The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-29
NOTABLE ENGAGE
MEnT RUM0R[D

the actress, is to marry August Bel
mont has caused no surprise among
the friends OF the two in this city. A
strong friendship has been known to
exist between Miss Robson and Mr.
Belmont for some time. This spring,
before Miss Robson's departure for
Europe, they were to be seen to-
gether almost daily, and Miss Rob-
son was frequently a guest at the
Belmont country place. Her love for
horses is said to have been the COM
mon bond between the couple SINCE
they first met five years ago.
No man in New York is better
known than August Belmont. He Is
| first OF all an aristocrat 1t is claim
ed that the blood OF the canny Scotch
warrior William Wallace flows in his
veins. But the man who can claim
Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the bat
| tie Of Lake Erie, as an ancestor, is
not required to go back to Wallace
for fighting blood.
AS for his paternal ancestors from
the banks of the Rhone, their lives
seem to have flowed in more peace
full and profitable, If scarcely less
honorable, channels. August Bel
mont, father of the present financier.
came to America from Austria in
1914 to represent his native Austria
as consul general in New York. He
liked the young country and decided
to adopt it as his home Afterward
he represented the United States at
The Hague, but finally returned to
| New York, to his bank and his fast
| horses, for even the father OF August
Belmont had taste for the sport of
kings.
! The younger August Belmont was
| born in this city in 1853, and is
therefore almost twice the age of
the young woman he is reported en-
gagged to marry. He decided to fol-
low in his fathers footsteps, and in
| 1875, year after his graduation
| from Harvard, he had taken a desk
in his fathers banking house. For
Is years young August developed
along the lines of the young banker,
joining clubs, cultivating athletics,
getting acquainted with society, to
which he had free entree-becoming
more and more interested in stable
and kennels. He became a judge of
good horse, of fleet or game
hound and an accomplished yachts
man and polo player. Then the ell
der Belmont died. and August Bel
mont, Jr., took up the business Of
his father-became head Of the
banking house of August Belmont &
Co., the American representative of
the great house of Rothschild.
For years August Belmont pursued
the careful way of the conservative
banker, outstanding his millions by
/
them grow and breed and grow
again. But about ten years ago he
embarked in an enterprise that at
tracted worldwide attention. He
organized the Rapid Transit Subway
Construction company. which backed
by the Belmont and Rothschild mill
lions, built New York's undergroun
railway system and later extended it
under the Kast River to Brooklyn.
This was the greatest of Mr.. Bel
mont's financial achievements,
/ though he has many others to his
credit
When a young man Mr.. Belmont
married Miss Bessie Hamilton Nor
gan. who died more than ten years
ago He has three sons-August
Belmont, Jr., Raymond and Morgan.
His city house is in East Thirty
fourth street. and he has a country
place at Hampstead, L. l., which is
the wonder of his neighbors.
Miss Eleanor Robson, the reported
fancee Of Mr.. Belmont, has career
which. though brief, Is brimful Of in
terest. She was born in England 80
years ago, her parents and her
grandmother being players OF dis
| tinction. Her mother. Mrs. Madge
Carr Cook, famous as MRS. Wigs
of the Cabbage Patch" came to this
country to play with the late Roland
Reed, bringing her young daughter
with her. After receiving her educa-
ton in a convent on Staten Island.
Miss Robson, in 1897, decided to
join her parents profession.
| She Joined her mother, who was
then playing with the Frawley COM
pany in San Francisco, and made