Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28


ing, no matter what decree court may have
granted. Fanny Davenport and Melbourne
Mcdowell have played the lovers on the
stage so long that they love each other
really, and, alter great deal of dicker and
bother, she has gotten legally rid of her
former husband and Mcdowell has similarly
cleared himself of wife. Being thus pre-
pared for new wedlock, they fixed upon the
second week in May for the time, and New
York City for the place, of their nuptials.
They also fixed upon DR.. Houghton to tie
anew the knot that had been untangled. A
friend went to him on the errand.
"A POLITE REFUSAL.
"I cannot do this" the clergyman re-
piled. "I have been sorry on many occa-
sions to decline my services for divorced
parties"
One of these instances was that of Kate
Claxton.
''If the gentleman and lady desire par
ticularly to be married at the Church of the
TRANSPORTATION they may do so, and some
other clergyman may act in my stead-some
Episcopalian who does not view the matter
exactly as de"
That is why the wedding of Fanny Daven-
port at the Little Church Around the Corner
will not have the noted pastor to oficiate.
1t may be added, by the way, that DR..
Houghton has just had request refused by
theatrical people. He was put up to the
idea of requesting all the city managers to
close their houses on Good Friday evening.
This he did in formal terms. Two of the
fashionable theAters had already decided to
shut their doors, but all the rest were open
as usual, and only three of all the managers
took pains to even write an excuse to the
worthy priest.
CENTENNIAL SQUABBLES.
Sam Ward, the famous gourmet lost his
reputation as q dinner-giver and bon vivant
when he ordered three white meats to follow
each other in immediate succession, and it
was through the superabundant privileges
Ward McAllister sought to secure for the
| Four Hundred that he came to grief His
successor is Stuyvesant Fish, who may now
be regarded as the boss absolute of the
| Astor-V Vanderbilt society. There are few
men more likely to attract attention any,
| where about town than "Stuyve" Fish. be-
tween whom and Ward McAllister there
has been good deal of highly amusing
cross-fring of late, over the change in the
control of the Centennial Committee of Ar
| rangements.
Mr.. Fish has pronounced Mr.. Ward in
competent, and the latter has reported that
the trouble all came about through Fish's
conniving to be allowed to dance opposite
the President in the opening quadrille.
| This OF course Ward wouldn't permit, that
man Fish" being "railroader," and there
fore, in McA Allister's opinion, socially dis
| qualified for a leading position in the great
affair. To this delicate compliment, Mr..
Fish bluntly rejoined that McAllister lied.
Then, while the compliments were flying,
the busy yachting millionaire, Elbridge T.
Gerry, came to the support of Mr.. Fish,
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laugh upon him also, by; explaining that
Gerry, who coveted the post of presiding
officer at the banquet, had remarked that
Mayor Grant hadn't brains enough to run
the speeches." The town enjoyed the episode
immensely, although it brought many severe
heart burnings to the principal actors and
the Four Hundred.
WHO IS FISH.
Now that the fusillade is over, people are
curious to know more about McAllister's
successor. Probably not few society men
are anxious about the consignment of rare
old Burgundy, which McAllister himself
bought and slowed away in special cellar,
so that the guests might have a royal treat
of two small glasses apiece, or, perhaps, il
| is about those wonderful Havanas-"W eeds
that cannot be duplicated, doncherknow.' u
Somehow, Ward had prime faculty Of
getting the best things together at pinch
Will his successor be as clever? they now
ask.
Well, "Stuyve" Fish will probably look
at things differently and through younger
lenses. He is only 3S-a little over hall
McAllister's age. He hasn't reached the
epicurean stage yet, and has never felt q
twinge of gout. He is railroader in the
broad sense-a railroad president. His con.
nection with Illinois Central, which he
pulled out of the slough and got roundly
abused for it, demonstrated his cleverness
He has accumulated wealth, wholly inde-
pendent of his inheritance; moreover, it is
common talk In the several clubs to which
he belongs, that he knows how to spend and
how to keep, and is business clean through
He carries an imposing presence, is fully
six feet tall, and weighs quite 1856, with JUS
a hint OF coming 200 in the future. Still
he is not as handsome man as his elder
brother, Nicholas, who was named for thu
famous old grandfather, nor does he dress al
nattlly as Hamilton, Jr, the youngest
brother.
AMERICAN ARISTOCRATS.
His outdoor suit is usually quite plain
He walks with splendid stride that is il
odd contrast to McAllister's careful, meas
ured gait, which might be termed sort o.
mathematical prance. He has trick O
caressing his big brown moustache which
in any other man, would be accounted a,
nervousness. His wife was the daughter O.
William 81. Anthon, lawyer whose name
was as we'll known 15 years ago as that O.
Frederic R. Coudert is to-day. His wifi
brought him no fortune
Of course the Fish family pride them
selves upon their revolutionary descent, anC
in this respect Stuyvesant Fish may b,
called the typical leader Of the Four Hun
dred. The family has been in politics. too
as we'll as business and has furnished diplo
mate in its time. Nick. Jr., now a bank
er, was in the State department under hi
father, and afterward represented our Gov
ernment in Holland. Hamilton Fish, Jr.
is now in the Assembly, representing
Duchess county. One sister is the wife o
Sidney Webster. equally .well-known il
law and diplomacy, and frequent editoria
contributor to the newspapers and maga
zines. Webster, by the way, is Demo
crat, the only one in the family: Two othel
sisters are Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Benjamin
Still another, now dead, was the wife of thu
second son of Sir Stafford Northcote.
The third generation of the family is al
ready quite numerous and there certainly
seems to be no prospect of the stock running
out. CLARA BELLE.
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