Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-22

just as we'll have country home near
their seat of work as several hundred
miles from IT. Mr. Whitney started the
fashion when he bought Grasslands for
something like $50, 600 and made SIS ,000
out of it during his term of office Don
Cameron bought the other day Sl2 GOO
worth of suburban property and Sherman
and Blaine, ex-senator Kellogg and q
dozen other prominent men own more or
less suburban land. The good specIla-
ton which President Cleveland made in
Oak View is we'll known. He paid less
than $50, 900 for the place and sold it at
500 900 profit. During his administra-
tion the roads surrounding his property
and throughout the whole suburban part
of the District were piked and otherwise
improved and the suburban drives of
Washington are now finer than those of
any other city in the country. This i'm
provement has shot the price of lands
from $500 an acre up to from $1,000 TO
$4,000 an acre and all about the presi-
dent g home land is selling at twenty
five cents and upwards per foot. A
square foot is a mighty small amount
of land and twenty-five cents a foot
means in the neighborhood of $40 900 an
acre.
great suburban growth will spring up
along the upper Potomac. The Balti-
more aud Ohio railroad during the past
month has paid $50 900 for sixty acres on
the Maryland side facing the Virginia
hills, within about three miles of George
town, and the probability is that rail-
road will be run from Washington to
mberland on the bed of the old canal.
This will bring some of the most pictur-
esque country in the United States within
easy access of Washington, and already
the ground is being plotted and lots are
being sold for this region. Two Ohio men
have bought one of the most picturesque
plots just below Cabin John Is bridge,
and have called their suburb Glen Echo.
They have already constructed 500 200
rustic restaurant here, which is to be
taken charge of by Mr.. Page, the man
who feeds the United States senators at
the acpitol. and this will probably be the
great driving resort for the coming sea-
son. An electric road is now running
almost to Tennallytown, past Oak View,
and there is hotel there which is largely
patronized by senator's.
OF course lots of money is being made
II Washington out of this suburban
property, and we have lot of women
here who make loads of money out of
real estate. Mrs. Patten, the wife of
the California millionaire, added mate
rally TO her fortune in this way before
she died, and there are number of
other society ladies who speculate in
houses and lots on the sly. Not a few of
the fortunes of Washington are founded
on real estate, and large portion of
that left. by Corcoran comes from the rise
Of Washington property. One of the
most aristocratic families iu the North
west dates its origin back to lot which
the grandfather of the hIghtoned young
ladies of to-day own. This grandfather
was butcher, and he had a very pretty
daughter whom the cook of Sir Charles
Vaughn, the British minister to the
United States decade or so ago, saw
and fell in love with. When Vaughn
went back to England the cook remained
and married the daughter of the butcher.
The butcher died leaving his lot which
was sold at an enormous figure, and
which formed the foundation of the
present famiIy's fortune. Not long ago
the butchers daughter, whose origin
had as she supposed been forgotten,
took upon herself to criticize the admis-
sion of the daughters of poor but blue
blooded naval officer into Washington
society. In speaking to one of the most
refined ladies of Washington about it
this butchers daughter said: "What
an idea, Mrs. Blank. l don't think We
ought to admit these people to our circle.
Washington society is growing so COM
mon and we really must draw the line
somewhere. -
Eyes, Madame, - replied the lady sar-
aoa az ho he lint hor
shall we draw the line, at the sirloin or
the tenderloin?''
This story makes me think of the
house women of Washington,
come of whom belong to that class known
as reduced gentlswomen. Not a few
boast the bluest of blood, and a congress-
man from Michigan told me his expert
ence with one of these the other day.
I BILE board in Washington costs from
$50 to $50 per month, and this congress-
man wanted to get a good boarding
place where he could run in and get his
meals. He was met at the door by a
rayhaired old man, who told him that
his wife, the lady of the house, was not |
at home. "But, - said he, 81 would |
would inform you, sab, that this lady, |
sab, is descendant of George Washingzk
toms family, sab, and she is sdfes
to suit you, sab. My congressional |
friend said that he would be glad to |
board with so distinguished a character, |
and made some inquiry about the meals. |
The old man TO his repeated questions |
answered shortly, but always turned the
to the George Washington |
end of his family, until finally the con- |
gresham exclaimed: ''I don't care q |
blank whether my landlady is
George Washington IS niece or George
IS cook. All that want Is
to have good. hot rolls and oat meal for
and want my meat cooked |
rare. - Whether he got 1t not l don
know
Quite a number of Washington women
have made money in keeping bOarders.
There is one within few blocks of the /
White House who owns two houses wQs4lse
II least $40, 600, the whole-of which fAe
las made out of congressman IS stom-
achs, aud know OF another who boards
government clerks and clears $1,000 1
year. Another woman who is known soueS
what as a temperance advocate, keepssa I
big hotel here, and another has three
houses filled with all kinds of officials,
from cabinet ministers to treasury clerks
She has different rates according to rank,
and the senator pays $50 month for
What the representative gets for S22. 80,
md which the clerk gets for $40. she
las q negro steward and he is such
good caterer that he il said to receive
$1,000 year for his services. Furnished
'ooms bring very high rates in Washing