Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — WORLD’S FAIR ROMANCE. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S FAIR ROMANCE.

A Wheel Chair Guide Weds His Fair __ Passenger. . The Adonis of the wheel chair department has gone, write® a World's Fair correspondent of the Philadelphia Press. He was a fine strapping fellow, six feet tall and handsome enough to have been the model of Praxiteles’ Hennes in the Greek department, except that he was far from 2,300 years old. He was a hero from one of the large Michigan colleges working out his vacation. Last summer he worked as a waiter at Lake Minnetonka and did so well -that he liad enough money to carrv him through his winter term at college quite sumptuously; The chances of doing even better at the Fair this year seemed very good, and he went to the wheel chairs. Of course, as he knew so much more than everybody else and was so good looking, he was in universal demand. The other wheel chair men hated him, but he didn’t mind that so long as the women adored him. I fancy most of them really did adore him, too. In any event, his wheel chair was never empty, and they do say that ladies sometimes continued to sit in it after they had seen every thing, and for no reason except to hear him talk. He was most polite, and never wearied of telling people how the magnificent buildings are all made

out of a composition that is as pliable as clay, and that all the pictures of Columbus can’t be because no two of them in the Fair look alike; and a thousand and one other things that showed how observant he was and how much he knew. He got a customer about a week ago, who seemed ta hang on his words. He couldn’t tell her the same thing too often, and after a bit she got a note book and jotted down all his most precious sayings. It went on for four or five days and came to be a matter of general remark among the other Wheelers. She was quite young and as pretty as a picture, and, indeed, the two of them, as they glided along the walks, < were the cynosure of all eyes. Of course it was all on her account that the Adonis took his departure. He didn’t turn up at all one morning, and while the superintendent was wondering what kept him late a messenger handed him a note. The note was from Adonis, and simply read: “I shall not report any more. I can not. lam going to be married.” Was the superintendent thunderstruck? Well, hardly. He had had his weather eye open and wasn’t exactly astonished when he heard what had occurred. . But he was amazed when he found out, later in the day, that the future bride of Adonis, who was the lady of the wheel chair,, is a widow from California so enormously rich that she does not know what to do with her money. She inherited her fortune from her late husband, a rathet elderly man, who had made it in the rise in land values in the Golden State, but only lived six months after he had taken his sweet bride to his bosom. Adonis will finish his term at college, and then he and his bride will go abroad to remain five or six years. Perhaps they may enter into competition with the Astors and the Mackeys for the social approbation of the aristocracy. It was the first genuine romance of the Fair, and has filled the 30,00(1 World’s Fair attaches with delight and hope.