The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-28
IS RICH IN ROMANCE
Washington Is Always Adding to 1t
Most Interesting Chapters.
NELLIE GRANT SARTORlS
She Was Married Twenty-One
Years Ago Last Tuesday-Mrs.
CIeveland's Strong Set of
Unlucky SeVenS.

WASHINGTON. May 21.-As w ashingtor
is rich in official history II is none the
less endowed with romance, several
chapters of which are added annually
The latest is that of the semi-official
announcement Of the engagement OF
Nellie Grant Sartoris 10 Gen. ]. Kyd
Douglas. a marriage which will have
about II an indispensable flavor of the
capital. and which recalls another
which was celebrated as a nations
nuptials.
Probably when Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris breathed shyly 10 several
Washington intimates the udings OF
her love for Gen. Douglas, she little
noticed the date, nor did she recall the
calendar of q years ago. but Washing
tonians love romance as they love their
official invitations, and Immediately
half a dozen old grande danes set to
work looking through the white-ribbon
tied packages of old wedding invita-
tions, to see when that other marriage
took place. and with the result that
they found IT was just q years ago
last Tuesday, and that the congratu-
lations on the new engagement come
as an anniversary.
Twenty-one years ago Nellie Grant
was the sweetest girl In Washington.
She was 10 years Of age. and had been
engaged to 21-year-old Algernon Sar-
toris since she had turned IL. She met
him on the steamship Russia on her re-
turn from England with her parents.
and had fallen violently in love with
him at sight, while he was very much
devoted to her The Grants fought the
match TO the end. but at the last kissed
their daughter affectionately, wished
her much JOY, and gave her the finest
wedding feast ever known in Wash
ington. When the young couple sailed
for England Fred. Jesse and Ulyssus
Grant, jr, accompanied their sister to
the steamer and watched her down the
harbor with waving of hands and sal
vos as long as she could hear and see
them.
Nellie Grant married neither a for
tune nor happiness, but she said moth
ing about the lack of either, and kept
the respect of everybody through all
difficulties. When she returned TO
Washington an attractive widow with
an income of $4,000 year. all her old
friends rallied around her, bent upon
matchmaking again. But Nellie Grant
is the same old romantic girl that she
used TO be. and in her selection made in
the midst of many admirers, she chose
that great income she will sacrifice
upon marrying again, or without a
thought to the fact that the general,
though of splendid family, cannot du-
plicate the money in extent. Through
out her life she has been romantic, and
both her son Algernon, at oxford, and
her daughter with her. have the same
strain in their blood. They want to go
upon the stage or to live public lives
The next winter after Miss Grants
departure the country's officials re-
ceived invitations to come to the White
House to welcome a bride home. This
was Miss Honore of Chicago, wife of
Col. Fred Grant, and sister of Mrs.
Potter Palmer. After that, during the
rest OF the Grant term, the nation con-
graduated, sent flowers. wished Joy
and grew youthful as the tidings of
little ones came from the White House
the children that are now Miss Julia
Dent Grant Of society and Ulyssus
Grant OF West Point.
Another romantic courtship and mar
riage was that of Miss Frances Fol-
som and the bachelor president of the
United States. This courtship was car
ried on under the noses of the gossips
without their ever suspecting II, and
not until the president wrote to his
cabinet asking them to come to his
wedding next fortnight was the news
known. Then the telegraph instru-
ments could not tick fast enough to
carry the tidings to an astonished peo-
pie.
Mrs. Cleveland at that time was q
years old. MIR. Cleveland was 40, and
the difference between their ages was
2S years. And at once some supersti-
'ious genius, looking for signs, dis
covered that all these numbers were
multiples of seven. and argued that
Ia,
life or happiness I'm seven years. But
more than seven years have now pass
cd. Ihere were two years of Mr.
CleVeland's first term remaining when
he married Miss Folsom Then came a
lapse OF four years, and now the sec
ond term Is more than half gone. maxi
ing about nine years, showins. that the
seven charm is broken. As an exam
pie Of the intensely romantic spirit
with which the people viewed the
courtship may be mentioned the fact
that when the president came to New
York 10 see his prospective bride a
band met him at midnight at the sta
tion ana escorted him TO the Gilsey
house. playing Come Where Nv Love
Lies Dreaming" At least II was their
intention 10 escort him, but when the
carriage door opened at the Gilsey
house the faithful Lamont hopped out
and not the president He had reach
ed the hotel another way.
AT Saranac Lake. where the Cleve-
land honeymoon was spent, there were
90 reporters encamped in the woods
about the inn. and when the bridal pair
slipped back TO Washington il was 10
md the capital filled with representa-
tives OF the same guild. Never was
there marriage more eagerly awaited
in printed report
There are romances in the Washing
ton air. The climate generates them.
One OF the latest is the Continued
warm friendship between Mrs. Dan
lei Manning and Secretary Herbert.
Inc secretary mas bought a new house
help OF his daughter. while Mrs Man
ming is about to give up her Albany
house, next TO that Of Judge Herrick
Of that city-her husbands lifelong
friend-to 20 70 live O. N-o.t.l...a..