The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-14
LETTERS LIKELY
TO QUIT CAPITAL
Their Washington Palace for Sale,
and Only "Joe" Left for
Cupid.
By w. w. Jermane.


Washington, Dec. 14.-The report is
persistent in Washington, that the
Letters are about to quit this city for
good and all. While it has been denied |
by one member Of the family, it is
known that one Of the more prominent |
real estate agents on f street has been
given a quiet commission to see what |
the Letter mansion on Dupont circle will
bring in the market. One business man !
is authority for the statement that half
million dollars will get the house and
furnishings.
The big Letter house on the Circle
has been closed for the winter. Mrs.
Letter will sail on the 18th Of Deem
Der for Liverpool in company with her
new son-in-law and daughter, and with
Miss Daisy. They will join Lady Cur
on her return trip to India as far as
Port Said, where they expect to stop
and make plans for wintering in Egypt.
The entire elimination Of the Letters
from the social world Of the capital will
be felt as quite loss. 1t is nearly
twenty years since the old business part
ner of Marshall Field drew out and
leisure and social career. Washing
ton was the doorway to the society
world. 1t has served it's purpose for
the Letters The married daughters
find all their principal interests abroad,
and there is only Joseph, and he is busy
4 playing at war at Ziegler, Ill. ~ -.
;; Alice Roosevelt's Plans.
Again the story pops up, with confr-
+ nation, that Miss Alice Roosevelt is to 90
? abroad as soon as she has done her duty
4 by the WINTER social season and seen
: her father installed in the White House,
f president in his own right. Soon after
March she will probably be taken I'M
der the care of the Whitelaw Reds, and
:. will be booked for England. There will
be some agreeable house parties there,
- after which Miss Alice is planning to
go to the continent, where she will
doubtless be the object Of attention
from royalty, not forgetting the Ger
man emperor. %
The first of Miss Alice Roosev cit en-
PERTAINING at the White House was the
invitation received by Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Goelet to spend few days al
There was dinner, and later the
young people were entertained by Mrs
Townsend and few other Washington
ans who are on Miss Alice's visiting
l. list. The presidents daughter is tt
70 pay up some of her social debts this win
" ter, as we'll as help her mother to dc
~ the honors Of the executive mansion.
q. Moody Is Eligible.
m William H. Moody, attorney general
is a bachelor, and perhaps the mos
eligible one in the official set Of Wash
y ington. He has everything now to max
him manageable except lot of money
u came to Washington as humble mem
Der of congress from Boston, and Will
10 working for his constituents spent hi
=, 81 $4,000 q year. Then he was suddenl
ID and quite unexpectedly invited to to e 81
10 a year. But he is obliged to entertai
SO some, and to live as BELTS u cabine
a. officer, and he is not getting rich on til
ic margin of savings. Therefore he wa
vs. tempted to take opportunities whic
y practices; but finally decided to .postpor
r. this until he could retire with SON
kind of a record. There are ambitio,
., mothers in Washington who would
IL. willing to take a chance on Moody *
of daughter.
re Mrs. De Koven Returns.
Mrs. Reginald De Koven, who has bee
VS. living quietly on account Of the death
i'd her father, the late Charles Farwell
~. Chicago, has returned to the capita
~ and opened a house on Thirteenth stree
to this winter Of Miss Ethelle De Kove
their only daughter and child. Th
young lady has been educated wi
M, great thoroness, under the close pers
~ nal supervision Of her mother, and
a skilled musician and thoro langua
scholar. She is a graduate Of Br,
Mawr.
Mrs. De Koven is charishing the id
Of return to literary pursuits. She
tbs like her sister, Mrs. -Chatfeld Tayl
his who has taken up bookbinuing a
Ind printing for a career, and believes tn
every person, man or woman, is me
re- happy if thoroly interested in some u
rly full occupation. After the debut Of
on daughter and some steering OF her SIN
craft in the first turbulent waters
art literature and write books for her s
am. ter to print and bind.
one The De Kovens are pioneers in Wa
res ington in the Sunday entertainil
Every Sunday afternoon the str
,tlv about the old General Meigs house
leir packed with automobiles, cabs and c
the riages. j. -
has Mrs. Shaw Likes Capital.
One reason why Secretary Shaw ne,
e, more than hint to get him out of
a cabinet is the fact that he has a dau
VA ter, Enid, who wants a season in
T. capital Mrs. Shaw believes that
daughter, who comes out this wint
would enjoy it more to come out
Washington than in Dennison. Iowa.
The president wishes that Mr.. Sh
r. would feel called to Iowa, or any OF
place. He has another man in his m
- FOR the treasury portfolio.