The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-14

they couldn't bear to sell any of them.
So they gave them away to their
friends.
WON WRONG PRIZE
Then, as though there already were
not enough dogs about the place, they
acquired Chief. But Chief was an
accident.
"One summer, over at the Duchess
County Fair" Elliot recalls, they
were rafting off a speedy little pony
and a German shepherd dog. Anna
had her heart set on winning that
pony, and it occurred to her that if
she could buy up most of the chances
she would be fairly certain of win
ming it.
"Since the proceeds of the raffles
were to go for charity Il think it
was the Red Cross, Anna didn't hes
itate to petition all the older men,
bers of the family and all the rela-
tives she could see, to take ten
chances each.
meanwhile Grandmother had been
sold chance on the dog. Just one
chance, and she certainly didn't want
the prize. But after the drawings at
the fair, while Sis and I were waiting
breathleSsly at home, sure that the
pony would arrive, up came a car and
delivered the dog.
well, after the first shock, we de-
clded 1t was pretty fine pup and
took him around to the kitchen and
fed him. Then Anna wired Grand
mother, who was down in the New
York house: YOU HAVE WON PO-
LICE DOG CONGRATULATIONS
SHALL WE DO WITH HIM.
"And She wired back: 'CONGRAT-
NOTHING STOP DOG
is YOURS STOP DO WHAT YOU
LIKE WITH HIM"
After that 1t was Annals dog, and
she called him Chief He was her
constant companion, even being ia
Ken to Campobello Island, New Bruins
wick. He lived for IA years, and be-
came guardian of Annals children.
Anna Eleanor Dali, now years old.
and Curtis Roosevelt Dali, nearly 3.
But Chief" in his dotage, developed
q penchant for chasing sheep. At
Campobello last summer he drove one
into the bay and calmly drowned it,
thereby signing his own death war
rant. For he had to be shot.
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PLENTY OF ROOM
Another veteran member of the
Roosevelt menagerie is Natoma, a
strangely marked pony that is three
quarters Norwegian and one-fourth
Arabian. Anna broke him to ride
when she was little girl, and at IT
ne Is still her favorite mount when
she visits Hyde Park.
The original estate, owned by Mrs.
James Roosevelt, comprises 500 acres
and is bounded on one side by the
Hudson River. Her son, however, has
acquired two back farms totaling 500
acres, and over the entire area run
six miles of private roads for mo-
toring and horseback riding. From
the main highway the house and it's
cluster of t-buildings, including
stables, garages, laundry, greenhouses
and servants quarters, are ap-
preached by a winding tree lined
irive.
A broad, open veranda lets on a
arge central hall, with dining and
music rooms behind it, a stairway at
one end, and at the other the "big
'oom." Walnut woodwork and white
walls and ceilings, together with
1ozens of Franklin Roosevelt's ship
prints, lend an early American at
noSphere. What antiques there are
nay be approached with confidence
hat they will not crumple under
mes weight.
Good taste and luxury are appar-
mt everywhere. But no interior dec
,rator's ruthless hand has touched
hat house to sacrifice comfort for
harmony. The "big room" is a living
DOM that in itself is as large as a
,ood-sized cottage. It's dimensions
ire about SO by 80 feet, with an 49,
DOT ceiling. At each end are twin
n arble fireplaces, accommodating
ive-foot logs. and in one corner is
franklin Roosevelt's big flat-topped
mahogany desk, holding ships
lock that strikes bells instead of
,ours. and stacks Of letters and tele-
rams.
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BOOKS, OLD AND NEW
Bookcases almost completely cover
he walls. There are hundreds of
.olumes Of bound magazines, even
're-dating Mrs. James Roosevelt's !
lhood-Graham's Magazine, from
$50; the Ladies' Repository, from
857; Godey's Lady's Book, and Punch
rom the middle Of the ninteenth
entury to the present. All the old
lassics are there, too. row on row of
worm leather bindings: Dickens, Ste
enson, Thackeray, Southey and SO
n. There's Ogden Nash parked be-
ween couple OF volumes of Brown
ng: and the or books all mixed up
nth Mark Twain.
There is no swimming pool on the
'riginal estate. But next to it is the
state Of Col. Archibald Rogers,