St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-12

lace and flowers like snowy Alpine Wales
through rifting clouds. The dress is
over seven feet long, and opens clear up
and. down the front, as we'll as from
neck to end of sleeve, so that it can be
spread out and the body laid within
as II 1t were sheet. Another under
garment, also of pure white silk, shorter
than the outer one, but opening like it,
is on the bed waiting for its occupant.
Both these garments fasten with mul-
titude Of silver hooks, which. like all
else about the robes, were designed by
Mrs. Hitler. Three of Boston's best
dreSsmakers worked all last winter on
these robes, and were paid princely
sum for their labors,
All the house. from gable-peak to
basement, is furnished and equipped in
the most expensive style. DR.. Killers
motto was: Get comfort and elegance
and show good taste at any price; but,
display" So it is that what is proba-
bly, the most extensively garnished
house of its size in the world is within
a half-hour's ride of Boston, and
THOUSANDS PASS IT DAILY
land never dream of the wonders hidden
behind those four plain walls. Every
room is study and a picture in itself.
The room now OccuDied by Mrs. Hill
Ter, the one in which DR.. Hitler died, is
luXuriant sleeping apartment. Off
this apartment is a dressing room OF
large size that contains many objects of
interest aud convenience. Leading
from the chamber to an adjoining study
is a closet, in which hang the trousers.
waislcoat and coat of DR.. Hitler, as
when he took them off to go to his death
bed. They have since been brushed
and busted occasionally, but never have
chey been moved from the places where
they were suspended, and never will be
while the house stands. Down stairs in
the
RECEPTION ROOM
is a big $4,000 upright piano. Just back
of this Is a grand organ. Sheets and
portfolios of music lie on the instru-
mentS and in racks. Most of this music
is of DIR. Killers composition, he hav-
ing been a fine musician and the Gre
ator of many llbrettos and sonatas.
Burglar alarms are on every window
and door, and even connected with two
gOngs thai fairly shake the house with
their clatter when they are disturbed.
Though Mrs. Hitler has most of her sill
verware and jeweiry and all of her
money III safe storage in Boston, two
times have burglars essayed to enter
the house, but were foiled by the
clangor of the alarms.
What is remarkable about the place is
that there are but four pictures in all
the house-three portraits of DR.. Hitler
and one of Mrs. Hitler. Clocks of gold
and silver, with musical chimes as
The bells of Shandon
That sound so grand on
The River Lee,
are on mantelS and in inches all over
the mansion, and every passing quar,er
hour is sent back into old eternity with
glad pealS of melody. Every room is
works located Just back of the build
ingS.
Personally, Mrs. Hitler is plump,
pretty and prepossessing little woman,
halfway between the blonde and bru-
nette types. She has pearl-white teeth,
large, eloquent eyes and a quiet mo-
bility of features that make her appear
almost girlish. In fact, she is but forty
five years of age, and prior to the death
of DR.. Hitler, at which time grief
sprinkled her glossy hair with gray,
would not have been taken for over
thirty-fiVe years old.
MRS. KILLER VISITS BOSTON,
where she has important business in
terestS, every day. Every night Oh her
return from Boston she is driven over
to the temporary vault that holds DR..
Killers remains and has brief chat
with Bancroft, the faithful Waterman
This tomb is of solid masonry and is
banked up twenty feet i'll earth on all
sides. In front of the heavy gate big
$500 lamp glows all night, and. back of
the lamp, in his watch house, sits the
guardian with loaded reYolyers by his
side.
When asked why she expended so
much money and care on tombs, robes
and sarcophagi. Mrs. Hitler said:
II have always had great horror of