Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-22
MATRIMONIAL.
Two Great HeiPeSSes to be Married to
Two Masculine Beauties.
Miss Jessie Fair, Daughter of California MIL
liOnaire, and Miss May Armour,
Daughter of Chicago Croesus.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, March 21.-The matri-
mOnisl news Is that two great heiresses
are engaged to be married to two masou-
line beauties. The young ladies are
Miss Tessie Fair, daughter of the famous
California millionaire, and Miss May
Armour, daughter OF the equally cele-
brated Chicago Croesus. The young men
are New Workers, and much alike in be-
ing big, broad shouldered, athletic fell
lows, either of whom might serve as a
model for statue of Adonis. Herman
Olriohs IS the choice of Miss Fair. He is
wealthy himself, and for fifteen years at
least has figured as a olubman, patron
and participant in athletic sports, and
latterly as q politician, having acted as
chairman of the Democratic campaign
committee. His popularity among men
about town is great, he is free spender
of money, and oonvivialIst of the first
order. Nevertheless, he is neither a
loafer nor a drunkard, and his friends
say that he is fully prepared to settle
down as a sedate husband. Olrichs first
met Miss Fair at Newport year ago last
summer, and was in her society again
there and at Saratoga last year. The en-
gagement is understood to date from the
season last mentioned, although it was
lively confirmed until this week. A mag
nihcent wedding is to be celebrated, but
not until next autumn.
The coupling of Frank Ferguson and
Miss Armour affords more facts that are
interesting to publish. Ferguson is a
handsomer chap than Olrichs, being a
six-footer with fine face and a com
plexion as clear as a girls. He is about
thirty-ff years old. He came to this
country from Scotland at the age of
twenty, and the Scotch accent is still
perceptible in his speech. He went to
work in this city as q shoemaker, but the
bench proved an uneasy seat for young
fellow of his ambition. Although he be-
gan to carve out his own fortune with q
shoe knife, he soon changed the impIe-
ment TO a surgeons scalpel. He got
work in St. Luke's hospital, one of the
largest in the city, his duties being mix
eddy those of janitor and a custodian
of the anatomical department. He soon
made himself valuable in the preparation
and care of surgical specimens and from
that advanced to the department of dis
section. He developed surprising skill
with the scalpel, and five years ago was
appointed chief dissector at st. Luke s.
His ability IN this speciality not long ago
led him into serious difficulty. When
Bishop, the mind reader, died at the hos
pital Ferguson sawed of the top of his
head, in order to supply his brain to, the
physicians, before the requisite order had
been given by a coroner. That was
a breakage OF the law, which forbids
any post norton examination without
formal authority. Bishops mother
made all the row possible and much in
terest was excited by the fact that
Bishop himself, having been a subject to
cataleptic fits resembling death, had
dreaded that he might be buried alive.
Mrs. Bishop undertook to prove that he
was not dead at the time OF Ferguson 9
operation, and the evidence was sufficient
to induce a grand jury to indict Ferguson
and the surgeon at whose orders he had
made the autopsy. Within month
after this occurrence Ferguson repeated
the offense and was promptly arrested
Whether he will be punished remains to
be seen, but his acts have at least led TO
a reformation in the matter of hasty dis
section in the hospitals. His skill with
the knife, however, has brought to him
toleralole income, and while wieldingsit
he has assiduously studied medicine and
surgery with view OF going into gen.
sral practice. He affords an instance Of
a man ssIf-made by his own energy and
brEina.
Miss Armour has for several years