St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
Most Delightful Entertainments
at the German Home.

Mr.. Germans domestic life has been
peculiarly happy one. HIS wife was
Mrs. Hattie d. Schwartz when he mar
ricd her. She is the daughter of DR..
Donagan, of Reading, who was naval
officer at Philadelphia during President
Buchanan's administration. They have
six children, of whom the eldest daugh-
tiers have, during the last few years,
taken very active part in the social
gaities of Washington. AS Senator
German brought to the duties of every
office to which was called the ability to
do them we'll, so Mrs. German has in the
same measure discharged the social OBJ
legations of her honorable station with
dignity and grace. Nowhere in Wash
in gtOn are more delightful entertain
ments to be found than at the German
home on Rhode Island avenue; no.
where are the sumptuous appointments
displayed in better taste. Besides be-
ing charming hostess, Mrs. German is
model housekeeper, ana to this is
probably due in large measure the
placid disposition and imperturbable
eQuanimity of the senator.
In dispensing the hospitalltieS of her
home Mrs. German is assisted by her
daughters, the Misses Ada, Daisy, Hat
tie and Bessie German, refined and
bright young ladies, who take becom-
ing pride III their fathers brilliant
career. The youngest daughter is still
at school, and the CHly son, Arthur p.
German, is student at the Episcopal
high school in Washington.
In December of 1890 Senator Cor
mans homestead in Howard county
was burned to the ground, and his wife
and oldest daughter, Miss Daisy Cor
man, were subjected to fearful expert
the winter. but the two ladies came
from Washington at the suggestion of
the overseer, who had set that day for
the hog-killing. The servants had built
up great fire in the kitchen range to
heat the house. During the night ter
rible storm came up. The wind blew q
gale and the RAIN came down in sheets.
The ladies and the servants had retired
early. Whether or not it was the
wind blowing down the chimney or a
poor draft that caused it, the wood
work about the range caught fire and
soon the entire house, which was built
of wood and brick, was ablaZe. Mrs.
and Miss German slept in the front of
the house ana knew nothing OF the
fire until servant broke into the room
with the alarm. The fire was then upon
them, and they had barely time to run
out into the storm and rain attired only
in their scanty retiring robes. For a
few moments they stood ankle-deep in
they mud, and then fastened as well as
they could across the field of mud
to the house of the overseer,
about 500 yards away. Remarkably
enough, this terrible experience
did not have any effect upon the health
of either of the two ladies, who con-
Quoted themselves with remarkable
presence of mind, contenting them
selves with the accommodations at
their disposal until clothes arrived from
Washington on the following day. The
house was destroyed with all its ac-
cumulated antiques and bric-a-brae.
The senator especially mourned his
valuable library, the accumulation of
which was begun by his father. Only a
few years prior to this calamity SeTa-
tor Germans Washington home barely
escaped being burned out just as Sec
rotary Tracy's was.