Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-29
LUXURY RUNS RIOT.
Fortunes Poured Into Apartments for
Dining at Washington.
SENATOR STANFORD'S NEW HALL.
The Good Things for His Feasts Come
Mostly From His Own Farms.
POOR MEN CANNOT GET IN THE SWIM

CORRESPONDENCE or THE DrsPATCH.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28-The Congress
which meets in few days is full Of poer
men. Four-fifths Of the newly elect ed
members have nothing but their salaries
and the semi-Alliance men were chosen be-
cause their farms were mortgsged Senator
Kyle has heretofore considered himself well
paid At 1000 year, and Senator PETER
was working for s25 week when he had
the luck to jump into Senator ingalls,
5000 Job. 1t Is said that KEN, of Ne
braska, never made over $500 year in his
life, and the most of the Alliance men sx-
pect to clear more this year than they ever
have before. They have been trotting over
Washington looking for cheap boarding
houses and the criticisms of the high prices
Of board and lodging are angry and loud.
It used to be that Congressman could live
well in Washington on $1,000 . year.
When Congress first met the members were
we'll paid at s6 day, and in 1915 the nation
considered it . big salary grab when they
increased their pay to 81, 500 a year. Now
they get $1,000 and find themselves poorer
than their forefathers were at 81, 800
Prices were never 90 dear in Washington as
they are now. A Congressman cannot get
q respectable 10-room house for less than
500 q month, and market prices have
doubled since the beginning of the last
Congress.
A City for the Rich People.
Washington is fast becoming a city Of the
rich. It is town of millionaires and of
millionaires who have come here to spend
their money. A poor Senator has no chance
to entertain on his salary and the cost of
dinners and receptions is enormous. The
prospects are that the coming season will be
more gay and more extravagant than ever.
Many new houses have been built and some
of the wealthier citizens are adding great
wings to their old houses for the purpose of
entertaining. The matter of dining rooms
alone is becoming an important feature of
Washington life and the dining room is now
one of the largest and most beautiful of the
statesman's house.
Senator Stanford rents house at Wash
ington, but he has added to this at his own
expense wing. comprising . dining room,
which has cost in the neighborhood Of $10,-
900, and which though simple in its con-
struction for the wants of a hundred mill
ionaire, is fair type of the tendency of
the times in this direction. You could
crowd q good-sized twe-story house inside
of it, and you could turn the biggest Broad
way dray loaded with barrels around in it
without touching the walls. 1t has great
swelling bay-window, and the ceiling is, I
judge, about Is feet high.
Finish OF Walls and Ceiling.
It is painted delicate cream which
warns into pink busted with gold as it
meets the side walls of pale blue and silver.
These side walls are of beautiful imported
paper Of silver flowers on this pale blue
ground and the general effect of the room is
q most harmonious one. There is nothing
gaudy or extravagant in its makeup. The
chandeliers are of brass, and the globes upon
them did not cost, venture, more than so
cents apiece, though they harmonic per