The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-28
BLAINE WORTHAM MILLION
HIS REAL ESTATE ST WASHING
TON PUT AT S25O,OOo.

The Basis of His Wealth Coal Lands
in Western Pennsylvania Which He
Inherited From Els Uncle-He Was
Also a Stockholder in Various Rail-
road and Mining Corporations-His
Goodness With Mckinley Due to a
Loss of Money.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 27.-Mr. Blaine is
supposed to leave an estate worth in the
neighborhood of 81 900, coo. which it is pre-
sumed will go to his family through his
wife. Besides his real estate in Washing
ton, which is supposed to be worth
$3.50, 900, he is interested as stockholder in
various railway and mining corporations,
the basis of his fortune, his friends say
being coal lands, which he inherited from
bis uncle Ephraim, ia Western Pennsyl-
vanis. Through Secretary Elkins he had
had number Of opport unities for profitable
investments and also through Andrew
Carnegie and other rich friends.
HIS GOODNESS WITH M'KINLEY.
Some of his investments did not turn out
well. The comparative GOODNESS which had
sprung up between him and Gov. Mckin-
ley was said to be due TO the fact that Gov.
Mckinley gave him what he considered bad
advice about suit brought against him as
one of the stockholders Of a bankrupt rail-
road in Southern Ohio in which some one
had persuaded him to invest $4,000 some
years ago.
M'KINL EY's BAD ADVICE
When Mr.. Blaine went to Ohio to make a
speech for Gov. Mckinley the last time, he
was warned that he would probably be
served with writ which would make him
the defendant in a suit brought by the
creditors of the road. He asked Gov. Nc
Kinley about it, and Gov. Mckinley told
him that he did not think he could be
held. Thereupon, Mr.. Blaine went and
made the speech, was served with the writ
and was not only held as a defendant,
but after he became Secretary of State in
the present administration rather than be
made conspicuous in public trial felt con-
strained to compromise the case with
the creditors. In his indignation he
spoke disagreeably of Gov. McKinley's ad-
vice, intimating plainly that the governors
desire to have him make speech in Ohio
had affected his judgments, as TO the legal
effect of the writ in that suit.
BLAINE's LIFE IN WASHINGTON.
When Mr.. Blaine first came to Washing
ton he lived very simply in plain boarding
house on Ninth street, near the interior de-
ALb6E"dEu moving uptown TO a
better boarding house. But he did not at
tempt to keep house until after he became
speaker, when be took the house on Fif-
teenth street. in what was then one Of finest
rows of houses in Washington, where his
hospitality first became famous. Fernando
Wood of New York, ex-Gov. Thomas
Swami of Maryland, Gen. Vsnvliet, and
afterward Gen. Sherman we're bis near
neighbors.
THE BLAINES VERY EXCLUSIVE.
From that time 70 this the Blaines have
lived generously, although in latter years
Observation-Disclosures have been more ex-
elusive than in the days when Mr.. Blaine
was speaker and was everybOdy's friend
who would let him be. Ever since Mr.
Blaine became Secretary of State in the
Garfield cabinet tho Baines have baeu the
leaders of fashionable society in Washing
ton. They had as little as possible to do
with political and official society and enter
tanned and were entertained by only the
most ultra fashionable people. Mrs. Blaine
got the credit with most people for this
exclusiveness, but MIR. Blaine himself was
as exclusive as she was.
HIS PLANS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.
One of his admirers in congress who saw
great deal of him last spring said to the
MORNING News correspondent that one
reason why he hoped Mr. Blaine would be
nominated at Minneapolis and elected Yves
that the white house doors would then not
swing SO easily on their hinges and that
Tom, Dick and Harry would not go in and
out as they had under former adulinistra-
tlons. He intimated that the scheme Mrs.
Blaine suggested Cor the Garfield admins
tration, which was TO organize official So
ciety in systematic order OF precedence,
would be adopted had Mr.. Blaine become
President, and he added that sociallg the
Blaine administration would be distin-
guished as the most elegant and exclusive In
the history of the country.