The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-16
Will be the Spragues, Million
aires From Boston
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
Sprague Has Rented the Levi
p. Morton House
Came Down With Nine Carloads
Of Furniture
Under an Escort of Pinkerton
Detectives.

New York, Feb. 16.-Robert F. wynne,
one of the old school correspondents at
Washington, gossips in the Press today
about the social features of the coming
administration. He says:
Whatever may be its regards in other
points, the Mckinley administration IL
pretty sure to be a brillian social success.
This is all the more remarkable as the
known in Washington as swell So
ciety. Mrs. McKinley's health al
ways forbade her taking part, and
Mr. McKinley's own tastes
tfrely domestic. But the incoming
president has surrounded himself with
men who are in position to entertain
lavishly and whose ambitions lie in that
direction, and by an interesting coinci-
$780, me ING congress VIII contain
social display.
John Sherman will attend to. all the
purely formal requirements of the admin
1strat1on from society point of view.
and he is well equipped pecuniarily to do
TINS properly He has one of the finest
houses In the city, and social ability to
The Ayers are likely to make more of
social display. Indeed. that is understood
to have been the Michigan mans special
purpose of entering the cabinet. He has
already leased the house of Secretary La
mont facing the White house, across La
with free hand.
The incoming secretary of the treasury
owns one of the finest houses in Chica go
and may be counted on to maintain an
equally fine establishment in Washing
ton.
John D. Long, though not as wealthy
as some of the others. is well able to en-
terrain, and John Addison Porter, the new
private secretary, is understood to have
been selected partly account of his
wealth and social connections. which will
enable him to make up in a measure for
the lack of social inclination on the part
of his chief.
the house of the Spragues of Boston, who
are going to give Washington a more
before been known. Even the splendor of
the BrfceS and the brillancy of the Whit
for the Spragues have family and social
prestige to begin with. which the Brices
lacked and they have wealth in COMPARE
son with which the money of the Whit
neys is a mere modest competence With
their wealth. however, neither the Brices
nor the Whitnys were able to get recogni-
ton from the ultra exclusives, who really
have no great amount of money. but po-
sess lots of blood. The Spragues the
contrary will be received with open arms
The Spragues, with all their wealth. are
members of the peculiarly exclusive Bos-
ton set which Holmes designated as the
Brahfnins. They have leased the huse
occupied by Vice President Morton and
which he still owns. They will make it
even more of a social center than it was
during the Harrison administra ton when
it was almost the only house where ex-
tremely fashionable functions were COM
mon, They are already getting into shape
for the new order of things and a portion
of their household goods have already
been shipped from Boston in nine special
tives. One attractive feature about the
Spragues is that they are young. Neither
of them is 40, and they would be sought
after even if they were not wealthy.
Sprague will not be the only wealthy
member of the new congress. The Lodges
still will be in evidence, and their social
standing is about the same Hit of ILL
the millionaire class. In the senate Fu-
gene Hale of Maine, Mcmillan of lNichi-
of Rhode Island are all able to contribute
to the social splendor of the new adminis-
tration.