The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-02
HEIRESS WEDS
HARVARD Man
Elopemant Was Sequel 10 Ro.
mantle Sojourn In Country.
GROOM IS "iL0NDY" GaAYD0N
School Mistress Sent Girl to Country for
Punishment and She Met Handsome
Football Player.
GROOM IS "lLONDY" GaAYDON

San Francisco. July "A telegram re-
oeived here Tuesday announced the mar
riage of Beryl Whitney, the beautiful
daughter OF Millionaire j. Parker Whit
ney, OF Rocklyn, 10 Thomas H. Gray
don. the Harvard fullback They were
married in the east The news was un-
expected to Miss whitney's family and
friends.
The Whitneys are very wealthy and
have been extremely indulgent with
their children. of whom there are a
number, including Parker whitney whose
recent elopment with Daisy Parrott
startled San Francisco society.
The Whitneys have a home in Boston
and another in Chicago. and Mr.. Whit
ney has a great ranch and mines In
California. The family has passed much
time in New York. II is said that Miss
Whitnew will some day inherit $500 900.
Mr.. Graydon was graduated from Har-
ward this year. He was called "Blondy'
when he was not called Tom" I'm coll
1cge and he was immensely popular.
He was one of the greatest football
players that Harvard ever produced.
Originally tackle. he afterward played
fulback equally well. He weighed 100
pounds In condition. is more than six
feet tall and he was called the hand
soonest man in Cambridge.
SLIPPED OUT TO BUY CANDY.
The whttney-Grayton romance began
at the Misses Ely school on Riverside
drive. In New York city, where Mss
Whitney went when she was thirteen
years old One day last November Miss
Madeline Walcott, daughter OF John w
walcott. the millionaire shoe manufac-
turer OF Natick. Mass. and cousin OF
the late Gov. Walcott. OF Massachusetts:
Miss Elizabeth Joyce. Andover. Mass.
and Miss Beryl Whitney slipped out or
school and went downtown 10 buy candy.
1t Is also charged that they met some
young men.
For this offense the Misses Ely de-
cided 10 ''rusticate' the offenders. They
were sent TO Sharon Springs. Conn. IN
charge of Miss Leila Moxley II was
exceedingly dull in Sharon Springs and
the young women longed for excite
ment. They found II.
Miss Walcott who was 16 and had been
In the Ely school for only a month was
the leader OF the trio, although the other
girls were year older than she Miss
Walcott telephoned 10 A O. Perkins. a
youth OF 10. who was student in Phillips
academy at Andover and ne came 10
phoned to Graydon. who was then at the
Imperial hotel I'm New York. that she was
at Sharon and suggested that he come
there.
Graydon appeared in Sharon Springs as
Miss Whitney's brother, and the manner
In which he reproved his sister" for
her conduct was most remarkable. lie
was invited TO stay in the cottage, which
is owned by l. n. Bertram.
LOVING BROTHER
He went away after few days. and
then II transpired that he was not Miss
whitneys brother. His devotion to the
young girl made Miss Moxley suspicious
Then. II was said al the time. Miss Whit
ney made this declaration:
''It doesn't make any difference, Miss
6oxley. II he isn't my brother ] might
a. we'll tell you that Mr.. Graydon and
are engaged and l should think that an
engaged girl might be allowed 10 see the
young man she Is going TO marry.
don't care what Miss Ely thinks. Just
ss soon as Tom lis graduate ted and papa
gives his consent we intend to be married.
and you needn't speak rudely OF Mr.
Graydon, because ] invited him here my
eelf and told him 10 say he was my
brother"
The climax at Sharon Springs came
when Miss Walcott persuaded Thaddeus
johnson, Mr.. Bertram's butler. 10 place
q ladder at her window and I'm the dead
or night she and the other girls climbed
down. They went 10 the Sharon Inn and
tried 20 arouse Perkins. but failed. and
this made no end OF talk. although the
prank was innocent enough.
Miss Walcott was expelled from the
school and the other girls were disci-
pinned.