The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-10
RENouNc1Ne MILLIONS.
Miss Kate Crexel, the Heiress, Enters
q Convent.

4 SO41f Olbs
From the Philadelphia Times, Mays.
In the mother house of the order at Pitts
brrg Yesterday Miss Kate Drexel. the second
LAUGHTER Of the late F. A. Drexel. of the
xrorld-wide-known firm Of bankers, entered
.ss nostulate. or earnest seeker" in the
Order of the Sisters of Mercy. This is not be-
~or,inq a novice and is not equivalent to en-
taring the order, but there are few who
i,novy the Young lady who doubt that this
sct of hers amounts to complete renuncia-
tion of all her associations, OF her family, of
her surviving re atives and dear friends and
~ her great wealth. 1t now transpires that
Miss Drexel has meditated this step for some
time-in fact, since her sisters marriage, If
rot before-and there can be no question
.bat what she has done, whatever may have
been her motive, involves resolution to
withdraw herself completely from society
and the world.
DEAD TO THE WORLD.
Unless at the end of the probationary
v,ariod of six months she concludes to
change her mind and renounce her inten-
zion and profession, which is within her
nower to do, Miss Drexel, so we'll known as
the most attractive of the sisters of her
branch of the family, and one of the great
est heiresses in Am RIGA, will henceforth be
dead to the world" and the circles of
Walnut street, where she has been so
familiar. will know her no more. No Incl
dent of the sort since the beautiful Miss
MacTayish of Baltimore entered convent
will cause SO great a social sensation, as it
was utterly unexpected and until now has
been absolutely unknown outside OF her
family.
AN IMMENSE FORTUNE.
S~mething more than local interest is
30, &c not If hn lod l1n
at that she is one Of the three sisters who
inherit q fortune of alb ut ST., 10000
which is said to have increased to about
sol 900, 600 since their fathers death. This
fortune is invested not only in real estate
all over Philadelphia and in securities and
bonds of various CARNATIONS and indus
tries in and out of Philadelphia, but in he
great banking house of which her father
was a member The way in W ich it was
left also has an important bearing. In case
either of the three daughters should marry
and have an heir, the heir inherits the
whole fortune after the daughters death.
If neither should leave al heir. the
entire fortune goes to the Catholic church.
The Youngest daughter. now Mrs. E. De V.
Morrell, married few months ago, and
this daughter, with her husband and I'M
married sister, Miss l. zzie Drexel, will sail
from New York for Europe to-day with
their uncle, A. 81. DtexeL Miss Kate
Drexel, who entered the convent yesterday,
has quite a large fortune independently in
herited from her mother. who died before
her father but should she remain in the
order, her income from her interest in her
fathers estate, and probably her share of
the principal, amounting to $6,000,000
or S7,00O,O0O, will be relinquished to the
church.
Miss Drexel is the young lady who has
shown so much interest in Indian miss ons.
With Bishop O'Connor, of Nebraska, she
Travelled through tie Indian country, and
gave $3.50, 900 for the work of Catholic mis-
SONS among the Indians of the mort west.
She is of very amiable and beautiful dis
position and her mind has always had a
religious turn. On the occasion of her
sisters wedding she was one of the brides
maids