The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-06

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! property which would be worth 4 ereat
| amount. He was dissuaded from this
4 course, and the estate will ultimately
be sold and the proceeds apportioned
! to the heirs.
Large Holdings in Cook County.
T. Col. Cline had extensive realty hold
1ngs in Cook county also, the bulk of
them being within the city limits of
| chicago. There are valuable lots in
tWinnetl1a, a suburb on the northwest,
| several lots in Halsted street, and the
! Woodbine hotel, of seventy rooms, near
the Worlds fair grounds. There are
| also a summer resort at Cedar Lake,
| md, and fine old country home with
spacious grounds. just on the edge of
| Frederick, Md, besides farm property
in several states.
1t was. in buying up taxes In the old
| days that Col. Cline laid the founda-
! tons Of his fortune. He came into pos
session of scores of pieces of property
| in this way. and the big fire of 1871,
when all the official records of the
| county were wiped out of existence in
creased rather !, than decreased his
| wealth.
81 In his earlier years Col Cline was a
singularly proud man. He dressed WELL
kept himself scrupulously clean and
! loved to talk of the distinguished fam
! lily Of which he was member. - His
mother was one of the Evans family Of
| Maryland, and his father was a soldier
in the war of 1912. Upon these two
facts in his personal history he dwelt
| with almost affectionate emphasis.
Search as~one will he can find no ro-
| nance and not much sentiment in the
life Of this odd miser and recluse. He
| was a lover of certain kinds of music
but cared little for the classics. The
| tuneful songs from Balfes Bohemian
| Girl' were forms of musical expression
that appealed to him. but he had no
appreciation of higher flights of the
! maestro's fancy. He had but one fad,
and that was for violins, of which he
| always kept a half dozen locked up in
| his apartments. None of these instru-
ments was Of any great intrinsic value,
| but he had such attachment for them
as man might have for a child.
Star Performer Before Friends.
It was his custom for several years
! before his death to give little muSicales
| to his friends. At these informal func-
| lions Col Cline was the star performer.
! He would play the Soberer part of his
| limited repertoire first and then descend
| into jigs. He could keep his bow on
! the move for hours without growing
] weary. Not so much could be said for
his guests. but they humored him, and
| in that way the company always broke
| up In good spirits.
| When he played 1.-The Heart Bowed
| Down." or Alice, Where Art Thou?"
| there were sometimes faint suggestions
| of emotion, but if these plaintive melo-
dies had for him any background Of
| personal experience he kept the secret
| to himself.
The fine old mansion near Frederick.
| Md, formerly had alluring charms for
| him, and 1t was his custom to go
| thither periodically for a visit. In the
| house he would play his violins and
| entertain his old time friends. But of
recent years the rooms had been dark
| ened and no sound of music came from
| their recesses.
AS he drew, toward the eighties in life
he lost all the pride he had in his per-
| sonal appearance. He bought no new
| clothes for five years prior to his death.
| He was unkempt and untidy in the ex-
IRENE. His hair and beard, dyed for
years, were allowed to go their natural
way and became a yellowish white.
| With all his forgetfulness of self he
| seemed conscious that he was personal
| ly unattractive to others, and he held
! aloof from his friends and relatives, ex-
cept on occasions when the old desire
rariiy.
Lived in a Squaiid Room.
During the last ten years of his life
! he lived in a squalid room in his hotel.
the Woodhine. 1t was poorly furnished
and cherries place. Off from the
| main room was a smaller apartment.
| This was the depository for his papers
and effects. Letters were stacked sew
eral feet in height. There We're also
| boxes of newspaper clippings. He had
4 a mania for cutting out and preserving
| obituary notices of eminent men. Con-
corning the men he particularly ad-
| mired he preserved every printed word
he could find.
OF late he had been wont to open
| the door of his anteroom and toss let
tiers in haphazard. 1t is this lack of or
der which is giving the trustees of the
estate SOB much work now. They dare
| not passover a single letter lest it con-
tain furthereyidence of property that
/ would be- fslost to the estate. The
searchers are watching for interesting
: documents of a general nature, but
have found snothing of moment up TO
Col. Chne5 was not an epicure- He
! might haYe lived at the Auditorium, An
mex If he had been tidy, but he pre-
ferred the atmosphere and; prices or
South Clark street lunch rooms Fiji
teen Genes Is said to have been an I'M
usual amount for him to spend on one
meal. Ten cents was usually the limit.
He liked a scertain brand of tea, and
usually carried package of 1t with
him when he went to eat, turning a
little of it over to the waiter to be
STEPPED for his use and wrapping the
rest up and putting 1t back into his
pocket for future use. At times his
i eating bill did not aggregate over 20
month.
/ His invariable attire was o black coat