Evening star., 1935-02-03
HENDERSON SALE
WILL BRING MANY
COLLECTORS HERE
Paintings, Furniture and Art
Objects Go Under Ham,
mer Tomorrow.
RELICS IN OLD "CASTLE"
FROM ALL OVER WORLD
Public Interest Expected to Rival
That of Recent Auction of Late
Admiral Dewey's Effects.

Admiral Dewey's Effects.
Rivaling in public interest the re-
cent sale of the late Admiral George
Dewey's personal and household ef-
fects, the auctioneer's hammer will
be heard tomorrow at 10 am. in the
| formidable brown stone mansion
known as Henderson Castle" ia
nous for over half century in Wash
ington's political and social life.
From room to room in the old man
sion, where the late Mrs. John B.
Henderson, widow of the Senator from
! Missouri, presided so long as the So
cial arbiter" of Washington, the auc-
| ton sale will continue until the last
effects Of the Henderson estate are
| sold to the highest bidder. Listed in
the catalog are valuable paintings,
furniture, furnishings and objects
dart" collected for their household
by Senator and Mrs. Henderson in
all parts of the world
People have come from California
to get pictures, from New York to bid
| on bronZes, from st. Louis to compete
for chinaware, plates. and the more
personal things.
Begins in Art Gallery.
In the art gallery, which was built
around that huge picture, "Attelage
de Brasseur," by the Flemish artist,
| Edmond de PTatere, hanging in the
rear Of the room, the sale will begin.
On the easel erected there will be
displayed the Inness, Constant,
Gerome, Boughton, Munier and
Knight landscapes and portraits
which compose the real collection
item of the sale.
Under the Oriental canopy ceiling
which hides the lights of this gallery
have been arranged row upon row of
| folding chairs. Here the bidders and
the curious will sit, f1anked by marble
statues fashioned by Mary Wright
| Davis, perhaps, or Chauncey B. Ives.
All the while. those immature, fright
| filled eyes Of Gustav Dore'S Young
Mother" as she hangs in her gilt
frame to the rear left, will be watch
ing her turn on the auctioneers S
easel.
Signs have been tackled up all over
the house. directing those who will
come early and wander about the
now rather down-at-the-heels Castle
where they may find the library. the
kitchen and the lavatories.
| In the kitchen are stacked the
plates and glassware that once made
the rounds of a dining room table as
big as roundhouse turntable. Rocco
glassware, of the Victorian era, fairly
dazzles the eye with its color and
decoration. Finger bowls, bulging
with raised figures. are brilliant in
reds, colds and greens. Champagne
| glasses and wine goblets are etched
with reSplendent birds and fruits.
Pastoral scenes and dancing Cupids
rim the Copeland china.
Formal Dining Room.
Through the entry hallway, over
which one stumbleS in the half
light on rolled-up Cashmir and
i Bokhara Oriental rugs, one passes
into the formal dining room. A
sideboard, half the long length OF
the room, groans with china, glass
and what the catalog calls "adorn-
ments." Here are a pair of Bo-
hemian candelabra, blown into glass
| of lurid blue; an old pressed-glass
| fernery, Sevres vase and another
| Satsuma, q half dozen of Limoge
/ china ramekins, terra Gotta tea set
bronze figure of two perched birds,
tooled-leather jewel casket, celery
boats of pressed glass, dusty Ormulu
clocks, their faces circled with rhine
| stones; Majolica, Dresden, porcelain
clolsonne and Venetian glass; dozens
| Of wedding pieces" in onyx and
bronze
Damascene, French and japanese
teakwood screens hide miscellaneous
| furniture of every sort. French gilt
chairs with tapeStried seats face dark
| Italian carved chairs which look as
if they had once eaSed the bulk OF
popes or emperors. Neither OF the
| Hendersons was collector" of any
thing but art; what they saw and
| liked in their trips about the world
they bought and brought home.
In the art and literary line both
! had definite ideas. Many OF the pic
lures hung about the castle are those
really excellent works painted by Mrs
| Henderson herself, A great many also
are by the well-known Washington
| artist, Lucien Powell. In several IN
| stances those pictures which will be
sold were painted by Powell at the
| instance of his patronness. Mrs. Hen
derson had fitted up one of the rooms
| of the castle as his studio, had ar
ranged for private showings of his
work, and herself purchased or ar
ranged for the purchase OF NUMBERS
of his paintings.
The great bulk of the more thar
| 4 600 books of the Henderson library
have been collected in the room OF
the second floor facing Sixteenth
street to the north. The Senator'S
tastes were catholic; he read ir
every direction.
Numbers Of "Sets" Acquired.
Mrs. Henderson purchased large
numbers of "sets," the fiction and his
tory favorites of the eos being al
most complete in her section of the
shelves. In addition, as authoress
herself of some note, she received
large numbers of inscribed volumes
from noyelists and poets of the day
Folios of music and paintings occupy
one entire end of the ceiling-high
shelves.
Their son, John, read widely in his
chosen fields of conchology and other
marine study and travel. AS a con-
sequence of his love for the far-away
places of the world, there is an ex-
tensive library of this type of htera-
ture which will come under the
hammer.
Framed autographed letters lie
scattered over the library table. Theif
faded signatures give final clue to
the atmosphere Of all that was Hen
derson Castle. The letters are from