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Solid 3Ien Already Becognize
it is Plenty Big.
MORE ME TO HANDLE IT.
A General Drift of Opinion Towards
1S93 for the Fair.
1I0XET COXGRESS IS TO FURNISH.
The Site Question lias Come Sown to One
of Two Locations.
GOOD POINTS OP. THE LAKE FROXT.
rerECIAX. TELECnAM TO THE DISPATCn.I
Cnic aoo,
March 22.
Chicago is in that
frame of mind
experienced by
the small boy
whose indulgent
father presented
him with a rock,
ing horse of ob-
--V normal size. Im
g, agine that small
boy in deadly
fear that his big brother will appropriate
the toy to his own enjoyment the moment his
father leaTes the room, and you can form a
fair idea of the sensations which come over
the average Chicago man when he contem
plates New York's attitude on the "World's
Fair question. "With both arms wrapped
closely around the prize, the youthful recip
ient of Uncle Sam's favor gazes with appeal
ing eyes toward Congress.
Thus far the 'Western metropolis has not
indulged in any great amount of crowing
over the victory won in Congress. The ex
ample of the over sanguine individbal who
gave vent to expressions of joy before emerg
ing from the forest is ever present in the
minds of those who are aching to proclaim
the glad relrain, "We are the people." At
the same time the feeling is almost general
in Chicago that the prize is won, and that it
is only a question of time before President
Harrison's name is affixed to a bill legaliz
ing the completion of the work under the
supervision of the Government.
WHAT THE SOLID MEN THINK.
If the leading capitalists and business
men of Chicago the men who will be com
pelled to bear the brunt of the responsibility
and advance the millions lor the
guarantee lund if their wishes are con
sulted, there will be no Inter
national Exposition opened in Chicago in
1892. There is no question about this.
There is the usual amount of bombast by
small and enthusiastic men whose sublime
faith in Chicago' ability to perform impos
sible feats leads them to demand the hold
ing of the exposition in 1892. They are
fond of declaring that Chicago can do in
one year what Paris or London requires three
or four j ears to perform. Thev choose to
assnme that every State and city of the
Union will be inspired with the same en
thusiasm, and that foreign countries will
work nights in order to complete their ex
hibits in time for tSe opcning'of the exposi
tion. This delusion is not shared by the solid
and conservative men who will have to foot
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the bills, and upon whose shoulders would
fall the calamitous disgrace of even a par
tial failure. Among tbe few who have
openly declared against 1S92, Joseph Me
dill, editor of ihe Tribune, is a conspicuous
example. Mr. Medill broke away from the
control of the local press censorship and
spoKe right out in school. Iu this connec
tion it mav be well to refer to one feature of
the World's Fair campaign, to which Chi
cago owes the success thus far attained.
A NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE.
Earn- in the agitation in favor of Chicago
as a site 'or the great show, the managers of
the local papers heid a meeting and formed
an offensive and defensive alliance. Mr.
Medill and Mr. Nixon agreed to exchange
no hard names until the common foe was
vanquished. Mr. J. W. Scott, of the 7er
ald, promised that his paper would claim no
credit fir having been the first to discover
that Chicago was the only place in the world
where a fair could be held, and Mr. Law
son, of the Xews, agreed not to fight the
whole scheme on general principles.
It was generally agreed that during the
campaign Chicago's virtues should be ex
tolled and her delects ignored. The Execu
tive Committee of the World's Fair Com
pany was authorized to pass on all matters
intended for publication. Any discussion
of the site problem was strictly enjoined, as
was the introduction of politics in anvform.
Mr. Medill was the only member "of the
syndicate to kick over' the traces. He
jumped on Mayor Cregier for tolerating
gambling, wrote an editorial about the
Lake Front as a possible site, and published
several columns of matter calculated to in
jure the feelings of the Southern Democra
cy. The moment Chicago obtained its
first advantage Mr. Medill declared the
armistice off and hung out the storm flag.
He declared that Congress should add
510,000,000 to a like amount raised by Chi
cago; that it was preposterous to think of
holding the exposition in 1892; that no one
but a blooming idiot would think of holding
the fair on the Lake Front,and declared that
St. Louis was a traitor to the West and
should be blotted off the map.
HAVE HIJI MUZZLED NOW.
At the present time Mr. Medill is most
emphatically muzzled. The Executive
Committee have placed sinkers on him, and
a reliable sub-committee has him under
the most rigid surveillance. Mr. Medill
does not represent Chicago in demanding
$10,000,000 from Congress. The citizens of
Chicago have become inured to the demands
of the aged editor, and pay little attention
to his wild utterances. The prevailing sen
timent is that Congress should declare Chi
cago the site of a fair to be held in 1893, and
appropriate $1,500,000 lor a Government
exhibit. "With such a bill passed Chicago
is confident cf making the undertaking a
success.
The victory in the House of Representa
tives has had a decided effect on many lines
of business in Chicago. It has advanced
CHICAGO'S ELEPHANT
J! IF
the values of real estate td a point where
sales are almost unknown. Rents have in
creased to such a figure that the commission
merchants who occupy SouthWater street are
up in open revolt. They declare they will
move to the Westside rather than pay rent
at the rate of 5200 a front foot for two and
three-story buildings. Managers of small
hotels near the center of the city have sold
their leases at figures not dreamed of a
month ago.
EVEN RAILROADS BOOMED.
The most substantial and lasting benefit
received by the city, and one which an ad
verse reconsideration by Congress cannot
undo, is the impetus given to the construc
tion of elevated roads. Half a mile of the
Lake street elevated road is now com
pleted, and Colonel Alberger promises to
have two miles in operation within six
months. The Randolph streetline, running
for two miles parallel to Lake street, will be
started the day the construction iron is
unloaded from the car. On the Snuthside
the Alley L road is being pushed toward
completion by a large force oi workmen. A
company composed of well-known capital
ists has been incorporated lor the purpose of
constructing 12 milcsof road from the center
of the city to Evanston. These four lines
will certainly be pushed from now on.
With the opening" of the fair postponed
until 1S93, Chicago would be well equipped
in the matter of rapid transit
The inevitable wrangle over the site can
not be postponed much longer. Chicago
has a score of possible sites inside the 174
square miles included in its limits, but the
fight will be narrowed down to two con
testing localities the Lake Front and Jack
son Park. Both are on the Southside.
There is no possible chance for the North
side to carry away the honors, and but a
remote possibility that the Westside, with
its immense area and boundless prairies,
will be in the race at the finish.
THE LAKE FRONT SITE.
In the opinion of an energetic minority
the Lake Front is the one place in or
around Chicago where the fair sbonld be
held. As a possible site it is worthy of a
general description. The great fire of 1871
gave to Chicago the Lake Front, or at least
the greater part of it. Prior to that ever
memorable conflagration the Illinois Central
Railroad managed to seenre permission to
enter the city from the south by way of the
lake. Piles were driven, and "on stilts the
enterprising road ran its trains into the
heart of the growing young city. There
was little or no opDosition at the time. Few
THE LAKE FRONT AS VIEWED FROM RANDOLPH STREET VIADUCT.
foresaw that the railroad company had been
riven a erant of inestimable value. The fire
swept for seven-miles acioss-th&citv, and left
behind five square miles of smoking ruins.
When the new city arose from its desola
tion, the crumbled and fire-scan ed debris
was thrown into the lake. One day the
Illinois Central found itself on terra firma.
For over a mile north of Twelfth street the
lake had been filled in an average width of
600 feet. The waves no longer lapped the
shore at Michigan boulevard. The railroad
company built more tracks and would
doubtless have monopolized the entire tract
had not the city called a halt By act of
the Legislature the new-made land was
made a park. The railroad company
opened hostilities by erecting a barbed wire
fence and warning people off their tracks.
For several years tbe new park was made
the dumping ground of the city. Then the
Exposition Company was formed and
ERECTED THE MONSTROSITT.
which now defaces the lake front, and
which is an ever present horror to Warren
Leland, whose hotel laces in that direction.
Two militiacompanies then obtained permis
sion to erect quarters, and did so. For
many years the League baseball grounds
were located north of the Exposition build
ing, but they were forced to move. The
north end is now occupied by circus com
panies and small boys who play ball under
police supervision. Several years ago the
city undertook the task of beautifying the
south end of the narrow elongated strip.
AValks were laid out and shade trees plant
ed, but the park did not become popular.
The noise and smoke from hundreds ot pass
ing trains, mingled with the dust and roar
from Michigan boulevard and other streets,
prevented Lake Front Park from becoming
an attractive resort. At night the humble
tramp slumbered on its. surface with the skv
for a blanket and mosquitoes for conip-iny.
It remained lor the Anarchists in lbSG to
pnt the Lake Front to some use. They
started the Sunday afternoon meetings and
made a howling success out of them. Here
Parsons, Spies, Fieldeu, Schwab and others
preached to excited thousands the doctrines
which were to obtain after the expected and
longed for revolution. If was on the Lake
Front that Carter Harrison was welcomed
on his return from Europe. Tbe tents of
the Knight Templars on their General Con
clave were pitched on the Lake Front. The
entire tract has been a prolific source of
litigation. The steady encroachments of the
Illinois Central Railroad have prevented
the city from making of the strip anything
but an eyesore to citizens and visitors. This
is the strip which a certain faction propose
to utilize as a portion of the site.
NOT LARGE ENOUGH.
The Lake Front site is beingpushed by the
downtown merchants and as energetically
opposed by their competitors, the smaller
dealers on the outlying streets. The local
papers have not indicated the existence of
any considerable feeling on the subject, but
it prevails nevertheless. The opposition is
gradually centering on Jackson Park, and
April will probably witness the culmination
of the fight As it now stands the Lake
Front includes about 100 acrdS. The most
radical advocate of this strip as a site does
not claim that the area is sufficient to ac
commodate the buildings or the expected
crowd. Of the many plans proposed by
which the Lake Front can be utilized that
designed by Messrs. Burnham and Gookins
is probably the most comprehensive. Their
suggestions, as recently embodied in a pam
phlet, have been generally adopted by the
advocates of this site. The following is a
fair statement of their plan:
The lake is to be filled in to a point 1,850
feet from Michigan boulevard and' the rail
road tracks to be moved to the east and cov
ered by a terrace 300 feet wide and a mile
long. The new lake park will then be ex
tended to the west line ot the new right of
way and raised to the grade of Michigan
boulevard. An ornamental wall or terrace
will be built along the east line of the
grounds. The park when thus completed
will be 1,850 feet wide and a little over a
mile long, a total area of 230 acres. In the
minds o its advocates this location is un
surpassed. They declare that buildings
can be constructed on it in due season, cov
ering UPWARDS OF ONJS HUNDRED ACRES.
or over HO acres 'more than any World's
THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH
Fair has yet had under roof, and still leave
over 100 acres of open space. By terracing
over the railroad tracks and right of way,
a grand promenade 300 feet wide and a mile
long can be obtained, which may be made a
most attractive and delightful feature of
the fair. Upon this the great buildings on
both sides can open, so that all can pass
back and forth between the buildings with
out crossing or seeing the tracks. Shop and
booth privileges of every kind on this grand
terrace can be sold for the period of the Ex
position, and bring, in the aggregate, an
enormous revenue.
Here would be reared the main buildings,
the machinery halls, art galleries and other
Lyman J. Gage
leading and expensive features of an inter
national exposition. The agricultural, hor
ticultural, live stock, geological and other
similar departments would be scattered
around the various parks. A circuit ot rail
roads would connect the Lake Front with
these parks and a system of coupon tickets
adopted by which one admission fee would
be honored at all of the sections of the fair.
In the language of Mr. Burnham: "With
the main exposition on the Lake Front, and
the great special exhibits of agriculture,
live stock, horticulture, etc., in the different
divisions of the city, and all these con
nected with ejeh other and with the heart
of the city by a railroad circnit,
THE WHOLE Or CHICAGO
will be the site of the fair, and thus become,
as it should be, a part of the great Ameri
can Exposition of 1892, and while every ex
hibit will thus be in its most suitable and
convenient place, all our objects of interest
and wonderful facilities for transportation
will be turned to account and made most
effective, and a result, which cannot other
wise be accomplished, will thus be surely
and promptly secured, namely, the grandest
and most interesting Exposition the world
has ever seen, and one ot which our people
and nation may be justly proud!"
Mr. Burnham's scheme to exhibit the en
tire city by scattering the fair around is not
indorsed by many who favor the Lake Front
site. They are ot the opinion that 250 acres
will suffice for all the exhibits, agricultural
and otherwise. This is the rock on which the
Lake Front scheme is threatened with de
struction. The Western Congressmen will
insist on a site where their constituents can
make the grandest agricultural display the
world has ever witnessed. What is more,
they do not propose that this shall be a side
show stuck out in Garfield or Donglas
Parks, seven or eight miles from the main
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of tbe park.
buildings. The farmers of the West have
been promised 500 acres in which
to display their products. On this
basis the Lake Front, with its pro
posed additions, would not contain
sufficient area on which to hold the cattle
show. The partisans of the Lake Front
argue that it is not necessary to exhibit
Southdown sheep nnd carved ivory In ad
jacent buildings. Their reasoning may be
correct, but they will have a difficult task
to impress their views on the representa
tives of the Western agriculturist.
THE MOST CONVENIENT.
The best argument in favor of the Lake
Front site is that no other location is so con
venient It is within easy walking distance
of all the depots and central to all the street
railway lines. Ninety per cent of the people
of Chicago live within six miles of it. It is
accessible to all the leading railroads. To
reach it no new lines nor even switch tracks
would be necessary.
The entire water front is part of a navig
able harbor of sufficient depth to float any
ship in tbe world. Any ship that can pass
the Welland Canal can unload exhibits
from Europe without breaking bulk. In
the matter of police protection and water
supply tbe location cannot be excelled.
Many of tbe improvements proposed would
be permanent including some of the build
ings. The widening of the park and the
covering of the railroad tracks wonld be
welcome change;.
Such in outline are a few o' the arguments
of those in tavor of this site. The down
town hotel owners, the West and South
Side Cable Companies; the leading retail
merchants and a class of real estate dealers
are enlisted on this side of the question.
Among the most vigorous opponents of
PITTSBURG, SUNDAY,
this sr.hemp n oxrtnin n tbfi nronertv own-
.ers on that portion of Michigan Boulevard
xronting tbe pare.
KICKING PROPERTY OWNERS.
Ferd Peck, President of the Auditorium
Company, has not publicly expressed any
opinion as yet, but is understood to be
against the scheme. Warren Leland has
on his war paint again3t it and is reinforced
by a score of the aristocratic property own
ers, who do not propose to have their view
of the lake cut off by exposition buildings
and their ears assailed by the conglomerated
chatter of the people of all nations.
On this important subject the leading
spirits in the Chicago World's Fair Com
pany maintain a silence absolutely un
broken. No word of theirs has precipi
tated any contest local or national calcu
lated to injure the chances of the "Windy
City. Lyman J. Gage, President of the
Finance Committee, was interviewed on
this topic, and declared he had never given
the subject a thought. Colonel George R".
Davis said the same thing, and Prospective
General Director Jeffrey" was silent as the
grave.
Certain sneculators have not been idle re
cently. Options have been obtained on
every acre" within 1 miles of Jackson
Park. It would be interesting to ascertain
the names of the men who arc holding or
paying for these options.
In the meantime Chicago is watching
Washington with one eye and New York
with the other. If euchered out of the fair,
the Windy City will probablv secede from
the Union. C. S. P. B.
SPIRITS DO NOT RETURN.
Dr.
Allan DXcTjAne Hamilton Doc&b't Be
lieve In (ho Supernatural.
Extract from a Letter.
I most emphatically believe that the
spirits of the dead do not come bick to the
earth, and if they do I am not aware that
any one has ever fairly demonstrated such
reappearance. When I left England a few
weeks ago I learned that one gentleman
whose name I am not at liberty to mention,
but who stands as high as any one in the
known world as a scientific investigator of
occult phenomena, had what he believed to
be an indisputable communication from a
friend with whom he had made a prear
ranged plan of communication, and I have
no doubt his experience will be published
in the British Journal of Psychical Re
search. I certainly do believe in the resurrec
tion ot the body in one sense, and my belief
in its immortality rests in the fact that mat
ter is indestructible. That it is resurrected
as an entity I seriously doubt, but it may
be rehabilftated in perhaps a lar more beau
tiful lorm than the theologians would have
us believe when the process of reconstruc
tion has taken place. The elements ot such
a belief, of course, enter into Buddhism,
and to me such an idea is far more agreea
ble than that of a place of future abode peo
pled with cripples or idiots, or those who
carry their earthly infirmities into heaven.
I strongly believe in the perfection of mat
ter and in the regeneration and purification
which may be inaugurated here by our in
dividual efforts or those of communities, and
perpetuated hereafter through all time in
the orderly laboratory of nature.
A BIRD THAT KILLS BATTLERS.
It
Bnllds a CIrelo of Thorns Aronnd Iho
Serpent and Leaves Him to Fate.
Riding in California one day, says Judge
J. C. Normile in the St Lonis Globe-Democrat,
my companion called attention to a
bird in the road ahead of me. It was some
thing like a prairie chicken, but much more
slender and graceful in build. It was not
using its wings, but it moved very rapidly,
and we had to keep the horse in a pretty
good trot to-keep up with-it. My friend told
me that it was a "road runner," a bird that
was noted therefor its pedestrian accomplish
ments, and a peculiar habit they have is to
walk always in the center of the road.
When one of these birds meets a rattle
snake, it behaves in such a coy manner that
it leads the snake to think it will become
the V tim of its charm, and while it is
keeping the snake in doubt as to its in
tentions it runs about in the cactus and
picks off the thorns with its bill, dropping
them in a circle around the snake until it
has him completely surrounded by cactus
thorns, then it flies to some elevation and
sits there to watch the snake stick himself
to death on the thorns, trying to get out of
the ring.
BLAINE'S GREAT PUBLIC WORK.
A SInlne Man Says It Prevents Ills Cnn-
dldncr In '92 Democratic Prospects.
Carson Lake In New York Press.
I was chatting with Joseph H. Manley,
of Maine, abont 1892, when Mr. Blaine's
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name came up.
Mr. Blaine was
Mr. Manley indicated that
in the Cabinet to finish a
certain great public work, inaugurated long
ago, and that he conld not resign, if he
wanted to do so, until that work was fin
ished. He could not in honor be a candi
date for President while in tbe Cabinet,
and it was improbable that General Harri
son would be out of the field himself. Mr.
Manley thinks that the Democratic nomi
nation will go to William C. Whitney, and
that the plans are all laid to that end.
Colonal Bradley B. Smaller, of Vermont,
formerly secretary of the Democratic Na
tional Committee, has as wide acquaintance
with his fellow' Democrats as any man in the
country. He said: "If the Democratic nom
ination was to be made within a week, Cleve
land would have no opposition in the con
vention. There is a great deal of Repub
lican grumbling at this time. But I remem
ber that four years ago some Democrats were
swearing at the Democratic administration
then in power just a few. Two years later
the situation was entirely different"
EXPOSES OF PUNERALS.
Undertakers Seldom Rue on Bills, but They
Take Precautions.
"The cost of a funeral among the wealthy
class in our city ranges from $300 to $900,"
says an undertaker in the New York Star,
"but I have known the expense to run up to
12,000 iu special instances. Are undertakers
promptly paid? As promptly as other busi
ness men. We seldom enter upon litigation,
for it wonld hurt the trade. Undertakers
who deal with the poorer class usually secure
themselves in advance, and arrange their
bills so that they will not be at loss in the
event of the whole amount not being paid."
S
MAHOH 23, 1890.
POURJJG OUT GOLD.
The Stream That Plows at the Capi
tal Ever Growing Larger.
SOME MODERN EXTKAYAGANCES.
Thousands for a Single Banquet and Millions
in a Lady's Jewels.
METHODS OF SHODDY ARISTOCRACY
iconnEsro-sDKNCK of tub dispatcb.1
Washington, March 22. Five hun
dred thousand visiting cards have been en
graved in Washington this season. One
stationary firm tells me that it has turned
out 300,000 in the last two mouths, and the
money spent here on pasteboard during a
season amounts to tens of thousands of
dollars. The most ordinary card costs a
cent apiece after the plate 13 made and some
of the dinner invitations sent out cost 510 a
dozen. A prominent item on the expense
account of a Washington belle is her en
graving, and printing, and society ladies
who give dinners, spend at times hundreds
of dollars upon the stationary for a feast
Mrs. Leland Stanford lately paid ?85
for 50 cards to be used as menus for
one of her big dinners. The map of the
United States was stamped in silver on the
cards, and the drawing and engraving were
exquisite. At the dinner which Geneial
Breckenridge gave a week or so ago the
cards cost 1 apiece; and Mrs. Justice
Blatchford gave not long ago a luncheon
the cards for which were carved by hand, at
a cost of 518 a dozen. No one thinks of giv
ing a big dinner without something fancy in
the way of cards, and a great many of the
menus are band-painted. Some of the cards
are in raised silver and gold. They look as
though the gold and silver had been melted
and poured into letters on the cards. They
cost 75 cents apiece. Others are drawn in
black, and it is quite the thing to make the
name-card which goes with each plate so
pretty that it may be carried away as a
souvenir.
FEASTS IN COLORS.
Society runs to colors this winter, and it
is the fashion to have dinners and teas of
one hue. There is the pink dinner, the raw
red tea and the orange-hued luncheon.
Each dinner must have flowers and hang
ings of the color after which it is named,
and Roswell P. Flower gave a violet dinner
at which even these name cards each bore a
hand-painted violet. A red dinner at the
Normandje had a table in the center of
which was an immense mat of red tulips.
The candelabra glowed under red shades.and
the dining room was one mass of cardinal.
At an orange tea on K street for the News
boys' Home the fashionable receiving party
were clad in yellow. The tearoom decora
tions were of golden, and one table had an
immense center piece of yellow tulips, while
the other contained big jars ot jonquils.
There were yellow shades over the
gas and yellow globes under it. There was
orange cake, orange ice, orangeade and
everything which tended to destroy the
complexion of a pretty girl and to make
some faces horrible. Postmaster General
Wanamaker gave a state dinner, n which
all the decorations were of white and green.
The centerpiece of the table was an oval
vase which rested upon a silver-rimmed
mirror. About this was laid a circle of cut
lilies of the valley, and outside of that a
circle of maidenhair ferns. Around the
table were four high vases piled with mar
guerites and lilies of the valley, and across
the cloth were strewn fronds of fern and
below the board the tablecloth was festooned
' WITH ASPARAGUS VINES.
At each plate was a bouquet of white
violets and lilies of the valley, and these
were tied with white ribbons. The white
tapers cast a soft light through white shades
as they burned in silver candelabra, and the
decorations of the room were all in white
and green. Another of Wanamaker's din
ners was in red and yellow, and the table
had a spiral center of red and yellow tulips.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, the silver mill
ionaire, gave a dinner on the 1st of March
at which the decorations were of white and
gold, and silver by the ponnd was used to
furnish a part of the white. Silver filigree
dishes stood at cither end of the table and
these were filled with jonquils. The silver
candelabra were low and they bore gold
and white shades. The candy dishes
were of white and gold and the
only green about the table was an oval
mound of maidenhair ferns which rested in
its center. Mrs. Senator Stewart, the wife
of theuther Nevada millionaire, gave a pink
feast not long ago, and at each lady's plate
there was a bunch of La France roses, and
the candelabra cast a soft light through pink
shades. The dinner souvenirs were hand
painted menu cards tied with bright pink
ribbons, on which each guest's name was
traced in gold. At a dinner given to the
Pan-Americans in February the decorations
of a Massachusetts avenue mansion were all
in red and yellow, and Mrs. Representa
tive Scranton, during the same month,
gave a yellowluncheon at which the buillon
was served in gold cups and the buttonhole
bouquets were of jonquils.
TLORAL EXTRAVAGANCES.
The flowers at these dinners cost their
weight in silver, and Senor Meudoca, of
Brazil, gave a dinner on Washington's
Birthday, at which his house was decorated
with orchids brought from Brazil, and at
which he honored the United States by dec
orating the table and dishes with red, white
and blue. One of the plants at this dinner
contained over 50 flowers. Mrs. Senator
Cockrell gave an orchid luneh this month,
and at many dinners and receptions of the
past season roses have been used by the
bushel. It is impossible to describe the
grandeur of the floral decorations of the
White House at a state reception or dinner.
The flowers used cost several times an ordi
nary man s monthly salary, and were it not
for the fact that Uncle Sam furnishes the
most of them they would make quite a
hole in President Harrison's expense
account. The corners of the various roems
are filled with palms. The windows and
grates look like a section of an Oriental
garden and the mantels of the room are
banked with thee roses, bright-hued tulips,
carnations and other choice flowers. The
dinner decorations are exquisite and a pri
vate citizen could not purchase the plants
in tbe White House at one ot these feasts
for a thousand dollars. Every year society
grows more extravagant in such matters and
there are a number of gold services now
used in Washington. The Mexican Lega
tion has one and there is hardly a noted
family at the capital which has not its own
supply of solid silver. Mrs. Stanford now
and then gives a luncheon at which she uses a
gold tea seat, and some of the dinners of
Washington could not be more expensive if
their pepper and salt were grains of gold
dust.
SENATOR PALMER'S 533 PLATES.
I hear that Senator Palmer has been en
tertaining magnificently at Madrid and
Washington is delighted to know that he is
coming back to this country. Mrs. Palmer
is a millionaire and she and the Senator ar,e
the most accomplished entertainers at the
capital. Their honse here cost them
$85,000, and they have a china dinner ser
vice .worth its weight in silver. Senator
Palmer bought this at Paris just before he
came here to take his seat in the Senate and
General Cutcheon was present at the house
at the time this china was opened. He saw
that it was veryfine and he asked howmuch
the plates cost The Senator replied:
"I paid 535 apiece Jor them, and when I
bought them in Paris Mrs. Palmer objected,
saying: 'Thomas, do you think we can afford
to use such expensive dishes as these?' 'Oh
yes,.my dear,' said X I want the very best
things I can get in this world. I live in the
hope of a hereafter, and when I get to
heaven I expect to eat off of just such dishes
as these every day, and I want, as far as pos
sible, to get used to iny future surround
ings.' 'Oh,' said she, and the result was we
bought the aishes."
PROFESSIONAL WAITERS.
There is another dinner item at "Wash
ington which is by no means small and
that is the waiters. There is a regular
waiters' club here, and nearly every colored
man in the Government departments belongs
to it. These men make it a business of act
ing as waiters in the evening, and some of
the stately old darkies about the Supreme
Court have waited at the dinner tables of
the capital through several generations of
statesmen. Tbey get from 51 to $5 a night,
and they have their regular rules" for em
ployment, and are a sort of trades union of
their own. Not a few of these waiters go to
the White House at a big reception and
take care of the hats and coats. Their
profits here are very large in the way of
fees, for the crowd is so great that they gen
erally get a quarter or so out of every guest
who Is at all in a hurry. They wait also at
state dinners, and they consider their White
Honse engagements the most profitable of
any they can have. Stanford always pays
these waiters very well and the extra wait
ers are the only thing be hires for his
dinners.
It is not so with some of the less wealthy
statesmen. There is a great deal of shoddy
aristocracy in Washington, and many a
dress suit goes to a White House reception
which has seen service on half a dozen dif
ferent men in the past. There are men here
who rent out dress suits, and who have their
regular customers. It is the same with la
dies' clothes, and one of the strangest meth
ods of doing business in ladies' dresses that
I have yet heard of is the selling of them
on installments. I know the daughter of
one of the most noted statesmen that this
country has produced who buys her dresses
this way, and who frequently has a gown
half worn out belore it is paid for. As to
hired China, one of the big dealers on the
avenue tells me that this is very common,
but that white china is almost always
rerted.
niRED, JEWELRY.
I have heard of women hiring jewelry,
but I do not believe this prevails to any ex
tent here. There is an immense deal of
shoddy worn, and half the brilliants you
see at a White House reception are Rhine
stones. The stones worn by Senators' wives
and millionaires' daughters are supposed to
be pure, but who can tell. The fact that
they wear them would, if they were paste,
make them pass current, and tbe better
class of imitation stones are so fine that it is
now impossible for any but a dealer to de
tect the talsc from the true. By all odds the
finest collection of diamonds here is that of
Mrs. Stanford, and she looks regal in a
dozen different sets every winter. She has
four sets of diamonds which once belonged
to Queen Isabella of Spain, and which she
bought in Paris when the effects of this
Queen were sold. Some of these diamonds
are as big as pigeon eggs, and they
are of wonderful brilliancy. She has
one set of yellow diamonds which
glow like gold 'fire under the East Room
chandeliers, and she has others of
the purest white tint, which absolutely
blaze when the light catches them. Mrs.
President Harrison is not wealthy enough
to own many fine stones, and I do not think
she has anything as beautiful as the dia
monds which Mrs. Cleveland received from
the President as a wedding present Mrs.
Representative Flower is said to have the
finest opals in the United States. Her col
lection comes from Mexico, and they were
set in diamonds in New York. They cost
nothing, however, in comparison with the
Stanford diamonds which I have men
tioned. It is said that Mrs. Stanford's
brilliants are valued at 51,000,000, and that
she paid 5000,000 for the stones bought of
Queen Isabella. She has another necklace
which, .is valued - at 5100,000, the
pendant of which co'st 530.000. She has 60
diamond finger rings, which she keeps on a
string of black tape, and she has precious
stones set in all forms and shapes.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE'S DIAMONDS.
I met Mrs. Frank Leslie one night in the
East Room of the White House when she
had a pair of diamonds in her ears, each of
which was worth a fortune. They were
large, white solitaires, and they blazed,
almost framing her face in light. Mrs.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is very fond of
pearls, and she has some of the finest pearls
at the capital. One of her possessions is a
necklace of solitaire pearls, with a diamond
pendant in the shape of an oyster shell, with
a large, single, pure pearl affixed to that
piace where you usually find the pearl in
oyster shells. The last Chinese Minister
used to wear some fine jewels. He had a
curious white stone on his cap as big a
pigeon egg, and like all of his people, he
was fond of jewelry. Mrs. Senator Hearst
has many fine diamonds, and she wore one
night three magnificent necklaces, forming
a band two inches broad, with a frontage of
pendants which shine like fire under the
gaslight. She has a beautiful neck, and
these jewels were set off by the black velvet
dress below them.
Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Ayer was here at
the same time that Mrs. Frank Leslie paid
her visit to the capital. She had a wonder
ful collection of jewels with her, "but she did
not wear many of them to the Washington
receptions. In her collections there were 15
necklaces of pearls, each pearl aa big as a
filbert and there was a necklace of rubies
set in diamonds. One of these rubies was
an inch long, three-fourths of an inch wide
and an inch thick. It had belonged to an
Indian rajah and had never been cut She
had several pear-shaped diamonds and one
of these sbesaid had belonged to Cardinal
Mazarin and had been worn by him 200
years ago as buttons in his gown. A num
ber of her diamonds were worth 55.-000 apiece
and she had 5200,000 worth of jewelry which
she was carrying around in her trunk.
THEN AND NOW.
Such jewels are no doubt extravagant,
but the fashionable society of tbe United
States is now pouring dollars where it used
to spend cent', and the economical days of
Ben Franklin and his wife Deborah are no
longer. George Washington was satisfied
with meals of toast and tea, and Martha
herself toasted the bread while the guests
waited. The feed at many quiet little
luncheons here cost 510 a plate, and the
furniture of the Washington millionaire's
home is gathered from the four quarters of
the earth. There are dozens of houses in
Washington which have their walls hung
with silk and satin instead of paper, and
the hand-paintings in snch a house as that
of Senator Sawyer's cost enough to educate
John Rodgers' nine children, including the
one at the breast There is one place in
Washington which has nine bathrooms
finished in mahogany, and just across
Lafayette sauaro from the "White House
there is a big brick palace, the ceilings of
the parlors of which are finished in oaken
panels, in the grain of which gold dust has
been sprinkled.
ENGLISn SNOBBERY.
It is true we are the richest peo
ple in the world and our aggregate
wealth amounts to about $1,000 for each
man, woman and child in the country; but
it remains to be seen how long we can stand
such customs. Here at Washington we ape
the English more and more every day, and
the money paid out to coachmen and foot
men runs up .into hundreds of 'housands of
dollars a year. If a coachman is English ho
gets a double salary, and not a few of our so
ciety ladies are now sporting coats of arms.
There are one or two houses in Washington
which have these coats of arms carved upon
thpir outside walls, and the visiting cards
and letter heads not infrequently sport
them. It used to be that a man's name was
sufficient to put upon his visiting card.
Now no one who amounts to anything uses a
card which has not "Mr."before it, and most
of the Washington dudes trump up a title
of some kind or other. Speaker Reed's card
bears the words "The Speaker," and every
great man from the President down to the
clerk has his title.
Miss Grundy, Jr.
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CnAPTERS.
The leadinir characters of the story are Geoffrey Bingham, a London barrister, and Beatrice
Granger, daughter ot the rector of Bryncelly, on the Welsh coast, and village school teacher.
Geollrey is married to a titled woman. Lady Uonona, who married bim for an expected fortune
that did not materialize. She fretted at poverty and made life generally miserable for Geoffrey
during his early strugcic. They have a daughter, Effle. a child of sweetest disposition. While
outing at Bryngelly, Geoffrey is rescued from drowning by Beatrice. In spite of themselves this
Incident developed into deep affection. Lady Honoria is not slow to see It, and this makes mat
ters worse between her and Geoffrey. Beatrice has a sister. Elizabeth. The family is poor and
Elizabeth is ambitions to become tho wife of 'Squire Owen SavWs. who is rich, but stupid. He is
madly in love with Beatrice. Anally proposes to her, is rejected, but continues to annoy her with
his attentions. During Geoffrey's stay at Bryngelly be received a brief in a celebrated law case.
Beatrice reads it ana hits upon the right theory of tbe case. Geoffrey returns to London, tries
the case on Beatrice's theory and wins a great victory. It is his key to fortune. Henceforth
money rolls in to him. He gratifies Lady Honoria's every whim. Finally be is elected to
Parliament, where he s on aistingnishes himself. All this time he corresponds with Beatrice.
Lady Honoria, at last realizing that her husband amounts to something, is more considerate in
her treatment of him, bnt cannot extract herself Irom tho frivolous class of fashionable peopls
she has culivated.
CHAPTER XIX
GEOFFREY HAS A VISITOR.
And Beatrice had she fared better dur
ing these long months? Alas, not at all.
She had gone away from the Bryngelly sta
tion on that autumn morning of farewell
sick at heart, and sick at heart she had re
mained. Through all the long winter
months sorrow and bitterness had been her
portion, and now in the happiness of epring
sorrow and bitterness were with her still.
She loved him, and she longed for his pres
ence, and it was denied to her. She could
not console herself as some women can, nor
did her deep passion wear away; on the con
trary, it seemed to grow and gather with
every passing wees;. Neither did he wish
to lose it; she loved too well for that It
was better to be thns tormented by con
science and by hopelesfness than to lose her
cause of pain.
BEATRICE RETURNS
One consolation Beatrice had and one
only; she knew that Geoffrey did not forget
her. His letters told her this. These let
ters, indeed, were everything to her a
woman can get so much more comfort out
of a letter than a man. Next to receiving
them she loved to answer them. She was
a good and even a brilliant letter-writer,
but often and often she would tear up what
she had written a.nd begin again. There
was not mnch news in Bryngelly. It was
difficult to make her letters amusing. Also
the farcical natnre of the whole proceeding
seemed to paralyze her. It was ridiculous,
having so much to say, to be able to say
nothing. Not that Beatrice wished to in
dite love letters such an idea never crossed
her mind but rather to write as they had
talked. Yet when she tried to do so the re
sults were not satisfactory to her, the words
looked strange on paper she could notsend
them.
In Geoffrey's meteor-like advance to fame
and fortune she took the keenest joy and in-
GEOFFREY RECEIVES
terest far more than he did, indeed.
Though, like that of most other intelligent
creatures, her soul turned with loathing
from the dreary fustijn of politics, she
would religiously search the parliamentary
colnmns irom beginning to end on the
chance of finding his name or the notice of
a speech by him. The law reports also fur
nished her with a happy hunting gronnd in
which she often fonnd her game.
But they were miserable months. To rise
In the morning, to go through the ronnd of
daily duty thinking of Geoffrey; to come
home wearied, and finally toseek refuge in
sleep and dreams of him this was the sum
of them. Then there were other troubles.
To begin with, things had gone Irom bad to
worse at the vicarage. The tithes scarcely
came in at all, and every day- their poverty
pinched them closer. Had it not been for
Beatrice's salary it was difficult to see bow
the family could have continued to exist
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TOE DISPATCH.
She gave it almost all to her father now,
only keeping back a very small sum for her
necessary clothing and such sundries as
stamps and writing paper. Even then,
Elizabeth grumbled bitterly at her extrava
gance in continuing to buy a daily paper,
asking what business she had to spend six
pence a week on such a needless luxury.
But Beatrice could not makeup her mind to
dock the paper with its occasional mention
of Geoffrey.
Again, Owen Davies was a perpetual
anxiety to her. His infatuation for herself
was becoming notorious; everybody saw it
except her father. Mr. Granger's mind
was so occupied with questions connected
with tithe that fortunately for Beatrice little
else could find an entry. Owen dogged her
about; he would wait whole hours outside
the school or by the vicarage gate merely to
speak a few words to her. Sometimes,
when at length she appeared, he seemed to
be struck dumb, he could say nothing, but
would gaze at her with his dull eyes in a
fashion that filled her with vague alarm.
THE DIAMONDS.
He never ventured, indeed, to speak to her
of love, but he looked it, which was almost
as bad. Another thing was that he had
grown jealous. The seed which Elizabeth
had planted in his mind had bronght forth
abundantly, though, of course, Beatrice did
not know that this was her sister's doing.
On the very morning that Geoffrey went
away Mr. Davies had met her as she was
walking back from the station, and asked
her if Mr. Bingham had gone. When she
replied that this was so, she had distinctly
heard him murmur: "Thank God! thank
God!" Subsequently she discovered also
that he bribed the old postman to keep count
of the letters which she sent and received
from Geoffrey.
These things filled Beatrice with alarm,
but there was worse behind. Mr. Davies
began to send her presents first, such
things a3 prize pigeons and fowls, then
jewelry. The pigeons and fowls she could
not well return withont exciting remark,
but the jewelry she sent back by one of the
school children. First came a bracelet, then
a locket with his photograph inside, and
BEATRIX'S FATHER.
lastly, a case that, when she opened it,
which her curiosity led her to do, nearly
blinded her with light It was a diamond
necklace, and she had never even seen such,
diamonds before, bnt from their size and
luster she knew that each stone must be
worth hundreds of pounds. Beatrice put it
in her pocket and carried it until she met
him, which she did in the course of that
afternoon.
"Mr. Davies," she said before he could
speak, and handing him the package, "this
has been sent to me by mistake. Will you
kindly take it back?"
He took it, abashed.
"Mr. Davies," she said, looking tim full
in the eyes, "I hope that there will be no
more such mistakes. Please understand
that I cannot accept presents from you."
"If Mr. Bingham had sent it, jou would
have accepted it," he muttered sulkily.
Beatrice turned and flashed such a look on.
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