Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-25
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
Miss Whitney VIII Become the Bride of Mr..
Paget
This Pleasant Announcement IL In
teresting News Here, rs Else
whefe-PersOnnls.

The engagement of Miss Pauline Whit
ney, daughter of ex-Secretary William C.
Whitney, to Almeric H. Paget of ST. Paul,
MIMI. was announced yesterday by friends
of the family, and naturally aroused much
interest. Miss Whitney is about twenty
years old. She is tall, handsome girl, at
tractive and accomplished. She has
charming disposition and gentle tempera-
ment, and is a favorite of all who know
her. While her father was Secretary of
the Navy Miss Whitney was at boarding
school. but the holiday vacations were al
ways memorable events by the entertain
ments given by her mother to her daugh-
ters young companions. The famous
Christmas tree parties, one for society and
the other for the youngsters from st.
Johns Orphanage, the most elaborate
juvenile fetes Washington had ever seen,
were instances of the pleasures devised for
them Miss Whitney's education was COM
pleted in Europe, and she was formally
presented to society at magnificent ball
given by her parents at their New York
home early in December, 1892, and i'm
mediately became one of the favorites and
ornaments of society circles.
Henry Payne Whitney and Payne Whit
ney and Miss Dorothy Whitney are the
other children of the ex-Secretary. The
late Mrs. Whitney will always be remem-
bered as the most conspicuously brilliant
woman of the last decade in this city, and,
indeed, also in New York. She was daugh-
ter of the late Senator Henry B. Payne
of Ohio, from whom she inherited a large
fortune. MIR. and Mrs. Whitney were mar
RED in 1872. About eleven years ago. says
the New York Tribune, Mrs. Whitney's
brother, Col. oliver H. Payne, purchased
the house at the southwest corner of 9Th
avenue and 57th street, New York, built by
and formerly the home of Mrs. Frederic
Stevens, now the Duchess de Dino who is
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heron, Long Branch. Col. Payne, who had
already shown his brotherly affection by
giving 100000 to his sister on the occa-
sion Of the birth of her first child, also
presented to Mrs. Whitney the 9th avenue
mansion, for which he paid over 1864, 900.
Mrs. Whitney, when the house was trans
ferred to her, made many changes in the
interior arrangements. the most important
Of which was the addition of a ball room,
which extends the entire length of the
house, and is decorated in white and gold.
This magnificent room, which has a raised
platform of marble for the musicians at its
western end, was opened to the friends of
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney with an entertain
ment in March five years ago. Since the
death OF her mother, in February two
years ago. Miss Whitney has not taken
part in any of the social entertainments in
New York. Her health for two or three
years has not been Of the best, and shortly
after the death of her mother, with her
father, sister and brother, she went on a
yachting cruise in southern waters Be
fore the summer season set in Mr. Whit
ney took his family to the south of France
On his return he took possession of STAN
ley MOrtimer's beautiful place on Spring
Hill, Westbury, Long Island, where the
fall and autumn We're spent On account
OF his daughters poor health, Mr.. Whitney
sailed from New York early last December
In the steamship Majestic for the purpose
OF passing the winter on the Nile 1t was
On this trip up the Nile that Miss Whitney
hrst met Mr.. Paget. Mr.. Whitney and his
FAMILY returned from Europe in June, and
are spending the summer at Bar Harpor.
Aimeric Hugh Paget is the youngest SON of
the late General Lord Alfred Paget and
was born in 1861. He came to the United
states to seek his fortune when he was
atout sixteen years old. During the first
Few years of his life in this country he
worked on ranch in the far west, but
soon he moved to St. Paul. Mimi, and
STUCK cut Tor himself in the real estate
business. He had no financial backing
worth the mention, but by business ability
ana perseverance, combined with the west
ern energy which be had absorbed, he was
soon enabled to amass a respectable for
tune. His success attracted attsnrfnn
abroad. and he was invited to undertake
the management on this side of an English
company. His opinion is that there is no
country and no district of a country to
compare with that wherein he won success
and fortune.
Lord Alfred Paget, c. B., Almeric Paget's
father, was born in 1916. and died in 1883,
MARQUIS
Of Anglesey. Lord Alfred was a general in
the British army, and chief eQuerry to the
queen. He held a conspicuous place at
court during his lifetime, owing in part to
his intimate association with the late prince
consort, and to the nigh regard in which
he was personally held by the queen her
self. He married in 1877 a daughter of
George Thomas Wyndham of Cromer Hall,
Norfolk, and was the father of fourteen
children. The eldest son, Col Arthur
Paget, was for five years a page of honor
to Queen Victoria, and subsequently re-
oeived commission, which he now holds,
in the first battalion of the Scots Guards
He received a medal for his services in the
Ashantee war of 1873, and was also en-
gagged in the Nile expedition in 1885. The
colonel married in 1878 a daughter of rhe
late Mrs. Paran Stevens.
Another of Almeric Paget's brothers is
Capt Alfred Paget of the navy who lis
tinguished himself in the Egyptian war,
of maid of honor to the queen. Her
majesty has stood sponsor to one of the
girls, the prince consort to another and
the Princess of Wales to a third. while tho
prince himself is the godfather of Col.
Arthur Paget's eldest boy. The date of the
wedding has rot yet been fixed.
Senator and Mrs. Frye are at their cot
tage at Squirrel Island, Maine
Justice and Mrs. Brewer and the Misses
Brewer are at Thompson's Point, Burling-
ton, VT. for the summer.
Mrs. U. S. Grant who has been at Man.
chester. VT. has found Vermont so at
tractive that she will remain under the
shadows of its green mountains for a
greater part of the season.
Mrs. ]. A. Coombs and daughter have
gone to Point Lookout for the summer.
Mrs. o. c. Garges and her son, Mr.. A. c.
Garges, are at Fortress Monroe and Old
Point, and will visit Norfolk and Ports
mouth before their return.
On next Wednesday morning July 81
Miss Mary V. Auldridge ard Mr. Frank E.
Gass will be married at the parsonage of
the Epiphany, and the couple will leave
Immediately thereafter for stay of sew
eral weeks at the seashore
Mrs. Albert Leavey is summering at Bay
Ridge, Md.
Mrs. J. X. Potter and family are spending
the summer at Point Lookout
Mrs. Mary Power left yesterday for an ex-
tended tour through the Yellowstone Park
and Montana, where she will be guest of
Ter sister, Mrs. Maj. NJ McCauley of Fort
Missoula.
Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance, War De-
partment, and Mrs. Flagler left here this