The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29
HER WASHINGTON HOME
Where Mrs. Phoebe Hearst
/! Spends Her Winters.
RICH BUT APPROPRIATE
s. Blanche Gray Writes Description of
the Home OF the Woman Who
Has Been So Kind to
80. !" Anaconda -

SCrlpt1on OF the washington nome OF MRS.
Phoebe Hearst, the noble woman who has
been so kind and generous to the people
of Anaconda.
The citizens of this community will al
ways read with interest anything that
concerns the lady whose magnificent gift
to Anaconda stands as monument at the
corner of Main and Fourth streets.
The article in the Puritan is as follows:
MRS. Phoebe Hearst of California and
Washington is perhaps best known to the
general public as the widow of the late
millionaire and senator of California, for
she is personally retiring and not fond OF
having her doings chronicled But if Mrs.
Hearst Is a rich woman, she is endowed
with characteristics of heart and nina
which money cannot give. The possession
of that fundamental good breeding which
lies in sincerity of purpose, of sweetness
of spirit, allied to a practical SYMMETRY
cal and cultured mind, has made her an
Interesting woman of the world. She ac-
cepts her great wealth only as trust, to
be passed to others in deeds of charity.
PERSONALLY Mrs. Hearst is sattractive, of
medium height with dark-gray eyes and
black hair flecked with silver. A broad,
low forehead, indicative of the vital tenn
permanent, marks her woman of excep-
tional executive ability. One can scarcely
realize this soft-voiced, gentle Southern
woman giving herself up to the manage
ment of her vast estate-running an Of
flee in San Francisco, visiting ranches, in
specting and understanding all the de-
tails-and by her personal supervision
and thorough method lifting 1t out of
state of great indebtedness. And yet,
with all this she finds time to visit the
Phoebe Hearst kindergarten of San
Francisco and make plans for the estab-
lishment of still another, together with
a free library, in Anaconda, Mont.
Her home in Washington. where she
usually spends the winter. reveals another
side of this busy woman She has given
the city three fine kindergartens, two for
white children and one for colored. Be-
lieving that girls and women who are to
be self-reliant should be thorough in
whatever they undertake, Mrs. Hearst has
made her ideas practical by large do
nation for the erection and equipment of
a girls school,
THE house of red brick with brownstone
facings is situated on the point of the
triangular block at the junetion2of New
Hampshire avenue. Twentieth and
streets. Passing through the hall and
ante-room with walls and ceiling of bur-
nished canvas and Beauvais tapestry fur
niture, we are in the music, or living
room. 1t is Moorish in design. and about
the windows is a grillwork.
1.-THE walls are hung in silk brocade
of sage green and terra Gotta, the wood
work is lighter shade of green with a
tracery of gold, the furniture and window
draperies are of varying shades of terra
Gotta and green, and the inlaid floor Is
carpeted with old Persian rugs.
IAN understandable quaintness and indi-
viduality is here. Balconies hung with
Oriental draperies, ancient tapestries, Go
belin, Beauvais and Chinese, are on the
sides of the room. One. striking in action
and magnificent in coloring, shows little
scene after Salvador Rosa.
"Among the paintings is a marine view,
off the Southern Coast of Italy, by the
now old and blind Schonleber. Hung
near by is a Diaz and a portrait by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, and for the devotees
of the old masters there are beautiful eX-
examples of the Madonna with the Christ
Child, and rare coins.
ESPECIALLY interesting in the mosaic of
art are the various cabinets; one of
carved India teakwood, one from Japan,
another of Marquetry wood and hand
wrought brass; one of Japanese lacquer
and French art combined, and still an
other, a Moorish antiquity of massive
brass inlaid with porcelain. Opening it
we have a complete writing desk with
numerous drawers and compartments
marvellous in workmanship, with tiny
brass columns and porcelain mosaic.
most unique of all is a large Sedan
chair filled with curios from all sources,
barbaric, medieval and nineteenth
century.
1.-THE first reception room has furnish
ings of Marie Antoinette period. wall
hung in palest pink damask. hand-em-
broidered draperies and furniture-all
done at the Baltimore Decorative Art
gilt and crystal chandeliers and cabinets
of curios. To the second infinite riches in
a little room may be applied. Miniatures
of historical personages chronologically
grouped are on the walls: exquisite bits
of old Roman and French art are dis
played in crystal cabinet. The library
with walls and hangings of a rich-toned
blue, has it's own peculiar charm. 1t is
not a library in name only, for Mrs.
Hearst owns many beautiful and rare
books, and keeps open house to all new
Corners in the literary word who can
prove their right to library space. Here
is kept the bust of the only child, William
R. Hearst editor and proprietor of the
San Francisco Examiner and the New
1.-THE dining room is low-ceiled wal
nut wainscotted hall of the Dutch Renais-
sance period. There are no curtains or
draperies at the windows, the character
istic grill, or fretwork, being used in
stead. The low-couched chimney corners,
heaped up with pillows, are most inviting,
and the whole makes a beautiful back
ground for modern dinner company.
1.-The upper floor is light in coloring
iS oh in,
maplewood inlaid with mother of pearl
and the luxurious toilet rooms have mar
BILE bathtubs, surmounted with onyx. and
sunk in tiled floors. Throughout the house
are numerous contributions from old and
modern painters. An absence of anything
like 'gilded solitude and an atmosphere
OF habtation are distinguishing features
of this beautiful home"
The Woodmen of the World will re-
move from Dewey hall on Oak street to