farming Of this
| country may be easily imagined, and foreign
| dairy farmers are also feeling the competition
quite As keeuly. The professor admitted that
| butterine, when made in a proper way and
| from good materials, is a wholesome and use
| ful arfiplp M fool. He siIaral laNNDI
| dispute that butter would have been outside
| the reach OF vast number of poor people
had not butterine come in as a substitute and
lowered the price. He admitted that well
made hutterine is a very toierable substitute,
though 1t il not l5utter in another form, a.
some would have Us believe. The utilization
of surplus fat in the form of butterine was
| about the best possible way in which it could
be used AZ all a. an article of food and in
systematic manner. The clause relating to
the penalties to be imposed upon retailers
who sold butterine as butter, in the butter
substitutes bill before Parliament, he con-
sdered the most important clause in the bill,
| as it concerned the men who had hitherto
been the chief offenders.
The last time l saw Mr.. T.lden was little
| over ten months ago at his home at Gray
stone, which has been so minutely described
| in the accounts OF his life and death. 1t was
| splendid autumn day, Sunday. Sept -
freest enjoyment ot all his magnificent
grounds and mansion his hot houses, which
he was then constructing, to have peaches
for breakfast every month in the year his
graperies and rose houses the most elaborate
in the ntted States his " country library"
scattered all over the house his chicken
houses and sheep pens, gardens and
stables, herds OF blooded cattle and kennels
of dogs-there seemed to he nothing in
vegetable or animal nature that his place was
not stocked with and it had all the keenest
charm for him. This list of description gives
some idea of the extent and variety OF his
wonderful establishment and the way he
kept it up. His city house was on the same
scale
"Mr. Tilden's country place, Graystone, is
lis acres in extent 1t is situated $50 feet
above the level of the Hudson and about two
miles north of onkers. The house is large
granite building surmounted by a mansard
roof, above which risesa tower From this, on
clear days, Staten Island, New York bay and
Long Island sound can be seen to the south
ward and the Catskills to the northward. The
spacious grounds are full OF evergreens,
shade trees, and flower beds, while the roads
leading to the house and stables are covered
| with bluestcne. A broad hallway runs
| Thorough the centre of the first floor. The
southern half OF this rOor contains reception
and music rooms, drawing room, parlor. and
library. Above these are Mr.. Tilden's private
| apartments The third story contains eight
large bedrooms The servants quarters are
| in separate wing OF the house. There is a
billiard room on the second floor of this
extension. At the rear OF the house is
large oak with a settee under 1t, where Mr..
Iilden often sat to listen to Miss Gould's
reading.
"Mr.Tlden's stables contain IS horses, most
Of them Kentucky thOroGghbreds Two OF
them, blackstone and Miller, cost Sll,Onl.
He hought them while governor. His old
saddle horse, Topic, bay thoroughbred, -
years old, has stall 10 himself Black kstone
has record OF 2:21, made az Rochester. An
other fav jrte horse is a sOrrel PAGER, whose
record - 2:i2. The carriages in the carriage
house to the right of the stables comprise a
T-csrt basket phseton, victoria, buggy and
several other vehicles. Mr. Tilden was a
fine hOrseman in his younger days, and was
fond OF going to the stables to see his horses
as often as he could.
"His extensive greenhouses, erected last fall,
cover about two acres, and y, 900 feet of glass
was used in inclosing them. The entrance Is
through tiled vestibule, The ceiling of it |
is being kalsOmined and frescoed. The green |
houses are very elaborate, containing running |
water and being stored with palms, rare |
ferns orchids, Victoria Reginas, dwarf peach |
trees and grapes, as well numerous other
kinds OF plants and flowers. There are 80 |
head OF Jerseys and Guernsey cattle on the |
place, yielding 20 quarts OF milk a day a |
=
sheep. The collection of books at Graystone |
Is large and varied. 1t is scattered all over
the house. One of its features IL a magniti. |
cent elephant edition of Audubon's Birds |
of North America in plush lined case.
"GraystOne cost originally 100000, but |
Mr. Tilden purchased it for SljOOOO from
Waring, the hat manufacturer. He bought |
also the Baldwin place, al Joining Graystone, |
for $4,000. He employed 30 men in the
greenhouses, II on the farm, 3 coachmen, |
and 10 servants in the house"
He dispensed lavish hospitality and when |
somebody told him his servants were rob
Ding him of $4,000 or Sl5, 900 year he said
he thought it possible, but il he got new ones
they would probably do worse. From hum
dreds OF applicants for head gardener Of his
enlarged greenhouses he selected the right
man, and every detail of the buildings,
water and steam pipes, &c, was laid out by
hun. OF course | was chiefly interested in
MS personality. Most OF the pictures now
printed OF him give no idea OF his appear.
ance. They look more like Charles r,
Buckalew. Mr.. Tilden's voice was al.
most entirely gone. lie could speak
only painfully slow in the hoarsest wbisper.
Those most familiar with him could scarcely
understand all he said and to strangers
much Of IL was unintelligibie. His facial ex-
preston was transhxed with PARALYSIS and
its absolute lack of any change whatever
made II impossible tor a stranger to under |
stand that he could hear distinctly and ap- |
preCiateu keeDlY eyerythiup upinsS on ne |