The Morning Astorian

LONDON SOCIETY PUZZLED.
Balfour-Sartoris Wedding May Not
Take Place.

NEW YORK, June 22.—According to
a dispatch from London to the World
among the paid announcements in the
Morning Post of London today appears,
this notice:

The marriage between Miss Vivian
Sartoris and Mr. Archibald Balfour will
not take place."

London society is mystified. Miss
Sartoris, who is a granddaughter of
General U. S. Grant, is well known in
London and Mr. Balfour is a cousin of
Arthur Balfour, the statesman. The
American contingent in London were
surprised at the announcement of the
engagement on April 15 last, but pre-
pared to send wedding gifts fitting for
the granddaughter of an ex-president
of the United States. Hardly any one
knows the meaning of the sudden no-
tice and many refuse to believe it
true. The Morning Post, however,
prints all the authorized society an-
nouncements.

When seen last night at his home in
this city, Ulysses S. Grant, grandson of
General Grant, cousin of the young
woman, said:

"I know that Mr. Balfour and Miss
Sartoris are engaged. If there have
been any changes in their plans it is
all new to me. More than this I can-
not say."

It was only on May 25 last that Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris, daughter of the
late General Grant, announced that the
wedding of her daughter, Miss Sartoris,
to Archibald Balfour would take place
on July 11, in the height of the London
season at the home of Mrs. Gordon, sis-
ter of the late Algernon Sartoris, and
aunt of Miss Sartoris. Miss Rosemond
Sartoris, a younger sister, superintend-
ent of the society notices read, was
to be maid of honor and a bevy of Eng-
lish and American girls were chosen to
attend the bride. The ushers were all
selected from London's smartest set. In
her announcement, Mrs. Sartoris added
that the honeymoon would be spent in
Scotland and that in September, Mr.
Balfour would bring his bride to Amer-
ica in order that he might meet for the
first time her grandmother, the widow
of General Grant.
Miss Sartoris made her debut in
Washington three years ago.
Young
Mr. Balfour is a London barrister. A
dispatch from Washington says that
Miss Sartoris' brother, Algernon Sarto-
ris, is supposed to have sailed from
New York very recently. Miss Sarto-
ris only left Washington a few weeks
ago for London. Miss Rosemond, her
sister, went with her. Mrs. Grant, her
grandmother, and Mrs. Nellie Grant-
Sartoris, are in Coburg, Canada, for
the summer.