Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-07-09
SENSATION FOR 'FRIsco's SMART
SET.
ROMANTIC ACQUAINTANCE
Pretty Miss Beryl Whitney, Daughter
of Millionaire j. Parker Whitney,
Becomes the Bride of tom"
Graydon, Famous Athlete Just Out
of Harvard.


gram announced the marriage of Beryl
Whitney. Li.e beautiful daughter OF
Millionaire ]. Parker Whitney OF
Rocklin, to Thomas H. Graydon, the
Harvard fullback. they were married
in the east. The news was unex-
pected to Miss Whitney's family and
friends.
The Whitneys are very wealthy and
have been extremely indulgent with
their children, of whom there are
number, including Parker Whitney,
whose recent elopement with Daisy
Parrot startled San Francisco society.
The Whitneys have home in Bos-
ton and another in Chicago, and Mr..
Whitney has a great ranch and mines
in California The family has passed
much time in New York. 1t is said
that Miss Whitney will some day in
herit 100000.
Mr.. Graydon was graduated from
Harvard this year. He was called
"Blondy" when he was not called
tom" in college, and he was i'm
mensely popular. He was one of the
greatest football players that Harvard
ever produced. Originally tackle, he
afterward played fullback equally
we'll He weighed $50 pounds in con-
dition, is more than six feet tall and
he was called the handsomest man in
Cambridge.
The Whitney-Graydon romance be-
gan at the Misses Ely's school on
Riverside drive, in New York city,
where Miss Whitney went when she
was 10 years old. One day last No
vember Miss Madeline Walcott,
daughter of John w. Walcott, the
millionaire shoe manufacturer of
Natick, Mass, and a cousin of the
late Governor Walcott of Massachu-
sets; Miss Elizabeth Joyes of Andover.
Mass, and Miss Beryl Whitney
slipped out of school and went down
town to buy candy. 1t is also charged
that they met some young men.
For this offense the Misses Ely de-
cided to "rustieate" the offenders.
They were sent to- Sharon Springs,
Conn, in charge of Miss Leila Monkey.
1t was exceedingly dull in Sharon
Springs and the young women longed
for excitement They found it.
Miss Walcott, who was 49, and who
had been in the Ely school for only
month. was the leader of the trio, al
thought the other girls were a year
older than she. Miss Walcott tele-
phoned to A. G. Perkins, youth OF
10, who was as student in Phillips
academy at Andover and he came to
phoned to Graydon, who was then at
the Imperial hotel in 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. He was invited to stay in
the cottage, which is owned by |. NJ
Bertram. He went away after a few
days, and then it transpired that he
was not Miss Whitney's brother. His
devotion to the young girl made Miss
Monkey suspicious.
Then, it was said at the time. that
Miss Whitney made this declaration:
cit doesn't make any difference. Miss
Monkey, if he isn't my brother. | may
as well tell you that Mr.. Graydon and
are engaged. and I should think
that an engaged girl should be al
lowed to see the young men she is
going to marry, don't care what Miss
Ely thinks. Just as soon as Tom is
graduated and papa gives his consent,
we intend to be married, and you
needn't speak rudely of Mr. Graydon.
because I invited him here myself.
and told him to say he was my
brother"
The climax at Sharon SPRINGS came
when Miss Walcott persuaded
Thaddeus Johnson, Mr.. Bertram's
butler. to place ladder at her win
dow and in the dead of night she and
the other girls climbed down. They
went to the Sharon Inn and tried to
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
disciplined.