Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-19

Joe Jefferson IS an artist
 Edwin Booth Is an enthusiastic whist player.
 Billy Florence is fisherman. His chief hobby, though, seems to be practical joking.
 Oscar s. Straus. OK Minister to Turkey, makes a hob.y of collecting and studying books on American history.
 George Bancroft, the historian, is pas sionately fond of roses, and has some of tho 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 trotting turf.
 George w. Childs, the Philadelphia jour nalist and philanthropist, is fond of collect ing authors manuscripts, china and bric-a- brac
 William Rockefeller is an admirer of fast horses. He owns three-quarter-mile track at which he treats his friends to races between his own horses.
 Cooper Hewitt, son of ex-Mayor Hewitt, has one of the best collections of musical instruments ic 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 interests of the Methodist 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 thorough | ly posted on all tho doings in the operatic | world.
 l Russell Sage is an enthusiastic chess player. After solving the problems of the bulls and bears, and puts and calls on Wall l street, he goes homo to solve problems on the chess board.
 Mrs. Harrison is Q 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 Pres ident takes a great deal of interest in his wife's work.
 Jesse Seigman devotes all his spare time and attention to the Hebrew Orphan Asy- lum, improving that institution and doing
 what he can to add to the comfort of the
 children who live there. This seems to be
 perfect hobby with him.
 George Gould is phllatelist. 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 according to their classitica ton. Another hobby is his baby. Brayton Ives, of Wall street, has perhaps the finest and most valuable collection o1
 old manuscripts, missals and rare books 1T the country. He attends all the sales an0 freuuently sends commissioners to the bool sales that take place in Europe. and is con
 sidered a well-posted photographers. W. E. Kimball, the great tobacconist O. 3 Rochester, has the finest collection O orchids in the country. He has spent fabu : lous sums of money to buy some ot thu
 rarest of these queer plants that could b.
 found. He devotes great deal of his tim' T in studying and watching their growth ? Henry Clews, of Wall street fame, de votes all his spare time and attention to hi
 house. You can take his attention ava, F from his business if you begin to talk abou
 his house, and he is perfectly delghte'
 when anybody requests to be taken owe s the building. His bathroom is of soli 'f onyx and cost fifty thousand dollars. s John Wanamaker, the Postmaster-Gen a eral, has been a busy man all his life. Hi
 only hobby is the Sunday-school which i
 connected with Bethany Church in Phila le delphia. He is so wrapt up in the success IL of this Sunday y-school that he is frequent Il caught neglectiug his business to discus " Sunday-school matters.
 Y Charles A. Dana finds recreation anon Id the flowers. His flowers have taken prize J at the flower shows in this vicinity for
 number of years and always form one a the most attractive exhibits at the show ly He is especially fond of chrysanthemum Il, and has thousands of varieties of thes le beautiful plants ill his garden.
 Jay Gould's hobby seems to have bee
 collecting dollars; but in addition to tn '" very interesting collection, winch now nur ne bers several millions, he is very fond he flowers. He has, perhaps, the finest co ie servatory in the co untry, and he worl ut among his flowers and rare plants in tn lY conservatory just as his gardener would. it, President Harrison is very fond of hrio-
 brac In his house in Indianapolis he has u' very rare collection among which are son st very valuable Greek and Roman coins. I re also keeps scrap book in which he has
 copy of all the speeches he has ever mad 'hl This scrap book was very useful when Ge mo eral Lew Wallace was compiling his au' iaI biography.
 .. William Waldorf Astor, who is heir pl wc sumptive to about $20O, 600 900, is ve tlo model young man for a millionaire's SC mo He is good business man, and has no p' put tlcular hobby. He is moderately fond MT. horses and yachting, and is good fenc ery and boxer. He IS man of strong litera MT and artistic tastes, and If he had not beer 'eA milliouaire's son he would probably ha