St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-28
PALATIAL IN THE FITTINGS,
AND PATRONIIED nv HVyDREDS
OF THE SUMMER VISI-
TORS.
MAGNIFICENT HOLLYWOOD
cIusiveIy by Hebreyvs-HOey7s
Eccentricities.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.

| given to his large estate by John
| Hoey, once president Of the Adams
Express company, an all-around
sportsman, a bon vivant, who grew
rich through his connection with the
express company, and whose leisure
was devoted to various fads, one of
which was to establish on his es-
tate hotel like which there should
be nothing in all the world, and an
other to maintain an establishment
| equally unique for his home. He sue
| ceeded in both. The hotel is called
| the Hollywood, and is still owned
| by the Hoey estate. Outwardly there
| is nothing to distinguish it from
| many other summer hotels, but with
in lie the astonishing features AS
soon as you enter you look about
for the usual hotel Office and lob
by, but they are not visible. In
stead, your eyes run down a ling
drawing room, lighted it's whole
length of $50 feet by glass windows
almost the height of the room, like
a conservatory; your feet tread upon
wonderfully beautiful Oriental rugs
of great value and bewildering rich
ness OF design, several of them cost
ing thousands of dollars, and YOU
pass by Japanese and East Indian
vases higher than your head, and
some thirty in number, while on the
numerous beautifully carved ebony
and onyx and Louis XIV. and Louis
XIV. tables there are other vases or
bronzeS or bric-a-brac which Mr..
Hoey spent years in collecting all
over the world. The furniture which
Hills this immense drawing room has
no two pieces alike, and each is an
example if its kind and the pride of
its maker. From the highly decorat-
ed ceilings hang dozens of lights. At
the further end is an orchestrion
of great power which plays every
thing up to date, from the Fifth
symphony of Beethoven to the "Side-
walks of New York" At the end
opposite the orchestrion is the di-
na1nutive office, which you approach
by "a flight of rug-covered steps. and
to the right and left of which are the
parlors, so called, and large DINING
rooms and restaurant, which is a Ia
carte, very expensive and excellent.
the wines being another fad of the
late Mr.. Hoey, an importation of the
estate
And after you have gotten over
wondering at the magnificence. the
Ialry-land impression which has
forced itself upon you and which is
just what was intended to be nro-
duced by Mr.. Hoey, after you have
examined with surprise the old oil
paintings which he collected and
placed everywhere, you next notice
the character of the people about
you. Why are they all with such
unmlstakable noses, men, women
and children? Where are the DeoDIe
who do not make a display of dia-
monds on hands, breasts and ears?
is there a Gentle present beside
myself? No, not one, unless it be
the clerk at the office, or the hall
boys: otherwise 1 am alone, all, all
alone among the chosen people. And
very rich and choice Hebrews thew
are, the best in the country. for T
saw among others Theodore Selig-
man and his wife Che was black
balled by the Union League cIub
though his father the banker. was a
member), the Jesse Seligman family.
the Weiershoms, and others among
the most prominent METROPOLITAN
Hebrew families. The younger wom-
en- were beautifully dressed. were
beautiful themselves, and the chill
dren, were very pretty. though noisy.
The men all wore the badges of nros-
per1ty, and [ do not believe the
badges We're false, for it costs some
thing to live at the Hollywood, and
the Jews pay their hotel bills.
In the evening I dined at the hotel
and after dinner stroIled out on the
lawn, where most of the guests were
seated at little tables with coffee. or
promenading, while through the
windows of the drawing room came
the music of Hungarian band. Tt
looked ike.a lawn party.
Before dinner I strolled over to the
Hoey mansion, where Mrs. Hoey. a
very vivacious, charming old lady of
seventy-eiSht years, received me. They
We're then selling, or trying to sell. at
public auction, through Peter F. Never.
late partner of Richard Croker. the
greater part of the land of the Hoey
estate, and as I sauntered along T
could hear the clear penetrating voice
of the auctioneer saying: you can't
find anything as cheap and beautiful
on the whole Jersey coast I will dis
count the note of any man who buys
the lot I now offer, provided he gets
it for $1,000: and don't do that often"
I asked Meyer, who is very rich
whether he was in earnest: he said.
eyes, and he took me up, but somebody
bid $1,1OO''
Mrs. Hoey was once an actress in
Lester Wa1lack's company in the six
ties, and bears her age with grace and
energy. The mansion is frame build
ing, jutting out into little capes and
promitories, so to say, each showing
an addition from time to time as the
owner bought some new statuary or
furniture or pictures, and needed more
room, until now the house is enormous.
There are forty-one sleeping rooms and
large sitting rooms for eacH. and
seven bath rooms. But the curious
things about are the library, com
posed entirely of the books of the
Tauchnitz edition, the scores of large
mirrors, which make you think YOU
are in the Eden musee, the dozens of |
clocks of all kinds from grandfather's |
to the diminutive cuckoo, and trun1-
peter and travelling clock; the abb |
sence of doors. but in their places
gorgeous glass-bead portiers; the large |
gambling outfit of roulette in the bill
lard room; the lavish use of costly |
rugs, and finally the sinuous hide-and-
seek halls and turnings and confusing |
blind corridors-for Mr.. Hoey was his /
own architect. I could not help feel
ing as went out on the broad piazzas
and looked over the acres and acres
of smooth lawn and pine groves.
feeling of sadness at what I saw. In
the distance was the tent of the auc |
tioneer, who was selling in lots all the
land 1 looked at, while workmen with |