Show PALACES OF PUBLIC MEN i I 1 washington D C february 23 18 senator foraker has just about COIA cna plated building one of the finest honk hn in washington it is situated on antea t ni corner of and P streets about SL milo mile north of the white house in tt ofik i heart of the most fashionable part bartoi ak the city it Is a cream colored sion sidn big enough for a hotel anduss and abo ground upon which it stands to is novt woi 3 so much that mr foraker must hafs h had to almost cover it with dollar baft mus when he fie bought it it will take taka al aay w other fortune to furnish it and it IJ ls il house that any millionaire would bi bac proud to own its location howar howadr how wr e is not the luckiest all around it stab atash mansions which are now monuments eStS of departed greatness A couple arf squares below it is the brick h homi which senator windom built on aa escoel r 1 circle long before he was made abc N tary of the treasury windom W know started life as a tailor st ef law and finally became a great S qt atts man when he was in the Sena tete built this house and during his net campaign for reele election reelection re ele some of opponents distributed photographs ag ca it over the state of minnesota minne 8 aw questioned how bow a man who waa W otga once n so poor could make enough to build sa the result was his defeat altho althous uj M k doubt not that every cent of the mi put into the house was honestly honesta ra n about midway between the old TV ata mansion and senator Pora kera house is the palatial structure wha a secor robeson built when he wr secretary of the navy you bw the scandals connected with his w ministration he left washington etona comparatively poor man and the hotts ho wa was s for a long time a drug on the ket then bourke cockran bousek bo it only to drop out of public life wt when he had just come to be knowd knoW tf within a rifles shot of Pora kw house is the mansion which once be longed to the late senator van W wadk of nebraska A photograph of it ww circulated among his constituents ata brought brou him to ruin as far as bag w po lotical prospects were concerned bif ing james G blaines campaign ik photograph aph of his house on dupont car W cle was generally distributed over united states and in tact fact the thed day seems to have come when the bull of a bis bic house is almost the fores of political ruin at any rate it akwa strong man to carry the burden sa and I 1 wonder if foraker will sit in hi bl baak ta lor is as the late senator sl said fo 0 o have done and long for a fial r rot when stockbridge had made mad lka ejbl pile he built a homestead at zoo cost him something leea 1 quarter of a million dollars her abu about half af of pf that amount it in ft 1 e ait antt and then plain and simple man that he hewak gat down to enjoy it he had Im te wever no appetite for gorgeousness soil and one day when a friend of his had with him over the house and was gone Ito oking king with amazement at the evidences of his prosperity the millionaire lumberman said ayou 1 I am glad you like it jim I 1 think myself it is very fine of the kind but there is only ong on thing I 1 lack I 1 want TSar A A pa rot replied the visitor A stockbridge what on earth ayrod it so you want with a pax parrot rot 9 T rii tell you jim said stockbridge whisper so low that the ladies in in ina a the next room should not hear it 11 1 want ant 9 a parrot t to 0 sit on a perch over that door and say every time I 1 come in onles comes the d d fool that built bere iere ere r abis shanty I litell rt senator foraker passed his boy 1 you have heard cabin P amod in a log addition of his coffee sack trousers td and the story of how by pure brains he is now a broadcloth arid nerve united states S senator with apparently money to burn I 1 know of a score of bu nien men who started life poor boys boya wd who now live in palaces secre was born in a cabin worked alger r 4 a and for a time lived up 0 thickened milk and corn meal he magnificent home in detroit and mm a vass allum rented a house bouse here near the corner alth a and nd H streets for he allys tem more per month I 1 venture than bw 2 earned in th the e first six years of his dus life lithe has pictures chien b orth more than a congress mans of his have cost and some rugs ryva t than his whole housekeeping out 11 ll st with which he began his married ate jorj I 1 Z letter the multimillion multi million whose son has been cornering the the united states in chicago perked af duuring during a part of his boyhood I 1 few dollars a week in columbus al living in a cheap boarding house batan his bis career in chicago as a fc keeper feeDer and his circumstances were hr that at he be dared not kick it if the pore dore were soggy or the butter was w today he has a palace here surpasses the white house in kran grandeur deur it stands on ground in sast and the cream milwaukee brick of which it was came here in individual packages brick being wrapped up in brown where there is no chance for the letter leiter to get strong for there is an aima in the ane mansion in which you attore it tore re away enough tee ice to last for and the cold storage rooms t that the beeves sheep and mj emch are served up on the table asbe kept there tor for weeks without f young toung letter had to eat what before him the millionaire tetter of today raises his own beef and huon on his farm in wisconsin it there by his own butcher and go Toped here for use A clerk in a house seldom kicks at cold the apparatus in the letter abton nto to keep the plates warm cost coat loftt as much as its owner used to ake to in a year when he was clerking as a boiler of heavy iron as big jd ud as a two bushel basket so d by aty gas afa that it warms the but aw paltry overhead by keeping the k 1 running through the pan pantry try th hot water K P morton began his life by H at a week I 1 went past loae which he owned here in on when he was vice prest berday it cost him a hundred AA dollars and was then not eatough ough to suit his luxurious ha added a dining room which afan twenty to thirty thousand dol 1 ne he had his kitchen walled eo of white china and the ashes range rafe furnace were carried out of the house in little cars on a railway cal brice spent you know on en a dinner and many an evening entertainment at his house here consumed more money than uncle sam paid him as his senatorial salary for a year still when brice went to college his expenses were not more than 3 a week and when he got married he had to borrow enough money on his note from his friends ta to pay the expenses of his wedding journey I 1 could cite other instances of the same kind cal brice rented his house in washington so does vice president hobart and so also nearly every member of the present cabinet except john sherman secretary sherman has seldom paid rent when he first came to forty odd years ago he boarded for a time at willards hotel then he lived down below the capitol in what was the old fashionable par part t of washington one day he told mrs sherman that he had bought a house near franklin square this square was then a playground for the boys of washington it had an old board fence about it and mrs sherman felt as though she were going out into the country to live As washington grew however the best houses were built in that neighborhood and shermans Sher mans property became very valuable he bought several lots on each side of him and after a time he put up the building now occupied by the chilean legation and moved into it this was the structure built when he was secretary of the treasury under hayes As time went on the lot which he had left became so much more valuable that he could not afford to lose the interest on the money in it and he erected the big marble mansion in which he now lives I 1 dont know what it cost him but it would I 1 judge sell for at least under the hammer secretary sherman likes nothing better than a good speculation and I 1 doubt whether he has ever made a bad one it was he who aided largely in starting the suburban development of washington together with others he bought the stone estate the old homestead vhf which ch mrs john A logan now owns he bought this land by the acre and sold it by the foot the land first brought from ten to twenty five cents centi per square foot but it to is so increased in value that much of it is worth 2 per foot the gossips say that the secretary made something like out of that investment and I 1 should say that the estimate was a very low one the secretary has some very valuable property at mansfield ohio but I 1 am told that he has recently offered his house there for sale and that his home in the future will be washington I 1 should not be surprised if vice president hobart buys a house here before he has finished his term he is you know a rich man and both he and mrs hobart are very fond of society the cameron house which they have rented is one of the celebrated mansions of the capital if its walls were phonographs they could tell stories of henry clay daniel webster and winfield scott this house was once owned by ogle tayloe who was one of the great entertainers of the capital many years ago it is just next to the lafayette theater which stands on the site of the place of the attempted assassination of seward and where blaine lived when he was waa secretary of state above ab ove it is the cosmos club in the house in which mrs president madison lived after her husbands death I 1 dont know what rent vice president hobart pays but he will have to give don cameron more than a year it cameron to is to net six per cent on his investment the house cost coat him some years ago and he has put a great many improvements upon it don cameron is exceedingly thrifty old simon cameron used to say aay that don could make more money in a week that he could in a month and senator simon cameron was a shrewd speculator don cameron made I 1 am told about off of the house cheh he sold on scott circle some years ago and he has real estate holdings in the suburbs which will some time be very valuable one of his properties is a big farm out on the ath street road about five miles from the white house fourteenth street will I 1 judge some time pass through it and it will be covered with fine houses another thrifty man whom you all know is the hon john mclean who owns perhaps as much real estate as any man in washington he has tle the titles to nearly every piece of property in the square opposite the arlington hotel with the exception of levi lev P mortons Mor tons big flat the shoreham Shore ham and one or two other small holdings mr mcleans house is one of the finest here it is old fashioned but large and roomy ro om y and the yard about it which is shut off by a high brick wall is worth so much that you would have to carpet it with money to buy it when mclean seta sets his foot down in his back yard he knows that there is at least 10 worth of ground under it and he could stand on the roof of his house I 1 venture and see a full half million dollars worth of property which belongs to him the big Nor normandie mandle plata flats form a part of the mclean estate he eta has all those stores on the northeast corner of this square looking out toward lafayette park and I 1 believe he owns one or more houses on the opposite side of the park as well melean mclean is the only man I 1 know here who has made a fortune out of a cemetery he bought ten years or more ago the old holmead burying ground in the northwest part of the city paying for it this was a bagatelle compared with the present value of this property there are magnificent houses all about it and nothing in the neighborhood sells for less than 2 and upwards per square foot john R mclean has made big money in newspapers as well as in real estate I 1 am told that W R hearst paid him more than he spent upon the new york 1 morning journal for that property and the cincinnati enquirer which he has owned for years is better thans than a klondike gold mine mclean was put to work in the enquirer office after he was through with his education a part of which was gotten in europe he began as an office boy and worked up through the different graduations un til he became business manager he developed a remarkable nose tor for news and he is today one of the best judges of news in the united states he manages the enquirer himself though he lives here in washington and has to send most of his orders by telegraph he has never reduced the price of the paper and today he gets five cents for every copy throughout the week he la Is a shrewd financier and is always ready and able to make a good bar gain during one of the panics of some years ago I 1 am told he had hoarded up in the neighborhood of preparing for the hard times that he saw were at hand he then paid his bins bills in cash and bought everything at the lowest price at one time he boug bought hta million pounds of white paper at 9 a price which astonished his competitors A paper manufacturer had called u upon him and was very anxious to sell mclean re replied you can easily sell to me it if can only make your figures low enough well ill sell to you as an cheap as any ona else will sell was the brejt yes said mclean 1 I kno know r rhew fe but I 1 think the prices are too hi high h 7 I 1 now how low will you make it 91 9 nl 1 take pounds 7 the paper dealer mused a moment and wen then said til ill let you have it at 6 cents cant you do better than that asked mclean not for that quantity replied the dealer well then said mclean what will you charge me for a million pounds A million pounds exclaimed the dealer you dont want a million pounds yes I 1 do replied mclean you can make it cant you of course I 1 can replied the man well let me see he thereupon figured a while and then answered if you will take a million I 1 will give eve it to you for 6 cents on what time oh said the dealer 1 I will let you have two or three months no I 1 cant buy on three months in these hard times said mclean the banks are suspending everywhere you know how tight money is no I 1 must slave leave six months or we cant deal but mr mclean said the paper tean man six months is awful it is half a year 1 I know that was the answer but I 1 make the times I 1 am willing to buy your paper but I 1 must have the time I 1 ask it if you will give me that order is the dealer did not reply for a moment finally he said mr mclean you axe are driving a very hard bargain but business Is business and I 1 will give you the time you ask for theres no money in it but 3 1 do it merely to secure your trade in a few minutes the contract was signed alg ned the signatures had hardly been blotted before McLean turned and asked what discount will you allow me for ar cash on delivery that said the paper man 1 1 I want to know inow what discount you will make if I 1 pay you cash as you deliver the paper the dealer had to figure again and the result was that mclean finally got his paper for 5 cents a pound for cash while his competitors were paying fully a cent more for the same article returning to famous houses of washington I 1 called the other night on postmaster general gary he is now living in senator sawyers house on connecticut avenue the house to is magnificently furnished some of its walls wails are papered with the finest satin and its decorations which were all made by hand are amon among g the most beautiful beautt ul of the houses of washington mr sawyer went into debt when he was a young man to buy his time ot of his bis father and he w was over thirty before he was 2000 ahead he is now a number of times a millionaire and it was during his t term m in the senate that he built his house in order that his bis daughter might have a suitable place tor for her entertainments in connection with washington society since he left the senate I 1 understand he has offered ott ered the house for sale but it 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