The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-24
SEEKERS AFTER SOCIETY.
How Mrs. C. P. Huntington Proposes to Gain
the Entree to the -Four Hundred


Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner DISPATCH. /
NEW YORK, June 22.-The story that
Prince and Princess Hatzfeldu propose
spending their winters in New York con-
firms the opinion held here for some time
TO the effect that this marriage was brought
about with a single eye towards the social
advantages which Mrs. Huntington might
rear from such an alliance here in New
York. l. would, of course, be unkind to
say that New York society is chiefly
made up OF snobs, of men and
women who run after foreign titles.
and entertain the owners of them cordially.
no matter what their reputation or careers
may have been. But it is undoubtedly true
that if Prince Hatzfedt comes here and he
and his wife live with Papa and Mamma
Huntington In the magnificent residence
that Mr.. Huntington proposes to erect at
Effty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, New
York society will be very strongly inclined
towards making pilgrimages to the princely
shrine. Mrs. Huntington, whatever may
be SAID about her, must be accepted as a
pretty shrewd woman and she knew
very well that with such an establishment
in New York as Mr.. Huntington's millions
~tould provide, with real live prince in
side. very few members of the flour hun
ereon would be able to resist the tempta-
tion Of accepting social entertainment at
the hands OF the owners of the mansion in
question, and visiting the prince and prin-
cess and incidentally vouchsafing to Mrs
huntington the social recognition for
which she has been yearning and striving
all her life.
1t is said on authority that can scarcely
bequesIioned that the real source of the
difference between these two old mellow
Californians, Leland Stanford and c. p.
Huntington is to be traced to the fact
hot EI,,,,F -,
lords TO help her socially and the Stanfords.
particularly Mrs. Stanford, were by no
means willing TO do anything of the kind.
Mrs. Huntington, it will be re-
membered, lived in New York as
IA widow for a number of years
1 before she became Mr. Huntington's wife
and was known as Mrs. Worsham. Wor
sham was originally Richmond gambler
and his friends declare he never possessed
so pleasing an attachment as his wife.
When the present Mrs. Huntingdon met
Worsham she was one of the Warrington
girls, tall, very handsome and with fond
ness for gayety and what is generally
known as life that made her in circles
where she moved notable and attractive
personality. Since her marriage with
Huntington she has done everything she
could TO overcome his penurious propensi-
ties and to live in a style befitJing the
wealth they commanded. In this She has
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES II is true that Mrs
Huntington arranged one marriage for her
adopted daughter which would been OF
social value to her and which never oc-
CURED simply because Huntington refused
to provide the necessary dover. But all
told, Mrs. Huntington so far as her hus-
band is concerned, has worked her social
schemes without interference and when
the marriage with Prince Hatzfeldt was
arranged she remembered her first fail
ure with satisfaction rather than with re-
Pret