Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19

nently practical. 'Childs, he once said
how unfortunate it is tor a boy to have rich
parentsl If YOU and had been born that
way, perhaps we wouldn't have amounted
/ to much
'It is a pleasure for me to recall the my
| riad faces of my guests during many years
here in Philadelphia, at Wootton, and al
Long Branch Besides those have men
toned, there was the great and good George
Peabody. We were very close to each
other. He had his portrait painted for me
| BY the Queens artist, and there it hangs or
the wall, one of the most valued of my pos
sessions. His name recalls that of Peter
Cooper. These two were considerate and
broad-minded philanthropists. Invent with
Mr.. Cooper on his ninetieth birthday to
Baltimore during the sesqui-centennial eel.
ebration. He there told me an interesting
story of his early life in that city when he
had become manager of the iron works al
Canton. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company had built their road beyond Point
of Rocks, but no engine could get round the
curve. Cooper, then, with 80 gentlemen,
embracing the directors and others inter-
ested in the road, improvised an engine
built of gun barrels, and successfully
rounded the curve. When we were in Bal
timore together, only one man, j. ii. B.
Latrobe, besides himself, was left of the
original 90"
SOME NOTABLE GUESTS.
It is a brave array of names, the guests of
Mr.. Childs: Generals Grant, Sherman,
Meade. Sheridan, Hancock, Mcdowell and
Patterson, Edmund Quincy, Chief Justice
Waite, A J. Drexel, Asa Packer, the
Astors, Cadwaladers, Prof. Joseph Henry,
Hamilton Fish, Roberto. Winthrop, Charles
Francis Adams. Presidents HAYES, Arthur
and Cleveland, Chauncey NJ. Depew, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Thomas A. Edison,
Simon Cameron, Henry Wilson, William
NJ. Evarts, James G. Blaine, John Welsh,
August Belmont, Alex. b. Stevens, Samuel
j. Tilden Zone of his last requests was to
have Mr.. Childs visit him at Graystone),
Cyrus w. Field, B. J. Losing, Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, Charlotte Cushman,
Christine Nilsson, Harriet Hosmer, John
Bigelow, Thomas A. Bayard, Parke
Goodwin, Edwards Pierrepont and many
others. Mr.. Childs does not hesitate to say
that one of the chief pleasures of his life has
been the keeping ofanopen house to worthy
and distinguished people. The reception
he gave to the Emperor and Empress OF
Brazil was perhaps the most notable gather
ing OF people ever assembled in any private
house in America. There were over 600
house at which the Emperor and Empress
had ever been entertained. But one must
not overlook in this incomplete list of visi-
tors the names of the Duke. and Duchess of
Buckingham, the Duke of Sutherland, the
Duke OF Newcastle, Lords Dufferin, Rose
berry, Houghton, Leicester, Ross, Iddes-
leigh, Rayleigh, Herschell, Caithness and
Dunraven,. Sir Stafford Northcote, Lady
Franklin, Dean Stanley, Canon Kingsley,
Charles Dickens, George Augustus Sala,
Joseph Chamberlain, NJ. P; j. Anthony
Froude, Prof. Tyndall, Prof Bonamy Price,
Lord Clarence Paget, Sir Philip
Cunlife Owen, Col. Sir Herbet Sanford,
Charles Kean, Marquis de Rochambeau,
John Walter, M. P; Sir Charles Reed,
Herbert Spencer (who was sadly afflicted
with insomnia while visiting Mr.. Childs),
Thomas Hughes, NJ. P; Sir John Rose. Sir
Edward Thornton and Robert Chambers,
D. c. L.
For the next paper in the series Mr..
Childs has revised and enlarged his enter
tanning recollections of General Grant, and
one Of its interesting features will be an
Of picture painted by the Gen
eral and now in the possession of Mrs.
Grant