Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-12-12
From the New York Sln.
PROPOSED BY TELEPHONE.

PROPOSED BY elEFHONG.
A man deserves to win wife who
has the nerve to call up girl, eight
hundred miles away, over the tele-
phone and ask her to mary him. That
is the way Miss Ethel Mary Bishop,
the only daughter Of the Hon. James
Draper Bishop, of London, became en-
gagged to George B. Castor, of Indian
apolis. They were married last Tues
day night at the residence of Ezra 7.
Glliland at Pelham Manor.
Mr.. CASTOR is the son of retired
physician and is now the Secretary
and Treasurer Of the Indianapolis
Transfer Company. For several years
he was associated in this city in the
electrical business with Thomas A.
Edison and Mr.. Gilliland. All Of
Mr.. CASTOR friends had it settled in
their own minds that he would die a
bachelor. His business frequently
called him to New York. While in
town he spent much of his time with
Mr.. Gilliland. Every time he came
to New York Mr.. Gilliland invited
CASTOR to make his home at Pelham
Manor. CASTOR invariably refused,
saying that the Gilliland house was
always filled with guests and that he
hadn't time to play the agreeable to a
lot of women. Then the man from
indianapolis would picture to his old
friend what large times the two might
have if Gilliland would only stay with
Castor in town.
Break away, old man" he would
say, "and we'll have some fun that
deserves to be called fun | cant see
anything in talking ones self black in
the face to houseful of women.
One day last February Castor ar,
rived in New York on one Of his busl'
ness trips. His two sisters had been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Gilliland fol
several weeks, and in their letters
home they had frequently mentioned
Miss Ethel Bishop, a very charming
English girl, who was making bel
home at the Gillilands. From those
letters Castor had learned that Miss
Bishop had been born in Shanghai
while her father was serving the En-,
glish Government there as Consul. As
a child she had lived in Africa, hel
father having been transferred to one
of the South African States. Later
she had been sent to a convent II
Paris, whence she went to Heidelburg
and there she took degree in music
Then she went to London to continue
her studies in music and the classics
In fact, Castor heard so much abou
Miss Bishop that, when he reached
New York and Mr.. Gilliland extended
to him the usual invitation to visi
Pelham Manor, the Indianapolis maj
said emphatically, "Not much !"
Finally, on ST. Valentines Day, th'
day before he was to return home
CASTOR consented to go out to Pelham
Manor for few hours, just to see hi
sisters. He went and stayed tw'
weeks. He was done for, but ne coul(
not bring himself to the point of
proposal. As he himself said las
night:
II came pretty close to it severa
times, but when l got just to the poin
l got scared. l felt as if it would b
sort of sacrilege that | mustn't t b
guilty of. l tell you, l never though
a woman could bluff me out and s
1 went home.
When he returned to Indianapoli
he wasn't able to do much bushes:
All he could think about was the En-
glish girl on the shore of Long Islam
Sound. Two weeks went by, and on
morning while he was sitting IN HI
Office a letter came from one OF III
sisters. 1t was largely filed with
description of a german she had dance
a few nights before, and told how a
the men had simply gone daft abou
Miss Bishop. CASTOR thought for
moment, and then rushed to the telt
phone, looked up the number OF Gilil
land 5 house telephone in the lonl
distance telephone book, and asked I
be connected. Pretty soon he hear
feminine voice at the other end {
the line call, "Hellol