Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1882 — J. G. Bennett’s Home. [ARTICLE]

J. G. Bennett’s Home.

James Gordon Bennett has no other home than Newport. His house is a massive stone structure, not built in the present somewhat showy style, but elegantly appointed and in perfect taste. Here no money is spared for real elegance and comfort. The'house is worth about SIOO,OOO. In it he keeps a fa-, mous chef, and his friends offend him if they do not use house, chef and servants as freely as if it were a hotel. He keeps fourteen horses, and every style of vehicle, from a coach to a village cart. He usually rides himself in the little unpainted village cart, and puts his stables at the disposal of his friends. Mr. Bennett is much liked here. He is morq beloved than liked by a large number of people who are his beneficiaries. He does more good in a quiet way than any man I know of.— Letter from Newport.