Evening star., 1900-06-30

ana daughter to Hot Springs, Ark.S<Sarty
last fan to spend the Ntnter. Tbsdaugh-
ter was but nineteen yeaHa- -old/and fairly
pretty. They took apartments at the Park
Hotel. Young Hammond, who IL the son
Of General superintendent H H. Hammond
of the Kansas City, Fort Sc0tt and Mem
phis road, was at Hot Springs recuperating
from an injury sustained in runaway.
He had been an operator for the railway
Mo.
At the hotel he met Miss Barrett and
they became friends A mutual affection
developed with unconventional rapidity.
out avail. Finally they consented to a
marriage and concluded to make the best
OF the circumstances by giving an elaborate
wedding at the hotel. A trousseau was
fstes in Paris, and 1T was one the richness
of which was beyond the anticipation of
most fashionable brides. That they were
to be worn in a few short months by sec
ton hands wife or to occupy a wardrobe in
a box car was most foreign of all the
thoughts of the expectant couple.
But meantime something happened that
caused Miss Barrett's parents to desire
less formal wedding and the order for an
ostentatious service at the hotel was coun-
fernandez. Nobody here seems to know
what this something was. Young Ham
mond and his affianced were not pleased
with this change and shortly thereafter
they were candestinely married at one of
the other hotels. Mr.. and Mrs. Barrett
They Immediately went to the Arlington
Hotel. and, 1t is said. refused to see the
daughter. 1t is understood that they have
not only persstently refused to see her
or correspond with her. but that they have
disnherited her.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ham
mond 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 railroad business and
master it by hard. actual experience. This
was agreed to by young Hammond. and
he was assigned to a section gang in this
city under Foreman Sullivan. 1t was un-
derstood, of course, that he was to be ad-
vanced as rapidly as practicable. He was
made straw boss" assistant to
the foreman over a gang of a dozen or
fifteen section men, with salary about the
same as section hand. Every workday
for months he was seen with the gang at
work in the yards here and every time he
rode by the station on load of dirt or
ballast some one would point him out to
an Interested company of spectators. He
wore overalls. a jumper and a broad-brim-
med hat, and was soon smoking cob pipe.
but was easily distinguished from the
other section men by his more refined fea-
lures.
While he was thus engaged Mrs. Ham
mond was at their apartments in fash
ionable boarding house. receiving some
callers and refusing to see some. whom she
disdainfully declared as beneath her social
ladies of the city went to see her. Not a
few of them were attracted through curl
osity, doubt, and this fact may have
caused her to seem less anpreciative of
the attentions shown her. She declined all
invita- tions out. but was frequently seen
at the theater in gowns that invariably
proved a greater attraction for feminine
eyes than the scenes on the stage.
Recently young Hammond concluded that
he had learned the business of road making
and his father made him second man in au-
thority on a work train which is now sta
toned at Garland. Kan. cutting down a
grade. small box car was fitted up for
him especially a living car. Ventilation
windows were cut in IL and Il bright coat
of red was applied Its interior conven-
fences are very crude. but the young
son of the general superintendent and his
fashionable young wife have adapted them
selves to the circumstances and expect TO
make it their home until he merits another
promotion. They have no other apart
ments and carry all their personal effects
with them.