The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-03

diplomats in the city mo-" he went on
Beauty. in the first place, / believe. il a
dim DIM relation Of Mrs. Brice-cousin. | think.
IS social secretary TO Mrs Brice- He pi-
lots the Bcce family up and down the
crowded channel OF Washington social life.
ana l pay his diplomacy a distinguished
compliment when / say that from first TO
last he has not bumped them into other
craft Graf nor rubbed of any, of the paint. nor
has he had them aground once. There has
never been moment when Beatty couldn't
snow snow plenty of social water under the
What is the detail of his duties? 1 can
not exactly tell. Beatty has absolute charge
OF all social functions of the Brices. He
arranges their dinners makes out their
menus, absolutely dominates the dinner list.
invites the right ones and avoids the wrong
ones as IL they were pestilsnce. In fact. he
is fashion of Malvolio to the Brice house
mold. He directs the energies of the butler
tells him what wines to uncork and how
much. He tells the steward 10 what ex-
tent and in what direction he is 10 invade
the provision market. He directs. indeed, the
whole establishment, socially, gastronom-
ically. from turret TO foundation stone He
acts as sort of ESQUIRE to Mrs. Brice and
her daughters. Whenever their beauty
adorns box at the opera a good, strong
glass will show you Beatty in the back
ground. Do they ride. Beatty rides; and
should they care to walk, he turns pedes-
trian. Occasionally the Brice daughters
unsteady events. also on a bike. II any
social outburst, such as dinner or a mu-
scale. is threatening at the Br.ces. the So
f in .y ed,oresses searehing out the costumes
Really. Beatty is remarkable man.
He is cultured, refined. discreet; knows
do and what not to do. and since he has
been Brice's master of the black rod he has
carried that wealthy household into social
position and TO social heights which they
never could have attained unaided. The
Brice receptions and the Brice dinners and
musieaes a anncn ing parties an1 the Blce
thanks to Beatty, backed by the limitless
purse of Brice.
what the last social season in Washington
cost Brice? 1t lasted two months and a
half. and something happened at the
ner on Saturday night. Those twelve weeks
OF giddy whirl cost Brice over $4,000 He
Is, Is high,priced gentleman. and there's
no doubt about that, is Senator Brice. The
Brlce musicales were the talk of the town,
and, Tor that matter, of New York and sew
best singers in the world at these must
Gales. There was nothing too rich for the
musicale blood of Brice. He demanded
her. Beatty sought the great singer. who
softly suggested in her native tongue, which
Seatsy , as broad iinguist understood. that
she would need s, 500 and all expenses 20
come and sing twice for the Brices. She
was produced and left with Brice's $500
same musicale one of the De Reszkes sang
Zen minutes work with his vocal valves
called for $1,000. but De Reszke was there.
learned from sources which spring at
the very foot of the social throne that the
over all expenses of running the Brice
household a year IS $250,000. The Corcoran
house. on Lafayette square, where he
lives, calls for 900 a year, and the New
port house he rents for 5000. The two
Brice daughters have an allowance of S.
GOO each year; the two Brice sons are al
lowed $4,000 each. The extra $1,000 is al
lowed to the boys because of the superior
expense imposed upon them males of
the species. The male is eternally paying
cut money for the female in the way Of
bouquets, flowers. box parties and all sorts
of fashionable whatnots.
Beatty by the way, has salary of
10000 year, and he earns it, For the
purposes of fashionable splurge Beatty is
well worth 100000 year. Justice would
II am perfectly serious" continued my
friend. when 1 tell you that no one has
better social position in Washington than
Beatty. The Brices deal with him on a
plan of perfect equality. Personally, his
residence is the Arlington, where he has
the hotel, with all those adiuncts of bath,
and parlor. reception room and boudoir,
which only the very rich and luxurious
AFFECT Practically. he resides at the
Br1ces, and will be oftener at their dinner
table than at the Arlington table d'hote.
fashion make to the Brices invariably in
cludes Beatty; nor would the Brices ac-
cept on any terms which eliminated Beat
ty. AT the Letter wedding, which was
about as exclusive as any, there was seat
for Beatty. And IL there hadn't been
there would have been a long line of va
cant chairs, where in the ground plan of
the wedding the architects thereof pro-
posed to pose the Brice household They
wouldn't have moved peg without Beat