A. T. Stewart Department Store
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The purchase of a luxury shawl by Kate Chase, the celebrity daughter of the Republican Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, set off a furor among New Yorkers influenced by Democrats and their partisan newspaper outlets. Reports that the item cost $3,000 (more than $60,000 in the early 2020s) circulated widely and generated scandal about corruption and indifference to public suffering in the Lincoln administration.