The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-24
VANDERBILT PLANS
SURPRISE CAPITAL
New Worker, With Mrs. Field,
Will Extend Fashionable
District.
BELMONT The PIONEER
:LMoNT The PIONEER
Mrs. Pullman May Have a Wash
ington Housc--l1cr Sonin-
Law Buys a Site.

WASHINGTON, March eS.--Much
comment has been caused among SO
ciety people here BY the announcement
OF the plans of George w. Vanderbilt
OF New York, and Mrs Marshall Field,
OF Chicago, to build large homes on
adjoining lots in New Hampshire Ave-
nue.. They will help carry Washing
tons fashionable neighborhood In a
new direction, unfolding Perry Bel
mont, of New York, who was pioneer
along New Hampshire Avenue.
Mr.. Belmont last season paid S9S,0OO
for his triangle on New Hampshire
Avenue, Eighteenth and r Streets. 1t
was only two blocks from Du Pont Cir
Gle, which for ten years has been the
centre Of the fashionable dNtrlct of
washington, but was to the northeast
or it. Most millionaire home seekers
in recent years have gone to the north
west of the circle, with Massachusetts
Avenue as the chosen street, and ne
elected the neighborhood which MI.
Belmont chose.
Mr.. anderbilt and Mrs. Field Will be
i two blocks further northeast of the
Belmont property. The land which IS
to be used by them consists OF ten city
lots fronting on the avenue and Seven
narrow thoroughfare between and
II Streets. Just how the site is to be
divided cannot be decided at pres
emit. as Mr.. Vanderbilt mas left for
North Carolina and Mrs. Fields repre-
sentative is also out of the city. Mrs.
Field was formerly Mrs. Arthur Cation
OF Chicago. Her marriage to Mr.. Field
took place in London less than Two
years ago, and within year Of his
:. w. Sh
Law aside her mourning by the time
her new house is completed and at
once assume q prominent place in So
ciety. She is particularly we'll known
in diplomatic circles, having spent
much time abroad, being in evidence
at those capitals where her accom-
plished nephew, Spencer Eddy, has
been a part Of the American embassy
staff. She has also spent some time IN
I Washington society.
Another proposed home III this New
i lIampshire Avenue region is that Of
(. the Frank p. Mitchells, Mrs. Mitchell
having in the last week taken lot.
Sc by 100 feet on @ Street, just to the
west of the avenlc. Mr. Mitchell was
formerly Mrs. Luther Hare, niece OF
the late General Winfield Scott Ian
cock, a sister of Mrs. James Bishop, OF
New York. and of l-rs. William r. Ner-
Ram, Of this city Mr.. Mitchell is a
wealthy man from Cincinnati, now
completely Identified with Washington.
The sale was reported late this at
ternoon of 10000 square feet In the
sheridan Circle region to Representa-
& tive Lowden, of Illinois, who Is be.
1ieyed to begacting in the intere.. OF
his mothcr-in law, Mrs. George Pull
man, of Chicago. This site has lront-
age Of 27S feet on Massachusetts Ave-
nue. west of the circle. Should Mrs.
pullman build. mere her immediate
neighbors would include Mr. and Mrs
Gardner Williams and Mr.. and Mrs. Han
nen Jennings Mr.. and Mrs Frederick
AZ .-eep, formerly of Chicago; Mr.. and
" Mrs. w. +. Borden, Of THIS city; Gem
eral and Mrs. Charles Fitzhugh late OF
Il Pl.tsburg, and Mrs. Alfred GIN ora : =
ney. formerly of Cleveland.