The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-29
Miss Huntington and Her Family.
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The Press correspondent has direct in
formation of the Hatzfeldt- Huntington
matter, which does away with much of the
sensational gossip that has been printed.
Mr.. Huntington is said to have opposed the
marriage on religious grounds. but con-
sented finally because he believed that his
daughters affections. and consequently her
happiness, are thoroughly involved. A lady
who has frequently met the groom-ex-
pectant in the society of his fiancee. says
that he would impress one. by his manner
and conversation, as an American gentle
man of geniality anG refinement. His bet
ting debts would be cheerfully met by his
mother, but that the shylocks who hold him
in thrall on the rumor of his approaching
marriage with wealthy American. demand
such usurious interest to release him that
neither his mothernor Mr.. huntington feels
disposed to buy them off.
Clara Huntington was o niece OF Mr..
Huntington's first wife. Her mother, a sis
ter of the first Miss Huntington, residing in
Oakland, CAL, was widowed when Clara
was not quite year old, and left with one
other daughter. four. years of age, whe is
now married to a nephew of Mr.. Hunting
ton. Clara has known no other parents
and no other home. For years she did not
know herself to be an adopted child. She is a
brown haired. delicate-complexioned girl
of twenty-six, with magnificent eyes and
teeth. which would themselves constitute
valid claims to beauty; and the only lack
which critics have found In her face-that
new love has supplied. Under its stimulus
she is radiantly handsome. She is devoted
to her family and her American home. She
Is great patriot.
The present, Mrs. Huntington is a tall.
portly, fine-lOoking. h0me-lOving matrOn of
forty or thereabOuts. She a6lapts herself
perfectly to Mr.. Huntington's indisposition
to figure in gay society. She was widow,
Mrs. Worsham, with one son, Archer, when
Mr. Huntington married her seven years
ago-the year following his wife's decease.
Archer is now twenty-one, and has taken
the name of his step-father and has gone
into his office in New York. He is an ex-
Gesdng t1afs fs9T With
the prospective heirs to the great Hunting
ton estate. The present wife. as a young
girl, came up from Texas to New York with
her parents and several brothers and sis
the Huntingtons at their mutual hotel.
Her mother was peculiar to the last degree.
and very arbitrary over this young girls
fate so much so that Mrs: Euntington's
sympathies were reused. She was
devoaring eyes and heart unfed.
At eighteen her mother married her to
wealthy bridegroom. much more than
twice her age. Mrs. Huntington always
kept up an interest and affection for her,
and after she became a widow, with this
one young son, she was almost always
invited to join the Huntington party in
their trips to California. She was a sweet
woman. loving and loyal to Mrs. Hunting
ton, and quite adored by little Clara, who,
even now that she has become her step
mother, calls her always Belle" 1t is
happy and united family in their Fifth
avenue home. Mr.. Huntington did every
thing that patient love could do to avert
the doom of death from his former wife
Bingham was ill unto death of that malady,
and Madame De Struve. wife of the Russian
minister, now dead, visited her and pre-
scribed some recondite Russian panacea for
her distressful case. Mr.. Huntington read
of the incident, and wrote Immediately to
friend in Washington to enlist Madame
De Strives healing skill for his slowly
dying wife; but. as in the case of Mrs. Bing-
ham, it was all in vain.