Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-08-05
LETTER FRom enc AGO.
Correspondence Delaware Gazette ]
CHICAGO. IulY II. 1870.
PALMER-HoNORE WEDDING.


PALMER-HoNORE WEDDING.
Quite the last national ripple has been
the great Butler-Ames wedding at
Lowell.
On dts tave it that the brides trous-
seau was most complete and rerheyrAe,
| from the two dozen robes ae a1zetI
through the whole wilderness Of lady's
underwear, and the fact of its being
| thoroughly Raz1zSzeH1ze (having been Sc
| lected and fashioned across the water
was sufficient endorsement for placing
it in shop-windows for general inspec-
ton. The splehdor of the arrangements,
magnificent presents, reche1cke toilets
and the personals of both bride and
bridegroom have been dished up by SO
many newspaper reporters that the min
utest details are already familiar to most
of your readers.
But Chicago bids fair to equal the
/ Lowell ripple in every respect. The
cards are Just out for the marriage of
Mr.. POTTER PALMER and Miss Bertha
Honore, announced to take place to-
morrow afternoon. at half past FIVE
o clock, at the residence of the bride 5
parents, I57 Michigan Avenue.
Kingsley the celebrated Chicago ca
terer, is at New York procuring the table
service. which will be solid silver. and
consist of 1000 pieces.
Tass. the leader of the Light Guard
I Band, will furnish music for the occa-
sion the finest florists are engaged for
decoration and the fashionable nlodistes
are exhausting their skill over the elabo-
rate toilets of the guests, so Madame
Runner says. Also. that the bride will
wear white satin with a point lace over
dress, bought in Paris for the occasion.
The reception will be held from to s
o'clock, after which the happy pair will
leave for bird's-eye view of Europe.
THE BRIDE.
The t0ut ensemble of Miss Bertha
Honore IS charming and would secure
her general admiration anywhere. A
frequent visitor at the Eastern resorts,
she is known abroad as the "belle of
Chicago" and her perfect selfpoise and
elegant nOnchalanCe of manner fully es-
tabhsh her claims to the title.
She is of medium hight, rather inclin-
ing to elH6OH60t1zf, and is what would be
called a mezzo-brunette with clear, olive
complexion, brown hair and eyes. and
neck and arms beautiful enough to be
displayed by the present style of low
corsage. Besides these attractions of
face and figure, she possesses a well-cul-
uvated mind and a great deal of natu-
raj refinement. She dresses elegantly
and is great favorite in society.
POTTER PALMER
is gentlemanly looking man of forty,
not remarkable for heerarv culture but
possessing abundance of quiet shrewd-
ness and business talent At the be
ginning of the late war he opened out
here on a large scale backed by A. T.
Stewart ard cleared sIoo, 900 in one
week by monopolizing the trade in
Coats spool thread. AS wealth flowed
into his Golfers, he invested it in real es-
tate, and to-day owns some of the finest
business blocks in the city, besides 9th
I er valuable property. He has Just com
pleted very spacious and elegant ho-
tel, and his wealth is estimated at fifteen
millions of dollars, the fruit of steady
application and shrewd investment.
THE CITY IN BRIEF.
The first duty of a stranger after drop
ping down in this metropolis of the
West, is to do the city" This is no
easy matter with an area of nine TO five
miles before you. The city has a grand
prospective, and if it increases in the fu-
tu4C IA t1ie same Iau0 as II mas IN the
past, 1t bids fair to be the Londorl of
America. a prospective park of 1000
acres at the southern limit, one of 24o
acres at the western limit and Lincoln
Park, already half completed, co1npris-
ing zoo acres at the northern limit. are
to be connected by a grand Boule ard
from one to two hundred feet in width,
skirting the whole circumference of the
city, from Lincoln Park on the north.
along the western limit to South Park
and thence back again up Michigan Az
enue on the east to North Park
Wabash Avenue is now being over
run by boarding houses, respectable and
not RESPECTABLE, and the Aristocracy are
gradually retreating from the field
There is little doubt that the Boulevards
are destined to be the Fifth Avenue of
Chicago. This city has a lake frontage
of 9 and dockage of 20 miles; tun-
mel running under the lake of 2] miles
with capacity of supplying the city with
eighty million gallons Of water per day,
and water-worlls with a capacity of fif-
ty-six million gallons per day with new
engine in process of construction that
will bring it up to eighty million. The
city with its present population of 35o,-
600, consumes forty million gallons
daily M. NJ. "A.