The morning call., 1891-12-06

paper, articles that for freshness of view.
discrimination and literary finish are
unique IN such newspaper work. 1t must
have been positive pleasure to those two
much biographical and interviewed men to
read OF themselves as Mr.. Hawthorne saw
them; TO be chroncled with taste and de-
liberation, and to have thought, insight and
analysis mark such articles, without a sug-
gestiOn of party or politics being apparent
anywhere in the lines.
Washington's literary circle Is constantly
widening and its colony increasing. The
traditional out-at-elbows literary man in
his garnet has gone by, and Washington lit
erary people own some of the handsomest
houses here George Bancroft, the histo-
rlan, has always been first in the roster of
such residents, and it is not yet realized
that he has gone. His spacious old double
mansion on II street was the seat of gen.
erous and exquisite hospitality, and Mr.
Bancroft always made himself the histo-
rian and the literary man, rather than the
eX-Cablnet officer and envoy. A block
away Mr.. Henry Adams and Colonel John
hay, both historians, occupy houses which
Richard Fox took most pride in designing
and watching gr0w-and both these literary
houses are crowded with art treasures, rare
and valuable things, books. ornaments and
trophies that constitute each one a famous
interior. Secretary Blaine Is proud of his
literary efforts, and the author of Twenty
Years in Congress" lives as BELTS a
great author, who ought always to be a
millionaire. This historian boasts two
HOMES IN WASHINGTON,
Either of them fit for a millionaire or all
author, as proved by the fact that Mr.
Blaine has lived in both of them, and Mr..
l.. Il. Letter occupies the Dupont Circle
mansion, which Mr.. Blaine built in the first
year of the Garfield administration. Mr..
Neolay, Colonel Hays literary partner in
the Lincoln biography, lives very quietly
and unpretentiously on CAPITOL Hill, in
house which he has owned since the
Lincoln days, and which, standing in
for an historian. Here immortality
dwells," said visitor one night pushing
open the low iron gate of Mir. Niculay's
dooryard. Mr.. George KEENAN,, long con-
nected with the Western UntCn Telegraph
Company and Associated Press in Wash
lngton, lived In quaint little house on
Massachusetts avenue, near Thomas Circle.
During lis absence these last four years on
his lecture tours, Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
tenants. AS fortune came to Mr..
KEENAN, he made purchases of this
house and of much other real estate
in Washington, so that when the present
vein.and mine Of wealth and public interest
is exhausted MIR. KEENAN, may settle down
at his ease in Washington and see his for
tune roll up by itself like any unlettered
capitalist.
Miss Alice Fletcher. who has made eth
biological studies among our Indians for the
Peabody Museum of Harvard University
for so many years, has been winter Wis
itor OF Washington for as long time, and
has now purchased a home here. Miss
Fletcher's work for the Indian Bureau in
THE ALLOTMENT OF LANDS
To several tribes of Indians has brought her
to Washington each winter necessarily, and
all chronological work must center here.
where the Smithsonian and National Mu-
scum workers and collections make head
quarters Of that science. Miss Fletcher's
new home Is an old fashioned house on
Capitol Hill, near that of her friend. Mrs.
Jean Davenport Lander, the retired ira
gedlenne, who has long been a fixed leader
IN the literary and artistic set resident at the
capital. Miss Grace DEMO Litchfeld, whose
graceful and charming stories are so well
known to all magazine readers, took a
furnished house here two years ago, but
before her Washington winter was over she
had begun building her OVID home. Again
the author and the millionaire are one and
side by side, and Miss Litchfield's new house
stands beside the Dupont Circle house of
Mr.. Blaine, and her library windows look to
the library windows where Mr.. Letter sits
with his costly treasures and col
house is massive and severely sim
pie, but 1t Is that expensive simplicity. that
plain costliness which means more than all
the gargoylcs and gingerbread of the merely
well-to-do; and merely the handles of hei
'front.' door represent a sum equal to the
publishers check for long story. Faith,
letters pay in this day of the republic, and
It is all the fashion and quite fin de steele
LOT genius to fare and lodge, dress and
drive, with the merest money -getter In the
world commercial. RUUAMAu