. The romance and tragedy of a widely known business man of New York. e great stone fire-place with its old-fashioned crane and huge wroughtiron andirons and the stained glass window on thestaircase, a life-sized figure of a Knight of Old. This hall was illustrated in Appletons work on Artistic Interiors. On the right is the spacious drawing-room in SanDomingo mahogany and rich decorations in old roseand gold, and back of it the large library in blackwalnut with its beautifully carved mantel and nu-merous low book-cases. Then came the dining-room in oak and Japanese leather and a fountain inwh
. The romance and tragedy of a widely known business man of New York. e great stone fire-place with its old-fashioned crane and huge wroughtiron andirons and the stained glass window on thestaircase, a life-sized figure of a Knight of Old. This hall was illustrated in Appletons work on Artistic Interiors. On the right is the spacious drawing-room in SanDomingo mahogany and rich decorations in old roseand gold, and back of it the large library in blackwalnut with its beautifully carved mantel and nu-merous low book-cases. Then came the dining-room in oak and Japanese leather and a fountain inwhich the gold fish sported—but enough of descrip-tion. This was our home and when we had com-pleted the appointments they were tasteful and inkeeping. We moved in on April 28th, 1882. Here then wewere settled for life, so we said. If a new paintingwas hung or a piece of marble set up we had thethought it was there to remain. We loved the house and everything in it. Weloved the friends we had made. Our life was allthat we would have it—peaceful, happy, >-<r< CD U zo I-w QUJGC a Redstone 109 My craving for books has always been a trait inmy character and with the commencement of myprosperity I began to form a library. I had no tastefor rare editions. My model for a book is convenient size for read-ing, good type and paper, fine binding, and illustra-tions, if any, the best. My wife was in full accordwith me in this as in everything. Wedding anni-versaries, birthdays, and Christmas always broughtme from her something choice in literature and Isoon had hundreds of fine volumes of standardworks on my shelves. They were not allowed to remain there both read much and aimed to cultivate the tastein our children. For autographs, I cared not as a collector, but Ilove to read a book that has, bound in, an autographletter from the author or from some character in thebook. Many of my volumes were so honored. Of course in the case of authors of a past gen
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