St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-04

wv WnlnS OF our MILL
ionaires.
Giovanni Morosini is collector of
watches. AT his home on Riverdale-on-
the-Hudson he has several cabinets. in
which are many costly and curious
watches. In addition to watches, he
has wonderful collection of
jewelry. porcelains, bronZes, bric-a-brac
and curiOs. Mr.. Morosini makes study
Of everything that he collects, and can
tell inttlligently the history OF every
piece in his cabinets. He pays a great
deal of attention. too, to MEDIEVAL ana
ancient armor, and has a number OF
manuscripts and rare books Oh her
aldry.
Every one knows Robert BOnner's
hobby. For several years he has de-
voted most of his spare time to fast
horses. He wants to own and drive the
fastest trotter in the world. He has
bought many fast ones, and paid almost
fabulous prices for them, but just as
soon as their record has been beaten he
sets to work to buy his successful rival.
He gave $40 900 for Maud S, and when
Sunol lowered the three-year-old record
and came very nearly to Maud SIS rec
ord, Mr.. Bonner purchased her for SAL
600. Mr.. Bonner won't race his horses
for money or for any price. He gets all
the enjoyment of them himself, and it
was only after good deal of persua-
sion that he allowed SunOl to stay in the
West and to be given another chance at
mile record.
Henry Clews prides himself on his
house, and devOtes a great deal of time
and money to beautifying it. He is par
ticularly well pleased with any one
who expresses a desire TO go over his
house, and one of the first rooms he
will take visitor to is the bath room.
He is said to have expended $4,000 on
this room. The walls, floor, bath and
in fact every part of the ROOM is made of
onyz. 1.-The Rocks" at Newport, Mr..
ClewS' summer residence, is one of the
handsomest at that resort.
Many members of the Vanderbilt
families have hobbies, and as they have
plenty. of money to spend on them,
everything that they have collected is
very fine. George Vanderbilt is one of
the least-talked of in this family. He is
the youngest son of the late William
H., and is now twenty-nine years old.
He is slightly above middle height, with
a slender but active frame. He has a
high. white forehead and blue-gray
eyes which clearly indicate the student.
He spends great deal of bis leisure
city, where his purchases must roll up
far into the thousands every year. He
is great student of art and sculpture,
and at the death of his mother the fine
Vanderbilt collection of pictures and
statuary will become his. Lately he has
developed a Napoleonic mania.
The particular hobby OF William K.
Vanderbilt is the collection of oak cary
ings. He has several fine specimens for
which he has paid very large sums. He
is also fond of growing fruit and rare
trees, and has many in the grounds of
his summer residence at Islip, l.. |. He
spends a great deal of time and thought
on this Islip place, and is making it the
most perfect summer house IN the coun-
try. Cornelius Vanderbilt has great
collection of pieces of china and minia-
lures connected with Napoleon.
Hamilton NICK. Twombly is inter-
ested in the Louis XIV. period of
France, and not long ago he purchased
a copy in crayon of the famous portrait
of Nine. de POmpadour, for which he
paid $4,000.
EX-Secretary of the Navy William G.
Whitney has the finest collection of
GobeIin tapestries in the country, and
perhaps III the world. The walls of the
main hall in his house are entirely con-
cealed from end to end behind folds of
the rarest patterns, and several rooms
in his house are similarly decorated.
Elbridge L. Gerry is another lover of
not so rare as Mr.. Whitney'S, the pieces
he has are unusually fine. Mr. Gerry
himself purchased many of them during
his trips abroad.
Henry Willard. the railroad magnate,
is a musician. He is paSSionately fond
of music of all kinds. and is himself a
good performer on the violoncello. Mr..
Willard is fond of playing on this instru-
ment, accompanied by his daughter,
who is first-clasS pianist. He is thor
oughly posted on all the doings in the
operate world, and talks enthusiastic-
ally about all the works of the great
musical writer's.
One of the queerest fadS is that of
William b. Treadway, of the firm of r.
G. Dun q Co. He has most unique
collection of sermons. He has been
collecting them for the last thirty-four
years, and has now more than 10000.
These sermons he has bound him
self, and has made an index which
is very comprehensive and accurate.
He has collected. too, many wood cuts
of churches and ministers, and these he
has also neatly bound into volumes.
He has written preface to the first
volume of sermons, in which he saws
that it is a peculiar fancy, but that
many other hobbies are just as odd.
He has sermons in his collection that
will suit almost every shade of theoloyf-
cal belief. Roman Catholics may come
and find food for their souls in the pro-
auctions of their own cardinals and
bishops. High and low .churchmen
have not been neglected. Rigid Calvin
lists may find their peculiar doctrines
set forth, and following closely are
those of the Armenian in striking con-
trast to the Calvinistic theology. Mr..
Treadway was an Episcopalian in his
early youth. Now he is Unitarian.
William Astor oes in for all varieties
of old china, and is said to have the
finest collection of Dresden ware in the
world. He has spent about three ordi-
airy fortunes in collecting it. He also
has very fine solid silver service.
Pierre Lorillard has a fine collection
of meerschaum pipes. which is said to
be worth about $4,000. One of his
pipes IS twenty-four inches long, and is
very fine specimen of the old-style
Knickerbocker pipe. Ogden Goelet is
another enthusiastic pipe collector.
Some OF his pipes are exquisitely
carved. Mr.. Goelet is connois-
seur In carving. He has one
pipe that is very unique.
On the lid of the pipe is a figure repre-
senting st. Nicholas: figure on the
bowl represents Peter StuVpySant the