Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-12-17
attiseettaneous &eading.
COL. BRYAN IN NEW HOME.

He Has Moved Into Fairvicw, His
100000 House.
Col. William Jennings Bryan furnish
ed additional evidence this week of
plutocratic tendencies by removing
from the brick barn which has been
his home for the last nine months and
taking possession Of the $4,000 house
he has been building for year on the
highest point Of land near Lincoln.
Mr.. Bryan says 1t cost him little
more than $4,000, and it is well pro-
portioned building, made Of pressed
brick and stone and fitted with hand
carved oak finishings throughout.
It faces directly west and contains
21 rooms, including parlors, recep-
ton hall and library downstairs and
bedrooms, a nursery, schoolroom and
gymnasium upstairs.
The kitchen is in a connected build
| ing. Entrance is had by way Of great
half-round veranda leading into a
beautifully carved and finished hall.
From the porch one can see for many
miles in any direction. Of to the east
and south stretch great reaches OF
farming lands while to the north and
west down in tree-embowered valley
nestles the city itself
Fairview Is the name by which the
Bryan home will be known. The name
is appropriate.
Although three miles from the city,
the house is fitted with every modern
convenience. It's owner does not
eschew luxury in the interior appoint
ments and costly plumbing, electric
lights and artistic decorations, with
CITY water. make it thoroughly mod
ern house. Cement walks and drive
ways give easy access to the various
buildings, and seemingly no money has
been spared to make life within Its
walls worth living.
Colonel Bryan Is rich man and rap
idly getting richer. He has been ac-
cused Of acquisitiveness, but many OF
his critics have unjustly diagnosed his
case. Mr.. Bryan likes money and ne
has a keen appreciation Of what 1t Will
afford it's possessor. He has spent less
than his income every year Of his ac-
tive life, and it is now getting so large
as to be almost unwieldy- for him.
His newspaper is firmly established.
Although he has disdained business
assistance, he has made it big money
maker. Thirty thousand dollars year
Is a conservative estimate OF his
share of profit from it. He began with
60 600 circulation and now has twice
that number. He limits his advertis-
ing space and rigidly refuses to give
trust-made goods a place in his adver-
tising columns.
His actual wealth, aside from his
newspaper, which is paying good IN
terest upon a third of a million, Is III
tie less than s15O,OOO. His yearly In
come Is not much below $5O,OOO. He
lives modestly and simply, but we'll.
A private tutor comes each morning
for his two younger children, but MS
daughter, Ruth, Is daily attenoaht
at the state university, where sne Is
sonhomore. He has several fine car
riages. but much prefers to use the su-
burban street car that passes Withll
short distance Of his home eacn nouI. :,
Much of his writing Is done III ms
home. A part of it is dashed on wnlie
on his lecturing or campaigning TOURS:
He is little seen about the once VI
his paper. This occupies the lower Iioor
of a downtown block. HIS protner,
Charles w. Bryan, is the business
manager, and one trained newspaper
man is the only editorial assistant ne
| has. ,..o
He still rigidly adheres to his deter
mination to print his opinions upon cur,
rent political topics in his paper ana
invariabl denies himself to the inter-
viewer. He attends a little Methodist
chapel in the nearby town OF Normal
no Presbyterian church being IN the
neighborhood.
In manner and dress he Is as unas-
summing and careless as ever, ana ne
goes about among his felloW-citizens,
sometimes with a mailsack nall Luil
| of exchanges over his shoulder, with
out exciting comment.
| He gives largely to charitable ana
benevolent organizations, and Is free
with purse to campaign committees
He is getting a great deal or ENJOY
ment out of his life and he looks 1t.
| And his bank account is growing larger
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