Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague.

It would seem at last as if fortune was once mbre returning to Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, says a Washington letter to the Albany Journal. Mrs. Chase, as she now calls herself, had perhaps the greatest social career in Washington that any woman ever had, except Mrs. Dolly Madison. When Chief Justice Chase died his estate was not supposed to be worth $30,000, and Mrs. Chase, who inherited the bad head for managing her own money affairs which distinguished her father, managed to get rid of her share of it long ago, exoept the chief justice’s oountry place, Edgewood, near Washington. Lately an electric street railway has been extended out there, the suburban farm has reached the neighborhood, and Mrs. Chase finds herself the ownei of one of the most valuable properties in the district Her son, Willis Sprague, who went with his father in the Sprague domestic trouble, and afterward married a sister of the woman his father married, has separated from his wife and returned to his mother. He is a young fellow, not much more than 21, and there is hope for him. ▲ report was circulated some time ago that Mrs. Chase intended suing the estate of Mr. Conkling for some money that Mr. Conkling had made an investment for her and had been lost Mr. Conkling, .so it was said, had regularly paid the Interest on it, but when he died there was no provision made for the prinolpaL It la known that Mrs. Chase and Mr. Conkling had not been on speaking terms for some time before the latter’s death. Mrs. Chase, although older aad somewhat broken, is still the same imperial woman. “Age oan not wither or custom stale her infinite variety.” But she bas to a great degree given up society an* ievgtee herself wholly to hqr children