Arizona republican., 1899-01-12

surrounding laCd WAS the ba1on's aD- sorbing occupation. The manor was to crown the hill, and in archisec ,uI e
 he fancied most the manner Of the French Renaissance. Acccr dir gly he commissioned a French architect to
 build him a great house in the style of Idhe chateaux of Francis I and his no-
 bles in the valley of the Loire. The
 baron set his personal likings above strict harmouies of style, and in gar dens he preferred the formal manner Of the eighteenth century. with it's terraces. rarteTres and trimmed trees, its balustrades, basins and fountains. A French landscape arch -ecs was sum mOped forthwith t0 make him such a garden He wished also that th's six teenth century French house and eigh- teenth century French garden should stand in an English park. At the start there was scarcely a tree on the es- tate, but Baron Ferdin9nd could afford 10 buy them in all stages of growth, bring them to W3ddesdOn and set tn am there as his architects Willed. At fir t many eff these transplanted oaks and teeches were rathetic obj cts. held in place by wires or whitening under the change from the soil in which they had grown If they died, others rerlac 3d them, and the care of expert gard daners at last persuaded them to take root until the park of Wa1desdon might have been standing since the days Of the TuGors. Between them, the house, the gardens and the park cost the baron, according to the gossip of $h9 momeat. $13 000.0C0 In the sIrrOu7d- ing lands, besides. he gathered and es- abolished a tenanWy, built them houses, schools and churches, and treated them with a fairness and a kindness that won him both their re- speat 9nd liking
 Within. the giba is not altoaether unjust that likens the house mere to a museum !: han to a dwelling place. Bar Cn Ferdinand hod no family to share his manor, and he bought objets dart that pleased him with unt:Eing Zest, so that the part of his house that most of his guests saw seemed nevSr to have been really inhabited. Tn furniture and decorations. to a6d one more to inc snCmal'e es of WadGe>dcn. his t'ste ran 10 the French manner of the eigh- teenth century but objets dart of all times and schools. from suits Cf a mof and huge clocks to CameoS and book bindings, appealed to him. and in the later years Of his life his fancy turned from the eighteenth century at Paris 
 sarce. Whatever pleased him-and his knowledge was wide and tested and his tas'e ksen and fine-and was purchase able, he bought, pIa1tir ally at the Eell- CTS price; but in pictures, he us@d to say. he found it more and more difficult to buy those that he desired. State and municipal collections had taken them once and for all out of the mar ket or private owners were Cbdura'e. Compared with the thousands Of Ob- iects dart at WaddesdCn, he pictures were few. but among them were a score of notable canvasses by the EnSl'sh and the French painters of the eigh- teerth century, for whom he cared most Rembrandt d'spl7as= q him hut he fancied the genre n'ctures of the lit tie Dutch mas te-s, while among the It. alians. for whom as a whole he had n } fancy, he preferred the earlier men. He bought his rictures fs he created Waddesdon anl filled it W tn artistic things, ncit with any passion fer collecting in itself CT with any de- sire for completeness in any direction, but simply because it gave him peas use to have them about him and to know them thoroughly. What di-pO sition he has made of his p-s essio~s Is uncertain, but some are likely to fall
 
 
 Baron Ferdinand lived the larger part of his life in England and in Eng l fish society. His name, his we1lth, | tis houses-his town Eo"se was enc Of the mansions at the end Of Pic3dillY, | cICss to Hyde park-and his O-cupa- tions were familiar to many Epgis h. i men; but at bottom they regarded hi n | IS a resident f3raigner. By 2 coinci- | 1ence barely a week before there had | also died in remote Australia man of as large weal.h as Australian stand i ards go, who was little krown to Eng ishmen that had not visited the Anti codes. but who was as typical of the | race as Baron Ferdinand was alien to t. James Tyson, in the seventy yelrs hat he lived in the bush, had Fe-ome he lar ges5 laudhclSec and stcckbree1- sr in Australia-perhaP in the world. Australians, when they come hone t) London, are prone to bCaSting in fashion curiously like that of western Americans when they return to New York or to Boston, bUis TysOn's estate 1f S25 enc. 900 helps to juStify their tales of his nearly cOurt,ess acres and 1erds While the baron was building WaddesdOn in an artificial rark and iIlrg it. with artistic things, Tyson In Australien phrase, was fighting the iesart. 'I have been fighting it all my
 fe,'' he liked to say, ac-ording 10 one hat knew him we'll and that has been printing recollections in the Times, and I have won. I have put water where there was no water and beee where there was no beef. I have put ences where there were no fenc s and 'oads where there were no roads. Moth ng can undo whas I have Gone."
 Fighting the desert" in such wise vas Tyson's little game" as he callei t. and ''the fun'' he had in 1.-two phrases thst again exemplify the kin jhip of Australians and western Amer cans-rather than his wealth was his -eward In his view 1t would lave