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obdurate Four Hundred. and to-day the
George Goulds are as far from the III,
side of New York societys chaIIlieu
and charming fold as ever they 80,
able a notion as that of any other SCI
and barring their comparatiEe NJ
ness. the millions gathered py the W IL
ard of Wall street seem as hetIHo
foundation wherein to rear d SUI vi ~ \
of family and pride as those peg uea - =
by the Waidorfian dealer IN LGts 90 O."
pianos, or the profane old Terry CAP
tain, whose wife used to COOK the HieaiS
on his Elizabethport boat.
1t isn't easy to predict the outcoliiS
of the marriage between Howard SIou Ii9
and Kathrine Clemmons. Inc G R!'1
family may in time forgive everything,
and then again they may not. AT tnis
time, according TO a friend of the ram
lily, there is virtually no likelihood thaI
his fortune will be disturbed. But 1or
giYeneSS of Howard and recognltloh VI
the stately young bride are diIIerent.
There is no doubt that all the GouIus
were opposed to the marriage, ana that
they threatened enforcement of the VIII
in case their opposition was ignored;
But the friend of the family quoted
above says there never was any real
notion of enforcing it in case the mar
riage actually took place. Every one
of the Gould children has money
Towards share, and, besides, they are
all sensitive about the publicity that
would arise from the legal steps the
division would make necessary. More
over, there is small probability that the
will would stand in law, and the Goulds
all know it, too
This explanation of the present stu
alton has been partially limited in print
before, and the writer has been assured
that it Is a correct one. Anyway, ac-
ton for enforcement would seem to be
specially ungracious on the part OF
those most likely to move In the prem
ises, Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould, for
the simple reason, if for no other, that
they were the instruments through
which Howard became acquainted with
Kathrine.
That was in 1894, or possibly 1895;
Kathrine Clemmons had tried ana
failed to win success on the stage as
the star in ga Lady of Venice" Maui
rice Barrymore, the late E. j. Henley
and lot Of other good actors had done
their best as members of the support
ing company, and Buffalo Bill Cody
had dropped some tens of thousands OF
dollars as her angel.
After her failure she rested for
while in New York. A little later Cody
started his Wild West show at Ambrose
Park in Brooklyn, and placed his prt-
vate box at Miss Clemmons' disposal.
All through the performance he played
to that box, and this attracted general
attention to it's lovely occupant. The
occupants of another box at the end of
the row gazed so steadily at Miss Glenn
mons that she asked some friends in
the box with her who they were.
George Gould and his wife, Edith
Kingdom was the reply. He's a great
friend of Colonel Cody"
After the PERFORMANCE Miss Glenn
mons and her friends went to Colonel
Cody's tent. There they met Mr.. and
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stirred society, and the elopement
marked the love match of Vanderbilt.
But it also marked love match not
only of love but of many millions.
Edith Shepard, another cousin with
the blood of the Vanderbilts in her
veins, married Ernest Fabbri, son Of
one of the rich old-time banking mer-
chants of New York.
Louise Shepard, the first of William
H. Vanderbilt's grandchildren to
get married, became the wife of Will
liam Jay SchieEelin, with a very COM
drug business.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., scorned as
he was by his father for his choice,
married Miss Grace Wilson, daughter
of r. T. Wilson, the Southern multi
millionaire.
to the young daughter of Mrs. Francis
Ormond French, and with her he will
wed at least five millions.
Thus all the Vanderbilts of her gen.
Grafton are adding wealth to wealth by
their marriages. Her mother set the
lions by marriage. Wealth attracts
wealth, and by their marriages the
sons and daughters of multi million
aires are conserving and increasing
wealth as children enlarge a SNOWFALL
to giant size by rolling it over and over
III the snow. Emily NdnOeTDlIL sloane
is the first to defy the unwritten law
of millions:
Thou shalt marry none other than
millionaires"
This Miss Sloane, like Queen Will
helmina, has said that she would marry
for love, and now, as has happened to
Hollands lovely young Queen, the man
of her choice has come into his own.
Miss Sloane is of Dutch descent, and it
is fitting that her experience should be
like that of the young Queen, to whom
some of her far-away relatives still owe
allegiance.
Miss Sloane is not a typical girl Of the
400" Nor is she typical Vanderbilt.
interest in the dance of pleasure. I'm
like the Vanderbilts, she has no social
ambitions. Her mother, Mrs. William
Douglas Sloane, aspires to be queen Of
the reigning set of American fashion
The daughter dreams of a hearthstone
she is Indifferent whether it be gilded
or not if love be there.
Emily Vanderbilt Sloane is the m st
beautiful of the great granddaughter
of the old ferryman who founded a
great house and a great fortune. She
is Of medium height and slender, with
serious dark eyes and black hair Her
forehead is broad and high and very
full. Her nose is aquiline. Her lips are
delicate and sensitive She has a fine
throat and fine shoulders. She has a
rarely spiritual nature, says DR.. Greer
her pastor, rector of ST. Bartholomew 9,
commonly known as the Vanderbilt
church, of which William d. Sloane and
his family are members and regular at
PENDANTS. She has rare intellectual en-
dowment, say her instructors in the
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Of dollars repair and put in order for the annual
day, June And add the general havoc and ruin
disease has now appeared in the camps the resi-
dents OF Waikiki, and in fact the whole country.
And what gratitude have the army shown for the beautiful
site generously given to them for the hospitality
known only Hawas lavish shores? What have the
army expressed for the damage wrought? They have ga
ciousy condescended accept and that which OF
fered they demanded
I'VE desire to station OF in the Govern
ment Building, said General Merriam, General King and
Colonel Barber loly And the Government stared the
proposed appropriation OF the former palace which
the disturbance OF the highest officials of the land
"And where would you suggest moving offces?'
they asked somewhat safcasticaly.
Oh, you go into the tents answered these regulars
OF high rank with display OF and thoughtfunes
beyond the possibility of any volunteer.
But, though compasant to the point of Stimulating the
worm the Hawaiian Government knows when And
the palace is still theirs
The modest request from General King in the
form OF demand on the Park Commission to have small
pool, properly speaking large puddle of water
drained from Camp Otis which is situated in the
track
General Kings attention politely called to the fact
that considering the damage done by his the
track might be we'll to have such work done by his
who have plenty OF leisure time judging by the hours
they unoccuped between early morning drill and dress
parade at D.
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General King magnanimousy allowed the matter to
drop.
At last Honolulu began to awaken to the fact that al
though they had been orgetfu OF entertaining strangers
they had been rewarded by discovering them angels
And then typhoid fever which the officers began by decar-
ing malaria, developed at the camps
The residents OF Honolulu could not understand WHY
malaria should have appeared in country hitherto entirely
free from any 'pika'-the native word for any form Of
sickness roubea country that has earned the title of
The worlds sanitarum"
And still less could they understand malaria violent
enough kill in few days, although the mistakes OF the
military authorities have not been alone i'll defective sanitary
arrangements at the camps.
In selecting their hospital site they have been
searching for hobed for breeding germs OF typhoid and
malaria after introducing it.
And they could not have succeeded better On side
there pgsties the other mule PASTURE back
rice fields fourishing in their watery beds
To add to these questionable advantages this military
hospital three feet below the level of the During
the winter months when rains frequent collects
in pools all the place If the selection of this site were
not pathetic it would be aughabe
And who is blame?
In response verbal request from Major Davis, the
in charge the military hospital. Mr. REYNOLDS
agent of the Health Office, down to examine into
sanitary regulations of the camps and to aid in cleansing the
sinks etc
But his services declined and declared
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TIME world is having a gasp
over the news that a Vanderbilt
is going to wed poverty. Miss
Emily Vanderbilt Sloane is about
to marry Mr.. John H. Ham
mond. The rich young woman and the
poor young man met by chance while
doing missionary work in the sIums Of
New York. Interest in their common
work led to an interest in each other.
Miss Emily is a granddaughter of Will
liam H Vanderbilt and a great grand
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt.
Her mother was Miss Emily Vanderbilt
before she married William Douglas
Sloane, the ulti-miIlionaire carpet
manufacturer. So Miss Emily's birth
right of millions descends not alone
from generations of million getting
Vanderbilts, but from the SIoanes as
we'll, who are also celebrated for a
Midas-like talent and heredity.
Miss Emily's fortune is at present $5,-
100000 with more to come.
Mr.. Hammond is a Yale graduate
who enjoys a small law practice and
lives in a little bachelor apartment.
He is said to dress fairly we'll and to
dine regularly, but ne is not a man of
independent means. He has no per
sonal acquaintance with rent rolls and
government bonds. Under the circum-
stances he is sensationally poor.
But Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane will
marry him just the same and build and
furnish modest little dwelling on the
avenue for them to live in that will cost
just an even million, exclusive Of the
family china, and for quite while the
world will take great interest in them
and speak admiringly of the alliance
as a love match. There is only one
class that thinks more about millions
and matrimony than the rich-and that
is the poor.
While 400 intimates will marvel at
Miss Emily's choice, 1000, 900 outsiders
will employ their surprise and applause
Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloane is
really doing something for the honor
and ambition Of her country. She is
nobly establishing a precedent. No
American boy can be born so poor that
he can't console himself with the
thought that some day he may grow I'D
and marry a Vanderbilt, and Miss
Emily does this at the sacrifice of all
family policy and tradition.
She has constantly before her the ,ex-
ample of the millions of her own family
being joined in wedlock to the millions
Of other families.
Miss F'lC, ence Adele Sloane, her is
ter, welded J. Abercrombie Burden
and with nm a great share of the great
Burden millions of Troy.
Gertrude Vanderbilt, her cousin
married Harry Payne Whitney. son Of
ex-Secretary William G. Whitney. and
the fortune of that family is enormous.
Alice anderbilt Shepard, her cousin.
married David Hennen Morris There
was an elopement, it is true, which
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is a question. Probably not, since,
while they may refuse to take her into
their social set, she can console herself
by the reflection that they in turn are
barred out of New York's most ex-
elusive society circles Their great
coup, the marriage of Anna Gould with
the Gallo Count Castellane, has failed
utterly in bringing recognition from
the mighty houses of Astcr and Van
derbilt, or the lesser families known as
the Four Hundred that bask in the
sunshine of Astorbilt favor.
Equally inefficacious was the famous
season of yachting in British waters.
1t brought certain courtesies and recog-
nitions from Albert Edward and his
set, y know, but it never budged the
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JAN. r.
Pray God. If perhaps the thought Of thine
heart may be forgiven thee.-Acts, viii, p
IF we did but realize that we were re-
sponSible for our thoughts as well as for
our actions we would be far more careful
in holding them in check. If they get
beyond our control it is impossible to tell
what mischief they will work"
The gentle philanthropist is seen in
many of the texts, notably for
FEB 49,
Give and II shall be given unto you; good
measure, pressed down, and shaken together.
and running over, shall men give unto your
losom-St. Luke, vi, IS.
at is the generous giving out of love
which helps us even more than the re-
ceiving of it. Do not think because your
love is not reciprocated that 1t is wasted.
All true love is of God. and it is never
sent forth in VAIN
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finishing schools Of fashion.
Mr.. Hammond is a graduate of Phil
lips Academy at Exeter and Of the Yale
class of '92 and Columbia Law College.
He is q member of the law firm OF
Shepard & Ogden Of Broadway.
Mr.. Hammond is 81 years Of age. He,
like his fiancee is not a devotee of So
ciety. Like her, he is of studious tastes,
with a strong bent toward altruism. He
is a member of but one club-that Of st.
Anthony.
Mr. Hammond is a ne-looking man
of a type just opposite to that of his
fiancee. He Is fair, with blond hair and
a light mustache. He might, perhaps,
be better described this way-like the
father of John Halifax, he is a gentle
man and a scholar. His character is
said to be above reproach. His lineage
is most honorable, but there are two
incontrovertible facts-he is poor, and
he is not of the 400" Yet he is the
man of Miss Sloane's choice, and she
says she can afford TO marry whom
soever she will.
Both Miss Sloane and Mr.. Hammond
are given to altruistic ideals and have
been identified with the splendid work
accomplished by the College Settlement
in Rivington street.
Indeed, it was there the young per-
sons are said to have first met. 1t is
peculiarly fitting that the strongest at
traction Of her life should have come
to Miss Emily Sloane in the Rivington-
street settlement, for there she has been
a bright angel of hope and consolation
to her less fortunate sisters, who have
been warmed and encouraged by the
radiance of her bright spirit and by
contact with beautiful life founded
on a definite and uplifting purpose.
Perhaps nowhere in New York can
there be found a young woman who has
tried more gently, more humbly, more
persistently and effectively to make
the world better and happier than this
favored daughter of wealth, luxury and
fashion.
Miss Sloane, 1t must be understood,
is in no sense recluse, nor is she the
typical religious enthusiast. On the
contrary she is bright, gay, happy
and pretty girl of perhaps three and
twenty.
In appearance she resembles the Van
derbilt side of the house. She is tall,
slender, dark-eyed and dark haired, full
of mirth and innocent gayety. She loves
to dance and enjoys all the diversions
of youth and buoyant health. but is
possessed of the deepest spirit of true
religion and of that philanthropy which
is evidenced in noble deeds.
Several years ago Miss Sloane wrote
a little book which she called RAYS of
Sunshine" and which was, as she says,
intended as a year book.
In the preface Miss Sloane says:
while in Scotland last summer the
idea suddenly came to me of writing a
year book. These daily thoughts do
not in the least aim at any literary
less that we should fix our gaze on the
bright outlook beyond. This faith in the
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merit; the style is, for the most part,
conversational and very informal. If
word here and there brings comfort
or encouragement to some wayfarer on
life's journey, my object in writing Will
have been accomplished"
The book contains a text for every
day Of the year, and to each Miss
Sloane has added a few words Of re-
Election, counsel and encouragement.
To the average man and woman it
would seem that a daughter Of hun
dred millions could scarcely understand
the meaning Of shadows, but the sweet
aItruist disproves such a suggestion in
her own simple words:
JAN. 3.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee
away Song of Sol, H.. II
1T is when the skies are dark and star
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future will keep us from despairing and
give US strength to live bravely through
the dreary days that must still inter-
Yene"
January 8 the author unconsciously re-
yeals her high ideal of perfect love:
JAN. ..
There is no fear in love: but perfect love
casteth out fear He that feareth is not
made perfect in love.-I. John, w., Is.
IF our hearts are full to overlooking
with a great love, there will be no room
for bad and unworthy thoughts. EVIL
cause one is weak and negative, whereas
the other is strong and positive"
And a few days later she gives proof of
a sense of personal responsibility most
rare:
Besides the volume entitled rays Of
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Sunshine Miss Sloane has published
a volume called Ideals" which is a
compilation from various authors. and
displays a comprehensive acquaintance
with literature. 49,
The most interesting selections in
this little book are naturally, at this
time, those referring to the sacredness
and duties of marriage,
The simplicity and sweetness of this
fashionable girl who will bring millions
to her husband is perhaps better shown
In the quotation from Lowell, which
finds an early place in the dainty little
book of ideals"
Yet sees she not her soul so steadily
Above, that she forgets her ties to earth.
Whether she will care much about that
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Mrs Gould. In the following talk it fell
out that Miss Clemmons shortly was
going to England. So were the Goulds,
and so was brother Howard. How love-
ly! Possibly Miss Clemmons would like
to go on the same ship. She would, and
she did.
!. On the way over she saw Howard
much He had hardly recovered from
his attachment to Odette TYLER, but he
took a heap of notice before the other
side was reached. His engagement to
the young woman was soon after an
nounced. The unalterable opposition of
the Goulds to the marriage was de-
clared at once, and the contest over
stately Kathrine has been going on
ever since.
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To N0rry a Poor LAWYER.

Miss Emily Vanderbilt Soope Mr. John Hon1popo NJ,
both were engaged dopg work in the STUDS E
York She is coDnected families OF
eroduote Of Yale Cpd struggling lawyer OF soh
Their engagement is just
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But her whole thought would almost seem
How to make glad one lowly human
hearth
For with a gentle courage she doth strive
In thought and word and feeling so to
live,
AS to make earth next heavenl
And this from Lucy Larcom:
Their real power, the divine dowry of
womanhood, is that of receiving and Civ
ing Inspiration In this a girl often sur
passes her brother; and it is for her to
hold firmly and faithfully to her hottest
instincts. so that when he let's his stand
ards droop she may, through her spiritual
strength, be a standard-bearer for him.
OF Miss Sloane's personal definition
of ideals" her own words in the pre-
face best tell:
Seldom has a subject been oftener dis
cussed than that of ideals, and no wonder,
is one ideal achieved than another comes
to light. The views expressed are apt to
be extreme-either too visionary and i'm
practical or else too pessimistic and in
credufous. The happy medium is always
hard 10 reach, but here it is almost harder
than anywhere else.
MY aim in selecting the follow
ing quotations has been to COM
bine and harmonize. as far as possible.
the holding OF ideals does not necessarily
prove that one must be blind to existing
evils. The man who has an end in view,
and that end good one. will generally
see life in its true relations and recognize
the fact that, although there is much evil
In the world, the light is still working it's
way through all the apparent wrong. 1t
is true that there are times when evil
seems to be gaining the upper hand. but
II you look long enough you will gradually
see the scales change and the good out
balance the bad
II MEXICAN plutocracy, the chief
~ substitute in this country of Old
~ World aristocracy, had hardly
L i begun to establish itself when
what may with no great stretch
be termed morganatic marriages began
to shock the plutocrats, especially the
three greatest families in the land,
Aston. Vanderbilt and Gould.
In one case the marriage took place
two years or more ago, and the father
Of the bridegroom, moved by a grand
fathers love, has just granted for
giveness. In another the marriage has
just taken place, and the bridegroom's
family is not yet understood to be
reconciled, but the expected slicing of
the bridegroom's fortune in two be-
cause of his marriage is almost certain
not to happen. These cases strongly
suggest a similar and earlier marriage,
in which the bridegroom was of an
older plutocratic family-one of such
ancient standing, in fact, as to entitle
it now to be termed the leading family
of the land in the social circles OF plu-
t0cracy
1t is hardly likely, however, that the
bride in the latest marriage of this va
riety, Kathrine Clemmons, who was
married to Howard Gould, will suffer
much effacement. That she will have
to endure fine lot Of snubbing is
highly probable, for her husbands fam
lily seems determined to ignore her.
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OUR SOLD/ERS are Deadly SICK III KZQzvun: HER

7 ONOLULU, Nov 7-"=---ll y said
IL Colonel Barber to Mr.. w o. Smith president OF
the Board OF Health, who inspecting Camp
L 4 OTIS and Camp Mckinley, and his remarks have
been officially reported to Washington.
The army has not been accepted by Honolulu as
aoyed blessing For the navy has been cherished
and no cloud has risen dim Hawais aloha for the
sailor But the soldier to be different proposition
And yet place have officer and man had more cordial
reception or such hospitality shown them Hawaii
opened her and her purse the transports and
and the navy sighed and said, "Ah, we have riva1p
But gradually became apparent that there was friction
somewhere and now is painfully evident that relations
strained between Hawaii and the military authorities
The armys attitude has been patronizing also overbear
ing. 1--WE have annexed you, poor little thing and we
promise protect you Where your desirable spot
Show that may make ourselves comfortable
possible away from luxurious homes"
And Hawaii first generous, then ndulgen and at
last incensed
Kapioani Park at Waikiki the pride OF Honolulu with
It's smooth roads and beautiful drives given
soldiers There they stationed their camps and Kapolan
Park is now in very truth humbed to the dust.
Her roads up until they and rough
and bear resemblance their former perfection
clouds OF dust blow through every breeze breezes that
used to be balmy with the rich OF ourshng tropical
growth The racetrack ruin that it will take thousands
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n MEXICAN plutocracy. the chief
~ substitute in this country of Old
~ World aristocracy, had hardly
L i begun to establish itself when