Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-28
NE ENDURING HOME.
According to Gath" Personality Is Nos
to Be Found In the City.

According to Gath" Personality Is Nos
to Be Found In the City.
1t is city property which 10 perish
able thing, and not property in the
country. Hardly u house, which is
preserved, which has historical or
pious "reminiscences remains in any OF
our cities. The John Ha cock house
South Church might as well be torn
down as to be what it is, d kind of ped
ding bazaar The Hamilton House in
New York barely escaped sacrifice by
being turned over to a church. But
country houses are generally found
where they stood when the man OF his
tory put them up.
You never could find Shakespeare
house in London If he ever had owned
one there. The bard OF nature returned
to his cattle market town and there ac-
uuired and altered one Of the best resi-
dences, and to this day it stands evil
dence which, ike the old mans tomb,
pulverizes the small beings who would
get days fame by explaining Shakes
peare away. | have always noticed
that when ! went TO hunt up the evil
dences of men of celebrity found them
nearly perfect in the country and hard
ly ever recoverable in the city. ii you
want to see where John Jay lived so
much longer than his contemporaries,
20 to his farm at Bedford. forty miles
above New York City.
If you seek for Dewitt Clinton's roof
tree, do not ask where it is in Now
York. but go out to Maspeth, in Long
Island and there close to the big GEM
eteries and oil refineries. stands exactly
as it was the statesman's home, where
NO doubt he had more self-respect than
in ali his political victories. He died
very young for such man, occupying
the Office of Governor, which is a seat
OF nettes. You will find Oliver Perrys
birthplace still standing among the
rocks and saud-hills in Rhode Island.
Men who only lived in towns left no
more footprints than are to be found
upon the brick pavements. Hence the
ever recurring desire not merely to ouy
a place in the country, but to build one
and see it nodded to ones own images.
Garfield had house at Mentor, which
will probably stand for two hundred
years, in some Of its parts even though
fire should consume most OF it He
said that in order to work off the men
tai fatigue of Congress he had to go
back and pitch hay upon the wagon as
he did when a boy. You can locate
Garfield for the next several centuries
by his country home, but where can
you locate Chester A. Arthur. who al
ways lived in town, and whose house
merits a glance on Lexington avenue.
New York, being indistinguishable from
thousands of others, having not one
feature that is distinctive or ornamental
about it.
But Mt. Vernon remains all that We
can put our hands on Of Washington,
except his old buc1skin breaches.
Posterity he had not; the painters like
Stuart sublimated the man to their
conception of what the public expected;
but when you 90 to Mt. Vernon you
have only TO fill up chair with a living
man somewhat worn out in the general
service, you can smell him, handle
him and criticize him. You can not
say, lin this closet he kept MS WHISKY;
here he turned and expressed suspi-
cion to the servant that somebody had
been lamp ring with the whisky. This
fire place he po'Ied up with that old
shovel Here on the porch he sat Ol
evenings and heard the chatter OF
some French or German traveller, who
expected before he went to bed. at the
risk of his eye-sight, to put do n
every thing that Washington grunt
and assented to, or if he tilted back his
chair and crossed his egs Gath in
Cincinnati Enquirer.