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Show TWO" CLEVELAND' HOMES. Th. B..idece. of ,hn Hay Widow of Amusa Stoue. - Special Correspondence 1 CLEVELAND, Aug. 19.-0M of the j. donees most frequently pointed out to the I trui1?leVelund U thatot Col. John ?Bn' , Lnted uuthor ot "ke County Ballads "Castilian Days," and now more Widely famous as the joUlt auth Uh which ran so long in The Century Zft ln Clevelaua that Col. ll,vy his wife the eldest daughter of AmZV Stone, the millionaire railroad manage? M. -!?n it3"?- 'md more- Since beEiuninK L m . torat.10n Cnl- Nicolay he has spent his winters in Washington, and has HOUSE OF JOHN HAY. built a home there, but he still owns his beautiful residence on Euclid avenue, and spends all his summers in Cleveland, where he owns a large amount of valuable real estate. Tho house is of Ohio sandstone, built in an adopted Gothic style, and was completed in 1877. It is in a tine part of Euclid, though tho business section is rapidly moving up that way, nnd like all tho residences on the north side of the avenue ave-nue Btands buck ram the street several hundred feet, with a broad, beautiful lawn in frout ot it. There is an artistic veranda at $t'a, and from it one enters a square hall, lnt this hall open a large reception room, a beautiful roomy library, the dining room and a small "den," where, it is reputed, "The Breadwinners," thut anonymous novel which created such a stir a few years ago, was written. Whether it be true that Col. Hay was tho author or not, it is certain cer-tain it was written by some one who was thoroughly acquainted with tho immediate neighborhood. Every ono familinr with Cleveland readily recognized Euclid avenue ave-nue from the descriptions, aud the little wicket gate in the rear of Mr. Arthur Farnham's rcsideneo is only a few doors j from the residence of Col. Hay and in the rear of the former home of Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, that other well known Cleveland, litterateur. The house is moderate in t:, having fifteen rooms of good size aside from the servants' apartments. It is very e'.ijgautly decorated and furnished, the work having been done by one of the best known decorators decor-ators of New York city. It wa hero that the preliminary work for the "Life of Lincoln" Lin-coln" was done aud many of the documents collected. When Col. Hay removed to Washington to finish that work he took his working library with him, but there yet remains in his Cleveland residence a library li-brary of 500 or 600 vol umes.chiefiy of French and standard authors. Next door to Col. Hay's residence is tbo home of Mrs. Julia A. Stone, the widow of Amasa Stone and Mrs. Hay's mother. The broad lawns in front of the two places axe not divided and there is a noticeable air of neighborliness between them. Amasa Stone was one of Cleveland' leadiujr citizens, citi-zens, and the sudden death of his only son Adelbert, who was drowned while bathing in the Connecticut river when a student at Yale, led him to devote some of his great fortune to founding a college in his son's memory. Encouraged by his oCer of a HOME OF MRS. STONE, million dollars Western Reserve college, then located at Hudson, and one of the old institutions of which the Reserve was just ly proud, was induced to remove to Cleve land. . .. , . ,. A beautiful stone recitation nau, aeui-cated aeui-cated in 1888, ouly a year before Mr, Stone's death, besides a brick dormitory aud gymnasium, now graces a fine campus far out on Euclid avenue, and the college bears the name of Mr. Stone's dead son Adelbert. Mrs. Stone, who is now well past three score, lives in a retired way in the fine, large house built by Mr. Stone a third of a century ago. It is of brick, with large projecting bay windows running run-ning to the roof at both the front corners, while between them is a small veranda with iron trimmings. The interior is old fashioned throughout, having never been refitted since it was built, thirty4hn years ago. SAMUEL G. McCLURE. |