The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-27
MoRGAN's HOME SECRETARY.
Miss Rhett Gets s1o,ooo and Has Here
tofore Escaped Publicity.

tofore Escaped Publicity.
 The renovation of J. Pierpont Mor-
 gan's house at Madison Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street during the absence of the family in Europe has brought to the surface Miss Florence Mason Rhett, household secretary of the great lfinancier and one of the highest sal aried as well as hardest working
 women in the United States.
 Those who ought to know say her salary is s1O,000 a year, the same as lHH. Rogers, the Standard Oil mag nate pays to Miss Katherine Harrison and $2,O00 year more than Helen
 Gould Is said to pay Miss Elizabeth
 Altman. Miss Rhett has been in MT
 Morgan's employ six years, but has hitherto managed to escape publicity. She relieves Mrs. Morgan, who dis Hikes household responsibility, of the lcare of the magnificent homes in New York, West Point, and London. Her word Is absolute in each establishment She engages and discharges servants and purchases all supplies. She is not restricted as to expenses.
 The New York house is all ready for Mir Morgan when he returns from
 Europe in few weeks This week tate, near West Point, to put it in or der. .a x On July 19 she has arranged to sail for Europe to see what is required in the London house and also to take a vacation.
 Miss Rhett is said to be relative f of Mrs. Morgan. She is a descendant of the old Rhett family of South Car olina, members of which have long been socially prominent in Charleston. She is tall, large, distinguished looking woman, like Mrs. Morgan and Miss. Anne Morgan. Mrs Morgan is reported to have a dislike for little women. She will not have them around her. All female servants in Morgan houses are of ample propor- tions.
 Miss. Rhett has positive manner land decided executive ability. She is quick to make up her mind as to what she wants, to ascertain what MT. Nor gan and the members of the house. hold want, and to see that they get it. Like all women secretaries, trusted with important responsibilities by great men, she is reticent to an ex- |treme degree. She is harder to ap-
 proach than Morgan himself. She never talks about his affairs even to intimate friends associated with her in charitable affairs in St. Georges Par |ish. %%
 MT. Morgan is interested in many church charities in which his name does not appear. Miss Rhett looks after all these details for him. Per-
 son who have seen her occasionally in MT. Morgan's box at the opera and in his church pew have always taken her to be a resident member of the family.
 As matter of fact she is not in the least treated like an employe. With the exception of breakfast she is near fly always to be found at the Morgan table, but at her own suggestion she
 does not live in the Morgan house. She feels more indepent in bachelor apart- ment of her own, where she can do as she pleases once in while.
 She rents a suite in the fashionable Santa Anita apartment Thirty-fourth Street and Park Avenue, not far from the Margan home. Here she lives with a maid and stenographer. She leaves her apartments promptly at 9 o'clock in the morning and does not usually return until long after dinner hour in the evening. She is running around
 town all day on MT. Morgan's business or that of other members of the fam Iily.-Chicago Tribune.