Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-26
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saving of time if he could be nearer her when he wanted to use the phone. It isn't necessary to recount right here that perhaps there were other influ. ences that caused his decision. At any rate, on the very next day there appeared on the register of the Grand Union the name "E R. Whit ney, Montreal" He took an expensive suite and the Astor House knew him no more.
 Devotion Itself. :. Every day found MT. Whitney at tho Central office of the Grand Union ho- | tel. Nobody could satisfy his wants aD could Miss Bennett. They chatted i pleasantly enough while he was wait- ing for his calls and finally the day. came when the elderly millionaire ven1 tured to ask Miss Bennett if he might take her to the theater after her days work. <.
 If you meet my father and mother and they are willing," she said. very frankly.
 Nothing better" responded MT. Whitney heartily, and that evening found him a caller over in Greenpoint at No. 213 Nassau avenue. It was no mansion that he found. Instead, Miss Bennett's home proved to be very modest little three-story wooden flat-house.
 The Bennetts-father, mother and three sisters-lived on the top floor at that. Mir. Whitney found further that Miss Bennett's two sisters, Alice and Jennie, like herself were telephone op- orators, and that T. V. Bennett, the father of the three sweet-faced girls, was foreman in the Fleischmann yeast factory at Greenpoint
 The First Theater Party.
 There was a very pleasant call, and at ten p. m. MT. Whitney went back to his hotel in Manhattan. Next even- ing hansome cab dashed up in front of the modest flat-house. and out of 1t stepped Mir. Whitney. Now, cabs are not over numerous in Nassau avenuA Greenpoint. and the neighbors won. dered. They didn't have long to won. der, because out of the house came pretty Miss Bennett in her daintiest dress and was handed into the cab by the gallant MT. Whitney. There was a delightful theater party for two in Manhattan. a little tete-a-tete supper afterward, and then the cab took the pretty telephone girl back to Green. point.
 With this as beginning, the resl was easy. There came an automobile sometimes, and as often other han. soms. Messenger boys delivered fiow. CTS and notes. Occasionally a jewellers , clerk brought something in . tiny vel. vet box to No. 213 Nassau avenua Greenpoint. where jewellers clerks sre seldom seen.
 Then the Proposal. Of course, all this attention meant but one thing-a proposal. Last weeh it came. and on Saturday evening when Miss Bennett put on her hat and wrapo at the end of the days work she not. fled the hotel management that she had done her last days work.
 T am to be married" she added.
 That very same Saturday Mir. Whit. ney went to the office of the CranA Union hotel and asked for his bill. He paid it and, calling a cab, drove over to the Hotel Astor, Forty-fourth street and Broadway, where he took suite No. 3o5. There he is now, getting ready for his wedding.
 Loyal to Old Friends.
 In her prosperity Miss Bennett hae not forgotten her less fortunate friends of her hello" days. The bridesmaid at the wedding is to be Miss Ida Schwindt, another telephone operator who presides at the switchboard oe the Park Avenue hotel MT. Whitney has handed her handsome check to provide herself with a bridesmand's gown. But of this or of her elderly fiance's wealth Miss Bennett will not speak.
 Telephone Gossip.
 There are certain things which at ths other telephone girls in New York have heard. but which none of the interested parties will confirm Call up any Gen. tral." and she will tell you the gossip. These are. that Mir. Whitney has already settled s100.0oo upon Mfr. Bennett anl that he and her father were present at the signing of the papers: that her we'd ding gift will be a s90so automobile: that Miss Schvindt has received Ssoo fup her bridesmaids dress and a diamond cluster ring for souvenir. and that Nr. Whitney himself is one of New Yorkb new unknown miIlionaires.
 Mr. Whitney doesn't look his yeara He is powerfully built. more than sag feet tall and has apparently many yeaO vet to live He is as sprishtly and ses tentive as a man half his years- Ho made his loney in asphalt end lMDp