People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — Who Shall Lead Chicago’s Four Hundred? [ARTICLE]

Who Shall Lead Chicago’s Four Hundred?

This is a question whioh has agitated Chicago’s Four Hundred for some time. For five or six years a battle royal has been waged for sooial leadership in Chicago, there being three candidates for the offloe—-Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Arthur Caton and Mrs. H. O. Stone. Up to the time of the World’s fair Mrs. Stone rgn society as she. pleased. But

wiiH" tfie seleotTon oT Mra Palmer as ♦be bead of the women’s department of the fair the aspect changed. Mrs. Palmer went into the front ranks almost at one bound, with Mrs. Caton a close second. To add to this prestige, Mrs. Palmer took a house at Newport. There, by entertaining dnkes and earls and lords find princes, she felt that her fight bad been won at last. Nbw the friends of Mrs. Caton and Mrs. Stone have combined to overthrow the reign of Mrs. Palmer. If the charity ball comes off and is a sneoess, they will have succeeded; if it doesn’t, they have lost.—New York Jonrnal.