The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-11

ness were the exception, and she made a fortune.
 About twelve years ago she married Charles B, Waite, a former alderman and the son of Charles Waite, who was proprietor of the Brevoort House and the Windsor Hotel when those two hostelries were considered the first ho- tels in the country.
 The Waites were the typical Ameri- can family of the globe-trotting type. They travelled all over Europe mother. children and servants-spend- ing days or weeks at any place that took their fancy, and when the boys were old enough to go to Yale they used ito invite their classnate chums to 'come over to Paris and spend the summer in our apartments while fath- CT and mother are in Norway'-or wherever they happened to be.
 Over all this happy, care free life of pleasure and enjoyment hung the ban of tragic death, and one by one the young and old sucoumbed to it, until now thtere is left only thte eldest son the husband of the woman killed on Sunday morning-and his young daughter.
 The first break in the family was a tragedy of the most poignant kind. Charlie Waite, the man who has just been widowed, was twenty-one years old. He and his sister, an accom- plished girl of twenty-five, sailed for France on one of the innumerable trips abroad that the various mem bers of the family were always taking They sailed on the ill-fatea Vile du havrc which went down in mid ocean with tremendous loss of life The sister and brother with others, were waiting to get into one of the last boats being lowered when the mast fell, carrying to death most of those on the swaying deck. Julia Waite was among these unfortunates.
 Charlie Waite was q strong swimmer and found himself battling in the waves. Near him, their light bodtites buoyed up by their clothes, were two children with when he had frolicked during the voyage. He managed to [ with one hang to his callar The other he told to slip her hand through his belt The children did as they were told, and in this way the young man swan through the darkness and the waves.
 After a while the little hand grasp ing his collar relaxed its hold.T The oth- CT child held on a while longer, and then slipped back to death in the waves. The man was picked up by 9 boat. He had been swimming and floating a whole night.
 A steamer rescued the boatload of hah-crazed survivors and landed them in France. Charles Waites message to his father was the first ntews re- ceived in this country of the disaster, which had no parallel until the sinking of the La Bourgogne eight years ago, The head of the Waite family, the weli-known hotel man, died few years later, stricken down in the night as he and his family were preparing tc sail for France.
 Then came the deatth of the second daughter, a girl Of eighteen, who was i'll but a few hours from heart disease This was followed by thte d eathof the youngest son, clever and charming man, who without warning or appa- rent reason went mad and few months later died in an asylum. An. other son and the first wife of thte man just bereft, also died suddenly and the youngest daughter, who lived with her mother in Paris, was snatched away after short illness during which she was obliged to be separated from her mother owing tc tho age and feebleneSs of the latter.
 And now Lillian Hurd Waite Is dead suddenly, tragically stricken by the ban, which like some curse of old times, seems to rest upon the afflicted family Into which she married.-New York Globe.