The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23
Chr Aerald and WewH
COL. BRYAN IN NEW HOME.
He Has Moved Into Fairview, His $4,000
Home.
New York Sun.

Col. William Jennings Dry an Iur-
nished additional evidence this week
of plutocratic tendencies by remoV
ing 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 it cost him S2O,-
600, and it is we'll proportioned
building, made of pressed brick and
stone and fitted with hand, carved
oak finishings throughout.
1t faces directly west and contains
81 rooms, including parlors, q recep-
tion ball and library down stairs and
bedrooms, a nursery, schoolroom
and gymnasium upstairs.
The kitchen is in connected
building. Entrance is had by way
of q great half-round veranda lead
ing into a beautifully carved and
finished hall. From the porch one
can see for many miles in any direc-
tion. Of to the east and south
stretch great reaches of farming
lands while to the north and west
down in q 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 ap
pointments and costly plumbing,
electric lights and artistic decora-
tions, with city water, make it q
thoroughly modern house. Cement
walks and driveways give easy &C.
cess to the various buildings, and
seemingly no money has been spared
IN make life within it's walls worth
living
Colonel Bryan is rich man and
rapidly getting richer. He has been
accused of acquisitiveness, but many
of his critics have unjustly dag
nosed his case. Mr.. Bryan likes
money and he hss keen apprecia-
ton Of what it will afford it's pos
SCISSOR. He has spent less than his
income every year of his active life,
and it is now getting so large as to
be almost unwleldy--for him.
HIS newspaper is firmly estab
lished. Although he has disdained
business assistance, he has made it q
big money maker. Thirty thousand
dollars year is a conservative esti-
mate of his share of profit from it.
He began with 10000 circulation and
now has twice that number. He
limits his advertising space and rig
idly refuses to give trust made goods
a place in bis advertising columns.
His actual wealth, aside from his
newspaper, which is paying good
interest upon third of a million, is
little less than $4,000. His yearly
income is not much below $4,000.
He lives modestly and simply, but
we'll.
A private tutor comes each morn
ing for his two younger children, but
his daughter, Ruth, is daily at
tendant at the state university, where
she is sophomore. He has several
fine carriages, but much prefers to
use the suburban street car that
passes within short distance of his
home each hour.
Much OF his writing is done in
his home. A part of it is dashed
off while on his lecturiDg or cam
psigning tours.
He is little seen about the Office Of
his paper. This occupies the lower
floor of a downtown block. His
brother, Charles W. Bryan, is the
business manager, and Que trained
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