Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-02-25
LOVES OF GREAT MEN.
ALL REMIND Us WE CAN MAKE
OUR LOVES SUBLIME.
How Whitney Won His Friends Sweet
heart.

How whitney Won his friende sweet
heart.
The wife of Hon. William G. Whit
ney, recently secretary of the navy, has
proved a veritable mascot TO him.
And the manner in which he became a
close ally of Standard Oil is indicative
of the good fortune which attended
this astute politician and financier
throughout his career.
When Young Whitney was at Yale
he had chnm in a confiding classmate,
who is now Rev. Leander Chamber
lain, brother of Ex-Governor Cham
berlaIn.
Young Chamberlain, go the story
goes, had won the heart of Miss Payne,
daughter of Henry b. Payne, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, and he gave his classmate
glowing accounts of the charm of man.
ner, conversational powers and other
good qualifications of the young lady
to young Whitney. On one of his
vacations young Chamberlain invited
his chum to go to Cleveland with him
and make the acquaintance Of Miss
Payne.
The future corporation council and
secretary of the navy acceded the in
vitation; he made the lady's acquain-
tance and managed so skillfully to be
stricken by Cupid's oleaginous bow
that ere many moons had passed young
Chamberiain's friend, chum and bosom
companion walked away with the fair
prize.
Owing to the devotion of Colonel
Oliver Payne to his sister she has
proved boon to Mr.. Whitney, and the
splendid house on Fifty-seventh street
and Fifth avenue, and a large gift, said
20 be $50 900, when the secretary and
his wife set out to startle Washington
with magnificent entertainments, are
generally set down among the good
things which young Whitney's chum
lost through the confiding introduc-
ton.
A romantic story is told about the
first meeting Of August Belmont with
the lady who is now his wife. As be-
came her brave blood, the daughter of
Commodore Perry, "the hero of Lake
Erie, while still blooming Baltimore
belle, had an intense admiration for
personal courage.
some relatives in this city that the ao-
tive and sturdy young German banker,
who had at once taken the place in
metropolitan society due the repre-
sentative of the powerful house of
Rothschild, became involved in fam
Gus duel.
AT the theatre one evening he was
among a group of young men, and be-
tween the acts one of the party ex-
pressed his admiration of the beauty
of the ladies present in the boxes,
among whom was Miss Perry. a noted
Georgia ''tire-eater" standing by, who
was widely feared and avoided az a
bully and dead shot, made some re-
mark rejecting on the virtue of women
generally.
There was silence for a moment,
when young Belmont, slight, timid-
looking fellow, to the dismay OF his
companions, faced the bully and said
in distinct, deliberate tones:
"The dog who could utter such h
sentiment insults the memory of his
own mother and is unfit for the COM
pany of decent men!"
White with rage the bully hissed:
''You shall hear from me, sir!"
1t was before the war in the good
old times, and a duel followed, of
course. Belmont's friends gave him
up as a dead man. But when the
smoke from the simultaneous fire of
the two pistols had cleared away it
was found that the bully had bullet
through his heart and Belmont had
ball in his left leg below the knee.
He became the hero of the hour, and
soon after he was able to get about he
proposed to the beautiful Miss Perry
and was accepted. He afterward con-
fessed it was her noble face that nerved
him to resent the imputation on her
sex. To this day he limps painfully,
but his wife is proud of his disigure-
ment.
There was q touch Of romance In
the wooing and wedding of Major
William A. Pond, the concert and lee
ture manager. No stranger who sees
the gallant major strolling along Broad
way with a pretty, delicate-looking
young lady on his arm would imagine
that he was accompanied by Mrs.
Pond. They might think his charm
ing companion was a daughter or
neice, or related to him in any way
other than marriage.
Mrs. Pond, before her marriage, was
typewriter in the mayors Office un-
der the Everett house. The manager
was struck with her rare beauty and
modest demeanor the day she an
swercd his advertisement for a type
writer, and these qualities impressed