St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-23
Young Marshall Field to Take
Miss Albertine Hauk as
His Wife.
He Embraces the Roman Cath
Ollie Faith in Order to
Win Her.
She Refused His Heart and
Hand Until He Renou need
Professionalism.
Both Heir to Millions--The
Bride-to-Be a Very Hand
some Girl.

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-Chicago has a
genuine society sensation. Young Mar
shall Field, the heir to many millions,
will embrace the Roman Catholic faith,
in order that lie may win for his bride
the accomplished htiress, Miss Alder
tine Hank. Young Field is daily pill
grim to Priory Hall, where, kneeling
before the holy fathers, he is instructed
IN the tenets of the faith. On Sundays
he and his fair enslaver are regular at
PENDANTS at mass. Early next month,
when the autumn leaves are falling,
they are to be married. When this
happy event occurs two of the most
princely fortunes in the West will have
been united. The romance in this love
story has no less interest than others
which have marked the eyentful
periods in the family of the Hanks.
Marshall Field Jr. is about twenty-five
years old. Two years ago he entered the
freshman class at Harvard, and at the
close of the year he went to Europe
with his tutor. While there he met Miss
Hauk, and this romance began. He as
sumed the role of lover, wooed and al
most won her, when barrier rose UP
between them. She was an ardent be-
lever in the Catholic faith. and the mai
eSty of the church forbade her marriage
with all unbellever. She loved him,
bnt this daughter of wealth loved her
church more than all else, and refused
his heart and hand until he had re-
nounced his allegiance to all other
creeds. Young Field returned to Har-
ward and finished his sophomore year.
The attraction at home proving too
strong for him,
He Left College
and took position in his fathers
wholesale house. Immersed in the
Baptist faith, his family prominent in
the Baptist church, his father the build
er Of Baptist university, it was no
small struggle for him to come out
openly before the world and proclaim
his allegiance to the pope. He sought
out the fathers of the Order OF st. Ben
edict, and they have led him daily
through the pages of the catechsm and
the creed of the apostles, each days
teachings forging one more link in
the chain that was to bind him to the
church. The holy fathers, seeing the
influence his name and wealth would
bring to the church, have made the
pathway easy for him, and before the
month is out he will be a Catholic.
Then, early in October, the young lover
will lead his beautiful bride to the altar.
Miss Hauk is the second daughter of
Louis G. Hank, the millionaire malster.
She is of medium height, with great,
glorious eyes that seem unfathom-
able in their depths, while her
hair is as dark as her eyes. She is
as lovely in mind as she is in character
bright, yivacious and accomplished.
Her education finished by two years of
continental travel, she is a prize we'll
worth the winning. Her elder sister,
Miss Freyda, was married III January
last to Count Konowski, an officer of
high standing in the Prussian army
Miss Freyda met him abroad. There
was romance in their love-making,
also, that savored of soft moonlight
evenings along the banks of the Rhine,
heroic rescue from death or disaster
by the count, and the final chapter clos
ing with a wedding in the famous old
cathedral of Cologne, where. surrounded
by all the pomp and magnificence be-
coming unlimited wealth. Miss Freyda
became the countess. The youngest
daughter, Miss Marie, is blonde, but
possesses the glorious, deep brown eyes
of her sisters. She, too, has romance,
and will marry soon, but as yet that is
not made public.