The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-06
A SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN wAIF.
How Her wedding Reception Re
stored Her TO Her Father.
From the San Francisco Chronl

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Portland. Ore. July ls.-Mrs. Emeline
Burr, who up 10 six months ago lived
with her foster parents. Mr. and Mrs.
b. L. Whitmore. IA South Portland. Is the
heroine OF a strange romance. She had
been resident here four years. coming
with her foster parents from San Fran
CISCO who fifteen years prior 10 that. ar
rived I'm the latter city from Northern
California.
Early this year Miss Whitmore being
an invalid with rheumatism. visited
wealthy English friends In Santa Bar
oara, cal, where a few months later the
history OF her early life was opened to
her. Before leaving here she was engaged
TO marry well-to-do business man OF
Deer Lodge. Mon, named Edwin i. Burr,
and the two were married July 4 In Santa
Barbara. The romance OF Mrs. Burr 3
early life, perhaps. never would have
been disclosed but FOR the wedding.
Mrs. Burr found her real father. whom
she always mourned as dead. on her we'd
ding day. Among the guests at the we'd
ding was Abner L. Darlington. an old
gentleman who made great fortune
in Southern California fruit lands.
"Ihis elderly gentleman" she says.
made me feel ineNpressibly uncomforta-
Bile for the matter Of an hour after be-
coming a wife. You remember the lobes
Of my ears each had the appearance OF
having small piece cut out with a sharp
pair OF pincers. This Oddity amazingly
interested Mr.. Darlington. Later ia the
evening he asked a number OF questions
of Mrs. WhitmOre, and before midnight
Mr. Darlington identified me as his daugh-
ter"
Mrs Burr continued that IN 1872. when
she was years old, her parents, she and
two older sisters, left Sydney In the
American bark Dana Louden for San
Francisco. Three days out from port the
vessel fOnnnaTeU and nearly all hands
were lost This and the subsequent parts
of the story, Mrs. Burr writes, she only
learned on her wedding night. Her father
barely managed to save himself and W
to the night OF the attn believed every
member Of his family persisted in the dis
aster. After drifting about on spar
twelve hours he was picked up by an
Australian~bound steamer and was return
ed to Sydney. But he continued the triI
on the next outgoing steamer, as tn,
antipodes had nothing but sad memories
for him.
Mrs Burr continued: "On my weddins
night my strangely recovered father toll,
me that he first was attracted to me by
my face, which was the same as M
mothers at my age. Then he was startle,
by my ear lobes, which were birthmarks
But what convinced him that / was hi
child beyond doubt was that he describe,
three other peculiar birthmarks on me
| My father stated that my name wa
Eleanor Bertha Darlington, and that m!
&c. b. c. before leaving home. That seem
| ingly unimportant statement removed ev
| cry possible doubt as to my being Mr.. Car
| rington's daughter. Mrs. Whitmore state,
that the woman who placed me In he
| keeping also gave her a little chemisett
that wore when rescued. bearing the In
| itials 'E. b. c. worked In worsted, ant
| which she still retained"
A passenger aboard the Inflated bark
| whose name Is unknown to Mrs. Whit
more, saved the child's life, and both wer
| rescued by British vessel bound for Sal
/ Francisco. on the passage the man died
/ and Mrs. Emeline Cartwright, a Califor
MAN, who had taken the ocean trip 70
| her health. adopted the waif, giving he
| her own name The WhitmOres wer
neighbors of Mrs. Cartwright on Taylo
street. between Pacific and Jackso
streets, and when the former died. abou
| fourteen years ago, Mrs Cartwright
begged them 70 care for the South Pacif
ocean waif Among other things Mr.
| Cartwright gave them of the child's be
| longings was that chemisette, the las
| link positively establishing the Identity O
! Eleanor Bertha Darlington
| In view of the revelation, Mrs. Bur
writes. II Is possible that, at her father
| earnest request, she and her husband ma
reside in Southern California.