New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
SILENT SMITHS
WIDOW A BRIDE;
WEEDS SECRETLY
Suddenly Marries Jean H.
Saint Cyr at White
Sulphur Springs.
HIS FIRST WIFE
DIED IN JANUARY
Friends Surprised and Couple
Quit West Virginia Resort
Without Explanation.

Mrs. James Henry Smith. widow OF
"Silent" Smith. was secretly married
yesterday afternoon at White Sulphur
Springs, Va. Jean X. f. Saint Cyr. Of
this city. was the bridegroom. Mr..
Saint Cyr's first wife died AT Yonkers
on New Years Day and left him more
than 81 .OOOoO
Mrs. Smith was first married IN 1919.
She has daughter. the former Anita
Stewart. wife OF Prince Miguel de
Bragan1s, OF Austria. and pretender TO
the throne OF Portugal, who is said to
be- older than yesterdays bridegroom.
She is also the mother Of grown son,
william,
Mr. Saint Cyr 4. about twenty-eight
years old. Three years ago he mar
ried Mrs May Redfeld. wealthy
widow. OF % HUDSON Terrace. North
Yonkers. who was at the time OF her
marriage about sixty years old. When
she died she left him her fortune. and
he has since lived in the stately man
sion, a close neighbor Of former Con-
gressman John f. Andrus. Little ia
known about him in Yonkers, except
that he is said to be broker. He is
well known at Newport and other So
cal resorts.
At the home Of Mrs. Smiths son.
William Rhinelander Stewart, No. ID
East Fiity-seventh street. II was said
last night that no announcement of
the wedding WAS to be made. Mr..
Stewart refused to either confirm or
denv that the ceremony had been per-
formed.
The home of Mr.. Saint Cyr. in North
Yonkers, last night was dark. and there
was no response 10 repeated rings.
Neighbors stated that Mr.. Saint Cyr
had been away for some time.
The announcement OF their marriage
came as a great surprise TO the New
York society colony at the West Nlr-
gina resort. That they contemplated
such u step was unknown even TO their
most intimate friends. They disap-
peared from the hotel az the Springs
together Yesterday afternoon, and a
short time afterward returned, both ra-
diantly happy They invited party OF
their intimateS TO accompany them 70
the depot and there announced that
they had been married.
Mrs. Smith arrived az the Springs
about month ago from this city.
A few DAYS after her arrival Mr..
Saint Cyr reached there. Since then
they have been together almost con-
stantly. with the exception of a snort
time that Mrs. Smith vas confined TO
her room by illness. They motored
and rode horseback together, and at
the few cotillons held since their ar
rival there they were inseparable
Mrs. Smith was before her first mar
riage Miss Annie Armstrong. beauti-
ful Baltimore belle. and the daughter
Of John A. Armstrong, Of that city.
She is an elder sister OF Mrs. Anthony
J. Drexel.
Since the death Of her husband Mrs
Smith has lived mostly in London. She
inherited S3,OOO,000 from the estate o.
her husband. Other specific beGuests
amounting to S6.300,000 were made by
Mr.. Smith. and his nephew. George
Grant SasOn, received two-tnlrds OF
the residuary estate.
II was reported IN 1910 tha' Yrs
Smith was engaged 10 marry Barlow
Van Voorhs. of New York, who was
in the habit of passing much OF his
time abroad. The report came from
London. and Mrs. Smith promptly
cabled from Paris that it was not true.
Mr.. Saint Cyr's first wife was the
widow Of Henry Alexander Redheld. a
banker. of Hartford. Conn. Before her
marriage she was Miss Caroline Peck,
of Macon. Ga. sister of the Countess
de Nasi. a lady y-in-waiting to the En-
press Eugene.
While attending the debut party Of
Miss Margaret Elias al the Waldorf
Astoria last December Mrs. SAINT Cyr
collapsed she died in the hotel Of
pneumonia three weeks later. on last
New Years Day.