Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-02
EVERYONE HAS HOBBY.

EDWIN BOOTH is an enthusiastic whist
player.
BILLY FLORENCE is fisherman. His
chief hobby, though, seems TO be prac-
tical Joking.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, is
passlonately fond of roses, and has
some OF the finest specimens in the
country.
ROBERT BONNER devotes all his time
| and attention to his horses. His mania
| is to own the fastest horse on the trot-
| ting turf.
GEORGE w. CHILDs, the Philadelphia
Journalist and philanthropist, is fond of
| collecting authors manuscript, china
and brlc-a-brac.
WILLIAM RoCKEFELLER is an admirer
| of fast horses. He owns a three-quarter
| mile track at which lie treats his friends
to races between his own h, rises.
| COOPER HEWITT, son of ex-Mavor
| Hewitt, has one Of the best collections
OF musical instruments in America, and
knows how to play on nearly all of
| them.
JOHN d. RoCKEFELLER's hobbies are
churches and charities, and he devotes
all his spare time to furthering the inter-
| ests of the Baptist Church. He is also
| fond OF horses
HENRY Willard, the railroad magnate,
| is passionately fond of music He is
good performer on the violincello,
and is thoroughly posted on all the
dolngs in the operate world.
RUSSELL SAGE is an enthusiastic chess
player. After solving the problems OF
the bulls and bears aud puts and calls
on Wall street, he goes home to solve
problems on the chess board
MRS. HARRISON is very good painter.
n arly all the pictures in the Harrison
homestead were painted by her, and
| MANY OF them are really works of art.
The President takes a great deal of in
terest in his wi fe's work.
JESSE SELIGMAN devotes all his spare
| time and attention to the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum, improving that in
| stltution and doing what he can to add
to the comfort of the children who live
there. This seems to be perfect hob
| by with him.
GEORGE GOULD is a philatelist. He
has one of the finest collections of
| foreign stamps in the world and devotes
a great deal of his spare time in ar
| ranging them and sticking them in al
buns according to their classification.
Another hobby is his baby.
w. E. KIMBALL, the great tobacconist
| of Rochester, has the finest collection
of orchids in the country. He has
spent fabulous sums of money to buy
some OF the rarest Of these queer plants
that could be found. He devotes great
deal of his time in studying and watch
ing their growth.
BRAYToN Ives, OF Wall Street, has per-
haps the finest and most valuable col
lection OF old manuscripts. missals and
rare books In the country. He attends
all the Gales and frequently sends com
missions to the book sales that take
place IN Europe, and is considered
well posted photographer.
HENRY CLEws, of Wall Street fame, de-
votes all his spare time and attention to
his house. You can take his attention
away from his business if you begin to
talk about his house, and he is perfectly
delighted when anybody requests to
be taken over the building His bath
| room is OF solid onyx and cost $780,
900.
CHARLES A. DANA finds recreation
among the flowers. His flowers have
taken prizes at the flower shows IN this
vicinity for q number of years and al
ways form one of the most attractive
exhibits at the show. He is especially
fond of chrisanth emums and has thou
sands of varieties of these curious plants
in his garden.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR, who is heir
presumptive to about $1,000 900, is a
very model young man for million,
aires son. He is good business man
and is good fencer and boxer. He is
a man of strong literary and artistic
tastes, and if he had not been a mil
lionaire's son he would probably have
been an artist.
JOHN WANAMAKER, the Postmaster
General. has been busy man all his
life. His hobby is the Sunday school
which is connected with Bethany
Church in Philadelphia. He is so
wrapped up in the success of the Sum
day school that he is frequently caught
neglecting his business to discuss Sum
day school matters.
JAY GoULD's hobby during his Ii fetime
seems to have been collecting dollars;
but in edition to this very interesting
collection, which now numbers several
millions, he is very fond of flowers.
He has, perhaps the finest conservatory
in the country, and he works among
his flowers and rare plants in this
conservatory just as his gardener would
PRESIDENT HARRISON is very fond of
bric-a- brac. In his house in Indianapo-
lis be has very rare collection. among
which are some very valuable Greek
and Roman coins. He also keeps
scrap-book in which he has a COPY of
all the speeches he has ever made,
This scrap-book was very useful when
General Lew Wallace was compiling his
photography.