The Tennessean du lieu suivant : Nashville, Tennessee • 21

IciC I 1 i a fit 'i -v VOLUME XXV NASHVILLE TENN SUNDAY MORNING JULY 21 1001 NUMBER 8989 1 4 Mil 11 i ft nii IHOSi HI MAS IMPED PREPARE TO HELP WW ANDREW JOH S0 I had an unusually large circle of friends who begged her not to go back to her East Tennessee home with her father She was obdurate and would not stay returning to her village home where she spent the remainder of her life In charitable work and the practice of the Christianity that she professed though It was only a few months ago that she derided to Join a church the Methodist She was a woman of such strong character that ihe lack of personal beauty was not noticed at all Of a dark complexion low stature and sweet voice the predominant quality of her disposition was her common sense which had served her as well In the rational mansion as In the village caf'Q The only lit Ing descendants that she were two grandchildren and three iff grandchildren but they cannot clalr be lineal scions of the great and A Former ''First Lady of the Land" and the President's Last Lineal Descendant Succumbs at Gtf eeneville Judge John Ferriss is Receiving Many Assurances of Support in His Race for Governor these equine beauties la extremely rare Mrs Ferguson's plan which was her husband's is to keep only a moderate number of horses but lo have them of the choicest type Pursuing tbis policy from time to time there Is a sale of Kingston horses at which yearlings and other "culls" are disposed of By the time Ihe animal Is year old horse Judges can-generally foresee what It will be Mrs Ferguson Is emphatic on one point of discipline among her stable help and that perhaps la where tho woman of It comes In Under no circumstances will she allow a colt or filly to be frightened or cruelly treated She will not even let It be chatted Into an angle of the fence to be- taught When therefore the mlstrcsns steps into the paddock with the colts they flock around her and even a stranger may walk up to one of the young erea- Martha Patteraon Judge David Patterson her husband then Senator Secretaries Seward and Weils Postmaster Ceneral Randall On Grant Admiral Faragut and a number of other prominent people of little less importance The three principal stop by the party were New York Philadelphia and Baltimore hut during the entire trip It was a popular ovation that has seldom been equalled Yet she rarcd little for the social functions within themselves or the honors attached thereto To her they were duties ihrown upon her shoulders aa duties unsought but to be bravely and skillfully borne The close of the extra session of Congress of 1875 in March of that year marked the close of the public career of Andrew Johnson He died at the residence of his daughter Mrs Brown long since dead In Carter County Tenn on the morning of July 1 1876 He was burled with Masonic honors the following Judge John Kerrlss of Nashville who has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Tenneasee was born on a farm near Murfreesboro in Rutherford County He Is a son of the late John Ferrlaa Sr Remaining on any perhaps who arc not glad that the great Impeachment trial with all of Ita wide possibilities for mischief failed ig-nomintouBly "SWING ROUND THE CIRCUS' It was during his incumbency as Presl-dent that Andrew Johnson made the tour KNOXV1LLE Tenn July (Special )-The death of Mrs Martha Patteraon in the little mountain town of Greene-vllle near this place on the lUh Inst removed from earth the last lineal descendant of Andrew Johnson the man who rose from ad humble village tailor to the presidency and also a woman who reigned In the White House a "first lady of the "Commoner'' She had many firm life-long flrends In this city and thrc out this State and none of them closer than Judge Temple the only living political opponent or i lie drew Johnson her father and hi land" during the country's most stormy this city When told of her del period She wan Kit years of age and was one of the most noted figures of the post said: "She was one of the most estlmn ble women that 1 ever knew" TheYeopIe tellum days when the destiny of the Southland was being shaped For several years she had been an invalid and death rme Anal summons for a passage to the great beyond that was not dreaded For In the pas' decade Mrs Patterson had been lying quietly In her pretty little village home which was nothing else than the original tailor shop of Andrew Johnson remodelled Over the door of the try and walked to his office but steadily he forged to the front by peraeverance and patient work IN THE FIRST TENNESSEE At the outbreak of the civil war Judge Ferrias enlisted In Col Bate's First Tennessee Regiment and made a splendid record as a soldier He was promoted to Captain of cavalry for gallantry al the battle of Murfreesboro After the close of the war Judge Ferriss returned to Nishville and resumed the practice of law encountering many difficulties In his chosen work He was a candidate for Judge of the Davidson County Court In 172 snd was elected to the office over several opponents and was again re-elected after having served his first term Judge Caldwell then held the office for one term after which Judge Ferriss was elected the third time lie has served ihe county for nearly twenty-five years as Judge of the County Court and the manner In which the county's affairs have bten conducted speaks for Itself Judge Ferriss has always taken a deep interest in the cointy government and the policies recommended by him have always had great weight with the County Court At the time he was elected County Judge county warrants were selling at from 7i to 80 cents on the dollar but today tbey can scarcely be obtained at par HIS GREATEST WORK The great work of Judge Ferriss' life has been finding homes for homeless children snd through this work he la known over the entire Stale snd also In many portions of other 8tats In this philanthropic movement has found homes for 3h00 children and hts been engaged in the work for about thirty years probably no man in the State has seeu more absolute misery more poverty and mure destitution than Judge Ferriss Want and lioverty and rags pasB before him in solemn procession almtst dally and hardly a sun sets without shining down on some kind deed of this generous friend of Ihe fatherless Many of these children for whom Jndgs Ferrise has found homes are krown Many live right here in Nahvllle and some of then are lawyers some merchants some loctors and some of the alrls are the of Greenevllle almost Idolized her and the funeral cortege that accompanied her remains to the cemetery was one of the greatest assemblages that has ever gathered to do honor to the dead HERNY tfSxNCIS BEAT MONT NEW FIELD FOR WOMEN JAMES FERGUSON'S WIDOW MANAGES AN EXTENSIVE THOROUGH BRED ESTABLISHMENT LEXINTON Ky July 20 I Special) When James Ferguson the most noted race starter lu Kentucky was shot and killed by an Intoxicated man he left behind him in his Kingston horse breeding establishment near Lexington Ky a collection of thoroughbreds nearer to the heart of the noted turfman than anything else In this life except his wife Partly to honor his memory largely also be sum she loves horses and was brought up smoag them in the blue grass region Ferguson's widow continue 1 the Kingston stud and has added snother to the short list women horse breeders In the United State The bnslness is not new to her She Jk cottage hangs the unpretentious sign "A Johnson Tailor'' The remains were laid to real beside the former President In the family burying ground on a little knoll a few hundred yards south of Oreene-ville Her grave la to the west of the tall marble monument to the grave of the seventeenth President ANDREW JOHNSON'S BEGINNING Nearly three-quarters of a century have passed since the smooth-faced tailor boy Andrew Johnson appeared upon the streets of Oreenevllle then a town of flvo building asking only a opportunity to wo'k and to make by honest labor He wa- accompanied by his mother who had cast her lot with him and crossed the mountain from North Carolina with their pmMsatou in a small Mart The young BOOB found work and In a few weeks he established his tailor shop working for himself in a small building on the site of which ihe building in wheh Mrs Patterson died stands The young tailor met vlth success and finally married a re-Hpectable voung woman of ihe town and the fa lie child Mnriha of the father was born In the course of time Andrew Johnson acquired title to Ihe little lot on which the tailor shop or late home of Mrs Pat-tarfcon now stands as well as another lot ANDREW JOHNSON Seventeenth President of the United States iiw 'MMHf the Hlres-l OIL the farm near Murfreowboro until he was IS years of age his father removed to Trenton Tenn in 1SS2 and three years tures Hnd lay his hand upon it and thus "catch" It in horse parlanre At her last sale the woman horse MRS MARTHA PATTERSON Last lineal descendant of Andrew Johnson This picture was taken five weeks before her death in ihe world to seek stock considerably u' breeder rud tced her nome ana lortune I -'f': of the United Slates in the fall of ls" It was made in order that the President and his Cabinet might attend the dedicatory exercises of the monument to Stephen A Douglas built by the citizens of Chicago The presidential party consisted of President Andrew Johuson his daughter week on (he high hill mentioned as being near Oreenevllle BACK TO TENNESSEE Mrs Patterson had been educated in a Piolestant College at Washington during her father's term as Congressman and having later reigned in the White House so that she now has less than 20 brood mares but these are of the pureat blood and best form True to the spirit of old Kentucky Mrs Feiguson centers 'her affection and Interest In the thoroughbred It Is not unlikely (hat in future animals from the Kingston stable entered by their owner will follow ihe circuit It Is said there is scarcely a w- man intne nuea rMaiet and miliar with thoroughbred history pedigree as Mtb Ferguson Is Judge Ferriss came from Trenton to Columbia when 17 vears old bringing with him a consignment of pine trees which he sold in the capital of Maury County Some of the shade trees sold by Judge Ferriss nearly half a century ago remain In Columbia to-day adding to the beauty of that little city After successfully consummating the deal In Columbia Judge Ferriss rarae to Nashville end chose for his occupation the printing trade He se-rured a position in the Methodist Publishing House where he remained for some lime He was later tendered a position as publisher of a newspaper at MurfrecB-boro and accepted that position When 24 years old Judge Ferriss had by his own efforts amafcsed sufficient fortune to pay his expenses at college and entered the Cumberland University at Lebanon He completed a course In law and returned to Nashville for the practice of that profession The young man of the wig just out of college with his diploma was not prepared tn have all the ad- images that wealth would afford For a time he lived some distance In the eoun- LAND UNDER WATER The census returns giving the area of various tales show that the one which has the largest amount of land under water is Florida and the least la proportion to Its size Wyoming SECRET ORDERS JUDt'E JOHN 0 FERRISS of Nashville (Photo by Calvert Bros I Taylor) wives of prominent people Judge Ferriss Is always careful what kind of homes places the children in and has been in the business long enough to know when the right kind of place Is secured When he gives parents a boy they must treat him as though the child was their own son Judge Ferriss was found at his home on Fatherland street by an American reporter vesterday afternoon The reporter found the Judge In his yard and was given a cordial greeting as be was brimming over with good feeling for boys who gather the news as well as for all other classes of people He was asked along what liner he would make his race for Governor FAVORS ECONOMY "I will run as a Democrat of course" said the Judge "ir elected It will be my effort as much as possible to follow up the policies of our present Governor I will fsvor and support an economical administration of the State (Government and retrenchment and reform along all lines I don't know what the Issues will be but I am not going to mix up national affairs In my campaign for the governorship I do not think that is right1" "Judge In what section of the Slate do you count on the strongest support?" war asked "I expect to receive the strongest support from Middle and West Tennessee There are counties In those divisions of the Stste that I expect to carry and it makes Utile difference who Is a candidate In Middle Tennessee I have strong as-suranee of carrying Davidson Robertson and Rutherford nnd In the western division 1 am assured of the vote In Gibson Crockett Haywood and Benton counties I will receive a large vote in Maury Giles and Trouadnle counties If I should bs elected however I will be Governor of the whole Sts'e" The great work of securing homes for the fatherless children has won for Judge Ferriss the friendship and admiration nf the good women of the Stale and while thev cannot go to the ballot box and The principal fraternal organ at inns of the United States and Canada have a membership of 572J016 The Odd Fellows have 10S6UT3 ruombcrs and there are about 80MS0 Freemasons wiich was a small house which has long si'ice betn torn away This little house he thn occupied as a home There was no building on the lot where the tailor shop now stands but the tailor shop which h-as so long matked the place was standing on Main street and the owner proposed sell II to make room for other buildings Johnson bought It It was then thought a great achievement to roll It a distance of a square and place it in positiea without being taken to pieces Put this was successfully accomplished and Andrew Johnson though in humble igrtfTS was a real estate owner and was Identified with Oreenevllle and the State of Tennessee Close by the lailor shop (lev a babbling brook the headwaters of Kihlind Creek clear as crystal the water bubbling ilong over the pebbly bed raking murmur that can easily bo he-tid In the tailor shop It was here and under these circumstances that Andrew Johnson spent his happiest days SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RISE In the political storma that followed home Itself afforded no shelter Although lhl iron wilt and sturdy constitution lniehi withstand every successive shock en1i one was leaving Its scars and leav Ing ihe victim less able to withstand the one thsl was to follow Twice after thi (tally borne was changed each time into a mote pretentious building better suited to the social and political position acquired bv the occupants One othr rtaughler and three sons were added to Idle household From village Alderman to county Representative In the legislature tMale Senator member of Congress Governor of ihe State I'nlted Stales Senator tee-Presided and I lien by reason of the acl of an aesesslD it was President An-dt ew Johnson LADY I IK TIIF WHITE HOfSE When Andrew Johnson bec ame Presl-gi ni hit wife was a confirmed invalid and hti aaughtet assumed the duties of being ftral lad) of the land" No woman that ha? occupied tlia' position has ever re-twtred the encomiums of praise front the pubfli at large ihal Martha Patterson hjS Bl)e had man led Judge David Patterson who alter serving as Circuit Crini Judge and as I'nited States Senator died In IHf'l leaving a son and a daughter Though a native of the South the' housekeeper was the rule UOt the exception yet she was noted for those qualities that make a home wheth-cr they arc exercised in Ihe log cabin or the White House Of his stormy and ex-cltlng administration of almost four Neius with Its great impeachment trial little more need now be said except that tinie has largely If not altogether shown the wisdom of his course and vindicated ftt policy thai be observed during that trying period and there are but few If has been steeped In the atmosphere of it from childhood She was a niece of Price McOrath a noted rearer of thoroughbreds and a man whose racing orange and green seldom came In last A love of thoroughbreds was bresthed In by the young lady and when she married the famous turfman Ferguson it seemed only natural thMt she should lake charge of the Kingston breeding stables while her husband was away on the race circuit doing duty as a starter At the establishment there were fouled reared and trained fourteen horses that earned for Mr Ferguson JHOWhi and these splendid animals were bred and laken tare of under the supervision of his wife BRILLIANT SOCIAL FAVORITE In her girlhood a brilliant social favorite Mrs Ferguson was also an heiress of the McOrath place including a service of solid silver plate a complete sliver dinner set a tea set numerous punch howls and a magnificent silver cup trophies of turr exploits Mr Ferguson himself added a rare and very valuable collection of horse palutlngs some of which show the power and spirit of A Bonheur It is a famous home in the blue grass Mrs Ferguson gives her personal attention to the management of the stables There are 90 box stalls where Ihe high bred horses have every luxury compatible with good health and activity Each year those no boxes and in JOHNSON MONUMENT ANDREW JOHNSON'S TAILOR SHOP It is Situated on Richland Greek in the southern part of Greeneville As long as Johnson followed his Erected in honor of the seventeenth President beneath truth all the stables have ther thorough house-cleaning Sickness among trade this was his shop which now lies Mrs Martha Patterson I'l'KI 1 1 1 rfiH-ir -H-M'-l' I I'l I Mi I I I I I I'l't w4'H I '14 1 1 I'M fr'Hil I i I 1 1 1'lHtHI I III! 1 I 'II tl 1 11 'I '1' I'l I CHEAT OHOWTH OF "WIRK HOl'SES" WOMAN'S ODD LITTLE WAYS I vote for him thev will doubtless be an important factor In the campaign Th Judge was asked whs' figure he thought they would cut In the rare THE WOMEN ARK FOR HIM "Many of them have told me that they COuU not be del gates to the Slate convention but they say they will be present and make lie I Influence felt" he ssld "I meet them on the streets oi the Irslns nnd on the street cars snd they shake hands with me and give me the grandest assurance of their support I think the good vomen will do UUo they did In the Inst race I mado for County Judge when some o' Ihe men would meet me and say that If they were against me they could not stav at home" The children for whom Judge Ferriss hits found homes will have a voice In the election Many of them have grown up to be promlrent nnd Influential citizens In rilfferenl ommunltles Judge Ferriss receives letters everv dar from some of these or heir udopted parents gi'r! him1 the gitatest encouragement and assuring him that they will work for his eloct ion Ode letter he had Just received was frini a prominent yoing physician of Macon Count A home was found for thli inng man any yenrs ago by Judge Ftr-tlss He i-taled In ths letter that ho had Ken in Tho American where (be Judge -was make the race for Governor and that he wrote to let him know that hs was going to do all he eoull to give him the vote of his county Another letter was from a prospenua young fsrmer of Crock-ett County containing Ihe same assurance These were only simples of the snores of letters rcie'ved bv Judge Ferriss Judge Ferriss knows nearly everybody In Davidson County personally and has a wide acquaintance not only In Middle Tennessee hut also In ihe other divisions of ihe State which gives him great advantage In his race for the governorship Hy I sblthe Sourgrapes 4-H-v W-M't HM 1 1 1' "i Fllbbely sprang out of It with a graceful bound and was Just able to make the plank before Ihe steamer was "pulled out Khe was radiant in the moat fetching sailor costume every hair In curl her cheeks blooming She was such a fair vision that everybody turned to look al ber Fllbbety hardly knew whether to kiss or kill her "I told you there was plenty of time" she said i She had walled three hours and risked being left behind to have that costume finished Mrs Fllbbety had a friend MNs Promptly a schoolmistress Mrs Fllbbety promised meet Miss Promptly 4t the trolley station whence the two wriuld proceed together to call nn a mutual friend Miss Promptly waited an hour then went on alone She found Mrs Fllbbety sweet tempered and smiling us always just entering Ihe lady's house having come from auothcr direction "I thought you would know I wouldn't be there when I wasn't right lo the minute" she Bald No arKiiinent could convince her Hint she had done- anything wrong nnd now Miss Promptly coldly nods when they meet Mrs Fllbbety feels injured II a lady tells you sh will meot you al 1 don't look for her until half past ut the least If ah? Is an hour lale she generally smiles and (h two or three mlnules don't matter If she has a bualness engagement on Monday she cannot iindeistnnd why Tuesday or even Wednesday will not do as well Women nre certainly lovely Nobody will deny that IJiil except school mistresses and it few others women Iihvs no sense of lime or of (he neceBHity of keeping engagements Procrastluat Ion la the thief of lime to be purr hut It is nlwoyi the prompt people who are robbed and they are men rather than women a mailer 01 laci 11 was inc careiHufj called at 10 Mrs was not ready "The ship will leave us Mlralda" said Fllbbety "Oh" she replied "the ship can wait for us" jgjNE Eleven o'clock! "By Jove I'll give bcr a scare Fllbbety resolved to himself "Miralda" he remarked severely I'm going to leave you I will not miss my vacation trip just because you are not ready" He Jumped into a cab was driven to the steamer and look his post al the gangplank to watch for his wife The) last gnni sounded the last person who cahie to see friends off stepped ashore Fllbbely said io himself things unmentionable They began to swing the plank oft from the ship Fllbbety tore his hair Drops of perspiration Btood upon his forehead At that Instant a carriage clattered upon the dock at a furious rate Mra (From the World's Work) There nre 5(H) telephones on the floor of the Exchange each in charge of a boy no receives orders from his office and transmits them to Ihe floor broker for SXeoatloH In every broker's office there are from one to ten telephones and many brokers rarely see their clients who telephone orders from uptown offices homes or out of town In recent years there has been an enormous groWth of what afe known as "wire houses'' There are New York Chicago or Boston firms which lease private wires connecting with many of the leading cities east of Denver No ftrm yet controls a private wire to Ihe Pacific coast hnt doubtless one will bo heard of before very long luncheon time Is really 2 o'clock hut he calulates If he Impresses it emphatl-eoUy on his wife's mind that she must meet him st 12 or do without luncheon that not later than half past 2 she will glide into Ihe restaurant Mi PHbberty had a brief vacation this summer He improved It by taking his (harming wife to Europe and hack In three weeks On shipboard Mrs Fllbbety wore a pallor suit that was simply adorable There was a mingling of respect in the envy wherenlth women regarded It and even obi men kowtowed to Jt Mr Fllbbely told his wife that the sall-lug hour of the vtssel wat o'clock As A A 1 I Imagli ihle she I 1 with a ssish and a flash Of "laces silks and ribbons she may he Faid to shed perfume mid Huhl Men envy Fllbbely snd say what a fortunate man he Is Jprgt fUbtyety lias only one she was never known to be on time or to keep an engagement When her husband In ites her to meet him dow ton and go luncheon he tells her she must be at the li voting place al 1- sharp His.