The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-24

ago, and is considered to be one of the
hneSt houses in a neighborhOod of hne
houses. Dwelling near by are Mrs O.
H p. Belmont, James AbercrombIe
Burden, Colonel Jay, Mr.. Tiffany, Rob
ert w. Taller and William H. Taller
There are few families in this city
which have exerted such an influence
upon New York society as have the
SlOanes. Mrs. Sloane and Mrs. Ogden
Mills are considered to be the leaders
OF the set which began as "40O'' in the
days of Ward McAIlister, and is now
held to be seventy-fve almost. Mrs.
Sloane was Miss Jessie A. Robbins, who
was a beauty in her youth, and has
become woman of queenly presence
verbal
The Sloanes are distantIy related to
the Vanderbilt family by marriage. Mr.
Sloane is a member of the well known
carpet house. His brother married one
of the late William H. Vanderbilts
daughters. Mr.. Sloane is a handsome
man, and of known hberality. While
not club man in the strict sense of the
word, he is a member of a number of
well known organizations and an officer
in several societies.
In establishing themselves in the
social vanguard there was need of a
place fit for entertainment on the scale
that they planned. Then the house in
East Seventy-second street was built.
1t was accounted the finest house in
that district of fine homes.
The family's social prestige had grown
to great magnitude when the Bradley
Martins Of lavish memory gave their
members of what Ward McAllister had
fixed as the elite of New York, danced
at gigantic expense, was a turning
point in the life of Mrs. Sloane.
One incident, small in itself, was the
cause, in fact, of her advent to the
position from which she has lately
looked down upon all society save one,
and has dictated the fates of hundreds
nj q zT011 MIS- or mis- TET9G cir MIA
merely a tiff over hair dresser whom
she lent to Mrs. Ogden Mills, but the
long time which the artist devoted to
Mrs Mills made Mrs Sloane late for
the entrance.
From that day there was anger be-
tween the two women until at Newport
they were brought into close contact
and in ambition decided to oVerturn the
social schedule that McAllister and Mrs.
AstOr had drawn up with such jealous
and polite care.
They blue penciled the names of peo-
pie who up to that time had been held
paramount and put them hencefOrth in
the outer courts. On the ruins of the
''400'' they built the seventy-five. Such
which Mrs. Sloane shared with Mrs.
Ogden Mills. Entertainment at the
Reefs, the Sloane home, went on with
all the splendOr which had marked it,
and then, somehow, there was a SILVER,
a little cloud over the sunshine.
Sometime in early August Henry T.
Sloane left his splendid cottage of the
Reefs to run down to New York. But
he did not come to New York. Instead
he called at the Commercial hotel at the
foot of Thames street and registered
under a name not his own. But it
would seem the hotel accommodations
We're not all he had hoped. By IL
o'clock he had decided his own jewel of
a place was better shelter after all. So
he returned to the Reefs. 1t was late
and there was guest there to whose
presence he objected.
About the manner and the vigOr of
the objection there are two versions of
the story. One says ne was calm and
made his protest with dignity. Another
draws a different picture-a picture of
a rich man hurt to the heart and rag
ing at the hurt.