Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1910 — HOME OF ANDRE AT BATH [ARTICLE]

HOME OF ANDRE AT BATH

Historical Parsonage’s House it Still Standing, and Oddly Enough _ ; It is No. 21. ■ - England, Is a city of ancient mansions, so Major Andre’s house Is still standing in the Circus, which consists of three blocks, in which every house has at some time been occupied by some historical personage. Oddly enough Andre’s house' is No. 23. It is exactly like all the other houses In the Circus, where every building is the exact duplicate of the other, red brick, with weather-stained white cornices, dilapidated window * boxes filled with sickly geraniums that rarely show a blossom, and the Inevitable Ivy trained over the front An air of profound melancholy and musty gentility broods over these crumbling mansions, each one of which can tell a tragic story of fallen greatness. They are tenanted by people in a state of decayed gentility, mostly retired army and navy officers, or their widows, with a sprinkling of prosesSQfs, doctors and music teachers. iAt the end of the Circus and facing up the street is the house occupied by Napoleon 111. through part of his exile. The Interior is partly burned out and full of rates. Louis XVIIL resided near, in a house afterward the abode of Lady Hamilton, and said to be haunted by her ghost Nelson and Charles X. of France also lived In the Circus. Just at the gates of Lord Dudley's park, near by, is another haunted house. It was owned by the first earl’s brother, a fighting, drinking, swashbuckling guardsman, who when in his cups and hard up for money to pay his gambling debts, sold* his beautiful young wife to the earl. The house Is a fine old red brick structure veiled In Ivy. The guardsman’s unholy revels are said to be repeated there nightly, and carriages are heard rolling in and out of the weedy old garden until the "wee sma’ hours.”. Andre’s house also is reputed to be haunted, not by the British officer, but by a veiled woman in white, who walks the halls at midnight wringing, her hands.