Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-19
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

The rumored temperance OF Fred
Cover, who married Lillian Nordica, the
opera singer, who is now gaining fresh tri-
umphs at the Wagnerian festival in Bay
reuth, recalls many features of a remark
able romance to me-" said Andrew \. WEIGH
of Auburn. Ne, at the Arlington this morn
ing. Cover was a Maine boy, his father
being Harrison Cover, who lived at Farm
ington, and was probably the best-known
Baptist preacher in the state. Fred was
born in the early fifties. and when a young
ster used to sell papers. He attended school
meantime and then worked his way through
Brown University, graduating with high
honors. Afterward he entered the news
paper business, and while editing the Proyi-
dence Press struck up a warm intimacy
with Prof. Alexander Graham Bell. BELL
got Cover to give up Journalism and make
lecture tours, explaining the uses of the
telephone and eventually sent him to Eu-
rope in connection with the instrument
While abroad Fred made an improvement
on the telephone which he patented, and
now, under the name of the Cover magnet
II Is used on every telephone in Europe
He organized the BeflNGower Telephone
Company in London, and was made it's
president. and was elected a member Of
the Royal Institute. He made his home In
Paris, and IL was there. In 1888 he mar
ried Lilly Norton, a native Of Farmngto
nent citizen, and who had already achieved
worldwide operate fame Lillian Nordica
At Freds request she renowned the oper-
attic stage and together with her husband
who knew the couple ever believed that
they would be happy. Fred was eccentric
In the extreme, and Lillian Norton was fond
Of having her own way. The inevitable
came later Mrs. Cover had gained lus-
trous fame as Nordica, and she yearned for
new triumphs. and eventually she applied
for divorce in this country from Fred on
account OF incompatibility and other things
Now comes the strangest part of the story.
Fred was passionately devoted to his wife
In spite OF his eccentricities. and when the
divorce proceedings were inaugurated he
was In Paris experimenting witch an 'nven-
ton he had discovered in ballooning one
day he aecended In his machine and never
reappeared at his Paris home. The balloon
was found floating IN the North sea- and
IL was given out, and generally believed
that Fred Cover had been thrown out Of II
and drowned. / never believed that ne was
dead. but that he had taken such strikincly
original means for the purpose of making
IL appear that he was so, and to thus cause
a cessation Of The divorce suit. The move
succeeded, at any rate, for the case WAS
dropped. Mrs. Cover has never remarked
and friends Of hers incline to the opinion
that she never believed him to be dead
either. 1 heard some time after his disap-
pearance that Fred was in Australia max
ing money. and IL the story that he has
turned up In London is true. another in
teresting chapter in his remarkably roman
tic career may be unrolled.'
THE promoters of the great bridge across
North river from Jersey TO New York have
run up against an unlocked for obstacle"
said Henry F. Mackin of New York at
Wormley's last night. The barrier is no
other than the illustrious Chauncey Depew
president of the New York Central railroad
who said before he left for Europe that he
would be eternally hornswoggled IL that
new bridge could find entrance on the New
York shore anywhere between aSth and I'D
streets, between which points the terminal
property of the New York Central lies The
bridge company proposes TO enter Manhat-
tan Island at some point between 5gth and
Goth streets. and the astute Chauncey saws
IT won't do IL by jugful. As the New
York Central controls one-fourth of all the
inland commerce that enters New York
city, IL won't commit the folly of letting its
rivals get in on its territory If IL can help
IL. The bridge people claim that the New
York Central only owns to the water line
and that they can bring their structure in
by erecting il $50 feet over the New York
Central property, and condemn private
property for the bridge approach There is
going to be pretty fight. and to a man
up a conservative tree il looks as though
Chauncey, backed up by the Vanderbilt
millions. will be pretty much in IL when The
referee gives his decision
THE summer girl OF past seasons is losing
her grip. so to speak, at Atlantic City"
said Carl McDonough of Newark at the
Riggs House this morning. The pink and
white striped blazer suit, the heliotrope
shirt waist. with big gold studs and crossed
with profusion of tiny-linked watch chain;
the multi-colored shoes. the dashing looking
sailor hat and the blue sunshade are all
there on the board walk and the sands.
but the masculine moths no longer flutter
around their brilliancy they used to.
The conspicuous girl, indeed In sadly out
Of the firtatious race. SO far as Atlantic
City is concerned. She now walks I'm
sought almost among the ihrongs that
crowd the island. You see her at lhe inlet
alone, and there are no more excursions
for her down TO Longport in which she il
the only woman I'm a party Of ten. The
present style of girl affected this year is
the demure creature who dresses quietly
without being Quakerish about il. The
article in girls which gives a side glance,
then looks down, according to the ;-oet is
the popular brand. a pretty creature who
wore the most striking costumes at the
place last summer. and who used TO ban
ter her male friends TO swim out beyond
the lfeboat. is there again this year but
she's nightly changed She wears grays
and browns and other quiet colors and
when she dons her severe bathing suit Ct
blue and goes on the sands she tries to
run away at the approach OF even a rip
pie. There are fifty men OF the Ilert TO
assure her that there's no DANCER and
equally as many to offcr their protection
The summer girl OF the period il the sby
and timorous creature and prospective sum
mer girls VIII do well TO remember #"
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