ROMANTIC STORY.
V" A story, full of Tomancc, is behind tho tngagoment announced at New York the 'other day of Miss Caroline Stokes and Mr Robert Hunter. Mr Hunter is (says a corKspondent of a London paper) a poor young ■taan who has spent his years since he le-ft college in working in New York slums, •while Mists Stokes in the daughter of a iniEiontiire banker, Anson Phelps Stokes, and ia heiress to £5,000,000. Miss Stokes, 1 who is twenty-throe years old, has for some time been interested in philanthropy, and tried to establish the fashion in New Yorltt ■oclety of not wearing bird's feathers in women's hats. She met Mr Hunter about three years ago whilo an a -visit "to some tewment houses. Sho became interested in _w university settlement scheme, and assisted Mr -_unter in his work, securing MTOral large subscriptions from her father for-him. Berth Mr xiunter ond bis fiancee cave become so attached to east side work that they will resume it,after their marriage, and they nvo planning to erect a number of club-houses for young men and women in tho tenement districts, which they will jointly intuiage.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11616, 22 June 1903, Page 5
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