. Jay Cooke : financier of the Civil War . Mr. Cooke had gone with them. The housewas burned to the ground in 1880 and a new Eildon,the present home, was erected in its place, Mr. Cookeoccupying, in comfort and happiness, a large second-story room overlooking the foliage of great trees and thegreensward. The trains hummed past on their way toNew York, the bells in his church hard by tolled thehours musically by day and by night. A few hundredyards away the village of Ogontz slumbered contentedly,as did the man who gave it its name in the same prettysylvan neighborhood that he had loved in the
. Jay Cooke : financier of the Civil War . Mr. Cooke had gone with them. The housewas burned to the ground in 1880 and a new Eildon,the present home, was erected in its place, Mr. Cookeoccupying, in comfort and happiness, a large second-story room overlooking the foliage of great trees and thegreensward. The trains hummed past on their way toNew York, the bells in his church hard by tolled thehours musically by day and by night. A few hundredyards away the village of Ogontz slumbered contentedly,as did the man who gave it its name in the same prettysylvan neighborhood that he had loved in the days thatwere unmarred by regret or defeat. The countrysidehad not changed and many more had now discovered itsbeauties. P. A. B. Widener, William L. Elkins, JohnB. Stetson, John Wanamaker and several well knownPhiladelphians who had later accumulated large for-tunes in trade and finance settled in the vicinity andbuilt themselves handsome mansions. The walls of Mr. Cookes room at Eildon were hung 2 PJ a. g- » a rd H M. FINANCIER OF THE CIVIL WAR 529 with blue paper covered with pond lilies that seemedto spring from some waters in which he had waded inhis great boots on his fishing trips. The blue manteland fire-place which had arrived from Japan after thefailure, a gift of the Japanese Emperor in memory of thevisit of his ambassadors at Ogontz in 1872 was erectedat the end of the room. Many family pictures and me-mentoes decorated the apartment. A cushion upon thesofa proclaimed in stitching an appropriate sentiment:Never fish in troubled waters. Jay Cooke never Barney had this home, a younger daughter, , lived upon an adjoining estate, and he was con-tent to devote Ogontz to another use. It was toolarge to be re-opened as his home. Its most natural fatepointed to its conversion into a school and after expend-ing $40,000 upon it he persuaded Mary L. Bonney andHarriette A. Dillaye to remove into the country withtheir school for girls, known since 1850 as the
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