Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-28

Eden from it's course and give 1t new windings and weirs and falls; hri ige : 1t with iron. dig lake covering 45 acres; open public road three-fourths of mile in length; bore an artesian we'll and make reservoir; lay out a deer park and grow trees; set up a power house of Tuderesqus design for the electric lights and water pum s; start household supply farm; renew or scrape the castle paneling; put in open plumbing; fashion at one side of the castle some Italian gardens.
 The parish clerk and village school master, a parsonage of great presence and weight, in book. Historic Hev- er," places its date in the twelfth or thirteenth century. Probably the H. cense to hold this "battlemented cas- tie" was obtained from King Stephen. Tablets in the village church d not tell anything of it's story back If its occupancy by Sir Thonl2sAHley fp the sixteenth century. Lady Anne, a,- ready a celebrated beauty, was one of the maids of King Halls first wife. Katharine of Aragon. When Cardinal Wolsey at Henry's behest broke of her engagement to Percy, she me distraught to her fathers castle. Thence at once followed the king, and later many times. In the gallery which MT. Astor is to hang again with paint ings the girl and the king would meet. The stairs at the end led down to Anne's own room.
 Tn her three years as queen she came occasionally to Hever, especially after Elizabeth was born to her and the fickle king began to fancy Lady Jane Seymour. For time he is said to have kept her virtually a prisoner in her room at Hever.
 Mir. Astor found 1t with fallen for tunes upon 1t, magnificent and shabby wainscot, mouldy. its hangings gone. stones clipped by sightseers and in- numerable initials scribbled on its inc ner walls.
 Three years more will scarcely see the Improvements completed, and the cost nobody has the hardihood 10 at tempt to compute.
 It includes replacing the injured and decayed stones. repaneling the wood work damaged by tourists and clean ing the rest with acid and stee,. In- stead of the hop farm buildings he found he is erecting, all under one red tiled roof, hundred Tudor cot ages These will be made of the spoil from ancient buildings in the county, and will be joined to the castle by bridge and also a tunnel. He wi.l keep Anne'5 bedroom as IL was. The room which Is known as King Henry's hs will fix up for his own use. The outer m1at is already reopened, and over 1t repro duction of the old drawbridge in steel will give admittance to the prize pal gate.
 One of the farms on the estate he has transformed and done over and re- equipped till 1t is described as being probably without equal in the United Kingdom" It's splendors include quar- tered oak for the COW sheds and pig stys. The piggeries are opul-nt be- yond any evef before erected. Choco- late and white tiles decorate the COW stables. The dairy is walled with mo- safes made by Italian workmen; and in the center plays fountain.
 Iu making the lake 20 wagons . day. . regiment of digges and mir- iature railway system have besn em- ployed. The lake Is to be stocked with fish.
 Deer are to be brought from Ger many and America for the deer park an enclosure of SO acres or more with in a timber wall nine feet high. Ths proper foretinE of the p-eservs h been under way two years