The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1888-11-10
General Hardson's Museum.
An INTERESTING CONNECTION or GIFTS IRON

ADMERING FRIENDS
Testimonials of good win and admiration sent
to Gen. Harrison from all parts of the country
have multiplied into collection SO large that 1t
has been determined to give it exclusive occu.
pancy of one of the best rooms in the Harrison
home So writes an Indianapolis correspondent
Everything that has been received tho common
est and least valuable relic or trinket as well as
well as the most laboriously wrought work Of
art, has been carefully saved and at present
many of them are displayed in the hall, the par.
lors and che library as attractions Of special IN
terest to the great number Of persons who daily
visit the house Of the Republican STANDARD
bearer, while removed from public view in q
bedroom on the second floor is an elegant silver
ware case Of ample capacity, filed with great
variety of small campaign relics and embIems,
in itself museum of such attractiveness as to
afford the seeker Of the odd and interesting an
hour or more delight. Gen. Harrison and his
family give evidence OF sincere appreciation Of
these tokens of good will in the manifest pride
with which they are shown to callers Few
strangers are permitted to leave the house with
out an invitation to look at 1.-The Generals pres
entss as they are called, but all are not and
cannot be shown, It was upon the special invi-
tation of a member of the family that spent a
couple of hours few evenings ago looking over
the collection.
If possession of all the various emblems of
good luck may be accepted as guarantee of sue
cess Gen. Harrison is certain to be the next
President. There are some really strange stor-
les told in connection with luck bringers In the
collection is horseshoe no larger than silver
quarter sent by a blacksmith at Martinsburg
Pa, and on the day it was received FORA
horseshoe was presented to Gen. Harrison by the
South Side Horseshoe Club of Indianapolis. and
two well-worn horseshoes were found in the
street directly in front of the Harrison house
There are three or four buckeyes in the collec-
tion, one of which came from a twelvey year Ole
/ girl living in Ohio, who in a letter accompany
| ing the gift, says that it had lain in her mann
ma S spool box for over twenty years, and tn,
little well-wisher adds: Both of my grand
fathers voted for your grandfather. We are go
ing to do all we can to get you elected, and yol
must do all you can, too Lucky bones ia
ken from a white perch caught in Wabasl
River, sent by Hoosier Republican, and a rab
| bits foot, taken in the dark of the moon, tn
present of a physician. are among the gifts tina
are expected to be important campaign aids, a
well as protectors from harm.
THE COLLECTION OF CANES.
About the most interesting of the presents ar
the canes which are kent in the library wber
Cen Harrison spends most of his time while a
home They are rare pieees Of skillful work
manshin hut about the most wonderful of tn
lot Is one that was sent to the General within
connie of weeks after his nomination by Com
rade Truesdale. of the Grand ARMY Post a
sharon Pa II is made of 10 500 pieces of WOO,
/ Of thirty-eight varieties. SO closely worked to
petber and SO neatly polished that it is opl,
mon close insnection that the wonderfully com