The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-22


of the summer on his farm in Yer
mont. He owns place near Windsor, the
milk produced by which costs, he says,
more than champagne, and the butter aver
ages somewhere about two dollars apound.
Senator Evarts is one of the largest feed
ers in public life and he thoroughly enjoys
good living. His long, thin frame can take
in an almost unlimited amount of terrapin
and champagne, and one of the best bon
mots which ever passed from lip to lip in
Washington society was made by Roscoe
Conkling, when he sat at the other end of
the table from Evarts at a White House
dinner. He cast his eyes at Evarts as ne
went boldly through course after course,
and finally said to the man at his side:
''See little Evarts feeding his tape worm"
SENATOR EDMUNDs
has very pretty country place in Yer
mont and his home at Burlington is high
and cool. Senator Vance, of North Caro-
lima, has about a thousand acres surround
ing his country place near Asheville, North
Carolina, and he says he would thousand
times rather go there than to White Sui
phur springs or Saratoga. ''The idea of
paradise for me,' he remarked the other
day, lis to get down at my home in the
mountains where | can throw off my coat,
stretch myself under tree and watch an
old niger plow with a one eyed mule. -
X-Senator Palmer writes me that he in
tends to make tour Of the lakes on one of
his freight steamers, and after he returns
he will settle down In his log babin near
Detroit This log cabin contains about six
rooms and it cost Sl2,0 to build. Palmer
has a lot of Jersey cows, the milk of which
| costs him fully as much as that of Senator
Evarts, and his farming is one of the luxu-
ries of millionaire. He blows up stumps
with dynamite, raises fish in pond kept
fresh by steam engine pumping water
| into ii, and entertains magnihcently. He
calls himself a pioneer, and his home is fic-
, titiously dubbed Font Hill, because he says
there is no fountain and no hill connected
with it.
During the last five years our leading
statesmen have been paying attention to
WASHINGTON SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT,
and now not a few of the Senators own
farms and lots near the capital Outside of
the city the climate of the District of Co
lumbia is about the same as that of Ohio,
with the difference that we have here more
of breeze, and our great men are learning
that they can Just as well have a country
nome near their seat of work as several
| hundred miles from it. MIR. Whitney
started the fashion when he bought Grass
lands for something like $4,000, and made
$4,000 out of it during his term of office.
Don Cameron bought the other day 81, 00C
worth of suburban property. and Sherman
and Blaine, Ex-senator Kellogg and a
dozen other prominent men own more OF
less suburban land. The good speculation
which President Cleveland made in Oak
View is well known. He paid less than
1000 for the place, and sold it at a hun
| hired thousand dollars profit. During his
administration the roads surrounding his
property, and throughout the whole subur-
ban part of the District were piked and
otherwise improved, and the suburban
drives of Washington are now finer thar
those of any other city in the country
This improvement has shot the price OF
lands from $500 an acre up to from one tc
five thousand dollars and acre, and all about
the Presidents home land is selling at q
cents and upwards foot. A square foo
is a mighty small amount of land and q
cents a foot means in the neighborhood Of
/ $4,000 an acre.
TIE PROSPECT NOW
seems to be that a great suburban growth
will spring up along the upper Potomac
| The Baltimore & Ohio railroad during the
past month has paid $4,000 for sixty acre:
on the Maryland SIDE facing the Virginia
nils within about three miles of George
town, and the probability is that a railroad
will be run from Washington to Cumber-
land on the bed of the old canal This will
bring some of the most picturesque coun.
try in the United States within easy access
of Washington, and already the ground i:
being plotted and lots are being sold in thi.
region. Two Ohio men have bought one Of
the most picturesque plots lust below
Cabin Johns bridge and have called theil
suburb Glen Echo They have already con
structed $4,000 rustic restaurant here
which is to be taken charge of by Mr. Page
the man who feeds the United States Sena
tors at the capital, and this will probabl,
be the great driving resort of the comm,
season. An electric road is now runninl
almost to Tennallytown, past Oak View
and there is hotel there which is largely
patronized by Senators.
OF COURSE LOTS OF MONEY
is being made in Washington out of thi
suburban property, and we have lot o
women here who make loads of money gu
OF real estate Mrs. Patten, the wife of tn
California millionaire, added materially Il
her fortune in this way before she died
and there are a number of other societ,
ladies who speculate in houses and lots OF
the sly. Not few of the fortunes O
Washington are founded on real estate an,
large part of that left by Corcoran come
from the rise of Washington property
One of the most aristocratic families in tn,
northwest dates its origin back to 10
which the grandfather Of the high tone
young ladies of today own.
This grandfather was a butcher, and h,
had very pretty daughter whom the cool
of Sir Charles Vaughn, the British minis
ter TO the United States decade ago, saw
and fell in love with. When Vaughn wen
back to England the cook remained an,
married the daughter of the butcher
The butcher died leaving his 10
which was sold at an enormous fig
ure and which formed the founda