The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-18


The iron posterns at the front steps are
unusually ornate, and the front door,
with its old colonial columns, support
ing quaint lunette, is a joy to the stu
dent of old time architecture. The in
terror arrangements of the house depart
from the usual New York style of resi-
dence in that the stairs are placed far
back, with a landing and turn half
way up, from which a window looks
out on the back yard. This gives un.
usual spaciousness to the hall. The fur
niture of the parlor and the dining room
back of it was of mahogany, not Of the
heavy, cumbersome kind, but lighter in
style and more ornate. A conspicuous
feature in the parlor was superb leop-
ard skin, which lay in front of the fire.
place and mantel, and a little aside
from either end Of the dining room ta-
BILE were two stands on which perched
parrots, one of which had belonged to
Jerome Bonaparte.
Henry Hall Ward had been very fond
of birds The fence of the backyard was
unusually high, was covered with vines
and lined with dovecote The parrots
and doves were great pets of Mr..
Ward IS. After his death Miss Partridge
had them most carefully tended. AS
one by one they died she had them
stuffed and placed in front hall room
ON the second floor. This is the only
particular in which the interior aspect
of the house was changed from the ex-
act condition in which Mr.. Ward. or
"Mr. Harry" as Miss Partridge would
call him in speaking of him te his old
servants, left it.
For many years she continued her soli-
tary visits and wandered through the
house which had SO many tender men,
cries for her-for she herself had lived
there until the death of her lover s
mother, but with the lapse of years,
doubtless owing to the fact that not a
ray of sun could find its way through
the tightly closed shutters, the house be-
came musty, and the books, the papers,
the stuffed birds and the many pictures
and objects of taste began to show
signs of decay.
Then Miss Partridge took step which
must have given her heart a great
wrench. Except for the caretaker' 4
| quarters, she had the entire interior oi
the house stripped and everything taken
to her residence, and from that time hel
visits to the house have ceased, but even
when the house was being stripped the
shutters were not opened, and it is 8
fact that for 2S years they have re-
mained tightly closed.
| uo,,x, Hall Uor1 30 xr,bo,,o M;cs
Partridge has remained SO faithful fol
so many years, was one of the leaders o1
the New York society of his day and il
which the Ward family is still repre-
sented by his cousins-General William
G. Ward, who was an officer in tn,
United States volunteer sE'ice during
the civil war, and Mr.. Charles H
Ward; Mr.. Francis E. Ward, the lat
ter's son, is secretary of the Seabrigh
Golf club, and another son, Henry
Ward, is with Troop A in Porto Rico
Henry Hall Ward was president O
the New York club in its early days
when it had delightful quarters in th'
old Haight house. at Fifth avenue an(
Fifteenth street. He was also promi
nent member of the Union club and O
the Society of the Cincinnati, Of which
he was also treasurer. The Ward famil,
owes it's membership in this society t.
Colonel Samuel Ward, an officer Of tn
Revolutionary army, who was Henr,
Hall Wards grandfather. The portrai
of another ancestor, Governor Richart
Ward Of Rhode Island, is now the prop
erty of Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Henry Hall Wards father was ,
brother of Samuel Ward, whose son
Samuel, was the Sam Ward, famous a
wit, scholar and bon vivant Othe
cousins of Henry Hall Ward were Mrs
Julia Ward Howe and Mrs. Crawford
the wife of the sculptor and the mothe
of f. Marion Crawford. 1t seems won
der that the novelist should not hav
woven this romance, which he foun'
ready to hand in his own family, into
novel
Henry Hall Wards social position
may be judged from the fact that amon
the pallbearers at his funeral in Grac
church were John Jacob Astor, Waite
L. Cutting, Johnston Livingston an
James Francis Ruggles
Eliza Ann PartIidge's relationship
Henry Hall Ward arose from the fac
: that their mothers were sisters. The
were members of the Hall family c
Pomfret, Conn. j. Prescott Hall, he
: uncle, was William M. Evart's first la,
l partner. Those who knew Miss Pa,
fridge as girl, SO many years ago, dt
scribe her as charming. She was {
| l, L,l o,,l n
! abundance of strikingly dark hair. Sh
is said, even now, at the age of "a,
! preserve much of her youthful beauty.
When Henry Hall Ward died, one {
his friends penned these lines in hi
8 memory:
Honored and loved, he passed away
t AS sinks summers day to rest;
: The brightest when the radiant clouds
Of silent evening gem the west
Does the womaE who still treasure
his memory think of these lines as sh
, gazes into the sunset?-New York Hel
n aid.
: Mineral Wool.
f Mineral wool looks very much lii
cotton batting with little bits or glas
s scattered through it. 1t is made in tn
9 way: There are two streams of sla
p (which is the scum from iron) one
Q each side, and a jet of steam in b.
= tween, and as the two streams of sla
n meet the steam the mineral wool
formed.
! The blast that is used to send the sla
!. over the steam comes with such fore
: that it sends the wool formed from tt
r Stag flying to all parts of the building
y and some getting outside of the buil(
! ing makes it look as though it wei
n covered with snow.
q As fha wool flies aronnd the lift