Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-01

invested $3.50 600 in one enterprise and 500
600 in the other. and he considers his pros
poets favorable in both. There are. how
ever other aspirants for senatorial hon
ors and Mr.. Leighton 10 Handicapped by
being a carpetbagger. At the same time
he is receiving cordial encouragement In
his political ambitions because he 10 q
good fellow and a free spender. He has a
salaried agent in every county In tho state
who is looking out for his interests, and
10 authorized to be good to the boys"
there are many counties in New Hamp-
shire, and It will require all the profits MI.
Leighton derives from his farm to main
tain his popularity.
Prominent Summer Residents.
Secretary Hitchcock has q lovely low
white house called ''westmers," on the
edge Of Monadnock lake, where no wss
experimenting his gardeners when We
dashed IT. rpon Hmm tho other day. and he
finds it much easier to play the role OF
Gncinnatus with the stage settings tha6
surround him than to prosecute the nmoer
thieves. the land fencers and the cattle1nen
Of the west
Baron Sternburg has rented a beautiful
chateau and two or three smaller cottages
near Dublin as the summer home OF tho
German embassy, and has written Secre-
tary Batchelder Of the board OF agriculture
an enthusiastic letter expressing his salts
which, he says, remind hAm OF the Bava1ian
highlands. The state board has similar let
tiers from John Hay, ex-President Cleveland
and other famous men, which II mas used
effectively in Its advertising
Levi Woodbury., president OF the Wash-
inston and Norfolk Steamship Company,
occupies the home Of his fathers at Wind
ham
Ex-senator spooner has recently pur-
chased q farm OF 900 acres at Pttsburg and
intends to spend his Su1nmsrs IN the oa1gi.
nal buildings which are comnodious and
comfortable.
R1-Gov Frank g. Black Of New York has
| bought an abandoned farm at Freedom,
| with 800 acres Of land. ana has made HIM
| self very comfortable.
Tho village OF Amherst, once the capital
| of New Hampshire, was the birthplace Cd
| Horace Greeley.
Zachariah Chandler was born at Bedford
and went from there to Detroit when he
| was eighteen years old.
William e. Chandler has beautiful place
| at Warner.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Larz Anderson Of Wash.
| ington have a forest OF several thousand
acres and a camp on the shores OF Lake
! Wtnnepauket.
The little village Of Merr1naok II The
home of Walter Kittredge. who wrote
'.Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" and
other popular songs
Washington has a beautiful peninsula e.
tending into Lake Sycamore. upon whict
he has erected q $4,000 villa
| Big Jump in Land Values.
There are no abandoned farms aroun<
Dublin. Property here 10 more valuable
than in any other part Of the state. !
country seat here costs more than cit.
| lot at Concord or Manchester. The natura
ADVANTAGES and the beautiful surroundings
tho pure atmosphere and the scenery hav
been capdtalised with great profit to tn
present owners, although most Of then
bought their land at very low prices iron
the natives, who were very glad to get RI
Of 1t on any terms. When the original cen
sus of abandoned farms was made by Gov
Batchelder a large number were reporte
from this locality, but as soon as a fey
rich people had bought sites and built fin
villas prices began to go up, and farms o
| 15O or 200 acres which then sold for tw
| or three thousand dollars are now wort
| | forty thousand I do not know any localit
, | where real estate has advanced so rapid
| in value but there is very little in the mar
ket; almost every acre in the neighborhoo
Of Dublin and Peterboro has already bee
taken up by city people from New York
Boston and elsewhere.
: There are, however. plenty Of abandone
farms within twenty or thirty miles, a
easy days drive of Dublin. where the nat
ural advantages are equally good, wher
| the scenery is quite as picturesque, an
3 where can be found every advantage the
| existed in Dublin or Peterboro twentyf1v
= years ago. There Is no reason why the his