The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-07

right tnaC society recognizes, IHo
Longfellows are entitled to all the
social prestige that one can be given
in this country, and in spite of the de-
sire of everyone to entertain them,
theyslive a very quiet life. They seem
not to attach the very slightest i'm
portance to social position. They
never cared for social life save as it
concerned their few intimate friends,
and for fashionable life they seemed
to have a distaste. Their devotion to
one another has always been touch
ing, and few families are SO conf
pletely united as theirs. 1t has
almost seemed as If their fathers
words had a personal application and
the sad tragedy of their lives had
never been quite forgotten.
We will be patient, and assuage the feeling
We may not wholly stay;
By silence sanctifying, not concealing,
The grief that must have way.
Oddly enough, none of the family
inherited any great amount OF the
fathers gifts. The son were neither
of them inclined to literature, and the
nearest thing to a temperance OF The
artistic temperament vas the elder
son, who had a desire to be a painter,
and has more lately done something
as an architect. Naturally. anything
that his fathers son attempted would
attract notice, consequently for a time
his name was constantly mentioned
by those who kept track of all such
things. But of late very little is heard
of his painting. Ernest Longfellow
married Miss Cora Spellmann, of Cam
bridge. She has always been very
delicate, and much of their time has
been spent either abroad or in New
York, although they come home some
time each year. In the summer they
have a house at Magnolia, Mass.
CHARLES LoNGFELLow.
The second son, Charles Longfellow,
is a Somerset Club man, and has
lived much at the elegant house of
the club, on the slope of Beacon Hill,
overlooking the common. Before his
illness he was a handsome fellow, used
all his life to a deal of active out-of-
door exercise. Heseemed to pear no
resemblance in disposition to his
father, being more like the Appletons.
his mothers people. With them, es-
paciaIly with his uncle. Tom Apple
ton, a famous wit whose bonmots are
still retailed with relish at dinner
tables or in the midnight smoke at
club, he is a mans man in every sense
of the word. His especial friends
were the late Commodore Weld,
whose recent death SO shocked his
friends, Henry Bryant, who has owned
SO many crack yachts, and T. Watson
Merrill, all of whom are Somerset
Club men. He has Travelled half
round the world In yachts, and
has always been a famous sportsman.
Miss Longfellow is the only one of
the daughters that has not married.
She is a dainty woman, with a fine
face under her fast-whitening hair.
Her modest and unselish life has en-
deared her to all who know her, and
she shrinks from all n~otoriety.
THE BEAUTY OF THE FAMILY.
Edith Longfellow, thesecond daugh-
ter, was the beauty of the family.
She married over a dozen years ago
Richard H. Dana-the third to bear
that name--who is the grandson of
the famous author of 1.-TWO Years
Before the Mast" They have six
children. The oldest is named Rich
ard Henry-the fourth to bear the
name, and is called Dickie; he is about
eleven years old. Then comes Henry
Longfeliow Dana, called Harry;
Frances Dana, named for Mrs. Dana's
mother, beautiful Frances Appleton,
of whom her brother, Tom Appleton,
was, as a friend of his once said, so
.'proudly fond.n Then comes Allston
Dana, Neddie and Della.
The Danas live in a house which
they built a few years ago on a part
of the Craigie house estate next to the
homestead, and next to the Danas live
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Thorp, Jr. Mrs.
Thorp was Annie Longfellow, the
youngest of the poets children, and
many think the most interesting. She
married after her fathers death, and
her husband was a brother Of the
widow of the famous Norwegian vio-
linist, Ole Bull.
The Thorps have three children, all
girls, the eldest of whom is named
Alice, for Miss Longfellow, between
whom and Mrs. Thorn an affection
even more than sisterly existed. To-
pether they studied at the English
universities, and their interests seem
as closely united today as they ever
were. The second of the Thorp chill
dren is called Amy, although she was
named Amelia, and the baby has a
Scandinavian name, Erica.
THE WA4clDE INN.
One realizes how fast Longfellow's
generation is passing when one notes
how few of the men who were daily
associated with him are living. The,
Wavside Inn still stands at Sudbury.
It's old fashioned hospitality has
passed away with the generation that
knew how to dispense it, but the way
farer can still see the house and sit in
the room where the famous group OF
story telIers were supposed to have
narrated the tales that bear the name
of the old Howe tavern.
The tavern has just passed out OF
the hands of the Howes, who kept it
for four generations. The new owners
will preserve it as aLongfellow relic.
OF the intimate friends who stood
about his coffin eleven years ago.
Oliver Wendell Holmes and 7
Eliot Norton alone are living. The
former has really lived to be the
Last leaf on the tree" and the latter
does not exactly belong to the Long
fellow generation.
Landmarks connected with Long
fellows name are many. There is the
nld house in Portland where he was
born. and which still stands, or did a