The Republican journal., 1902-12-18
COL. BRYAN IN HIS NEW HOME.
He H.. MOVED into $4,000 House.

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LlNcoLN, NEB., December I. Col.
Mlillam Jennings Bryan furnished ad-
dltional evidence this week OF pluto
cIatlc tendencies by having removed
| from the brick barn which has been his
home for the last nine months and
taxing possession of the $40, 600 house
ne has been building for year on the
| highest point of land near Lincoln.
MI. Bryan said it cost him little
more than $4,000, and it is cheap at
| tnat; 1t is a well proportioned brick
Dullulng, made of pressed brick and
stone and finished with hand carved
oak finishings throughout.
| IL races directly west and contains
twenty-one rooms, including parlors,
reception hall and library down stairs,
| OeQ rooms, nursery, schOOl-rOOm
and gymnasium upstairs.
! Inc Kitchen is in connected build
ing. Entrance is had by the way of
great, half-round veranda, leading into
a beautifully carved and finished hall.
FROM the porch one can see for miles
IN any direction. Off to the east and
south stretch great reaches of farming
lands, while to the north and west,
down IN tree empowered valley,
nestles the city itself.
Falrvlew 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. Its owner does not es-
chew luxury in the interior appoint
ments and costly plumbing, electric
lights and artistic decorations, with city
water, make it a thoroughly modern
home. Cement walks and drive-ways
give easy access to the various build
lngs, and seemingly no money has been
spared to make life within its walls
worth living.
Col. Bryan is rich man and rapidly
getting richer. He has been accused
OF acquisitiveness, but many Of his
critics have unjustly diagnosed his
case. Mr.. Bryan likes money and he
has keen appreciation of what it will
afford its possessor He has spent less
than his income every year of his active
life. and it is now getting so large as to
be almost unweildy-for him.
HIS newspaper is firmly established |
Although he has disdained trained bust
ness assistance, he has made it a big
money maker. Thirty thousand dollars
year is conservative estimate of his |
share of profit from it. He began with
10000 circulation and now has twice
that number. He limits his advertising |
space and rigidly refuses to give trust
made goods a place in its advertising |
columns.
His actual wealth, aside from bis |
newspaper, which is paying good in
terest upon a third of 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 morning |
for his two younger children, but his |
daughter Ruth is student 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 a short distance 6of |
his home each hour.
Most of his writing is done in his
home. A part of it is dashed off while
on lecturing or campaign tours.
He is little seen about the office of his |
paper. This occupies the lower floor
of a down town block. His brother,
Charles Bryan, is the business mana
ger, and one trained newspaper man is
the only assistant he has.
He still rigidly adheres to his deter
mination to print his opinions upon
current political topics in his paper and
lnVdrldDly Qenl6S nlmSel1 TO the inter-
viewer
He attends little Methodist chapel
in the nearby town of Normal, no Pres
byterian church being in the neighbor-
hood.
In manner and dress he is as unas-
Stunning as ever, and he goes about
among his fellow citizens, sometimes
with a small sack half full of exchanges
over his shoulder without exciting COM
ment.
He gives largely to charitable and
benevolent institutions, and is free with
his purse to campaign committees. He
is getting a good deal of enjoyment out
of his life and looks it. And his bank
account is growing larger each day.