, 1889-03-14
MRS. HENRY WILLARD.
Her Love Story, Her Musical Children
and Her Msgnincest Home.

| Mhbs hGNth WILLARD
Her Lsvs Story, Her Musical chiidr..
| and Hor Msgnincess HONS.
New York Letter to Richmond Dispatch: :
Mrs. Henry Willard, wife of the remarka-
BILE fnancier, OK president Of the Northern
Pacific. ex.kinR Of Wall street, eI.bank-
rupt, the story OF whose rise and fall and
restoration makes one Of the remarkable
pages Of American personal history, il the
only daughter Of William Lloyd Garrison.
Mr.. Garrison used TO saw: II love all my
children, but especially Fanny" She had
four brothers. One day the eldest, Wen
deli Phillips Garrison, brought home
young German, new,paper writer. His
name WAS Heinrich Heileard. The mo-
ment he and Fanny met it was all over
with them both--it wa love at frat sight.
She did not hesitate because he was poor.
Her tsther's homo was Door. but she had
been very happy in IL for all that, and
she had been taught that love In more than
riches.
Their first home in New York after VII
lard mad become president Of railroad
and big figure in the street was the West
minster hotel. on Irving place, and IL was
there that Garrison died Then Mr.. Vii.
lard built the house that was afterwards
sold tn Wbiteiaw Reid. IL il q palace
modelled after the hest Italian examples.
occupying whole block. with frontage
of 200 feet. and cost million dollars,
without counting the inside work. But
the crash cnme and the Wizards n ever lived
in IL. After this they went 70 Germany,
where Mr.. Willard endesred himself to his
countrymen bv his interest In public char.
tiles and enterprises, and they deluged
him with memeDtoAs and eugrossed thar ks
and sent MIN back here with large finds
and unlimited mower to invest and man
age the same. One Of his latest invest
ments wss In three-tourths OF the horse
railroad stock Of Tacoma. for which he
paid, | understand. $4,000.
Mrs. Willard 10 now As years old. She
is petite, with q vell.rounded figure and
abundant gray hair and glorious dark
| eyes. She Ia said TO not resemble her
father. There are four children the eldest
| of whom 10 girl named Helen, not yet
| out. The youngest, boy about = years.
| bears his fathers German surname. He'll
gard. One son is, l understand, in Har.
ward. Mr.. Willard made great point Of
having his children educated in this
country, and this was the most ip,porta,
factor in bringing him back Helen is on
expert violinist and all the family are mu-
sicians. Mr. Willard is u fine interpreter,
on the piano, of the best German COM
posers. They all speak German indi fer
| emily with EuRlisn, and the daughter has
a German maid. The home lite Of the
family is very happy and very simple and
cha, ming.
They live in maRni 6cent apartment of
the great Tiffany house at Seventy-secopd
street and Madison avenue. which was de.
signed for Mr.. Tiffany. Sr., and never oc-
cupied by him. The house is especially
interesting, as baving been designed by
Mr.. Louis Tiffany and pmbodyire with
cut regard to cost. that artists ideas Of
architecture and decoration. Entrance TO
the Willard suite is through an archway
in the front wall, which is furnished with
portcullis and suggests feuda castle.
A retainer scrutinizes you from the wall
opposite rs you mount to the door.
| The large square vestibule is
tioored. walled and cailed with red mar
bio and red sandstone, the two matching
in tint The upper half OF tn" walls are
OF sandstone panels cut in open lattice
work with opslescant Tiffany glass be-
hind, through which the light sifts. The
entrance hall is of white marble with pill
lars OF Mexican onyx. and the bread mar
bic staircase has balustrade of solid
marble cot in open lattice work. There is
an Oriental room, one Of whose Riories 10
colossal mantel. fourteen feet long,
brought home from Hindostan. The carv-
ing on it is marvellous. II Ia very ancient
and has an interesting history. The rest
of the house IL on a corresponding scale.