Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-04-16

of the wall is a large toilet table, all
in white, and strewn with silver
toilet articles.
1t Is a room that would naturally
suggest a young and charming girl,
but it is the expression of taste in
one of the great inventors Of the age.
Liked Him All the More.
That Santos-D umont should add 20
his manliness the fastidiousness OF q
connoisseur did not ltssen Lurlins
Spreckles' regard for him. Indeed.
she liked him all the more. The lit
tie love story, however, did not read
very well to Mrs. Spreckels, who is
more ambitious than even most wo-
men from the Pacific coast. She had
her husband tried to cast a damper
upon the two. When they failed In
this, Santos-Dumont was forbidden to
enter the Spreckles home. That was
a year g
What were the objections of par
ents to the winds? He loon found a
way of meeting Miss ~sprecklcs.
though whenever In public or at q
social gathering where they happened
to be guests he carefully avoided her
mother.
When the Spreckles are not In Paris
they reside in New York, although
their home "a originally on the
other side Of the continent, in San
Francisco.
So 1t came to be a fact that when
Santos-D umont wal In France the
Spreckles family was usually in
America, and vice versa, the spreckles
parents having found 1t best to try
TO dodge him. Nevertheless, he and
Miss Lurline have their meetings o
and then.
Three weeks g Santos-D umont ar.
rived In America on the way to st.
Louis, where he is to compete for
the $100, 900 prize offered for air
ships. BY a strange coincidence he
stopped at the Waljorf-Astoria, where
Miss Spreckles makes her home. At
the desk he was handed thirty letters
Limitations to dinner, to m~usicales.
requests for interviews and auto
graphs.
Miss ~spreckies, too. It was noted.
received invitations to the same
functions.
This in spite of the fact that Santos
Dumont Is a very busy man.
There is nothing like privacy for
me-" he admits. when | go to my
room people come; when | leave my
room they r waiting for me; when
| go out they expect me to speak 10
them"
Up To Date In Business.
When he went down into the lobby
OF the hotel the day after his arrival
seven were waiting for him. With the
suave manner born OF much expert.
ence he dismissed the sever in Ave
minutes.
Two were up to date business men
who had propositions to submit 10
him; two other young men were
prompted by curiosity to see and speak
TO the daring a%eronaut; two more
were wealthy New York men. who.
having met M. Santos In Europe,
were anxious to have him dine with
them, and n was a young woman
longing for his autograph, which she
did lot get.
None could criticise the inventor
for the treatment he accorded them.
yet all, no doubt, wondered how they
had been dismissed at once with such
brevlty and courtesy.
When santos-Dumont. sincere In
the belief that he had won the sugar
princess love. started for st. Louis
to arrange his plans for the fair, nam
ma s~preckles did not fail 10 see her
opportunity.
With the %aeronaut a thousand miles
away she ordered Miss Lurllne TO
pack her trunks. and a hasty trip
across the ocean wa begun.
They started aboard the North
German Lloyd steamship Kaiser VIII
helm on March 10. At that time
santos-Dumont was in the west. Not
a word OF the flight did he hear until
he arrived back in New York ten
days ago.
Then he found that his bird had
flown without leaving a little note.
But did Miss Spreckles accompany
her mother willingly? He does think
Anyway, he Is set on finding out.
He knows OF only one way OF doing
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