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APRIL 22, 1903.
WE SUNNY SOOTH
FIFTH "PAGE
Betrothal of Stokes and Ghetto Girl,
^ ^ Ca//s New Attention To This Old, Many*Millioned Family & ^
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CHINA DINNER SETS FREE
HE interesting ami sur .
prising news received by
exclusive clubs and socie
ty circles of New York
recently of the engage
ment of James Graham
Phelps Stokes, son of An
son Phelps Stokes, multi
millionaire, of 229 Madi
son avenue, and descend
ant of four colonial gov
ernors of Massachusetts,
to Miss Rose Harriet
Pustor, a child Of the
Btto, reared In direst poverty, whom
met in mission slum work, attracts
font ion at the mordent fo two of the
ist interesting multi-millionaire meni-
5 of the Stokes family, whose roman-
lives read like a novel.
(lames Graham Phelps Stokes, many
a millionaire in his own right to
other with his brother, the Rev. Anson
Stokes ,lr., who Is heir to millions, !
> the most talked of men In socin I |
hil religious life in the United States j
(day.
The Stokes family is large and has i
fays been recognized as extremely
Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps
who for many years resided at
tadison avenue and thirty-seventh
eet, New York, had twelve children,
which ton are living. With one ex-
fcptlon, those who have married have
|ade excellent alliances. The head of
family is a well known
I is.- wealth is estimated at many pill
ions.
although horn to the purple J. G. p.
Itokes is by choice an earnest worker
the east side of Now York city, and
w is there that he met his Uride-to-
Ho is a member of the University
bttlement, organized for the purpose of
jlleviating the suffering and miseries of
p poor people who live in the con
st. -d part of the Empire state,
dr Stokes is very tall, representing
* *
was easy to predict that Anson Phelps I He has already received another *5.-
Stokes, Jr., would make himself famous 000,000 from his father,
as a minister of the gospel. | Wealth and luxury haw* surrounded him
He has been the flrst to set aside always,
from his profession all idea of self-sac
rifice.
“One can not call It self-sacrifice,” ho
has said, “to select that calling for
which he feels hftnself best fitted and
ip which he feels that be will be the
happiest.”
Tl was while- at college that the Rev.
Anson Phelps Stokes first made up hta
mind to enter the ministry.
He had before him to choose if ho
would a life of gayety and fashion, a
position of leadership among those gay
New Yorkers whom the world has come
to recognize as the 400.
He has a fortune large enough to
gratify any whim that his ambition may
suggest.
When a child, Anson Phelps Stokes.
Jr., inherited from his maternal grand
father, the late Isaac N. Phelps, a for-
A millionaire minister is a new be
ing. Anson Phelps Stokes has created
him. Naturally, the world is curious
to know how he will engineer him.
Last year Rev. Mr. Stokes married Miss
Carol G. Mitchell, of Washington. She
Is of a serious turn of mind, highly ac
complished, intellectual and a most de
vout Christian woman.
Mr. Stokes journeyed around the world
during the year after Ills graduation from
Yale, ip 1896, visiting China, Japan, In
dia and other distant lands.
ROMANTIC BT INHERITANCE
Mrs. Stokes spent years of travel with
her mother and sister, Miss Anna Mitch
ell. covering all points of interest in
Europe, and she is well acquainted with
Africa. She lias spent much time there
with her parents, and is thoroughly con-
tune of SI,500.000. This, by judicious I versant with the habits and customs of
investment and accumulated interest, has
now become something like S5,000,000.
Miss Rose Harriet Pastor, Poor Jewess,'
of New York, Who Captivated Heart
of Aristocratic Millionaire.
utilizing every minute of the day, he
lives in Eidridge street Instead of on
Fifth avenue, in order that he may be
constantly In touch with his phllan-
banker, i thr °py.
Mr. Stoke's fortune has been esti
mated at about $5,000,000. With un
usual business acumen he is Increas
ing this fortune. Some day it may be
applied almost exclusively to charit
able work, but until Mr. Stokes feels
that he has accomplished the “day’s
work.” year in and year out. in com
petition with the shrewdest minds,
against which he pits his own, lie will
continue to save all the good Ameri-
can
dollars that c
•an be
gained.
Ho
is president
of the
Nevada
Cen-
t ral
Railroad Co
mipany.
president of
the
Woodbridge
Haynes
and Ne
vada
Mining Companies
and
treasurer
of
Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., Wealth
iest Clergyman in the Country, Who
Prefers His Pulpit to the Pleasures
of Society.
the Wyllis iM'ining Company. In addi
tion to these, lie taxes an active part
in many civic and national organiza
tions. He is vice chairman of the
Municipal Ownership League of New
York, a trustee of several institutions
and a member of many societies. In
fact. -about the only organization in
which .Mr. Stokes is little interested
is the society that parades Fifth ave
nue. drops in for high balls at the
t -l u b and dines at Deknonieo’s at 7:30
p. m. and spends the night at a dance.
Mi-. Stokes has bumped up against By PERCIVAL GIBBON,
tlic world much since lie gradutaed j
from Yale, fifteen years ago. He ts
past thirty now, and looks and acts !
It. None knew better than himself j
the fact that the announcement of his |
forthcoming marriage to Miss Pastor, |
who wtts born and lived her life amid
j social surroundings which were the
antithesis of his own. would cause
widespread comment. His friends say
That his broadmindedness in meeting
tin* situation with absolute frankness is
the people. It. was while traveling abroad
that Miss .Mitchell's lc-ve affair with tne
Kev. Mr. Stokes began.
The spirit of romance appears to huve
been associated with the liras of all tile
children of the Stokes family.
It was in June of Jast year that Rev.
Mr. Stokes' sister. Caroline, married Rob
ert Hunter. Both were engaged in uni
versity settlement work in Now York, and
the engagement created mild surprise.
The Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., as
sisted Dr. Rainsford in performing the
ceremony.
With one exception, those children of
the Stokes family who have married have
made excellent alliances. This exception
wag in the case of the eldest daughter,
the Baroness Halkett, formerly Miss Sa
rah Phelps Stokes, who, unfortunately,
has had a dozen years of unhappiness.
She married Halkett, who at the time
was a clerk in the banking house, about
fifteen years ago. They met in the south
of France, while Miss Stokes was travel
ing one winter with her parents.
Halkett paid unceasing court to the
millionaire's daughter, and the devotion
won her hand. When he found that
$10,000 a year was all he was to have,
Jiis love began to wane. After a few
years, when the baroness still refused to
increase his allowance, he began to abuse
them, and this ended In his wife securing
a divorce In Lond-m on the grounds of
cruelty and misconduct.
E6e CucKoo
Tames Graham Phelps Stokes, Young
Millionaire Clubman To Wed Girl of
the Ghetto, Reared in Poverty.
6 feet of thorough democracy. A thor
ough gentleman, a scholar and a son of
n millionaire, he is a man of the com
mon people, even as Lincoln was. He is
a plain man and makes one feel per
fectly at case with him: nor does lie
possess that one great fault that men of
his kind generally possess—the pride of
humility. He docs not flaunt his democ
racy in one’s face: but when his dem
ocracy is mentioned to him. ho appears
las glad as a child wh-o Is told by an
appreciative parent, “You have been a
good boy today.”
ENERGY LAUDED.
Mr. Stokes can accomplish more than
miy person with whom I have ever come
in contact."
This statement was made recently by
Kellogg Durland. assistant head worker
of the University settlement on Eidridge
street, Mciw York, where iMr. Stokes
makes his home. Mr. Durland lias had
s wide experience in business activities
in this country and abroad in which he
■has met many active men. He is one of
a few friends who know the tremendous
«mount of work which J. G. Plieips
Stakes, who is to marry Miss Rose Har
riet Pastor a talented young Jewess,
Htccomplishes each day.
Circumstances have brought it about
that Mr. Stokes is more widely known
%o the popular mind as a rich young
Can devoting his life and means for
the good of the ignorant poor. and
drawing out a somewhat lackadaisical
existence because he was born with a
golden spoon In his mouth.
The facts are that Mr. Stokes is a
young man of unbounded energy, and
cut abundance of good “horse sense”
each as David Haruni possessed, and
is administering daily business inter
ests in which thousands of dollars of
his own and other people's money I
;. Invested.
philanthropic work on the east side,
but is able to devote only part of his
time to it. Because of the necessity of
I characteristics of his methods.
! He intends to live in a little flat in
HE art of character read
ing attains its apex in those
practitioners who study the
face asjyi indexfto its own
er's charitable tendencies.
High in their unlisted
ro*iks, and very low in the
world, stood Gripes, the
scrubby bearded, the red
necked. the husky.
The Strand was brisk with
Us late evening crowd,
the leisurely throng that
strolls under the lights with
tine an effect of animation. Gripes,
from
j an east side tenement after his mar-.
I riage lie humbly declares that Mrs.
j stokes and himself will do the liouse-
I work, tdlspenslng with a servant. He I nis greasy coat collar turned up over the
! will continue to carry on his work in j horr | ( j ,. uln of j,j s npckwwir, slouched at
i the tenement as tong as lie can, but if
j j,e finds It necessary to get a larger
j establishment and employ a retinue of
! servants he will do that.
! ' m order that site may live over
again the days of her childhood in
Petticoat lane and Frying Pan alle>.
London, where she \ias man) t' 1 * 1 * •* : attitude of dreary pa
from literal starvation and I *
old Miss Rose Harriet*tlon to homeless woe. But the red-rim-
JewesS to be wedded mod eye, vicious and Indomitable as that
ceremony, is of a ferret, told another tale. It travel
ed expertly from face to face, gravid
with a keen estimate of each. Gripes
was an artist, seeking the real material.
He had no steel to blunt on the merely
Immediate.
The wicked little women, who are not
quite the last resort of the practised
mendicant, tripped past him unheeded.
The gorgeous clerks paraded and were
dismissed: the inevitable histrions exeit-
But presently the eye of
man who seemed to be
the real thing. The beggar paused to
gather himself for the assault, and
watched the man hungrily. i
He was a tallish man, between thirty
and forty, faultlessly groomed, who walk
ed westwards witli a leisurely delibera
tion as of one wno lias dined with grati
fication and will waste the evening in a
stroll. The poise In head, the calm
unbanity of the face, the mastery of tne
well-tailored shoulders, all helped to the
satisfaction of Gripes.
"A real swell,” lie reflected. “None
r out for an evenings. Gimme a swell
the edge of the pavement, intent for
prey. He was a figure or pity as he
lurched upon his slow way. Casual sym
pathy might have been bagged by the
bait of his bunched shoulders and deep
ly pocketed hands, and by his authentic
tience and resigna-
saved
death
Pastor, Russian
July 16, by a P lain .
at present working in the slums, wher
she delights to commingle with the
poor people, aiding and helping in every
wav she can.
Miss Pastor is 25 years old. bhe wa-
born at Augustove. Russia. Her ha
is flaxen; her eyes are brown. As she
talks on the uplifting ot the pool, he
face lights up. By those who know
Per she is pronounced “very interesting.
.. ,-v sincere, but somewhat of a dream- ed no hopes.
,f ‘ ’ Gripes found a
A REMARKABLE GIRL.
Not tile least romantic part of the
history »f tins young woman is that
dealing with her early struggles, bow.
while being a poor worker in a cigar
factory, she acquired an education which
has enabled her to make her mark
among the Jewish journalists and maga
zine workers in fills country.
To be a millionaire by inheritance and
a hard worker by choice have been suf
ficient to distinguish the Rev. Anson P
Stokes, Jr., but he claims still further j before a woman, an' a woman before any
recognition by his choice of a profession I other man. This is a pinch.”
unique among millionaires, as he is today j Calmly the tall man made his way
the wealthiest clergyman in the United down tiie bright street, with a quiet in
states. I ,< ‘ I ' PHt >n the life that throbbed about
Rev. M.. Stokes has the reputation him. Behind, at a cautious distance,
o' being a hard worker. He acquired I skirmished Gripes, following adroitly.
m _ it during his career at college, and he ; Thus ttfiey came at length, by the easiest
He is' heart and soul in his I revived it when he returned to Yale ns j stages, to the estuary where the Strand
secretary of the university. | debouches on Trafalgar square, and still
tyith his energy. Ills natural ability, j the tall man, walking slowly and swing-
id? studious bent and his millions, itiing his cane, held his way towards the
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west. Gripes ranged alongside, his
phrase ready.
“Beg yer parding. sir,” he began. As
he had reckoned, the tall man halted and
turned to heur him.
"Well, what do you want?” he de
manded.
"Beg your parding," said Gripes again,
as Ills elbows closed in on his ill-clad
body to indicate cold and sorrow, “but
there ain’t nothink between me an’ a
night in the streets, sir, unless you was
to be so kind, sir. as to take pity on
me.”
It' was well done, but the tail man
gave no sign of softening. He was look
ing at Gripes, it is true, with a newly-
wakened interest, but it was not at all
the kind of interest Gripes looked fur.
"indeed?" said the tall man.
Gripes shivered violently and realis
tically, though it was a mild evening.
“Yes, sir," he answered, hoarsely. "It’s
'ard. sir, on a man wot ts a man, to be
paddlin’ about all night on the stones,
sir, just 'cos ’is job’s been.took by qne
o’ them Germans. You take it from me.
sir, London’s a ’ell of a place for them
as ain't got nowheres to go to.’’
"Ah!” The tall man leaned on the
handle of his can, and spike with a
note of mild curiosity. "It is, is it? Now,
tell me. Supposing you hadn’t met me.
where would you sleep tonight?”
Gripes breathed freely again. This was
merely the obstinate reasonableness of
the well fed.
"So 'elp me,” he declared. “I shouldn’t
get a wink, sir. Td be hoofin’ it the 'ole
time. Moved on, sir, an’ swore at shock
in', as soon as I sat down.”
"Dreadful," agreed the tall man. "But
I know well enough you’d find some
place to sleep in. and if you want any
thing out of me, you'd better tell me.”
"May I die!” cried Gripes; “may I
never stid fro mthis ’ere spot—but you’re
larfln’, sir."
"I am afraid 1 was.” said the tall man.
"You do it very well, though.” Ills
voice changed and took on a tone of
gentle argument. “Now, look here.
There’s hundreds of you fellows about -
perhaps thousands. It’s a trade, this
game of yours. And as for there being
no place to sleep, why, hang it, man,
you'd be underselling the Germans if it
were as bad as all that.”
"If you think I’m lying to yer, sir,”
began Gripes with dignity and pathos.
“Let us say you’re coming it a trifle,’’
interrupted the tall man. courteously.
"Anyhow, you’re wasting time. I waflt
you to show me a place where a chap
like you would sleep tonight if he hadn’t
a cent, and If you don’t care to do it,
you can go to the devil right now.”
His grey eyes met the furtive eyes of
Gripes and carried the conviction that
he meant what he said.
The beggar crammed his reflections into
a brief thirty seconds. In mendicancy,
as in sword play, there must be no in
terval between the heels of the thought
and the teeth of the deed. Gripes agreed.
“Very good, sir,” he replied. ‘If you
will 'ave your own way. it ain't for me
to dispute with yer. We’ll 'ave to be.
goin' this way, sir. and up the Charin’
Cross road.”
‘•Right.” said the stranger. “Youll walk
ahead. I’ll follow you.”
Gripes started, and each time as he
looked back he saw the tall stranger a
dozen paces behind, strolling easily, and
again glancing about him with the pleas
ant interest in those who passed that he
had shown in the Strand. Gripes had be
come a little doubtful of his man; bis
knowledge of his kind and their cranki
ness was so wide that he regarded a new
development with suspicion. But there
was so natural a lordliness in this
stranger, so distinguished an ease, that
his fears abated, and he led on for a
goal he had in his mind.
A little doubling of brick headlands
and raveling of paved channels brought
them at length to a quarter where a
great firm’s ware houses abutted on an
island of squalor. Gripes, glancing be
hind him to make sure that the tall man
still followed, dived into an entrance tnat
gave admission to a small yard, foul
with the odor of crowded stables, at
the end of which a small ruined house,
due for destruction by the builder, of
fered shelter. The tali man, holding his
overcoat clear of the contamination of
the walls, followed him, and they stood
at last on a littered floor in a small
wretched room.
’’This," explained Gripes, sentimental
ly, "is ’ome. Such as it Is, It’s my only
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The tottering flame he made lit up the
place and dragged cruelly to tile view
the dirt and sourness of it. The boards
of the floor -yore rotted, and littered
witli sodden plaster from the cetling.
The windows were ghastly with straw
and rags that replaced broken glass, l’he
tali man looked it all over with a sort
of superciliousness, and then, seeing a
soap box in a corner, sat down on it, and
looked at Gripes.
"Thanks,” lie said.
“Don’t mention it, sir.” said Gripes.
“Now, you’ve seen what ’ardship is,
p'raps you’ll have pity, sir, on them that
’as to doss ’ere, or in'abit 'ere. so to
’ad a bite of food
So 'elp me, I ain't.”
answered the tall
speak, sir. I ain't
since yesterday, sir.
"Neither have T,”
man. quietly.
“Eh?”
"Neither have I.” He bent forward
and pulled at the string of his boots to
take them off. but sat up again and
looked at the gaping Gripes with a half
smile. “I walked the streets last night,
my friend, while you were wallowing
here, because I knew no better. I haven't
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maravedi. You needn’t stare, it's the
truth."
"And 1 thought.” broke in Gripes, “I
thought ” lb- stopped and swore vici
ously.
"Don't be so familiar,” said the tall
man. sharply. "if you talk like that,
I’ll kick you out. If you're civil you
can stop. And now, when I've cleared
away a little of this filth, I'm going to
sleep.”
He was scraping away the fallen plas
ter as he spoke. “You might help me.
If you've nothing better to do,” he added.
"Cert'nly, sir,” said the hypnotized
Gripes, and fell to work.
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trees for the Florida East Coast railway
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