Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-28
A REMAKKAsLE FAMILY.
Col. w. II. GiIder-Hts Dangerous
Journey Across siberia.


NEW YORK, july 21.-Col. w. II. Glider,
VINO has dropped INTO ridicule just as he
was about TO rise to glory-who was &C
cused OF embezzlement by Dolly Adams,
! the Water Queen, and thus prevented from
sailing liz search OF the North POle-is
able and reckless, admirable and other
wise. He Is a man OF mammoth physical
proportions, as strong as an OK and as
hardy AS an Esqulmeau dog. His tastes
originally ran to the brush and pal
cite. lie had a studio. and devoted him.
self more or less to art, AT Newark,
n. j. His drift IN journalism
carried MIN TO New York, and mis-
PHYSICAL pr0Wess and tastes got him sent
of with Lieut.. schwatka TO the Arctic
region. He hadn't been back long before
he was of again TO help ind the lost Jean
nelte. On THIS trip he Travelled 1000 or
or 5000 miles across Siberia in sledge.
For one particularly long ard dreary
stretch he was alone with driver who
had gone with him only under compul-
sion, and who, Glider heard before start
ing, had sworn 10 kin him His lonely
journey with this man lasted fiity-four
days, and during that time Glider had to
be constantly on the alert for fear that
his driver would leave him TO perish in
the snow, The Colonel says be never
slept SO soundly but that the slight
est movement of his driver awoke
him instantly. Another trip of Glider
for his journal was to China, at the time
OF the black flag instruction, which leu
10 the Frenon war in Tonquiu, For
eighteen months he was heard from only
at rare intervals, but came back all right.
II was during this absence that the frm
OF brokers of whom he had borrowed
money sold the bond which Dolly Adams,
the professional swimmer, had given him
to keep for her, and which she nn@ ac-
cuses him OF embeZzling. a good illus
tratlon of elders conduct in business
affairs is the fact that, when hauled up in
court to answer DOlly's charge, instead of
keeping still and leaving her TO prove her
accusation, although cautioned by the
justice not to crimnate himself, he blurt-
ed ont that she was only telling the truth
that he had her bond and never returned
it or its value.
The romance in this ludicrous affair is
commonplace. elders appreciation of
the attractlyeness OF the lair swimmer
lasted through several years, and was
somewhat ardent, but be broke of with
her good while ago. Her present action
Is said TO be for vengeance pure and SIM
ple,and not to satisfy any loVelOrn anxiety
to keep him from starting on dangerous
journey. she says, 81 don't care any
ldlHE lot MIN. l want my money DaCh.
/ want the stuff" Revenge she has got,
to the extent of making the Colonel RI
dlculous, and keeping him from starting
on his voyage. The Arctic trip has been
given up for the present, and the start,
when made, will be In a different manner
from that at first intended.
The Glider family is remarkable in
more than lts Colonel. 1t came origi-
nally from Bordentown, n. j., and has
reached metropolitan fame via Newark.
Richard W atson Glider, the eldest son,
bean literary work as reporter in New
ark, and afterwards founded and failed to
maintain the Newark Register. He came
to New York and has become rich and
the editor of the Century Magazine.
Jeanette, his sister, stalwart girl
as strong in mind as in body. used
TO be proof reader, and was as
popular among the Journalists in Newark
a. though she had been a man. She
also came To New \ ork, and for long
time did newspaper writing. She wore
an ulster and derby, rode on the front
platform OF the street cars when there
was no room anywhere else, and was a
hail fellow, as she mad been in Newark.
she and her brother Joseph now run the
Critic, a literary periodical. Another
brother, Frank. was devoted to music.
and got upa choice boy choir. CHARGES of
an unpleasant nature were followed by his
leaving Newark, and he has been living
more private life since.