The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-27
TEN FAMOUS WOMEN
The Wives OF the Great Heroes
of the Past.
uew THEY LIVE AT WASHINGTON
Mrs. Sheridan's Home-Mrs General Logan
Mrs. Zach Chandler and Kate Chase
sprague-Mrs. Garfield.

respondence of The HERALD. Mrs.
General Sheridan is deyoting herself to the
education of her children. She has not
gone into society at all this winter, and she
lives all alone with her little ones in the big
$4,000 brick mansion which was presented
to the general when he came to Washing
ton. Mrs. Sheridan is one of the
FINEST LOOKING WOMEN OF THE CAPITAL.
She is straight and slender, has beautiful
eyes and her face is almost classic in its
features. She is the daughter of General
Rpclzer, who was at one tirle quarter
master general of the army, and she was,
during her husbands life, the centre of at
traction of the army circle of the capital.
She is finely educated, and she was thor
oughly wrapped up in her husband. All of
her surroundings tend to call up the hero
who has passed away, and the Sheridan
house is one of the noted ones at the CAPT
tai IL stands within a stone's throw of
Scott Circle, is on the corner of Rhode
Island avenue and Seventeenth street aid
it has many rooms and many windows. Its
interior is hlled with many curios picked UP
by General Sheridan during his long ca
reer. Stuffed birds, which he shot, look
down upon you as you enter the hall, and in
the dining room there is great elk's head
with wide branching antlers which is tro-
ply of his hunting. A magnificent tigers
skin hangs in the hall over a Mexican sad
die mounted in silver and gold, and beside
these an American flag is dIaped. The par
lors contain many pictures of Sheridan, and
one OF the finest OF these is large portrait
OF the general in oil. 1t represents him IN
full uniform, and near it there is painting
by Earle of ''Sheridan's Ride'' Back of
the parlor is the library where the general
wrote the greater part of his memoirs and
where are the books of which he was most
fond. Here are a number of autograph
letters signed by the hand of Abraham Lin
coin congratulating Sheridan upon his mil
itary service from time to time during the
war, and upon the shelves are photographs
of Bismarck, Napoleon and Washington
and above them are engravings and etch-
ings of General Sheridan's army friends
is the same in the dining room and
throughout the house, and Mis-. Sheridan is
thus living largely in the past.
MRS. GENERAL HANCOCK
/ visited Mrs General Hencock's house
to day, but find it is rented to Cincin-
natl family, and that Mrs. Hancock is living
In New York. Her house here is worth
perhaps $4,000, and it was a present to her
from MIR. Corcoran and other wealthy resi-
dents of Washington. 1t is a big. three
story and basement structure of PhiLadel-
phia pressed brick and brown stone 1t is
on a corner, is on the farthrest edge of the
fashionable section and is growing in value
every year. 1t has about fifteen rooms, and
1T ends at the corner in brown stone
tower. Brass ratings lead up the brown
stone steps TO a wide front door and you
enter under half-moon of stained glass
There is more stained glass in the windows
and the house is beautifully finished as TO
paper and painting. Mrs. Hancock has,
however, spent but short time in it,
though she will probably make Washing
ton her residence in the future She is not
rich, and General Hancock died compare
lively poor. Her memoirs of her husband
had no such sale as the books of Grant or
Sheridan, and she has not great deal in
addition 10 her pension to live upon. Gen
eral Hancock was not money maker. He
gave great deal to charity, and he was
generous to fault. He married Mrs. Han
cock in 1880. She was then young lady
of St Louis and the two spent nearly a
generation of happy years together.
HOW MRS. LOGAN FURNISHED CALUMET
PLACE.
Mrs. General Logan has, perhaps. the
finest home of any OF the noted widows OF
Washington. Calumet Place commands a
view OF the whole city and the surrounding
country Tor miles. IL is a roomy, two-story
brick with a hall running through it's cen.
tire so WIDE that you could turn wagon
load of hay around in it without touching
the walls. Immense rooms open into this
hall from either side, and these are packed
with relics of General Logan and with the
evidences of Mrs. Logan's and the generals
taste. The two planned the furnishing OF
the house together. General Logan did q
great deal OF the carpenter work in recon.
structlng 1t according to their ideas, and he
aided his wife IN selecting and arranging
the furniture. Every room contains many
"reminiscences OF him, and Mrs. Logan saws
she would not be happy away from Wash
ington on this account. When they tool
the house 1t was battered and worn The
big rooms each looked as large as a barn
and 1t did not seem possible that anything
less than lifetime or fortune could make
1t habitable. Good taste, hard work and q
moderate amount of money gave it one OF
the transformations that are said TO have
come from Aladdin's lamp. The wide doors
were covered with portiers made of Navajo
blankets OF red and blue, which Mrs Logan
and the general bought from the Zuni In
dians. They scattered some mahogany
seats through the wide hall, and hung upor
its walls Indian relics and old armor with
some of the generals weapons. During his
whole life General Logan had received
presents Of canes, and he had kept these
basket was bought for these, and they
formed one OF the cUriosities of the draw
ing room. Every piece of furniture has il.
history, and in the dining-room they put {
table that Charles Carroll, of Carrollton
once owned; and in their bed room the,
had a lamp which burned the midnight OF
for Henry Clay when he PLAYED whist OF
planned cut his Presidential campaigns
One of the sofas had belonged to Slidel
and IN their bedroom in which the genera
died, there was a dressing table and bureau
which came from President Buchanan:
home in Pennsylvania. In one of the par
lors there was couch which General Lo
gan constructed himself upon which h,
loved to lie after hard day in the Senate
and in the corners of the room were flag:
and banners each of which had "a stor,
which both Mrs. Logan and the genera
could tell. The most CT this furn;tur,
stands to-day in the same places il di,
when General Logan was alive. There are
perhaps, few more portraits of Logal
upon the walls, and at one end of the doubl,
parlors there has been built the memoria
hall, in which Mrs. Logan has collected tn
Inementoes OF hec husband. 1t is perfec
museum of Logan history, and one who ca,
read between the lines can here see tn.
history of the late war. will not attemp
to describe ii save that it is one of tn,
most interesting places to the soldiers VIII
visit Washington. and that no grand arm,
man ever comes to the capital without cali
ing upon Mrs. Logan. l chatted with Mrs
Logan the other DAY about the general
book. The tears filled her eyes as sh
spoke, and she told ME that the genera
wrote the book mere with view to incul
eating patriotic ideas than TO make money
She said large number of the books ha,