The Washington times., 1919-11-23

nance of Miss Dorothy Bateman,
= of Newport, has now reached its
happy climax This fortunate young
woman, who was Newport boarding
house keepers daughter. inherited unex-
peetedly fortune of 100000 and has
now married a distinguished member OF
the fashionable colony, Dr. Horace P. Beck.
with whom she viii enjoy most enviable
position in society's Summer capital.
The 100000 was left to Miss Bateman
by that eccentric multi-millionaire Ross
winans. who Inherited vast fortune
founded on the construction of the first
Russian railroads Mr. Winans's son, Tom
winans, married Victoria Delgado a lovely
Spanish dancer. She derived additional
interest from the fact that her equally
lovely sister. Maria Delgado. married that
great Indian prince. the Maharajah of.
Kapurthala, who possesses the worlds
most precious jewel collection. Victoria
Delgado is dead and only recently the Ma
haranee of Kapurthala won suit in Paris
establishing her right to act as guardian of
her deceased sisters children and OF their
share of the Wfnans fortune. Many
European titled houses are allied. to the
winans family One of Ross Winans's
daughters, Beatrice. married the Prince de
Bearn-Chalais, of France.
Ross winans possessed splendid man.
sion on the Ocean Drive at Newport as
well as estates in baltimore and various
other parts of the world.
His will dfvfdod bo buik of his vast
fortune among various members of his
family. but left half e million dollars to
Dorothy Bateman. a very handsome and
striking girl of nineteen, as a reward for
her kind and gentle ministrations to him"
Mr.. Winans explained in his viii that Miss
Bateman had taken care of him very kindly
at various times when he had boarded with
her mother and his legacy was an evil
dence of his appreciation of her services
In letter written to his Oldest daugh-
ter. Mrs. Gaun Hutton, of Newport, he
went into greater detail and urged her to
see that his wishes were fulfilled without
friction or unpleasant discussion. The
contents or this letter were never made
public, but Newport was certainly a hot
bed Of discussion following the publication
Of the will.
The oldest daughter took her fathers
side and insisted that he had a perfect
right to leave his money as he pleased.
The rest of the family wanted to fight
the bequest in the open, and for months
there was a very pretty split between the
two factions. The legacy was paid, how
ever, and then Dorothy Bateman, heiress
10 more money than she ever dreamed of
possessing, set out to realize her ideals.
When her fortune, so surprisingly ac-
quired, was placed in her hand, the young
heiress definitely made her plans to be-
come member of the colony. And in so
doing turned her townspeople against her.
which was very sad mistake, indeed, for
Dorothy had been born and brought I'D in
the town of Newport She attended the
public schools and her friends were the
daughters of the all-yearround residents.
wide gulf separates the permanent
population of the town from the Summer
members. The former are never permit
ted to encroach on the preserves of the
latter, except when service Of some sort is
needed. The two sets of young people
never meet or play together, Just because
1T Is never DONE" The dangers of inter
marrying are too great
Miss Bateman did not realize the inn.
possibility OF crossing the gulf, but in the
innocence OF her soul assumed that her
fortune would make people forget that her
mother kept boarders-
Her hrst step was to make her mother
give up her business; then she did over the
old home, making a very attractive nlace
OF 1t, with its wide treeshaded grounds
and dignihed setting Her second sten was
to drop many of the girls who had been
her friends since childhood OF course
they hated her and called her a snob
Then she Joined the Casino and attemnt.
ed to take part in the tennis games The
girls OF the colony froze her out time and
again, but she pluckily stuck to her guns
all that first Summer. Finally. some ns
the impecunious men in the COLONY tooh
her up and 1t was no secret that more than
one asked her to marry him. But none or
these men could have given her any social
standing, for they we're only tolerated bv
society because they could dance and plav
around with Hs idle women.