Identifier: churchrevi01unse (find matches)
Title: Church review
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Youth in church work -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Periodicals Protestant youth -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Societies, etc. -- Periodicals Protestant churches -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Societies, etc. -- Periodicals Hartford (Conn.) -- Church history -- Periodicals
Publisher: Review Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Connecticut State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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oom. The following morn-ing he furnished him with money andbade him Godspeed on his journey.The young man died in poverty notlong afterward. While John Roach occupied the The present owner of the OphirFarm is the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, edi-tor of the New York Tribune, and ex-United States Minister to France. But!even Mr. Reids possession of the ill-omened castle has not been altogetherfortunate. After expending $1,000,000in adorning its interior it caught fire,just as he was preparing to move intoit, and was partially destroyed. It issaid that it cost him an additional$1,000,000 to rebuild it. From the foregoing instances itwould seem that one of the surest way3to court misfortune in this land ofequality and freedom is to attempt toreconstruct the unequality and feudal-ism of the past. The spirit that promptsmen to build great castles is un-Ameri-can. A castle is the embodiment instone of a semi-barbarous age—of anage of seigneurs and serfs. It is ?expression of feudalism. In a land of
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ROCKEFELLER CASTLE. tate in Westchester long before mis-fortunes began to gather round him.Unlucky speculations in mines and in-numerable law suits soon swallowed uphis entire means, and the Ophir Farmwas offered for sale. It was purchasedby John Roach, the great ship-builder,who greatly beautified the property andmade many improvements in the castle.After leaving their magnificent home,the Hallidays seem to have been pur-sued by an evil destiny. First Mrs.Halliday died, and was buried in thelittle gothic chapel she had caused tobe erected for private worship on theOphir Farm. Then one by one theother members of the family passedaway under circumstances of a more orless distressing nature, until, finally,only the eldest son was left. One stormy winter night the oldlodgekeeper of the Ophir Farm whohad been in the employ of Ben Halli- Ophir Farm, many distinguished states-men were entertained at the castle, forMr. Roachs close affiliations with theNavy Department brought him intofriendl

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