Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-26

was to be the property OF Senator Doug
las, the second was to belong to Senator
Rice and the third to the eminent Ken
tuckian. In due time the mansions
were completed. The marriage Of Miss
Cults and Douglas came TO pass In a
blaze Of glory at st. Aloysius' the
groom In Difference to the opinion OF
bride having professed the Catholic
faith. After the ceremony came the
reception in the new mansion. The
great rooms were musical with bridal
mirth; today and champagne flowed
sizzled; stringed instruments gave out
melodies OF wedding tunes; silks and
satins rustled, slaves hustled to and fro
and hundreds Of tongues wagged in u
riot Of gGllantrles and congratulations.
After the ball was over and the
tones OF the wedding bells had
died away the couple took up their
abode in the corner house.
1t was the reception-room at the
right OF the entrance that the senator
liked most TO sit and chat with his
friends. A story is told by an anthem
tic teller that on the night-of the
Charleston convention Douglas was
seated in this room with a group OF
party spirits. During the early part
Of the evening discussion had been rife,
but as the time for the convention news
to come in approached talkativeness
waned. The excitement vas to intense
for talk. Finally q messenger arrived
with a dispatch. One of the men pres
emit seized the misSive and tore 1t open.
There was a moment OF awful silence.
Then he read: Senator Stephen A.
Douglas is nominated for the presi-
dency." Douglas, who had been stand
ing during the scene, smote the marble
top center table, a mighty blow with
his fist and in a determined way ex-
claimed: "This means dissolution"
During those times the senator's sons
by his first marriage were gay young
fellows and they caused q good deal Of
society to ebb and flow through the
portals Of the house. The Douglas
family lived here till about the time Of
the was, when the property was
bought by Marshal Brown and Mayor
Richard Wallach. They continued its
owners till it was bought in 1878 by
Justice Joseph c. Brady, who had just
then been appointed President Grant to
a seat on the bench Of the supreme
court. Judge Bradley continued Ia
possession till his death, and a few
months ago the property was broug hit
at public auction by Thomas Kirby who
resides In the Rice residence, next door.
The price he paid was S32, 600. The
house was sadly in need of repair, and
within the past month the owner has
expended about So, 600 in improvements.
Two doors below is the Breckenridge
house, which was presented TO Grant
on his return from the field by mer-
chants Of Philadelphia and New York.
After his promotion to the presidency
the same property was purchased for
an presented to General Tecumseh
Sherman. Here the general lived quite
a time, and here his daughter Minnie
was married to Mr.. Fitch, Of the navy.
The future home OF Mgr. Satclii is q
large souare-built red brick, faced with
brown stone and capped with a heavy
c%ornice. 1t is surrounded on the front
and the east side by 4 we'll shsvsn lawn
and iron fencing. Along Second
street a heavy brick wall shuts
out the rear gardens from the
public view. A broad stone walk leads
from the street to the brownstone steps
at the main entrance. Then the visit
ors passes through the heavy Oaken
doors, we'll carved and highly polished,
into the vlstibule. The floor of this is
finely tiled and the walls and ceiling
done in Indian red. The double doors
that divide the vestibule from the cen
tral hall are a harmony Of white, gold
and glass. On the right Of the hall is the
historic reception room. Two OF its
windows open on I street and one on
Second. The ceiling is high after the
fashion of the time, and the walls are
papered In white snd gold. Gold mold
inCs run around the room at easy inter-
walls. There is an open fireplace under
= white marble mantel and brilliant new
gas fixtures. At the far end OF the hall
is the dining room. This is capscIous
and highly decorated. Behind this is
the pantry, fitted with tiers of glass
incased shelves. a large dumbwaiter
connects this part Of the house with the
kitchen.
On the right of the main hall. as you
enter, Is the great double parlor. The
same style o. decoration prevails here
as in the other parts OF the house.
FROM the rear parlor you step into the
library. Twenty thousand volumes may
be accommodated here. A wide veranda,