The morning news., 1892-03-17
l bind myself to-day,
COLLECTIONS OF SMOKING PIPES
Some OF the New ork Men Who Ravs
Spent Fortunes on Them.

Spent Fortunes on Them.
From The Collector.
N. G. Barney, a retired New York banker.
has an interesting collection Of pipes. Ont
| OF them represents the trunk Of an old tree
around which are grouped party OF sport
ing gentlemen with their guns and dogs
enjoying hunters meal One of the mem
| Ders of the party is cleverlY shown to be Gu
ting with his jackknife the name N. G. Ba
| ney on the trunk of the tree-to comme.ao-
1 rate, no doubt, the occasion. Each figure is "a
| correct likeness Of an individual member of
the party. The owners name is also carved
on each.of the game bags, and the delicate
| network around them Is true TO nature. In
this collection are also few pipes that
came from Alaska. They were made of
| walrus tusks by the Esquimaux. Another
remarkable piece is cigarhclder on which
is carved a Gordon setter, q favorite dog
belonging to the owner. It is a perfect i'm
age of the dog. and from smoking the
meerschaum had acquired brownish-red
| color, which Is exactly the color Of the dog.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett of the New
| York Herald is great pipe smoker. and is
fond of making presents Of pipes to his
| friends. One of his novel ideas is to have a
pipe case made of solid silver, lined with
chamois and costing 800. The outside OF
the case is richly engraved and bears the
name Of the recipient. Probably every
| captain OF every steamship on which Mr..
! Bennett has been passenger has received
one of these Pipe cases. The meerschaum
pipe in the case is Of the plainest possible
description, and is worth perhaps S5. 1t is
strong and serviceable, however. 1t would
seem to be Mr.. Benefits idea in this way TO
keep himself in remembrance with the owner
of the pipe case.
| Architect J. C. Prague of this city nev e-
i ~ a min CfCoy hoIHar
that did not have snake carved on it. These
were all made to order. and some of the
designs are very curious. Most of the snakes
are anacondas. Recently Mr.. Prague had
added crocodile pipe to his collection. A
unique pipe belongs TO Ogden Goelet. the
bowl representing hounds head. Mr.. 6oe-
let has about forty pipes, and each is a work
of art The hound's-head pipe was copied
from Sir Edwin Landseer's picture, 1.-THE
Return from the Hunt" The pipe is
mounted with green-colored amber and a
solid gold band.
Col. Wsgstaff has q valuable pipe on
whose bowl is carved the head of an Ara
biau. The colonel has used the utmost care
in coloring the pipe, and stopped smoking it
chestnut brown 30 highly priZed by the
smoker. Curiously enough, the color is a
very natural one so far as an Arab Is con-
cerned. Col. Wagstaff is a well-known COLI
lector OF pipes, of which he has about fifty.
A valuable pipe that belonged to the late
Lawrence Barrett had carved on its bowl
an ideal head Of Ophelia. The collecting of
pipes was one Of Barrett's hobbies, and he
was often seen in some of the New York
establishments looking up what he could
find in the way of odd pipes. The pipes he
usually bought were old ones that had been
colored by other people.
| Robert Fullerton of the Old Curiosity
Shop in this city claims to have the pipe of
peace that was handed to Columbus when
he first set foot on American soil after leav-
ing the good ship Santa Maria. The pipe is
made out of peculiar kind of bamboo, very
common in San Salvador.
The bowl ia very large, showing that In
those days the people must have been great
smokers, or, rather perhaps, that 1t was
fete pipe, and contained enough tobacco for
a whole assemblage to smoke. The stem
surmounting the bowl is fashioned out of a
peculiar reed, and is quantity carved with
holes on the side, the use of which is incom-
prehensible. 1t might aptly be called flute
| pipe, for If the stem were taken out Of the
bowl and the mouthpiece plugged it could
be used as flute.