The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-06-16

bout the rooms. The house is, in fact, mu-
scum of curiosity, but they have been 80 well
selected and arranged that it is most COM
Portable home.
HOW TOM LOWRY yADE A FOR
TUNE.
And iust here want TO say word about
Tom Lowry. Everyone calls him Tom here,
and he is everyones friend. He is still in his
4os, but he coHtlols capital of Sl2,OOO,0 1000,
and his incoMe is probably something like
Sl00, 900 gear. He came here form Logan
county, III young lawyer. He wanted
| tn gn 70 some p ace where he could be known
a. sonelhng more than as Just Father Low
rvs son. His f.rtiier, was friend OF Abraham
Lincojn, and had Lincoln not been elected
President, Lowry would have studied law
i'll his office. He was poor when he came
here, but he at once jumped into a big prac.
tice and he was soon engaged in every specu-
lation of the town. Along back in the 'IOs
the horse car street railway Of Minneapolis
was in bad way and Tom Lowry borrowed
$4,000 of the Security Bank and bought it.
He improved it, extended the lines and so man
aged it that he was soon able to get hold of
the st. Paul street car lines as we'll, and he
now practically owns the street car lines of
the two cities. He has made his system the
best, it is said, in the United States, and his
credit is such that at the time of the Barings'
failure he was able to raise $},500,OO0 in
New York at low rate of interest His
street car lines were changed from horse cars
to electricity in II months, and he has $50
miles of track. The overhead trolley is used,
and he tells ME that the conduit system, which
he tried for one of the St. Paul lines, was
failure. His franchise of the two cities is an
extensive one, and it runs, l am told, for a
long term of years. These car lines have i'm
mense shops here and power houses covering
acres. They can make everything connected
with an electric car line, and it will not be
surprising if they aid a great manufacturing
industry to their busi. ess. Mr.. Lowry is
eminently fitted for doing this. He has the
best of business brains and his credit is such
that he can get any reasonable number Of
millions al per cent.
Tom Lowry is a man Of strong friendships.
He is as we'll known in New York and Wash
ington as he is here. He was one of the few
men who had access TO Blaine at all times,
| and he largely aided Senator Washburn in
tiding over the financial troubles in which he
| was involved at the time of his election to the
| Senate He is good story teller, and it is
Gh,E Inv ha. .rt nd
reIeat paradise Lost" from beginning to end.
| He has beautiful wife and very bright fam
lily. l am told that he I'D fiery red head
as boy, though his hair is now BEAUTIFUL
| brown and his whiskers aim Dst black. Two
of his girls have red hair. The youngest Of
| these was only years OLD when her little ba-
| by brother was born. She saw the bald
headed bady, and that night they say she
closed her prayer as follows:
"Please, God, bless baby brother, but don t
let him have red hair. We have enough red
heads in this family already"
SENATOR WASHBURN's HOME.
Senator W ashbuln and Mr.. Lowry are in.
terested in the SO road together, and they
are rapidly pushing this OH to connect with
the Canadian Pacific. When this is done it
will form the greatest trunk line across the
continent. am told by Senator WAshburu
that the $40 road has now more than it eau
do to haul its local freight, and its lumber
i7li>n >r's enormous. There are millions
tsl. II ules lying along it awaiting
lii, Il :u., And il prom ses to nay we'll.
- ..king Of Washburn, his residence here
is worth 4 fortune. Il is an INN ,nss white
stone, Surrounded by ten acres OF ground
every foot OF which Is valuable. He has got
ten out of his financial troubles and is agar
rich.
JIM HILLS MANSION.
st. Paul has dozens of great houses whicl
would do credit to any Eastern city, but the
residence of MIR. James J. Hill, the Grea
Northern Railway magnate, is one of the real
ly fine houses Of the world. George w
Childs, when he visited it, said it surpasse,
} that of the Vanderbilts in many ways, ant
that he liked it better than his own home al
Wooten. l visited it in company with Mr.
Hills friend, Mr.. George A Back 1T, yester-
day, and liked i: far better than the home
North, the nitrate king, which l saw in En-
gl and last sumner. 1t is more homelike an(
less gaudy. 1t is located in s.. PAal, on Sum
NIT avenue, and its grounds SLOPE down TO
ward the Mississippi river. 1t has acres o
ground about it, and its Windows give wids
views of the hills and valleys of the Mississ
ippi. The house is All immense two-story
building of brown stone, put tnge her in The
rough and Gro wned with s.eel roof, whict
slopes down in my gables. Apot, cochert
big enough foc an ordinIry house, unde
which you could hall the bisge st wagon loat
| of hav YOU ave ever saen with Dut touching
its walls or its Sides forms the entrance to it.
and as you 90 into this yon are impressed
with the massiveness aud snlidty OF the stru.
ure The house looks as though it were built
to outlast ages. The walls are about four feel
thick, and in constructing it Mr.. Hill Wen
down IS feet until he struck the solid bet
rock for the f,undltlon. This is one OF tht
characteristics of his work-he goes TO th
bottom of everything before he beg ns it, ant
builds substantially and without frills or fill
orees. His railroad Off .es at s. Paul are Sc
yerely plain in their construction, and you SCI
the same good taste displayed about every
part of his Lousa The front doors are o
massive oak 5ea lliiully clrvai, AMI you pass
through them over vestibule of X )m IN mo
sale, as carefully inl lid as a Floren:ine breast
pin, into a grand hall fnishe | in antiq le oak.
As you 60 in you note that the walls are of
carved oak and that the ceiling is of the same
wood in great panels. You come first into a
grand hall nearly as long as the promenade
corridor of the White II ,use, but far more
beautifully finished. 1t must be 100 feet long
and about twenty feet wide, and it runs from
the picture gallery at one end to the great ma
hogany dining room at the other. Its root |:
made up of four great panels inclosed in raft
ers of carved oak each four feet wide, and
these are upheld by eight futed oak columns.
each of which is as big around as the waist OF
a good sized man.