The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-03
WILL Be AN EDEN
Il. T. WILSON, JR.'S. PLACE TO BE
MADE BEAUTIFUL.
FIANCEE HELPED HIM PLAN.
HOW THEY WILL IMPROVE THE
MAY RIVER NECIN PLACE.

Cupid VIII DO Service as Land
scape Gardener-Dream of the
Lovers Have Depicted a spot Most
BcautifuI-Tbc Estate VIII Re
Marked by Every Comfort and
COnN eniencc-DeaHt Miss Mar
ion Mason of Boston Is 10 BE Mrs
Il. Il. Wilson, Jr.-Shc Is Called
1.-THE Duchess" Because of Her
Beauty. and Her striking Resem-
bIamcc to the Pictures of Gains
borough.
Cupid seems about to offer himself as
landscaper for identifying and en-
bellishing the estate on May river neck,
near Button, S. c., recently
purchased by Mr.. r. r. Will
son, Jr., of New York from Col.
j. H. Estil. When courtship has been
sweetest and fondest. the little blind
god has long been wont to listen TO
the plans of loving youth and maid,
who have gone over time and again
the picture of beauty, comfort and
freshness that has shown for them in
promise as the home that is to be ideal
lied by their affection. This custom
of Cupid has not been forsaken, and
he to-day plays in his old role.
Mr.. Wilson and his fiancee. accord
ing to the New York Journal, are now
INDUCING in dream of bliss in which
the South Carolina estate is to be no
mean factor. The engagement of Mr.
Wilson to Miss Marion Mason of Bos-
ton, heiress to $2OOOO,OOO. has been an
nounced, and the Journal of yester-
day had the following romance of
courtship:
1T was at Newport that Richard r.
Wilson, Jr., became acquainted with
Miss Mason. four years ago.
Young Mr.. Wilson was not very
fond of society, to the grief of many
an aspiring mamma of unmarried
daughters. He cared more for athletics
and his horses than for the Casino
functions and the midsummer nights
balls.
But he found in Miss Mason a kin
dred spirit, She loved horses. She
could hold the whip and reins over the
most spirited high steppers.
she loved nature, too and the young
sportsman found her a most eager lis
tener to his tales of riding and hunt
ing, and other outdoor pastimes.
When the two young people met in
New York drawing rooms in the WIN
ter, they had ideas to exchange instead
of society chaff to prattle about
He had more serious interests than
many young clubmen who lhovered
n hnl f14.r
taking an important and very active
part in the conduct of his fathers
banking house.
Miss Mason he found sympathetic
companion, and he told her many of
his plans. chief of which was to con-
vert his island off the South Carolina
coast into an ideal dream.
1T should be an Eden, a model COM
munity, where picturesque houses
should be builded for the families from
old Holland, whom he would bring over
TO occupy them. There should be a
great game preserve and a stock farm
and garden that should be tropical
in its luxuriance
The girls eye frightened and her
voice grew yet more musical as the
TWO laid out that garden. he with his
practical ideas and she with her artis-
tic taste
1t looked very real as she deftly
sketched it out on paper with its
fountains, It's palms and it's rose gar
uens-out 1t was a garden of dreams.
ana the rosy little Cupid that never
grows old whispered that the roses IN
that garden must have a queen whose
cheek should rival their own bushes
SO Richard Wilson told the happy
girl that she had long been queen Of
ms heart and that the garden was all
for her.
Then came the formal announce
ment OF their engagement the other
dag. ''e'
The outcome of it all will be an
Easter wedding in Boston, at Trinity
Shurch, with Bishop Lawrence oficiat-
ing, Boston's most blue blooded so
ciety in attendance and such an army
OF Astor, Vanderbilt and Goelet Wis
tors as the Puritan capital has never
seen before"
OI the engagement the Journal saws:
VINO brought about the romance
ana engagement Of Boston's beauty.
Maroon Mason, and the rich Young.
Richard T. Wilson of New York?
did 1T, says the sly little god of
love did it with my bow and arrow.
But the smart workings among
New Yorks 400" and Boston's Back
Bay set, who don't believe there is anv
such thing as a winged Cupid, with a
culver OF darts, any more than they be-
i've In Santa Claus, point to another
cause.
1t is the latest achievement-the
ntth splendid marital coup d'etat-of
Mrs. Richard T. Wilson. the great
matchmaker they say in club corners
and boudoirs.
Then they sum up the long list of
marriages by which Mrs. Wilson has
united her sons and daughters with the
Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Goelets,
the richest three old families in the
new world and even add to all this a
brilliant foreign title
AFTER making family alliances with
the greatest landed estates and finan-
cial Interests of New York. a relation
snip is now to be established with one
OF the Oldest richest and most blue
FLOODED families of Boston and New
England"
The Journal rounds out it's story by
publishing pictures OF the Wilson FAM
lily and OF the beautiful prospective
bride. who has pseudonym OF THE
duchess won through her striking re-
semblance 10 the peeress who gave her
name to the Famous hat This likeness
is vivid when Miss Mason is crowned
with a Gainsborough hat.
-s-e-s
Atlanta Woman Has TrfpIets
Atlanta. Feb. Mrs. Moses Barber
wife Of a factory hand at the Exnosi.
ton Cotton Mills yesterday. gave BIRTH
70 triplets, three boys, weighing eight