The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-24
AT HOME IN A BOI CAR.
The vicissitudes Of q Young Couple with
Paris-Madc Gowns and Cob Pipes.
From the Chicago Timcs-Heraid


Font SCOTT. Kan, June l6.-Mrs. c, B. Ham,
! mond, daughter Of a Butte, Mon, millionaire
and a bri de Of but n few months. has Just packed
her trousseau OF twelve costly Partisan gowns,
loaded them into a freight car on the Kansas
Cit", Fcrt Scott and Memphis road in this CITY,
and taken M her residences In the car with her
Young husband. Though Mr.. Hammond was
but a section hand on the railroad during tho
several months Of their residence here, they
lived in good ST. 10, and their recent departure
ia an Incident from which Fort Scott society can
hardly recover.
The romance that eliminated in the marriag Q
81 MIR. and Mrs. Hammond last fall is less inter-
c-tiag than the unique circumstances attending
their early married life. Millionaire Barrett Of
Butte TOOK his wife and daughter 10 Hot Springs,
Ark, early last fall to spend the winter. The
daughter was but ~ wears old and fairly pretty.
Thee took apartments at the Park Hotel. Young
| Hammond. who is the son Of General Superin-
tendent n. H.. Hammond OF the Kansas city,
Fort Scott and Memphis road. was at Hot
Springs recuperating from an injury sustained
in a runaway He had been an operator for
Plains, Mo,
At the hotel he met Miss Barrett and they be-
! rUTe friends. A mutual affection deyelored
with unconventional rapidltv. Her rarents
frowned upon him, but without avail. Finally
the" consented to a marriage and concluded
10 make the best Of the circumstaces bv giving
an elaborate. wedding az the hotel. A trous-
seau was ordered from one OF the fashionable
modistes in Paris, and n was one the richness Of
which was beyond the anticip alton Of most
fashionable brides, That they were to be worn
in a few short months by q section hands wife
or 10 occupy a wardrobe In a box car was most
foreign Of all tho thoughts OF the expectant
| CuuTlc.
But meantime something happened that
formal rIi Wedding rec s!' md tRRaa e order 20 for HeT an os, tens
tatious service al the hotel was oounterrnnndcd.
Nobody hero seem. 10 know what this some
thing wns. Young Hammond and his afaanced
were not pleased with this change and shortly
thereafter they. were clandestinely married
at one Of the other hotels. Mr.. and Mrs Bar
They Immediately went TO the Arlington Ho-
tel, and, il il aid, refused 10 zee the daughter
II is understood that they have not only 70 =
her, but that they have d. inherited her
After their marriage Mr, and Mrs. Ham
mond went to Kansas, City. His father was
equally d ~ PRO tea by the marriaae. md
on condition that he commence OF the bottom
of the railroad business ard master 1t by hard,
yc"ns lHi sSR%eaa. and dS he w sss assignee. Isrssf to 10 q .1 by
lion gang in this CITY under Foreman sullivan.
II was understood. OF course. that he was 10
be- "dy nnG as RAPIDLY as practicable lie
to the foreman over a gang Of q dozen or 0ftecn
section men with salary about the same rs a
section hand Every workday for months
be was seen with The e nng at work In the yards
on a load OF dirt or ballast some one would point
him out to an interested company Of spectators
lie wore ,%oterailsi a jumper and a broad
brimmed hat, and was soon smoking a cob
pipe, but was easily distinguished from the
other lection men by his more refined features;
While he was thus engaged Mrs. Hammond
was 81 their apartments in a fashionable
boarding house. receiving some callers and