The evening times., 1896-09-24
Secretary Francis Wife Has
Been Making the Rounds.
VACANT PLACES In PLENTY
Fire Residences to Be Found in the
Northwest for Which Tenants Are
Wanted-Many People Go 10 Eu-
rope and Rent Their City Homes
while They Are Away.

me-" oStretdry ol the Interior Is engaged.
In any other city there would be mar
row limit TO the furnished houses avail
able for So important a person as a mem
ber OF the Presidents Cabinet Here the
supply Uf fine furnished houses is unlim-
tied.
SO many people come here To hold Off
cial position, who have NO certainty OF re-
manning more than year or two, and se
many people come here for the purpose of
spending "a winter in Washington" who
do not want to acquire any property here,
that the furnished house business has
grown 10 great proportions, and such high
prices are paid for the rental of houses for
the winter that almost anyone who owns
furnished house is willing to rent II #
lie can get what he thinks will pay for the
privation he is to endure in being driven
10 a boarding house or out OF the city.
great macy people make business Of
renting ttieir houses every winter. The
amount they receive pays their expenses
in boarding house and permits them TO
occupy the houses through the summer
months virtually without cost.
Some people make u Justices OF going 10
Europe every other year on the rental Of
their houses here.
The city 10 the fall sea son ha S been likcned
to a churchyard. The TO Let signs,
like gravcsfOnes, stand in every front yard.
The stranger who comeshere TO rent house
Is filled with surprise when he sees the
beautiful homes TO lie had for the winter.
why do people who can afford 10 own
such beautiful houses prefer to live some
where elsec" he says. They doD't. II
they lived 10 Washington all the time they
would cot be able to own such beautiful
houses
SPEND A WINTER AWAY
In addition to these people who build
beyond their means, or build for the pur-
pose OF renting, there are many who have
some reason for spending a winter away
from Washington, and who would rather
have their houses paying expenses than
eating their roofs offin taxes.
The wife OF Lieut.. Gus Tyler Of the
army Inherited a very large fortune from
ber father, who made II in a proprietary
medicine. She built tig house of vel
low brick and stone, facing Farra gu.
Square, on the lite Of The house in which
Secretary Tracy's wife was burned to
death. 1t was one of the Costliest houses
here.
iteScAt NhCs tuAiN Al NbtE btNuih'h phN
of the largest OF the old residences, and
found it SO small that they rented an
other house on the same street to accom-
modate their servants. The new house
was hig enough for the entire Tyler es-
tabliSbnIeDt. They lived in it one year.
Mrs Tyler was n mourning for her mot-er,
aud they did no entertaining.
Then, as everyone was looking forward
.sa;, f,,
the TYLER house. the TyIers moved to New
London, their summer home, and settled
down there permanently. The big house
on FarraEut Square was advertised TO
rent, and 1t was occupied by former
minister OF the United States TO Greece,
Seth Barton French.
A l.. Barber, the asphalt millionaire,
who has beer cruising along the Atlantic
coast all summer in u splendid steam yacht,
owns stone house, built in ample grounds
on hill overloo oking the city. IL was atene
time the ccstliest house here The RIrbers
have not lived in it for Uun.her of years.
+ THE BARRIER HOUSE.
wheE Chief Justice Fuller first came 10
Washington he paid Mr.. Barber $4,000
a year for it, but he found his salary would
not Justify the expenses Cf :he establish
ment, and he moved after time into
smaller house. Recently he has bought the
old Carroll mansion. on Eighteenth and
streets. Meantime the Barber housr-
..Bar arber Castle" II has been called
stands empty. Mr. Barber viii not move
into t again.
Senator John sherman owns a large tract
of land adjoining Mr.. Barber's, and he mas
buiit it up in small houses, OF whose back
yards Mr.. Barber's house Commands a tine
view. Mr.. Barber is going to spend some
thing like half a million ON another house.
and he'll have land enough about 1t to
guarantee him against any encroachments.
The Letters, of Chicago. who could afford
to spend three quarters of n nlillion dollars
90 a house four or five years ago. lived IN a
rented house teionging to Mr. Blaine until
it was burned out on New Years Day six
years ago. Thcy paid SO eco year for The
house which stood on dupont Circle and was
owned by Mr.. Blaine when he was first Sec
retary of State.
The Bluucs lived in the house only year,
aud when they returned some years later
Mr.. Blaine rented and finally bought the
house ou Lafayette square, where he died
The Blaiues could not afford TO keep up
l.
After Mr. Blainc's death, Mrs. Blaine
lived in the dupont Circle house until She
rented il to George Westinghouse. Jr.. OF
pi,tsburG. Tic Westinghouse had been
living at the Arlington Hotel every winter
ard their entertainments Were notable for
thelavishncs the &C Il lincss
ofthefood and wines.
observation-disclosures evenly Mrs. Wesi:nS-
house is famous to this day even in Washing
ton, where SO much is spent in entertain
ing Mrs. Westinghouse flowers for that
eu,crt aiument cost $1,000. Tie Westing-
houses did not entertain after they moved
into the Blaine house, because they were in
mourning, hut they are expected to make
thIs city gay during the coming winter
THE FINER RESIDENCES.
The Barber house aud the Tyler house
and the Blaine house are examples Of the
finer residences which can lie had for the
winter Senator Sawyer's splendid stone
residence on Connecticut avenue is for reut
So are dozens OF others OF the finest houses.
Mrs. Francis will be embarrassed by The
riches thrust at her from every hand- For
tunately, the Francis family is wealthy. 1t
will not have to ask that time-honorcd ques-
ton of the cabinet officer whofOund thathe
WAS exuected to pay 5000 OF his S1O.-
Gao SALARY for house rent: :"Wh hat can DO
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES