The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-07

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Just pulled right up and started for St.
Louis Arriving there l stopped only
long enough to get some drafts turned
into currency, and with big bundle of
bank notes under my shirt took the
train for Franklin county. It seemed TO
me that l WAS feeling twenty years
younger than at any time since had
started for the coast. can't tell you
wh&tmy feelings were as the train neared
the old place. was q boy again.
"Well, l finally reached the house,
but I hardly knew IL. Nothing seemed
familiar to me. The barn had no paint
on and the doors were falling off or
hanging by one hinge. The fences had
been moved about and permitted TO run
down, and you know what change the
tearing down Of fences viii make in a
farm place. The beautiful lawn in front
Of the house was d COW pasture. All the
shrubbery had been destroyed. & big
elm tree, in the branches OF which 1 had
taken many Sunday afternoon nap,
had been chopped down, probably for
the fire wood that could be got out Of it.
The house itself was in sad state. The
paint was peeling OF from exposure to
the weather. The green blinds were
hanging every way, and the vines which
l had myself trailed up the columns of
the galleries had been torn down and
ruined by the COWS. Worse than all, the
German gardener and d&iryman, who
owned the place, bad built a cowbarn
almost over the dear old well, and its
waters had been polluted by the drain
age. When l saw this 1 gave up and
went back to the railway station. I car
RED my bundle Of bank notes with me,
and l did not buy the old place. give
you my word and honor that l cried all
the way to st. Louis"
The most perfect house III Washington,
and the most beautiful, is that Of Mr.
Warder, retired reaper and mower
manufacturer of Springfield, O. II is a
Dutch house, with a stone court and
gable roofs. TWAS built by Richardson,
the greatest architect this country has as
yet produced, and the designer of many
Of the finest private houses in Washing
ton. He not only designed the Warder
house, but the furniture which it con-
t&ins, and under MS direction the very
haHgings we're selected and patterns cut.
The result is said to be the most artistic
home in America. There is nothing os-
tentatious about it, and it was not so
very costly. am glad to add that it is
d real home.
There is one house il town. and Ger
tainly the handsomest house in Wash
ington considered as sample of modern
residence architecture, that is, in fact, too
large. 1t is the chateau of Senator Saw
yer. The mansion was designed before
the death Of Mrs. Sawyer, and she was
very fond Of going over the plans, sug-
costing changes here and there. and
arranging in her good horsewifely
eye the whole domestic establishment
from carpets and curtains to the mono
gram On the linen. When Mrs. Saw
yer died the senator said there was
no reason why he should go on
with The house, except thai Mrs. Saw
yer had wanted it built. He had no use
for it himself. So the house was finished,
and IS soon IS TLEee or four rooms were
ready for occupancy the senator and his
married daughter moved in. I am told
that the senator, while proud Of the
house, is oppressed by It's vast size. All
the rooms seem empty because the wife
is not there. In showing one through
the great house the senator pauses here
and there TO remark that mother"
planned this and mother" wanted that
So and SO. Senator Sawyer is in many
ways very sweet old man, even if he
is fat and Wad1ly. - suppose it was
foolish to build such Il big house as this
just for two or three quiet people 20 live
in, he said, but l don't regret it. II
get only s., 900 for it when I sell it l
won't be sorry made the Investment,
because mother took so much interest
in it,"
The finest house for the purposes Of
Of large crowds IN Wash
.ngton IS t2e British legation. The lega-
ton building is nearly as large as the
White House, and much more COnven-
.ently arranged. All the rooms on The
lower floor, including ballroom half as
big as the east room. Two or three large
drawing rooms, a dining room and a
number Of smaller rooms, cs.l be thrown
INTO what is practically one huge apart
nent, along with long, vide hail. 1t
s said by experts that the legation can
accommodate q larger num-
Der of people than the Write House.
Above the drawing rooms on the lower
ioOr. and running round the grand stair
,ase, is a gallery on with two o. three
hundred people can stand ard overlook
he brilliant scene below. The British
egaaon house was for long time the
,nly one here owned BY a foreign gov
,rnnent. The bricks VITA which II was
quilt were imported from England.
Now the Mexican government has its
,wn building IN Washington. When
he British minister bc1rlt the property
n which the legation house stands. some
en- or twelve years ago, there was q
yreat oUtC-y against hin. Il vas charged
hat the site was away out u the coun-
~. and shat the minister had been play
Nc into the hands Of the real estate
peculators. Now the properly Of the
BRUSH government IN = as:ingcon could
e sold for twenty times she sum paid
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