Deseret Evening News | 1890-07-18 | Page 2 | Local News

W. E. IIakek, the late sewing machlug millionaire, hail curious conceits in regard to the arrangement arrange-ment of his private grounds. His phce at Welle-ley, Ma-.., j the matter of the grounds, parlktil irly, is a curiosity. Kvcryw here ou the premises the visitor is confronted with some ingenious piece of ex-travagame. ex-travagame. Hire in the pathway is a concealed platform wimh. as you step upon it, swings and sends joua-liircliiug; there isan inviting clialr in front of a (lowering cactus, and when you take a scat to in-sict in-sict the cactus tho plant sinks out of sight an: in its place springs up a wooden devil, painted red and grinning in our face. The re are dozens of gnte-queries of this kind which suggest the mechanism or.i Humpty Dumjrfy rather than the arraiigvnieut ora gentleman's j.ri. vale lawn.