The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-10
About Noted Women in Wash
ington Society.
HOW TABOR TOOK In THE ELITE.
Closet With Skeletons in Them-Mrs. Tabor
No. 1.-The Elkins Cottage and Its
Ninety nine Rooms
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. 1S9o.-[Special cor
respondence of THE HERALD.
know il is a sin
For me to sit and grin
At them here.
But the sham aristocrat.
His blue blood and all that

his blue blood and all that
Are so queer.
Washington society is trembling over tire
possibilities that may be lurking under the
thin veil OF the upper crust. A month ago
one OF our dudes, who parted his name in
the middle and who called himself 3. Shep-
herd White, was the petted of Senator's
daughters and the boon companion of gen.
erals sons. A few days later he fed to Ken
lucky as scent defaulter and was cap
tured in the very presence of
two of our most brilliant society girls.
We all thought he was an aristocrat and
the son of an aristocrat. We imagined his
blood had the tinge of the sky and we are
Mortified to find it charged that his father
was Boston white washer and that his
most distinguished ancestors ate their
meat on the banks of the Congo. This
young man was a S100 ERIK and he cut
wide swath here on steailngs amounting to
less than one thousand dollars. He now
rests in the Washington jail, and the fair
ones who have Responded with him are
laying awake at night wondering whether
their love letters have been destroyed or
whether they will come forward in evil
dence. An effort will undoubtedly be
but such hopes are vain and he will prob
ably wear louder suit within a few weeks
than he has yet had in his wardrobe. In
other words he will go 10 the peniten tiary.
MISS PORTER AND THE HOTEL WAITER.
On the heels of this scandal comes the
marriage of Admiral Porter's grand-niece
to one of the walters of Washington
hotel, and the story of how the loving
couple met at the seashore and how the
knight Of beefsteak and white apron by
tidbits of soft-sheled crabs and soft cuts
of tender loin wooed and won the fairest
guest at his liable is being rolled about over
the tongues of statesmen and their wives.
They discuss it, however, with fearful
hearts and ask themselves as they look at
their own daughters, what next! Wash
ington society is so constituted that it is
impossible to guard it like Ward McAllis-
tiers Four Hundred of New York,
or like the bon ton society
Every season people change. Every con-
gress new batchof maideus and new
set of hangers on appear on the scene and
every four years new administration
turns the social world topsy turvy and the
old order gives place to new. Under such
conditions anyone can go into society. The
| introduction of a Senator or Represen-
tative or a politician is the opening wedge
and this in these Democratic days is free
| to all. There have been noted ladies in
Washington society who had more blue
blood than money and who, for a con-
slderatlon have taken up ladies
whose venous fluid was less
aristocratically colored and have pushed
them into the best of Washington society.
L might mention names but it would only
cause heartburn. know other people in
| Washington society who rank here higher
| than they do at their own homes and |
could point out some who are ostraclsed in
their native towns but who in Washington
are carried around on the topmost layer of
the upper crust The skeletons in Wash
| ington closets are legions and the paint and
powder which adorns many beautiful
face cannot cover up the story which lies
| behind.
SOME ROMANCE OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
Some romances of Washington society
have all the situations of a three volume
novel Even the goody good and the bes
blooded of our blooded stock have par
in these romantic adventures, and George
Bancroft's daughter year or so ago trot
ted off on an elopement with one of the
descendants of Charles Carroll, of Carroll
ton. There was, however, nothing bad in
| was
tichled to death over the match. Other
stories embrace tragedy as well as comedy
in their relations, and love and sui
eide are mixed up in them. No
long ago a Senator's son was drowned
in the Potomac when out boating with
lady friend and the probability is that he
died by accident The daughter of one o.
the most noted men in the country dice
here within the past five years. A bottle
| loha oh wa in hnr ~
the evil-minded whispered that love at
fair with foreign diplomat was the cause
of her overdose. Another scandal relates
TO one of our diplomats. His troubles hav,
come since his appointment and his riva
for the time in his wife's affections, though
not a hotel waiter, was only step higher
He was the dude-like clerk of a summe
boarding house.
SENATOR TABoR's ROMANCE.