The morning call., 1893-04-16

Paradise Lost from beginning to end.
He has a beautiful wife aud a very bright
family. l am told that he had feTy-red
head as a boy. though his hair is now a
beautiful brown and his whiskers are
almost black. Two of his girls have red
hair The Youngest of these was only 8
years old when her little baby brother was
born. She saw the bald headed baby and
that night they say she closed her prayer as
follows:
please. God, bless baby brother, Sut
don't let him have red hair. We have
enough red heads in the family"
Senator Washburn and Mr.. Lowry are
interested in the 500 road together and
they are rapidly pushing this on to connect
with the Canadian Pacific. When this is
done it will form the last great trunk line
across the continent. am told by Senator
Washburn that the 500 road has now more
than it can do to haul its local freight and
its lumber shipments are enormous.
There are millions of telegraph poles lying
along it awaiting shipment, and it promises
to pay well.
Speaking Of Washburn, his residence here
Is worth a fortune. 1t is an immense white
stone, surrounded by ten acres of ground,
gotten out of bis financial troubles and is
again rich.
st. Paul has dozens of great houses which
would do credit to any Eastern city, bnt the
ItslueuC6 pI MT. James d. Hill. the CTeaL
Northern Railway magnate, is one of the
really fine houses of the world. George
w. Childs, when he visited 1t, said it sur
passed that of the Vauderbilts in many
ways, aud that ne liked it better than his
own home at Wooten. / visited il in COM
pany with Mr.. Hills friend, Mr. George a.
Brackett, yesterday and like it far better
than the home of North, the nitrate king,
which saw IN England last summer 1t is
more homelike and less gauiy. It's located
in st. Paul on Summit avenue and its
grounds slope down toward the Mississippi
River 1t has acres of grounds about it,
and Its windows give wide views of lhe
hills and valleys of the Mississippi. The
mouse is an immense two-story building of
brown stone put together in the rough and
crowned with steel roof. which slopes
down in many gables. A porte cochere big
enough for an ordinary house, under which
you could haul the biggest wagon-load of
hay you have ever seen without touching
It's walls or Its sides, forms the entrance to
IT, and as you 60 into this you are i'm
pressed with the massiyeness and solidty
OF the structure. The house looks as
though 1t were built to outlast the ages.
The walls are about four feet thick, and
in constructing it Mr.. Hill went down thirty
eight feet until he struck the solid bedrock
for the foundation. This is one of the
characteristics of his woTk-he goes to the
bottom ot everything before he begins it
and builds substantially aud without frills
are severely plain in their construction,
and ycu see the same good taste displayed
about every part of his house. The front
doors are of massive oak, beautifully
carved, and YOU pass through them over a
Vesubule OF Roman mosaic, as carefully in
laid as Florentine breastpin, into a grand
hall finished in antique oak. AS you 20 in
you note thai the walls are of carved oak
and that the ceiling is of the same wood in
great panels. You come first into grand
q : no ha do
ridor of the White House, but far more
beautifully finished. II mus be hundred
feet long and about twenty feet wide, and it
runs from the picture gallery at one end To
the great mahogany dining-rcom at the
other. Its roof is made up Of four great
panels inclosed in raiters OF carved oak,
each four feet wide. and these are up
held by eight huted-oak columns, each
Of which is as big around as
the waist of good sized man. The
walls of this hall are hung with fine paint
lngs. Its floor is covered with soft rugs,
and 1t Is lighted, as are the large rooms of
the house, in most wonderful way. From
the center Of each Of these panels, strung as
1t were upon wires, seems to hang down a
bushe OF diamonds These are prisms of
cut glass festooned in the shape of basket,
and lighted by electricity, which coming
from globes behind them aud reflected by
mirrors above, make most wonderfully ef-
fective illumination. There are four of
these diamond baskets in the hall, one in
the dlnlng-rGom, another in the libary and
others in the music. reception and drawing
rooms. A chandelier always looks out OF
place In house. 1t makes big room look
larger and a small room look smaller but
these diamond baskets take up no room and
they are the most beautiful things | have
ever seen In house lighting. From the Gen.
ter of this hall rises the staircase, between
these ftuted oak columns, by easy landings
to the second story, and looking down upon
YOU from N. in win
dOws OF stained glass, which throw a soft
light into the hall. At the right and left of
the staircase are CRATES covered by mantels
Of the same massive oak, and over one of
these is a painting of Mrs. Hill and over the
other Que of Mr. Hill.
The dinine-ro0mis is about fifty feet long by
thirty feet wide. 1t is finished In South
American mahogany. and the furniture is of
the same wood. The walls from your feet
TO above your head are paneled in the rich
est OF mahogany, which has a polish equal
to that OF the finest piano. The ceiling is
made up of panels framed in great mah0g-
any rafters. and the panels are of rough
stucco covered with gold leaf. Window
seats run around the end of the dining
room, sitting upon which you can look out
over the Mississippi. There is a great side
board OF mahogany twelve feet long filed
with the hnest OF china and cut glass. In
two corners OF the room are glass-coyered
cupboards filled with beautiful glassware,
and on the sideboard and other places about
the room are pieces of the finest of all kinds
OF china. not q few being of Sevres and
Royal Dresden. The butler was with
me while l stood in the room and he
told me the cost of furnishing il was
over S14.0 The dining table is of carved
mahogany. and it is of immense size. In fact
all the furniture in this house is fully from
one-third to twice as large as that you find
in ordinary houses. Mr.. Hill told me that
when she came into the house she was sur
prised at the immense size of the rooms.
and she was in despair as to how she could
make them look smaller and more homelike,
She did so by having the furniture made in
proportion. and the result is that the whole
house has a homeIike character and every
thing is harmonious. In MIS-. Hills bed
room, for instance, the bed of white maple
is six feet wide but it does not look larger
than an ordinary one. and was not aware
that 1t was so large until my attention was
called to it. The sofas are very long aud
the chairs and tables malch. Even the