The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12

and his investments in Washington real es
tate are growing in value. He bought five
feet of ground on Sixteenth |
street year ago, intending to build house
on the lot, but he finds that he must be
away from Washington so much, that he
has decided to wait. In the meantime he
has been offered an advance of about s., 900
on his lot and it will soon be double in
value.
The property that John Hay bought on
the corner of Sixteenth street and Lafay
cite park, is worth twice what he paid for
it, and all Washington thought he was wild
when he bought it for six dollars square
foot He has made at least half the amount
of the Presidents yearly salary out of the
increase in the value of the ground. His
biography of Lincoln is, / understand, sell
ing well, and though he is several times
millionaire, he is getting considerable
money from his pen. The Hon. Ainsworth
r. Spofford, the librarian of Congress,
bought house few years ago on Massa-
chusetts avenue for, l think, $13, 600. This
house is worth S25, ZOO to-day. Mrs. Bur
nett's home, for which she paid S24, 900, has
increased about $4,000 in value, and Blaine
who may also be called literary man, has
made a big thing out Of the house in which
he is now living. When he rented it at the
beginning of this administration, it was
with the privilege of purchasing the prop
foot. The ground has practically doubled
in value, and he bought it the other day,
paying somewhere between fifty and
seventy-fve thousand dollars for it. Lolita,
the actress, has been buying Washington
property, and there are great many out
side people OF note who are making their
investments here. Mss. Logan's house is
worth twice what her husband paid for it,
and the cable railroad will soon run out
hol nf &c MAILING
money, l understand, out of her magazine,
ana she has good market for all her liter
airy work. Miss Nimmo, one of the bright
women correspondents here, owns house
worth about $50 900 facing Farragut square,
and on the other side of the square are two
houses belonging to John Mccarthy, who
is Senator Stanford's private secretary,
who is an old newspaper man with Shrewd
eye for good investments. The most Of the
Washington correspondents own their own
homes, and julius Truesdell has made a
good thing out of about twenty acres
which he bought up on Rock creek and
which is to be part of the new park, for
which the government has appropriated
something over a million dollars.
Another successful investor is Mr.. James
7. Dubois, the editor of the InUentiUe Age,
and ex consul to Leipsic Mr.. Dubois made
a good thing out of a business block, which
he bought on Eleventh street, and he has
also done well in suburban property. Still
son Hutchins the old editor of the Post, has
made small fortune in Washington real
estate. Rudolph Kaufman is now building
house in the fashionable part of the city,
on the ground that has greatly increased in
value since he bought it last fall, and
Crosby Noyes, the editor of the Star, has a
farm near Washington which could be
cut up into city lots and sold at a big profit.
EX-MINIsTER CURTIN ON RUSSIA.
had a long talk the other day with Gov
ernor Curtin, of Pennsylvania who was
for years our minister at the court of St
Petersburgh. He Is an intimate friend of
the Russian minister at Washington. He
keeps up his interest in Russian affairs and
he probably understands the feeling Of
Russia for America better than any man in
the United States. He is very liberal in
his views, and he evidently thinks Mr.
Remnants statements should be taken with
a grain of salt. Said he.
Sin order to get a proper idea of Russia,
| its government and its possibilities, you
must consider the immensely of the empire
of the Gar. 1t Is the biggest empire in the
world outside of that of China. Its terri
tories comprise one-seventh of all the lands
| on the globe and it has more than one hun
dred millions of people. These people speak
eighty-fye different languages and ninety
| per CENT Oh UQem can neither reaQ nor
write. The rules for governing such peo-
pie must be different from those governing
a country like the United States, and the
population is so widely scattered and of
such diverse elements that it must be ruled
on plan of its own. The great majority
| of the people are farmers who live in little
villages and cultivate the land surround
ing them. Only about one-tenth of the peo-
pie live in towns and of the half million set
| Elements IN the country, only about 600
have municipal institutions. There is a
vast difference between the peasants and
the upper classes. The educated Russian is
the peer of any man anywhere, and at St.
Petersburgh the society is as cultivated as
you will find in the world. The statesmen
and diplomats of the Russian capital are
| the equals of those of any capital on earth,
and the evils of Russia do not come from
the central government. The empire is
divided up into eighty five provinces
Each of these provinces has a government
and the abuses of power largely come from
those subordinate governments. l think
the great need of the country is some means
or plan by which the different parts of il
could consult together in regard to the evils
existing in the empire and as to the means
of mitigating these. Had the former Czal
lived ne would have accomplished this thing
and would have probably had parliament
/ think that the country must have thi:
in the future and in such condition lie
the only safety of the Gar"