The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-05
AN IRISH ROMANCE.
Who Hath ever Loved that Loved
not at First Signt2
A BARNARD AND A MILLIONAIRE.
Maurice Dupont Becomes infatuated wish q
Pretty Irish Girl in Queenstown and
Makes her his Bride.

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spondent at Queenstown relates the mar
riage of Miss ''Tottie'' Fitzgerald, barmaid
of the Queens hotel there, to Maurice Du-
pont, one of the famous powder family and
a millionaire. Here is the notice published
in the Cork papers: dupont, Fitzgerald
October r. at SIS. Peter and Paups
church, by the Rev. Canon Sheehan, Mau-
rice, second son of E. J, Dupont, of Will
mington, Delaware, U. S, A, to Margaret,
eldest daughter of o. P. Fitzgerald, Inchi-
more Brosna, County Kerry"
Tottie's father, says the correspondent,
is farmer working his own land assisted
by two sons and three daughters. She left
her home, and after year spent in Cork
as a barmaid, removed to Queenstown,
where she soon secured a position at the
Queens hotel. On June /, the Cunard
steamship Etruria landed young Maurice
Dupont at Queenstown. He was accom-
panied by his brother. L. C. Dupont and
his aunt with several of her children.
They stopped at the Queens hotel
''Tottie" at once attracted the attention Of
the two brothers. Maurice was clearly
smitten at first sight, for after two weeks
sojourn the family left for England, but
Maurice contrived to separate himself from
| the rest of the company and returned to
practice before 'Tottie's".bar
AS the days passed Mr.. Dupont seemed
to become attached to the restaurant bar
| After dinner he often slipped a cup of
coffee outside the bar, where he could con
verse with the pretty maid behind, and it
IS said in the hotel that during a rush Of
! busidess the handsome young millionaire
| has been known to assist 'Tottie" behind
the counter in serving drinks. On Tot
| ties" afternoon out Maurice would take
her for drives in the country on jaunting
car. He drove her to Blarney castle, to
Ballycotton, the favorite seaside resort.
and sat for hours on the rocks facing the
Atlantic.
The middle of July had now arrived and
| during the warm summer evenings Maurice
| Dupont could be seen lounging in an easy
chair in front of the bar room of the hotel.
The Queenstown people regarded him with
| the greatest interest. They studied his
attire from his natty neckwear to his rus
set shoes with the utmost respect and care.
| He had no confident and no companion save
! ''Tottie." The Queenstown regatta was
held on the 18th of August. and on that
memorable occasion Dupont appeared on
| the promenade dressed in Il white flannel
suit in the company of Miss Fitzgerald,
and nine days afterwgrd the young Amer
lean sailed from Queenstown for New
| Y Ork on the steamer Arizona, promising to
return in the TeatOnic which would leave
New York on the 18th of September Within
week ''Tottie'' left the Queens hotel
and proceeded to Cork where she took up
| her abode with her aunt awaiting her
lovers return. The young man was as
good as his word. The Teatonic
| touched at Queenstown before day
| light on the morning of September %.
Dupont landed IN the mists of the morn
ing. He had evidently been apprised Of
| ''TOtties" departure from Queenstown,
| for he took the mail train to Cork and was
| soon installed at the Imperial hotel. He
told the happy girl he had brought the con
sent of his relatives to their marriage. He
made her several very handsome pres
ents, and together they went to the
shops in Cork where they purchased
over three hundred dollars worth
of wedding trousseau The bans were
Published and as soon as her dress could be
made they went to church and $50 they
married" Mr.. and Mrs. Dupont left at
once for Dublin en- route for Switzerland,
where they will spend several months be-
fore returning to New York. 1t is said
'Totties' education will be improved
during her stay in Switzerland before she
| is presented TO American society Every
man and child speaks kindly and respect
| fully of her, of her virtue, youth and
! beauty. She received great many pres
| ents. ''Tottien was especially well known
aud respected by New York newspaper
men in London, many of whom will no
| doubt feel hurt that they were not invited
to the wedding.
| Maurice Dupont says the Worlds Will
mington correspondent, belongs to . dis
tinguished family which, with the Bayards
and Saulsburys, has made the little state Of
Delaware famous. The family is very
wealthy. Anybody in Wilmington will tell
you, chat there are no poor Duponts; every
one that is born is heir to riches Maurice
| is a direct descendant of Eleuthere Ireene
| Dupont, who had narrow escape from the
guillotine during the red days OF Robespier-
res and the reign of terror in Paris. His
| father and himself were both marked for
| the headsman and their time was close at
hand, when Robespierres fall changed the
order of things and opened their prison
doors. They came to America in 1895 and
located at Newport, r. 1. Some fortunate
circumstance called Eleuthere Dupont's
attention to the poor quality Of the
| gunpoWder then made in this country,
for he had been employed as youth under
| the eminent French chemist Lavoisier in
the government mills and royal gunpowder
! depot at AssOne. He made a trip to Assone
to acouaint himself with the improvements
in the manufacture of powder and Ie-
turned to America determined to risk all
he had in establishing powder works in
this country. He selected the present site
of the works. about five miles from Viii
mington, on the Brandywine, and the sue
cess of his enterprise is known, as it has
large place in one of the most interesting
| chapters of commercial history His name
Is perpetuated by the firm, which is styled
E l. Dupont de Nemours & Co. Nemours
was the home of the family in France.
The Duponts have an international fame,
Their factories are not only fourishing
along the Brandywine, but nine OF them
exist in Pennsylvania and several in Ohio.
They manufacture 10000 pounds day
themselves and are said to control nearly
all that is manufactured by the others.
| This is the family to which Maurice, the
young gentleman just married on the other
side, belongs. Eleuthere lreenee Dupont
was his great grandfather. His grand
father. Alfred Victor Dupont, died Febru-
airy, 1876, and his father, Ireene Dupont,
and his mother, Charlotte Dupont, are both
death His brother, Alfred ]. Dupont,
has an interest in the gunpowder works
and lives on the Brandywine. Maurice
has no interest in the world, but he has
large fortune into which he came about
year ago, derived from his fathers estate.
1 The Dupont family seemed to have been
familiar with the intention of the young
man TO choose himself a wife OF foreign
birth. princess. perhaps. When he sailed
for England little over q month ago ne
told them he was going to marry an lrlsn
lady; that he would soon return TO TINS
country and his wife would he installed IN
q mansion on Broadway. All the Duponts
are well educated. The young men 90 to
Harvard, your correspondent was told, and
finish up at Heidelberg or some old country
university. Maurice is not behind the
others in mental accomplishments and