Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

with great beard standing out on all sides
OF his face. He walks about the suburbs
with pretty little girl holding on to his
hand, and he looks more like an English
man than an American. His name is Levi
Letter, and ,he is a big Chicago millionaire,
vino pays Blaine SIS, 900 year for the rent
OF his house.
He has this house fitted out regardless OF
expense. and he lives like prince. Near
the mansion OF Mr.. Letter is that OF Senator
Hearst. This is the old house which Fair
child occupied when he was Secretary of the
Treasury, but which Mrs. Hearst hns re-
modelled and which is now one of the finest
houses in Washington. 1t cost as much to
fix it over as it wopld have cost to build
new house, and it contains one of the most
costly bathrooms in the city.
NEW HOUSES GOING UP.
A number of. fue houses are being built
on the hills about Washington. Prot. G.
Brown Goode has big frame house over
looking Geological Park, and PROT. Riley,
of the Smithsonian Institution, has built
fine brick structure on the edge of the Rock
Creek Valley. Gardiner Hubbard, the
father-in-law Of Telephone Bell, and one of
the richest men here, has an immense
country house just next to the country seat
which President Cleveland owned, and fur
ther out still there is another big house
owned by General Drum.
l drove this afternoon along Massachusetts,
avenue and took look at some of the
famous houses of that fashionable street.
Chief Justice Fuller lives in the house
which Senator Van Wyck built. 1t is big
three-story brick aud it has enough bed
rooms SO that each of the Chief Justices
eight daughters could have room to herself
and leave enough guest chambers to spare.
1t has magnificent parlors and fine library
and the dining room is one of the largest at
the Capital. Further on is the new home of
Frances Hodgson Burnett which she got at
bargain not long ago for $4,000, and in
toe same block is the house which Senator
Cullom built. In the next block Secretary
Window lives. His house is big brown
stone "a ieet front.
MRS. MANDERsoN's CHIME CLOCK.
Senator Manderson is living this winter
In very comfortable house near Scott's
Circle. 1t is big red brick Just above the
home of Mrs. General Sheridan. A great
deal OF taste has been displayed in the fur
nishing of it, and the dining room has many
elegant pieces of old mahogany. The par
Ior contains many pretty pieces OF bric-a-
brac and furniture which Mrs. Manderson
has picked up in her travels and among
other things is q wonderful little clock
whose chimes are the sweetest music you
will hear in the Sabbath days journey.
Speaker Reed will continue to live at the
Shoreham, and a number of the other mem
bers have taken up their quarters at hotels.
John Sherman owns three houses next to
Capitol Hill, and the one in which ne lives
is worth suppose about $40, Senator
Quay lives in the square below, and Henry
7. Payne occupies the house around the cor
ner on Vermont avenue. Capitol Hill con-
tains more prominent people this year than
it ever has before, and a number of our
poorer statesmen contemplate buying prop.
erty here where the land is high, the loca-
ton healthy and the prices comparatively
low. Miss GRUNDY, JR.