| Show PALACES OF PUBLIC MEN Gossip ard Story About Sorqa Farrou3 Sta tesTrieri Wtio Own Washlnaori Houses Gross Un Willett little Bullied Their llwiiTs < n lor Flee Sow Muniloo an 111 Uuit AT110 1 Attend ltlonu JKll Who Were llom In 1 log Csbltii ml Nloorlheln llnnctrnlTliDUand DnlUr Ioololho lloiue of Letter Ih Wliest I i CorrerTh Mary Of tile Vitro t Idont lionse0odf About John McLean I Id III Ulodhoxtno I rprty11noy II Id a Fortune u at of Coeuolry and > a j I Word About Ins Ntwt opaper HpecuUtloniroitmniter Urnersli House INCt Etc I Washington D C February 23 1SS3 Senator Toraker has Just about com I pitted building one of the finest houses I In I Washington It U I situated on the I t cornel of icth and < P streets about a mile north of the White House In the I heart of the most fathlonable part of I the city It Is I a reamcolored man slon Ug enough for a hotel and < tile Q Ground upon vvhlch It stands Is I worth r rl ro much that Mr Toiaker must have It had to almost cover It with dollar bills or ih n he bought U It will take on It a other fortude to furnish It and It Is I n aA house that any millionaire would be A proud to own Its location however n 11 l not the luckiest All around It I stand mansion which are now monuments i I of departed < greatners A couple of tr square below It Is I tho brick house hlch Senator Wlndom It built on Scull it J circle long before he was made secre tary of the treasury Windom < sou 11 know started life as a tailor studied < fe law and finally became It great statesmen JOt states-men When he was In the Senate he 3 I built this house and < during his next a I campaign for reelection some of his Q91 opponent nllrlbutnl I photographs of It over the stain ot Minnesota and Wntloned how a man who was once so it t Poor could make enough to build It The tult Was his nt tit 0 defeat < although 1 3 A doubt not that every cent of the money WL Put Into the house was honestly made r CC About mid my between the old Wlndom < a mandon and Senator Torakcrs new IV bAll Is I the Palatial structure which itfil L9 wcor llobroon liullt l when he was Art the relsr > of the navy You letnember hilt scandals coanocte1 with his ad dig Ministration He left Washington a I roparattvely poor man and the lion I ket 11 aa for a long 1 time a drug on the inalr1o y It Then Bourke Cockran bought i Col Well only he to lid drop Just on tit lIkIL l hl 020 house thin ath fill I shot k 12 the t l k4la mansion O h 1111i t I w to the late sent 1 AIMakat ro 11 elthitea A photo 9 fort r I filaintCrut his constituents ana I troght I lucd ruin its or t coutlectnedIZ proipectg Irt tsn were a ur Ilbll Wo I Ilict lie I James elalh U of lots 131alricm house on l5upoftnclr1 n lbi1I9eraraay I alit Ih over then 11111ted t 1 I n IB lates v KM I fact the day albitbou hit I come Whell the builtiffir 1 ah1 etrr Fit wila 10 I A almost I lie foreshadow a I I r a suite ruin At any rate It takes 11 artirldii alan 10 carrY the burden and Ind or asIT fl Vormicer will 1 sit in his par Fks Ml d lub Lie Senator Blockbrldge Is I 1 Tot b Ill R done L And long 1f a par pit I Stockbridg Ii < 1 R idit 2Jm1o I too ihtV to a homestead at ICalamu I IlouGarfebh It him fnall 11 auart t 3 tP something I like a 4 ithout th aif of that million dollar ru11 put amount In furniture t 0i and then plain find simple man thai he was sat down to enjoy It I lie had however no appetite for golgeousness and < one dy AN hen a friend of his had > pone wl Ith him tiler tile house ali was looking m Ih amazement al the CvI 1 dnce ot his prosperity the illllonalr lumbermen said I am glood you tike It Jim I thlnl ins self It Is very fine of the Kind < but the Is only Ono thing I Ik 1 want a Parrot A I roll replied < the Mslto A party < 5tockbrldge What on earth du yto vent with a parrot Ill tell You JIm sid foIIIr < 1ge In tL whisper so low that the ladles In the next room should nol hr It I want a parrot to tit on A patch ever that door find say every Um I come In 1r comes the dSl fool that built title shnlI POOll ONCB HUT NOW OH 1 Btlll Senator Foraker passed his boyhood boy-hood In n log cabin You have heard < the tradition of his coffee mack trousers and < the story of how by pure I hrlns 01 nerve he Ix now n broadcloth United States senator wIth apparently money 10 burn I knew of n score or public men who started life poor boss and ho nnw live In Palaces Sec Jury Alger was born In a cabin worked < for 14 a month and for a time lived up ni thickened milk and < corn meal He hOB tnngnlnent home In Detroit and bas rented a house here nom the corner of ICth and I Tippets for which he payR more pr nonth I enture I than 1 earned hI th 5 nrst tlx SfRis of his working life le has pictures whlo are worth more i than a ongrmna salary and some o hi logo have cot more than his Whole housekeeping outfit out-fit t1n which lie began his marrtul life IfIvl 7 Iolr the muUImmioi alre whose con hIs been cornering them the-m ot lh Unltid States In Chicago clerked during n part of his boyhood for a few dollars a week In Columb19 I Ohio living In n cheap boarding house 1 begun Ids career In clilcngo ILI a bookkeeper nnd his circumstances were much that lie dared Pot kllt If the pu Juleps uere soggy or tile butter was strong Today ho Fins ti Police hc10 A hlch I surpwes But White Horns In Horn-s grandeur H stands on groumi goJIml r I tr to J I wh Ifrn cost 101000 and the cream white Milwaukee hrick of which It was mad imehere In Individual packages each brll being wrapped up In brown I paper There Is mutter i chance for the Letter m-utter to get strong for JJocre Is I an I Ice house In the I I ron on II lyllich You I loco toro away enough tee I to It for a month and tho cold < storage rooms I art ouclj that tho beeves SbPCRlld game which are served up on the table cnn be kept thero for wek without spoiling Young loiter had f ot what 1 was set before film The mlWoniln Ulter of today raises his own beef and I motion on bis farm 111 Wisconsin I Is I killed thr by his lwn butcher and I shipped here for time A clelic I In It I boarding house 1 seldom l kicks ct cold platen The apparatus In the Letter I Mansion to keep the pale war e almost as much mitosis onr ustd 10 make In a sear when he was clerking I ra Is 1 a boiler of heavy Iron as r around < as a twobushel basket so heated < by gas that It warms the butters but-ters pantry overhead < by Keeping the pipes running through the pantry filled with hot water Vevl I P Morton began his life by clerking nt JLS5 a week I went past the house hlh lie owned here In Wahlllton when he wa VlcePresl dent yesterday It cost him a hundred < than need dolllln arid was then not rood < enough to suit his luxurious tastes He added < a dining room which cost him twenty to thirty thousand < dollars dol-lars more He had file kitchen ald with tiles of bile China and the anhes from the range and < the Furnace Wee carried out of the house In little tars on 1 railway Cal Brice spent you know 12000 on n dinner and < many an evening entertainment at Ills hou hr consumed mar money than Uncle Sam paid hIm as his ermtorlas for a scar Mill when Brice went to lIleg his expe6es were not mar than 1 n week and when he got mar Tied lie hall to borrow onouh money on hIs not from Ws Mend < 10 py the expenses o his wedding Journey I could cite other Instances of the same Kind HICII STATrSMCN OWNEIIS PROPERTY Cal Brlco rented his house In WashIngton Wash-ington So does Vice President Hobart find so also nearly every member of the present cabinet except John Sherman 10rtnry Sherman has seldom I paid rent When he Brut came0 to MIAMI ton foity odd rears ago he boarded for a time at Wlllarda Hotel Then he lived down below the Capitol In what was the old fashionable part of Wash ington One day ho told lire Sherman that he had bought I house near Franklin square This square was then a Playground < for the boys of Washing Ion i It had nn old board fence she U It I and Mrs Sherman felt as though she were going out Into the country to live As Washington grow however the best houses were built In that neighborhood and Shermans property became very valuable He bought several sev-eral lots on each side of him and < after a time he put up the building now occupied 1 by the Chilean legation and moved Into It This was the Firm lure built when ho was secretary or the treasury under Hayes As time went on the lot which lie had left h cattle s much more valuable that he could < not afford to Jose the Interest on Iho money In It And ho erected the big I marble mansion In which lie now lives I dont know what It cost 11m lve It would I judge cell for nt least 575060 under the hammer Secretary Sher man likes nothing bet than a good god I speculitlon mid I doubt whether he has ever made I tad < one I was he who aided largely In starting the su burban development of Washington Together wllb olhern he boushl the Stone estate the oldll ore lead w I Oil Mrs John A Login nor own whl1 bought this land by the at nna sold It by the foot The land l nt brought from ten to entynve cents per square foot but It li I POo i increased < In value I that much of t H worth 2 per foot The gossips nay that tile Kecretnry made something like J2000M out of that I Investment and I should pay That ll10 estimate was 1 Vt low ono Tb I erty secretary At 51181111110d ban Boom ohhl vAIUAbIp but I 7 am prop bahl that he hs recently ottered < his homo there for tale I md that his home In the future will lu I Washington WHERE Tilt VICK IJIESIDKNT LIVES I I should not be surprised I Vice Force Ident Hobart bore a home here before l be has flnthtnl Ills term He Is YOU know a rich man and both he and I Mrs Mohan are very fond l ot 1In The Cameron house which tb Camerol they have rented la cine of the celebrated mansions I man-sions nf the capital If Its walls olnl I wnl were phonographs they could tell stories of Henry Clay Daniel Webster and I Vlnfkll Scott This house was once owned by Ogle Tayloe Now was ole I I of the great entertainer of the cap I ul many sears ago It I Just next to C I 11 the Lafayette Theater w hlch stands < on the tilts of the plac of ilia sit empt e I a8lnaUon or Seward and where Blaine lived volien he was secretary of state Above It Is I the Como club In the house In which Mrs President MadIson Mad-Ison lived after hr husbands death I dont know what rent Vice President Hobart liars but he will have to give Don Cameron mom than 00 a year If Cameron in I to nt six per cent on his Investment The house cost him 67 000 Fame sears ago And he has put a great many Improvements upon It Don Cameron Is exceedingly thrifty Old Simon Cameron used to say that Don could ninbe more money In a welt thnt he could In 0 month and Senator Simon Cameron A to a ithrewa < swain for onD Cameron made I vim told about toOOO off of the house whh lie sold on Scott Circle settle venorl 00 and < lie has real stnto Finial tire In the Fuhurbs uhlch 1 Fame time be very valuable One of his properties Is a big farm out on the th street road about live miles from the Whit a Iou Fourteenth street mIll I Judge sometime some-time liaes through It and I will be 0 cred with line houses GOSSIP ABOUT JOHN McUlA N Another thorny man whom you all know Is the lion John McLean who owns perhaps an much real estate wo any man In Washington He has the titles to nearly every pkce of property In the square opposite the Arlington Hotel with the exception of Levi P Mortons big flat the bhorehatn and < ont or two other small holdIngs Jr McLeans house Is one of the lilies hr It Is oldfashioned but large and rooms and < the Yard < about It which I shut oft by n high brick wall Is I worth ro much that you Mould have to car 8 pet It with money to buy It When Me Lean sets his foot down In his back yvird h Inos that there I Is nt let 110 worth of ground under It and < lie could stand on the roof of his houe I venture and en a full half million ilollais1 worth of property which belongs be-longs to him The big Kormandle Flat form 0 i part of the Mcl < can estate He loan all those Iors on the northeast corner of this loam looking out to ward < Laratt Ill k and I bIo hon h-on one or more hunters on th 01 IMISIIO Bide of the paik as well Me Loan Is I the only man I Know here vThc I has made I fortune out of a cemetery He bought ten a or more ago the old Holmead burying ground In the northwest part of the cltj paving i5tio 0 for I Thl was n bagatelle com pam with the Present vnlue of this property There ore marnltUtnt houses nil about It and nothing In the neighborhood neigh-borhood sells for less than tl and < Upwards Up-wards per square rot I A BIO PAVEn DEAL John r McLean has made big money In newspapers as well as In real estate 1 am told that W H Hearst paid him more than he spent upon the New York Morning 1 Journal for that properly slid tho Cincinnati Bnquuttr which ho loin owned for yea 14 better than a ho dike gold mine McLean wn put to work In the Enquirer office alter lie was through with his education a part of which was gotten In Kuroiie He began us an Drive boy and worked tm t dr lu i through the different graduations until un-til ha became buollifts tng r lie dloled a remarkable now for non n-on he la tla one of the beat Judgeii or nw In the Uritted States lie mAnages man-ages th Enquirer himself though ho Bves here In Washington and ban to tond Must of his colle by telorgrimpli Y11he lie lies never reduced price of the Paper 1 and today ha aeto five cents fur eiery copy thru < h ul the wk le is I a slnlv l financier and is alumys ready and able 10 make a good her gain During title of 1M pardors of 01 earn ago I um told le had hoarded < UI In the neighborhood or ODO Five palhu for the bard times that be saw wre nl hand lie then Paid 1 < Ills bills In cash mind bought vrnhlng ot the lost Price At no than he bought I million Pounds < white Paper nt It price Which astonished his rompetltb I A S lor = ufactnrer had called upon him alll a very anxious to sell Ir la replied You can easily sell to me Jf 00 Ij can only make your figures low enough Well Ill sell to ou u cheap O anyon else vI Ill sell wa tile reply Yes mid < Mrelln r know that nut 1 think the prices are too hlh Now how low iv111 you make It If I take 200000 lund1 i The paper dealer mused < a moment and then said tn Til let sou have It at 6V1 cents Cant you do better than thnt asked < McLean No I for that quantity replied the dealer dflWI then mid 1IcLn I hat 1 You charge me for a million Pounds 7 it million pound exclaimed the d enter you dont want a million poundal 10unII Yes I do reviled McLean YOU can make It cant ou1 Of course I tan replied the Man Well let me see He thereupon fig tired n uhile unit then nnsvocred I You will take a million I wIll give II to you for R cnt g On hat time Oh Paid he dealer I mill 11 YOU have tO or three montb No J ant buy on three month In these hard < limes said McLean Tile bank Are suspending everywhere You kiuvv how light money Is No I must have six month or we cant deal Hut AIr 11cLean sold tile paper man six months Is I afnl 110 hal a urI ur-I know that was the answer hut I Oldnt < milk the timps I lint milling to hut your paper but I nlt hao the Urn I ask L you will give me i that the order Is I Yours The dealer did not reply for a lO mellt rlnnly he saidt Mr MoLean you are drlvln a bumIntr1v1nbgda very ban bargain but business Is I btil ness and I will give you the lime you nk for There no money In It but I do It merely to secure your trade In a few minutes the contract wo signed The Hgnaturis tied < hardly been blotted < before McLean turned and asked I askedWhat discount will you allow me for cash on delivery What that sold the paper man I lont to know Nhat discount you will make If I pay s ou cash u you deliver de-liver the paper The dealer had to figure again and i the result was that McLean finally got I his 1 paper fort cents a pound for cash While his conptltors I were Paying fully I cent more for the same arlol WIn THI rosTMABTnn GIN JIIAL HOLDS POUT Heturning to famous houses of WashIngton Wash-Ington I called th other night on postmaster post-master looal Gay lie Is I now livIng liv-Ing In Senator Savoyrers IODOO house on Connecticut avenue The houoa i la 1 intignincently furnished same of Its mlnllonly wells are papered < with the finest satin I unit Its I t decorations which vvvre all made by hand are among the most Wautlul ot the houses of Washington Mr Sawyer vent Into debt when he was IL young man to buy his time uf his father and he was or thirty lot rare he wan i SIOOO ahead Ho Is I now n number of times a millionaire and It was during hU term In the Senate rs that he built file houne In order that his daughtcr might have I ulnbl place for hr entertainments In conner Jilin lilt Wahnton society Shier he left the Senate 1 understand he has clfred the house for sale l but It Is tU II I I much n valuable I property that n tour rhisir has not yet appeared This house Is I even Finer than that of Pccre tary hcrmn and the wealth ur the pounarter general win enable him to tntertaln magnlflctctl In It riu > iv I cAiipnNTnn |
