The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-27

lies in front of the house is.
judge, at least 200 feet deep. and
Mansfield people use this as sort of park
and visitors drive into the senator's ward
round the house and out again ad libitum.
Back of the house are orchards of various
kinds, and the pear trees and peach trees
are propped up lest their branches be
broken by the rich yield of the present
year. To the left of the house as you go in
and some distance away is the new barn
which Senator Sherman said he was going
TO build when he came home to Ohio this
sammer. The expression was used in an
interview at Pittsburg, and was taken up
by the newspaper photographers in much
the same way as the expression he used
before former senatorial election. Then
he said he was coming home TO fix his
fences, and now he came to build barn.
THE SHERMAN RESIDENCE.
Senator Sherman's house is an almost
ideal home for great statesman. 1t is a
big, two-story and mansard brick, eighty
feet long and perhaps sixty feet deep, and
II has wide porches, big windows and beau
tiful views. 1t is by no means grand
house nor gorgeous one. Every part of
it is simplicity personified, but it i'm
presses you as being a most comfortable
home. The brick is painted drab, and the
windows, steps and front doors are fin
ished in a peculiar old red sandstone,
streaked with golden yellow, in all the
variations of the onyx or the agate. Pass
ing over porch about fifteen feet wide,
you enter through the front door into a
generous hail. which, in the shape of a
capital l.. makes, in fact, two good sitting
rooms. At your right on the wall hangs
a pair of antlers which Senator Sherman
got in his trip over the Canadian Paci tic
and at the right and left are doors opening
into the parlors. Around at the other
end of the hall is the dining room, which
is / Judge, about twenty-five feet square,
and back of this through abutler's pantry,
is a big kitchen lighted by many windows
and finished in the Gle anest of Georgia
pine / found Mrs She rman with a great
sunshade on her head, p ceiling luscious
peaches for canning. in the dining room.
and as we looked al the XII tchen, she said
she hoped if | was going to make descrip-
ton of the house, that | would notice the
trees and describe the interior of the house
as il was. Said she: "Our home has
been described as grand mansion and
often find our visitors rather disappointed
when they come here expecting
palace. The house is, as
you see. very plain, but it
Is a comfortable home and we like it."
During my stay visited the other por-
tons of it. 1t contains should Judge, at
least twenty rooms, and all Of the rooms
are large and airy. The windows give fine
views over miles of rolling country, and in
one of the Libraries | noted a telescope
and asked Senator Sherman if he used this
in studying the stars. He replied with
laugh, that he now and then looked at the
moon and at Venus and Mars through IL
but that the chief use of il within the past
few days had been in turning it on the
races which were going on two miles
away, and which, through il. could be "a
plainly seen as on the grand stand.
The SENATOR'S BOOKS.
Senator Sherman's library is scattered
throughout the whole house. The fact
that he is a student is written all over il.
The moment you enter the front door, you
see az the back Of the hall q wall Of books,
and on the second and third stories you
find the halls filled with bookcases. and
at the southeast corner of the mansard
there is a reference library of several
thousand volumes. The lower lib rary
contains thousands more, and, when I
asked Senator Sherman how many books
he had here and az " ashington. he said he
thought he must have IN the neighborhood
of 1900 volumes. The mansard library il
largely given up TO Americana. IL con-
tains all of the public documents stncs
1850, and the debates of congress back 20
the beginning of the government. The
room, which N, | Judge, about eighteen
feet wide and twenty-five feet long, -
filed with black walnut eases, and
yate secretary, tells me that Me