St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-19
MILWAUKEE LETTER.
The Sudden Death of S. P. Burt in
Northern Michigan.
Gossip Concerning His Recent Marriage to
His Housekeeper.
Establishment of n Cooking SchOOl-Ques-
tionabIe Work of Temperance
Fanatics.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe.

MILWAUKEE, May 17.-The Leading lncluent Oh
the week has been the sudden death OF Samuel
P Burt, the alleged millionaire who recently
caused quite futter in society by marrying Miss
Thompson, his housekeeper, only thirteen
months after his first wife's death. Mr.. Burt
and his young wife left this city on Thursday,
the Sth inst, for visit to Metropolitan, Mich,
where he had mining interests, and where lis
wife's parents were established as proprietors of
the leading hotel. He was apparently in perfect
health when he started, and the dispatch which
was received on Saturday morning last announc-
ing his serious illness came like thunderbolt
from a clear sky. Close upon the heels of the
| first dispatch another announcing MIR.
Burts death, and summoning an undertaken to
! prepare for the return as clay of one who had
seemingly, but a few hours before, been seen in
| full health on the streets. Mr.. Burt's remains
We're brought home Monday, and after
funeral services at his late residence,
were taken to New Bedford, Mass, for inter
ment. They were accompanied by Mrs. Burt,
Mrs. Tabor, mother of Mr.. Burts first wife, Mr.
Burts two children, a boy and girl, aged II and
IS respectively, and Mr. Luce, particular fami-
| ly friend.
MILwAUKEE's s ARIsToCRACY.
| In giving the gossip aroused at the time OF Mr.
Burt's marriage, about two months ago, your cor
respondent ventured the opinion that the Burts
would not be slighted by the top circle of society
| in which the groom had moved; that Milwaukee
did not contain rigid aristocracy. In the light
of recent events he acknowledges his mistake,
and announces the existence here of aristoc-
racy of the genuine Goldfish type, scales and ALL
! The fact is the Burts ''cut dead" by the
grooms friends, especially by the so-caed ladies'.
Calls on the bride were few and far between. She
did not mind this, she is of q retiring disposi-
ton, and not accustomed to society, but to Mr.,
Burt it was CALLING. To level minded people the
action of Mr.. Burt's so-called friends is source
of disgust. Had the marriage been Objectionable
to Mr.. Burt's relatives there might
have been some basis for social
reproof on the ground of sympathy for them;
but this wedding in consonance with
the wishes1 of Mr.. Burt's children and those
of Mrs. Tabor, his first wifes mother, who is also
his aunt-as the first Mrs. Burt his own
cousin. The children and Mrs. Tabor became
closely attached to the young wife account of
her ministratiors during the first Mrs. Burt's ill
ness, and on account of her devotion to her
deceased husband in season of illness preceding
the marriage. But it seems that family happi-
ness does not satisfy carpng aristocratic women
who are, many of them, only too glad to forget
their own lowly Origin.
GILDED CHRISTIANITY,
The late Mr.. Burt was a working Christian
gentleman, an elder Of Emmanuel church, the
high toned church of the city, and a sturdy pro-
moter of the interests of the Young Mems
Christian Association. But the Rev. John n.
Freeman, of Emmanuel church, not only refused
to perform the marriage ceremony, but it is said
roundy lectured Elder Burt for presuming to
marry according to his own wishes. And the
high toned church members acted after the same
| manner. Yet when the remains of the deceased
gentleman were brought home, by the sorrowing
widow, the same pastor condescended to pray
for the departed, and managed to get in plea
for the orphans and widow. 1t was ice-cold con-
vention, void of soul as the lifeless clay over
which the prayer was uttered. There was
marked preponderance of men at the obsequies
Such is high toned Christianity. A true warrior
of Christ lay dead upon his shield, while the ac-
tors of Sabbath pageants stand aloof from his
corse. Verify, the religion that is bounded by
the four walls of magnificent stone cathedral
and manifests its intensity in the hiring of &c.
900 preacher is not the religion of the divine
NaZarene.
COOKING SCHOOL.
Fashionable ladies just now enthusiast
cally riding new hobby. Hands and brains nave
tablishment of cooking school, which will soon
be in working order in the old Lindsey Ward
homestead on Milwaukee street, near Mason. A
Boston woman named Hammond who has been
engaged to actas principal, arrived in the city
Tuesday, and is arranging classes for the
spring course. The school is designed for the
benefit of servant girls who may be desirous of
adding to their culinary accomplishments, and
for young wives who find themselves unable
through lack of the necessary knowledge to
properly manage kitchen; also for blushng
prospective wives (however dim the prospect)
who may want to prepare for the responsibilities
of housekeeping. The field is wide one, and
if properly cultivated should bring forth good
fruit. There is an air of philanthropy about the
proposition to educate servant girls, the majori-
ty of whom are graduates of home
kitchens where only the plainest
cooking is done. But in order to be truly
philanthropic the managers of the school will
, have to make very low rates of tuition to actual
;. servants, they cannot afford to pay heavy fees
and will be foolish to expect mistresses to con-
tribute for the special education of servants who
are liable at any moment to give them
'swarnin'' to seek other help in vie " of the fact
that they have secured new places. However,
leaving'out all thought of philanthropy and scout
ing the servant girls, the school has a grand
=, work among young wives and prospective wive:
+ who do not know how to cook.
$ KING DYSPEPSIA
e and his retinue of evils is mainly dependent
= upon these classes for his supply of victims
; The writer has in memory an incident which will
- point moral right here. Some years ago while
visiting young couple who were then in the
# honeymoon period of housekeeping he volun
| h in +bo
:. into garden, which should be in keeping witt
|, the freshness of their marital bliss His ait
!. was highly acceptable until the spade he wa,
u manipulating turned up oblong slab tha
looked suspiciousy like pan of burned bis
cults The discovery drew out a shrek from
Il the young wife. which was followed by entreatie
~ against further disturbance of the earth in tha
particular spot. But the young husband scent
e ed sport, and piled his spade vigorously for few
minutes with astonishing result. Attempts a
biscuit, bread and pie were turned up with every
spadeful of earth until there collection
that looked like an array OF relics of prehs
toric bakery. After the confusion and blushe
y and laughter came the confession of the youn.
10 cook that she had converted the back yard int,
Y, grave yard for culinary failures. 1t was NOR
lie laughable than humiliating. The writer careful
re-interred the remains of the failures, and afte
r leveling the earth to hide all trace of the grave
g reverently said amen to the young wife's deter
10 mination to give her cooking sepulture rathe
- than have the indigestible results of her ignor
- ance place her husband beneath the sod prema
turely The number of private grave yard
= of this kind in the world is probably beyon
r computation, and it is a lucky thing for the worl
: that they not few. Recurring to the matte
e of fee, the prospectus of the new school say
10 tuition for the first twelve lessons shall be $40
a. for cooks, So. For the second course of twelv
ot lessons, S12; for cooks, $40. Nurses course 81
in STIRRING UP BAD BLOOD.