Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-07

II became engaged by cable and am
ready to marry by cable Il Il should be
necessary" such Is the announce
ment just made public in Boston from
Paris by Miss Harriet Goddard a Bos-
ton girl, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. She left the United States
with little but beauty and promising
voice. She has gained with these a
place among the highest musical circles
of Europe; she has won title of lowell
ness In a city where "all are reputed
beautiful and as a climax she has re-
ceived a proposal of marriage by cable
from man Of millions, who, by the
way, cut out an Italian count. And all
this she has done In little over two
years.
In Italy enthusiastic natives, among
them countless counts, strove 10 win
her favor; in France, ana particularly
in Paris, ardent Frenehmen devoted
themselves TO her; but over the heads
of them all It was an American, Mr.. s.
Il. Wood, now engaged in law and the
sugar exporting business in Honolulu
who succeeded in carrying off the prize.
WON BY CABLE.
And he did 1t In manner 50 particu-
larry American that the heads OF the
foreign sGitoIs have not yet done SWIM
ming. Some OF Them, particularly one
Italian count, knew that Miss Goddard
and Mr.. Wood, who met each other at
Naples, were very good friends. They
congratulated themselves when this
source Of Danger was removed and Mr..
Wood was In far oil Honolulu making
sugar and money.
But one evening fell thunderbolt.
Miss Goddard announced her recent en-
gagement to the American sugar mer-
chant
He had been making love as well as
money and sugar
But how? exclaimed the Italian
count and certain Frenchmen in their
languages.
1t was then that the young woman
made the statement which begins this
story and which threw the European
circle OF deNOtees into confusion.
She was like the Homeric Penelope
sitting among her suitoTs and waiting
for the one Man to come alon2, II
became engaged by cable she says,
land | am ready 10 marry by cable II II
should be necessary"
The Italian count retired with as
much grace as possible. which was not
any too much, but novelty loving
| Frenchmen have worked themselves in
| to quite a frenzy of delight over this
| feat, which they call a romance Of the
| cable. Never before, they say, has the
| cable been put to matrimonial use at
| anything like so long range. And they
| are quite right.
From New York 20 Naples, from San
| Francisco 10 Florence and from Chica-
| go to Paris the sugar king kept the
| wires humming The last, to Rome,
| asked win you wed me?" The an
swer was, Yes"
1t was In Naples about six months
| ago that Mr. Wood met Miss Goddard
| She had just made her debut in opera In
| the role of Elsa In Wagner's 'Lohen-
| gren" in the Municipal Opera house in
Modena, and music loving Italians had
taken her up with all the enthusiasm
| that is native 10 Tuscany. They came
! with flowers and attentions and any
| other but the sensible, even II talented.
| American girl would have had her head
| turned round completely.
Mrs Clifford W. Goddard, who is
chaperoning her daughter, evidently
feared that there existed an apparent
danger that the young singer might be
dazzled by title, particularly as one
| count was most assiduous In his atten-
tions. The mother said nothing, but
there seems to be little doubt that she
| hailed the advent OF an American with
| delight. That American was Mr.. Wood