| Show GOSSIP OF GREAT MEN Pen Pictures and Stories of New United States Senators SENATOR SQUIRE AND HIS MONEY t Senator Stockbridge and His Lore for the Tarfbtanford and PalmerSenator Jlooly of Dakota WASHIXGTOX Dec 418S9 Special Correspondence Cor-respondence of Tnc HERALD The Senate lias a new millionaire this session in the person of Watson C Squire of the state of Washington Senator Squire is worth 53000000 and his income is 10000 a month He can spend 50000 a session in Washington Washing-ton and not miss it and I am told that his entertainments will be frequent and liberal He will live at the Arlington hotel and his family will be among the leading figures in Washington society SENATOR SQCIKE was born in Ohio has lived in New York and has made his fortune in Washington territory He married into the family of the Remingtons the noted gun and typewriter type-writer people and it was some years ago that he moved to Seattle and began to speculate in real estate Ho now owns I houses and lands and his property increases in-creases in value every year and his buildings build-Ings bring him in gold galore Ho looks more like a New York club man than one of the newest of the western senators sen-ators He has the taste of a club man too and his well filled out front will not be out of place among the fat gold bags of the senatorial chamber He is a good talker and a man of ability I asked an Indiana Congressman who knows him well tonight what kind man Squire is Ho replied Well he is a curious kind of a fellow Ho is full of good nature has the accomplishments of a man about town is a good story teller and is a combination of generosity and the reverse He will be ugly with you as to the difference differ-ence of a quarter and will spend twenty five dollars in champagne in explaining tho matter to you They tell a story of a letter of introduction which Nicholas H Owen once gave Squire in introducing him to a friend of his This letter read My Dear Governor This will Introduce you to my friend Watson C Squire You will find him a hog In little things and a prince In big things Signed NICHOLAS H OWENS ANoTHER BRIGHT SENATOR from the new states who is considerably welltodo is Gideon C Moody of South Dakota luooays nome is at Deadwood in the heart of the Black Hills He is the leading lawyer of his state and a good share of the metals that come out of this mineral region drop into his pocket in the way of fees I am told his income is at least ten thousand dollars a year from his practice and ho is possessed of lands and stocks lie is a straight broadshouldered wellfilled out man of about fifty years of age His hair is as white as newly slacked lime and there are silver strands among the gold of his full beard His face is fair and free from wrinkles his forehead is high add his eyes are as blue as the skies of Greece He dresses in the conventional statesmans black frock coatwears a black derby hat and has the free and easy air of the great Northwest He tells me that he was born in New York and that he moved to Indiana at manhood intending to remain there for ten or twelve years and then come back to Washington as presi dent or senator from the wild and wooly west Indiana however did not need new senatorial timber and he never got higher than the legislature He was in the legislature at the beginning of the war and in the stirring times of IbGl he showed himself a bold and fearless statesman states-man He left Indiana for Dakota about twentyfive years ago and when he settled with his family on a farm just outside of Yankton his neighbors in the village thought him fool hardy on account of the danger from the Indians There was no house between him and the north pole and the only signs of civilization were in the town near by THIS FARM OF SENATOR MOODTS is now divided up into building lots He paid three dollars an acre for it and it is now worth more than a hundred thousand dollars I dont know that he owns any of it but he undoubtedly made a good thing off its sale When he left it he moved to Deadwood and this was fourteen years ago I met him first when he was here at Washington three years ago as one of the Senators from the then organized state of Dakota which was planned by the people but which was not recognized at Washing ton of the Senator Senate Moody a place had in the by chamber the courtesy while the question of the legality of Dakota state hood was pending On its being decided illegal he went back to Dakota and bided I his time He now comes to Washington I with no cloud upon his title and he has taken quarters just across from the cap i itol where his office windows can look out upon that great marble building in which for the next six years he will have a chance to make for himself a national rep utation THE LOVERS OF HORSES among the atatesmen of the capitol have spent considerable time in the cloak rooms of the house and senate this week in talk ing about Sunol Senator Stanfords great trotter which he lately sold to Robert Bonner No stock is taken in the statement state-ment that George Hearst offered Stanford 250000 for the horse after it was sold to Bonner and the probability is that the price paid for it was about fifty thousand dollars I chatted with Senator Stock bridge about this this afternoon Stock bridge has one of the finest breeding farms in the northwest One of his horses took the first prize at the Chicago horse fair this year and ho is a man who makes money out of fine horses Speaking of Sunol he said Stanford naturally feels very proud of the work of Sunol especially so because he is the result of his theory of breeding which he holds in opposition to the best authorities Senator Stanford believes that the best strainr of thoroughbred blood ought to be creased with the best of the trotting stock to produce the great trotters of the future and this is one evidence that ho is right Robert Bonner will have to be very careful of Sunol and my partner who is one of the best posted men on the speed Ing of horses I know says that ho ought not to be pushed for a year or two at least He ought to be allowed to jog along and kept in good training and at the end of that time he would probably reduce his record re-cord to 23 or 4 By the way Senator do you still own Bell Boy the horse you bought of Senator Stanford a couple of years ago No replied Senator Stockbridge I sold him paid 5000 to Senator Stan ford for him and sold him for 35000 He was lately sold at a horse auction in Kentucky Ken-tucky and brought S51000 AMONG THE FIXEST TURXOUTS seen in Washington this winter will be that of Senator Manderson Nebraska Manderson a great horse lover and he has brought from his farm near Omaha a couple of highstepping chestnut mares These are the results of the careful breed ing for more than twelve years They are Hambletonians nnd they can trot easily in three minutes They arc thoroughly broken but so spirited and graceful that they will attract attention on any of the avenues Senator Manderson brought a high bred colt along with him and this is sow in the hands of Mr Morrow the horse trainer at Brichtwood His pony Comanche which he rode last year is also in the trainers hands This pony is of the best Mood of the plains being from a fine marc of tho American wild horse species crossed by Gold Dust It has all the gaits of a welltrained riding horse and the Napoleonic Na-poleonic hpure of Manderson will be seen upon it galloping along the country roads near Washington SENATOR STOCKBRIDGE has brought four magnificent black horses to Wahsinpton and McMillan has a fine i b b > 1 turnout which he will drive here this winter win-ter I saw Senator Shermans rig trotting along Pennsylvania avenue the other day He has two well made horses both of which are high steppers but which are of different colors one being a bright sorrel and the other a bay Senator Sherman takes a drive every afternoon when tho weather is fair Speaking of Mandersons horses ho was often seen driving during the winter ho lived with his boon companion Senator Palmer behind Palmers horses and no one knew that he possessed such fine stock himself as he has here this winter He was asked the other day why he had not mentioned men-tioned to Palmer the fact that he also had fine horses He replied Blank it I did but Palmer was so wrapped up in his own stockraising that he never paid any attention atten-tion to my remark SXATOR PALMER it will be remembered sent his farm manager man-ager Mr Cottrell a couple of years ago to Turkey to bring back some Arabian stallions stal-lions Palmer has an idea that the finest horse in the world can be produced by crossing the Percheron with pure Arabian blood His manager went to Jerusalem but the result of his investigations showed that half of the Arabian steeds were unsound un-sound and Senator Palmer found that he had to get a permit from the Sultan before ho could take an Arabian horse out of tho country He got this permit and succeeded in bringing one Arabian stallion back to the United States but this I am told has recentlp died Senator Palmer has sixty fine Percheron horses on his big farm near Detroit and he likes nothing in the world better than to play at being farmer here in his 12000 log cabin He pines for the forest of Font Hill the name by which he calls his farm even under the sunny skies of Spain and I am informed by very good authority that he will return to the United States next July and will probably resign his mission at this time He has immense interests here and his salt wells lumber yards and pine forests in Michigan are worth millions mil-lions He has a great deal of realaestate in Detroit and this farm is only four miles from the city and is at the end of an electric elec-tric road This railroad brings it within close communication with Detroit and the city is rapidly growing towards it It maybe may-be advisable to divide it up into lots at an early date and the Senators Jersey cows and Percheron horses also need his attention atten-tion He wants to be back in America also to see about his Washington Wash-ington property and his big brownstone brown-stone house on McPherson square is for sale This house has nine mahogany bathrooms and its kitchen and laundry are in the attic while there is a fine stable sandwitched its rear It is finished in the finest of wood and it Is the house for which the senator was charged 15000 more than his contract price with the architect for building It cost him he once told me 85000 and he now offers it for sale with the lot adjoining it for 125 000 He does not want to rent it and as it is not sold the probability is that it will J nlht l rsr r stand vacant this winter Speaking of Palmers probable resignation resigna-tion of the office of minister to Spain there will probably be a number of changes WHEN THE SPIIIXO OPENS Colonel Denby President Clevelands appointee as the minister to Pekin will no t be removed before that time as it woul be impossible for the appointee to get this t-his post before the opening up of navigation naviga-tion on the Peiho river Minister Childs of Bangkok is still in office and there has been as yet no change of appointment in Corea Thomas Ryan the minister to Mexico was here a few days ago and he has gone back to Mexico to spend some months there at least From a privato I letter from Japan I learn that our minister at Tokio is very popular there and that he proposes to entertain on a more extensive scale than did Governor Hubbard This letter states that Governor Hubbard according to Tokio gossip is said to have saved S40000 during his four years service at the Japanacse capital The ministers salary is only 512000 a year and it cannot be possible hat Governor Hubbard was able fgs keep up his establishment on 2000 SECRETARY ALLEN OF THE KOREAX LEGATION LEGA-TION is now on the Pacific on his way to Hong Kong where he expects to spend some time He goes on a diplomatic mission for the King of Korea and in all probability intends to confer there with Princo Hin Yong Ik who has been living for sometime some-time away from the Korean capital and at Hong Kong This prince is one of the most powerful of the Korean nobility He has been in a number of cases a friend of the King and there must be trouble brewing in Korea or Secretary Allen would hardly be ordered to to take such a journey when his services are needed here Korea has its factions and the relations of China and Korea have for the past few years been very strained Li Hung Chang the Viceroy of China watches the country through his sharp almond eyes aud the Chinese ambassadors at the Korean capital are impudent even to the King himself As it is his majesty is advised by Americans Ameri-cans He pays about twelve thousand dollars a year oa Judge Denny ticO Oregon f to counsel him as to diplomatic and other matters He has also the advise of our minister Hugh A Dinsmore who is a fine constitutional lawyer and who is very close to the throne Secretary Allen has more weight in Korea than any other man in the world and starting out to China as a missionary mis-sionary doctor he has developed into one of the shrewdest diplomats of the east SPEAKING OF KOREA I learn that the American generals are now getting along very nicely and that the army is slowly but surely being put upon a modern basis General Dye proposes pro-poses to stay there for some years to come and it is not improbable that his family who are now living in Washington will go out to visit him WADE HAMPTON GID Sis S-is still postmaster at ColumbiaSouth I lina but Senator Hampton and Post masterGeneral Wanamaker continue not to smile as they pass by Their trouble formed the subject of a chat among tho Senators not long ago and while the most of them criticized Senator Wade Hampton for advising the postmastergeneral that he could give an appropriate lecture to his Sunday school pupils on the instructive story of Ananias and Saphira Senator Voorhees apparently took Hamptons part and said that Mr Wanamakers replystat ng that Clayton had not been commissioned commis-sioned and not saying whether ho had been > appointed or not reminded him of the story of a bright red headed boy who lived in the country near Nashville Tennessee Ten-nessee This boy said Senator Voorhees was ho only son of a very pious mother who lad a holy horror of Kri playing and theatre thea-tre going She looked upon the door of the theatre as the gate to the bad place and characterized cards as the picture books of ho devil She brought her son up on this basis and when he was a lad of fifteen she felt she had him well grounded the faith At this time the boy received an invitation to visit some city friends of the family in Nashville He accepted it It was his first visit to the city and his friends were among the best people of Nashville He admired the easy way in which they did things and when he found that they played cards night affer night in their parlor he could not see anything wrong in it and soon took a hand himself him-self As to the theatres he also fell from grace The family laughed at his country notions and he accepted their invitation in-vitation and went He liked the play so well that he went again and again and he kept this up until he left for home When ho had returned to the little country village vil-lage he found himself the only boy who had ever been to a city and ho was the hero of the town His boy friends gathered around him in his mothers Ictchen and with swelling breast he told them of the great things he had seen in tho city while the old lady looked on admiringly through her ironbound spectacles The children asked him questions and ho answered them all in a Sir Oracle manner Finally one boy asked Did you see Romeo and Juliet The play the boy knew had been on the stage in Nasnvillo by noted players and ho al seen something l i it in the newspapers The dutiful son was at a loss how to answer an-swer He dared not say ho had not seen it for that would lessen his reputation in the sight of his friends and if ho said he I had seen it his mother would surely be down upon him with a hickory switch He thought a half minute and then with a snaky look at his mother out of the corners i of his eyes he said Yes I saw Romeo but I h < i I didnt see Juliet and this concluded SenatorVoorhees was about the same kind of an answer that Wanamaker has given Hampton He whips the devil around the stump and makes a worse mess of it than if he had come straight out and acknowledged acknowl-edged the appointment MRS SUXSET COX is in the city looking after her property here Just before she and Mr Cox started for the west on their summer tour Mr Cox bought two lots just back of his residence resi-dence on New Hampshire avenue and began be-gan building two houses These houses are now completed and will be occupied this winter They are for rent at 80 per month each Sunset Cox was a moneymaker money-maker and a money accumulator He made money at his law practice while he was in New York and during his last days in Congress his writings were very popular He received 12000 for the Diversions of a Diplomat Diplo-mat before the book went to press and his estate will get an income from it for years tocome His Why WeLaugh still brings in something and his Three Decades De-cades of Federal Education is still selling The greatest of his literary profits have been on his two larger works which have appeared within the last five years The money from them he has invested in Washington real estate and this real estate es-tate forms a well paying part of his estate Mrs Cox though not rich is left in comfortable circumstances Mr Cox had at the time of his death four houses in Washington His wife will derive a comfortable com-fortable income from these alone The house on Dupont circle which Sunset Cox bought originally for 30000 he sold on his departure for Turkey for 50000 and considered it a good bargain It was a good bargain Upon his return he bought the same house back again for about forty thousand dollars and it will rent for from I one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars dol-lars per month Add to this 100 a month which Mrs Cox will have from these two new houses and her income from Washington Wash-ington real estate will be 8250 a month In addition to this Mrs Cox has the residence on New Hampshire avenue which she and her husband built a few years ago This is a combination of Moorish and American architecture It is full of oriental conceits con-ceits and it cost something like twenty thousand dollars to build it Mrs Cox and her husband planned the house while they were in Turkey and they hoped it would be their home forman for-man long years Mrs Cox will not sell this house and she will hold it as her winter Washington home spending part of the time here and part of the time at her home in New York THE RELATIONS OF MR AXD SIRS COX > were of the closest matrimonial order Their honeymoon lasted from their wed ding to the day of Mr Coxs death and they were closely associated in every thing Mrs Cox knew all of Mr Coxs plans and she aided him in his literary work and in the furthering of his political aspirations She guarded his leisure and his working hours kept the bores away from him and prevented his being annoyed by the officeseekers and lobbyists She accompanied him in all his travels and I have a picture of Mr and Mrs Cox taken by the light of the midnight mid-night sun during their travels in Norway He dedicated all his books to her and she was his best literary critic It is not true that Mr Cox leaves any unfinished work Ho was as methodical in his literary labors as he was in his business matters and he died with his work finished up to the day of his death Hecwas during his life a voluminous vo-luminous correspondent he answered letters let-ters the day he received them and he answered every one who wrote to him He was methodical in his work and I am told there will be no trouble in the settlement of his estate His private secretary now la Washington and he tells me that every thing will be practically settled by the first of next month Mrs Cox herself has a memorial biography of her husband She has not however begun it as yet and there is no certainty as to when the work will appear or as to whether it will be published under her name as the authoress FRANK G CAKPEXTER |
