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Ir.House lift!tig, aud thereby puF~a uTSt bit Of money in. bis purse. It was with this hi sought bettor fortune in the gold fields. His pick uncovered no gold, but richer than athan 4,000 in size. For a TimiThe'made hisown gas, but he now gets this from thecity. There is a beautiful fountain in his yard, and he raises everything upon his placewhole gold mine was the idea which his brain that the advanced fanner pretends to raise.Nl-K*!•ne,inie»•dieInseiyY~rsieisisSt36ielese■e.mwrought as he lay sleepless in the rude bunk of the frontier cabin.‘‘Before going west,’’ said Mr, Pullman the other day, “I had made some crude experiments with sleeping cars. But while on my journey new ideas eanv to we, and there was something ubout the biuiks in which I slept out m Colorado that gave me a suggestion, With apiece of charcoal I made my first drawings on wrapping paper, and that first design was, generally, the one that was after*ward adopted. So it was the gold hunting, after aD, that gave to the world the sleeping car, and that made young Pullman a millionaire and themonarch of a magic city.Pullman’s first patent was issued in 1804, after his return from the west He exhibited his invention to a number of wealthy men in this and other cities, but, strange to say, none of them had faith enough in it to investmoney therein. IVhat golden opportunities wore then missed I But Pullman had faith in his own idea, oven if he had no money. He had pluck, too, and in 1SG5 he managed tc build a car after his designs. Ho did much of the work himself, ran in debt for mate* rials, borrowed money hero and there, and called upon relations for assistance. But when the car was finished he did not know xvhat to do with it He went from railroad office to raliioad office, endeavoring to maky arrangements for its use. No manager want* ed it. Not one of them could see what advantage there was to be hail from pulling that heavy coach over his tracks.*m ias (ek ' hecb1 %liar hets-w-triesn-enge*ashebyheiteitillut.erlieneades-irebyireagusllSlybv a8oroliekmete.srediethed-tbe'hend*7noin-m-lceoftile?ree.rasT*peeoreerem-the . of or. ledavf*y»anrlyt a)Uter-ifcsayofin-man-' to ofig-heitfinrs.ngonhisndHeet-fiiaheUyithIdler59,$o.istIW; ar aheir-edhenAoflll-ngat-ofndoftedSTREET IN PULLMAN.“It was at this stage of his struggle,” says e friend of Pullman’s, “that he felt most bitter. With every dollar he had on earth invested in that car, which also represented years ol labor, he could not understand why railwaj managers would not give him a chance tc demonstrate the value of his invention. Hlt; did not lose any faith in the fortune of his car but he did resolve that the railroads windsthen turned such a deaf ear to his entreaties should, in time, make ample amends for then coldness. Had railway managers then beer moro enterprising and liberal they would have found easier terms to meet when a1 length Pullman's car became a necessity. ”But Pullman was not then to be cheated ol the fruit of his ingenuity and courage. The railroads did not want his car, but he was determined that they should take it. Bo hlt; made an arrangement with the Chicago anc Alton company by which he was to pat mileage for the hauling of his car between Chicago and St. Louis. The car was attached to an express train in the old West Side station. Pullman's brother, Albert, wax aboard it as conductor and porter, and Puli man himself stood in the waiting room neai the ticket office and solicited passengers.“Gentlemen, he said, to strangers who pur chased tickets for St. Louis or farther points, “my new sleeping car is going out on this train, I can give you a berth In which you may sleep comfortably from here to St Louis, and the ehp£ge is only $2. Will you try it Fxhere were many passengers by the train, but only eight of them were attracted by the novelty of the sleeping car and the invitation of its owner. But the car ran to fefc. Louis, earning $16 on its first trip, and the Pullman sleeping car was a success.Nothing succeeds like success. The Pullman car at once became popular. Passengers were delighted with it, the newspapers praised it, and railroads sought it. The organization ci a i'ompuny to build and introduce the cars was now an easy matter. Men jostled each other in tbeir efforts to “get in on the ground floor. But here Pullman claimed his reward. Alone he bad borne the brunt of the battle, and now he demanded the victor's spoils. A company was organized, but for once the inventor was not crowded out by the money makers'. Hi* patent—the creature of his sleepless nights in the bunk at Pike's peak—was an offbet for a million of money. From the fh-bt the inventor of the sleeping car was the first man of the company, its controlling spirit, its largest stockholder, and such he has ever since remained.In twenty years that one sleeping car has been followed by 1,300 more. They earn nearly $5,000,000 a year, and the cost of running them is only $2,000,000. A gold mine, surely, and why should not thothe possessor of such a bonanza build an?rform any other work of money-magic which might please hisAladdin like city, or perform any other work« whilt;.....fancy1I had started out intending to describe some of tho interesting features—-social, industrialand architectural—tho successes and the failures of this one-man city which grew sc suddenly out of a swamp. But of these I must r?2u hi another letter.HOW OUR PUBLIC MEN LIVE OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON,Descriptions of the Country Seat# of Sena* tors Sherman, Edmonds, Ingalls, Vance and Others—The Elms, Hominy Hill.Gombroon and Palmer’s Bog Cabin.[Special Correspondence.!Washington, Aug. 9.—Most of the leading statesmen of the country have fine residences away from Washington and there are uofc a few like Senator Stanford and Congressman Scott who keep up three or four different establishments. Senator Sherman lives at Mansfield, O., and he has a little farm surrounding his residence in the best part of the city. His house is on a hill and its windows overlook miles of the rolling country ofr—* rcentral Ohio. It has acres of beautiful lawn and trees and there is an orchard at its back. The house itself is a large rambling brick structure with a Mansard roof, and with steps and finishings of a wonderfully striped red sandstone, which comes from Mrs. Sherman’s farm near Mansfield. The rooms in Senator Sherman’s house are very large and their ceOings are high. A wide hall runs through the center and there are many verandas, the ceilings of which are finished in Georgia pine.The senator has a large library on the ground floor, and the walls of thfc, like those in his house at Washington, are lined with books. In Mansfield Senator Sherman is known as plain John Sherman. It is not an uncommon thing to aee him out- on his place superintending the work upon it himself, and he thinks nothing of driving down town wearing a slouch hat and a suit of clothes not remarkable for their newness. Ho has many friends visiting him, and his house is generally full of company during the summer season. Both himself and his wife are fond of having young people about them, and though Mrs. Sherman is an accomplished society woman she is very domestic in her tastes.He has bis own fish pond, and he raises his own pork and chickens. He keeps Jersey cows, and he takes as much interest in the town of Fairfield as though he owned it. Judge W. D. Kelley has an old homstead in Philadelphia which he calls “The Elms. He built it for himself thirty-three years ago, and it has been but little changed since then. It is a stone house covered with white stucco. It is about forty feet wide by forty-three feet deep, and it has a large hall running through the center. There is a bay window at the side, and the interior has one of the best politico-economical libraries in the country. The library is on the ground floor, and there is a large desk in its center which is littered with the letters, pamphlets and books of a hard working literary man and 'statesman. Though Kelley is well up in the seventies he still works as hard as when he began congressional life during Lincoln’s presidency'. He keeps up magazine and book writing at the same time, and he turns out about as much copy for The Congressional Record and the pditors as any man in congress. Judge Kelley’s father was a jeweler, and the judge himself began life at 13 in a watch shop. Here in his library between two of the windows stands one of those old-fashioned clocks, with a high colored, chubby face looking down, on the di*d This eloek was made by Judge Kelley’s father, and the judge bought it in after time from the widow of the man to whom his father sold it A large lawn surrounds this house, and this is full of fine old forest trees, the most of which the judge has seen grow up himself, and some of which he has planted in connection with his friends.Sam Randall lives at Berwyn, in an old stone farmhouse, which he has rented for years. The house is surrounded by trees, and it is perhaps 100 years old. Randall’s farm comprises eighty acres of land, and it is not an uncommon sight to see him .with his coat off, working about it during the summer. The country in which it is located is rolling, and Randall’s neighbors are thrifty farmers who have small and well cultivated farms. Mr. Randall’s chief associates during the summer are with his neighbors, though many a delegation of office seekers comes out to see him. They are driven from the station to the Randall house, and the hack drivers charge $1.50 for the round trip. Sam Randall is not wealthy, but his tastes are of the simplest., and he is satisfied with about $15,000, the amount of his accumulated savings, and a reputation for integrity which has never been questioned.Senator Vance’s country home is known as “Gombroon,” after one of the opium dreams of De Quincy. It consists of a splendid estate of forest of 1,000 acres, on the edge of the Blue Ridge mountains. It is on one of the highest ^joints east of the Mississippi, and it is near the head of the Swannanoah river. Here Senator Vance now lives during the hot summers, in a log cabin of three or four rooms, though he is building a fine country home near by. He is a lover of nature, and though he has a very pleasant home at Washington, he gets tired of the fiat streets and thy regular lines of trees long before the end of each congressional session, and says he is anxious to get to North Carolina, where he can lie upon the grass in his shirt sleeves and see the industrious negro ploughing with a one-eyed mule. He does not like the full dress parade of the fashionable watering lace, and for perfect, restful enjoyment he tdnlrs no place is better than the mountain ad the forest. This home of Senator V ance i also a good investment. The land has cough cherry on it to pay for it, and it has, esid.es, walnut and other hard woods. After ; is cleared it makes splendid farming lands, nd Senator Vance is rapidly cutting down a •ortion of the trees and setting the ground to earing crops.Senator Payne’s home is on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, and it is a part of the old farm hat Payne’s father-in-law left when he died, ’be old Payne homestead, in which the sen-tor lived for years, is a low, ridged roof uildmg covered with vines, and this is now ccupied by Mrs. Whitney’s millionaire •rother, Oliver. Senator Payee's house is a aagnificent stone mansion elegantly fur-dshed, and surrounded by land so valuable hat you would need to have greenbacks cough to carpet it before you could purchase t, Senator Payne can afford it, however, or he is worth from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. lis daughter is married to a rich man and .s only son living has a pile three or four imas as big as his own.Senator Ingalls lives at Atchison, Elan., nd I am told that his present house is the ne he moved into when he married. It was iriginally a story and a half residence, aiffi Senator Ingalls has added to i fc from year to 'ear till it now covers quite an area. It is ituated in beautiful grounds upon a bluff iverlooking Atchison and the river, and its nterior is very comfortably and well fur-ushed. It has a fine library, and is full of .hildren from little golden-haired girls of 3 aid 5 up to Ingalls’ eldest son, who has just rind listed from college. Mrs. Ingalls, the ^nator’s wife, who is noted as one of the leautLful and accomplished women in sensorial circles, presides over it, and it is asTleasaZt * 1inme as you will^ find anywhere.*ot far out of Atchison there is a park oi everal acres which belongs to Senator Ingalls, uid upon which, I understand, he intends to mild some day.Hominy Hill is the euphonious title of Gar-nnd's country seat, and though I have never jeen it-1 am told it is a log cabin, away off in .he woods near Little Rock, Ark. When iarland goes there he never allows himself to e bothered with mail or business, and he pive ordere that his letters were not to be orwarded to him when he left for his six veeks’ vacation last summer. The cabin it-elf is a double log one, and its interior and surroundings are those of the forest primeval. 5e often has some of his friends come and ee him while he is thus camping out, and the mtertainment he gives them is shooting, ishing and the good stories for which he is !amous.Senator Gorman has a farm in Maryland lot far from Washington. He keeps fine .tock, and does not need to travel 100 miles x get to the capital or any part of his dis-net.Governor Curtin lives at Bell font, the little own in which he was born. He has a fine ibrary, and hia house contains many curios, which he has picked up during his life of ’oreign and American travel. He has, imong other things, large and elegant por-a-aits of the late czar of Russia and of Prince Gortschakoff. When Curtin left Russia the 'inperor was very anxious to have him stay, mfc upon his saymg that he was determined lt;o go, he told Governor Curtin, that he would ike to give him a testimonial of his friendship. Governor Curtin replied that the laws if America presented its foreign ministers irom receiving gifts from rulers. The emperor then said that ho had a portrait of hira-«lf painted by Bonnat which he had intended ’or his empress. “But,” continued be, ‘T vant to give it to you so that you may keep $ in your family. Upon Governor Curtin selling him that if he gave it in his official capacity as minister it would have to go to she state department, he replied that he would wait until he got home and then send .t to him with a letter, saying that it was forAm. Ho did this and there is no piece of property in Curtin’s possession which lie irizes more highly than this.Secretary Endicott lives in Washington in Minister Pendleton’s house. In Salem he oc-Sbe prides herself upon her Jersey cows, and . ^pjes the Endicott mansion, on Essex streetagodsoamdidBenmit was not long ago that she sent some of her butter to a county fair. In order that the award might be madp without regard to the sender she put no name on the exhibit, and the judges found the butter so yellow and so sweet that they thought it must be colored artificially. They gave the premium on this ground tc a roll which was the color of skimmed milk cheese, and were greatly surprised when Mrs. Sherman afterward sept them a piece of her yellow butter with her compliments.Senator Edmunds lives at Burlington, Vermont, and his house there is a plain old-fashioned brick of medium size, situated cn the slope of the bid on which Burlington is built.It has three or four acres of ground about it, which are laid out in lawn and park, and 14s ‘Tpulows command a beautiful view of Lake Champlain the Adirondack mountains.There is nothing showy about Hie place, and ] the house is os plain and reserved as Senator Edmunds himself. Edmqnds lives here iq g democratic manner, He does not drive about In livery, nor does he give extravagant receptions. You may often see him, with his wife by his side, going over tho country, driving his horses himself, and his habits are severely plain-Senator Wilson lives in the little town of Fairfield, Iowa. His home is on the edge oftho town, and it consists of a two-story franjp j P1^5 bouse, with fifty-five acres of lawn anc}; meadow. The house is a very comfortable * ^ ^ one. It has a wide hall running through its gha center, and at the right is the library and par-1 agil lor. Near the bouse stands a waterpipe raised tenlt; fifty feet into the air, which supplies the house with water and which is filled by the windmill £Khater W fison h*a att tho modern conveniences, though he Jji inikejufiry* t* thnjotm ofite Monroe,a has a country home at Windsor, VL, and I have heard that his association with that state has come through his marriage with Miss Warriner, a Vermont lady. He has a large number of children, ana they tell a story how one of these, on bearing Mr. Evarts’ favorite donkey bray dolefully during her father’s absence, sympathetically said: “Poor thing! But, nursy, I am so glad that papa will be here Saturday, and then perhaps tne little donkey won’t be jo lonesome. ” As I bsanl this story I wondered if she ever could have heard her father delivering one of his 4QO-word sentences.* Senator Palmer’s house at Washington is worth $100,000. He also lias' a home in Detroit and a log cabin home out in the woods...... XI ’f* ' *r.. TT.Vr 7 _ « *full of carp, and ho -delights in the fact that the Indian Chief Pontiac used te roam ia the woods which he sow c'^ns.Frank Georgs Carpenter.^11 nf Ilf a ilpo «wntb ofserfter,imtintoinc]fcbosandliveArklSBSSsSJSL
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