Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-12

skeleton of the servant lying in his clothes as ne
had fallen while the feast was in prozress.
MRS. JUSTICE GRAY.
Mrs Justice Gray viii probably entertain
considerably during the coming season. She
has one of the handsomest houses at the cap
streets and is within two blocks of the White
House. Mrs. Gray is, you know, the daughter
of the late Justice Stanley Matthews, and she
was married to the bachelor Judge about year
and half ago. She is a very accomplished
lady, and is much more popular in Washington
than Is her. husband. Justice Gray is SO digni-
fed at times that some people think he is in
cined to be snobbish. He comes of one of the
old families of Massachusetts, and the Gray
fam lily was founded by this man $ grandfather,
who was a merchant of Lynn. He began life as
an apprentice, but he died the richest man in
New England. and he had at one time sixty
square rugged ships on the ocean. After he had
lieutenant ex-governor OF Massachusetts He
married, and Justice Gray's grandmother was
tAinly gets none of his snobbisr ness FROM
her. She attended to her own household
affairs herself. ami though her husband was the,
richest man in Massachusetts, she gave hal
most of her time TO the poor Gray's fatherTas
1 think in trade. but one of his uncles was John
Quincy Adams private secretary while he was
our minister to Ru ssia. and he was noted for his
artistic tastes. He collected 1900 rare engrav-
ings and gave them to Harvard college, and he
left SIS, 900 to found museum and to buy books
for the students there. Justice Gray has also
fine library, but he keeps il to himself.
friend of mine wanted to look at it the other
day in order to mention it in article she was
writing on Washington libraries, but the pomp
GUS jus tice replied, "That his library was not
collected for exhibition and the result was
that the young lady aid not see it. Neverthe-
less Justice Gray's nature seems to have its
lighter side. He is fond of hunting, and when
he accompanied the president down the Potomac
in MIR. Bateman's yacht. he wore an English
hunting costume with knee breeches to match.
He is portly fellow and l doubt not he looked
well.
MRS. JUSTICE BRADLEY.
Judge Bradley and his wife have been spend
ing the summer at Deer Park but they are now
back in their &C m Portable home on l street, not
far from the capitol. There is no finer couple In
Washington than Judge Bradley and his wife.
The justice is well along in the seventies, but
his heart is no older than that of young
of thirty. He enjoys good novel, reads Shakes
peare aud works out mathematical problems for
fun. His wife, though younger than he is, is
also advanced in years. she is a bright, active,
gray-haired little woman, full of vigor. She is
the daughter of Chief Justice Hornblower OF
New Jersey, and the judge married her when he
was lawyer at the bar. The Bradleys are sup
a poor boy, and worked in the summer to get
the money to go to school in the winter. He
made himself an eminent lawyer before he got
to the bench. and has received many big fee.
JUSTICE HARLAN's WASHINGTON HOME.
One of the finest houses in Washington, as far
as location is concerned, is that of Justice Har-
Ian at the head of Fourteenth street. Wash
surrounded by high hills. On one of these hills
this house is situated, and it has commanding
view of the whole of the city, miles of the Poto-
mac and the Virginia hills. 1t is very near Cal
umet Place where Mrs. Logan lives, and Just
across the way from the big stone castle of
Asphalt Barber, which Chief Justice Fuller oc-
cupied when he first came to Washington. JUS
tice Harlan is fully six feet two inches high.
He has head of a Jovian cast, and his COM
plexion is as fair as that of baby. Mrs. Har-
Ian is also tall and fine looking, and the two
form one of the distinguished couples of our
White House receptions.
Justice Batchford is just the reverse of Judge
Harlan. He is small and fiat chested. His
face is more like that of an English barrister
than an American justice, and he does not con-
form to a single one of the items mentioned in
Shakespeare's description Of the justice. Both
he and his wife, however, are important features
of the supreme circle. They are good takers,
and are notably popular.
Justice Brewer and his wife lived at the
Arno hotel during the last session. and have not
learned that they have fixed upon their residence
for this year as vet. Justice Brewer is cousin
of Justice Field. He is probably the youngest
man on the supreme bench. He is q man of
culture, and both himself and his wife are very
popular here. :
SUPREME COURT WIDOWS.
There are several supreme court widows ID
Washington. Mrs. Chief Justice Waite has led
avery quiet life here since the death of her
husband. His estate was not large, and in this
day of giving civil pensions Mrs Waite had
quite as much right to receive one as the
widows OF our presidents and those OF noted
generals. She presided for years here over the
Waite mansion. and she was one of the most
popular women of Washington society. size
was noted for her charities, and she is still one