Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-09
PETS IN A PALACE,
THE SPACIOUS AND LUXURIOUS
HOME

moved Her Large Family of cats.
Dogs, Etc.
The Hartford Courant of Sept - give,
an account of the luxurious new home
near Albany, y. Y, to which Mrs. Henry
p. Duclos, wel-remembered Brattleboro
girl, is soon to remove, and of the large
family Of pets to whose shelter and com
fort the elegant quarters are to be devoted.
Her new place is known as Brghtwood.
and is situated in Valencia. 1t was built
by millionaire who spent money upon IL
without stint, the music room alone hav-
ing been fitted up at a cost of more than
SlS.CCO. Financial reveises overlook the
owner and he was obliged to retire to a
more modest house Recently an eN-
change was made by Mrs. Duclos, with the
man into whose hands it fell, for her home
in Hartford and her property in Newing-
ton, Conn., Two weeks ago the transfer of
her famous colony Of pets was begun.
These include family of IL or more Mex
lean dogs, the progeny of a pair Of those
animals bought by Mr.. DuclOs on a pleas
IRE trip to that country. There is also a
magnificent mastitf, a handsome Irish set
ter. several birds. cats without number
and some tine-hloOded Jersey cows. The
Courant says Mrs. Duclos obtained pos
session some days ago Of the New York
state property, and for week past her
live stock belonging, have been in the va
riouS stages of transfer to their new home
The cattle, some Of the horses and the
swine were sent on by express. The cat,
have also gone, Mrs. Duclos going ont to
settle them and make them at home in
their new quarters. These queer pets
were transferred in baskets. Curious peo-
Pile thought the party were en- route TO one
fafY ,,ftl
more inquistive plying the attendants
with questions. The dogs are to be taken
along by easy drives across the country in
the family carriages.
Some idea of the ladys love for her
pets may be learned from the royal man
ner in which they are to be treated in the
American palace which is TO be her and
their home. The coy little house former
" occupied by the gardener has been as
signed to cats, and upon their arrival they
were ushered in there and left for the
night, the knd-hearted lady paying them
a visit in the early morning 1t goes with
out saving that upon her first visit she
found them almost anything but satisfied
but Mrs. Duclos's presence soon quoted
them. and they were quite at home by the
next day. They are not to be allowed at
large for month, in which time they are
quarters. 1t might be- thought 10y some
that the dogs would find comfortable quar-
tiers in the barn, but not so. The billiard
room, fitted up as it is in princely way. i
TO be their home. The bird pets are only
four in number, and they have hitherto oc-
cupied a comfortable cage built for them
at no nconsiderabe cost. In the new
home they will be assigned to a room that
the millionaire builder designed for his
gueSts-and the reader need not bother
his imagination as to whether this is
well-appOinted room.
In couple of weeks at least all these
pets, the 10 cats, the II dogs, the four can
AIRY birds. the beautiful Jerseys and other
farm stock, and the handsome coach team,
will be occupying quarters in their new
= home. where they will pass the remainder
, of their lives, with the assurance that
when that is spent they will be buried with
a degree of elegance beftting their lives.
and, if it be that the great-hearted mis-
tress survives them, their graves will be
: kept fresh with fragrant flowers, as have
been the graves of pets already buried.
Mrs. Ducloss early life was somewhat
romantic. She was the daughter of Park
er B. Francis, well-knOwn for his connec-
ton with the famous water cures at Brat
tleboro, VT. Before the war these estab-
; lishments were a rendezvous for Southern
! people, many of them spending their sum
! mers there. The war of course shut out
all this patronage and i'm the end the thriy-
ing institutions went the way of many an
other business venture, the large buildings
having since been converted into tenement
i buildings.
: 1T was while her father was the sue
l cessful head of the Brattleboro establish
= ments that Mrs. Duclos, then Mary Fran
u els, met Henry p. DuclOs, a wide-awake
: young man few years her senior. While
y she was Yet in her fifteenth year the two
= were married. Life had been somewhat
easy with him, owing to the indulgence OF
fairly well-off father, and he did not i'm
: mediately tie up to any successful business.
:. Later he conceived the system of insur-
y ance now so successfully practiced by the
y Life and Annuity company of this city, in
y to whose then sluggish veins he infused
:. new life, improving his own fortune the
= while, in the end receiving a handsome
- royalty from that company for a period OF
II years not yet expired.
Mr. Duclos died about five years ago
l. leaving a comfortable estate to his wife
,, Only one child was born to them durina
= their twenty or more years of welded life
e and ii died at Is months of age. Since
her husband death she has given much OF
y, her time to her pets her fOndness for then
u having strengthened with her years of wild
II owhOOd.
Mrs. Duclos does not believe i'm destroy
" ing animal life. No animal born on tn,
!, place is killed, not even bullock. For q
= dozen or more years she has abstaned EN-
~ tirely from eating meat of any kind.
u although Mrs. Duclos has lived
somewhat retired life for some years past
AZ she has large circle of friends hereabout
y, who will wish her well in her new home
- Many Hartford people, beside her persona
N friends, know her by sight, having seel
" her riding behind her favorite span o
-. blacks, usually accompanied by Miss Phili
- Miller, schoolmate, who has been TO
years her constant companion. Her hand
some team will be missed from the streets
and it goes without saying that Hartfor,
, merchants will miss her very liberal pat
:. ronagc in all the departments that 90 Il
~, ~ make up a well-appointed household.
" Mrs. DuclOs has built a beautiful mau
~ solemn for the remains of her husband AM
:, infant daughter, and it is among the mos
e. admired of the pieces in Cedar Hill. 1t i
y situated on the highest point in the south
., west section of the cemetery
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