The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-30
LOVED A SHOP GIRL
Roston's Richest Mans Son,
and She Loved Him
AN0S0THEYWERE MARRIED
Leaving the Old Folks on
Both Sides in the LurCh.

New York, Sept. 28.-The Journal prints
this not and dispatch from Boston:
ION August 8, at the Church of the AS
! cension, Roxbury, by the Rev Edward L.
Atkinson, pastor. Horatio Bigelow, %, of
Boston, and Mary Alice Reece, p, also of
Boston"
The Boston dispatch: 1t was only a sim
pie little marriage notice and yet it in
wolves one the of the proudest families in
New England, and also the wealthiest.
Upon the ultimate result of that act de-
ponds the disposition of between s25, OO0, 900
and $50. 1000, 0OO
The groom is the eldest son Of Albert s.
Bigelow, the Copper King of Boston and
Cohasset.
The bride was but yesterday a sales
woman in the department store of Jordon
Marsh & Co.
The father of the groom is today the
wealthiest man in New England.
The father of the bride is a respectable
mechanic, a veteran and pensioner of the
war of the rebellion.
The groom's home is on Commonwealth
avenue, the abode of the plutocrats of the
hub, and one of the celebrated residential
streets of America. and also at Cohasset,
BOston's aristocratic summer resort.
The home Of the bride is on Third street
South Boston, among the families of the
struggling clerks and men who earn their
bread by manual labor.
1t was early in the sumner Of 1898 that
Horatio Bigelow, then a junior at Har-
ward happened to visit the store of Jor
don, Marsh & Co., in Boston to get some
articles of wearing apparel.
In the rear of the large establishment is
the counter devoted to the sale of trim
mings for ladies' dresses. Behind it was
standing one Of the sweetest little women
with soft brown hair, prettily drawn away
from the broad low forehead, brown eyes
with long lashes and that variety of mouth
comonly known as 'kissab le."
1t was a case of love at first sight for
the young multi1milionaire. On her part,
the very evident interest she had inspired
in the tall handsome young man, who re-
sembled one of Charles Dana Gibson's ath-
letic heroes, brought an answering flush
to her cheeks and a softer light into her
eyes.
ut neither had ever met the other be-
fore, and to this plain Boston shop girl,
as to the highest bred girl in the land,
an introduction was necessary before
could address the other.
To Bigelow this was an easy matter. At
the closing of the store, at o'clock, he
=, alr1s'
are compelled to leave and was rewarded
for his patience by the sight Of the wofan
manager of one OF the departments with
whom he was acquainted, as his father
had always kept an account at the estab-
lishment
To the manager he explained his pre-
dicament and begged her intervention. He
we so evidently sincere in his pleadings
that he interested the elderly lady whom
he had approached and she consented to
introduce him to Mary Reece. At the
same time she warned him that the young
lady wa no ordinary shop girl, for a young
man to interest himself with for the mo-
ment, but a lady in every snse of the
word.
At the side door in the alley Bigelow met
humble home in South Boston.
The next evening and the next found
him at the same side door, AMI often dur
ing the next few weeks did the object OF
his alteration find boxes from Boston's
most fashionable florist containing fresh /
Iy plucked layers of violets at her place at
the trimmings counter on her arrival at
the store in the morning.
All these attentions did not escape the /
notice of her companions. and 1t was from
their joking with her about the matter
that she first learned that her youthful /
adorer was no less a parsonage than Ho- /
ratio Bigelow, eldest son and heir of the
wealthiest man in New England and one
of the richest men in the United States. /.
The though at first frightened her and
she begged Bigelow to discontinue his at
tentions, saying that she was no fit mate /
for him. and that his parents would make .
trouble for him if he persisted in his court
ship But with all the eloquence that his /
love could impart, her lover threw her
fears to the winds and assured her thar .
to him life would be a burden if she would
not consent to listen to him.
It was as pretty a variation Of the old. !
old story under new guises as Is ever seen. /
but with the elf same old meaning as the I
Of Faust and Marguerite There
was happily tn different condition. how
ever that the lover in this romance was
an honest man and was actuated by moth /
ing but the purest motives.
The attentions continued. and now ige-
low began to escort his love To her home
in South Boston nearly every night. First
her sisters and then her mother got 70
know the fashionable looking young man.
and then the neighbors. They questioned
her about him and she told them who he
was.
With tears and pleadings they besought
her to give him up. saying that they were
sure he meant no good 10 her. and point
ing out numberless instances OF similar
cases where the life Of the girl was ruined
by the attentions Of similarly wealthy ard
lovers.
But he gave no heed TO their advice
BY this tife the love god hal obtained as
firm a grip upon her as lyon Horatio
RIgelow. All through the fall and winter
of9S. and the spring OF this year. her de-
voted lover could be found every evening
at the same sid door. The young MILLION
sira often visited the girl a her counter
in the store
He showed his pride and delight in her
by inviting her with her sister 70 meet
some OF his college chums and classmates
az a splendid dinner st the Hotel Touraine
where the bill reached considerably over
three figures.
In the warm weather DUNG the spring
and early summer, the pair might b
found on Saturday afternoon and Sundays
canoeing on the placid bosom % the Chart