The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08

known from this big retail store. He owns
the most of 1t, though Robert C. Ogden has
a large interest, and he has the entire man
agement of the store now that Wanamaker
is a cabinet minister. 1t is true that there
is a private wire running from the Phila-
delphia house to the postoffice department,
but only three or four messages pass over
this day and these are more often social
messages than business ones. If Mrs.
Wanamaker or the girls are gong to Phila-
delphia the postmaster general will send a
line announcing the fact, or if he wants
some special arrangement for his Sunday
school, his private wire is called into requi-
sition. As to ordinary business matters,
HE Is SELDOM CONSULTED,
and it is only as to questions of general
business policy, large purchases or the buy
ing of a corner lot that his partners have
to telegraph him. His two sons are mem
bers of the firm, and though | have not met
them l am told that they are men of more
than ordinary business ability. Both are
still under thirty, and both are graduates
Of Princeton college. Tom Wanamaker is
in the house at Philadelphia, and Rodman
spends most of his time in Paris as the
foreign purchasing agent Of the establish
ment Both of the young men are married,
and both have babies in short clothes. Tom
v
the old families of Philadelphia, and his
brother, Rodman, has French lady for a
wife. The postmaster general has an eye
for the beautiful il woman, and he is very
fond OF his daughter -in-laws. He dotes
more over his grandchildren than Presi-
dent Harrison does over Baby Mckee, and
he is essentially family man.
Probably no public man in WASHINGTON
has more pleasant home life than John
No., g Ill H.
with his wife and family, and he has two
charming daughters who are good. old
fashioned girls and with whom he loves to
romp after his days work is over. Every
one knows where he lives. 1t is in the
historic Frelinghuysen mansion, which
Mrs. Whitney made such a social center
during the last administration and which
MIR. Wanamaller has improved at an eX-
pense of about $4,000. This house is one
of the most elegantly furnished houses of
the capital. Its walls are hung with satin,
and it has rooms so large that you could
turn wagon load of nay around in them
without touching the walls. 1t has a pic
ture gallery as big as a barn, and this is
now filed with some of
THE PRECIOUS ART WORKS
owned by the postmaster general. He has
little pieces of canvas here which have cost
800 an inch, and am told by an art FRIEND
of his that there are at least 100000 worth
Of pictures in this room. Still these paint
ings comprise only part of his collection
and he is, you know, the possessor OF
Munkacsy's AFTER the Wedding" which
hangs on the left wall of the gallery
There are more than fifty pictures on the
walls of this ball room, and though they arc
all very valuable, / do not think that some
of them are as beautiful as those which
hung in it in the days of the whitney
ownership. Secretary Whitney had a re
markable taste in art, and in his collection
are many masterpieces. He had a Mile
which Vanderbilt considered finer thar
any painting he owned, and some of hi.
pictures of the French school were won
derfully beautiful. The postmaster-gen
eral is a good judge of fine paintings. HI
has made study of art, and can tell gooC
painting without asking the advice of
picture buyer. He knows most of the
great artists Of Paris personally, and he i
haunter Of the studios when he is il
Europe
The postmaster general and his wifi,
ENTERTAINED MORE LAvISHLY
than any other family connected with thu
of the Mortons. They have kept opel
house, have given many dinners and recep
tons, and at the close of not a few of theil
parties this picture gallery ball room ha.
been thrown open for dancing. The post
master general is noted as a Sunday schoo
man. He is, however, genuine Christian
and his cloak of religion has not been don
ned with his official appointment nor hi
business success. He is not so straight
laced, however, as were our Puritan
fathers, and he does not consider dancins
sinful. He will not use wines, however
at his state dinners, and he confines hi
| own drinks to appolinaris haythorn waite
and the succulent soda. He believes in tn
observance of the Sabbath, and he win no
allow letter or a telegram to be delivere,
at his house on Sunday. He will not tall
business on Sunday and there are no Sun
day newspapers taken in his house.
He runs his Christianity, too, on bushes
principles, and he says that minister
would get along better if they had NOR
business tact Few people have any ide
of the Christian work which he is doing il
his Sunday school at Philadelphia, whicl
he started in the give Points, of that cit
when he was working on a salary of les
than that received by the average govern
ment clerk.
HIS FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL
was held in tent, and he was a successful
Sunday school teacher when he was thirt
years of age-twenty years before any on
imagined that he would be a rich man an
when the widest dreamer would not hav
pointed him out as a cabinet minister.
am told that Wanamaker risked his life i
starting this Sunday school, and that tn
toughs of the Quaker City used to pelt hin
with mud when he began with the ragge
children and tried to influence the drunk
ards to build up Sunday school. it is
perhaps, this pelting that made him wor
the harder, for Wanamaker is fghte
from the word go, and opposition only mad
him the more anxious to succeed. A ma
who visited his Sunday school the othe
day was telling me something as to its pro
portions He said: "Wansnaker has tw
granite tabernacles, one of which is til
il Bethany church, and the other the Sur