The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-28
GREAT REIRBssEs TO WED.
Miss Fair to Become Mrs. Oelrichs
DR.. Ferguson and Miss Armour.


From The Ne,o York Press.
NEW YORK, March 24-The matrimonial
news is that two great heiresses are engaged
to be married to two masculine beauties.
The young ladies are Miss Tessie Fair,
daughter of the famous California million
aire, and Miss May Armour, daughter of
the equally celebrated Chicago CrCasus.
The young men are New Workers, and much
alike in being big, broad-shouldered, ath-
letic fellows, either of whom might serve as
model for statue of Adonis. Herman
Oelrichs is the choice Of Miss Fair He is
wealthy himself, and for fifteen years at
least has figured as a clubman, patron
and participant in athletic sports, and lat
terly as politician, having acted as chair
man of the democratic campaign commit
tee. His popularity among men about town
is great, he is a free spender of money, and
a convivialist of the first order.
Oelrichs first met Miss Fair at Newport a
year ago last summer, and was in her society
again there and at Saratoga last year. The
engagement is understood to date from the
season last mentioned, although it was not
divulged until lately, and not positively
confirmed until this week. A magnificent
wedding is to be celebrated, but not until
next autumn.
The coupling of DR.. Frank Ferguson and
Miss Armour affords some interesting facts
Ferguson is a handsofner chap than Oelrichs.
being a six-footer with q fine face and a
complexion as clear as q girls. He is about
30 years old. He caAse to this country from
Scotland at the age6f 20, and the Scotch
accent is still perceptible in his speech. He
went to work in this city as shoemaker,
but the bench proved an uneasy seat for a
young fellow of his ambition. Although
he began to carve out his own fortune with
II. In .ol~r,
ment to surgeons scalpel. He got work
in st. Luke's hospital, one of the largest in
the city, his duties being mixedly those of a
janltOr and custodian of the anatomical
department. He sOou made himself valua-
Die in the preparationand care Of surgical
specimens, and from Rthat advanced to the
department of dissection. 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 hospi-
tai. Ferguson sawed off the top of his head
in order to supply his brain to the physi-
clans, before the requisite order had bee
given by O coroner That was a breakage
of the law which forbids any post mortem
examination, without formal authority.
Bishops mother made all the row possible,
and much interes6Iwas excited by the fact
that Bishop himself, having been 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's
operation, and the evidence was sufficient
to induce q grand jury to indict Ferguson
and the surgeon at whose orders he had
made the autopsy Within a 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 dissection in the
hospitals. His skill with the knife, how
ever, has brought to him a tolerab!e in
come, and while welding it he has assidu-
ously studied medicine and surgery, with
view of going into general practice. He
affords an instance of a man self-m2de by
his own energy and brain.
Miss Armour has for several years spent
considerable of her time in New York city
Her education in music and languages has
been pursued here. and she has figured In
one of the many rich and polite circles of
society. She is good-looki1g, vivacious and
aimable. something more than 20 years of
age, and her friends say that she doesn't
put on airs because her father is million
aire many times over. She has attended
services at DR.. John Halls church in Fifth
avenue, whore DR.. Ferguson is an active
member. He has the direction of one Of
the charities of this opulent congregation
that of providing medical attendants in
connection with mission chapel, and Miss
Armour contributed money and time to
this same particular good work. Thus the
two persons ere brought into a familiar
intercourse, which has developed iato a
matrimonial engagement, the public an
nouncement of which is here made for the
first time. The wedding is set for next
September.