The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-03

LVILLE L. INGALLS,. IN
Yarmouth. who Is a daughter of ttaN
late William Thaw. She has purchased =
stately old home of many memorieS.sS
which is now being redecornted and
refurnishod for season OF brilliant4
Inequalities. This, the old Carroll
mansion. was once the homo of tile
Countess Estcrhazy, and later that os 4
CHIEF Justice Fuller 9iSS
This mansion, which is over eighty
years old. stands upon n high terra ce,
at Eighteenth and F Streets, and is
graced ut the side by a large gard en- i
surrounded by high brick walls. II it &
is true. as reported, that the new
chatelainc Of this quaint establishments y
has her quondam income increased 10 7,
half million a year by the recon-
veyance of her marriage dover, from
the hands of her late husband the &
earl, she Will have ample funds with
which to dispense the lavish hospitaI-
tiles to which social Washington has
become accustomed.
Ohio Money Bags Arrive. Is.
Also from Ohio are the money bags
coming In to feast and fetc the capItaif
city and heap more riches upon Its S
butchers. It's bakers and its candle-N
stick makers. One of the show houses
on sixteenth Street, just below the new.
Pullman palace has just been leased
by Melville L. ingalls,, retired president
OF the Big -Four Railway system, ana
directly upon Sheridan Circle, T. lLS
Everett, trolley mngnate of Newark.
o., Is building white palace, which.
for luxury, will have no peer in this
entire city OF magnificent homes aii4l
For the nearby house which he has
just leased from Mrs. Francis Berger
Moran, John Hays Hammond is said
to be paying $4,000 year. which
does not make an eNtravugant, shows 4
Ing alongside of the 100000 which he
is reported to have paid in London 4,
for the Burdctt- Contts house, occupied s
Ter the three weeks pthat he was our!
special ambassador TO the coronatio
OF King George. One of the terms !.
under which he took the Moran rnnn.:
sion this winter was that its owner
would install for him an electric ele-
Vator that would shoot him straight un
to the roof garden. which commands a
view of the Potomac, the virginia ana 4
Maryland hills, Rock Creek VALLEY ana
Potomac Park. iFJJAA
Henry whites wondrous Manor.
but when 1t comes to view, the new
castle OF former Ambassador Ienr5,
White has all of Washington's other
palatial homes beaten to tho proc
verbal FRAGILE. This magnificena
FACADE and majesticnlly spreading.
wings. crowns the very crest of Aferi4
dian Hill, the highest point in the Dis-
trict of Columbia. AS you enter III.
great gateway OF this estate YOU are
confronted with watering trough
ana drinking fountain built of stone
AGAINST the terrace wall. above whictI
..wers the stately manor. The picture
NJ once conjures up visions of pinII
coated hunters of a century a;ro balt.
lnE to give their horses drink rs
each side of the fountain sweeps 3, 4
circular driveway leading with steea
ascent to the front entrance OF tba3
mouse 1t was ON this hill that JOAQUIN
Miller. the poet OF tho Slerras,r durJ
ing ms earlier career as IL WashlnS-3
ton correspondent, lived in a log cabiI,g
which has been removed to RocI, Crn.i.. II
Park. where 1t will be preserved. Mr.
whites new mansion has front OF
III rect broad and is so extensive than
many Washingtonians have mistaken
1t for Il public Institution.
Men who have long basked In tile
sliinmer OF foreign courts can flnd no
society so congenial as washington's +
when they come to settled down 70 =, ii
Hle or ease and retirement from public 4
lie. In clubs and awning rooms thas
rub elbows with the ever cl,aneinSs
corps OF foreign diplomats manyiE ca Z,
whom have lived with them at foreirn
capitals. Thus It is that DR.. David d:
j. Hin, who has just retired as am.
Dassador 10 Berlin. wishes to settle in
Washington, whose social charms haa
knew during the years that he was h,
an under Secretary of State. Ii is
said that he Will take the house OF
former Secretary OF the Navy New
berry. Dame Rumor Will also have iszS
that Charlcmagne Tower, Dr. Uilpssj
predecessor as ambassador to berlin isaS
planning to spend the winter In WASH
inGton. His rich copper properties fIr 81
Michigan yield HIM 4 kings ransom, II
annually, and his lavish hospitality iuSs
Berlin amazed the Kaiser, who, a "a 8
tribute TO her leadership, dubbed Mrs.
Tower the Won Moltke OF Society," 81
Copyright. 1911, by John Eifreth Wat.
kns,) iSS1