Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-23
THEY WERE MARRIED.
And Society Feels Hurt That it
 Had No Premonition.
ANOTHER SURPRISE PARTY.
William G. Tiffany Weeds Mrs. Fer- nando Yznaga-The Bride a Sister of Mrs.w. .K.Vanderbilt and is the Di- vorced Wife of Her First Husband. \. Greal Wealth of Mir. Tiffany.


 Greal Wealth of MT. Tiffany.
 NEW YORK, July 23.-The Rev. Daniel 0. Potter, the obliging clergyman who assisted Mayor Hewitt in uniting the Duke of Marl- borough and Mrs. Hamersley has again made himself famous and thrown society into con- vulsions by privately marrying William George Tiffany, of Baltimore San Francisco, London Paris and half the civilized world, to Mary Virginia Yznaga, the divorced wife of Fernando Yznaga.
 On Thursday morning & cab drove up to the AlbeInarle Hotel and a slight, pretty woman, whosc fair face and youthful appearance challenged her gray hairs to prove that she was past thirty, alighted and registered as Mrs. Fernando Yznaga. At her request large apartment connecting with parlor 59 was assigned to her. She was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. William K Vanderbilt, and no especial attention was called to the ladies' doings, except that numerous parcels were sent up to No. 59.
 On Saturday morning at about 10 o'clock few visitors began to inquire for Mrs. Yznaga. Mir. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt arrived first and were shown up to No. 59. MT. and Mrs. H. B. Rollins followed. Col. Williams sent up his card and was duly admitted. Then Dr. Daniel c. Potter turned up, and at last two gentlemen in frock coats and festive smiles put in an appearance. They were MT. William G. Tiffany and MT. de Courcey Forbes, a bridegroom and his best man.
 Mrs. Yznaga herself opened the door of No. 59 in answer to each of these summooses, and no one was admitted who was not abso- lutcly essential to the important occasion. In about half an hour the little company dispersed in twos and tlrees as quietly as 1t had gathered, but just enough time had elapsed for the quietest kind Of 8 wedding and l the hcartiost sort of congratulations. So dis | creatly and secretly had the whole affair been accomplished that even MT. Parker, the pro- | prictor of the Albemarle hotel, won't know until this morning that wedding took place under his very nose and what a happy and sacred use his best parlor had been put to.
 Since her return from California, where Mrs. Yznuga obtained her divorce four months ago and where she first met MT. Tiffany, Mrs. YznaSa has been living in retirement in the pretty lodge at the gate of MT. VandeEbilt's 8 l place Idlo Hour, at Oakdale, l.. I. She told her friends that sho expected to be in Newport in AugSst 10 little gayety, but never in- timated that her future was involved In any l thing more serious. It will be remembered that Mrs .Yznaga's former husband is brother to Lady Vaudeville and Lady John Lister Kaye, and that her younger sister was mar red recently in Paris to Comte de Fonte- nailles.
 Mir. Tiffany comes of the old Baltimore family of that name, and has inherited at least three fortunes, which he has spent like a gentleman. He lived for years in Paris, where his splendid hotel, Rue St. Florentin. was long the rendezvous of half the beau esprits and viveurs of Europe.
 MT. Tiffany has also the reputation of being one of the best whips in Europe, and the sea- son that he horsed and drove the "Old Times" coach from the White Horse Cellar. Picadilly, to Brighton is as memorable in the annals of the road as his enterprise in estab- fishing with MT. Padelford and MT. William Forbes Morgan a coaching route over the Pyrenees.
 But all this cost money. As the end of the third fortune began to show itself MT. Tiffany bethought himself of some source of income and about three years ago went out to Cali fornia as the manager of the Esmeralda Min ing Company, representing large amount oi British gold. Fortune smiled on him once more, and his last venture brought him what no previous exploit ever dd-a charming wife
 Mrs. Yznaga being the agsrieved party and petitioner in the suit which led to her divorce Is distinctly entitled by statute law to marry again, 80 that the performance of the cere mony yesterday by the complaisant Dr. Potter was more of coincidence than a necessity.