Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-06-27

NE. Brics Hires . First Glass Social Pilot.
He Has Absolute Charge Of All Fune-
tions-I.sidspt In the Senators Career.
0ould's Joke.


0ould's Soks.
l.. Sanford Beatty has absolute charge
OF all social functions Of tho Brice family.
He arranacs their dinners, makes out their
menus, absolutely dominates tho dinner
list, invites the right ones and avoids the
wrong ones as II they were pestilence. In
fact, he is q fashion of Malvolio TO the
Brioe household. He directs the energies
of the butler, tells him what wines to un-
cork and how much. He tells the steward
to what extent and I'm what direction no Is
to invade the provision market. Ho di-
rects, Indeed. the whole establishment, So
cially gastronomically, from turret to
foundation stone. He acts as n sort of
esquire to Mrs. Brice and her daughters.
Whenever their beauty adorns box Mt the
opera, n good strong glass will show you
Beatty In the background. Do they ride,
Beatty rides, and should they care to walk
he turns pedestrian. Occasionally the
Brico daughters perform on bicycles. Beat
ty attends these unsteady events.
Really Beatty Is remarkable man.
He is cultured, refined, discreet, knows
what to say and what not to say, what to
do and what not to do, and since he has
been Brices master OF the black rod he has
carried that wealthy household into "a So
cial position and to social heights which
they never could have attained unaided.
The Brice receptions, and the Brice dinners,
and the Brice dancing parties, and the
Brico musicales are the best In Washing
ton, thanks to Beatty, backed by the lin
itless purse of Brice.
And, speaking OF purse, do you know
what the last social season In Washington
cost Bricep 1t lasted two months and a
half and something happened at the
Brices every week-usually IL was a din
ner on Saturday night. Those IL weeks of
giddy whirl cost Brice over $50, 600. He Is
a high priced gentleman, and there's no
doubt about that, Is Senator Brice. The
Brice musicales were the talk OF the town,
and, FOR that matter, of New York and sew
eral other towns. Beatty produced the
best singers in the world at these nusi-
Gales. There was nothing too rich for the
musical blood Of Brice. He demanded
Bielba. She came high, but he must have
her. Beatty sought the great singer, who
softly suggested In her native tongue,
which Beatty as broad linguist under
Stood that she would need 81 500 and all
expenses to come and sing twice for the
Brices. She was produced and left with
Brice's 81, 500 check, and everybody was
happy. AT the same musicale one of the
Do Reszkes sang Ten minutes work with
his vocal valves called for 81, ,O0O but De
Reszke was there.
/ learned from sources which spring at
the very foot of the social throne that the
over all expense Of running the Brice
household a year is $3.50, 900. The Corcoran
house on Lafayette square, where he lives,
calls for $40, 900 year, and the Newport
house he rents for $4,000. The two Brice
Il. L.. III, 40
each year; the two Brice sons are allowed
SO, 900 each. The extra 81 900 is allowed
to tho boys because of the superior expense
imposed upon them as males of the species.
The male is etcrnally paying out money
for the female In the way of bouquets,
flowers box parties and all sorts of fash
ionable whatnots.
Beatty, by the way, has a salary OF
SO, 900 year, and he earns it. For the
purposes of fashionable splurge Beatty Is
well worth 800, 900 year. Justice would
sew another cipher on Bcatty's 100000 4
1t was in Governor Fosters time as
chief magistrate of Ohio when Brice, then
poor, hard up lawyer, managed to get
into Fosters debt to the extent Of about
81, 900. One day Brice came to Foster and
told him the law business didn't pay and
asked him to appoint him to position
where he might make a living.
Cant" said Foster. "You re Dem
ocrat."
"But you'll never get your $1,000"
said Brice. "You might as well ask me to
make n star as to make that 81, 900 with
my law practice.
"I'll tell you what I'll do said Foster.
~ am all tangled up with Hooking Valley
on the New York Stock Exchange, and 1
60
things. I'll send you If you'll 60"
Brice jumped at the chance. Foster
gave him $500 and lot Of directions and
impressed upon him solemnly the necessity
of doing just what he was told. Now,
Brce will not do what he's told and never
would II Brice had been waiter, he
would have taken your order and then
brought you anything he pleased. He
would have used his Judgment. That's
what he did with Fosters Hooking Valley
deal, but he made u $40, 600 profit, where
as If he had done as Foster told him no
would have lost all. Foster was delighted,
and, like the good old man in the story
book, he gave tho young hero 5000
Then Brice went back to Wall street and
plunged.
Brice's greatest play was building the
Nickel Plate. He put In every dollar he
could get, and from any source There
came a time too, when, to save himself
| from utter ruin, If not something worse,
he had to sell. He went to Vanderbilt,
' whose road the Nickel Plato paraleled.
. Vanderbilt wouldn't buy the Nickel Plate.
He said he could afford to wait the first
mortgage foreclosure and buy 1t from
sheriff.
''If you don't buy 1t, Jay Gould will"
nid Brice.
"Oh, no, no won't" said Vanderbilt
Brice then went to Gould. He knew
that he didn't want the Nickel Plate, but
IN had beautiful scheme to propose. He
knew Vanderbilt would buy the road be-
fcrc nc would allow Gould to get IL. Here
came Brice's strategy. He told Gould that
If no would sit silent and not contradict,
ndther affirm nor deny, any newspaper ar
lides To tho effect TINT he was going To