The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-26
HOME LIFE OF THE sEwALls.
Mrs. SewaII Highly Acc nnpished but
Of a Retiring Disposition.

|
Mrs. Arthur Sewall is considered by
many Bath people as unapproachable.
| The news of her husbands nomination
was received by her without emotion
and with evidence of annoyance over
| the publicity which it will bring.
TO all requests for her photograph
| for publication Mrs. Sewall has given
pointed refusal. She shrinks from
the least publicity as from a blow, and
/ can not be reconciled to the idea of her
personality and her home life becom-
| ing in a sense public property.
To interviewers she excuses herself,
| and by all members of the family the
veil is closely drawn over the domestic
| side of the candidates life.
| She has an artistic temperament to
| which large collection of water color
and landscape photographs, made by
| her on two continents, bears witness.
| She is the daughter of the late Chas.
| Croker, one of the leading business
| men OF Maine in his time, and one Of
| Baths most successful ship builders
| She was educated at the then famous
fitting school in Ipwich, and afterward
travelled in England, remaining abroad
| for a considerable time. Gifted with
| the power of observation and with the
| ability to recognize the interesting, her
| "reminiscences of European life are
| charming whenever they are calh4 up
in the companionship of her intimate
| friends
Mrs. Sewall's health has not been
| good for several years though she is in
| no sense an invalid, and she is COM
| PEELED to exercise care and has not
| been so prominent in society as might
4 otherwise have naaY1 40 On so
Mrs. Sewall has been a student and
| a wide reader, and is proficient in
| French, which has always been ia
| vorite language with her. She is
| thoroughly acquainted with this coun-
| try, having visited every part of it.
| She has crossed to the Pacific on every
| transcontinental line. and her camera
| has caught for her bits of scenery in
| almost every corner of the land She
| is an expert amateur photographer
| and has received diplomas for her
| work in Paris, New York and Boston.
THE SEWALL MANSION.
The visitor ascends a smooth walk
| across the sloping lane, down the wide
| porch of the Sewall mansion, that over
| looks the Kennebec and the yards
| where the Sewalls, father and son, have
| turned out a hundred ships, and he
| sees every evidence of good taste in
| the grounds that surround the man
| sion.
Mr.. Sewall is very fond of his
| grounds and garden, and none hand
| somer are to be seen in Maine. He is
| also fond of good horses and his sta
| BILE is we'll stocked with blooded ami
| mails. He is often seen behind a pair
| of handsome blacks in the streets or in
| the country roads near the city; in
| fact his time is divided between his of
| fee, his home and the road when he
| is in Bath.
| He very rarely spends an evening
| away from home when he is in Bath.
| When at home he only goes to the club
| as a matter of convenience. He is
member of several clubs in New York
| and Boston.
A JUST EMPLOYER.
Owing to a sternness of bearing Mr..
| Sewall is counted by many a difficult
man to get to know. Those who pos
sess his friendship say, however, that
| he is both loyable and loyal when once
| known. He is characterized as kind
and just employer, and in his shipyard
there has never been any trouble
which would bring him into antago-
| ism with organized labor. He has
ism with organized labor. He
is himself a practical workman,
| and when occasion called in
the past he could pick up tools and
show man how his work ought TO be
/ done.
| Mr.. Sewall is a member of the Saga
dahock Club, Baths only social organ
| ization, but he is seldom seen in the
club rooms. He belongs to Dunlap
commandery, Knights Templars, but
takes no active part in its councils. He
| ls distinctly home man, and spends
/ much of his leisure time in the com
| pany OF his wife.
| Of the home life of the Sewalls the
| people of Bath know very little. Mr..
| Sewall's house. though the finest in
| town, is so quiet that the townsfolk
| think very little about it, On rare oc-
/ casions, as when President Harrison
and other officials of the nation visited
| Bath in 1888, his doors we're thrown
| open, but at other times no one comes
and goes but the family.
| Mr. Sewall's younger son, William
| d. Sewall, who is a member Of the
| Sewall shipbuilding firm, lives next
door. He is married and has three
| children, Margaret, Dorothy and Ar
thur, the latter, who is the eldest, be-
! ing eight years old
! Mr.. Sewall's elder son, Harold NJ
| lives quite ways down the old-fash-
Toned elm shaded street toward the
! center of the town. He is lawyer
and q Republican. He will not vote
| for his father, he said to-day. He was
appointed counsel to Samoa by Presi-
! appointed Consul to Samoa by Presi-
the party and went to the st. Louis
convention this year as a Reed dele
gate. He attends the Congregational
church. He married a San Francisco
woman and has one child, boy of two
years.