The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-19
KANSAS NEWS.
Pretty Romance Comes Up From
Fort Scott.
Daughter of Millionaire Webs
a Road Boss.
FATHER AN OFFICIAL.
Parents Both Displeased With
the Marriage
But the SOn-in-Law Is Promised
Promotion.

Fort Scott, June 19.-Mrs. c. B. Ham
mond, daughter of a Butte, Mont, mil
lionaire, and a bride of but a few
months, has just packed her trOuSseau
of twelve costly Partisan gowns, load
ed them into a freight car on the Kan
Sas City, Fort Scott & Memphis road
in this city and taken up her residence
in the car with her young husband
Though Mr.. Hammond was but a sec
ton hand on the railroad during the
several months Of their residence here,
they lived in good style, and their re-
cent departure is an incident from
which Fort Scott society can hardly
recover.
Millionaire Barrett, of Butte, took his
wife and daughter to Hot Springs, Ark,
early last fall to spend the winter. The
daughter was but 10 years old and fair
ly pretty. They took apartments at the
Park Hotel. Young Hammond, who is
| the son of General Superintendent H.
H. Hammond of the Kansas City.
Fort Scott & Memphis road, was at Hot
| Springs recuperating from an injury
| sustained in a runaway. At the hotel
/ he met Miss Barrett, and they became
| friends. mutual affection developed
with unconventional rapidly. Her
| parents froWned upon him and, it is
/ said, exercised some diplomacy to de-
| tract her attention from him, but with
out avail Finally they consented to
/ a marriage, and concluded to make the
best of the circumsN tnces by giving an
| elaborate wedding at the hotel A
! rousseau was OIu6TeQ from one Oh the
fashionable modisteS in Paris, and it
was one the richness of which was
| beyond the anticipation of most fashion
| able brides
| But meantime something happened
| that caused Miss Barrett's parents to
| desire a less formal wedding, and the
! order for an ostentatious service at the
hotel was countermanded. Young Ham
| mond and his affianced were not pleased
! with this change, and shortly thereafter
| they were clandestinely married at one
! of the other hotels. Mr.. and Mrs. Bar
rett were greatly mortified by this in
| cident and have disinherited the daugh-
| ter.
After their marriage Mr.. and Mrs.
Hammond went to Kansas City His
father was equally disappointed by the
| marriage and proposed to help him in
| a business way only on condition that
he commence at the bottom of the rail
road business and master it by hard,
actual experience This was agreed to
by young Hammond, and he was as
| signed to a section gang in this city I'M
der Foreman Sullivan.
| Recently young Hammond concluded
that he had learned the business of
road-making and his father made him
train, which is now stationed at Gar
land, Kan, cutting down a grade A
small box car was fitted up for him
especially as a living car. It's interior
| convenienceS. are very crude, but the
young son of the general superintend-
ent and his fashionable young wife
have adapted themselves to the circUm-
stances, and expect to make it their
, home until he merits another promotion.
They have no other apartments and
carry all their personal effects with
! them.