Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-14
NOTED MEMS FADs.

NOTED MEMS FADs.
What They Have to Ease Their minds OF
The great men of our time I'LL have
some little fad with which they drive
dull care from their minds. Some find
case in cards, others love to spend their
leisure time behind good horse spin
ming over the country roads; and still!
others hnd the greatest enjoyment at
home in the midst of their families.
Chauncey NJ. Depew is classed among
the last named. He has the keenest and
most sipcere enjoyment when he gets
home after hard day. and has chat
and q romp with his little son Chauncey,
whom he addresses Us Buster" Mr..
Depew's son is fair-faced boy of IL.
with complexion of society bud and
the refined ways of delicately nurtured
girl. Mr.. Depew never meets him that
he does not bend over and kiss him.
He does this whether it is on the street
or in his Office at the Grand Central
station OF at his home, and anybody
could not see him without knowing in
stantly that this man who has stood be-
fore Presidents, Kings, Emperors,
Queens and Princes is as fond of this
boy as he is of his own life.
Cyrus w. Field, the man who lost
S.. 600, 900 in twenty -four hours in Wall
street without murmur, has o thous-
and chickens on his farm at Ardsley
which interest him now quite IS much
as the great project of the Atlantic
cable did over twenty-five years ago.
Mr.. Field has one Of the finest memories
in the country, and devotes more time
to it than to his financial enterprises.
Abram Stevens Hewitt, the statesman
and thinker, is as fond of society as q
debutante. It is often remarked by
friends of Mr.. Hewitt who see him in
his home life that the politicians would
scarcely know. this man or understand
his gentle and kindly ways and his in
ordinate desire to have all the young
people around him have happy time.
Russell Sage, for the thirty years he
has lived in New York, has driven every
morning and evening except Sunday
through the park. He is an early riser,
and is out on the road long before other
people have had their breakfasts. He
is an expert driver. Mr.. Sage in his
drives gives never thought to Wall
street matters. He is in different
world land says that nothing on earth can
please him as much as fast trotter.
Besides, the horses and the green trees
remind him of the days, now seventy
years ago, when he was farm lad in
Mohawk valley.
Jay Gould has three pet ways of en-
joying himself, and while he does not
exert himself to manifest his thorough
appreciation of them, it is certain that
underneath his calm exterior they bring
many happy moments to him. The first
is his yacht, the Atlanta, which in sum-
mer time takes him from the city to his
home at Irviugton. The next source of
enjoyment, aud probably the greatest to
Mr.. Gould, is flowers. He is an accom-
plished botanist, and thinks as much of
flowers as the gentlest woman in the
land. He has fine conservatory, and
the choisest blossoms are always before
him winter and summer. Mr.. Gould
also thinks that great good can come
out of circus. He is just as fond Of
the circus as in the days when he stole
under the tent flaps of the old fashioned
circus which visited his native town.
And so the story might go on to in
definite length. Judges aud clergymen
have their diversions and pastimes.
Cribbage, backgammon, the opera, the
theater, bowling, driving, base ball-for
it will be remembered that the only
diversion of Governor Hills busy life is
watching slashing game of ball
classical studies, paintings and sculp-
ture, devotion to ancient tapestries and
numismatics, oil these and more absorb
the attention in leisure moments of the
conspicuous men of our country.