Capital City Courier

An Interesting French Yankee.

On Saturday, May 21, Mr. Alcander Hutchinson, manager and proprietor of the great caoutchouc works at Langlee, near Montargis, celebrated his coming of age by a family dinner, at which his immediate relatives were the only guests. This young gentleman and astute and prosperous business man is one of the most curious developments of the principle of heredity that has ever come under my observation. His father, the elder Alcander Hutchinson, himself a native of Connecticut and the son of the original founder of the great india rubber works at Langlee, married a French lady, the daughter of the Count de Loyaute. His children, including his namesake and youngest son, all grew to maturity and were educated in France. He died some three years ago, and the younger Alcander Hutchinson succeeded him as proprietor and manager of that portion of the estate that included the property at Langlee. He was chosen according to French law to follow the nationality of his father; but though thus a citizen of the United States he has never visited America. Thus this young Parisian, born and bred the cherished darling of an accomplished French mother (a lady of remarkable intelligence and force of character), has developed by sheer power of heredity into a sturdy and practical American. He was waited upon not long ago by a deputation of the citizens of Montargis, who offered him the nomination of deputy as soon as he reached the age of twenty-one if he would embrace the French nationality. But the young man preferred to be an American citizen like his father and grandfather.—Paris Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.