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siderable note. Like many other young
women of good family, she was poor, and
III addition had her mother to care for.
Seeking the quickest way to make
sufficient income, Edith Xii gdon went on
the stage.
One night a dark-eyed, dark-haired,
well-dressed young man sauntered into
a box at Days theater. Two men friends
were with him. During the play, which
was a little comedy entitled. Love on.
Clutches" the young man displayed
marked interest in one of the characters
yet not so much In the character as
the young woman who was impersonat-
ing it. She was then a slender slip Of
girl, with dark hair and eyes and an ex-
tremely graceful figure, and the young
man saw by the bill that she was Edith
Kingdom. He fell in love on the spot.
The next night the young man came
alone He came for nights after that, In
fact, hired the box for the season. He
sat there till he had made up his mind.
He was George Jay Gould.
The next thing he did was to go to
Augustin DAILY personally.
"Mr. DAILY" he said. 81 have come to
you to ask you to introduce me to Edith
Kingdom.
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mission to the son Of one of the most ia
nous of American financiers seems alb
surd and paradoxical. But such things
will happen and help to make our queerly
composed society interesting.
There are many things in the social
history OF Mr. and Mrs. George ]. Gould
that deserve the attention of the thought
full as we'll as the frivolous. The scene
of the final triumph of the Goulds was
their magnificent country house, called
Georgian Court, at Lakewood, N. ]. 1t
has recently been enlarged and oeautif1ed
at fabulous expense. Two hundred Of
the Four Hundred accepted the Gould
hospitality at Christmas. Society then
committed itself. 1t is an unwritten law
that what society accepts it must give.
That Is implied in the very nature Of So
ciety.
The Christmas celebration was planned
at just the right time, and the fates
must have kindly arranged that Georgian
Court should be finished and ready to ac-
commcdate hundreds of guests exactly
at this season. Society was In mood
for country festivities, and the thought
Of the Gould entertainment and all the
good things In store just appealed to its
fancy. Therefore they all hocked down to
Lakewood in tho wake of Mrs. Stuy
yesant Fish and Elisha Dyer Jr. In a
special train provided by George Could
two hunderd Of the Four Hundred. So
ciety went to the Goulds and took them
into its very bosom.
The Goulds provided many delightful
surprises for their guests Private the
atricals, in which Mrs. Gould returned
once more TO the stage, We're the chief
attractions A beautiful little theater
had been added to the superb country
house, and it will remain as perma-
nent feature, both for future use and as
a memorial of the great victory which
she has achieved in it.
Three frivolous little one-aet plays were
given, 1.-The Twilight Of the Gods. The
Marble Arch and "A Pair of Lunatics."
Mrs. Gould took part only m the first.
But she fully demonstrated that she had
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-07

A new beauty has 1awned upon New
York society. She is Miss Phyllis Lang
horne, the latest recruit to society of
group of beautiful sisters, one of whom
is Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. She has
just made her debut and already she is
the most brilliant figure of many fashion
able gatherings. Like several other DIS
tinguished beauties of society, Miss
Langhorne comes from the South. The
women of that region seem to be born
rulers of men and prove that great per-
sonal attractions are not Incompatible
with brains.
Miss Langhorne is a modern incarna-
ton Of Di Vernon: She is as graceful on
horseback as she Is in the ball room. She
is Of rather more than middle height.
with figure SO finely prCportioned that
she appears commandipgly tall. Her
beauty is of the charming Irish type.
She has deep, dark, violet blue eyes,
shaded by long Iashes. Her luxrriant
hair is very dark but not quite black
Her .coloring Is rich, vivid and entirely
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admirable. She is very vivacfous IN man
ner, with a humorous. SclIy and good
natured disposition. She is distinguished
without affectation, dignified without
haGghtiness.
Before her debut she made reputation
for herself in the hunting field, She has
q superb seat in the saddle, and Is alb
solutely without fear. Her early ex-
perience was gained in Virginia. but re-
Gently she has sraced the pfnk-coated
parties that pursue the acise-sead bag
OF Long Island. Down in Old Virginia
she and her favorfte hunter were familiar
objects about the countryside near Rich
nond She is rs good a judge of horse
flesh as sne IS a rider, Her thOreughnsss
is shown in the fact thst she looks after
the grooming, the feeding and the gem
eral comfort OF her horse. She actually
polishes the bits and buckles OF her
brides with her own hands.
Miss Laughorne WIS born In Richmond,
va, In 1880. She Is the fourth daughter
of MIR. and Mrs. C. d. Langhorne, form
erly of Lynchbrrg. Va. They have now
Q. beautiful country place. Mirador, In
Albemarle county.
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g.
Perhaps it was the professional stage
that kept Mrs. George Jay Gould so long
out Of New York's -Four Hundred. Ger
tainly 1t was the amateur that brought
her In. The splendid amateur theatricals
and the attendant festivities given by
the Goulds at Lakewood at Christmas
marked their definite entry into the in.
nermost circles Of society.
The story Of how Edith Kingdom, the
beautiful actress. became the wife of
George Gould is romance. The story
of the struggle Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gould to
obtain recognition by fashionable society
is a comedy that is peculiarly American
and fin-de-siecle. That New York So
ciety, which is based primarily on the
possession of money, should refuse ad-
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Augustin Daily looked him over for
moment, then spoke in his usually gruff
and decisive manner:
mo: I won't introduce you to Miss
Kingdom. We don't want any foolishness
about this theater.
But my intentions are not foolish"
''Wer, that's a different thing. Edith
Kingdom is lady every inch of her At
the proper time 1 will introduce you"
George Gould met Edith Kingdom and
her mother, who entertained him in their
modest little fiat. His mind never changed.
And one day Edith Kingdom blushingly
rendered her resignation to Augustin
Daily.
well, he did mean business, than,' said
the great manager.
Eyes, Mr.. Daily. Mr.. Gould and 1 are to
be married next month"
They were, and this is the Mrs. Gould
who finds herself today received open
armed by society.
But the knocks that came first were
hard to bear. After many vain efforts to
storm the intrenchments of society the
Goulds were once forced with con-
siderable loss to retire to the quiet OF
their own domestic life, and to what
cruising about the world In their yacht
suited her fancy.
The late Mrs. Paran Stevens first es-
poused their cause. She was the autocrat
of society. The millions of George Gould
attracted her.
She asked the Geulds to her villa at
Newport and forced society to meet them.
But when the Goulds gave q farewell
dinner at the Casino only twenty Of the
fifty invited came.
Then Mrs. Stevens played a master
stroke. She advised George Gould to buy
the Vigilant take her to England and
race the Prince of Wales Britannia. Thus
the Goulds met the prince.
But. Mrs. Stevens died inopportunely,
and society continued to snub the Goulds
for years. They have won at last.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-07

Great Value to the General Pub
Have Hinged Upon a Few Seconds
of Time - Telegraph Companies
Have a Monopoly.
''what time is it?" Who that asks the
question. stops to think how 1t may be
ner clock, the jewelers. regulator may or
may not he right, yet it may be impor-
tent to know to the very minute what
the time Is. Who Is to say? 1t was no
great matter fifty or one hundred years
ago, before the era Of railroads, but
now that the iron horse wheels all of US.
watches and clocks must be correct
correct that is within few minutes, at
least, and as the wants of civilized peo-
pie multiply, the margin of error grows
ever less aid less. Out Of this need
have grown, largely within twenty
years. the modern systems of time dis
tribution; the answer nowadays to the
question, what is the time, the. exact
time, the time to the-very second.
The sun Is the time-honored clock Of
man, but his motions are misleading
unless one has a knowledge of astron-
omy. As for the millions of average cit
liens, to whom the time is important,
some one makes speciality of getting
the exact time and tells them some
how.
The time ball, raised to the peak of
a Flagstaff five minutes before noon and
dropped precisely at noon, has been
abandoned in most big cities. 1t still
exists in New York, one of the most
useful incidents in the daily life of
thousands who hurry about down town
streets of the metropolis. Convenient
to a comparatively few, though of
course free to all who care to watch for
1t, the signal has had to go generally be-
fore the telegraph time service. monop-
oily, but one well nigh inevitable, when
1t is recalled that this matter Of dissent
mating Instantly, this one fact of the
correct noon, relies necessarily on the
telegraph, and, given monopoly of the
wires, monopoly Of correct time goes.
1t is possible for anybody to find the
correct tine, but only at the cost of spe-
cial training and a special instrumental
equipment that is extremely expensive
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not lost the art which was hers as beau
tiful Edith Kingdom, of Days theater.
AS an actress Mrs. Gould need fear no
rival in society. The other casts were
made up of we'll known amateur ac-
tresses and actors, of whom Miss Emily
Key Hoffman, daughter of Mrs. George
Hoffman, and Mr.. Evert Jansen Wendell
are the best known.
After the theatricals there was a
cotillon, led by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and
Elisha Dyer Jr., and, as everybody
knows, they represent society with big
IS"
Among the well known persons who
witnessed this entertainment and ac-
cepted the invitations to stay for week
afterwards at Georgian court were the
Marquise De Talleyrand- Perigord, Mrs.
Townsend Burden. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha
Dyer Jr, Mrs Oliver H. P. Belmont. Mrs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-07
TIME TO THE DOT.

1t is only one moment out of the TWEEN
ty-four hours of the day known or be.
lieved to be right, and to make the in
formation of any value, the full use
Of the fact, furnished free by the gov
eminent, requires a considerable force
of men and an expensive equipment In
clocks. The large centers of population
are connected with the tap at Washing
ton, waiting for the signal, and the fact
is recorded and compared with a master
clock. From the master clock or clocks
the news is sent automatically to cleo
trio clocks scattered over the country.
These latter clocks are so designed that
they correct themselves at noon on re-
ceipt Of the signal and start right again.
These latter clocks are self-winding,
battery being automatically connected
with small motor in the clock case.
This need of exact time is compara-
lively recent one, growing out Of increas-
ing complexfty of modern business, much
Of which turns In one way or another
on accurate knowledge of the moment
thing has been done or Is not to be done.
The railroads must be run to the verge
Of exactness in time, or accidents will
come More than this, the passenger to
catch his train must know whether he
can or not, starting from distant point.
The suburbanite is the veritable slave of
a train, and it may mean more than ap-
pears at first thought.
There are business men whose time Is
worth dollars per minute, who know to
a minute how long it will take them to
get from Office to train. If there are
any doubts about watch, they must
be compromised on the side of waste,
for the train has been put in the list with
death and taxes with regard to GER
tainty.
The fulfllment of contracts perhaps
offers as many pitfalls for the inaccu-
rate timekeeper any class Of events
Notes come due, insurance lapses,
chances for bids expire, and thousands Of
such events, often involving millions In
the aggregate, happen every day. Any
one of them may become the subject of
litigation, where the question of whether
a man paid or did not pay, say, an In
surance assessment on a certain day at
noon, may mean thousands Of dollars to
the heirs-all- Ringing perhaps on a single
minute
SPECTACULAR INCIDENT.
A spectacular event of this kind was at
the closing of the bids for the last gold
loan during President Clevelands admin
istration. The chance to invest was one
in century. Hundreds of bids had been
sent in, without regard to the closing
hour, except to get them in before it,
but the really heavy bidders, the great
metropolitan bankers, stood in the ante
room with their eyes on the clock wait
ing for the last minute Of grace. Their
bids were filled, except for the price. 1t
was all competitive, the best bid to win,
yet in the handling of millions Of such
bonds ordinary business precaution
prompted a study of all the factors in
the problem before the final STEP A
cent too much would make the price too
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-07

The telegraph companies get their noon
signal from the naval observatory at
Washington, and flash 1t instantly over
the country.
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TIME TO- THE DOT
ESSENTIAL DEMAND OF MODERN
BUSINESS AND THE WAY 1T IS
SUPPLIED
THE NOON BALL ABANDONED

Convenient for the Few, but Not of
Great Value to the General Pub
Iic-Cases Where Large Sums
Have Hinged Upon Few Seconds,
of Time = Telegraph Companies
Have Monopoly.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-04
INTERESTING
ADDRESS.
Rev. J. Hammond Spoke
to an Appreciative Au-
dience Yesterday.

At the Association Hall yesterday after
noon Rev. Kensey j. Hammond. rector OF
Emmanuel p. E. Church spoke on the sub
ject why Not Selfish The First Unitar'
ian Church Quartette rendered au excel
lent programme.
st. Paul, in his second letter to the CO.
rinthians,' said the speaker, In the fifth
chapter and the fourteenth ard fifteenth
verses tells us For the love OF Chrise con-
Stralneth us; because wa can thus Judge,
that ii one died for oil. then were all dead;
"A nd that He died for all that they which
live should not hencsforth live unto them.
,selves, but unto Him which died for them
and rose again.
The selfishness Is found In business, pol
tiles, social and church life and yet selfish
can not bring happiness. This would
not be true II we realized the meaning OF
our text: Christ Died For Us And We
Should Not Live for Self The remedy
for evil he said, is the life lived to and for
Christ in the world, u life Of conservation
to Christ.
'We are reading In the newspapers of
society il China called Boxers, The preach
or continued. The main attack Is against
the Christian believers of their race. And
among The number Of their victims no
doubt many were asked to GO back to
heathenish habits and bow down before
them. But they would not do 1t. Chris
tianity means much to them. They have
given their lives for it. They could lnot
do more
In his concluding remarks the speaker
called attention to the lives of early Chris.
tian martyrs as illustrating the power Of
Christ's life.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-04
Charles IiiRbee Dead.

Ell PASO, Tex, June 4-Unitpd
States Consul Kindrick Of Ciudad dc
Juarez is in receipt Of a letter from
Consul General Hanna. at Monterey,
and telegram from the department ut
Washington relative to the whereabouts
of Rev. Charles IIigBee of New Rochelle.
N. Y, who went 10 Mexico for a hunt
ing and fishing lip-last january and has
not since been heard from. The last
word Of him was at Laredo, Tex, .Jau.
81. Information received here last night
from the City of Mexico is that a man
answering the description Of Charles Zig
bee was found dead in hts room in a
hotel in that city on the morning Of Jan.
n last. The cause Of death was not as
certainsd The man registered as Charles
Higbee.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-04
MUST MAYOR VAN WICK GO?
SithzenS Of New York Ask Governor
to Remove Him,

to Remove Him.
NEW YORK, June A formal re.
quest in the form of an affidavit for the
removal from Office of Mayor Robert A.
Van Wyck has been presented to Gov.
ernor Roosevelt by r. #. Einstein. rep
rescntinc the firm of Einstein. 4 Town.
send. on behalf of w. X. Hearst, pro-
prietor of the New York journal, one OF
the stockholders in the American Ice
company.
Mr.. Einstein, accompanied by repre-
sentatives Of Mr.. Hearst. went to Oyster
Bay and had a long talk with the gov.
crnor They told the governor that they
asked for the removal of the mayor on
the ground that he had under the pro.
visions of the charter of the city forfeit
ed his right TO his Office because he own.
ed stock in the American Ice company,
which had made contracts to supply city
departments with ice. Mr.. Enstein quot.
ed the section of the charter which de.
cares that any city official who is in
tcreSted in any company having con.
tract with the city shall be regarded as
guilty of Il misdemeanor and upon con.
victon shall forfeit his office. Mr.. Elm
stein presented aihdavits to Governor
Roosevelt declaring that Mayor Van
Wyck is stakeholder in the American
Ice company.
The governor listened to the arguments
presented by Mr.. Einstein and accepted
the attdayits. promising to consult with
Attorney General Davies and render
decision soon.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-04

ST. LOUIS, June A riot of small
proportions, during the progress of which
boy was fatally shot, and dynamite
explosion marred what would have 9th.
crwise been an uneyentful Sabbath As
car on the Tower Grove line of the
transit company was passing the corner
of Twelfth and Calhoun streets a crowd
of strike sympathizers began throwing
stones at it. An unknown man leaped
from window of the ear and fired a
revolver shot toward the crowd. The
bullet sped over the heads Of the mob
and lodged in the breast OF Peter Frank,
aged IL, who was sitting in the doorway
of his fathers house. A detachment Of
police dispersed the rioters aud carried
young Frank to the City hospital, where
it is said the wound will prove fatal
Late in the afternoon an explosion of
dynamite shattered the cable conduit
and switches in the Olive street line at
the intersection of Maryland aud Boyle
avenues.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-04
CHARTER MaMsgRs INVITED.
EEounAsrs of the Republican Party
] Asked to the Coming Convention.

rEo~hAer& Of the Republican Party
Asked to the Coming Convention.
WARRINGTON, June 4.-The susges.
tlon adopted by the committee in charge
Of the Republican national convention
that the survivors of the first national
gathering of Republicans held at Pitts
convention held in Philadelphia on June
IS Of the same year be specially honored
with invitations to this years convention
came from William Paul Weyand of
Pittsburg. The Idea met the approval
Of Senator Hanna, who has sent an in
vitatino to each of the surviving dele
gates.
So far as known there are only II sur
viving delegates. Their names are John
Howard Bryant, born 1907. lives at
Princeton, Ills: w. Penn Clark. born
1917, lives at Washington; Sidney Edger.
ton, born 1918, lives at Akron. o.; Allen
A. Craig. born 1920, lives at Cory Pa;
Charles &. Davis. born 1920, lives at
Plymouth, Ills; s. p. McCalmont. born
1928, lives at Franklin, Pa; George II.
Frey, born 1925, lives at Springfield; o.;
Rush \. Sloan. born 1928, lives at San.
dusty 20. z Itapliff Briukerhoff, born 1928,
lives at Mansfield. o.: Jacob Weyand
Beaver, Pa; William A. Cook. Wash
ington; William s. Lane Philadelphia:
William II. Epson. Akron, o., and r.
NJ. Simpson, Marietta, O.
Twenty-seven states and territories
were represented at the mass conven.
ton and at the national convention June
49, 1856, held in Philadelphia.
Old Lafayette hall in Pittsburg, where
the mass convention was formed, is now
demolished. its site being occupied by the
Tradesmen's National bank. The con.
vention was informal the delegates show.
Ing no credentials. Horace Greeley, ed.
ftor of the New York Tribune. made one
of his famous speeches. urging modera.
ton and that a convention be held later
to nominate candidates for president and
vice president. His advice was followed,
and the first Republican convention met
In Philadelphia on June IS. 1886 This
years Republican convention will be held
in the same city just A years later.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The capitol police force at Washington
have newtregulation uniforms.
Burglars blew to pieces the vault OF
the Bank Of New Lisbon, Wis. and cs-
capped with several thousand dollars in
cash. \
The New York Central railroad was
reported to be seeking control of the
Central New England road.
The Chicago India famine relief com.
mittee has cabled $4,000 to Lady Cur.
ZOn.
Three departments of the Illinois Steel
company's mills at South Chicago were
closed down for IN indefinite period
throwing over 5000 men out Of employ.
ment.
NIilliners Of New York have agreed not
to use the plumage Of song birds for dec.
Grating hats.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-04

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 4.-The
British steamer Orinoco. which has ar.
rived here from Colombia reports that
on May 81 the rebels were within six
miles Of Panama. The government
troops had prepared for action, the Brit.
iSh consul and others had left with their
families for Tabago for safety, all the
Colombian soldiers had left Colon to
strengthen the Panama garrison. and $50
soldiers brought from Savanila by a
French steamer on May % had gone to
Panama. The United States warship
Marhias was at Colon when the Orinoco
left, under orders to land marines if the
city were threatened by the rebels. The
authorities of Colon had been mprcssing
into the military service large numbers
Of native youths.