, 1889-09-12
WHERE LOGAN LIVED.
A Memorial Museum Containing
Trophies of Many of His
Battles.
Souvenirs of Travel and Other
Relics of Great Historic
Value.
IwashIngton correspondoncc.l

i strayed up Meridian hill last evening
to Calumet place.-the mansion where
General Logan spent the last years ofhis
life. know the house pretty well as 4
social rendezvous where the senator and
his wife held pleasant receptions for
their friends, and was drawn there now
by the report that since his death her
love and grief and wifely pride had
transformed it and made of 1t great
memorial chapel, as well worth visiting
as corner in Kensington.
A spacious edifice is Calumet lodge,
sixty feet square, of brick, with brick
annex that gives to the whole pile some
thing of the appearance of an aris-
tocratic ladies' seminary. Across
the whole front runs porch twenty
feet wide, supported by heavy, granite
columns. ON every side Is lawn, thick
set with flowers, hedges and rare palms,
and the brick walls of the house are
graciously masked with climbing roses
and honeysuckles and ampelopsis inter-
locking its bright green fingers.
| found Mr.. Logan more chcery and
sunny than she has seemed before since
her great sorrow When told her my
erraud. She said, "Why, yes; why not?
| will show you the house and its curl
Gus equipment, and you may write
whatever you please about it, for YOU
write with friendly hand, and there
are many who have Il right to know
what has become of their
srLuNDID orFEslNos
to the generals memory"
You are q literary workman again
yourself" ! said, "and appreciate the
eNigencics.'
She smiled and answered; 'Yes, and
the Home Magazine under my manage
ment is thTiving-now just make II note
Of that before you go any further, and
she offered me for seat u generous
leather chair.
"llow came you ever to buy this
houseP" vcuturcd TO ask.
"Ahw she cried "you think It doesn't
look like u poor mans cabin? Well, ri
tell you We had existed in boarding
houses for twenty-five years. DO YOU
know what that means? Very well
After the election of IS, when Darling
was reelected for the last time, we came
back here just worn out, and we talked
II over and said, Now let's buy house
We meant Co get some quiet place easy
of attainment. But heard of this big
double house, and C1me TO look at il and
was delighted. The general vetoed
my ambition. IT'S too big, he
said hard 10 pay for and
impossible to furnish. Its eight largest
rooms are 20S2j feet square But we
ind some rugs and chairs and desks and
book cUses, of course, enough to furnish
two rooms, and said Darling, sec here;
you give me $500 and | Twill furnish that
house ! knew it couldn't be givcn an
outfit OF modern furniture for twice that,
but | resolved 10 get old mahogany.
You see ! succeeded. II is SGT in solid
wood, mostly mahogany, from basement
to roof But IL required economy and
heap of thiukiug. This central hall was
always a fayorito resting place for the
general"
rose aud inspected it. II was twenty
feet wido and contained spacious stair
way in the rear rising, right and left, To-
the hiCh floor above. A double flat
Office desk was in the center with chairs
and equipments for writing,
HOUSEHOLD RELIcs.
''rhis piece near the door, said the
lady, ~ Il composite. The fine mahog-
any table was old Dr. Sims. The great
gold-franed mirror behind IT,, that must
bC 100 years old, got down town at an
antique store, and its side supports are
those two great mahogany bedstcad.
posts.h 1 had 10 confess, even to myself
that IT was entirely symmetrical and
"These old mahogany settees are from
fredericksburg. That tall clock is from
and dates bacl, almost to
William Penn. You will hear its
cathedral chimes. This other hat rack
was made from design by the general
o hold that grand elk head projecting
from. the oak-leaf necklace in The upper
panel. Poor I'd. McCook shot that ELK
and sent the head rs u present. The
branching nutlers are some five feet
long. This wooden panel on the wall is
very crude and innrustc, you sec Ii
WAS taken from the Guudaluupe church
in Santa Fc by priest and given to the
Formerly IL framed the paint.
ings of saints. Beside IL hang a shield
and buckles Of rawhidc believed TO have
belonged to some soldier of Cortez. IL
bears, you notice, rudely painted but
not greatly faded, the arms OF the Span
lsh conquest, the towers of Castillo and
the lions of Leon. 1t is from Mexico.n
Upon the walls of the hail is painted
horn of pulque from Mexico Uhough a
pillering darl,oy with II strong stomach
has nearly drank 1t up, and there are
indian rclics-moccasins, ornamented
bows and arrows, caps, tobacco pouches,
necklaces OF shell anu of silver, gaunt-
lets, sashes from the Maquis and
lunis, the model of picgan canoe. and
Indian toys and dolls In abundance.
There is also an elaborate floral piece
from the Baltimore Invincibles-a cart
ridge box in imnortelles, and on its side
.he words Forty Rounds,r the symbol
lf Logan's Fifteenth corps. Fmngacross
.he settees IN this hall and IL the parIors
are handsome Navajo blankets, and sit
ing about are woven Muscalare water
Jugs and Iuni pottery. There arc also n
Sioux hunting shirt of buckskn and a
gun cover very ornate, given to the GEN
sral by chief. Here, too, are some much
admired
PORTRAITS OF NOTED
,hlefs, in oil, by Prof. w. II. Holmes of
Inc geological survey. In Il corner is an
,akcn dover chest, unique, from Il Ger
nan baronial hail. carved in oak i'm hirh
'elief and painted fantaSticalIy.
one OF the front rooms Is the sitting
'oom, and here is one of the half.dozcn
tesks that Logan used. Sitting back of
I is photograph of the Illinois legisla-
ure that elected him in 1885 ON the
table is Il brass book rack, containing
MS familiar books of reference ife of
irant," Protection vs.. Free Tracle.I !
Bread Winners Abroad" (by Robert
?. Porter, journalist and chief of the
PRESENT census,) the Wandering Jew,n |
he Bible, the Irish Question" 0Shakes-
,eare," and THE Free Trade Follvp
This solid mahogany sofa" said the |
ady of the house, "belouged to old Slid |
H. Near by il a wooden box contain |
IA ~ t..l. las