Arizona republican., 1892-05-08
HER cHlLpHooD's HOME.
The old Red House Where AdeIina Pati
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 WAKEFIELD, N. r., April l4,-Adelina Patti is planning visit to q simple red brick house in the village of Washing tonville, just on the edge of New York city, in Westchester county. Her broth CT Nicola has already been up to look at the red brick house this spring. It is the house in which the wonderful sing ing bird lived when she was growing girl, and whence she went forth, more years ago than it would be gallant to enumerate, to begin her career of daz- zling success.
 The Paths went to live at Washing tonville about ten years after their arri- val in New York. Patti's father built the red brick house and lived there along with his wife and three sets of children--those of his first wife, those of his second wifes first husband, and those born to him and the second wife. Mime. Patti, the neighbors say, was a woman that made people stand in awe of her She is very well remembered as dark eyed and rather stern person whom the few villagers regarded with mixed feelings.
 The Pattis were all people of the stage and little understood by their neighbors. They came and went as they chose-now living for weeks or months in the red brick house, now go- ing off for seasons of singing or acting. Carlotta was already launched upon her careey, and Nicola was known to the theater going world. As to the great Adelina, she was short, stout, dark eyed little girl, who romped with the neighboring children and enjoyed life just as if she were not destined to make the greatest opcratic reputation of the century. Her ordinary schooling was obtained in Fourteenth street, New York, but she was devoted to music, and it was her habit to have the children of the neighborhood come to the house and play singing school. Even then her voice was marvellous, and according to the biographers she had already been heard in concert.
 The little Patti's very toys contained hints of her future career. The widow Elizabeth Brown, now very old wom- an, but often employed by the Pattis in her youth, has one of Adelina's toys. II is an odd looking theater stage and au. ditorium, made of cork. Once it had seats filled with manilins and other manikins tEGt appeared upon the tiny stage, but these are gone. For years the widows late husband used it as q receptacle for his pipes. Now it hangs | in the widows barn. The whole toy is perhaps eighteen inches square, and the cornice over the stage must be rather more than foot high.
 The Widow Brown treasR'es in hei best room three little oak Chairs once the property of the Phttis. She remem bers the whole family very well and speaks familiarly of the daughters a: Carlotta and Adelina The little Ade lima often visited the Browns, and tho widow heard many times the undeyel oped voice that was to entrance tht world
 Half dozen other residents of Wash ingtonvillc recall the Pattis, and espe cially Adelina A daughter of Thomas T. White. who bought the red bricl house of Patti's father and still occupies it, will have it that Adelina Patti mad' her first public appearance while living at Washingtonville. The tradition Ii that the little girl, then only twelv, years old, went forth from the house {, Mount Vernon. mile away, and sans in concert at Beck's hotel. This, how ever, does not agree with most of Patti biogrGphers, who put her down as hay ing made her debut at the age of eigh years. But then ns1iy residents O 1 Washingtonville believe that the div was born in their village instead of il Madrid. At any rate that is curren tradition. though Pati's former play mates are less at odds with history il this matter.
 The Patti house was built in 1851, year after the village was laid out, an, for a long while it was the most con spicuous building in Washingtonville It is still highly distinctive, though no by reason of its beauty. It stands on hillside, surrounded by garden wit trees and plants. The roof runs to peak in the middle, and there are ugl porches front and rear at the height O the second story and approached by un comfortably high and steep steps, Tn house is almost square and three storie high. It has no architectural preten sions, but it must have cost Patti two o three thousand dollars, and it has sui fciently commodious air. Within, tn rooms are of good size. About the onl relic of the Pattis remaining in tn house is an enormous kitchen table tha was deemed too heavy to be removed and has since occupied its original pos ton. The house has recently been sol by its present occupant.
 F.. N. VALLANDIGHAM.
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