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for a bath down at the South Rondout ferry and came back over the common stopping to look at the view up the creek which was very lovely under the afternoon light. I always think of dear Gertrude when I come that way for once she wrote me about coming that way from Mr. Burgess' and looking at the sunset and thinking of me in her love for me, and what if it should ever come to her to walk there alone when she would no longer have me to think of. It is I who have walked there alone since that time and never without a sad regret for my darling whom I never cease to mourn for. We came through this cemetery by her grave and my mothers and Maurices and Gussies of whose sorrows and trials we spoke. O how sad is life as the years go by. I cut down and removed hollyhock stalks from the side of the house after dinner, thinking while I did it of my mother whose little garden I saw with its faded flowers and the weeds that have got the better of me in my absence. These hollyhocks were still in bloom, here and there a flower upon the stalks among the ripe seeds which rattled out as I cut them. They have been in bloom ever since June I think. Mrs. Cantine called this evening. I saw her for a few minutes. She seems very ladylike and interesting. It has been like a summer day but with rather a rich atmosphere after a thunder shower in the night.

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[[note]] Freemen Sept. 30" 84 [[/note]]
A Ten Days' Trip to Rondout.
The Sunday's Tribune gave a long and interesting review of a work just issued on the Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor. The writer states that one of his intimate friends was Jervis McEntee and among the letters quoted to show the life of the man is a letter he wrote to Mr. McEntee in regard to the publication of the picture of St. John. In one of his letters he mentions having taken a 10 days' trip to Rondout at the McEntee residence. Mr. Taylor was always a pleasant guest at the McEntee residence, as he was unaffected and sincere in all he did or said.
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Tuesday Sept. 30" 1884. Calvert and I went downtown before dinner. It was a grey morning and after dinner it began to rain. Sara had invited John and Nannie, Mrs. Littell Nannies sister, and her aunt Mrs. Van Dusen to tea. It rained quite hard at intervals during the afternoon and they did not come, to our disappointment. I have had a feeling of unrest and depression but not to so great an extent as yesterday. I always feel so calm and serene on a grey day. I must have been born for the shade and not for the sunshine. If it does not rain too hard in the morning I am going to N.Y. to see Dr Hunt about my eyes and to look at my room to make some arrangements for my sleeping this winter since my bedroom is to be rendered useless by the alterations to the building. I have hesitated about going but I think upon the whole I had better. My father went to see Maj. Carvell today about buying the old Senate House in Kingston to preserve it to the city as a historic relic. He said he would head a subscription. We sat in the parlor this evening and Girard and Mary came over. Marion went to the circus with Jamie, Charlie & Girard and they were caught in the rain.

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[[note]] Tribune Sept. 14" 1884 [[/note]]
OBITUARY.

ROBERT HOE.

Robert Hoe, of the firm of R. Hoe & Co., printing press manufacturer. died early yesterday morning at his summer residence in Tarrytown in his seventieth year. He had been in failing health for some time and about ten days ago was attacked with malarial fever which confined him to his bed until his death. Mr. Hoe was born in this city and was the son of Robert Hoe, who came to this country in 1803, from Hose, in Leicestershire, England, and founded the business house of R. Hoe & Co., the well-known manufacturers of printing presses. When a young man, the late Robert Hoe with his brother Richard M. succeeded to the business established by their father, which has become the largest of its kind in the world. He was always a public spirited and liberal-minded citizen, identifying himself with all that was for the best interest of his native city and his country. While an active member of a number of charitable institutions, as well as business corporations, he also gave much of his time and means to individual charities. He was a member of the Century Club, and was one of the chief movers in the establishment of the Academy of Design. He took great interest in the advancement of struggling young artists.

Mr. Hoe was of a quiet and retiring disposition, and although taking much interest in political matters, never assumed any prominent public position. He served as a member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hoe leaves a widow, one daughter, and one son, Robert Hoe, jr. The funeral will take place at his house on Tuesday next at 10:15 a.m. Mr. Hoe's summer home has the reputation of being the most beautiful estate in Tarrytown. The grounds cover twenty-five acres. A heavy stone wall runs the entire length of the front, turning in to form an entrance. the lawn is thickly studded with forest and fir trees of so dense a growth as to conceal the house from view. The house is built in the French style of architecture, and has a high-pitched mansard roof, surmounted on the southeast corner by a slender spire. At the north at the rear of the house are the green-houses. The carriage-house, built of stone, is at the south. There is a labyrinth of paths about the villa leading in every direction through clumps of trees, past spacious green-houses, under rustic bowers and arches, over bridges spanning crystal streams, between beds of flowers, or skirting the edge of a beautiful miniature lake, in the centre of which, from an island, rises a costly fountain.

The elder Robert Hoe was the first man in the United States who made saws of cast steel, and the first in New-York to drive the machinery of his factory by steam. He first began the manufacture of printing presses in 1805, and of cylinder presses in 1827. The double cylinder press was invented in 1837 by his son Colonel Richard March Hoe. In 1846 the firm of R. Hoe & Co., consisted of Colonel Richard M. Hoe and his brothers Robert, who has just died, and Peter. In that year the rotary press, which soon obtained the name of "lightning" press was invented by Richard. By the use of the largest sized press 20,000 impressions could be printed in one hour, but only on one side of the sheet. Colonel Hoe, assisted by S. D. Tucker, one of his partners, applied himself to the work of devising a press that should print 20,000 complete papers an hour, and after twenty years of printing work produced the "web printing machine," or "perfecting press," which prints, cuts and folds from fifteen to twenty thousand complete papers of the size of THE TRIBUNE in an hour. It prints on a continuous roll of paper from four to five miles long and on both sides at one time. There are many of these presses now in use in the newspaper offices in this country. They are also in use in many of the newspaper offices of Great Britain and Australia.
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