St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-09
EVERYBODY HAS A HOBBY.
Some Of the Peculiar Diversions of
Prominent Men.
CLEW'S $4,000 BATH ROOM.
Some Have Hobbies for the Gold Dollar,
Others for Churches and
Flowers.
Joe jefferson IS an artist.

Joe Jefferson Is an artist.
Edwin Booth il an enthusiastic whist
player.
Billy Florence is q fisherman. His
chief hobby, though, seems to be prac-
teal joking.
Oscar S. Strauss, ex-minister to Tur-
key, makes hobby of collecting books
on American history.
George Bancroft, the historian. is pas
sionately 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. ChiIds, the Philadelphia
Journalist and philanthropist. is fond of
collecting authors manuscript, china
and bric-a-brac.
William Rockefeller is an admirer OF
fast horses. He owns a three-quarter
mile track at which he treats his friends
to races between his own horses.
Cooper Hewitt, son of eX-MayOr HeW-
lit has one of the best collections of mu
steal instruments in America, and
knows how to play On nearly all of
them.
John d. RockefeIler's hobbies are
churches and charities, and he devotes
all his spare time to furthering the i'll
terests of the Methodist church. He is
also fond of horses.
Henry Willard, the railroad magnate,
is passionately fond of music. He is a
good performer on the yiooncello, and
is thoroughly posted on all the doings
IN the operate world.
usSell Sage is an enthusiastic chess
player. After solving the problems of
the bulls and bears and puts and calls
on Nall -Nr- h.. 81
problems On the chess board.
Mrs. Harrison is very good painter.
Nearly all the pictures in the Harrison
homestead were painted by her. and
many OF them are really works of art.
The president takes great deal of in
terest in his wife's work.
Jesse Seligman deYoteS all his spare
time and attention TO the Hebrew
Orphan asylum, improving that in
stitution. ana doing what he can to add
to the comfort of the children who live
there. This seems to be a perfect hobby
with him.
George Could is philatelist. He has
one of the finest collections of foreign
stamps in the world and devoteS great
deal of his spare time in arranging
them and sticking them in albums ae-
cording to their classification. Another
hobby is his baby.
Brayton Ives, of Wall street. has per-
haps the finest and most valuable col
lection of old manuscripts, missaIs and
rare books in the country. He attends
all the sales, and frequently sends COM
missions to the sales that take place in
Europe. and is considered a well-posted
photographer
w. E. KimbaIl. 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 a great
deal of his time in studying and watch
ing their growth.
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 per-
feetly delighted when anybody requests
to be taken over the building. His
bathroom is Of solid onyx and cost
$4,000.
John Wanamaker, the postmaster
general, has been bury man all his
life. His only hobby is the Sunday
school which is connected with Bethany
church in Philadelphia. He is so
wrapped up in the success of this Sun
day school that he is frequently caught
neglecting his business to discuss Sun
day school matters.
charles A. Dana finds recreation
among the flowers. His flowers have
taken prizes at the flower shows in this
vicinity for number of years and al
WAYS form one of the most attractive eX-
hibits at the show. He is especially
fond of chrisanthemums, and has thou
sands of varieties of these curious plants
in his garden.
Jay Gould's hobby during his lifetime
seems to have been collecting dollars:
but in addition 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 conserva-
tory just as his gardener would.
President Harrison Is very fond of
bric-a-brac. In his house i'm Indianap-
oils he has very rare collection, among
which are some very valuable Greek
scrap-book in which he has copy of all
the speeches he has ever made. This
scrap-book was very useful when Gen.
Lew Wallace was compiling his auto
biography.
William Waldorf Astor, who is heir
presumptive to about s20O. 10000. is a
very model young man for million
aires son. He is good business man,
and has no particular hobby. He is
moderately fond of horses and yacht
ing. and IS good fencer and boxer.
He is man of strong literary and ar
tistic tastes, and if he had not been a
millionaire's son he would probably
have been an artist.