Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-19
AMERICANS ABROAD.

scraps of Home News Cleaned From the
Last London Alnil-Another List of
MilIionn nires-Madnme Nordicn's Ro-
mance-Americaus Paironixing the Bull
Rfng-Hinj1r Ponds Last lecturer.
IT is stated that there are seven millionaires
residing in Pittsburg, Pa, and 63 residents
of Cleveland, O.. possessing in the aggregate
f300. .00O, 900. Sixty persons have been named
residing IN small towns near New York, whose
wealth is said to aggregate 5O0,0O0,0O0 One OF
the gentlemen included in the last estimate
stated that if it included one of his neighbors
with whose affairs he is acquainted. it was
entirely too low-s750 100000 would not
be too much. The Goelet estate In
New York City pays taxes on s250O0O0O
real estate. The Mayor of Chicago announces
that four gentlemen of that city are worth
over s25, 900 each; but only two are included
in the list-P. D. Armour and Marshall Field.
An American posted in such matters in
forms me that there were not so millionaires
in Boston: but the official tax list shows that
more than so families pay taxes on over s1,0Oo,-
COO each, and 200 persons pay taxes on amounts
which clearly show they are really millionaires.
The list of the many-rimes American million
aires are as follows: s15O, O,O00. .OO0 William w.
Astor, Trinity Church, New York; sl00 600. 900,
c. Vanderbilt, W. K. Vanderbilt, Jay
Gould, Leland Stanford, j. D. Rockefeller;
s7oOOO,OOO estate of A. Packer; 500, 100000, John
Blair, estate of Charles Crocker; O,COOOOO,
tsussell Sage, E. A. Stevens. estates
$40 100000, P. D. Armour, F. L,
AAmes. William Rockefeller. H. NJ. Flagler,
sSo,WO,0o0, G. P. Huntington, D. L. Mills. es-
tates "a Of 7. a. Scott, ]. w. Garrett; $50 0OO,OOO
y. Z. Roberts, Charles Pratt Ross Winans, E.
T. Coke. Claus Spreckels, August Belmont, R.
!; Livingston, 3. Weyerhauser. Mrs Mark
hopkins. Mrs. Hetty Green, estates of S. V.
dndaGG6ness, ia r. W. Coleman. ]. NJ. Singer; s25,-
UVOOpO. A j. Drexel, ]. 8. iorgan, j. P. Nor
gan, Marshall Field David Dows, j. G. Fair, E.
+. Perry, estates of Governor Fairbanks, A. ].
stewart, A. Schermerhorn; s20,501000. P. H.
SON. ". F. Weld; SO M eA Ooe F. W u vanderbit
Ineodore Havemeyer. II. P. Havemeyer W.
q. Warden, W. P. Thompson, Mrs. Scheniey
J; b. Haggin. H. A. Hutchins, estates of w.
sloane. E. s. Higgins, c. Tower. William Thaw,
DIR. Hostetter, William Sharon, Peter Donohue.
After n Great Preacher.
MAJOR POND, the agent, Is endeavoring to
engage Canon Liddon for a lecture tour
in the States. If he accept, the Americans
will hear man of genius. who is by common
consent the first living preacher of the En-
glish Church. Long debarred from episcopal
honors BY the Queens prejudice against him,
Canon Liddon was lately offered the Bishopric
old. He is So. Age, if anything, may prevent
him from going to America, which he greatly
desires to visit
Primn Dounn's Romance.
IT Is not generally known that Madame
Nordica, the American prima donna, was
married to Frederick Cover an American in
veptor of great promise. He lost his life in a
balloon ascent, which he had undertaken with
a vii tn arfo
some time certain amount of mystery was
supposed to surround his fate: but there exists,
am told, in the United States Consulate at
Havre the deposition of pilot who, from his
his post at the helm of a vessel he was con-
Quoting out Of port, saw the balloon
fall into the sea. The ship was too
far away to attempt any rescue, and
so the inventor perished, and with
him the secret of his invention. Mr.. Cover
was passionately in love with Miss Norton, who
was distantiy related to him. On the night of
her debut at the Grand Opera. Paris, he gave a
banquet at the Cafe Bgnon in her honor, and
none of the guests who were present on the oc-
casion were much surprised when, few weeks
later, the engagement was announced. He de-
lighted in driving his betrothed in his hand
some drag in the Bois de Boulogne. and his
yacht was constantly placed at her disposal
their Inc rs,S %edang t9e 9appy couple .9ok up
doir, furnished with Japanese articles and hung
with embroidered satins, was exceedingly ar
tistic. She dressed superbly and entertained
handsomely. and altogether the brief period of
the welded life of the young couple was one of |
exceptional brIlliancy.
heard lately an anecdote which depicts the |
generous nature of Frederick Cover In his |
young days wealthy citizen in q small town |
in New England interested himself in the fu-
ture OF the intelligent boy, and furthered with
his influence young Covers efforts to acquire |
a thorough education. Years passed, and the |
young man, who had in the meantime become |
the possessor OF fortune, returned to New |
England and sought out his former benetactor, |
whom he found In reduced circumstances. rs |
there anything 1 can do for your" inquired |
Mr.. Cover. YES" was the response. Il have |
mortgaged the little property had, and at ex- |
orbitant rates of interest If you will take the
mortgages into your own hands and allow me |
TO pay you legal interest, it will be an accom- |
modation." MIR. Cover paid off every one of |
the mortgages and cancelled them as well, |
leaving his friends property free and unin- |
numbered. Alas! that such a heart should |
should have.foun nd its last resting place beneath
the stormy waters OF the British Channel.
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Fine-Looking Couple.
Mr.. MARION CRAWFORD is an exceedingly |
handsome young man. and is as perfect |
physically, with his six feet of manliness, as a
Greek statue. By incessant physical culture
he has developed each muscle to perfection, |
and he has distinguished himself as brilliant
fencer. His wife is as perfect in her way. and
one of the most beautiful of American women.
She has statuesque figure that is 1.-THE and
graceful as reed. Those who know General
Berian remember his wonderful gray eyes and
his superb physique. both of which are FEM
ininely duplicated in his daughter. When
General Berdan went to Turkey, after superin-
tending the construction of his musket inven-
ton in Russia, he was accompanied by his
daughter. 1t was there that Marion Crawford
met the lady he was fortunate to win for
wife. Miss Berdan created sensation in
official society in ConstantinoBle by her beauty
and grace of manner. II was there that the
wedding took place which united two of the
handsomest natives Of the United States Mr..
Crawford is nephew of Miss Julia Ward
Howe, a literary lady who is highly esteemed |