The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-11
HANCOCK MARINE
HAS A HISTORY
He was Once a MilliOnail e and
HD Married a Pretty
Duchess.

There is a marine on board the transport
Hancock whose experiences would make
an interesting novel. He has been a mil
lie Eaire-today he is an enlisted man. He
has taken his appointed place among the
worlds most select-this morning he
mounts guard. He has lived life TO the
limit and drunk the cup of experience to
the dregs; today he is en- route for the
Philippines to fight for his country ana
maybe to retrieve his vanished fortune
His name is Edward Leonard Dwyer
Dwyer Is a finely built man, with bronx
ed complexion and clear, gray eyes that
look into another's face and neither finch
ror falter. His bearing is easy and grace
fnl and his demeanor pleasing and modest
10 degree.
Yesterday TO reporter he said;
Yes, l have seen a good deal Of the
world Il born i'm Connecticut in 1865.
At l6 earned my own living. l speculat-
ed on the stock market with my first dol
lar. At II | was recognized as a nervy
operator.
Il determined to be company promo
ter. and at the age of y opened an Office
in London. In three years 1 had made a
fortune, principally out of specuiations in
Mexican mines / have made thirty trips
across the Atlantic and have operated up
| on the bourses in all the great European
capitals.
Il made a great deal of money and /
, spent il. / confess L lived high. / have
been entertained by many of the best fam
lilies of the English and Continental aris-
tocracy. have enjoyed social advantages
abroad that many an American money
| baron would have given million to dupli-
cate.
! II met my Wife the Duchess de Castel-
/ lucia, through the kind offices of her
friend. Chancellor Hohenlohe. of the Ger
man Empire, with whom | was shooting
On his estate at Podibriad l was also in
| detted for good services in this affair to
Alexander Thurnand Taxis. who enter
| tanned me at Lauchien, Austria.
| THE Duchess was my senior, an estt
mable woman. She was the widow of tbs
/ Duke de Castellucia. She was, however
an American of the Cornwall family o.
New York. She was very rich but before
her marriage she made an ante uptia
settlement of the bulk of her fortune up
on her children. She bequeathed me- up
on her death in IS, within a year of oul
marriage, Dix Island off the coast o
Maine. which | lost through mortgagint
it,
Il was not a poor man when ! marie,
the Duchess in Rockledge, Fla. l haC
been operating extensively all my life
over ten years ago / organized an exten
sive wheat deal in Chicago and go
squeezed for a large sum.
Half dozen times / have been reput
ed rich. Fortune has played some sorr,
pranks with me. For instance, / stoot
10 win out millions through my friend
ship with the late Captain Eads. | learn
ed that the Government had adopted hi!
proposal 10 build jetty five miles Ions
at the mouth Of the Columbia river.
saw a big thing and bought up miles OF
waterfront and interested the Union Pa
cific to build railroad. But | got nippet
and ruined
Last year l failed for a quarter of
million and from that time ] have don'
poorly. AT last ] found myself stranded
It occurred to me that the Philippines ol
, China presented fields for an active maj
and so l enlisted"
How will the next chapters Of Private
DIVERS story be written2 Will the
friend of princes and the bon vivant o.
renown and tickle fortune knocking a
his door again in the far off East? %
will a Mauser bullet put an end forever
to dreams wherein are pictured wealth
honor. happiness and all that makes lif'
worth living?
Who can tell?