The National tribune., 1884-10-30
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The Weekly Collection About the Ma
tiOnal Capital

HOUSEg
Ever since the accession of President Arthur
to the Office of Chief Magistrate gossip has been
assigning him wife TO become the first lady OF
the land. and certainly score oflades have been
mentioned in this connection with more or less
noSitiyeness of assertion as 10 their engagement
with the President. Mr.. Arthur is a handsome,
courtiy man, very fond of ladies' society and
warm in his attachments, which, involving
as il does attentions to the ladies into
whose society circumstances happen to throw
him. gives color to many of these reports.
For some reason il has been felt impossible
that he should leave the White House with
out comforting upon some one OF the ladies
in whom he has taken evident interest the
position OF n short reign as queen OF that bright
world of feminine hopes and ambition
Washington society. This year gossip has
been more persistent and emphatic in
announcing that the lady in question was
Miss Title Frelinghuysen, the eldest daugh
ter of the Secretary of State, and young
lady who is described tall, slender
blonde. 30 years old, with clear cut features,
shapely, low forehead, brown hair, gray eyes,
somewhat pallid face, and a stately and COM
handing presence. Her manners are very
polished. she is exceedingly vivacious, is an
excellent conversationalist. and during her
fathers occupancy of the position at the head of
the Cabinet has made herself very popular in
all circles in Washington, especially among the
attaches OF the foreign legations, Wnere heF eA-
cellent knowledge OF most of the foreign Ian
euages did her great service. In fact, she is
SO poI,ular that the talk about her accession TO
the exalted social position had not one par
ticle of the envy and rancor which character
lied much Of the gossip concerning the other
ladies who were held 10 be aspirants for the
place The ladies apparently would well
come her as they would none of the rest TO
the position Of their social leader. What
seemed to confirm the gossip beyond doubt was
that the President paid visit TO Secretary FIRE.
knghuysen'S home in Raritan \. j., and stayed
there much longer than he had arranged in the
first instance. and beyond the limits of what
was considered purely friendly or social visit.
Talk even went so far as to settle upon the date
in January, when the marriage was to take
place, and arrange a complete program for the
two months which the newly welded couple
would remain in the White House. All these
expectations seem to have come to naught, how
ever. for Secretary Frelinghuysen, who
was approached by reporter Immediately
on his return to this city. denied pointblank
that there was any engagement existing be-
tween his daughter and the President. lit Is
getting rather late to arrange any other matrl-
mouial alliance for the President which can be
consummated before his retirement from Office.
vANDERBILT's Losses
There has been much speculation among
well-informed men. of whom this city possesses
an unusual number as to the exact amount of
the losses sustained by Vanderbilt during the
great squeeze OF stocks, which has been going
on now for several months and some one has
said this is bad year for the rich men. for the
lords of the financial world have suffered out
of all proportion to the great mass of the less
wealthy. There has been an enormous shrink
age of railway stocks, and the value of corpor-
alton property generally, and the major part of
this shrnkage has been borne beyond doubt
by such men as Gould, Vanderbilt, Russell Sage,
Cyrus Field. and the other magnates Of the
financial world. A man. who perhaps knew as
well what ne was talking about as any one in
the United States made the following figures
as to tie squeeze which Vanderbilt had endured:
They say Vanderbilt has lost sixty millions
siXty-fve millions. heard in Wall street. Well.
The hasn't sQuealed." as he proudly said about his
favorite son. Let's if he has lost much.
There about 10000 shares IN the New York
Central. OF these Vanderbilt owned about S50.eeO.
At time these sold readily at $50; they 60
at $50. The difference between $50 and so Is SO
loss OF SO share for $50 900 shares is total loss of
S2i .0o0.GO IN New York Central alone Lake Shore
has $4,000 shares; of this Vanderbilt owned 200,
coo. In IsS this at SIS; now it is at sG5-loss
per share sea total loss on 200 600 shares sl4 OO0
go. This added To the loss the Central 81, 00C
000 aggregates SIS 900 600 these two roads alone.
From this is TO be deducted something for stock
sold while ii was falling. perhaps S3,o00uu0.
But then must add a good deal on account of
the well-mcant and desperate but futile attempts
of Mr.. Vanderbilt to keep the stocks up. When
Central was at SIPS. for instance he would put
few millions ia and buy and This would send it up
to Sl35 FOR week, during which he would buy
again heavily, and then the whole would slump to
Sli0 These ball tactics, repeated and over at
every fall, have resulted in enormous losses which
musi be added to the s35 100000 above mentioned.
But these losses prove the sincerity Of Mr. Wander
bit. year ago his predictions of good times
were thought TO be dishonest to cover intended
sales; but the result shows that he believed what
he said and acted boldly his belief He did his
best 10 stem the tide, but it proves 10 be flood
OF course Vanderbilts losses are given to
give some idea Of what some other men who
may not be quite SO wealthy as he must have
sustained.
When this estimate was being made another
gentleman present offered his contribution.
al know" said be- +" that Is months ago Van
derbiit had 1000, 900 in four per cent bonds
half registered and the other half in coupon
bonds. He bought the coupon bonds because
he could sell them in case of need with
out any one knowing who the seller was,
whereas, if he sold registered bonds the
buyers and those WHO handled them
would know it. At the last payment of
interest on United States bonds he had only
S37 100000 consequently he had sold $780,
600 of these securities to meet his losses
and carry his stock. 1t is figured that his
nickel-plate stock cost him S13000,000, and
perhaps the New York Central near $40, 000, 900.
BEREAVEMENT OF HON. II. s. NEAL.
NoDe.Of the gentlemen in official position in
Washington are more deservedly popular than
the Solicitor of the PRESUMPTION. III. S. Neal,
of Ironton, o. A bright, aflable, genial gen.
tleman, of hearty, kindly manners, and always
ready to render any one-especially an old SOL
dier-all the service in his power, he has
friends everywhere and among all classes. He
was one of the most valuable Representatives
that Ohio ever had in Congress, and his career
as Solicitor Of the Treasury has been unusually
brilliant He is emphatically one of the men
who make friends wherever they 90 and sue
coed in whatever they attempt When young
lawyer, Mr.. Neal succeeded in winning for his
wife Miss Mary Campbell, one of the loyeliest
girls in the Ohio Valley. She had just grad
uated from prominent Eastern seminary, and
was in the first flush of glorious womanhood,
Her father was John Campbell, the king among
the great iron princes who own and control
the furnaces, fOundries, rolling mills, nal-mils,
etc. in What is called The Hanging Rock Re-
gion," which includes Ashland, Ironton, Hang
ing Rock, Portsmouth, and the whole of that
great iron-making country, which lies along
the Ohio River, between the mouths of the Big
Sandy and the Scioto. lie her Mr.. Neal found
in life of a much less gifted man than he is.
Her beauty of person and manner was the least
of her gifts She inherited her fathers strong
intellect and energy of character, and united
with this high womanly sweetness and the
truest Christianity. Brilliant in the best sol
ciety, she appeared TO still better advantage in
the works of transformations charity in which
she delighted and she lent ready ear to every
tale Of distress. OF late years she has been
constantly ailing, but no duty was ever neg