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LONDON’S GREAT HOUSES.
The Treasurers Accumulated in Great
Houses of London and England.
Town and County.
The men who built the great man
sions of London which endure to this
day prepared them for the reception
year after year of the most beautiful
objects, so that now hardly anything
remains to add to them. There are a
hundred great houses in London of
which the least important could be
taken to any other town and proclaim
ed as a wonderful museum.
Dorchester house, the present home
of the American ambassador; Bridge-
• water house, Chesterfield house,
built by the great author of polite let
ter writing; Aspley house, the home
of the Duke of Wellington; Devon
shire house, Grosvenor house, the cus
todian of a vast treasure in pictures,
manuscrips and sculpture; Lansdowne
house, with its great gallery of busts
and statues; Stafford house, whose
great straircase alone is worth a king’s
ransom; Wimborne house—these are
only a few of the number. There are
many other houses of minor impor
tance which would be starred in the
first line if they were anywhere else.
There, for instance, in Arlington
street, a small, narrow thoroughfare
close behind the Ritz hotel, where
Wimborne house casts its great shad
ow, are a dozen mansions which con
tain treasures almost beyond belief.
The Marquis of Salisbury lives there
in a magnificent palace—magnificent
as to interior, insignificant as to ex
terior.
Sir Alexander Henderson, a great
railway magnate, hides the nobility of
his possessions behind a modest street
frontage. At No. 17, a house built 150
years ago by Lord Carteret and now
owned by Lord Yarborough, lives H.
Gordon Alfridge, late of Chicago. It
is a simple looking London residence,
but the vast interior, Bpreading out
as you progress, is a perfect store
house of beautiful objects of antiqui
ty.
Here are the most wonderful Van
Dycks, Greuzes, Rembrandts, Reynold
ses, Lelys and Gainsboroughs; gallery
after gallery, room after room filled
with them; books of great rarity, bind
ings that would make the curators of
most museums giddy with delight and
furniture that one only finds usually
surrounded by chains to keep off the
curious public; and this is only one
of the dozens upon dozens of old Lon
don houses.
As a matter of fact, this does not ap
ply to London alone. All over the
country, north, east, west and south,
there are strewn country houses dat
ing back to other centruies where
great treasures are stored and jeal
ously guarded. There is no other
country in the world which contains
so many. 19
The French chateaux suffered too
much during the troublesome times of
the revolution. They were burned and
sacked and hacked and their treasures
scattered to the four winds.
Private Ambulance, Carriages, Flowers, Chapel,
THE NEW TARIFF.
Germany never had many. The
Italian works of art were kept mostly
in cities like Venice, Florence, Verona
and Genoa and in its numerous mon
asteries. But in England, where the
country houses have hardly been dis
turbed since the time of Cromwell, the
work of collecting has gone on un
molested generation after generation.
There are still many undiscovered
finds scattered about here and there
in spite of the cry that nothing more
is to be purchased.
“THE GRAND.”
Entire Week of April 10th.
Miss Emma Bunting, in her fourth
week. An elaborate production of
Clyde Fitch’s famous production, enti
tled “Girls.” If you want to laugh
cheer and grow fat, you will miss a
treat if you fail to go to the Grand
this week.
The show at the Grand is unques
tionably the best production yet seen
in this city at popular prices.
, The Atlanta amusement patrons
have displayed their appreciation of
the Grand management’s efforts to
present absolutely the best talent that
money can procure for the smallest
possible admission. The Grand is by
far the largest and best equipped show
house in the city, and it is the inten
tion of the management to keep the
highest standard of plays for the bene
fit of her patrons. The prices the
same all the time.
31 Years Experience to offer and the Best Facilities
NEVER CLOSED
96 North Forsyth Street (Adjoining Carnegie Library)
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
They’ve fixed the tariff sure enough
In Man’s own bungling way,
They’ve raised the rate on women’s
stuff,
So let us to the fray!
Furs, feathers, gloves, perfumery,
’Tis thus the list begins:
They’ve also raised the tax on tea
And ornamental pins.
Who wants free hides and iron ore?
Who called for croton oil?
Whatever "basic slag” may be,
I hope the stuff will spoil.
The free list teems with terms like
these,
And to their other sins
They add that awful tax on tea
And ornamental pins.
A "necessity” is coffee—
Men drink it everywhere.
But why is tea a luxury,
Like manufactured hair?
They lower the rate on butchers'
knives,
On timbers, drugs and tins;
But what of fancy coats and tea
And ornamental pins?
O Sister Women, rise with me;
I pledge my faith to you
In steaming cups of fragrant tea—
It matters not what brew.
Fight till you see that tea is free;
The valiant fighter wins;
Then fight for free perfumery
And ornamental pins.
—Clarice W. Riley.
H. M. PATTERSON
FRED W. PATTERSON
H. M. PATTERSON & SON
Established 1880
FUNERAL DIRECTORS