Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-30
Welded "A POOR WAITRESS.
Well-Known New Yorker Takes a
Bride From a Restaurant.

IN a restaurant on Twenty-third
street, New York, there worked until
recently a pretty young woman whose
name was Juliette Kathleen Maier
Juliette was the head waitress in the
establishment where she was employed
and looked captivating in her snowy
cap and dainty apron. Her beauty and
pOliteness attracted many customers.
who, in time, became her admirers.
Among the latter was William Cope
land Rhinelander, a member of one of
New 1ork's oldest, richest and most
distinguished families He is a grand
son of the late William c. Rhinelander
and the oldest son of William Rhine
lander, the present head of the family.
William is a social outcast and makes
his home away from New York, where
the other members of his family re-
side, at the request of relatives. For
compliance in this respect he receives
an allowance of 500 per week. He
spends most of his time ON a farm in
Saratoga, which he purchased some
y Ctli ciSo clIlu ou WHICH, lie UTStUS
horses.
Ten days ago he paid a visit to New
York and on the day of his arrival
there ate his first meal in the restau-
rant where Miss Maier was employed.
He was waited upon by a genteel
young woman with an abundance of
black hair and glowing dark eyes. The
diner looked at the waitress, then
looked again. He spoke to her, she
! answered and her voice was pleasant
| to hear He returned to the restaur-
ant may times, always contriving to
get the services of the young woman
with the hair and eyes and voice. She
told him that she was Juliette Maier,
| tt at she was p years old and that she
| lived with her widowed mother, an ell
| der brother and a little sister at 232
! East Twenty-frst street. She may
| have mentioned that her father, Rich
| ard J. Maier, was for many years a
| cutlery manufacturer in this city, but
| left little property when he died. She
i might also have said that blue blood
|
on her mothers side having been
Baron Henry George Won Bigle of
Baden Baden, a rich and powerful man
of his time.
In return for these condolences the
interested listener, Mr.. Rhinelander,
may have mentioned that years ago he
had taken to wife a housemaid in his
| fathers family and that divorce fol-
| lowed, and possibly he narrated other
| episodes in his somewhat unusual ca
reer. But whether or not he spoke of
! these things it is certain that he did
of love and asked Juliette to become
| his bride. The counting was all done
in the restaurant until Mr.. Rhineland7
er presented himself at the comfort
able little home in East Twenty first
street and led Juliette thence. He
/ conducted her to the Little Church
| Around the Corner, where the girl be-
came a Rhinelander. Nobody was
! present save the witnesses, who were
| obtained at the church. William Cope
| land Rhinelander has been cratic.
| His earlier years were full of promise.
He was one of the brightest men in
| his class in Columbia and was gradu-
ated with honors twenty years ago.
He married that same year. His bride
was Maggie McGinnis, a housemaid at
his home. His family were grieved
! by this affair and the young man left
his home. He and his young wife
moved to Brooklyn, where, in due
time two children were born to them.
Then troubles came upon the little
| family. William was arrested and i'm
prisoned for attempting to take the
i life of his fathers attorney. Some time
later he was arrested a second time on
a charge of grand larceny, but was
liberated with a petty fine. Afterward
he was arrested to be tried as to his
sanity, but was declared sane and &C
quilted. Since then he has lived alone,
never visiting his relatives and they
never visiting him.