considered felicityious when the two went together. three outer rungs applied social steady pressure, jockeying for pressure, the diplomats the army and navy crowd and the politicos, but clearly it was the cave dwellers particularly women like mary klemmer and laura holloway who influenced the pecking order among the capitol s society. fanny eams mrs. charles, maintained an eclectic sunday salon at her 14th and 8th street home while her sister marian campbell governeur of new york was in several knickerbocker circles. mrs. eames reigned in d.c. and she would later befriend the first lady, mary lincoln. the physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. john hay concurred it would be difficult to conceive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue. and as we just heard maybe the architectural recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remained there. there were of cour
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