The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-16
FIND DELIGHT IN HOBBIES.
Recreation of Men of wealth and
business.


necessarily foolish fads. but are some
times noble pursuits. as for instance, in
the case Of Mr.. Walter Deane of Cam
bridge, who has made a fine collection
Of plants. covering a very wide district,
ana others Of whom the Herald has treat
cd recently in special articles:
The late Jay Gould made a hobby of flow
ers' ana the great financier could often
DC seen, trOwel in hand, among them.
His collection Of orchids was said 10 be
worth about quarter of a million dol
lars. He was anxious to make his coll
lection the finest in the country, and was
always ready TO purchase rare plants.
Another patron of the orchid craze is
Erastus Corning of Albany. His orchids
are well known from one end of the
country 10 the other. W. ). kimball or
Rochester has a very fine collection and
the late Frederick l.. Ames of Boston
made the greatest show among the New
Englanders. Mr.. Ames' collection was
said TO be worth S2000l0, and he was re-
ported to have paid $1,000 for single white
orchid.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy William c.
whitney has the finest collection of Gobe-
I'm tapestries in the country and perhaps
in the world. The walls of the main han
IN his house are entirely concealed from
end TO end behind folds of the rarest pat
terms, and several rooms in his house
are similarly decorated.
Henry Willard, the railroad magnate. is
a musician, He is passionately fond of
music of all kinds, and is himself a good
performer on the violoncello. Mr. Willard
is fond of playing on this instrument &C
companled by his daughter. who is a first
class pianist. He is thoroughly posted
on all the doings in the operate world
and talks enthusiastically about all the
works of the great musical writer's.
one OF the queerest fads is that of Will
lam IL. TreadWay of New York He has a
most unique collection of sermons. lie
has been collecting them for over thirty
years, and has now more than 1901.
These sermons he has bound himself. and
has made an index which is very compre-
hensfve and accurate. He has collected,
too, many wood cuts of churches and min
lsterS, and these he has also neatly bound
into volumes. He has written a preface
to the first volume of sermons, I'm which
he says that II Is peculiar fancy, but that
many other hobbies are just as odd He
has sermons in his collection that will
suit almost every shade of theological be-
lief Roman Catholics may come and find
food Tor their souls in the productions of
their own cardinals and bishops. High
and low churchmen have not been neglect
ed. Rigid Calvinists may find their pecu-
liar doctrines set forth, and following
closely are those of the Armenian in strik-
ing contrast to the Calvinist theology. Mr.
Treadway was an Episcopalian in his ear
ly youth. Now he is a Unitarian.
Lord Petersharn. 2 noted dandy IN his
day had 2 hobby fer walking sticks and
also for various kinds Of tea and snuff
those upon one side laden with canisters
of Souchong. Bohea. Congu Pekoe. Rus
sian aud other varieties of tea. The
shelves opposite were decorated with
handsome Jars. containing every Kind of
snuff. while snuf boxes lay here, there
and everywhere. Lord Petersham prided
himself upon possessing the most magnif-
icent array of boxes TO be found I'm ECU
rope. and was supposed to have a fresh
box for every day in the year When
some one admired a beautiful old light
/ blue SeVres box he was using, he lisped
out:
Eyes, it is a nice summer box, but would
not do for winter wear"
Count Henry Won Bruhl a famous Ger
man diplomatist, busted himself in col
( Letting boots shoes, slippers and wigs of
all shapes, sizes and fashions. This Gu
rious hobby was rvalled by that Of a late
King of Bavaria, whose collection of hats
was unique.
possession of above 5000 copies of the
| Bible.
The Duke of Sussex, brother of King
| George II, had pair Of hobbies that We're
! wide as the poles asunder He was an
interchangeable collector of Bibles and Of
! cigars
| pers. He always had tWenty-fOur pairs
| in his wardrobe, made of red cloth en-
broidered with gold and ornamented with
a solid gold cross, his chamberlain be-
ing strictly enjoined not to part with
single pair, however well worn they might
be, to any of the devout applicants for
NJ. Nestor Roqueplan, a Frenchman of
letters, was a collector of warming pans,
and devoted gallery of his house to
this article of furniture where visitors
might enjoy the privilege of beholding
the identical warming pans that had airS
ed the beds of such celebrities as Queen
Mary of Scotland, Catherine de Medici
Gabriel d'Estrees, Diana de Politics
Nine. Pompadour Marie Antoinette, Mile
de Fontagne and other noted personages
elliott, the founder of the world-renow-
ed steel pen business. had a passion for
Cremona f1ddles, although he was abso-
lutely without musical knowledge.
Pierre Lorillard has a fine collection of
worth about bout $1,000. One Of his pipes IS
tn t~- ~raA T. n-nrE TVG coin 40
Of the old style Knickerbocker pipe.
Ogden Goe,et is another enthusiastic
pipe collector Some of his, pipes are ex-
noisseur in carving. He has one pipe
that is very unique. On the lid of the
pipe is a figure representing st. Nicho-
1as. a figure on the bowl represents Pc
ter StuyVesant, the old time governor of
New York; another carving on the bowl
Dutch governor Of New Netherlands, and
still another represents Van CourUandt
the first governor of Communipaw.
Giovanni Morosinl has been a collector
of watches. At his home at Riverdale-
on-the-Hudson he had several cabinets
in which are many costly and curious
watches. In addition to watches. he had
a wonderful collection of jewelry, por-
celains, bronzes, bric-a-brac and curios
He pays a great deal of attention, too
to medieval and ancient armor, and has
a number of manuscripts and rare books
of heraldry.
Robert Hoe, the press manufacturer. is
his library. He is particularly fond of
volumes in rich and fancy bindings, such
as those of Dethon, Grelier, books of
Mime. de Pompadour, Francis 1 and his
toric manuscripts on vellum.
The particular hobby of William K
Vanderbilt is the collection of oak carv>
ings He has several fine specimens for
which he has paid very large sums.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has a. great collec-
ton of pieces of china and miniatures con
nected with Napoleon.
William Aston goes in for all vari-
cites of old china, and is said to have the
finest collection of Dresden ware in the
world. He has spent about three ordi-
nary fortunes in collecting 1t. He also
has a very fine solid silver service.
Henry Clews prides himself on his house
and devotes a great deal of time and
money. to beautifying it. He is particu-
larly well pleased with any one who eX-
presses a desire to 60 over his house. and
one of the first rooms he will take a
visitor to is the bath room. He is said
to have expended 900 on this room. The
walls, floor, bath and in fact every part
of the room is made of onyx.
Charles Lanier. the Sanker. collects
books, and he seems to buy them indis-
criminately. So long as he gets books,
and gets a number of Them he seems to
be satisfied He stores them all over