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The Washington herald., 1909-07-02
Brother0 Wen PIcnsed.

The brothers were well pleased with
the results Of their third days efforts.
As the newspaper men feaned over the
rope at the shed. orvine pushed Wilbur
toward them. and Wilbur pushed orvIlle-
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his eccentricities. He had but to ex-
press a wish and it was gratified.
1t shocked the young man to find a DIFF
ferent atmosphere in the brokers' Office.
No one seemed to know Of his familys
millions. or. knowing, cared. Clerks or
dered him around. He was called
Harry by persons he looked down upon
and he was sent like a messenger boy to
brokerage houses. He did not like it, and
he didn't put up with 1t for long. A few
weeks of such experience was enough for
Harry K. Thaw.
But it was far different with men like
William G. Rockefeller, Walter Lewisohn,
Mortimer l.. Schiff and Clarence Mackay,
and it is far different with hundreds Of
other fve-dollar millionaires of today.
Walter Lewisohn, whose father was i'm
mensely wealthy, went the f1ve-dollar
route through the house of A. A. Hous-
man & Co., delivering stock, marking
quotations. carrying messages, doing any
thing or everything he was ordered to do.
and all the time keeping his eyes and
thing there was to be learned by youth
in the street. Today he is one of the
firm of Lewisohn Brothers, and is about
as well equipped for Wall street work as
any man in the street.
William G. Rockefeller did not work in
a brokerage Office. but had his S. expert
ence in the Standard Oil Company's head
quarters at No. 26 Broadway. He started
as an errand boy In the purchasing
agents Office. 1t did not matter that his
father was one of the greatest million
aires of the world and that he himself
was past twenty-one years old. He had
20 start at the bottom. He was just out
Of college. Ii he had the usual vanities
of the young collegian. he hid them pretty
well. He settled down to work as IL he
liked it. And if he did like it he certainly
had plenty of It, There were eighteen
or twenty clerks in the department who
We're his superiors, and most Of them
seemed to take a hellsh delight in keep
ing him busy. They sent him on mes
sages just for the pleasure of ordering
him about.
And he never uttered protest He took
everything that was coming to him in the
way Of work and looked for more. His
pay was raised to $40 a month, and he
deserved it if ever young man did.
With. the increase In pay he seemed to
think, the Standard Oil was entitled to
more: work from him. He worked so
hard In order to show that he worthy
of the reward that he fell Ill from typhoid
fever. 1t took him a year to recover. and
part of the treatment was trip around
the world But even on this trip he would
not cease work. Incidental to his general
places to inspect Standard Oil plants and
to study the company's business at those
points. When he returned he probably
had a better general knowledge of the
Standard Oil Company's trade throughout
the world than any other person. Today
he is the treasurer of the oil trust.
The young man who took William G.
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statesman from the Pine Tree state is an
epoch In the chronicles of the time, and
1t was celebrated with ceremony seldom
accorded weddings now. AS Miss Minnie
Chandler and as Mrs. Eugene Hale she
has been the chatelaine of a home from
which for nearly half a century has
radiated the forces since crystallized into
organized society.
Zach" Chandler's term as senator from
Michigan extended from 1857 to 1875. In
that brilliant set which made the ante
bellum society of Washington famous
Miss Minnie Chandler was accepted as a
leader. During the stirring days of the
civil war the Chandler home assumed
added importance, and the indomitable
Zach" dispensed a lavish hospit ality
Many conferences were held there during
those grim days. and Miss Chandler
directed everything with the conspicuous
ability which has marked her career
Present day Washington knows Mrs
Hale as one of the most dignified and re-
served of official hostesses She is a con-
slant entertainer during the season, but
little Is known of. her activity beyond hel
own circle. She is the type of old-fash-
ioned gentlewoman who keeps her per
sonal life entirely removed from the pub
lie phase which appertains to her nus
bands position. Through a long train
ing. Mrs. Hale regards her social obiga
tions as of paramount Importance, and
she attends to each detail with scrupu-
lous exactness Indeed. this accomplish
ed leader is the despair of the younger
generation, for she can dispatch an i'm.
posing array of business in one short
day.
Mrs. Hale has never kept a secretary
and yet her correspondence is large. and
she adheres to the old-fashioned method
of inditing every line in fine, regula,
hand She keeps alive the habit of writ
ing letters not the hurried scrawis which
the modern society woman calls letter
but the lengthy epistles dealing with cur
rent topics and her home and public life
and which was the custom III the day:
before secretaries and typewrters en-.
tered the field. Then the way that Mrs
Hale conducts her home is another phase
of her character which makes the young
er set envious She attends TO every de-
tail, especially in the culinary depart
Evening star., 1909-09-05
Dukes Don't Work.
7 AMEs DUNCAN. vice president

7 AMES DUNCAN. vice president of the
J American Federation of Labor, apro-
pos of Labor day. told. at a Quincy ban
auet a story about a duke.
They are terribly taxing In England.
the dukes he said And SO they should
The dukes don't work. Let them. then.
pay the major part of the taxes.
..As to the dukes idieness, | heard once
of "A polytechnic excursion from London
to Rome that the Duke of Norfolk ac-
communicable kill time, / suppose.
The duke. at every station. would hop
out and make himself agreeable in a pat
ronizing way, answering questions and
so forth, showing off his knowledge.
well, when Rome was reached. tired
old lady who didn't know his grace OF
Norfolk from keir Hardie or Jack Burns,
caught him by his ducal sleeve and said:
Now, my good man. I've noticed you
at all the stations loafing about. Just
make yourself useful for once In your
fife Pick up these bags and rugs and
get me cab
THE duke mildly shouldered the bags
and rugs, and after the old lady had got
safely in her cab with them. she gave
him sixpence. He bowed and said:
".Thank you, madam. | shall never
mart with this coin. II Is the first money
/ ever earned in my life
.Awfully rude of him to throw kiss
at me-"
yes. my dear, those are things which
always ought to be delivered in person"
illustrated Bits.
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ment With Mrs. Knox she shares the
honor of manipulating every arrange
ment without the intervening housekeep-
er. now considered as Indispensable to the
machinery of an elaborate home as the
chef or the hall porter. Mrs. Hale has
unique collection of cooking recipes
gathered painstakingy and all repeatedly
tested before receiving a place in the roll
of honor. These she varies with the sea-
son. One Of her delights is to prepare
the menus for her banquets and smaller
fetes
When Senator and Mrs Hale built the
stately mansion which stands on the
corner of 18th street, the dining room was
a matter of solicitude for the chatelaine
Mrs. Hale dislikes very large companies.
especially for banquets. She thinks they
take away the homelille atmosphere which
should prevail and seem too suggestive of
stat, affairs or hotel spreads" Yet she
likes a stately room even for the sma IL
company which is her delight SO she
solved the problem by having handsome
dining room. but her table can seat twen-
ty-tWo guests, her idea of the correct
home dinner. But she never asks over
eighteen guests to her dinners: guests as
carefully chosen as the wise woman Sc
lects her friends. Then, should important
people or old friends or any one having q
claim on the senator and herself arrive on
the scene unexpectedly, it is but matter
of laying the extra covers No one is
crowded. She is never fiurried and there
is no evidence of hasty additions to the
party. She follows the same program In
regard to luncheons or less formal func-
tions. There is nothing SO offensive to this
conservative and courteous hostess as
having to apologize to her friends coming
to the city Unexpectedly for not inviting
them to luncheons or dinners already
planned. the plea being that her party had
been formed and there ~as no room
During the season Mrs. Hale keeps her
Thursdays at home with scrupulous regu-
larity Perhaps three or four times she
onits these receptions in order TO return
obligations to other senatorial women. She
is not among those who find society or
ganized on difficult lines, nor does she ad-
vocate any radical change. Though wash
ington's social world has grown to giant
proportions in the last ten years, as conf
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NEw
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go west to learn railroading. but rail-
roads no longer are managed by practical
railroad men. The day of the man who
began at the frebox or at the brake is
gone. The man of the ticker is the boss
today. Possibly that is why the five
dollar millionaires are SO numerous For
every young plutocrat who goes west to
take a railroad job a hundred go into
Wall street.
No doubt the five-dollar millionaires
make it bit harder for the youth who
has to work for a living to get position
in Wall street. No doubt many banking
and brokerage houses would be glad IL
heads of trusts. heads of banks and mill
lionaire customers did not dump their
sons and their nephews upon them, but
there are just as many houses that are
glad to have the gilded young men in
their employment. Everything is fish that
comes to the Wall street net. The five
dollar millionaire may not be a brilliant
clerk. he may have no special qualfica
ton for posting quotations and he may
balk at filling the ink wells. but he may
be a wonder at steering business to the
shop or at getting valuable information.
The young millionaire who is a good mix
er and who is on terms of intimacy with
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pared to that which existed In the late
seventies, Mrs. Hale has lifted the adoeu
burden with little inconvenience. Sne
reasons in solving her social problems just
as she does in the details of her nome.
keeping The result is that she IS one VI
the least hurried women In washington,
although she attends to an infinite variety
Of duties
tx
One of the apparent tastes Of this adj
mirable woman, and which is plainly dis
cernible on entering her home, is love OF
books and of growing things. The house
seemed planned that It's occupants would
always have sufficient light to read. and
cient sunshine to get them in excellent
trim The love of art is perhaps the
nexc obstruding evidence Of the mistress
cultured habits.
The Hale mansion, fronting IN broad
Corinthan portico on 18th street with
an imposing outlook on K street, also
is Of light yellow brick with stone trim
mings. 1t is modern and elegant With
out offending the conservative ideas of
those whose homes were planned after
earlier models There are about thirty
rooms in the mansion, all spacious with
lofty ceilings and all open TO the light
and sunshine. Another feature Is that
every room has an open fireplace where
wood or coal may take the chill of the
spring or autumn air. Mrs Hale gave
her personal attention to these features.
and, as a result the home Is comfortable
every part of the year.
Entering the wide corridor which
forms stately apartment on the 18th
street side, the visitor Is confronted by
great open fireplace, and II the season
be damp or chilly the CHEEKY fire is a
cordial greeting. massive mantel OF
light oak extends to the ceiling, and on
each side of the fireplace are carved oak
settees suggesting the hospitality of
colonial days. Everything recalls colonial
times from the silver sconces which are
plentifully seen about the mantel and the
room in general. A haze of pale yellow
extends over the hall and nearly always
there are yellow flowers in the tall vase
on a table.
The stairway winds up in dignified in
laid glossiness to the BALCONY which over
looks the ground floor. Here In the cush-
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she Is but little known outside her OWL
particular coterie Were Mrs. Hale TO
write her memoirs she would tell one OF
the most entertaining stories ever written
about the capital. Her residence ex-
tends over more than forty years. and
during this period she has occupied a po-
sition which might be termed ION the
crest of the social wave" AS the daugh-
ter of that picturesque and dominant
figure, Senator Zach" Chandler OF Mich
igan. she enjoyed a season of popularity
and prestige rarely surpassed in local an
mails. Her marriage to the brilliant young
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getting just enough of the experience to
season him for taking employment in a
minor capacity in one of his fathers COM
panies
Mortimer L. Schiff, who is destined to
take his fathers place as head of the
great banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co..
went through the five-dollar MILL as did
Allan Ryan. son OF Thomas F. Ryan;
James c. Brady. son of Anthony n.
Brady, and lot of others. But none of
the house Of Vanderbilt was sent to Wall
street to take the five-dollar course. May
be If they had the splendid property left
by the first and second generations Of the
family would not now be falling into
other hands.
Neither has Hartman given the Wall
street five-dollar training to his sons. One
Of them is out in Idaho working as sur
vevor.s assistant at s65 a month, but he
is Young enough when he has iearneo
something of field work and something OF
practical railroading to take post gradu-
ate course with the flve-dollar million
aires.
James Stillman. too, has had his son
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GARLNCE r1AckAY

the sons of other milionaires can get
their trade. or, from the talk Of the young
men, may learn of stock market deals In
which the fathers are engaged, the knowl-
edge Of which is worth considerable to the
five-dollar millionaire's employer. These
are the scouts and the pulers-in and they
are the ones the commission houses are
glad to get hold of. Sometimes, too
the f1ve-dollar millionaire is used to ad-
vantage by being taken into partnership.
1t flatters his vanity and sometimes 1t
saves a house that is shaky.
There Is one thing about the So mil
lionaire, however. that Is cardinal vir
tue In the eyes of the employer-he
never kicks for raise in salary. He
may have all the conceits of the other
employees, referring to the concerns op-
erations as what we are doing or what
we did or what we think of the
market and he may have his business
cards specially engraved the day he first
goes to the street, but he never has de-
signs on the firms bank account. II he
gets anything at Christmas time he Is
likely to spend the sum on flowers for
chorus girl or he may give IL to his valet.
Unless he has the money itch he is not
after the paltry dollars that come from
his job but for the action. the strife and
the yicissitudes that attend it.
The s. millionaire who is Of the right
per in the office and he takes orders from
customers and clerks and bosses with
equal good will and willingness. He ism
servile, but he never is impolite. He
always shows proper respect for the
members of the firm Or the heads of de-
partments. Equality comes when he 10
outside the Office.
At the Plaza Hotel the other day the
manager of a big Wall street house saw
two of the stock boys dining together.
They nailed him he went by and in
vited him to join them. They had no
wine, but their bill for that meal would
riddle their weeks wages. for one of
them got S. and the other 81.
The bill cut no figure. for both Of them
are sons of multi-millonaires.
The whole firm seems to be up here
tonight" said one of the youths. THE
boss is dining just six tables down from
here. Junior (the junior partner is way
down the other side of the room and
Clinton, manager of the cotton depart
ment left a few minutes ago.
At the Plaza all were equal. but in
Broad street the next morning those two
stock boys were stock boys again.
Copyright, 1909, by Richard SptllanN.)
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CHE Is a Woman Of
- Strong Personality-Her
Residence at the American
Capital Extends Over the
Formative Part of It's Social
History and She Has Played
a Leading Role-Something
About the Fine House Which
the Hales Occupy on 10th
Street and Their Splendid
Collection of Art, Which Is
Little Known.
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Chandler Hale resides in Washington.
He married the daughter of Don Came
ron, Rachel Cameron, and his pretty
children are familiar sight in the Hale
home. Mrs. Hale has been in i'll health for
several years past. and has been COM
PEELED TO give up many of her social du-
ties. She has. however, completely re-
covered her strength and last winter took
her old place in society She passes much
of her time in Ellsworth Me-, where
Senator Hale maintains fine residence.
Occasionally she visits Newport or the
Hot Springs of Virginia during the sum-
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Rockefeller's errand boy job when young
rockefeller fell Ill did not get $40
month. but s. a week. He was a mean
little little devil, just out Of Harvard Univer-
sity. He wore gaudy ties, a diamond
scarf pin and was hated by every per-
son In the department before he had been
there week.
His father. who was one Of the Stand
biggest of steam yachts, and every Fri
day the steam yacht would be at anchor
in the bay. waiting for Harvey chat
was the sons name) to go aboard, and
then the family would go up Long Island
sound or down the coast or to Newport
for the week end. Never did Harvey let
it be known that the automobile which
he stepped into each evening and which
by his orders awaited him In a side
street instead of in front Of No. 26 Broad
way. was his own property Never did
he let it be known that the big steam
yacht was his fathers. He never men,
toned yacht. In fact. but in summer time
regularly every Friday about noon he
would go to the head OF the depart
ment and ask II he could get off at 3
o'clock. as his father wanted him to go
up the river or up the sound or some
other place. As regularly as the request
was made. some job would be found for
him that would take every minute Of the
time up to 3 o'clock.
Sometimes Harvey would be sent to that
place Of horrible smells, Newton creek:
SOmetlmeS TO BdyOnne. n. j. by racing
hotfoot all the way he could get back
in time to get away on the yacht in sea-
son. but It always was tight 1t But
never did he whimper. although he hated
every one in the Office fully as much as
they hated him. He knew he was often
sive to nine persons out of every ten he
met. and that nature made him offensive.
but he seemed to be satisfied if he only
could revenge himself on those who did
not like him. He planned. just as soon
as he was promoted. to have his revenge
on the men in the Office. For one year
he was kept on the f1ve-dollar-a-week job.
Then In disgust he resigned.
A far different character than this is
Harold Sands, one Of the country's great
est golf players and winner Of various
championships. He works in one Of the
big banking and brokerage houses near
the stock exchange. and is one Of the
most popular young men in the financial
district He is a member OF a family
prominent for generations in New YORK
society and Of large means. He Is
s5 millionaire, his present employment be-
ing that Of attending TO the telephone
connecting his employers office with the
stock exchange. He Is learning the de-
tails of the business and learning them
thoroughly.
Clarence Mackay. now the head OF the
Postal Telegraph Company and the other
big corporations organized by his father.
was SIS millionaire for short time'
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,onad window embrasures are small tables
and shelves where books and magazines
are strewn and where radiance or the Hre
opposite touches the yellow satin curtains
with shade of crimson. PORTRAITS IN
massive frames show from the corfldof'
and conspicuous is one by famous artist
of the revered father of MRS. Hale, Sem
ator Chandler.
The dra wing room is a soft-toned apart
ment where the interior decorations
known In art circles as the Louis Seize
style may be examined with pleasure.
There is rosewood piano, such a one
as the unfortunate queen of the French
might have touched in Trianon, and the
tapestries are either originals or after
models of those hung on the walls In the
royal apartments of Compeisne. The cur
tans are heavy yellow, with graceful
draping Of yellow f1oWered SILK over pol
ished ivory rods. Everything has that
lovely hue of old ivory, chairs, bric-a-
brac and carpet, which is pale yellow.
strewn with flower garlands. The dining
room inclines TO the Flemish, though the
vivid greens and deep reds of that style
have been softened into mellow radiance
a woodland scene, for they are covered
with Flemish tapestries representing
sylvan scenes in the heroic days of Flan-
ders.
There Is a cnlppeHddie olueoodiu'
genuine heirloom and priceless now be-
cause absolutely unique. 1t is more mas
siye than is generally affected in that
fra gile styIe and is loaded with old silver
in the plainest of colonial designs exqui-
sitely chased and shining Many OF these
articles were the votive offerings of
grateful people to the sturdy Old states
nan whose initials are emblazoned upon
them. The table is modern mahogany OF
elegant grain and execution. with PLAIN
leather-covered chairs ranged Hospitality
around.
The library is evidently the room from
which the life of the household emanates,
and is plainly the living apartment rather
than the drawing room or the rather
formal reception hall. The great table
and desk suggest that those who read
also write. and there is evidence on every
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SANDS Is At LXTREnE RIGHT

Irish and the Jew youths will put them to
shame. Some of them are college grad
yates, but some of the s. milionaires
were expelled from college for one cause
street by their parents for punishment
AS a reformatory Wall street is more
seryiceable than most institutions that
bear that name.
While 1t is reformatory for a few 1t
is the training school or the business
crucible for all Of them. The millionaire
who has sense knows that the young
man of wealth who is left to idleness or
his own devices is not likely to be of
much account. He also knows that q fa-
ther is not a good business trainer for
a son, being either too indugent or too
severe, so he does the wise thing and
dumps the young man into the big Wall
street hopper.
The hopper plays no favorites and 1t
does not spoil any good ones. 1t does
not matter that the 81 millionaires have
their automobiles and their yachts, their
private bank accounts and their Wallets
in Wall street they have to buckle
down and work like all the other young
men or they will be cast aside. ne 80
a week may not be much more than
straw to them, but they never fail to
collect it. 1t is something they have
earned by their own energies, and 1t
means something more than other
money means. It signifies that they are
part of the mighty machine of bust
ness-a working, integral part-and
that they are producers.
Wall street has no use for any but
the live ones. be they youths or men,
and the $5 millionaires get to know
this early in the game. There is an
equality and democracy that the
youths did not know before. 1t sur
prises and startles them. College rec
ords go only SO far in Wall street. The
dandy foot ball player is heartily well
coined the day of his advent into the
street and forgotten the next. Wall
street is a world unto itself and recog-
nizeS no other
Sometimes young millionaire cam
not reconcile himself to Wall streets
iconoclastic attitude and he turns away.
Usually he is a. spoiled darling One
such went into Wall street some years
ago. His mother, a widow, immensely
rich and very indulgent to her son, had
Pennsylvania railroad to find a good
position for her boy in Wall street. The
vice president, eager to- do anything to
help the widow of an old friend, came
to New York and saw the head OF a
prominent brokerage house in behalf
of the youth. A So a week job was the
result, and the widows son came on
from Plttsburg to begin his business
life. In Pittsburg he was person of
Importance. Every one knew the wealth
or his family. Every one CLOSED over