Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07
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/ the world One entire room is devot-
ed to them.
| The great beauty = .ne estate, how
ever, is in the extensive grounds. The
Longworths always have been great
lovers of flowers, and the original
Nicholas, one of the quaintest and
most eccentric millionaires of the Uni
ted States. was the pioneer of fiori-
culture in the west. The descendants
of rare roses that he brought west in
the early days of Cincinnati and rear
| ed in his gardens around his house in
the heart of the city now bloom in
the big greenhouses behind the Rook-
wood house
The trees around lockwood stand
as in the original forest, and from a
distance the estate appears like an I'M
broken forest. The beeches and elms
and oaks stand as they did when the
white men first came to build a block
house on the hillside to the west The
carriage way, winding through val
leys and over hills, runs back from
f, the Grandin road. through a grove of
elms and oaks to the clearing where
the house stands among its greener-
les and gardens
River Through the Trees.
The beauty of the situation of the
home is great. Through the trees
! that cover the entire estate except
| whore cDonaS hava hnap oIaorad for
lawns or gardens, houses, or the
stables. one can catch glimpse of the
bluff, below which the majestic river
starts its wide semi-circular sweep
that carries it half around the city
Across the river are the sheer, wood
crested palisades of the, Kentucky
/ side. crowned near the top by fort.
| Towards the city rise the hills, and
on one of them is the pottery where
some of the finest ceramic work in the
worll is done. Northward, or to the
! northeast, the hills begin to drop away
! towards another river that flows into
the Ohio there, and the view from the
house in that direction is one of the
| grandest of all.
Exteriorly the mansion has been
| left unchanged, although the interior
has been modernized and many ex-
tensions made to the Conservatives
| and the greenhouses.
Just now, however, lockwood is be.
/ ing overhauled to receive its new mis-
tress and in preparation for the 5aye-
ties that will follow the home coming
No changes are being made, for, to
the Longworths, any remodeling of
! lockwood would be dissertation, but
| the living rooms are being redecoraI-
! ed, and separate suite prepared for
/ the bride.
The great music room, with its
treasures of art, is being frightened,
| and the entire mansion overhaulad
and made gayer for the coming of the
J bride, for when the new mistr ass
| comes to lockwood a new era in Gin
| cinnati society will open.
There will be fetes and festivities
more brilliant perhaps, than the old
| home has ever known. and, besides,
| lockwood again will have political
significance.
Women Bring Social Renown.
| The Longworth men all have won
! fame to some extent by their own
| merits Independent of their wealth,
for they have lone things and and
| made reputation at the law. But the
social renown of the family mas de.
| rnnHnd tho ho
time of Nicholas the first they have
married brilliant and beautiful women.
and the daughters have mated bril-
| liantly. They are related to almost
all the "old" families of Cincinnati, so
Miss Roosevelt will find a host of
cousins when she becomes mistress
of lockwood,
She has visited the old home, and
expressed herself as delighted with
it and charmed with the cousins" to
be For the family in intermarried
with Kentuckians and in Kentucky
they count cousins even to the tenth
generation.
Miss Roosevelt when she visited
Cincinnati was the guest of Mrs.
Buck" Wallingford, who is Congress-
man Longworth's sister, and at a din
ner that William Ramsay gave In her
honor she met most of her future
cousins-the Harrisons and the Her
ons, the Anlersons, the ingalls,,
Holmes, Groesbecks, HOLSTERS. War
ingtons, Paxtons, and Shorts-who are
all connected in some way with the
Longworths. And Mrs. Longworth
her future mother-in-law, entertained
for her at Rookwood, and gave Cincin
natl an opportunity to see the future
Mrs. Longworth.
Congressman LOngwoTth comes of a
stock that has helped make Cincinna-
ii. family that has been distinguish
ed for over 100 years in the social
and financial life of the city. Every
one in Cincinnati who knows him
calls him Nick" which is about as
good 2 testimonial of popularity as
/ it Is possible to get. His father was
Nicholas Longworth-no one called
him Nick because he was a Judge
and TOO dignifed fo5 that, but he was
one of the great patrons of art, ana
it was due in great part to his love