Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1887, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAIL BEE: SUNDAY. NEXAIRR N THIS IS HE MOST BEAUTIFULLY LOGATED Piece of Ground Yet Platted. ) S DKIPO1T Near New Canning Factory, Which Is Already Built. Commands a magnificent view of West Omaha, Walnut Hill, &ec. Lots in Hoffman Terrace are $80 Cheaper Than any surrounding property. The terms are most liberal, taking location, lay of land, &c. This is the cheapest property offered to-day. SATE Oprens MOITDATT MORIIING, Free Carriages Every Hour from Office of LOVGREN & DALZELL, 115 N. 16th Street, Sole Agents. SLVERAL LITERARY LEAVES A Visit to the Patriarch Historian, George | Bancroft, in His Washington Home. HIS HABITS AND HOME LIFE sneral Logan—*‘Ouida’ Home—New York Literary Celebrities—Mr. V. G, Hamn- meston's Mothods, A Poem by ¢ at w Yorx, Jan, 27.—[Correspondence of the BEk.]—Washington has no more distinguished eitizen than the historian whose name is imperishably connected with that of his country—George Ban croft, Aud eultivated strangers who go to the capital to meet the eminent people who more and mere delight to congre gate there in the winter season, seek his presence with an interest telt in no other writer. Mr., Baneroft is to the public an old gentleman, cighty-six bemng: consid- red a great age for a man to reach, To those who know him socially he is youthful n spirit, happy and cheerful. He eanno be said to bear his age gracefully, for he does not seem to be aged. Tt diflicult to realize that he has scen so many years or passed through the experiences which u life so rich as his must have garne Until this winter he kept up s cus of taking a long ride on horschack eve worning, and his equestrian accomphish nments W commonly commented upon, s0 rewarkable did they appear to those younger than himself. Of late - he has and takes instend saven up this exerel ashort walk or drive. His home for the past twelve years has been in Washington, and his house is in H str between Connecticut ayenue and Sevienteenth street, within three ot of the white house, and just across Lafavette square fromit, Itis a Y large, doubiv tory mansion of Lrowh _stone, without internal orna- mentation, and 1s_plam looking beside its nretentions neighbors, Not far from Mp. Buneroft's house is that of Washing. ton’s other fumous and beloved citizen, Mr. W, W. Corcoran, and his home, like the hi jan’s is large and plain Neither can compare in appearance with the houses of My &John Ha, John Adums, near by Mr. Corcoran's; but 1 1 doubt if either theirs or any of the | numerous elegant residences in Wash- fugton attract the attention bestowed upon these two ample, roowy, comfort able looking houses, Mr. Baneroft's house 1s less frequented by strangers than Mr. Corcoran’s, for the latter is & Washington citizen whose life has been passed there, whose wealth was wade there, and whose latter y crowned with honors—have been spent there. Mr. Baneroft is ot of the local importance that his neighbor is, but he 1s an acquisition to the oy whicl the pub I} ic reciates, and many seck his pres ence to obtain literary advico, or to socially mect the distinguished man, It is not difficult to sec 1 if one has busi- | ness with Lim, or any reasonable excuse for making his acquaintance On a pleasant morning of last week [ ventured to his front door and asked the polite servant who unswered my ring if 1 could make an appointment 1o sco Mr. Banerofty He was as civil to me as 1 to him, and said he would see. A man came: forward, who proved to be body ser, vant, & well-mannered German, who if- vited me into the hall and answered the questions put to him with high good [} fing. This man was an interest ing character. He said he bad lived with his master for twelve ye ever sinee the latier was minister “to Berlin Ve servant.was evidently @ person who A had been trained in a good school, and his ple fous wuy produced a favorable impression upon me. “My master is eighty-six vears of age, and requires my eonstant attendance,’ suid he. And he add “In-all that time [ have never had a day to myself.” “Docs age tell npon him more than usual this winter “No! oh, no! He is s well as in other winters, but he is more alone these last two years, and is more quiet. What taakes him mor vearsy" s, Baneroft died, sir, two years ago, and since then he has lived more quietly than before.’ T apologized for not remembermg this o -advancing and asked if_he would teil me of his master’s habits. The man sat down near by (the other seryant had gone his way and the house seemed perfectly quict) and slowly an swered me. very morning,” he said, “‘T zo to my master it seven, sometimesa little later. nd awiken him, and when he gets up | bave his bath ready and prepare his clothing for the day. At 8 o'clock his st is served to him in the library, and he eats with relish. He is very light eater, but he enjoys what he take and 15 apt to remark upon anything tl sases him particularly. Mo is not hard tisfy, and thinks very little food. . What is served to Lim he and seems to forget it at once.” “And how does he pass the day ! “He reads his lettc diet answ to his secretary and attends to any busi- ness matters, and then writ After the luncheon hour he either goes out for a ride, as he has done this afternoon, or he receives any friends who eall and chats with them. “Has he any takes, seial life at home “His two granddaughters live with him; that is, his own and his wiile's granddaughter; but the latter is_ yonng, aud Miss Baneroft is fond of socicty, wnid is out a great deal especially in the édven- ing le he not “Not many this winter as before 1e likes to have ‘company to dine with him: it is the only meal of the day, he enjoys to have his friends about ) Miss Baneroft comes into the drawing ives o good many dinners, docs s0 room atter dinner and chats with him To my inguiry as to his habit of retir ing the tathiul Teuton said I msster has no company, 1 interest him so that he shall not go to be carly, and so pass a wakeful m Usually he has some one to come in and chat with him,"” wanted to learn if age affected his spirits or aisposition, but” did not know just how to put the question, While \esitating, the man, s if thoughts, said ways pleasant. He ,and no matter how works he is never impatient.” at deal of never much Does he do a gr writing " “Yeos; as much as & young man, and me steadily.” He then went on to say that his master ad liked everything ry wis very methodiea orderly “On the fourth of eve month,” continued Hans, *1 go with 1 to have his beard trimmed. Oune d barl aid he thought the beard to be cut off, but ma r said ‘No, barber! I will take cold;"" and the bar ] never offered to do than trim it after that The earnest, ¢ ore naint speech of the man was my excuse for staying so long. 1 went to make an appointment for a eall und, finding the master out, the servant rtained m He told me that his as born in Worcester, M 5 t summer he went with him there to muke a visit. He accompanied Mr. Bancroft to the house where he was born, and into the room where he first saw the hght. The man said the house was built somewhat like Mount Vernon “It was large and rambling, and the ancieut people who lived there treated us divining wy | about | handsomely, and made my We had « pleasant visit joyed secing his old birthplac fum good it 1 wish I could manner taining reproduce nd words; he w vl s quaint as @ p the last centary sar of taking cold masier from taking but in the warin season again. ‘I trast he ma year, | said, man bowed Enowledgments with as polite sain if 1 had wished him the compliment the season. He | when his master would see leaving him my addvess, 1 departed ‘The next morning 1 mess wis ceived stating that Mr. Baneroft w see us the foilowing evening, and o’clock—the time named—we prese ourselves, The reception room which we were mvited was in - ke with the charaeter of the ho and elegant without needless tation or show The valet, quaintance Iready wide, us into the apartment remarked upon | invited us to1 thi most 2 of told e prevented ny more rides 1 he would wl for many mised to let me k ing. Soon h 5 ence of his master, and we entered the room where Mr neroft was standing near his chair by .the lire wit ing to receive M \eroft we us a cordial grasp hand, smilinaly pointeil 10 so: pearanee 5o astonished me thit 1 Iy keep from exelaiming * you look, My, ineroft, { my=elt,rememberin 2 heard a bright woman bt Lon m consulered far peonls who expre: surprise fer youthful look that it was never a complim ay *'how young you loo 11 politely of the weather, of W asked how long we had been - the liked it, and 50 on, and scemed ested in the small talk of the room as any young man. 1 could help compari carance witl patviarch 1 had expocted to see. Tle vigorous and acti a man of much more so than many men fitty, and his figare is as ereet diun’s, 1 e nented hir parent good health and b d “My health is excellent at all s though I contine myself to the hou i the cold weather than I would | “You are engaged upon literury work constantly “Oh, a man's bost friend is his oceupation, If well pursued in carly life it becomes his solace when he no longer needs it as his spuport,” Oune loves work better when there no strain, do you not think* “Work' is pleasant without worry and, uniike worry, it does not kill, A cheerful, conteated mind has bene: ficial effect upon the body, Another cnemy to health almost as great as | worry is the quantity and the quality of the food we eat. People gencrally ent 100 often and eat too much, T'wo meals I find as much as 1 can take, and neither is large. Mainly 1 e white wheaten food and drink sparingly of mild, pure wines, Mr. Bancroft surprised us with this re. mark, in view of his reputation a Lost and the fame of his dinners us wuch and he quietly replied ubstemious in eating and His eyes are blue-gray, his hair s white and his cheeks rosy. He is thing over five fe nd & half in hei and rather spa was brought and he cordially urged us to take a Several other persops came in while were taking it, and he observed t who had not taken sugar or cre: case might be, and said who took it plain dear lover of te He used handkerchiefs from two pockets, an noticed that as he had oceasion to move oue or the other he carefully 1 o | drinkir ot to my fri Lis po lad n did an's el delf me the 10w, ride; afong s of now and re ounld at s nted into 1 re- nark | drawing wre said am s Iver om in, cup we hose m, as the end, “Oh, I see, you are a cket nd 1 re- re | placed it about the appearance wi and I see 5 whi | and as pu the flowers he d | The conversation. became gene | to my regret, but I had opportur to ask him abont the visit to his birthplac | hoping he wonld give us some part but he evidently did not care to of it, for he said: *“The honse | 1 was born is now in the hands of | afarmer who sells his prodoce at the | marke Could anything be mo gestively indifferent than than reply | A gentle n standing near me I | that ‘his Washington home would be a mecea for all time for Amerieans. | The grand old gentleman shook 1 head and smilinglysaid he should wel- | | eome the return’of s in Washi and the coming of lowe pasgionately fond of tHower | reply to someone's questic favorites, said: *“The rose | cinth,”” 'In the warni weather he ehjoys | working in his garden and hay - flowers come to growth under | nd erire he moved about t o) uld hear his langh, whi and 0= spontancons i n boy's | simple and unaffected in w > | would expeet njoys himself with | remarkable fre and zost of s One of his old nequaintances in the room told me that his wite died the | much fear on the part of Biis health, by had not ¢l Al I She 1 o year | Inr Mrs neroft wis a before her to the I | | anet 1 15 mid h ' | granddanghter, Miss Bl 1 | Biim, but nor Miss I wers pres » drawin | | the oeeas! | valet, wearing a b 5 in and_outof the voom attend mastes’s giests when 1 appeared when not war stood trom a friend of | present, that between hi | vant there was the kir | ship, and that the latter and indispensinle 1o his comfor said to Mr. Baneroft that sed on the rond this winter to Newport next summn then i will enjoy s fear to ha k | th civen o season | best loves, and e¢ne whi streets and roads in and ab { ton afford mach ooport plensantly onj The | which Mr. Bar, s A s 4 st | dotes of Shakespeare | col ) ut him asional questions regarding cer tan data to clgse friends. The drawing rc had a number of persons in it when we left, and as we ap proached to say our adicux | i y comm sion'to him that driven them to | [ ple way with Lis fan i together n most d entertaining m Kin brilliant and unselfish,” wer | of my talkative companion ended the steps and mad wi the handsome street If the tact that tne late General A Logan had a decided liking for poctry and that he himself at intervals ed in writing impromptu verses never be came public knowledgetw 101 A 5¢ t among s most intimate friends p instances related ave several when, in an idle moment, he would take an odd scrap of paper and carclessly write thereon some lines in rhyme. Often these poets cal eflusions were of a humorous cha ter; at other times they would assume a thoughtful or sorrowful nature. General Logun almost invariably destroyed the verses after he had written them, but !\\ll' never permit any of her novels to - that letiers wou ve alighter and less {wo or three were seenred by friends and | &ppear before the public in that form. | didactic appears Miarmome' was are still held by them. ¥ Her mother told me that her largest pe- | begun and remained in my desk for sev: Through the conrtesy of yrominent | cuniary returns had rvesulted from her hed, when Messes. Rob- Washimgton lady I am lod story of ‘Under Two Flags,” with *Moths? ¢ their ‘No public one of General Logan's humorous cond in order.” was taken | picces of verse. The lines printed below *% | ulior part were written m honor of a new bonnet in Yo e % ifhesi ! times, which the owner appeared on o certain | A0 Boston, wo are told by a recent | jiyve sometimes, instead of ~rewritin oceasion before (eneral Logan at his | Writer. a famous author cannot walk | sonta cor ugh drafi to a type- house, Tt is related that Logan was | flong n prominent thoroughfure but he ~ There is wn economy of {ime in S R S sy is follgwed by scores and sometimes hun it ot bat e rastan entered, Turning to greet her he im- | dreds’el eurious gyes. | In Now York | he type-writer's copy, buton the whole, mediately observed the new head , | this s di “‘.'f-' awais ow our best au | for very carctully fimished work, 1 think and, whaeling around in_his chair he | thors the unalloyed frocdom of our prom 1 of réwriting the whole man- riedly indicted the following lines. e verse was written by Generil Logan with the aiteration of but one word: o our literar; but distinguisl so much on Bro: 5, and no h them; not that the appreciation of lights is less tb d people o way, for ¢ 1 is turned to il ¢ encoun npl look the old'p! WitLiay J. Bok. superior.” - ~|uni EDUCATIONAL, sred s that A Catholie priest at Johnstown, Pa., has one migit be continually following with { refused the communion to any chiid attond- k of the beauty their eyes some luminary inart, litera- | ing the vublic schools. O1 Mys, Smith's bonnet., ture, statesmanship, finanee, or the other | Co-education Is beecoming inereasingly sue Shaudes of the ni professions. I remember when Mr. | cessiul and satisfactory in the Ohio “Wes Gathier ve and 1e Lowell was in town, some month or six | leyan university. And bléss that d weeks ), toatiend the Greek play ot By the will of K. Price Greenleaf, of Bos Wh ol from P ) the Acaileiny of Music, that 1 followed | tone who died recenily, Haryvard mn.{;lu- will on’t 1 well ren Imn down Broadway for nearly a half | reccive a bequest of nearly 500,000, Most of It IR O e L e i 1o be tsed Lo assist necdy undergradu- ates, T ; although he was recognized by many Tl late Richard Perkins, of Boston, left it bonnet was the magic nue wsual look, perhaps, was all |00 il 5257000 to eharitable” Instititions Whiel 0 that the poet received, Mr. Stedman | of that weludi 00,060 (o the Institute Asthel in it flits through the down town L | ol Teehnology and $50,000 to the Museum o et tr li<htly by. and in o and out of Wall streot; [ Fine Arts Fli sany R. H. Stoddard saunters quictly | 1Uis interosting nows that Princeton col- Wit y up DBroadway from his literary | 100 proposes to adopt a system of student And “thingmebobs” ) 1 hiH ST Ao et | coloperation. i’ collozo governtnent much On the top ot her Bis Mo o Firteonth stroot: Goorze Wil | like thatin vogue at Amherst. In a modined The faunty air, (0 his home in Fifteenth street; George Wil- | gouy the plan has worked well at Harvard, As shie weitup the K, liam Cuietis unobservedly walks from the | 40d" its adimirable working and iner My dear Mrs, Suith Staten Island forry to the Huarpers'estab- | popularity is one of the strongest o BiinZ8 1o me azain lishment; Julian ™ Hawthorne and his | of the chingo that has come oy s #Le spintof a2 t from Parls brotheran-law, George Parsons Lathrop, | college life in a gzencration. aarsaelconie, NaLIomE often walk arm in arm uptown: Dr. Ham President Eliot, of Harvard, who has been PG Iand 0 N L mond threads his way in his splendid open | ailing for some time, i5 1o spend nearly o RUNEI R L0k, baronche and pi 2 team througl the | year in traveling abroad, mostly in England. SRS hon SO tricks and vonicles on Lrondway Mark | He will start early in the new year, and dur. T Aasiuan and o i W Slw etoms o Dot hotd. | ing his absence Clement L. i, dean of ] & ) Byl DR S it head. a8 Geulty, will have divection of thie colloge. And forever repine, Iewsurely saunters throngh the park on | 7o degrees at the next commencement will iis head for a moment upon | Union squ ind for not one of these onterted by amember of the corporation, m of the poem, General ninent mold f literary thought has | 1y by Francis Parkman, the senior fel- in took up his pen and wrote | the New Yorker a cranc of the neck or a f oy ot the vereos the word | turn of the head. And the New York | Ex-Prosident Whita has endowed the Cor- e Tt | anfhor understands it, and who can tell | nelluniversity sehools of history and polit- LIS [ bt that he is the better plensed by ir, It | 1eal science with is fine historieal library, ! with « friend | 3% nob pleasant to bo stard at awnd fol- | containing about 40000 votunes and pae { just retirned froma Buropean | lowed by a battery of eyes, and our New | PGl 8l voted to namo_ the new law tour, in the course of 0 stopped | York author is by far oo mo L0 80K | ool the President White schiool of history t ] Hed upon | conspicuity of any i when he can | and political seience, and professorships of O Tiaarhed | History and political and municipal institu- ollow arding the famous | e | (mxln and of political “ iy 1m‘m. ¢ and novelist: It is a common belief that | ““What methods do you cmptoy m your | Saifs! Senee are to bk AL Ouida o lu RRamece, s sho | 1i is_a question often asked | “7y0 Si, of o of its objectionable i y her friendls and who rises to fame. and 1he | foaures the Harvard annex for women hb ol roof what is always curions for the answer 1 Lo flourish, he 1ast roport shows that e ealled the proprietics of life. T \eingz not Jong stice to have ocesion seventy-threo students in attend- N Crroncois ! ¢ | vite Mr. Philip G. Hamerte winst fifty-liye during the previous md deportment are lady-like, anc od in my letter the above « | Fiventy-two of these were enrollad in heard noth but praise about her | The ansver which it elicited is in | idergraduate classus und the remainder {1{MRRG = VAN DR AN 6 | pectal students, The report eontaing liabits of Iif 1 those of her i1 Nt sente e health of who knew her best. She is proud 151 think,” writes Mr, Hamerton, “that | Rt Lons. (TR | prides herself upon her blue blood, which | th two main quatifies to be kept | sct, o experience thus fi nherits from her father, who 'was an | in view in litc o n—frosh- | re 1s no danger for a won inn aristocrat, one of the old | nessand \ bist in my | < course of lnstruction, pa noblesse, Her mo is an English | opimion of attaining both is to aim at | Vided it is"not combined with late hours in woman and —an entertaining hostess. | freshnoss in tho rough draft, with little | the parlor and ballioot " Ouida 15 a warm persor the | regard Lo perieeti of expression; the | The ne v}i‘\‘l:‘l“!““”\": } ""y'"\“-w‘f“i‘\ln'l'-l-: Queen of Ttaly, and she i sh can | us subseauent | and andbles ooe to WAke: & oams the” palac her | ¢ n, ¢ xtent of writing | 1)) ot IHarvard oy vith | & Y is time, When- | | m o not v wr. |« i rary | d A 1 tre ! | ¢ and and | r d v rapid and | Lk ( r a th h ] ¢ 10 | 18 1 t ¢ ) 1Y 1 mld Al that all b rary wor e fron | | % in the ecarly morning. Sk much as e the 16 | and of'| ¢, which Yalo does not y day at b 0'clock 1 gous t, bu {03 wd | 9 betore the second or thivd ) her L ty, M Al the studies b1 the fivst or fou I le ar 1 consist breakfast e 6, and ono I rary work n ry ot 'Y‘M sort of litera v o lewd | U 0 BOnliofary Koly j whatever s it w ! a es 1o eight howrs a 0 way is very great especi- | year, and tw out of 1t liké lightning ove y S car Y the rest She Writes very 1 re: 15 mainly of and when the ) v 150 phy. The clee times covers a s ab paper | uld not be re ise vice niay be made with only two or three hnos of live words | glanced over with suflicient ease for hter lioty Suteber, alratged 1 sovel eaoh. Bhe exprossed to me hor great o | ary purp The Intellectual Lif P T g N g position to having any stories by her | was begun in guite a difierent form (not suclont Tanguages and. 1nguistios published in scrinl form] und it is evident | in letters), and many pages were writtén | n tory and phy i from the warmth of her manuer that she ! before L cot led thut it was heavy and | matticunation