Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-07-03

| spent SbAlAt HI
ment with the members of the common
veal
He hove in sight over the crest of
Potato hill night before last and has
been we'll received on account of the
strange and interesting sights he has
seen
One lobe of his whiskers is gone, and
/ am told that it got caught in the door
of the senate chamber as the earl was
coming away.
He fears that no great monetary
change will be made before fall and re-
grets that his trip was not more imme-
diately productive of good.
PressOnward Hamilton of Postum
Trot is looked for next week, but was
delayed short time to answer for eat
ing the contents of an incubator at
Washington. He had hoped to be met
up with by a large reception on his re-
turn to Possum Trot, but now writes
with blue chalk on a cattle car which
came yesterday that quiet little recep-
ton and dinner will be best, take it all
around.
He says that the above reports about
him are untrue, however, but that he was
disabled by being stepped ON at the door
of the capitol while he was perusing n
page who stood near by.
Since writing my last letter fire has
broken ont III my chateau, which stands
on the east side of the deer park. and
which can be seen for over Il mile. The
building is erected i'll the Anglo-Saxon
style. running back rs far rs William
the ConquerOr ON one side, while on the
other it runs back to the henhouse.
Smoke was noticed at about dusk
coming from the ballroom, and before
the coachman could get the dishes done
up fire had been seen beneath the chan
eel, which connected with the building
on that side.
The chateau is 10 miles from Ashe-
Vile as the bird flies, and my we'll is
between 100 and so feet in depth. with
pair of moss covered buckets on the
inside. These buckets are suspended
by means of chain, which is of course
ITO feet or so in length. When one of
these moss covered buckets meets the
other in the middle of the well. the
empty one going down knocks the con-
tents of the full one almost entirely
plumb ont, and so the service Is not en-
tirely satisfactory in case of fire.
The flames were now supposed tn be
slowly eating their way to the wine eel
lar. where keep fiagon of mountain
dew and n case OF collie to offset each
other. Heavy volumes of dark smoke
were seen emerging from the facade of
an escarpment which / had put on the
house by a man who learned how to be
q carpenter n year ago He learned by
chopping his way ont of Jail
BY this time one of the moss covered
buckets had arrived at the top of the
we'll, but the colored equerry who drew
o. it was so overheated that he had to drink
, the most OF it to resuscitate himself
When I announced that the fire was
il the wine cellar. = neighbor of mine
who stood watching the glorious sight
jumped into the flames, and his body
has never been fully recovered
At this time one of the ramparts fell,
4 and the whole scene was lighted up for
. miles around. 1 began to think rapidly.
Still i was perfectly cool. Every one
: who saw me said that he had never seen
cooler or more collected man. Any
one to look at me would not have
dreamed that was thinking.
Suddenly remembering that the cha
teau was built by an Asheyille builder.
whose address l will supply at any
time, pushed the house over, and put
the fire out with n pan of milk. Then
l tipped it back in place, and bidding
good night cheerily to one and all I re-
tired to my slumbers
The building is heavily insured, and
four men and n team have been here
couple of weeks adjusting the loss
The library was completely Quilted
and barely escaped myself
But in time of danger / care no NOR
for my life than for going to my dinner
4. The insurance money comes in yer
- handily at this time, and nearly $40
will be put into immediate circulation
}, 1t is quite a windfall, as one may say
Five dollars Of this amount was allowe
for the loss of the library ~
- An insurance adjuster Is one VIII
y" stands between the insured and inim,
diate wealth. If it were not for the az
juster, the insurance company woul
"a soon give way all its money and fete
= up in the poornouse- When notice
:, my loss was sent in, the company wan
J. ed to pay me for the house, grounds an
barn at once, but the adjuster sal,
"No: you must not give Mr.. Nye a
your money, Ior you mouiu run sno
and be a vagrant inside OF a year. !"
So the adjuster came. After awhile
g convinced him that / did not set Il
house afre, and I could see that it W
= q relief to him, for he was q man WI
loved to believe in his fellow men,
Iproved that my wife was very da
gerously i'll ON the night Of the fire. Al
that her life for three days had be
despaired Of. and SO looking into n
o-eat deep, honest eyes he said. $50