The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13


and success only by indefatigable eff
man in America His wealth already
| earned added to the value of the copper
already in sight in his Montana mines.
amounts TO a fortune OF $50o.0O0,0O0. His In
come is $4,000. 900 a year; $40 a minute. Ac-
cording to popular report the copper king
was to have married woman lecturer from
the West some two years ago. but the truth
of the rumor was later exploded. Senator
Clark leases an unpretentious house OF
medium size adjacent to the ruins of Stew
art Castle" which famous mansion he
/ bought several years ago from the Nevada
| senator and forthwith RACED to the ground,
leaving the foundations standing as an eye
sore to the very wealthiest heart Of the
West End.
| Other widowed senator's OF prominence
are Frye. of Maine. the president pro
tempore, concerning whom matrimonial
rumors are current; Allison, of Iowa, the
Republican leader of the upper house: Bev-
eridge, the dapper, youthful and eloquent
Hoosier; Willard. OF Nebraska; Dietrich.
from the same state; Gibson. Of Montana;
Morgan. OF Alabama, the anti-Panama
canal statesman; Cockrell, of Missouri, and
Patterson, or ColordoO.
Senator Patterson has fortune amount
ing to more that a million to share with
/ the lady who may capture him He is an
Irishman. sixty-three years old. He was
married when only twenty-three to Miss
Katherine Grafton, of WATERFOWL. n. Y,
who died year and half ago, after hav-
| ing graced his home for nearly forty years.
| Besides being one of the wealthiest lawyers
of Colorado, he is the owner Of the Denver
| News. Senator Allison is a widower twice
| over, but has no children to conflict with
/ third romance. He Is hale and hearty,
| Dragging Of seventy-four years Of youth.
| He has been considered presidential pos
| sibility in past campaigns. He is not poor
man nor millionaire.
| CABINET ELIGIBLES.
The socially alluring post Of lady OF the
Cabinet is vacant in two instances. Sec
rotary Of the Navy Moody is bachelor.
| He will celebrate his fftieth birthday two
days before Christmas. He is a native Of
Massachusetts, a Harvard graduate, sue
| cessful lawyer and former representative
of his district in Congress. He, Representa-
| tive Gillett. of Massachusetts. and General
| Crozier, chief of ordnance. United States
1 army, keep bachelors hall in an unpreten-
/ tious house on K street. These three nota-
| bles said to be sworn misogynists. The
| woman who captures Secretary Moody will
| be assured brilliant social rule. The
/ ladies OF the Cabinet are more socially con-
| spicuous than those Of the other official
sets, excepting only the Presidents wife.
| 1t Is their prerogative TO return calls by
| card only, and they always receive with
| the first lady Of the land" at White House
| Ievees, besides formally dining her and the
| chief executive once year.
| Another Cabinet vacancy for woman
| exists in the household of Secretary of Ag
| riculture Wilson. He is sixty-eight years
| old and the very pink of amability. He
| has been widower for many years. and a
| second wife would become stepmother not
| only to a daughter, who has been the social
head of his household throughout mis- term
| in the Cabinet, but to several very prom
| ising sons in the West.
There Is lighting chance for some fair
lady to the dignified social station of wife
| to the speaker. Uncle Joe Cannon is
| widower, and. like Secretary Wilson, de-
/ ponds upon his daughter to dispense the
/ Inequalities of his home. He is a year
| younger than the secretary and has lately
| leased a mansion in the same block with
| the latter. Senator Allison being another
| wifeless dweller on the same square.
| In the dignified Supreme Court circle
/ there is one wife missing, Mr.. Justice
| Brown having been a widower for two and
half years. He is of the same age as
| Speaker Cannon, is a Yale man and is re-
puted to be very wealthy, his mansion on
Sixteenth street being one of the show
| houses OF the northwest.
| In the diplomatic corps there are about
| ninety single men-that many, at least, who
| pose as bachelors and widowers. However,
| 1t is not always an easy matter to deter
| mine the exact marital status of these for
| eigners. Lord Sackvilie West. British min
| lister to this country prior to Lord Paunce-
| Totes term. was generally supposed to be a
| widower His eldest daughter was received
| in society but two years ago. Lord Sack
| vile, for reasons of litigation, publicly con-
| fessed that all of his four children were il
| legitimate.
| One ambassador and ten ministers are
| supposed to be wifeless. The other seventy
and nine diplomats enjoying singleblessed-
ness are of the small fry-secretaries and
| attaches.
FIVE TITLES VACANT.
There is a chance for three American
| women TO become countesses. for one TO be-
| come a viscountess and for another TO be-
/ come a baroness
| Count Cassini the Russian ambassador,
| is very rich widower. about sixty. He
| was born in st. Petersburg. was educated
/ at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum OF that
| city, is one OF the shrewdest diplomats OF
Europe and will probably be transferred to
a higher post shortly. Although matri-
monielly unfettered during the more than
| Ave years OF his residence in Washington,
he has provoked gossip concerning a
probable second wife; and the fact that he
had the title OF countess conferred late
| ~ upon his adopted daughter is taken as
evidence that no other lady will enjoy