A.Hobagr~HAS BOUGHT a FINE PLACE I, FHE HALEDON HILLS
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LEMENT. 4 NEW-YORK TRIBUNE MU'STRAI i, HILLS, NEW JERSEY, FOR A SUMMER HOME iIKGAWET A.HOBAgr~HAS BOUGHT A FINE PLACE FHE HALEDON In every sense of the word a men He was formerly an officer of cavalry, but mained suddenly resigned hi- commission in the army, Iralian nobli man. and the throne »f and, after havinr with some difficulty obtained Between Prince Maximilian there are now five lives namely, thus the permission of his uncle, the late King, to Saxony priest- his • !<!• st brother, the Crown Prince; the lat- enter holy orders, began studying for the of little boys, all under the age of ten. hood, and was subsequently ordained. Declin- ter's three brother. Prince George, who. ing accept the from the Saxon and his other John to allowance nearly t>-n years, he was entitled as a prince although he has been married Treasury to which en- blood, rejecting the offers made him remains without children. It Is therefore of the and the with the < ath- tirely within the bounds of possibility that of high dignities In connection supreme power. m Saxony, be royal priest may »»\u25a0 brought to olic Church, either at Ron r eithe r us regent or as King, and he would then secured an appointment as curate in one ol XUIS. HOBART3 NEW HOME IN THE HAL.EDON HILLS. CPhotcgmph by John Ilartmeier. .'" THE HOBART MAUSOLEUM. A DORIC TEMPLE IN WHICH THE VICE- PRESIDENT'S BODY RESTS. of Mrs. Garret A. Hobart. who, as the mistress when the "Cream White Boose" in Washington a her husband was Vice-President, wished high reputation as a charming and tactful hostess, is known by her neighbors in Fatersea for the same qualities. Her home In Carroll EIOIiAKTS IloMi; i\ PATEitSON, .V J '•*» IKS. st?.. known as Carroll Hall. is - ' and Kilis->n 1 i. !> J (': Hartmeh r jr.) 1 *tici••: architecture and in appointments an ideal cosey com- American home. and. while it is and al- ant- be obliged to apply to the Pope for a dispensa- his wife, the Queen, contracted a morganatic fortable, it is also artistically furnished Mr& tion of his vows of priesthood such dispensa- Mance with an American girl,a Miss Klise Bens- contains many valuable works of art. else he would ler, of Boston, who still survives, bearing the occupies house with her onCf tions being only rarely granted -or Bobart now this money have to make way for the reigning Grand Duke name and title of a Countess Kdla. son. She devotes much of lur time and Saxony is rather pensioners of Sax-- Weimar, who becomes heir to the crown The new Crown Prince ««f to charity and has a large list of wltted, differing respe t and of the Kingdom of Saxony in the event of the dull and heavy in this Recently she gave a tract of ground from younger brother, John, who is much DM extinction of the so-called Albertine line, now his $-.-\u25ba< to found a home fbi the Children's the new lor represented by the sons and grandsons of King more wideawake and popular. But Nursery, of which she has been a patron woman George, for it Is Impossible to conceive the idea Crown Princess is a remarkably brilliant many years. very high spirit, with pronounced disre- of a full fledged Roman Catholic pri st ruling of a At the Cedar Lawn Cemetery, near tast.- ?aiprso£ an essentially military kingdom in Germany. gard ror etiquette, and a for caricature and Mrs Hobart has had a mausoleum regent. bicycling. Indeed, her Independence of manner erected^bos either as sovereign or even as which the body of the late Vice-President speech, quite natural in a niece of that the tines Th<- so-called Albertine line is the junior and been laid away, and which is one of being John of Austria who disappeared so \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 branch of the Saxon dynasty, all others Archduke structures of the kind in the country. are, every of them, de- mysteriously under thu name of John Orth, used bum senior thereto. They one Doric temple, free from all ornamentation. Gentle, who reigned to biini: her f luently into COnfUd with her scended from Frederick the of Bam granite, at a cost of $>«\u2666>.•»«». kle had aunt, the now widowed Carola. a.s Elector «.f Saxony from 1411 to 1464. husband's Queen The plans were approved by Preside* He*** The latter was the a saintly but narrow minded woman. *« two sons, Ernest and Albert. somewhat ley shortly before his assassination. deep in- structure is 21 feet wide and 44 feet -- rear, cluding the porticos, front and ana rear roofs « feet 7 inches high. The front and ***** the porticos are supported by four being In in fluted columns, the mausoleum temple, with columns front form of a double Amphro rear, after the form of the and modelled «* Temple. The columns, which rise twelve are from the base course of steps, surmounted by caps Doric entrance, Th^TM bronze form the Double doers • portic* lightis from a window in the rear only grill W through a heavy iron and bronze thick, the.entire walls are 2 feet 5 inches andl floor an structure is lined with marble, with ceiling of the same material. Underneath the window in the centre of sarcophagus, c mo-WJtn STATUE OF GARRET A. HOBART. rear vault is a double or • solid block. The body Philip lfarteny. It Is to stand in front of the chiselled from a northerly side of tnl! City Hall, Paterson. Hobart lies on the Hobaru is reserved for Mrs. the other space m the door are catacombs, most poverty-stricken districts of the Brit- On either side of o the already occupied by the bodies ish metropolis, and for several years was at- of these are who died in Italy abort tached to a German Roman Catholic church in Miss Fannie Hobart. years ago. bodies of two cbiUre RThitecbapel, bearing the queer name of St. seven and the Bonaparte and which is more than one hun- who died while infants. the mausoleum wei» dred years old, and has attached to it an im- The crownstone of * and the largest 0 portant German hospital, a convent and a sort forty-three tons, was PjJ into New-Jersey. It w of home for young nun. Be realized that as stone ever brought * from the railroad to the cemeteo long as be remained In Germany he would al- hauled Although the ways, treated royal prince, in the line twenty-two teams of horses. be as a the <if succession to th<- throne of Saxony, whereas THE MAUSOLEUM. wagon tires were very broad HOKAUT damaged .1. he danger of being looked into the roadbed and badly wh«*-JJ in London ran no It has just been erected in Cedar Urnn (Vmctery, I'aterson. from thetaa^»a» the great piece had to be taken upon as anything els.- than a mere priest. skids. to imagine any more and pulled along the road on Hut it is difficult founder of the Albertine line now represented who is the last survivor of the historic Swedish time ago i inmate Mrs. purchased a short startling transition than that from an by King George of Saxony. From the Vasa, only living Bohart HUB Krnest. house of and the descendant Castle, in the Haledon J of some of the most beautiful palaces of Ku- elder of the two brothers, are descended the a beautiful mansion of Kinp Gustavus Adolphus. the must heroic about twenty-five years ±- rope, from prin f the blood ami from a Grand Duke <if Saxe-Weimar, the Duke of Saxe- which was erected figure of the Thirty Years" War. The Crown a wealthy London dashing officer of t crack German cavalry regi- Ifeiningen, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, by John W. MacCulloch. Princess will now become first la.ly in the land, from business. X ment, to the position <>f ;; humble worker of the German Emperor, King Edward of Great chant, who had retired and under her direction the Court of Dresden at the time that MacCulloch had the Church in the London slums. The prince Britain, King of Portugal, King Leopold said th been^ Charles will become as brilliant as it has been dull in every part of the world. and thai "*T^ is now a professor of canon law and liturgy Belgium Bulgaria. of the scenesf of and Prince Ferdinand of recent years. landscape reminded him m at gp'at Roman [University On that actOT£*£ the Catholic of Itis a peculiarity of this dynasty that all of its boyhood days in Scotland. s One little anecdote, a personal reminiscence to spend the remainder Kril'ourg, In Switzerland, and remains, so fat- members, in addition to their other titles, bear had determined a nanf*. m about the late King Albert, is this: Like all days He purchased three and as Iknow, the only scion ««f a reigning house that of Duke and Saxony, King Kd- there. Duchess of famous Nimrods he was very superstitious. land and built the brownstone man^on, in holy orders. The last prince of the blood to ward, of course, being indebted for his rank as of' is by 44 *eet in dimens tons. Among 'it her things he made a point of never which 77 st jle.The^o enter the priesthood was Archduke Leopold of such to his father, the late Albert rooms were furnished »" Oriental Prince of saying: "good morning" on tho days devoted to valuable a^ Austria, the patron of Beethoven, who became Saxe-Coburg-Gutha.