The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 2 Thursday, June 7, 1906 Page: 1 of 9
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Herald.
guymon. BRAVER COrXTY, o. T . THVR^OAV. JUNE ?, 1906.
ILV'.AZINF. SECTION
I
PART TWO
GIBSON GIRL WEDDED.
If. S ASS IE SUA II', SISTER-IN-
IA\V OF ARTIST. BRIDE OF
WALDORF ASTOR.
Me of the Five Virginia Beauties. -A
Darini: Horsewoman ano fond ol
Exercise, -five Million Dollar ti g-
lish Lstaie a Wedding Present.
A "Gibson Girl" Is the talk of all
■dk1 (1. for she has married a youn«
nan of that country who Is lieir to an
«*tatt' of more than $400,000,000.
be bride Is none other than Mrs.
Vldorf Astor. ami a sister-in-law of
larles Dana Ulbaon, the celebrated
tierleau artist.
Mrs. Astor is one of five sisters, all
jtives of Virginia and belonging to
family numliered among the F.F.\'s„
landing high in the aristocracy of the
outh. Hhe was a Miss Nannie Lang-
orne and later the wife of Hobby
haw, from whom she was divorced.
11 of the Langborne sisters are re-
larkable In-nuties, paying particular
rtfiitlon to every detail of face and
kure. A Virginia lady who knew
lm in their girlhood days stated that
fcft- rules of llviug were something
L this: "Hreakfast early and exercise
Ktkly for an hour or two. Have a
■'lieon and exercise again, this time 1
jmr. Luncheon again and then a j
fc. vigorous tramp or a cross country
C to hounds, just for the pleasure
It, then a hearty supper, then a long
jTlk in the southern twilight, and then
| 'l."
| SPLENDID WOMAN RIDEIl.
With a strong liorse iKMieath her, and
|he pack in full cry, to see Nannie
Langborne riding to hounds was a
light for men and gods. In the days
•f her girlhood, at the Deep Hun. in
Virginia, she was Diaua stirruiMil, aud
ti is 110 stretching of facts when
fne avows that men cauie from far
itield Just to see her, with her pink
Iheeks aglow aad her fair hair loos-
Ineil to the brwze, pound the sod in
y madcap almudon for the iirusb.
I'othiug daunted this young Virginian
■1 tlie way of ditch or fence, bill or
fcllow. aud at UJ she was famed a
Kc most intrepid aud brilliant horse-
woman in her native State.
■ Two things won for Mrs. Langborne
Law the heir of William Waldorf
fttor: the beauty of her being, when
j| horseback, and her bubbling Ir-
•pressibli* Americanism. Young As-
5>r. when he beheld her In her glory
mond, given by Mr. Astor to Ma
daughter-in-law. which later 011 is to be
reset and worn on her presentation at
court This historic geui lielonged to
Charles the Hold, the Duke of Bur-
gundy, aud fetched flUO.OUU at the sale
of the Demldoff collection in 1*05.
It was swured by Mr. Astor some
vears ago from a millionaire parsee.
Sir C. Jeejeebliay, for fliO.OOO. Mr.
Astor also gave one of the ti nest tiaras
in liondou, (which <-ost more than
$100,000), as well as the title deeds to
Cliveden mansion and estates, with
the many treasures he has added
thereto, Including a magnificent suite
of old Chipperne furniture, and some
wonderful French china, originally
from Versailles, and once the property
of Empress Eugenie. The value of
this latter gift probably exceeds $.V
ooti.ooo.
It is understood tthat >the young
people plan (to snake their home at
Cliveden. In 1«D3 Mr. Astor purchased
WARSHIPS NOT WANTED.
"FIGHTING BOB" BI AS'S SUM
ORDERED TO LEAVE SEW
YORK U ARBOR.
United States BaitUshlps and
t.ruisers Obstructions to Naviga-
tion— I housands ot Gallons of Oil
Released by Fouled Anchor.
New York City In Its hurry and rush
of business did not seem to stop for
patriotic reasons to enjoy the sight of
a dozen I nited Stales warships an-
chored in her harbor. The American
fleet riding majestically at anchor in
tile North Hiver, attracting the at-
tention of thousands of sight-seers,
was requested to "move on." The
stalwart battleships and armored
cruisers with their great length an J In
command of uo less a personage than
. to
r.f ntr
says Crawford was In good health and
good spirits.
While Mr. Crawford was In Helrut
Ami ritan missionaries attempted to
dissuade him from entering on the
trip, and pointed out to him the great
danger of the undertaking. He was
firm In his resolve, however, and left
on January 9th. .....
Before departing the skater left his
Itinerary with Or. Williams, an Amer-
ican dentist, whose guest he was tem-
porarily. Crawford s Intention was to
strike out over the hard road to Hag
dad, which
Beirut. Them- — - -
southeast 300 miles to Bassorah, at
the mouth of the Euphrates aud near
the Persian coast He was undecided
whether he would travel by land or
sea over the 1.200 miles to Belooch-
lst an.
His plans included many excursions
through Reloorhlstan, a Journey
across the Gulf to India, and a year
or more in that country. He purposes
to accomplish all this on money he
may earn along the way.
SHERLOCK. HOLMES.
< REATIOS OF MOST WOSDERFL'L
ASUl'UILISG Ut DETECTIVE
I UAkAL IERS.
Sketch of Discouragements of Cooan
Doyle to break into the Held of
Literature Manuscript, Kegularty
Returned.
. , . Ila„ The author of -The White Com*
ver the hard road to Bag- .. Ni(,(.r -study in Sea riot"
is about MM) miles from • oUu,r ghl.rlock Holmes stories—
ence he intends going Artjiur % uimn Dovlc was U.rn
4„ n .a«r«h at (n K(Ijn))UrRh| Scotland, on Mar
_H2. 1S.MI, lie comes of nn artistic
family, and Is the grandson of
John Doyle, the famous political
caricaturist, whose pictorial
sketches appeared for more than
thirty {rears under tho Idtlals of "II.
B.,'1 'without disclosure of the artist's
CT.TYTTDEN MANSION ON THE RANKS OF TIIB TI1A4IES.
the beautiful country house from the I Rear Admiral "Fighting Bob" Evans
Duke of Westminster and paid $1.-1 were found to be in the way. uis-
2r*o000 for it Cliveden is situated In | patches from the metropolis say tnai
the heart of the boating and plcnlclng the supervisor of the harbor of New-
region of the Fpper Thames. | York called on Admiral Evans ami
served a formal notice on him that
OFFENDED THE POPULACE. tlie ^ips were taking up too much
„ .„„irir«tr it Astor hail an room in the river, and were seriously
After acquiring it, Astor nau an wlth navlKlltion. While it
was admitted on the United States
Th«t potentate ann an previous vessels that they were well out lu the
nf th«P estate had allowed the common ! usual channel taken by steamers, the\
of the estate nan snow™ u. Could not anchor further inshore on
account of the shallowness of the
water.
There is probably 110 place in the
world where the great white and buff
ships of the American navy show off
to better advantage than in the North
Itiver. The dozen warriors strung a-
long at anchor at intervals of aliout
(iK 1 yards stretching from the foot of
Riverside Drive at 72nd Street to
(irant's Tomb at 125th Street and
vond. When Prince Louis of Batten
I opportunitv to show himself more ei-
! elusive than the Duke of Westminster.
That poteutate and all previous owners
* . _ i 4hn Anmnutn
NEW RAIL AUTOMOBILES
Each Machine Runs Indepentfcntly by
Its Own Motor.
The craze of autolsts to. build pal-
ace touring cars for pleasure trips
has caused railroad corporations to
dabble In the novelty of motor vehicle
transportation. Some of the unique
cars that patents have been applied for
tire certainly freak products.
A car that resembles a huge steel
battering ram has lieen completed at
'shops of tho rniou Pacific nill
m<1, at Omaha, Neb. It is a foitf
teel structure especially designed
or climbing grades and run by its
>wn gasolene motor, over staudard
.►auge rails. On its trial trip It de-
veloped a speed of forty tulles an hour,
climbing, It Is said, a grade of 20 per
ceut.
RACED THE STEAM CARS.
It was given its first long-distance
trial on April 14th. when it left Omalia
as the second section of train No. 1,
known as the Overland Limited.
The motor car gained on No. 1 to such
extent that at Fremont. 4(5 miles from
Omaha, the motor car was held on the
block six minutes. Owing to a
heavy wind and meeting trains froin
this time on, No. l's schedule was not
maintained; however, the total time
of the motor car from Omaha to
(irand Island. 153.0 miles, was 5
hours and 12 minutes, with delays
amounting tc 4o minutes on account
of orders, meeting trains, etc. The
actual running time for the 153.0
miles was 4 hours 32 minutes, or 34
miles per hour. There was no delay
whatever on account of the motor car.
and the machinery was in almost con-
stant motion from Omaha to (Jranil
Island. On the return trip April 15
the actual running time was 4 hours
10 minutes, or 30.3 miles per hour.
From Elkhorn to South Omaha, a
distance of 24.3 miles was covered in
\out!. >> ii**n i iin*« distance or J4.o niiies was rmriru mi
burg had his British armored flyers In ;w In|UUtt.8i 0r 42 miles i>er hour,
the New York port they were given ^ maximum speiil of 53 miles per
, V..-.. HI— nml n lv « hoaf nttn|n(H| OU this trip.
MR A. C0NAN DOYLE.
Identltv. Many of these w^re so
famous In their day that they were
frequently purchased at large prices
by the British Museum. John Doyle
hail four sons, who also became
artists. Ills eldest son. Charles Doyle,
was the father of the novelist, and
another son was Richard l>oyle. who
came by his nickname of "Dicky"
Do vie through bis signature of a "IV
with a little bird i>erched upon It,
which may yet be seen on the cover
design of Punch.
Conan Doyle's education liegnn In
England, where already In Ills tenth
year he exhibited a wonderful pre-
coclty for telling stories. Rut even at
the early age of six the future novelist
and creator of Sherlock Holmes was
anticipated in a story of terrible ad-
venture, written In a bold hand on
foolscap paiier. four words to the line,
am1 accompanied with original pen
anil-Ink Illustrations. •
There was a man and a tiger In
berths in the North River and only a
few weeks ago the Paul Jones French
fleet was in the stream. The New
York people could not be inhospitable
to these fl.ets on account of the inter-
national aspects of things, but when
the American ships arrived, waiting
their turn to go to the repair docks,
they were ordered to move away and
give the tug I Hints and scows engaged
in the Hudson River trade a chance to
pass.
During the short stay of the fleet in
New York the battleship Illinois in
Railroad officials witnessing the
machines trial trip expressed much
gratification. Some of the officials
go even so far as to predict that the
gasolene motor will ultimately revo-
lutionise interurban railroad trans-
portatioq.
SCHEME OF VENTILATION.
This machine has several new ar-
rangements. the most conspicuous of
which Is the ventilation of the cars.
The windows are round, similar to
it," he says of this infantile effort;
forget which was the hero; but It
dldu't matter much, for they became
blended Into one about the time wnen
the tiger met the man. 1 was a
realist In the age of the romanticists.
I described at some length, both verb-
ally and plctorlally, the untimely end
of that wayfaring man. But when the
tiger had absorlied him. 1 found my-
self slightly embarrassed a* to how
my st«y was to go on. 'It Is very
easy to get people Into scrapes and
very hard to get them out again,' was
my sage comment on the difficulty;
and I have often had cause to repeat
this prwoelou* aphorism of my child-
hood. Upon this occasion the sltua-
t ion was beyond me, and my lunik,
like my man, was engulfed In my
tiger."
At Stonyhurst, and also at Feld-
klrch. In Germany, Doyle's literary
Inclination was shown in the editor-
ship of school magazines. In INTO he
returned to Edinburgh and took up
the study of medldne at the univers-
ity there, where he remained until he
obtained Ills diploma, five years later.
In 1HH0 I)r. Doyle left the university
to make a seven-months' trip to the
Arctic seas as unqualified surgeon on
board a whaler. There was very little
demand for surgery alioard the Hope,
and he has described bis chief occu-
patton during the voyage as lielng em
ployed in keeping the captain In cuf
tobacco, working In the boats after
flsh, and teaching the crew to box.
He utilized his experience later In his
story, "The CaptBln of the l'olester."
Two years later. In 1NN2. after a
four-months' voyage to the west coast
of Africa, he settled down as a med-
leal practitioner at Southsea, In Eng-
land, where he remained until 18H0.
Those were arduous and trying years.
In which he came to regard the calls
of the profession he bad adopted as
Interruptions In the real work of his
life, and found that the writing of
stories was a very slender prop upon
which to lean for a livelihood. "Fifty
little cylinders of mauuscrlpt" he
says, "did I send out during eight
years, which described a regular orbit
among publishers, aud uiually came
hack, like paper boomerangs, to the
place that they had started from."
All this time he was writing anony-
mously, and during the ten years of
his literary apprentii-eshlp, he states
that, In spite of unceaslug and untlr*
Ing literary effort, he never In any on*
year earned fifty pounds by his pen.
Then, In 1887, appeared In Beeton'S
Christmas Annual a story from his pen
called "A Study In Scarlet." It la t
significant point In the author's career,
for In this story Sherlock Holmes
made his first appearance. It was
published later In a book form, and
went forth as his first novel, and Im-
mediately liegan to attract attention.
Under these favoring circumstances
he undertook the writing of "Mlcah
Clarke." It was completed after a
year's reading and five months' writ-
ing, and represented the most am-
bitious and hopeful work the author
bad yet accomplished. But It came
back to him from one publishing house
after another, until he began to des-
pair of Its acceptance. "I remember,"
he says, "smoking over my dog-eared
manuscript when It returned for a
whiff of country air, and wonderlnf
mood pact, oolamn two.
dragging at anchor suddenly ripped port hides on steamships, an 1 iin air.
open a Standard oil pipe line laid a water and dust proof, rhe cars have
cross the ImhI of the river. This line . entrance In the middle Instead of at
it seems was not ch.-rted and no one the end. t ,
In authority seemed to know just how Hie new method of ventilation fair
or when it got there, but nevertheless ly well avoids the close and sometimes
the Standard Oil Company bad been I foul atmospheric conditions so often
■pumping thousands of gallons into encountered In electric and other trans-
New York City through it every day | ortattoa cars, sufficiently so as to
en tlml the followluir-
lotlce of bis intention
mi|>|Hirl of lit* eliilm
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for years. When the Illinois fouled tin
pipe line the officers on board the ship
could not imagine what the anchor
bad taken hold of until the surface of
the river became a shining mass,
bright with the hues of petroleum.
Before the pi|s> line could be repaired
more than 8B.0OO gallons of good
predict complete success in this di-
rection. The vibration and noise of
the engiue were largely eliminated
and mechanism of the car worked
splendidly on this trial run
The cars will accommodate sixty
passengers each, with comfort. They
have every modern convenience, and
MRS. WALDORF AIJTOB.
One of the Five Orlglual Olbnoa Girls
ii, Inst between
lend I ti jf Will'
, (J. Suumiui"-
caught his breath Just as Bobby Shaw,
her divorced husband, bad done sev
eral years ago in Old Virginia. And
this was not strange. Waldorf Astor.
always breathing in the compressed
air of bis father's house, timid, re-
tiring and studious by nature, had not
much opportunity for young girls
society, and almost never that of
American girls. To him Mrs. Nannls
Shaw was a revelation. For seven
months he wooed her, and at tlie end
of that time he was three-fourth*
American and fourfourtbs lu love.
(HowIng. be followed her across the
Atlantic.
It is only fair to young Astor to sa>
that he lias never been so aggressively
Brklsh us his father, who spurns al-
most everything American, or his
youuger brother, John Jacob, who is
an out-and-out Englishman.
EXCLUSIVE WEDDINO SERVICE.
The wedding, which occurred at
tendon In May, was a very <|nlet af-
fair, only 17 Invitations lielng sent
out for the ceremony. The bride made
the loveliest picture, standing, as It
appeared. In a bed of lilies and roses
near the chancel. A work of art. In-
deed. was her wedding gown, for It
was made of the most expensive silk
obtainable, adorned with rare old lacs.
* Among
Km moat
people to picnic and to walk through
that part of the property lying along
the river. The American millionaire
threw them out and threatened them
with the utmost rigors of the law.
Now that he has settled the estate on
his son, tlie Inhabitants of Cooklmm
and Maidenhead on the Thames—
surrounding hamlets—are delighted,
for they Is'lieve that young Astor will
at once give orders for the cancel-
lation of the many strict orders against
trespassing made by Ills father—orders
which turned all the riverside folk In-
to bitter enemies of the American
millionaire.
(Jreat walls surmouutcd with broken
glass to protect the Astor vegetable
garden spoil lovely views from the
public road, and anybody daring to
picnic In the Cliveden wissls, as in
the olden days, Is at once threatened
by a keeper with Imprisonment.
It is believed that jroung Mr. Astor,
who Is very popular with rowing men,
will abolish these feudal and dis-
tasteful regulations.
automobile cab of union pacific b. b CO.
the many wadding presents,
notable waa the lancy dla
An ixptti Opinion.
"Will alcohol dissolve sugar?"
"it will," replied Oalde Soaqtie; "It
will dissolve gold, brick homes, and
I horses, and happlneaa. and love, and
everything else worth having "
Standard oil went skimming down the
Hudson Into the ocean. There ap|s-ars
to be no way in which the oil company
can collect for |he iK-trolcuin thus
wasted, as there is no official chart
showing the,location of the line In the
river lied.
Tra verting Ru**lh on Roller Skate*
, A caravan which recently arrived
at Beirut from Hagdad reported hav-
ing passed near the city of Unah
about :00 miles cast from th r<\ sn
American named Arthur Crawford,
who left that port early last c • 'h
with the Intention of proceeding
through Asia Minor and India on In-
struments which he called road
akatsa. The leader of tha caravan
will be devoted especially to touring
parties thniugbout the West. The curs
will lie run eit'er separately or In
trains. In the latter case one car can
easily he fitted up as a combination
observation dining car. liater on I
equipments for transforming the cars |
Into palace slee|iera will be installed.
PnMeat Believen In Exerehe. I
Prealdent Rooaevelt once rather |
shocked a mothers' meeting by an-
nouncing that a boy who wouldn't fight I
waa not worth hia salt. "He Is either
a coward or conatlttitlonally weak. I
have taught my boya to take their own
part. I do not know which I should
the mors punish my boys for, cruelty I
1 or flinching. Both are abominable.'
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