Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-02-07

paintings that now fill the art CALLER
I les at lockwood
The great-grandfather was Nicholas
the first, who perhaps was the most
/ famous and eccentric man Cincinnati
ever produced. He was a lawyer, like
all his line, but preferred real estate.
! and it was he who. investing an al
ready comfortable fortune in land,
which was then inordinately cheap,
laid TIE foundation of the fortune
! which has became so great.
The first Nicholas liked plants and
! flowers, Just as did his son Joseph,
who built the famous old house on the
/ Grandin road and set out the great
gardens and lawns that now form the
principal beauty of lockwood
! The first Longworth home was
down on Pike street, then the abode
of the wealthy. and he employed
eastern gardeners and reaped wealth
of rare flowers from his gardens and
! greenhouses at a time when no one
! else in Cincinnati had flower.
He was eccentric, and his peculiar
! tiles gave rise to a wealth of good
stories Stern, forbidding in aspect,
| he really had keen sense of humor-
one that even permitted him to laugh
at himself. He was VIGOROUSLY the
worst and most carelessly dressed
man in Cincinnatij
! Joseph Longworth was a great trav-
eler, and really more of an artist than
a lawyer. He magnified the family
fortunes by real estate deals, AMI
travelled much, bringing home, to
| lockwood the fruits OF his visits 20
European galleries. His son Nicho-
las, better known as Judge" Long
worth, also was great traveller and
! patron of art.
One of the best known of the Long
worths Is Maria Longworth Storer, the
aunt of Nicholas Longworth, who is
| the wife of Bellamy Storer, who served
the United States as minister and
ambassador in Europe.
A Famous Pottery
She was one of the founders of
Cincinnati's famous art institute, be-
ing associated with her father, Joseph
Longworth, in planning :llt iastitu-
ton, he being the real founder Of the
institute and art school in Ed N PARK.
She aided him in collecting paintings,
and after his death she established
the now famous lockwood pottery.
An artist and an enthusiast over
ceramics, she discovered the method
of tinting and glazing pottery, and be-.
gan the work herself. Then she es-
tablished the beautiful works in the
building on the summit of Mount
| Adams, which overlooks the city, and
maintained it. The new art ceramic
she named lockwood" after the
| family estate.
AS for "Nick'Lhe is one of the
best fellows in the world He was in
the law, and later in politics, and
went to congress with a record major
ity.
Young Nick" has been one of the
best known men of Cincinnati since
| boyhood. He knew almost everybody,
and almost everybody knew him.
! GOCoH EOON ZIG
A few years ago young woman
who had heard much of him was in
troduced to him. She gazed at him
J for a moment and then asked.
Are you Nick LongwGrCh?"
Yes" he replied, smiling.
"Well. you don't look the part" she
responded.
| And he doesn't. At least he has lit
| tie of the look of the mulimillionaire
and less the look of the society man.
He is bald headed and jolly, clever,
and something of reformer, although
mixed with republican ring politics in
/ Cincinnati for four years.
Somehow the Longworth men al
ways go in for something useful. and
re went into politics after the law
| ENeTybc ~ liked him, and, with his
| social prestige ard his money. with
| his socially powerful mother and sis
ters behind him, he went to Washing
ton and at once assumed a place in
| the front ranks of society He went
where common congressman are not
| expected and TO few other places ex-
cept to the house.
Then he met Miss Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth with Miss Cas-
SIM, daughter of the count and Miss
Roosevelt became the leader of the
younger set in Washington society,
and there was gossip that the girls
were jealous of each other. Indeed 1t
was said that Miss Cassini publicly
snubbed Miss Roosevelt because of
Longworth.
But the rivalry, if it ever existed,
ended when Miss Roosevelt and Mr.
Longworth became fellow-members of
Secretary Taft's junket to the Philip
Dimes.
For months they travelled together
In that party, and soon after they re-
turned came the visit to Cincinnati,
and then, after time, the announce
ment that the Princess Alice was to
become Mrs. Iongworth, the mistress
Of the Longworth millions and Of
lockwood