Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-01

quiet as possible, and as general thing
favor Sunday closing. An amendment TO
the Dow law permits townships and NUM-
cipalities in Ohio to decide by popular
vote whether they will have saloons
within their precincts or not, and some of
the country townships and villages have
In this way secured absolute prohibition
The quiet movement throughout Ohio
however, is temperance movement, and
not prohibitory movement. 1t has, l
am told, no connection with the Prohibi.
ton party, nor with any political party,
and it is outside of politics.
I hear all kinds Of presidential talk
here, and ! visited John Sherman's town
of Mansfield last week. 1t is curious
thing that he and Senator Allison, the
two leading senatorial presidential candi-
dates, were practically brought up to-
gether. They both studied law at the
same court, and their first days of prac
tice were in towns not fifteen miles apart.
Senator Allison settled first at Ashland
o., and Sherman began to practice law at
Mansfield with his brother, Charley Sher
man. Ashland and Mansfield are the
county seats of two adjoining countie
and 1t is good fourteen miles over a billy
road from one to the other. The leading
lawyers of the district practice in both
courts. John Shcrman's first business
was largely collective business, and
imagine that Allson's work was more be-
fore the courts. Allison married his first
wife in Mansfield, and Mrs. Sherman is
Mansfield girl, 1t was just about the
time that Sherman was elected to con-
gress, or perhaps n little later that young
Allison moved out to the new state of
Iowa, and the paths of the two statesmen
ran for time apart Allison made
reputation in Iowa and went to congress-
He found Sherman at Washington in the
senate, and later the two had seats as
near together as when they tried the op-
posite sides of cases before the common
pleas judges of northern Ohio.
Allison has now given up all connection
with Ohio. | think he does not own any
property outside of Iowa and Washington
de is now an Iowa man in all that the name
implies. Sherman has stuck to Mans
field, and his property has grown in value
de has one of the finest country seats in
Ohio, and he lately remodeled his house
at Mansfield, finishing its interior in fine
woods, and adding TO its rooms, and or
namenting its outside with trimmings of
curious red sand stone which has the
veins of gigantic agate. This Sherman
house is situated on the hills above Mans
field, and its windows give beautiful
views Of the rich rolling country of this,
one of the highest points in the state of
Ohio. About fourteen acres of land sur
round the house and beautiful well kept
lawn stretches in front of it. The house
faces West Market street, the finest street
of the little city of 10, 900 people on which
1t is located, and an electric street railway
car goes by with whirring sound at in
tervals. Nm
Senator Sherman has also farm near
this place, Il part of which he lately gave
to the city for park. This park is called
the Sherman Heineman park in honor of
the two donors, and it is not far off from
the senator's residence The remainder
of his farm adjoining it has been divided
into streets, and lots are being sold and
built upon. Mrs. Senator Sherman has a
farm in another direction, and both she
and the senator enjoy the summers they
spend at Mansfield. They have fine gar.
den, several fine Jersey cows, and then
fruit is Of the choicest and their vege-
tables always fresh.
Cleveland is, by the way, the native
town of Miss Jennie Chamberlain, the
great American beauty who took tho
Prince of Wales and the English aristoc-
racy by storm. Miss Jennie and her
parents, SO a leading Cleveland society
man told me today, are too poor to keep
house in Cleveland and they board at the
Stillman house on Euclid avenue when
here.
Their rooms at this hotel" continued
this man, cost them 5000 month, and
all told, | suppose, they have not more
than $40, 900 or $4,000 a year. They
move with people who spend several
times this amount, and have to board to
keep within their income. The family
are, | think, now in Florida, and they
were for time at the Ponce de Leon,
Flaglers big hotel at ST. Augustine.
"Flagler came from Cleveland, did he
noti"
Eyes, and it is curious thing that
from his boyhood he wanted to keep a
hotel. This seemed to he the height of
his ambition. He was poor, YOU know,
until he began to work his way to fortune
in the organization Of the Standard Oil
company He is now worth his tens of
millions, and he has embodied the wish of
his boyhood in this million dollar hotel in
Florida. FRANK G.. CARPENTER.