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Show trom the dusty Highway, ana on iw piazz and the velvety lawn in front of it the occupants of Clovercroft can enjoy en-joy whatever privacy they choose. PagS3M.ll. Ail. I. . .PWliH, 'pV 3ast C 1EE NOTABLE MEN 859 1 I Hi Homes of Mr. Bob'seveltr Mr. Bryant aid Mr, Godwin on Long Isl- and Sound. SO ' ; . . to HE AUTHOB OF "THANAT0PSIS" (Us;j led His Son-in-law The Author of 1 'The 00,, Winning of . the West" Their UE' Homes on the Sound. 'at . New York, Oct'. 8. Long Island PE( nersuice new xorit Decame a place oi 7 M peat commercial importance, has af- Wed a most convenient location for sT the country homes of metropolitan men of affairs who needed to be Avithin easy 1 reach of their places of business. As far m tact as 1840 William Cullon Bryant and ale kiswn-in-law, Parke Godwin, made for themselves summer homes near Eoslyn, not been confined to mere slight magazine maga-zine sketches. He has done serious work. His " Winning of the West" is a valuable contribution to American history. his-tory. The field was not virgin, it is true, but it had been touched so slightly that the world had scant knowledge of the patient work, dreadful hardships and romantic adventures of those hardy and heroio pioneers who pushed beyond the Ohio and the Mississippi, and preserved pre-served for our country the vast territory which stretches thouce to the Pacific. In the histories I saw when I was a boy at school in Kentucky 1 never came across much about any of the worthies who built up our country except those whose lives had been spent on the seaboard. The books of twenty years ago were all made in Boston and New York and Philadelphia, and unless a man happened hap-pened to belong to the east he had very little chance to have his deeds chronicled chron-icled by the historians. The east has learned that there is a good deal of west to the country, and Mr. Roosevelt in his I book shows that even before the establishment estab-lishment of the republic there were men in the west who were heroic alil.e in their conceptions and their deeds. This j was a large undertaking for a young I man of fortune. But while he was do- ' ing this he had other affairs to keep in order fences to keep trim which were always disposed to tumble down. He was an active politician. Ho went to the primary elections and to the nominating nomi-nating conventions. He was elected to the legislature at Albany, and he was for the lobbyists a very uncomfortable ele- I ment in that body when any job was to be t rushed through. He bra ved Ruscoe Couk-ling Couk-ling when the great senator tried to force Grant on his party for a third term. And in his famous race for the mayoralty mayor-alty of New York he braved quite as formidable an opponent as Conkling ever was in the eccentric, the irascible, tat always &bls and entertaining Abram Hewitt, who kicked conventionality out of doors when he became mayor, and made the conduct of the business of the great city as gay and lively as the performance per-formance of a comic opera. Mr. Roosevelt's present undertaking; ' that is, to divorce office holding from partisan politics, is certainly a big one. I don't know how hopeful he is after the experience ha has had. He certainly would not be afraid of the job because it was big and difficult. . That is not in him. If, however, he ever does accom- i plish his task I venture the opinion that he will need to take his ease for a season sea-son or o at least at his beautiful home I on Long Island. Juo. Gilmer SPiiED. l HOME OF PARKE GODWIN. There is nothing showy about either of these places. They are both old fashioned, fash-ioned, comfortable houses, built to live in by men who had taste essentially different dif-ferent from that of the modern millionaire, million-aire, with his ostentatious love of display. Mr. Godwin is now 74 years old, and has given up active participation in the affairs af-fairs in which his life has been Bpent. His sou Harold conducts the Commercial Advertiser, which Mr. Godwin bought shortly after the death of Hugh Hastings. Hast-ings. It is needless to say that all of the Bryant and Godwin traditions are preserved pre-served and cherished in that office, and that the paper is clean and decent and iu all things above reproach. ' . Twelve miles or so from Roslyn the ancient and flshlike town of Oyster Buy sorrowfully slumbers amid perennial dust. Some three miles from the railway rail-way station, and on an elevated necir or woodland between Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor, and projecting out iuto Long Island Sound, is the country home of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, at present one of the United States civil service commissioners. On the Oyster B.-.y side ol, Mr. Roosevelt's pla.ee the woods have mt been disturbed, and there is now a dense grove of chestnut, hickory and birch, and through this the road winds up to the higher land, which has been cleared. Here Mr. Roosevelt, some six or eight years ago, built himself an elegant ele-gant house, which he uses for his home about eight months in the year. It is a charming spot. On three sides there is water, and on the land side the heavy woodland which protects the place from the highway. Within sight and across the sound is the Connecticut shore. It is a place admirably adapted to a life of quiet ease, but it will probably be many years before the young and gifted owner gives much time to idleness. He is by nature too energetic and active to ever rest very long on his oars. He must be doing something all the time. By inheritance he is a rich man. ana nine young men out of ton who come into fortunes such as his feel that it is unnecessary for them to do anything hnnler than to seek amusement. He jr: I to I CEDARMERE. ! m Hempstead bay, about thirty miles I from New York. Mr. Bryant had at I that time been editing The Evening Post I for fourteen years, and Mr. Godwin, ' I who three years before had married, was 01 ssociated with his father-in-law in the editorial management of the ablest and I best afternoon newspaper New York has lever had. I Mr. Bryant's old home is now occu- i I pied by his grandson, Mr. Harold God-I God-I win, the managing editor of The New I Wk Commercial Advertiser. It is the I how place of the neighborhood, and no I visitor is permitted to linger long in that I part of Long Island without making a I pilgrimage to Cedarmere, which was the 'j? pet's home for about forty years. The p I public road runs very close by one end I of the house, which is only partially I Protected from the dust of the highway IV hedges and shrubbery. The lawn in I front of the old fashioned house slopes ;I I Ward a pond, which has been made k I about twenty-five feet above the waters I of the bay and stretches to tho border of I fte estate. A very large locust tree, I me five feet in diameter, stands iinme-I iinme-I oiately in front Of the house, but it is I Spidly yielding its life to the borers, lMch have left -bo few healthy speci- Oonsof the ceratonia siliqua in America. I It was from a point very hear this I tee that 1 took a photograph of the I house. The sun was under a cloud, and I I as walking back and forth on the I jawn trying to find the most suitable place I in which to set up my camera. Thegar-I Thegar-I feier noticed what seemed to him my I quandary, and came to my rescue by I filing me that tha spot in the walk near I he locust tree was the place "they I "sually took the photographs from." I I 1 not inquire whether the amateur I Photographer often visited Cedarmere. I 'did not need to do this. His remarks I the tale plainly enough. I The editors of the Encyclopedia Bn-I Bn-I tannica have denied Bryant a place in I ttat work. Hia work they regarded as I to evanescent to entitle him to such a I ""ark of distinction. This was a most j I amazing decision to men of letters in I America, and the narrowness of judg-I judg-I ieat displayed almost reconciles one to I jhs troubles which the American pub-I pub-I pirates are now making for the I Messrs. Black, of Edinburgh. Consid-I Consid-I ng the space given in that work to I and fourth rate European poets, I tad American, too, for that matter, I Jely a paragraph might have been I Wed for the author of "Thanatopsis. I Tuia is of small consequence, however, I J his place in literature is too secure to , I be affected by such slight. I Jost across the highway from Cedar-I Cedar-I Jre is Clovercroft, the country seat of I r- Parke Godwin. The entrance is I Jagh a vine covered archway; and a I f steps bring the' visitor to the main I 4or of the house, This door opens tm-I tm-I Mediately from the driveway into the I H.and upon that front of the house I "era jg no or pjazza. But upon I j1 front which overlooks the bay there I b piazza of generous proportions, de-I de-I 'Sued primarily for summer time com- (. and made pictoresqne by the vines I ch clamber over it The trees and I nmbbery crotect the bouse completely loves amusement, too, and he finds it m sports at home and abroad. Though a small man in stature be is a mighty hunter, whether he chases the amseseed bag over the fences and brooks of Long Island, or seeks the grizzly bear in the fastnesses of the Rocky mountains. Of these chases he has written most charmingly in the magazines, and his has been the ablest pen to defend the cross country riding, called fox hunting, in the neigiiborhoodof New York It has been fashionabe to laugh at the young gentlemen who compose the varies vari-es hunt clubs about New How. They were called Auglomaniacs and dudes, any other epithet which happened come handy was applied to them. Mr. Roosevelt did not hesitate to say that the sport was a manly one, requiring courage and skill, and he was unquestionably unques-tionably right. A fence is a fence and a dTtch L ditch Whether there is a fox Ed or not, and horse and ndereach To6 shown" us the Cowboy of the plains. Sonem he is very much at home S-5 interesting articles. ' THEODOM ROOSEVELT'S HOME. 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