The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-14
Recognizes the Happy Bride as
the Child He Believed Lost
at Sea.
STRANGE STORY OF A WRECK.
Two Survivors of the Dana Laudon
Disaster Meet After Many
Years.

PORTLAND, Or, July 13. - To meet
ones father, long mourned as dead, on
ones wedding-day-thatis the JOYFUL ex-
perience of which Mrs. Edwin F. Burr of
this city is telling her friends. To find
daughter whose body he had believed was
resting among the coral reefs at the bot
tom of the Pacific Ocean, that is what has
filled Abner L. Carrington's cup of thanks
giving to OVERLOOKING. And Santa Bar
bara, that quaint, romantic town in South
ern California, is the scene in which this
truth that surpasseth fiction" was given
life.
Early in the present year Miss Emeline
Whitmore, who until six months ago lived
with Mr.. and Mrs. 5. L. Whitmore. her
foster parents, in southeast Portland, being
invalided from rheumatism, visited some
wealthy English friends in Santa Barbara
where a few months later the history
of her early life was opened before her.
Before leaving here the young woman was
engaged to marry Edwin +. Burr, we'll
TODD business man of Deer Lodge, Mont.
and the two were united in marriage on
the 4th of July in Santa Barbara. The
romance of Mrs. Burr's early life, perhaps,
never would have been disclosed but for
this wedding.
A few days ago Mrs. Burr wrote to her
dearest chum" here of schoolgirl days,
stating that on her wedding day she had
| found her real father, whom she had al
ways mourned as dead. Among the guests
at the wedding was Abner L. Darlington,
an old gentleman who has made great
fortune in Southern California fruit lands.
'This elderly gentleman" writes Mrs.
| 10 fao III
Portable for the matter of an hour after 1
had become wife. You remember the
! lobes of my ears each had the appearance
of having had small piece cut out with a
sharp pair of pincers. This trifing oddity
amazingly interested Mr.. Darlington, and
l considered him exceedingly ill mannered
when he made inquiries of me regarding
my ears Later in the evening he asked a
| number of questions of Mrs. Whitmore,
and before midnight Mr.. Darlington iden-
titled me as his daughter. whom he be-
lieved to be dead and at the bottom of the
South Pacific Ocean,"
Mrs. Burr continu ed that in 1872, wnen
she was 8 years old, her parents, herself
and two elder sisters left Sydney in the
American bark Dana Loudon for San
Francisco. Three days out from port the
vessel foundered, and nearly all hands
were lost. The story of the disaster and
the events following it was related TO hel
for the first time on her wedding night
Her father succeeded in saving himself
and up to the night of July he believed
that every member of his family Wen
down with the Dana Loudon. After drift
ing about on spar in mid-ocean for twelve
hours he was picked up by an Australia
bound steamer, which returned to Sydney
J He continued his trip on the next outgo
; ing steamer, as the Antipodes had nothing
, but sad memories for him.
, THAT night my strangely recovered
. fsther told me-" continued Mrs. Burr
"that he was first attracted to me by my
face, which was identically the same a.
, my mothers at my age. Then he wa!
. startled by my earlobes, which were birth
marks.
but what convinced him that was
his child beyond all doubt was that he de
scribed three other birthmarks on my
. terson to Mrs. Whitmore which even she
knew nothing of, although had beer
living with her fourteen years. Ny father
, stated that my name was Eleanor Berth;
/, Carrington, and that my mother haC
, initiated all my little clothing e. B. e..
before leaving home. That seemingly I'M
important statement positively removed
every doubt as to my being his daughter
Mrs. Whitmore stated that the woman
. who had placed me in her keeping alst
5 gave her little chemisette that wor,
3 when rescued from drowning, bearing tn,
initials 'E. B. G.. worked in worsted anC
which she still retained"
On this occasion, though, Mrs. Whit
more supplied the missing chapter of tn,
romance. A passenger aboard the Inflated
, bark whose name is unknown to Mrs
Whitmore, saved the child and they wer,
: rescued by a British vessel San Francisco
4 bound. On the passage the man died, ant
: Mrs. Emeline Cartwright, a Californian
who had taken an ocean trip for her health
Mrs Cartwriebt Begged them to O." care ' 70
the South Pacific waif. Among the othe
: things Mrs. Cartwright gave them of tn
, child's belongings was that chemisette
the last link positively establishing tn
J identitu of Eleanor Rartha Carrinrtnn.