Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-21
BELMONT AND soSs.
The rsroiis Matrimonial and Social which
she Family Have engaged In.
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TROUBLES never come alone" say the
old adages, and II any family In New
York can endorse their truthfulness II
is that of Belmont. In the space Of
three months every member of 1t THAT
wears trousers, the ladies have yet to
be heard FROM, has been In some sort
Of boil, so that, take 1t all around,
this is warm season for the Bel
monts.
The father and founder of the FAM
lily, Mr. August Belmont, is square,
short, pleasant gentleman, with u
lameness that forces him to use cane.
There are three sons, and the quartet
have all been society swells the past
few years. The father has just Sc
cured the imprisonment of Dewey,
the Irish editor, for libel. Perry,
the second son, has just suf-
fered rupture of matrimonial engage
ment. August Belmont, jr., has just
logged a neighbor, and Oliver Hazard
Perry Belmont has been deserted by
his wife in Paris. Gallantry has been
the prominent and distinctive quality
of the Belmonts, and when one thinks
of the fathers romantic career, they
feel the sons cant help 1t.
August, ST., came to New York years
and years ago az agent for the Rotbs-
child banker. Old folks remember the
handsome ambitious lad, who had
bachelor quarters in the United States
hotel down on Fulton street, then the
nobbiest place for young man to liye
in that could be found. Then he be-
came II favored admirerof a Mrs. Oscar
Coles, n rich and flirty lady, whose
father was the Delmonico of Maiden
Lane forty years ago. Another adj
mrer of this Mrs. Coles was Mr..
Haywood Of South Carolina. Before
the young Hebrew banker Belmont
this Haywood spoke lightly of the
lady, and Belmont challenged him
and fought duel in Maryland, get
ting bullet in his hip that famed him
for life. But the accident made hero
of August. He convalesced amid the
attentions and solicitous nursing Of
half of New York society, he was such
darling of IA fellow. Scores of bellies
were ready to marry the chivalric and
wealthy young banker, who, being
ambitious, made choice of Miss Caro-
line Perry, whose uncle was Lake Erie
Perry, and whose father was Japan
Perry. August made capital hus-
band and father, as the race to which
he belongs invariably do.
w HtHCNtl aug I. lldNt
been, he has masked his batteries and
been model man. But the blood of
the Belmonts courses more swiftly in
more unmanageable currents through
the veins Of the sons, and there has
been this summer perfect Eruption
of it all over the world. Mr.. Belmont,
ST., commenced bitter war on Dewey
and has triumphed over his enemy,
who, in turn, will terribly turn the Ia
bles Oh the irate banker. The family
have great political aspirations, and
the political career of the Belmonts
will he locked by the Irish vote. This
Dewey business will come up in its
strength whenever the head of a Bel
mont appears on the surface,
in the shape of an Irish fist
with shillelah in it. This politi-
cal retrihution will fall heaviest on
August, jr., whose aspirations are
stronger in that direction than his
brothers Perry or Oliver
Mr.. August Belmont, jr., in June
thrashed Mr.. Tower at Hampstead
(Long Island depot. This fracas was
the result of IA demand made by Tower
for the payment of a doctors bill by
Belmont, who had injured son OF
Towers at polo match.
II June NJllNtT ItIIN Der
mont so conducted himself with a
member of the Eden ballet in Paris.
absenting himself for days together
from bis young bride, that she packed
her pie-box, and in company with
her ma, Mrs. Whiting, flew
for America. Physical reason,
will keep the unhappy wife
out of society this summer, but she i,
at Newport with her family, anC
oliver, who has followed over, is a
Newport with his family. Lawyer,
are already getting their fingers int,
the pudding, and upper tendon il
greatly excited over the next develop
ments. IL Is a sad sight to see the in
valid bride wife of II year pass without
a motion or glance of recognition tn,
young husband who vowed last De
cember never to desert or neglect he
Ia sight often seen ON Ocean avenue
where the Belmont and Whiting car
riagss pass each other.
The third son, Perry Belmont is
'daisy" Even in Harvard he mad
a reputation as an bonhomme gallant
and emancipated from that universit,
he has had n royal time of 1t. Latel
his engagement was announced wit
Miss Marion Langdon-the great
SiHhu utuHhtcl vi tut oIlSilui JtCOu
John Jacob Astor-now down o
west tenth street and next door I
John Duff, the theatrical manager
Matthew Perry Belmont tMatthe,
being suppressed on account a.,
the disagreeable certainty of b,
ing called Matt) has located yer
Lovely and stylish girl who keeps
turnout and in every way lives /
grand style. Perry has been tveI
bold about 1t, and was seen frequentl
gallanting his cher ami about Il
premises. ALAS, In one mad hour
rs Elizabeth Barrett Browning say
Miss Marion Langdon, going hon
from the Sixth avenue shoemaker
drove past the modest mansion {
West Tenth street. There she behe
her afilanced husband escorting dow
the steps the lonely but loud lad
She leaned back In her coach and sa
him run back into the hou
with his night-key (
some forgotten article, an
with all the strength of mind of o
great-grandpa Aston, she CONTROL,
her Indignation and curiosity, III
called detective agency into immet