The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-05-06
.M0NR0E'S HOME
TO BE RESTORED.
New York House Wherein Author
of Doctrine Died Rescued
From Junkman.
ENDED DAYS WITH DAUGHTER
american Scenic and Historic Society
Will Preserve Last Haven Of
Fifth President Of the
United States.

New York.-In what used to be the
parl0r OF an aged, ramshackle house
at 6S Prince street, New York, a brace
of junk men the other day stopped
among little mounds of rags and
bones and bottles, their hands moving
IN wild frenzy of assortment. From
the ceiling hung flimsy chains Of dirt,
the walls were great faces pockmarked
by the plague of neglect. The floor
seemed as the grimy palette of the
artist Time, who had painted the
place, in skillful completeness, with a
thick coat of dust. Against this single
motif, black, the junk men worked
with fastidious care.
That front room was clean and
CHEEKY in 1880. 1t was Of real beauty,
for, as the house was in fashionable
section of New York, the reception of
persons high in social circles took
place there. And one day in that year
James Monroe, fifth President of the
United States, mounted the steps with
perhaps the thought we'll in his mind
that here would be his last haven.
:, An Arrival Prepared for.
One may imagine how busy Mrs
Samuel /. Gouverneur was as she di-
rected the servants to tidy the home
for her father, Mr.. Monroe, observes
the Kansas City Times. He was sew
enty-tWo years old, and she realized
that it would be extremely nice for
her to make him as comfortable as
possible: he needed comfort; his
health was impaired, his fortune shat
tered, and he had been overwhelmed
only twelvemonth before by the
death of his wife. -
So, In that room where the junk men
labored with their choice bits of soiled
cloth and their smelly bottles only the
other day, the man who conceived the
Monroe doctrine sat, almost q hundred
years ago, and reviewed his career, or
read, or merely locked far and away,
in consummate iGeness. His death oc-
CURED in the daughters home July 4,
1881. s E.~5%
= The old brick house is to be given
q reverent bath and preserved by the
American Scenic and Historic society.
Day by day it. has suffered under the
lack of>care; many wrinkle has ap-
peared in it's stark countenance, and
if such a thing as a house can be
rheumatic there is no doubt 1t has felt
many cringe in it's joints. It was
once proud and pretty, for Mr..
Gouverneur was postmaster nine
years, and it sheltered gatherings Of
the elite. It is fitting that this for
mer dwelling place Of the author of
one # Americas most persfstently
arising national policies should be res
eued from oblivion among jobbing
houses ard garages.
On front outside wall Of the once
colonial mansion is a memorial tablet
of Mr. Monroe. 1t was unveiled April
%, 1905, by Gouverneur Hoes. then If
teen years old, gveat-great-grandso
under the auspices of the women's
auxiliary to the scenic and historic
group which sponsored the move. The
date marked the 147th anniversary of
the birth of the former President.
At the time there was q cheanl res
taurant in the drawing room; shoe
factorv,s machinery rattled on the
second floor and from the f1ormer win.
dow hing tho sign of a furrier The
restaurant man agreed to clean his
Mace and disappear for the dav 40 the
auxiliary could hold it's ceremony