The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-01


time. fifteen or twenty years ago, and
IN their young manhood shared their
uncie'S bounty equally he gave each
as a starter to begin life with $4,000,
some have it $250,OOO. He brought VIII
lard II. out here and tried to make a
railroad man out Of him. He gave him
several years trial and then, either be-
cause his taste did not turn that way,
or his uncle found him as he found
George CrOcker, mot scopy enough, -
Willard II. retired from railrOading on
his $50, OO0-or $25O.Ooo-to figure in the
directory a a capitalist, and TO dabble
in real estate. He dabbled with consid-
cradle success and turned his $0O.OOU-
or $3.50. 000-over several times until he
ran well dp to the million mark, or at
least was credited with doing it. He
lived his own life peacefully and in az
huence, being domestic and somewhat
of clubman and dilettante.
H. T. took to railrOading like duck
to water and became nephew
Then Uncle Coils died and left by
way of remembrance 0000 20 Willard
V. and by way of reward $50 coo. 900 TO
H F., and then there came 10 be the
$4,000 Huntingtons and the 100000
Huntingtons, and society began to be
explicit and speak of THE pretty Miss
Huntington" and %the rich Misses
Huntington.
The pretty Miss Huntington" al
though a comparatively poor girl when
contrasted with her ti-millionaire
cousins, is yet in no need of practicing
rigid economy. She Will carry with her
a comfortable cot when she marrieS
and, being the only child, is heiress to
her fathers problematical million.
Nature, perhaps 60 make UP for the
loss of the Huntington millions, has
been Very good TO Miss Edith Marie
Huntington and has given her charms
a orr oil Inn ofo
millions or TO make her Independent of
them. She is one of the prettiest girls
in sOciety-although she is not yet for
mally in society. She was to have
made her debut the last season, but
did not on account of the death of Mr..
Huntington, and only appeared inter
mittently during the season at several
functions.
She is tall and slender and graceful,
with great melting brown eyes, a beau
tifully clear skin and a mass of soft
brown hair to frame her gentle face-a
southern rather than a western type of
beauty. She has been very carefully
and cOnserVatively educated and has
all the pretty accomplishments that
fashionable society demands. She
plays. she sings. she speaks French, she
dances gracefully, her manners have
the Intangible reserve of good breed
ing. she rides well, she swims well, she
plays golf and tennis, she dresses with
stead of displaying them. She is, in
short, charming young gentlewOman,
who finds society delightful and will
be found delightful by society. Her
special forte is music, and she has an
exceedingly sweet voice that is being
cultivated by Michelena.
In the Biyou fiat on Eddy and Frank
lin, that is the Willard V Huntington
city home, the pretty Miss Hunting
ton" is the pet and darling, and when
she formally takes her place in society
as she will next season, she will be
found one of the women made for So
ciety, and for whom society is made
The rich Misses Huntington" num-
Der three, Clara, Elizabeth and Marian,
and they Will be, some day, worth So,
100000 apiece. or more. The rich
Misses Huntington and three simpler
young women less oppressed by the
burden of millions it would be hard to
find.
They dress simply and live simply,
without the pomp and circumstances of
wealth, and only the easy and comfort
it gives, and not one of them is inclined
to be a butterfly of fashion.
They have been reared rather as
though the II. F. Huntington fortune
were a matter of so many thousands
than of millions. They have not been
pampered and governessed and kept
tdDu-AAAE 50 many IlOnGN-DIl1CGSSGS
They have gone to good private schools
and had their chumS and playmates
and grown up natural. unaffected
young women. In their home life they
have close family ties and an atmos-
phere of religion and literature rather
than of form and fashion.
Mr.. Huntington is a religious man,
and the rich Misses Huntington - who
will some day be worth Sc. SOC, O09 apiece.
have been in the habit Of hearing
their father say grace before meat,
have been in the habit of making re-
AgiOn a part of the daily life all their
lives-and that sort of habit even the
Phlllstine viii admit, goes a long way
toward laying sound foundation for
the structure we call character
He is a bookish man, too, who finds
much pleasure in his well selected IL
brary OF some $500 volumes. Mrs
Huntington is a book-IOving woman.
who takes keen delight in coming into
possession OF rare tome as many a
woman would in receiving the very lat
est thing in chiffOns. So the rich Mrs.
Huntington" having been thrown
much with books, has learned. as peo-
pie viii from such a source, that there
are many things we'll worth the while
besides great wealth.
They can afford a retinue of servants.
If they wish, but in spite of that they
nave had to form habits of industry by
performing certain household duties
and services for themselves.
They can afford as many frOcks and
fur-belows as they like, but they have
had to learn neatness and order in the
care of them.
They have, indeed, been brought UP
to be responsible human beings instead
of eXOtics.
For such great heiresses they are very
unusual young women.
In spite of their w ealth that would
let them set the pace for anything. they
do not care to take the Initiative
They do not care to take the lead So
cialIy.
They are not ultra fashionable, and
do not care to set the fashions in their
own set, but contentedIy wear, like
girls of humber fortune, what some one
else has made the fashion.
They do not introduce fads, after the
hum0r of the very rich-noT do they
follow them with the fever of the idle
Their favorable recreation, pleasure
and dissipation, is travel. There is
nothing they enjoy more than being
whisked away in their private car on
sight seeing journeys. They have trav-
eled all over the United States in that
way until they know the east as Wen
as California and the south as well as
the north. They have Travelled through
Mexico as far as the City of Mexico.
They have made one trip abroad and
are now making another that Will car
ry them into Egypt and to all the great
cities of Europe This trip is charac-