The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-18
WASHINGTON HEIRESSES.
NATIONAL CAPITAL GIRLS AND
THEIR DAZZ LING MILLIONS.

Rich Girls Manage Their Money.
From the Nelc York World
WASHINGTON; Jan. l0-The matrimonial
market Of the capitals now in full blast
There are more millions Off cred by the
mathematics than the surplus in the
treasury, and fortunes by the score are
trotting around in petticoats The fortune
hunters are after them, too, and the
black eyes of the Pan-American delegates
fairly snap as they are told that the sweet
young girls whom they swing around n the
lancers could buy up few South American
repu lies with cold cash. The eyes of the
impecuniOus army and navy gallant bulge
on. with eagerness as they estimate the
Injuries which these milliJn-dollar girls
might bring them, aud the great but poor
cong ressmen who have been SO fortunate as
not to get married at home spend more time
in schemi on their maUri monlal posi- bill
ties than upon their legislative regulations
And well they may: for tie game is
worth the candle. TGere are rich girls
every where. The cabinet circle has one or
two The gold-bags Of the Senate furnish
three or four, and the millionaires of a half
dozen different cities have sent their heir
esses here to market. Society dances the
raZzle-dazzle about them, and while their
suitOrs bark Their knees in doing them
homage Miss Grundy, Jr., will tell you who
they are.
MISS MINNIE wANAMAKER's ALLOWANCE.
Who can compute her forUunel
1.-TWO million dollars" one says; '',louble
that" iys another: "a full $1,000 600 by
the time she will inherit it, )" says a third.
There are four children IL the Wanamaker
family, two sons and two dau ghters, and
they can swim IN money in any direction,
for the sons, too, married wealthy girls.
Miss Wanamaker is so pretty that she
would be a ''catch" if she had not a cent:
but the possession of so much gold makes
her the most interesting girl of the season,
for she is newer than Miss Letter and
almost as lovely. She knows a thing or two
about money, and is sincere enough to
recognize sincerity in others. The fortune
hunter who follows her will be uuwise For
over a year she has been learning how to
take care Of money. fer father gives her
an allowance, and she buys all that she
wears.
No one questions Miss Wanamaker about
her spendings, and even if she overdraws
considerably on her bank account it only
brings a laughing criticism fr )m her father.
But what girl does not overdraw? They
tell me that they get an allowance of from
5000 TO $4,000 per year, and the only girl
in Washington who has not overdrawn hers
is Miss Florence Window. OF course she
NAFNS
the Treasury Is not a very wealthy man,
but whatever Miss Florence gets, she came
home after a shopping tour in New York a
short tims ago with % cents in her purse.
$4,000 a YEAR FOR PIN MONEY.
l chatted with one of the richest girls of
Washington last night as to how she spent
| her $40, 600 allowance.
81 suppose it includes all of your travel
| ing expenses! ' said |.
30, dear, no. Papa always pays such
things"
Then you pay for your living expenses,
supposem
what an ideal" said the millionaire's
/ daughter
"Well do you buy your own jewelsr
Certainly not. My jewels are all pres
ents from my father or others"
| 20, it goes to your dressmaker for your
imp 1rted dressesF'
mo, but I'll tell you a secret. Mamma
always has such things put on her bills.n
"Well," said l. "for what do you spend
! it? For your face-powder and hairpins, and
a few cents for candy"
| "Ye-esn
| Think of 900 for hairpins and candy !
l don't wonder that the girl has to use
face-powder, do youl
RICH CABINET DA UGaTERs
| Miss Wanamaker is the only very rich
| girl in the cabinet, although the two Blaine
| girls are not poor by any means. There is
now no chance for the elder Margaret, for
she is soon to be married TO Mr.. Damrosch.
| but the pretty debutante Hattie will bring
| her future husband, they say, $500, 600
Miss Florence Miller, daughter of the
| Attorney General, will have from SIS, OUO
to 100000. and both the Window daugh-
| ters as mucn.
| The five daughters of the Morton house
will have pretty fortunes when they come
of age-$2, 10000 or g.. 000, 900 apiece-and
they are being educated by their sensible
mother as though they were one day to
take care of themselves instead of fortunes.
| Michigan comes out ahead in the million
dollar girls it loans to the capital this
season. There will be five of them, and
the man who sits in Senator McMillans
| dove coloreo parlor can ca Il himself blessed.
| for four maids who will count their millions
| will talk to him.
First of all comes Miss Amy, the only
daughter of the house. Slight, fair and
| modest, yet she can vie with Miss Letter as
the hoiress of Washington Three million
dollars, if cent, is what she will one day
inherit, and PROBABLY half again as much
as Detrolters vouch for it that Senator Nc
| Mlllaa's fortune is steadily increasing.
Lumber, car wheels and iron mines are the
backbone of this lump of money which
| MISS Amy ACMlilan Will one uav share
with her three brothers and the little child
| of her only sister who died last year. In
spite of her wealth, Miss Mcmillan is modest
and unassuming and enjoyed her first ball
tue other night as much as the poorest and
prettieSt girl present She is pretty, too
and fortune-hu4ters claim that they pay
her the homage of forgetting her fortune
when they dance with her.
She IS sensible withal and knows thing
or two about money. Though only 10. for
| two years her father has given her control
of some corpulent bank STOCK, the interest
or which makes up her yearly allowance.
She has everything sne wants. Think of
it, but it is literally true, that her father
insists that she shall know the compara-
tive value of tumble and diamoA ID
ring. Although she has boxes of Jewels.
she will wear none of them, and at her first
ball she had not even a diamond tsticker''
PIN tucked away in her cOrsage.
HER $4,000 YEAR
The second Of Michigan'S heiresses who
are givi Washington fortune-hunters a
chance is Miss Alice Mcmillan, daughter of
the second of the wealthy Mcmillan
brothers. She is of an age with her cousin
and has quite as neat a fortune. The two
of them represent 81, 900, 900 when they ride
out Tenal ytown way together, as they fire.
| quently do.
TIE other two heiresses who will be
guests OF Miss Mcmillan are Miss Thomp-
| son and Miss Newberry of ID atrolt. The