The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-27
,JUNE ROSES OF BANKING.
GEORGIA OUTFIT or BRIDES. FAIR
GIRLS AND BACHELORS IN Town.
Looks ss II TAsrs Might BE Two More Brides.
suddenly - To-day tho Domestico- Fiscal
Tourists Will visit the Stock Exchange
IA GreHnHoad GemefsrH After ward.

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suddenly - To-day tho Domestico-F Fiscal
Tourists Will visit the Stock Exchange
To Greenwood Cemetery Afterward.
Chief Banker W. s. Witham Of Georgia led
hs personally conducted bank tour yesterday
showing his young bankers and their fair com
panions all Of the city that they could reason
sbly s1pect to see In ono day. Mr.. Williams
uuty Is ono Of the most curious aggregations
in its make-up that ever landed in the metrop-
oils. It consists OF the cashiers OF the thirty
two Georgia banks OF which MIR. Witham 10
President. the superintendents OF the nine
Georgia cotton mills which he owns and enough
other employees Of his, with the assistance
o, Ave bankers brides and tho maidens whom
Mr.. Witham is anxious to marry To his bachelor
cashiers, to mako up the total oil III excur-
~sionists. Toto fair" is the motto OF the Wltham
banks and that is what Combination President
Witham 10 doing with his tourists:
For several days the party have been at
Asbury Park. admiring the surf and the merry
so-rounds and Founder Bradley and other
picturesque adjuncts OF the place. Early
Yesterday morning they shook the sand from
their feet. boarded their special train and came
to this city. going directly 10 the Gnsey House.
All were swiftly assigned to rooms and were
told that they had ten minutes to wash up in.
after which they were to have luncheon and
advance In serried ranks upon Central Park.
MIR. Withain reported nil We'll and said that there
were thirteen acoessions to the party who had
come In late. There were still only five bridal
COUPLES, he added. although he had seemed
to discern at Asbury Park indications OF at
traction that pointed to an increase In the
l. d., nA HatIt NJ fha
party was ready aud willing to perform the
marriage m nt a moments notice'
Mr.. Withain Is an earnest believer. In early
matrimony and hopes 10 get rid Of all his bache-
lor cashiers without losing a man.
After luncheon the party descended upon
S Se%u,ils t q that spG psee rSdS,TDsal Yi%ocsiliy. They
furnished much occupation to the puIVeyors
ofcompressed rides in public vehicles and drove
keeping all the rigs close together. They had
6esn explicitly warned, they said, OF the perls
II being lost IN New YORK and wNeneUer tbey
iTsv became uneasy At the Metropolttan
Museum of Art they got out and walked around
and asked about the building and other thing.
When the party got ready to reeIlbark, Two
pairs were found to be missing; Everybody
else Immediately lifted up his OF her, voice ana
called upon those missing ones untl the PARK
rang with their names n an tne I is,ss one IN q of
the couples appeared. followed shortly after
by the other. The first coupls explained that
they had happened upon a shady dell and being
much reminded Of Georgia by it had wandered
around several turninss until they lost then
way and had TO appeal to 9 policeman Inc
second pair, not think ing 81 anything better,
said that that was what had happened TO them
too, The Chief Banker Observed that he sup
posed so and he advised the Rev. DR., Heidi 10
make n note OF their names for future use.
Next on the programme was a visit to Grants
Tomb, where the view Of the river was con-
scientiously pointed ont, and then they con-
tinued nor,hward TO High Bridge. Turning to
the southwark from there they passed through
almost the entire length Of the city until they
found themselves at the Battery listening to
The imnassioned oretory Of the man who barks
for the Redlow's Island boat The Goddess OF
Iiberty was their destination and as they passed
var tbo waves Of the bny they turned To their
Sneciel nrogrammes of the trip and read the
lines which, IL Is said, the Chief Banker adapted
from Svinburne: