Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-25
A GOTHAM ROMANCE.
LOW A PRETTY AppLs-pEpDLER BE-
CAME A RICH MANS BRIDE.
A Notable Medal Presented to New York
ssste--The Albany sfedai--Dr' john
son and His Missionaries on.
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n bride as / ever saw. She goes 10 tne
| Continent for few months with her r1cn
Cuban husband. Three years ago she was
peldlinp apples on Park row. She was a
voune woman of commanding presence
but poorly educated. and was known by
the nano of 10. She had dancing black eyes,
coal-black hair, and all the comeliness OF o
beautiful Irish girl. During the years sne
went through the big buildings down town town
| no word of suspicion was ever oreatneu
against her. She had many admirers, ana,
as she has told me on many occasions,
| bol1-fde offers of marriage from weli-to-uo
men. One day two years ago she disap;;
reared and for three months heara
| nothing of her. Then TO my amaZement
she swept into my Office one day and Tor a
moment hardly recognized her, she was
SO richly dressed.
ARCH CUBAN.
She carried q Spanish primer in her
hand. and / was surprised to learn that
she had been devoting her time TO the
| study of the Spanish language with pri-
yate tutor, and had also been preparing
herself in the rules of good society; sne
told me that rich Cuban had tallen IA
| love with her, had supplied her motner
with all the funds necessary for her edu-
cation, and that he had gone to Spain on
business trip, and would return in year
10 claim her as his bride. Perhaps 1t was
| because am not much given TO romance
that laughed at her, but she stuck peril
| naciously to her story, and three or tour
times during the past year she has visited
me. a. she has visited many OF her OLD
customers. A week ago L received Q
sweetly-scented note in strange feminine
hand. AS it was signed by name that i
had never heard of was at loss for some ION 2
time TO understand It's meaning until !
read in a postscript, Il am Jo." Then
| knew it all. 1t was 10 the apple,
girl, and she was married and living al
the Murray-Hill Hotel for q few days, and
she asked me TO come and see her and
| meet her husband and congratulate her.
SOCIETY QUEEN.
| did so, and was surprised TO find heI
superbly gowned, her ears flashing wlth
diamonds, and altogether conducting her.
self much the same as any society queen
Her husband / found TO be a very agree
able man, entirely wrapped up in admira-
ton for his wife and devoted as any bride,
groom should be. There were others OF
her old friends there, and in the evening
there was q friendly glass of wine. in which
all present drank her health and pros
perity, and the next day she sailed away
in one of the big ships and is. now ON the
Atlantic. When she has made sufficient
stay on the Continent she will go to
palatial home in Cuba.
Who shall say now that there is no TO
nance, even in this big and wicked cityT
BED JACKETS MEDAL.
While the Indian of the present day ]!
| shivering in his thin blanket on the bound
less prairie, it is interesting TO turn BACK
1 81 fr1onaa af a nnhlo rod
| man whose name was derived from the
magnifcence of his attire. refer to Rec
Jacket.
NV attention was called to his history by
seeing at Tiffany's the great silver media
which Washington gave to the eloquent
chief This was in 1892, and Red jacket
had come to see the Great White Father a.
ambassador for the Six Nations whose hunt
ing-grounds were in the western part o
New York and thereabouts. The Father o.
His Country was much impressed by the
bearing of the chieftain, and also WISHED
to reward him for the services he had rem
dered in bringing the Six Nations to {
peaceful frame Of mind. So the big sllve
medal was made and presented with du'
formalities.
This interesting relic is hereafter to b.
the property of the State of New York
Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend Meagher, widow
of General Thomas Francis Meagher, ha
given the medal and has arranged that th'
Red-Jacket Club. of Canandaigua, N. Y.
shall be its custodian until the State pro
yides a proper place for 1t.
THE PIPE OF PEACE.
The medal is Of pure silver oval in shape
and about five inches long. 1t bears upol
its face an engraving representing George
Washington presenting. the pipe OF peac
| 4 81 Io.1~of Tho ahfaf the mazda
land not much Of anything else). The in
scription is:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
| PRESIDENT.
| 1871
On the reverse is the old-fashioned eagle
whose fearful and wonderful shape is hap
PLY not so familiar as it used to be.
BY the way, Red Jacket did not get tn
original garment which gave him his nam
from this Government. 1t was presentet
by the British in return for services rem
dered during the Revolution. When tn
first one was worn out they gave him an
other, and afterwards third. In 1894 b
was again out at elbows, and the Unitei
States gave him a red jacket, which ap
pears to have worn better than the foreig
brand. He is said to have liked it just q
well as if he hadn't been accustomed t
wearing "Lunnon clothes.
THE ALBANY MEDAL.
Now, as to this medal, it is worthy of re
mark that there is at present IN the mu
scum at Albany another medal which pre-
tends to be the genuine article, the gift o
Washington TO the ambassador of the ST
Nations. 1t would appear, however tina
Mrs. Meagher's claim to the possession o
the genuine medal is very strong. II i
thus stated in brief on a silver plate fas
tened upon the box which the jewelle
had made to contain the relic:
This medal was presented by Genera
Washington TO the great Indian chief, Re
jacket, who survived all his children an,
gave it to his interpreter and life-lon
friend Captain Jasper Parrish, who CAV
it to his granddaughter, Elizabeth Town
, send Meagher."
The strongest support Of the claim O
the other medal is contained in an articl
! in Hdrpey's Monthly of February, 1866.
, is there stated that upon the death of Re-
Jacket IN 1880 the medal fell into tn
, hands of James johnson, his successor j
! the sachemship. In 1851, says the write
in Ha,per's, johnson seems to have bee
prevailed upon to sell the medal to som
persons who wished to secure it for tn
State museum at Albany. This trausfe
, was prevented by Colonel L. S. Parker
who paid the sum for which 1t was to hav
been sold.
The weak point in this claim is that nc
body can testify exactly how Johnson go
the medal. 1t is easy enough to see hoy
! he might have gotten a spurious one.
! grieve to relate that the great chief, Re
Jacket, was addicted to the use of stron
drink and that it ruined him just as if h
, had been white man. In his old age h
: was frequently in want of small sums c
money to purchase fre-water, and at sue
times he pawned his medal, though
would never sell it. There is every reaso
to believe that during the times whe
George Washington's gift was in pawr
copies of it were made. doubtless with tn
: intention of deceivingrelic-hu Poss
: bly, it Is some such product of sharp praS
, tice which now reposes in Albany.
A FAMILIAR ACQUAINTANCE.
Colonel Parker, by The way. was assist
ant acknowledgement with Grant durin
the campaigns from the Rapidan to tn
surrender Of Lee. Then he was made mi
itary secretary to Grant with the ran
: of lieu.enant-colonel, and in February
, 1866, with the rest of Grants persons
staff, was made breyet-colonel.
Nevertheless. he may have been d.