The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-23
THE ROMANCE
OF A SHREWD
BUSINESS WOMAN

kAOJI nance IN business2 Mrs. Athole
X/ Burnett Reader would prove
to you that there is, for she
became Mrs Reader only as
tEe elimination Of most interesting love
aiLair which was due solely to a business
transaction.
Ihis pretty and clever young woman
was formerly Miss Eleanor Rawls and was
porn IN Marion. Ala. where her father
was distinguished physician. Miss Ravls
went to New York about seven years ago
and opened typewrlting Office. She soon
mad in her employ some forty nersons
and turned out work for large clientele.
- was not long before she gained the con-
Huenoe OF a number of prominent Wal
street men and assisted in promoting
some large financial deals.
Two years ago she was sent to London
oy syndicate to conduct a very. fmporf-
ant negotiation The representative ~
the other syndicate was Mr.. Ath9le Bur.
nett Reader.
For days and days they argued and d.
puted over their business arrangement
MI Reader had thought when he found
a woman opposed to him that he was 80
sured an easy victory. but he quickly die
covered his error. He could not gain the
advantage at single point No matter
now eieVerly he argued, Miss Rawls fash
ca pack at him an equally keen and con-
VineinS answer. In fact. when the neQo-
uauons were finally completed he found
mat he had come out of the deal rather
worse than he had expected. fer beside
losing his point he had lost his Heart
All the while Nrfe-
hghung him his admiration for her bsd
Deeh increasing, and he found when the
zeal was completed that he had a much
more serious one on hand and one which
ne vowed he should win This, however
proved simple matter, for Cupid ba5
been playing third hand at their former
game. Miss Rawls had found as much IN
Mr. Reader TO love as he had found in her
Ihey therefore became secretly engaged.
Or. Houghton, of "the Little Church
Around the Corner" IN New York .io5
the knot on November Q, but as Mr.
Reader was obliged to return to England
the following day, the double announce
ment OF engagement and wedding was not
maze until about three weeks ago. whe,
ne returned to America to claim ais bride
Reader Is a son Of the late Colonel n
T. Reader, late Of his Majestv's TveIftb
Lancers, and he has Travelled extensively
IN many quarters Of the globe-New yea
land, Ceylon, Morocco and Peru He fs
member OF the Royal Geographical sooiat,y
OF London He accompanied Sir Charles
Euan Smith as private secretary to No
rocco in 1892, in which country he sDent
several years in diplomatic work, travel
and sport
In 1893 Reader spent several months IN
Ceylon as private secretary to the Gov
ernor, Sir West Ridgeway.
Reader has many business connectfo-s
in London and New York, and is also IN
terested in mines, rubber forests and
other important concessions IL. Perm He
is, however, best known IN the latter eoun-
try as having merged, at his own risk ane
expense, the principal claims of the IA
nous Cerro de Pasco copper and silver
mines, which are destined to become "a
famous and important in the copper WORLD
as the Hecla and Calumet mines IN this
country
The Cerro de Pasco mines were, through
the personal enterprise and local influence
in Peru Of Reader, secured and transferred
to a New York syndicate, headed by such
great millionaires as H Mckay TWombly.
D. o. Mills, Charles r. Flint, J. B. Haggin
and A. W. McCune