Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-03
TO BE rich
AS WELL AS
BEAUTIFUL
Wealthy Men Building Pal
aces at Washington.
Many Great Fortunes Are Now Rep
resented Among the Home Owners
Of American Capital. Lavish En-
teFtaiRmeRt at Famous Dinner.


ngton, the nations capital, has spread
he net of her attractions, and, behold,
lalf a dozen of the widows OF Chicago
merchant princes have bundled up
heir millions and succumbed. The city
~ the Potomac has unfolded her allur-
nents to a score of hardy men of the
West, grown satiate with the wealth u
heir mines, and these have ensconcel
among the trees of her
vide avenues and settled down for a
rest
The serenity, the dignity, the intelli-
gence, the society of Washington have
appealed to a number of those people
Of wealth and social prominence II
New York, where the frenzy of things
pals, and these have established
homes in the shadow of the Capito
dome.
Even Boston has paid her toll in the
very wealthy that have turned then
backs upon their native city and come
to live in Washington for there are tho
Larz Andersons, the William F. Board.
mans, the Owen Scots, the Weekses
who hail from the land of the sacred
cod. All corners of the nation are
represented, and still they come.
These people are not of the class o.
the millionaire of our youth, who, viii
fortune, represented in seven ig
ures, was the Croesus of all our end o
the world They are the many-times
a-millionaire of the twentieth century
Among these people man with $4,
100000 or $5,O00,OO0 is poor almost {,
deserving charity. The fortunes of tn,
people who are revolutionizing tn,
society of the nations capital rang,
from minimum of $1O,O00,0O0 to
maXium of $100,000,000. There arr
numbers Of fortunes among them tina
approach the latter figure, such as tn
Perry Belmonts and the Edison Brad
Ieys.
The people and all their class ar
new to Washington. They are an in
noyation of the last five years. Their
were a few of them who had opened Al
occasional Washington home longa
ago than that, but that flood of peopl
OF wealth owning fortunes estimated Il
aggregate as much as d thousand mil!
lion dollars has been flowing towar,
the capital for less than half dozs,
years.
May BE Richest Capital.
internationally Washington is begin.
ming to be thrust into the limelight OF
the cities of the world that boast most
Of that culture that is possible only
with an accompaniment of great
wealth. The world knows that the
United States is the nation of greatest
resources, and, therefore, of the great
est number of rapidly increasing for
tunes. If the owners Of those for
unes concentrate in Washington, soon
hat city will be acknowledged az the
'ichest capital in the world. That time
seems at hand.
with the advent of the great for
unes in Washington there appears a
lew era in entertainment. The last
ew years has witnessed such enter
ailments that decade ago were I'M
nown. The very wealthy Of Washing
on are setting pace that is some
What typical of the frenzied time and
lation in which they live But the ma
ions capital, on the whole, caters lit
lie to the glare and show that make up
part Of teeming New York and withal
mere is a quiet to the great functions
lot found elsewhere.
Believing greatly in the future u
as social capital, che
ate Thomas F. Walsh never failed to
.urther this idea by the variety and
'ichness of his hospitality. His din
lers were maryels of culinary and ar
istic skill. He gave one dinner that
would have made Lucullus green with
envy. It is said to have cost 5000 q
plate The great room in which Il
was served had been converted into a
flower garden, and all the universe
was rihed for dainties with which o
surprise and delight his guests.
Flowers We're sent from Florida and
fruit from California by special ex-
press. Elaborate shades we're design
I'd to screen the electric lights for this
one occasion. A New York orchestra
played operate selections from behind
4 lattice Of American beauty roses.
The famous gold plate was used and
'amous artists painted the name cards.
The bonDons and dessert were accom-
panied by dainty boxes, which con-
aimed ieweled baubles for the women,
rings, bracelets, and gold
)urses, while for the men were such
rifles as scarf pins set with diaomnds,
watch fobs, rings, the aggregate cost
u which must have amounted into the
thousands Of dollars.
But the best surprise Of all was to
come.
Hanging from the ceiling and sus-
pended just over the table was a great
flower balloon, made luminous with ell
ectrie lights. AZ the end Of The dinnal