The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-04-23


ogniton. Mr. Walsh has a most charming and
accomplished wife She was Miss Carrie Reed
when he married her in Colorado. She had
gone from her Wisconsin home to the Rockies
for her health and when she met the sturdy
proprietor of the leading hotel of Leadville
an attachment developed that resulted in
happy marriage Mr.. Walsh was ambitious
that his wife should enjoy social distinction
After he had made his millions he came east
and tried to rub elbows with many of those
who had inherited theirs. Promptly the social
folk busted their clothes where the elbows
touched The Washes, in their narrow eyes.
were parvenues-new rich-n. G.
why, he was only a laborer-an immigrant
laborer at that" remarked society, referring
to Mr. W.
"Ill just try flank movement" unused Mr..
Walsh. SO he secured the commissonershlp
to the Paris exposition, and when he sailed
for France there society crush at the
dock to wave good-bys. But after he had
trained most OF the European nobility to drop
into his home for sandwich now and then
the American society folk who hadn't been
able to get even passing nod from third
rate count began to understand that the
Washes were really very desirable people.
Thus it happened that when the boat docked
at New York on the return trip American so
cety was down there masse wig-wagging
welcomes and telling one another about how
glad they were to see "our dear friends, the
Washes, home again.
From that time on Mr. Thomas f. Walsh
and his wife had to screen the house to keep
Society" from overrunning it. And ever since
then the Colorado Croesus has been up at the
top of the social heap in Washington, Newport
and the other places where sken society can
be found at home
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Walsh decided that it would be necessary 10
have a larger house. He had purchased the
old Jenness Miller homestead in washington
and fitted 1t out luxuriously. But II was 700
small-too cramped for the entertainments ne
desired to give. The Miller house was torn
down and on the site was erected by tar 'he
finest house in the nations capital. Nashlhs-
ton refers to It as "the palace, ana no otner
designation would be fitting. The building
cost 81, 600 900 Ia round figures. 1t took from
$500 900 to $500 600 to furnish 1t. over l,OUO
people can be entertained in it without crowd
ing There are Ga rooms. Each or the larger
apartments has a distinct decoration nearly
every known species of hardwood having peen
used in the interior fnishings. Inc hoors
alone Of several of the rooms cost So'ooO each'
In the ballroom the gold used in decorating the
ceiling cost $4,000. The building Is lighted
and heated by electricity, cooled by patent
system and automatic electric elevators-the
kind that run without conductors-carry the
occupants from one floor TO another lhere
are four immense pipe organs In the mousse
and so we'll Is It arranged that all or the or
gans can be played at one time without the
sound Of enc penetrating to the zone reached
by the sound OF another. Specially employed
connoisseurs secured Europe and the Orient
for rare rugs and tapestries wherewith to dec
crate this regal residence and pictures worth
many fortunes adorn the walls. In the mag
nifcent Italian garden surrounding the house
there are vases and statuary brought from
Greece and Italy. When this house was con
structed and furnished Mr.. Walsh expected to
entertain King Leopold there. The Belgian
ruler was TO have been present at the house
warming" But he could not come at that time
and the housewarming went on Just the same
with most OF the notables of social and official
life OF Washington and New York In attend.
ance.
y haven't always had all | wanted, you
know" remarked Mr. Walsh one day, and
like to plenty OF everything for every.
body"
He probably thought when he gave voice
TO this statement. of the days when he was a
labOrer In Boston Or maybe he went back
along the highway Of memory to the time
when he was wheelwright back in Tipperary
Ireland He vas born in Tipperary IS years
ago and came to this country when q lad In
his late teens He landed in Boston and tried
to secure employment Wheelwrights were