Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-03

rOur ana twenty-five minutes. The |
boats, after this, became more unruly |
than ever, and on several occasions |
Miss Beckwith was nearly struck on
the head with their bows. Opposite |
Greenwich Pier Miss Beckwith, at !
$3.50, was taken on board the Volun. |
teer, having swan the 10 miles in two
hours and forty.six minutes. During
the time she was in the water she de.
clined all offers of refreshments, and
when she appeared on board the steam
boat she was apparently as fresh and
her cabin at Chelsea.
The Heiresscs of New York.
New York Correspondence.
Probably 10 city in the United States
has 50 many beautiful and what club
men call ''eligible" lleiresses us New
York, and, us have written of the
ricn widows and bachelors, some facts
and figures concerning the maid
ems rich and fancy free may be as
readable as interesting. 1t is not in
to head the list with Miss
Marcia Roosevelt, although she is an
orphan, her father, ~ex.Judge Roose-
welt, having died two years ago, and
her mother last winter in Paris. The
Roosevelts came of good Knickerbock-
er stock, and were for many years con.
spicuous among the elite. Mrs. Roose-
welt was Il Miss Van Ness, and her
father was Minister to Spain. She
was a beautiful and talented lady in
her younger days, and 4 great enter
tainer at the old Roosevelt mansion of
Broadway, near Thirteenth street.
At her death she left her property,
valued at $4,000, 900, to Miss Marcia,
her only daughter. and, it is said, to
the exclusion of her sons. The young
lady inherits many of her distin-
guished mothers talents, and is al
most as general Il favorite.
Miss Stevens, daughter of the late
Col. Paran Stevens, of hotel fame, is
heiress to million odd, and reported
engaged to an English nobleman. She
is young, pretty, and stylish, fond of
society, horse racing, yachting, polo,
etc. She spends some of her winters
in Europe and her summers at New
port, where the Stevens cottage is op.
posite the Ocean House. Mrs. Stevens
was Miss Reed, of Boston, and her
sister, who is completing her musical
education in Paris, is engaged to Mr..
Moses H. Grinnell, formerly Collector
of the Port.
Miss Weed, daughter of Thurlow
Weed, will one day come in possession
of many hundred thousands. She is
q very clever and accomplished young
lady, and acts as her fathers secre-
tary. They live plainly, but hand
>solnely and comfortably. in large
double House on Twelfth street, just
west of Fifth avenue.
Miss Andrews, daughter of the late
Loring Andrews, the millionaire, is
destined to be one eff the richest ladies
in America, her fathers estate being
S., 100000. She is now in Europe
with her mother, and their magnificent
country seat at Newport has been rent.
ed to Mr.. Havemeyer, the Austrian
Consul General at New York. Miss
Andrews is not yet 10 years of age.
and very :: eautiful.
Miss Josephene Hoey is the daughter
of John Hoey, head of Adams Express
Company, whose wife was once leading
lady at Wallacks Theatre. The young
lady is possibly two and twenty years
of age, stylish, a I'd the best tswhip''
ut Long Branch, where the Hoeys have
their summer residence. She drives
a pair of cream.colored horses to a
basket-carriage, and is known to all
the habitues of the Branch. John
Hoey began life at the lowest round
of the ladder, and now he is worth
''all the way up from $750,O00. 10.
sephene is the only daughter.
Miss Moller is a daughter of William
Moller, the sugar refiner whom every.
body thought rich until he failed
about year ago. She is very stylish
and effective, and has been much ad.
mired in Paris and Vienna. The Cos
sips say her father settled half 4 mil
lion on her years ago, and she has
always been regarded as an heiress by
young men in search of a rich wife.
Miss Lamont, daughter of the late
Charles lamont who fell from the
window of his house on Fifth avenue
one summers night while his family
were at West Point, and was instantly
killed, is with her mother at the
West End, Long Branch. She is Just
of age, very handsome and fascinating
1t is reported that she is to. be mar
ried in the fall. Her dot will be fully
$3.50, 900.
Miss Astor and Miss Chandler, niece
and granddaughter Of the late w. B
AstOr, are both heiresses to large for
tunes.
So is Miss Kernochan, daughter OF
Mr.. j. p. Kernochan, who lately paid
$4,000 cash for the celebrated Bar
reda Mansion on Madison avenue.
Miss Smith, niece Of Mrs. A. T
Stewart, has a large estate settled up
on her since the merchant prince
death, and'is now in Paris with Mrs
Stewart.
Miss Barlow, daughter of S. L. NJ
Barlow, the Erie lawyer; Miss Cooper
granddaughter of Peter Cooper Mis-.
Brown, daughter of James Brown OF
Brown Brothers Miss Lee, daughte,
of William H. Lee; and Miss Morgan
daughter of ex-Gov. Morgan, are al
heiresses, anu there are others whose
names at this writing l do not recall