San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-28
BRIDE 4 WAITRESS.
The Recent Sensational Marriage OF
One of New York's Wealth

1
lest Citizens.
| Ii has been the fortune of Juliette
Kathleen Maier to go forth from the
restaurant where she was head wait
| ress TO become the bride of a Rhine
lander. a member of one of New York 5
oldest, richest and most distinguished
| families, who receives q liberal allow
ance from his wealthy relatives. The
bridegroom is William Copeland Rhine
lander, grandson of the late William c.
Rhinelander and eldest son of William
Rhinelander. the present head of the
family, whose city house is at No. Is
West Forty eighth street
William Copeland Rhinelander. mid
die aged, tall and dark and much given
TO scowling. who makes his home away
from this city at the desire of relatives.
who keep him in cash TO the extent of
500 a week, re-entered New York one
day recently and established himself in
furnished room i'm Twenty-fourth
street, says the Herald.
A convenient restaurant was in
Twenty-third street. and there Mr.
Rhinelander went ten days ago to dine.
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, Inen look
ed again. He spoke to her, she answer
ed and her voice was pleasant to hear.
He returned TO the restaurant for his
next meal and went there many times.
always contriving to get the service of
the young woman with the hair and
eyes and voice. She told him she was
Juliette Maier, that she was % years
old and that she lived with her widow
ed mother, an elder brother and little
sister ut No. 232 East Twenty-first
street.
She may have mentioned that her
brother, William, who is % years old,
is employed in a down town wholesale
house and is an artist of no mean abil-
ity; also that her father, Richard j.
Alaier, was for many years a cutlery
manufacturer in this city, but left little
property when he died.
She might also have said that blue
blood ran in her veins, her great-grand
father on her mothers side having
been Baron Henry George Won Bigle,
of Baden Baden, Il 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 n housemaid in his
fathers family, and that n divorce fol
lowed, and possibly he narrated other
episodes in his somewhat unusual ca
reer. But whether or not he spoke of
Ia; is In, 1,ot
of love, and he asked Juliette to be-
come his bride.
Now, the pretty waitress had re-
ceived many such proposals from pa
irons of the restaurant, who found her
captivating in snowy cap and dainty
apron, and she had come from expert
ence to treat them kindly hence it was
in like manner that she heard the de-
claration of her latest admirer.
The counting was all done in the res.
taurant, but last Sunday Mr.. Rhinelan-
der presented himself at the comforta-
BILE little home in East Twenty-frst
street, and led Juliette thence. He
conducted her to the Little Church
Around the Corner, where the girl be-
came a Rhinelander. Nobody was pres
ent save the witnesses, who We're OBJ
tanned at the church.
The bride and bridegroom have been
taking little trips out of the city since
the wedding, dividing their time when
in the city, between the rOow in Tween
ty-fourth street and the fiat in Twenty
first street, but they expect today TO
start on an extended tour nOrthward.
William Copeland Rhinelander has
been erratic, thereby causing distress
to relatives, who did all in their power
to keep him in conventional paths, and
failing in this, provided generously
for his welfare. His earlier years
We're full of promise. He was one of
the brightest men in his class in Co
lumbia and graduated with honors
twenty years ago.
He married the same year. His
bride being Maggie McGinnis, a house
maid at his home. His family We're
greatly grieved by this affair, and the
young man left his home. He lived
with his wife in Canada for some time
and had two children, but afterward
went to Brooklyn.
He was living in Brooklyn in 1884.
NhtH WI. lNlllutidHucT witt OHt udl 10
the office of his fathers lawyer, John
Drake, of No. 10 Cedar street, and ac-
cused, him of trying to separate his
wife from him. There was struggle
and Mr.. Drake was wounded. Clerks
disarmed Mr.. Rhinelander, and the
lawyer was taken to a hospital. He
said he believed his assailant was i'll
sane, and for this reason. as well as
for his respect and regard for the fam.
lily he refused to prosecute him.
The then Inspector Byrnes, however,
heard of the ARRAY, and the next day
caused Mr.. Rhinelander's arrest. He
was locked up for a night at police
headquarters and then held for exam
nation in the Tombs police court. He
soon obtained his release from the
Tombs where he had been held and
that ended the affair.
A commission was mt length appoint
ed to inquire into his sanity, and while
| two of the members held that he was
mentally unsound, the third held that
he was sane. Mr.. Rhinelander fought
the attempt to prove him lunatic and