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...aimed at the new Holy Land of the frontier, drew its camp followers just as surely. The sporting house and the saloon became the social centers of many an outpost and booming new metropolis from the Alleghenies to the Yukon; most splendid of them all was the famous Everleigh Club, a 50-room mansion in Chicago, where for $50 a night minimum, guests were regaled with champagne from golden buckets and fountains gushed perfume at regular intervals...
Died. Ada Everleigh, 93, regal co-madam (with her late sister, Minna) of Chicago's lavish turn-of-the-century bordello, the Everleigh Club, which boasted a bevy of demure girls, string music, perfume-squirting fountains and a 1,000-volume library at a price of $100 for a "mild evening," was finally closed by severe reformers in 1911, sending the millionaire sisters off to retirement in Manhattan with a golden piano and a few other mementos of the good old glittering days; in Chicago...
...gold-leafed piano (cost: $15,000) that once tinkled in the high-type bagnio run by the Everleigh sisters in Chicago (TIME, Sept. 27), was bid in for $95 by their biographer, Charles Washburn, at a Manhattan auction...
...Everleigh Club flourished from 1900 to 1911 in a 50-room mansion in Chicago's famed Levee. It boasted gold spittoons, silk drapes, thick rugs, expensive statuary and paintings, a gilded piano, and 40 specially made brass and marble beds. Little fountains squirted perfume into its rooms at regular intervals. Its dinners sometimes cost $100 a plate and were served on gold-edged china. Champagne arrived in golden buckets...
When Reform Mayor Carter Harrison closed them up in 1911, the sisters had $1,000,000 in cash and a small fortune in furniture and fittings. They dropped the name Everleigh, called themselves Lester, and went to Manhattan...