The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-11
HON. W. J. BRYAN
Has Moved Into His New Home.
 Cost Him SEQ, ,0oo.

Cost Him S2O, LOGO.
 Lincoln. Neb., Special to New York Sun.
 Colonel William Jennings Bryan fur nished additional evidence this week or plutocratic tendencies by removing rom the brick barn which has been hls nome for the last nine months and taking pos session of the $20,000 house he mas been building for a year on the highest point of land near Lincoln. ,.,. more than $20,0O0 and it Is cheap at that, It is a well proportioned building, made of pressed brick and stone and ntted "lth hand carved oak finishings throughout.
 It faces directly west and contains twenty-one rooms including parlors, a reception hall and library downstairs ano bedrooms a nursery, school room ana gymnasium upstairs.
 The kitchen is in connected building. Entrance Is had by way of a great, nali round veranda, leading into beautiful ly 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 a 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 con venence. It's owner does not eschew luxury in the interior appointments and costly plumbing electric lights and ar tistic decorations. with city water, make 1t a thoroughly modern home Cement walks and driveways give easy access to the various buildings, and seemingly no money has been spared to make llfe With in it's walls worth living.
 Colonel Bryan is rich man and rap idly getting richer He has been accused of acquisitiveness, but many of his crit ics have unjustly diagnosed his case MT Bryan likes money and he has keen ap preciatlon of what 1t will afford It's pos sessor He has spent les than his in- come every year of his active life. and II Is now getting so large as to be almos' unwieldly-for him.
 His newspaper Is firmly established Although he has disdained trained busl- ness assistance. he has made 1t big money maker. Inlrty thousand dollars 0 year is a conservative estimate Of ms share of profit from 1t. He began with number. He limits his advertising space and rigidly refuses to give trust-madt goods a place in his advertising columns.
 His actual wealth, aside from his news paper, which Is paying, good interest upon a third of a million, Is little less than S15O. 900. His yearly income Is not much below S50.O0O, He lives modestly and simply. but well.
 A private tutor comes each morning for his two younger children, but his daughter Ruth is daily attendant al the State University, where she is a sophomore. He has several fine carriages but much prefers to use the suburban street car that passes within short dis tanca of his home each hour
 Much of his writing is done in h!S home part of it is dashed off whiio on his Iecturiug or campaigntng tours. He IS little seen about the office of hl' pape. This occupies the lower floor ot 2 downtown block. His brother, Chorie' w. Bryan Is the business manager. aE' one trained newspaper man is the only editorial assistant he has,
 He still rigidlv adheres to hls determ nation to print his opinions upon curren political topics i'm his paper and lnNafla blv denies himself to the interviewer IT. attends little Methodist chapel ln th' nearby town of Normal no PreshNtenal Church being in the neighborhood
 In manner and dress he Is as unassuW ing and careless as ever, and he goes about among his fellow-ciuzens some time, with d mailsack half full of e%' changes over his shoulder, without eN- citing comment.
 H.. gives largely to charitable and be reyolent organizations, and is free win his purse to campaign committees: lie is rdtting a great deal of enjoyment out of Ris life and he looks 1t. And his bank account Is growing larger each daE'