Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-12

was poor man.. thirty years old, and they
lived together twenty-four years. Senator
Clark Is sfXty-four years old, but, although
without the tenderness of youth to recon-
mend him to womans heart, he is a scholar
and, what is more. the wealthest single
man in America. His wealth already
earned, added to the value of the copper al
ready in sight in his Montana mines,
amounts to a fortune of $500, 900, 600. His
income is S1O,OOO,OO0 a year: $40 a minute.
Senator Clark leases an unpretentious house
of medium size adjacent to the ruins OF
Stewart Castle" which famous mansion he
bought several years ago from the Nevada
senator, and which he forthwith RACED to
the ground leaving the foundations stand
Ing 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-
erldge, the dapper, youthful and eloquent
from the same state; Gibson of Montana;
Morgan of Alabama, the anti-Panama
canal statesman; Cockrell of Missouri, and
Patterson of Colorado.
Senator Patterson has a fortune amount
ing to more than a million to share with
the lady who may capture him. He is an
lrishnan, sixty three years old. He was
married when only tWenty-three to Miss
Katherine Grafton of Watertown, N. Y,
who died year and a half ago. after hav-
ing graced his home for nearly forty years.
Besides being one of the wealthest lawyers
OF Colorado, he is the owner of the Denver
News. Senator Allison is q Widower twice
over, but has 40 children to conflict with
third romance He is hale and hearty,
Dragging of seventyfour years of youth
He has been considered a presidential pos
slbil1ty in past campaigns. He is not poor
man, nor a millionaire.
Cabinet Eligibles.
The socially alluring post of lady of the
l.;
rotary of the Navy Moody is a bachelor.
He will celebrate his fiftieth 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 Repre-
sentative Gillett of Massa chusetts and Gen.
Crozier chief of ordnance, United States
army, keep bachelors hall in unpre-
tentious house in K street These three no
tables are said to be sworn misogamists.
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
levees, besides formally dining her and the
chief executive once year.
Another cabinet vacancy for a woman ex-
lists in the household of Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson. He is siXty-eight years
old and the very pink Of amiabiity He
has been a widower for many years, and
second wife would become stepmother not
only to a daughter, who has been the social
head of his household throughout his term
in the cabinet, but to several very prom
Using sons in the west
Speaker and Justice Wireless:
There is a fighting chance for some fair
lady to the dignified social station of wife
to the Speaker. Uncle Joe Cannon Is a
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 next square
In the dignified Supreme Court circle there
is one wife missing, Mr.. Justice Brown hav-
Ing been a widower for two and a half
years He is of the same age as Speaker
Cannon, is a Yale man and is reputed to be
very wealthy, his mansion in 10th street be-
ing one of the show houses of the north
west.
In the diplomatic corps there are about
ninety single men-that many, at least, who
pose as bachelors or widowers. However
1t is not always an easy matter to deter
mine the exact marital status of these for
eigners Lord Sackville 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 arc
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 chance for three American wo-
men to become countesses, for one to be-
come a viscountess and for another to be-
come baroness.
Count Cassini. the Russian ambassador Is
a very rich widower. about sixty He was
born in st. Petersburg, was educated at tho
Imperial Alexander Lyceum Of that city, is
one of the shrewdest diplomats of Europe
and Will probably be transferred to higher
post shortly. Although matrimonIally I'M
fettered during the more than five wears Of
his residence in Washington he has pro-
voked no gossip concerning a probable sec
ond wife; and the fact that he had the title
OF countess conferred lately upon his
adopted daughter is taken as evidence that
no other lady will enjoy that distinction
during his life. The two other diplomats of
tho same noble rank and without wives
arc Count Hirokichi Mutsu first secretary
of the legation of Japan, and Count Frede-
rick Hoyos, attache of the Austro- Hunga-
rian embassy.
Baron Gevers, the minister of the Neither
lands is a bachelor, and If he follows in the
footsteps of his father, who was the Meth
erlands' envoy here 1S51-56 he will marry
an American girl. Baron Gevers' mother
was Miss Katherine Wright, daughter of
former Senator Wright of New Jersey.
But the most picturesque bachelor iplo-
mat of title accredited here is the Viscount
Charles do Chambrun, third secretary of
the French embassy. No American girl
need suffer expatriation in the hearts of
her countrymen by becoming the Vicom-
tesse de Chambrun. M. lie Vicomte is the
great-grandson of General LAFAYETTE and
the ranking representative of the Lafayette
family.
General Isaac Khan, the Persian envoy,
was said to have left harem stocked with
twelve wives when he was accredited here.
but this rumor he emphatically denied and
announced his status that of bachelor
However, there was no serious necessity for
the gorgeous generals denial, as-under the
laws of his country-there would be no OBJ
lection to his taking the thirteenth spouse.
although some superstitious American lady
might object to her numerical rank Che
kib Bey, the Turkish envoy is Mohamme-
dan, and, therefore, an advocate of polyga-
my. But he announced himself to be a
widower when he came here. His mother,
wGo keeps house for him, is kept closely
yelled lest the American barbarians might
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