The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-02-14
THE TRAVELLER
WHO LOST HIS WIFE
SOME INCIDENTS. IN THE LIFE OF
HENRY NORMAN, EDITOR OF
THE WORLDS WORK.

The divorce granted in London to
Henry Norman, NJ. +. editor of the
WORLDS Work and celebrated as a
| mountain climber newspaper CORES
pendent traveller and author, from his
Wife, Menie Muriel Dowie Norman. re-
calls his visit to this city a number of
years ago. Norman was then on his
way to China to act as correspondent
for the London Chronicle, and he spent
several weeks in San Francisco, where
he was extensively entertained. Dur
ling his stay he was the hero of a SEN
sational episode. which was widely
commented on at the time, and in
which Mrs. Porter Ashe, formerly Miss
Amy Croker, and later Mrs. Harry
Gillig was the heroine. Porter Ashe is
a brother of Mrs. Harold NJ. Sewall.
Norman and Mrs. Ashe were members
Of a gay party who enjoyed an excur-
sion around the bay, which was given
in honor of the eminent visitor After
luncheon there was a discussion of the
decline of chivalrv in which Mrs. Ashe
declared that chivalry and gallantry
We're things unknown to modern men.
Norman disputed the statement,
whereupon Mrs. Ashe challenged him
and threw her handkerchief overheard.
Norman Immediately jumped into the
water, secured the floating muslin, and
padded about until he was fshed out
by those on board the tug.
The following day an extended ac-
count of the affair appeared in the Elk
aminer much to the disgust of the gall
liant Norman, whose journalistic in
sunct rebelled at being converted into
copy. He dispatched a letter of digni-
fled protest to the proprietor, William
r. Hearst who returned an equally
dignified letter of apology, stating that
he deeply regretted the publication of
the story and had discharged his man
aging editor as a consequence.
This was where the enterprising Nor
man scored against the Examiner
Copies of both letter We're given to the
Chronicle, which published in connec-
ton with them "A full account of the
affair and the remorse of Hearst. The
situation was Norman's and the jour
nalistic instinct had won.
Henry Norman was horn In England
and for, time attended Harvard Col
lege. In London he. has been connect
ed with the Pail Mall Gazette and the
Daily Chronicle. A year ago he found
ed the Worlds Work.
In 1891 Norman was married to Me-
ME Muriel Dowie, author of "A Girl in
the Carpathians" and number of
other strikingly original works.
In the divorce suit the husband nam
Arthur Fitz Gerald of the Fifth ORA
coon Guards, private secretary to the
Governor of the Gold Coast. and of
considerable renown as a mountain
climber and explorer. The case was
not contested by either Mrs. Norman
or Lieutenant Fitz Gerald.
Mr.. Norman testified that in 1899 he
was accompanied upon literary expe-
dition into Russia by his wife and by
Fitz Gerald, then his close friend. From
Russia he went TO Central Asia a trip
that he did not care to have Mrs. Nor
man make, so he sent her back to Eng
land under escort of the lieutenant.
When he returned to London he found
that mis- wife repudiated him, and
later she confessed that she loved Fitz
Gerald.
Lieutenant Fitz Gerald's mother was
Miss Mary White, of New York, daugh-
ter of ELI White who married a British