Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-10
MRS. KATHERINE CHASE.
A TALK WITH A WOMAN WHO HAS
HELPED MAKE hl3TORY.
She Has . Farm Near Washington Now
which She Manages Herseif-The Dsugh.
ter of One Of the "war secretaries.'
Whose Life She Il writing.

whose Life She Il Writing.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Aug. Son hill over
looking the capital city. in house SO ole
that nobody knows when IL was built
lives Mrs. Katherine Chase. The former
social queen and national belle is still
beautiful woman. "There is only one
accomplishment Of which am proud,
she says, "and that is the art Of taking
care Of ones SELF do claim to be mas
ter Of that art, not only for myself, but
for my children. am always well. and
for woman to be always well Is In
these times to be quite abnormal, extra
ordinary. have had my share Of trou
bles In this world, but even my greatest
troubles have endeavored to bear in
philosophic manner. Since becoming o
farmer have learned that il is very bad
policy to borrow money, but even bor
rowing money is preferable to borrowing
trouble. never borrow either"
"Then you are farmer nowT
"Oh, yes. My place here manage al
alone have farmer. but he works
rather than manages. II had to pay
for superintendent l am afraid ]
shouldn't make farming pay. What
don't know about farming try to make
up In caution. All my plans are very
carefully laid. Here, see, l have sketches
Of all my fields. These mark just how
want them plowed and planted, and
then take good care that my plans are
followed. Often go out into the fields
and literally follow the plow, walking
along behind the farmer as he turns the
first burrows, watching to see that he
LAYS out the ground nicely. Then come
into tho house, 90 up stairs and look out
the windows to see how the work up
pears from a birds eye view."
Mrs. Chase's house stands on hill
almost in the center of the farm, and
view from the windows brings all the
fields within easy range Of the eye. One OF
Mrs. Chases theories is that with small
additional trouble and no extra expense
a little landscape art can be applied to
practical agriculture. Though she has
not as yet worked out all her ideas in
this direction, one would have to travel
a long ways to find prettier farm than
the one which lies along the slopes of
Edgcwood. Mrs. Chase not only man.
ages the farm, but gees almost every day
to town to buy supplies. Everything
that comes to the place is purchased by
her, from reaper to wrench, from draught
horse to pullet. She is good financier,
and actually manages to make her farm
Of some fifty acres pay handsome profit
1t is an exceedingly valuable farm.
But mile from the city limits, and only
two miles from the Capitol, it is already
surrounded by suburban villas. An cleo
trio railway runs through the property,
making it exceedingly desirable rs a site
for dwellings, and every day of her life
the handsome and amiable mistress OF
Edgcwood is called upon by real estate
operators who want to purchase the farm
and subdiyide it into lots. Mrs. Chase
is not ready to sell. Her idea is that the
farm, for which she could now get prob
ably So, 900 an acre, will ultimately bring
twice or thrice as much, and that her
children will, some years hence, have
greater need Of the proceeds than they
have now. Besides, Mrs. Chase loves
| the old place, and hopes TO be able to
keep it as long as she lives. 1t has hal
lowed memories of her father clinging
| about it, and Mrs. Chases love for her
| father is deep and tender.
Mrs. Chase is now engaged upon task
that could be fairly called labor of this
love. She is writing the life OF her
father, Salmon Portland Chase. She has
| been engaged at this for three or fouI
years, and cannot yet say when the first
volume will appear Il work very
hard she said the other day while sit
| ting on the veranda of Edgewood house
| looking down upon the Capitol that was
the scene Of so many ot her fathers trl
jumps, "but find that .m making slo"
| progress. | rarely retire before or
o'clock in the morning, because like tt
work after everybody else Is asleep and
| know shall not be disturbed. In thi
| work ! am harassed by wealth of ma
terial. You have no idea OF the enor
| nous quantity OF stun that has poured
in upon me. Letters, newspaper articles
and documents are stacked up two o.
three feet thick all around the shelve
of my work room. The most preciou
material | have is my fathers diary
Throughout his public career It was hi
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few minutes or sometimes hali al
hour to Jot down memoranda concern
ing the occurrences OF the day In TN
way he has left behind INN Il record
every cabinet meeting that was hel
while he was secretary OF the treasury
1t is record which cannot be disputed
and which probably nobody viii try I
dispute when it Is made public. Ihl
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