The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-10-12
He BABE FAREWELL TO EASE
A Nephew of Henry G Davis Who Oh
tanned Work Under Assumed Name.

has made its appearance in a num-
Der of our exchanges. The story
is fimsy in more particulars than
once. Henry G. Davis never had
brother named J. H. Davis and
so far as can be learned he has but
one nephew named Davis, he be
ing a son of the late VIM. R. Da-
Wis, who died at Deer Park many
years ago.
The story follows:
Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 5.-Gassa-
way Davis, son of J. H. Davis,
of Davis, w. Va, and nephew of
Henry Gassaway Davis, is missing,
and the police all over the country
have been asked to help find him.
Had he not 50 suddenly and
strangely disappeared the en-
ployees in the Carnegie steel mills
at Homestead might never have
known that Oliver Hall, a hand
some, tall and apparently we'll ed
uCated young man who had been
working as a fireman on a switch
ing engine about the mills for the
last year, was the favorite nephew
of United States Senator Davis
and retrospective heir to several
million dollars. Gassaway Davis
and Oliver Hall are one and the
same person.
Young Davis has spent ali of
his life in the lap Of luxury with
the exception of the last year. His
father is wealthy in his own name,
and his uncle, Henry Gassaway
Davis, for whom he was named
has always fairly idolized him.
While he was still in his teens he
was taken to Washington by his
uncle, and for one term served as a
page in the Senate. Then he came
back to West Virginia for a while,
but he was not content. He long
ed to be doing something. So he
decided to drift out in the world
alone and see if as a young man
without q name to boost him
along he could make a living for
himself.
One day, little more than a
year ago, Davis disappeared from
his home in West Virginia. His
relatives did not hear from him for
several days and were greatly al
armed. Then he wrote that he
was tired of loafing and had gone
to Homestead, assumed the name
of Oliver Hall, and was working
as locomotive fireman. Although
they tried hard to induce him to
return and resume his place in his
home and society, young Davis
replied that he was perfectly hap
Ply in his present position and for
his relatives not to worry about
him.
No more popular man than Oil
yer Hall lived in Homestead. He
lived in a little room in boarding
house, such as beftted his position
as a locomotive fireman, got up
early, ate breakfast with the other
men, carried his dinner in a pail
to the yards and ate it on his en-
CINE, went home for supper and
spent his evenings as any of the
thousands Of other young working
men.
Soon after his arrival in Home
stead, Davis uncle was stumping
the country in his campaign for
the e-Presidency. People in
Homestead are now trying to re-
call what young Davis said and
did, but none recall that he said
or did anything to betray his dis
guise. He said he was a Demo
crat, and that he would cast his
vote for Parker and Davis.
Davis left his house on Septem-
Der 26 with his-dinner pail as
usual, but instead of going to the
steel works he went to a barber
shop in Homestead and had his
Van Dixie beard shaven off.
That is the last Homestead has
seen of Oliver Hall.
When the Davis family in West
Virginia found that their letters
to Oliver Hall were returned I'm