New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-20
q HECKSCHER WEDS.
Mo,,oy<s Fnther-ia-LGs0 Kept THIRD
MARRIAGE Secret.

,-,ss 90 Tohn Gerard HecASchsr. secretary OF
++a New-Yorfz Horse Show Associadon' NeIo So
l., s,1rprised when Il became KNOWN EeoIe't1'-' =,
ne Rad married for the third time Mr' HechSonS
about seventy years old OF nus DEiDo' WIZ q C,,,at
t,rentv-three almost nothing ia knoWn- So
1as the matter kept that, although Mr. HeckscnsE
and his wife have been living at MS hOinss w -
wegt 7Uth-st-, for about q year. DIE ua'se
,1snds did not know of the marriage anu tnoEe O.
,v+r considerable doubt II even his daugncsrs MIS-
rTC1,Ia 44a ~ the Mayor and Mrs, Egerton l.
1T,n+bron Or know his BRIDE They did not attend
the wedding ~.
when Mr.. and Mrs Heckscher learned that the
fact of their marriage had become public they 10
serted their home, going to the Mario A1'Oiiieo''
where thew did not register, hoping to escape
notice There they kept their rooms. aPsolutely
refusing to see visitors. and before night tney mao
moved secretly to another hotel leaving no cIe~
70 their preseut whereabouts, Mr.. Heckscher had
requested his immediate associates who kne" OF
his marriage not TO speak about 1t
About a year ago Mr. Heckscher brought to his
home a slight blue eyed, fair haired girl, and IN
troduced her TO the servants as Mrs Heckscher' 10
their intense astonishnent She assumed charge
of the house, seldom going out and rarely receiving
visitors.
Mr. Heckscher in August sold his house IN 18th
St and bought a new one at No. 1s West Ssth-st.
larger and more preteutious- He and his young
wife are preparing now to move into this new
home.
family. He fought through the Cfv1 War, retiring
with the rank Of f1rst lieutenant. His first wife
Miss Whitney, granddaughter Of Stephen
Whitney the well known merchant. and a woman
OF considerable means. By her hs had two daugh-
ters the present Mrs. Mcclellan and Mrs. Win
throp, Jr.
One OF Mr.. Heokscheras closest friends Sras Harry
Winthrop Gray. who had married Marie. daughter
of William R. Travsrs. Gossip connected the
names OF Mr. HsokscheF and MrS Gray. The man
met day IN front OF the Union Club and had
fierce 1st fight, which led to OhalsnSs They
each other at the outskirts of the city Gray fred
first and missed Mr. Heckscher bred into tho
her maiden name went to 1--we with her people
and dropped out of society for eighteen years
Then, Mrs Heckschsr having died Mr; HeokscheT
in Philadelphia In 1895 she died from canoer.
Since then Mr.. Heokscher has lived much at clubs.
member OF numerous clubs and has always taken
great part in sporting affairs. He was one Of
winter he run down in the ring and badly
trampled- At that time he went TO a hotel down
town and kept hts whereabouts secret even from
At the Marie Antoinetts Hotel last night it was
declared that Mr.. and Mrs Hecksoher had departed
other part of the city The hotsl people said that
they knew nothing OF the marriage or Of the idsn-
4 friend OF the horsenan, who called at the hotel
to see him last evening found him gone, had the
reporters He declared that Mrs Hsckscher was
relatives for some time at No. 70 west sSth-st'
which is an apartment house on the corner OF
an aged aunt and young girl who was said to be
her daughter. Her given name, he said, was vir-
ginia. but he did not know her maiden name In
made showed that a Mrs. Virginia Otis had
lived there some time ago. and that her relatives
had removed to another part OF tho city only fey
weeks