The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-07

| course Of this man has been one wn1cn
| has excited much interest He has
! lived quietly in his cottage in Tuxedo,
has attended strictly to his business in
| the coffee trade at the foot of Wall
street, and has gone about the world in
quiet. dignifed manner, thoroughly
| ignorant, to all appearances, of any
reason to the contrary. He is man
now, should judge, of some forty
three or forty-fve years of age. quiet in
manner, brown-haired, brown-eyed,
| beardless and wearing nustache. Mr..
Potter is exceedingly particular about
his raiment, and his personal habits are
refined to a degree All the devo-
ton that father could lavish upon a
daughter he has delighted to give TO
his. When his friends have asked him
whether. he proposed to take proceed
ings to secure divorce from this wona-
an, who insisted upon dragging his
name in the dirt of three continents, he
is declared to have said that SO long as
he took no overstep 10 put on record the
disgrace of his daughters mother there
need be no record Of it to which her
friends and acquaintance in after life
could have cause to call her attention;
that the social world winks at cankers
which are known to all, and are yet
/ smothered under the decent garb of
seni-secrecy, while the first rash hand
which lays them bare serves no better
end than to make them more ignonini-
Gus and excite public scorn and denun-
citation.
Mr.. Potter belongs to the famous Pot
ter family of which the bishop is the
head and to which the Browns of bank
ing fame ere closely allied. Under the
terms of will now in force, Mr.. Pot
ter is, l understand, at no very distant
date to come into quite a handsome
competency, and l have heard that
within a year or two offers of consid-
cradle sum in cash were made through
a firm of New York lawyers to Mrs
Potter in return for her abandon
ment of the name she has borne
only to disgrace. These overtures re-
suited in nothing and it is the very
irony Of fate that Australia and India
and England and Scotland and Ireland
and Ceylon and Japan and China should
have heard of the names Of Brown and
Potter, both entitled to respect on the
American continent, only through the
fictitious title of such woman to bear
them 1t was, believe, the inadequacy
of her husbands income to maintain
her in the social state which she thought
was her due that, according to Mrs.
Potter, first inspired in her mind that
discomfort which led to her subsequent
adoption of the stage career. If, as she
then said, she adopted the dramatic
profession for the money she could
make out of it, in her present
almost penniless condition, as I
hear in London, she must be a victim
of remorse. At the time that she
made this objection to her husbands
means, beside the moderate income
from investment to which he was en-
titled, he had, hear, even then this hand
some expectancy, and was also making
at least six or eight thousand dollars a
year in his business. The home she tor
feited, the daughter she cast of, and, to
put it on its very lowest basis, the in
come of twelve or fifteen thousand dol
lars which she might now be enjoying
in that home and with that daughter,
must at present look exceedingly attrac-
tive to this would be Cleopatra. The
cable reports that she feels bitterly
toward the United States, and says that
she has too many enemies and critics to
think of returning here. 1t must be re-
membered that she has only what she
!, IL h nd hot
orable men, at least, are disposed to put
an obstacle in the way of an erring,
misguided woman who seeks forgive
ness.
YOUNG eoULD's ENGAGEMENT.
The announcement of young Edward
Gould's engagement to the daughter of
DR.. George E. Shrady, of this city, will
call renewed attention 10 the million
aire wizard and his affairs Mr.. Ed
ward Gould is twenty-six years of age.
He has his fathers swarthy complex
ion greatly intensified, and his beard
and hair are of the unmistakable Gould
type. He is in no sense a handsome
young man. There is something of the
pirate in the dark and forbidding coun-
tenance of Edward, while George, the
elder brother, is truly handsome and
attractive person. A great deal has
been said in the newspapers from time
to time about young Edwards remark
able business capacity. The fact is that
Edward was never studious boy, and
while yet at Columbia college he under
took to do some specializing on his own
account. When his father discovered
it the youth protested that he preferred
business career to professional one,
and so he was taken into the Western
Union building, where his talents, such
as they are, have been utilized.
But he really has no great aptitude,
however much fondness he may have
for it. George is a thorough business
man, and is thought by most of the peo-
pie who know hun to be entirely cap
able of succeeding his father, at least
in the management of the properties
which they now hold. l was talking 10
a gen tleman the other day about Jay
Gould's prolonged stay in the west and
southwest. He said that Mr. Gould had
for a long time suffered from bronchial
affection which was aggravated by the
salt air Of this locality. he found great
relief for this in the dry, far western
country. and the probabilities were
that he would spend considerable of his
time there for the next year or two.
When last heard from he was at Eads,
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