St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-08
New York Loses Miss Belle
Wilson, Whom a Title
Captures.
England'S Sham AristOcraey
Gets Ten Millions of
Our Dust,
By a Cheap Exchange Of Name
With Ambitious Yankee
Girls.
We Shall Have No One to Love
if This Keeps
On.

"Ten millions of good, American dol
lars and three of New York's most
beautiful women, all to go to England,
noblemeni If transatlantic marriages
go ON at this rate there will soon be
nothing and no one left for us"
This was the complaint of a fas hion-
able young clubman who has been try
ing to marry beauty and heiress for
a couple OF years past, says the New
York Journal.
Of course he referred to the recent
marriage of Mrs. Hamersley to the
Duke OF Marlborough, and the matri-
mt onial engagements which are Just
now the talk of the town and of every
fashionable watering place where New
Workers congregate.
The engagements are, first, that of
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts to the Earl of
Arran. This is not officially announced,
but all people who know both parties
say that 1t Will be as soon as all finan-
claI matters are concluded.
Ihe other engagement is announced
by the eXpectant brides parent in the
usual formal social way, and is of the
deepest interest to the pretty
YOUNG MAIDENS
of New York, for it takes one of their
number to transplant her in an aristo.
cratic English home. She is Miss Belle
Wilson, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert L. Wilson, and her fiance is
Eon. Michael I'll. Herbert, of the British
embassy at Paris, son of the late Lord
Herbert and a brother Of the Earl of
Pembroke. The engagement was made
In Paris, and the young lady is now on
her way home to prepare for her coming
wedding.
These three marriages will, as was
first stated, take some S10,OOo,OOO of
money to England, as well as our two
most beautiful young widows and one
OF our most popular bellies. They will
also link many wealthy families to the
The marriage of Mrs. Marshall o.
Roberts to the Earl of Arran will be
almost as interesting as that of Mrs.
Hamersley. Mrs. Roberts and the earl
are now in London enjoying the
gayety there, the former having taken
a house for the season with her STEP
daughter, Mrs, Ames Van Wart. The
latter is older than her stepmamma,
and has a young Lady daughter who
has been presented at court, and is
FAIRLY LAUNCHED
into English society. and may perchance
marry an earl herself.
Mrs. Van Wart and Mrs. Roberts
young son are to have the millions of
the late Marshall o. Roberts divided be-
tween them some day. Each will have
about S3,000,000. Mrs. Roberts has her
own S3,000,000 besides the income from
the rest until her son, now ten years old,
reaches twenty-one. She is said to have
saved goodly sum already, and may be
called very rich woman.
She is also handsome and not more
than thirty-two at the most. She is
Juno-like in form, has beautiful golden
brown eyes, hair of the same color, and
snow-white skin. She was Miss Endi-
colt, of Massachusetts, before her mar.
riage, and met her husband aboard one
of the ocean steamers. He was about
forty years her senior, but the marriage
proved happy one.
Mr.. Roberts died about five years ago,
and it is only the last three years thai
his widow has entertained much. Sha
lives on Fifth avenue, the southeast
corner of Eighteenth street, in a man
sion which is really three houses
JOINED TO GETHER,
and keeps an expensive establishment.
The earl is poor, but handsome. He
owns the Isles of Arran, off the west
coast of Ireland, has an immense estate
in the County Mayo and one in England.
His only child is daughter Of nineteen
or twenty.
miss Belle Wilson is keeping up the
family reputation for making good
Matches" said an old dOwager.
The Wilson's are SouthernerS. and
lived in Georgia before the war. At that
time they were in modest circumstance
and lived very plainly, but Robert T.
Wilson, the father of the young lady,
made a vast fortune out of the Louis
vile II Nashville railroad, moved his
family to New York, ,and his wealth was
soon an open sesame to the most fash
ionable society.
His oldest daughter, Miss May Will
son, is married to Ogden Goelet, who is
worth $40, ,0O0, 900 at least. The eldest son,
Orme Wilson, married Miss Carrie
AStor, the youngest of the Astor girls,
some four years ago. Besides Miss
Belle,
WHO Is SOON
to become lady Herbert, there remains
yet young son and daughter.
1.-The Wilson's are none of them hand
some, but are all of them fascinat-
ing" said one who knows them inti-
mately.
Miss Belle is tall, slender and fair,
has blue eyes and brown hair, and is
graceful and accomplished. She went
abroad with her sister two years ago,
and then met her fiance for the first
time.
The family were in London at the
time, and Miss Wilson had been pre-
sented to the queen and introduced into
fashionable society, where she at once
became popular. 1t is said that young
Lord Herbert offered himself at that
time, but was rejected. Miss Wilson
enjoyed season of great social success,
visited at several of the notable country
houses, and returned home year ago
last spring, after few months spent at
Pau.
This spring she went abroad again
with her parents, met Lord Herbert and
accepted his second offer.
1t is expected that the wedding will
take place late this summer or early in
the fall and will probably be celebrated
in London. although the
EXPECTANT BRIDE
at first intended to be married at home.
Lord Herbert was born in 1857. Another
brother officer is Hon. Sidney Herbert,
N. p. for Croydon.
Miss Wilson has fortune of at least
half million, and it is expected that
her brother-in-law. Ogden Goelet, who
is greatly pleased at the match. will add
another million to it.
The trosSeau is being made IN Paris
and is to be the gift of Mrs. Ogden
Goelet. 1t is to be of the most costly
aud beautiful description, and will in
clude some rare pearl and diamond
jewels which the Goelets purchased at
the sale of the French crown jewels two
seasons AGO