The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26
BRADY'S WOVEN WITH The SHIP
"COME WITH NE INTO BABYLON"

writes the author, .'was built by Or.
John Prosser Tabb. fifty-seven years ago.
at that time the richest and most inf1u-.
entail man in the county. It's walls con-.
tain the brick from the old house built
in the earliest Colonial days.
These walls are three feet thick. The
house Is three and a half stories high
and contains thirty-two rooms. The hall
is twenty feet wide. t1irty-five feet deep,
and from Its rear circular wall the wind
ing mahogany stair sweeps gracefully
up three stories into the gallery of the
observatory. There is not a shoddy piece
of work in it from cellar to attic. The
ma hoganr rails and spindes are the fin
est finished handworl, the window and
door-sills are massive italian marble, and
the hard pine floors so evenly and
smoothly laid they will hold water. The
floors are laid on oak sleepers set only
ten inches apart, and are back-plastered
and sand-gallasted.
More than a hundred slaves aided the
skilled workmen in its erection. It's
straight massive, square lines gave me
the opportunity to carry out my dream
Of a Colonial home. It only required the
addition on both sides of the Greek IA
cades and great pillars and it was done.
Il had men at work on the construc-
ton of these columns whe never saw
a locomotive-men Of family who own
their homes. And hope they never
will see one down here
/. II put in a system OF waterworks. with
windmill for power, four bathrooms and
a complete system of sewerage into tide
water. An acetylene gas plant gave US
finer lights than electricity and for less
cost than city gas. We rummaged
through the junk shops of New York
and dragged out a complete set Of mas
sive old brass chandeliers. all over fifty
years old in pattern. had them cleaned
at the factory, and they look a S if they
1e built into the house originally.
Twelve rooms have open crates
and we secured sufficient heat for all
the spaces by placing two tubular hot
air furnaces in the basement. Our win
ters are usually SO mild that roses bios
som in the f1ower-garden in December.
II had dreamed all this complete from
the moment saw the house The act
ua1 doing Of the things was revelation
and liberal education. I figured on
$4,000 for the Job Of painting. decorating.
water. heat. and modern colrveniences.
The plumbing cost $3.50. and /. got.
SOOO value Tie money!. lie DlllS
aggrega ted $3.50 But when it was done
it was a joy to look at it, The effect
was massive and dignified, and Vet
home-like and inviting We had some
thing to show for our money, and. what
was a great deal better. we had some
thing that would stand the test Of time.
Its great hall and grand old rooms with |
their lofty ceilings give meaning and dig |
nifty to daily life, and their 1nemorie link |
US in fellowship and sympathy to a
mighty past.
..And We got all this for the price OF
nineteen feet of scorched mud In New
York
There is a story told OF a newspaper
who teegraphed his editor
as follows: Have column story on So
and-so. Shall I send it?'' The editor
rnindful of the value of space, wired
back: Send six hundred words" In
few hours he received another message
from the anxious correspondent, read
ing: Cant be told In less than twelve 1
hundred" The editor promptly tele-
Erarhed back: Story Of creation Of the
world told in six hundred. Try it, And
in cue time the correspondent sent in
his story written within the prescribed
limits The condensation of language in
the newspapers of our time has undoubt-
cdiy- had reactionary effect on our
literature. Our novelists no longer In
lHige in the elegant cff1orescence of two
chapters in a book where one can take
IS place. and even the leisurely intro
luctory# pages of Scott, fine as they are.
lay. unless. indeed another Scott should
arise.
The dramatization of Dorothy Vernon
# Haddon Hall is now having the fin-
shng touch put to It by the author,
w. Charles Major. and the dramatist,
Mr.. James Macarthur. Mr.. Macarthur,
t Will be remembered. was the dramat-
st of The Bonnie Rrier Bush He
vas for many years the editor of the
Pooknlan. and is at present one OF Har-
Charles Frohman IS arranging for the
production of the play. and the an
of the leading roles may be
rade at any moment. Dorothy Vernon L
S on all the book lists as one OF the two
,r three most popular novels of the day,
md Mr.. Frohman expects to produce a
Cay which will have fully as successful
run as When Knghthood Was in
Flower
The travel fever. One knows not when
!e contracts it, and 1t neNet- leaves
,ther feTers burn themselves out, or
nur out the patent and die down with
he lifeight. This fever never dies out;
t fills the sufferers eyes with aching
lrcams of quiet harbors almost but not
ute. reached; his ears ring with a new
coole chorus all but clearly heard: 1t /,
dis his nostr;ls with the me,aley of
lover fetes more beautiful than any he
YER saw; it RACES in his veins with lur-
NO suggestions of odd shadows IN 4,,p.a