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ana was sending for her to come home.
It has been said, though. that he has
put It in his will IN the form OF re-
quest that his granddaughter, Cynthia
Burke Roche, shall not marry a for
eigner, as her mother did.
Miss Van Aliens Victory.
: In the late notoriety of young Rob-
ert Collier 1t was remembered what
a strenuous opposition was put up
against him as a son-in-law by James
Van Allen. Mrs. Van Allen was the
daughter of Mrs. William Astor, and
it has been said that Mr. James Van
Allen is one of the most snobbish men
in America. He refused the offer of
Grover Cleveland to send him as min
lister to Italy, and, like William Wal
dorf Astor, he has decided that Eng
land is the only place to live in and
bring up his family. When his young
est daughter, Sara, fell in love with
Robert Collier, his only objection to
the young man was because he was
Irish. The rumor of their engagement
was at first scornfuily denied by the
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A pretty predicament this was, and
a pretty position 10 put millionaire
in-and multimillionaire at that-es-
pecially one who has been accus-
toned to carrying things with a high
hand.
Get Blessing and Welcome.
Interviewers and many other men
had found that, for all Eugene Zim-
norman was considered bluff and
hearty, he could give man bad ten
seconds who asked him questions or
took any attitude which he regarded
as an impertinence. Before that last
cablegram arrived, and while the mil
lionaire still was denying, bets were
exchanged freely that it would go hard
with Helena and with the duke If the
news turned out to be true.
But no. Without any possible way
of knowing how the mistake had all
come about, Papa Zimmerman refused
to make any harsh Judgment of his
little girl who always had been all
and all to him. He proceeded to do
all, and more, to justify the sublime
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-06-08
GETTING CREW FOR WHALER
Times Without Number to Get
Him Aboard.

In Harper's Magazine Clifford w.
Ashley, the artist who recently made
a trip in an old-fashioned whaler for
the magazine, tells entertainingly Of
the difficulties of finally getting the
crew together and aboard ship.
Sunday morning, long before the
church bells rung," says Mr.. Ashley,
eve were gathered in the darkened
front of the store. 1 had stopped at
the postofice for my mail, and as
stepped out again into the bright sun
shine Of that August morning, a cou-
pie of sailors numbered hastily by and
lodged around the corner. AS they
were vanishing, one of the owners
appeared in the street, gazing up and
down in a mystified manner, vainly
seeking glimpse of the runaways
When he saw me he hailed cheerfully
From the alley whence he had
emerged, series of derisive boots fol-
lowed him, then a wagon-load of sea-
men appeared, being trundled off to
the river. Swaying and pitching as
the cart jolted over the cobbles, they
boisterously spoke each passerby,
making the street hideous with their
yells. Before l entered the store
saw them, one by one, dropping off
over the tail-board, utterly oblivious
to the protests of the unfortunate dry
goods clerk who was held responsible
for their delivery.
1.-THE front shop was crowded and
noisy, but the real hubbub was in a
small back room. Here the sailors,
bowling and pounding, were lockcad up
when caught, and held till the recarn
of the wagon to take them off to the
river. Word was received that the
mate refused to go on board till he
had partaken of his Sunday dinner.
On various pretexts others sought to
get off for a while longer-one had
forgotten to bid his mother goodbye;
another had left home without an
overcoat. The clerks rushed frantical-
ly about. Each man had to be round
up up-not once, but half a dozen
times"
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In Affairs of the Heart, Wealthy Papas Seem to Have
Very Little to Say.
GENERALLY SURRENDER WITH GOOD GRACE
Cases OF WheImina Busch, Helena Zimmerman and Mrs.
Burke Roche Among the Many Might
Cifed-How James IAN Allen
Forced TO Give In.

IF you intend to be married, come
back and be married at home. 1 have
no objections to Mr.. Scharrer as a SON.
in-law," he says by telegraph. And
he is as good and better than his word.
He advises them to wait until things
quiet down a little, and then gives
his daughter wedding at beautiful
Pasadena. More than this, he starts
them of on their wedding trip in his
private car Adolphus. which they only
left at New York to take the trip to
Europe. This and much more was pro-
vided by Papa BusCh's generosity.
Kept Papa Zimmerman Guessing.
So with the few exceptions that
prove the rule, it always has been in
the history of American millionaires.
Not long ago the world held its breath
at the rashness of Helen Zimmerman.
Was she married? Papa Zimmerman
said mo" He also said that he
would know something about it if any
body would, provided such thing had
happened, and yet cablegrams kept
coming that she was.
You cannot make my denial too
explicit" he said, "for there is abso-
lutely nothing in the report. If there
had been 1 certainly would have heard
Of it, and not a word have received.
Why, my daughter is on the ocean this
minute on the steamship Campania,
which is expected to arrive at New
York on Wednesday, She will be &C
companied by her aunt, Miss Evans,
and by no one else. Now that she has
sailed to this country, will you tell me
how she could have been married?"
1t was suggested that the marriage
took place on the Wednesday before,
which the millionaire denied, but
which, it turned out, was just what
had happened. The young people had
decided to get married, but to keep the
ceremony secret until the bride could
go to Cincinnati. But the suddenness
of the ceremony and the secrecy had
been decided upon because of the wild
and unsettled affairs of the duke, and
the ceremony was performed with the
consent of the brides aunt, Miss Eff
fie Evans. She AMI the bride expect
ed to sail on Wednesday, and had so
cabled Papa Zimmerman. A necessary
trip on the part of the bride to Paris,
however, to get her wardrobe and close
her apartment there made an unfore-
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cattle and buildings, for 1t carries
with it the impoverishment of whole
region for tens or even hundreds of
years afterward. The loss of the
stumpage value of the timber at the
time of the fire is but small part Of
the damage to the neighborhood. The
wages that would have been earned in
numbering, added to the value of the
produce that would have been pur-
chased to supply the lumber camps
and the taxes that would have been
devoted to roads, and other public i'm
provements, furnish a much truer
measure of how much, sooner or later,
it costs a region when it's forests are
destroyed by fire."
There are two recognized fire sea-
sons in the United States, In the
spring and fall. The fire season when
the greatest damage is done in the
middle west, far west and parts of the
south, is in the period between late
August and early November. H. NJ
Suter, editor of Forestry and Irriga-
ton, in an article in the Review of
Reviews, says that carelessness in one
form or another is cause of most of
the forest fires in the United States.
"Of those proceeding from carelessness
fully one-half are due to railroads and
their employees. Indeed, an expe-
rienced forester, who for number of
years was a locomotive engineer, is
authority for the statement that at
- 60
est fires are due to railroads. Sparks
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-06-08

| Van Aliens.
Mr.. Van Allen was obdurate, and, al
though his daughter declared she
would marry him ard nobody else, she
was whisked off to Europe in the hope
that she would forget him. Instead
he followed, and she laid such siege
to her father that he looked on ii
with a little more favor. She returned
home, where she exercised the grand
coup and won over her grandmother
Mrs. William Astor. She also joined
the Roman church. Finally, one day
with bad grace and perhaps because
he had to, but none the less because
he was managed, James Van Allen cap
itulated.
1t was not, however, until the day
of the marriage, when he reluctantly
gave the bride away at a civil mar
riage in the drawing-room of a hotel
None of Mr.. Golfers family was pres
ent, and Immediately afterwards Sec
ond marriage took place at st. Mary's
Roman Catholic church, at which Mr.
Golfers parents were present and Mr.
Van Allen remained away.
Charles oelrichs' Surrender.
Charles Oelrichs was forced to give
in in much the same way to his daugh-
ter Lily when she became Mrs. Peter
D. Martin. He, contrary to the other
papas, had marked her out for titled
Englishman. But she took desperate
fancy to the young Californian, who
although he had some wealth and posi-
ton in the western state, had only re-
Gently acquired it.
Miss Lily, who is beautiful blonde
announced from the first that she in
tended to marry Mr.. Martin, but heI
parents tried the same tactics of freez.
ing out that had prevailed at Papa Van
Aliens. Three times the engagement
was announced, and twice the we'd
ding day was set, and then it was
postponed, and young Mr.. Martin
returned to California. But at last
they had to give in to Miss Lily, and
the ceremony, postponed once more
for week, finally came off. But
through it all Charles Oelrichs never
acted ugly.
Romances Without Opposition.
OF course when Miss Frederick Webb
married Ralph Pulitzer, and when Miss
Caroline Phelps Stokes married Rob-
ert Hunter they did not at first re.
ceive much opposition, as they had diff
ferent parental material to deal with
DR.. Steward Webb always has been
noted for his progressiveness, and he
and his daughter Frederick always
have held the same ideas as to the
uses of money in the world, so that
marrying a fortune was not consid.
cred great point with them.
Andrew Carnegie is another whose
little girl, if she grows up to be q
willful young lady, will not lack fol
the support of the man with millions
let her do what she will-or at least
so all would believe who remember
how Loyalty he came to the support OF
his favorite niece, Miss Nancy Car
negie, when everybody In her family
was against her.
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The recent forest fires in the Mich
igan Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin
bring up other forest fires that have
worked such havoc in our splendid
timber lands. Fires in the Adiron-
dacks seem to be annual visitations,
sometimes reaching large proportions,
sometimes effectively routed ere much
damage has been done; again we hear
of the great waste in the forest re-
gions of the Pacific coast; of fires in
the turpentine forests of the south;
again, that timber lands in Michigan
and Wisconsin have been swept by the
fire demon.
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the forest
service, United States department of
agriculture, gives in the Farmers Bull
letin short review of historic fires,
fires that have reached gigantic pro-
portions. Mr.. Pinchot tells of the
Hinckley, Mimi, fire of September 1,
1894; the great fires in Michigan in
1881; Wisconsin Peshtigo fire OF Octo-
Der, 1871, and the Michigan fires of the
same year; Oh the Miramichi fire Of
1926.
In the latter fire a region in New
Brunswick suffered. This fire at about
one o'clock in the afternoon was rag
ing at place some 60 miles above the
town of Newcastle, on the Miramichi
river; before ten o'clock 1t was 20
miles below Newcastle. ''In nine hours
1t had destroyed belt Of forest 80
miles long and 25 miles wide. Over
more than two and a half million
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-06-08

faith that she had put in him. He
answered the cablegram by cabling his
blessing. He was one of the first to &c
up the side of the st. Louis when the
vessel arrived. He entered the state
room, in the cenetr of which stood
his daughter with the duke by he1
side. He kissed her with a certain
apparent dimness and moisture in his
eyes, and then shook hands with the
duke.
Congratulations, sincere congratula-
tions," he said, "and welcome home.
Everybody knows how he has taken
hold of the task laid out for him
since; how he has tried to make a
business man out Of his son-in-law;
how he has turned over millions to
redeem the dukes estate; how every
thing that is in his power is done fol-
the happiness of his daughter; and
how he is working night and day that
her boy, little Lord Vaudeville, shall
one day inherit greater wealth.
Frank Work and His Daughter.
It was years ago when the million
aire, Frank Work, began to play the
same role for his adughter and Eng
fish son-in-law. 1t was in 1881 that a
tall, handsome young man visited New
York and laid siege to his beautiful
daughter. The father opposed the
match with all his might, but they
were married and went to London. II
was only a little while after that
Mr.. Work was sending them $1,000 a
year to live on. A little later he in
creased it to $4,000 Then he cut off
all allowances. He said his daughter
had married a man who never could
or never would make living, and that
he was tired of furnishing allowances
and paying bills at the same time.
With the 'wherewithal" cut off, Mrs
Burke Roche soon returned with her
children. She went straight to the
house on Twenty-sixth street. In
1891 she obtained divorce from her
husband in Delaware, and ever since
has been living at her fathers house
as its beautiful mistress. AS has late
ly come forth, she has had little spoiled
ways Of her own ever since which
were not exactly in accord with the
fussy notions of an old man. He has
flown into rage at her more than
once, which is not anything remark
able when it is considered that he is
81 years old. But she is her fathers
daughter, and, moreover, she is not in
the least AFRAID that he means it, and
she knows exactly how to manage
him. So, when he reprimanded hel
for having her luncheon served on q
| little tray in the parlor, she ordered
her maid to pack up her trunks and
remove to the Buckingham. A pretty
| bluff, wasn't it, when it is considered
/ that all his daughters mea2s of liv.
ing is the 100000 which he allows hel
year.
But she knew exactly how to man.
age her father, who is given to mag
lining things-so say her sons-and il
was only short time until he was
denying the rumoIs that were f1yine
about that he had diisinherited her
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ter was the kind which makes her nIls-
fortunes into triumphs-the only kind
worth while to woman.
At first Papa Busch frowned on the
young German officer-as sutton, that
is. But in the role of an indulgent
father he did not object to his coming
TO the house, and from there they went
riding and driving every day. Then
came the attempted elopeNent and its
flasco, after which the Busch mansion
was called up by telephone. In the
face of so fragrant disregard of his
wishes and the failure of his little
scheme of letting the matter wear it.
self out, what does Papa Busch do?
lis quickly capitulates.
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II nnillionaireS are managed by no
one else in the world, they are at least
managed by their daughters. In an
analysis which turns the limelight
upon all the ways of the extremely
rich man, from his early beginnings,
to his eating and drinking, his dress
and appearance his work and recrea-
ton, his words and probable thoughts,
there is probably only one person of
all those to whom he is continual
show and study, to whom he is not for
midable.
This person is his daughter.
When it was said that "a little child
shall lead them" it should have been
said that beruff1ed and befurbelowed
grown-up daughter, with pink tinted
fingers, shining and waving tresses,
and all the complexities that go to
make up the daughters as well as the
little sisters of the rich, shall lead
them.
The millionaire may guard himself
with his millions, may iintrench him
self from the long arm of the law,
may be silent, unapproachable, and
impervious to questioning, investiga-
ton or attack, but all of sudden
some day he will be turned into soft
hearted creature who does not what
he would, but what he must, and does
it with the best grace possible. All
this is because his pretty daughter, at
some particular crisis in her life, sud-
denly has taken it into her pretty
head to do as she pleases, either with
or without Papa MiIlionaire's consent,
as the case may be.
The way he stands for her and what
she does or plays the opposite part is
a final test of his character in the
hearts of many people, and one which
throws a revealing light upon his true
self, although it is one which seems
to be lost sight OF by G. r. Clarke,
Owen SWEET Marsden, and other mil
lionaire students and experts.
Case of Wilhelmina Busch.
Whatever may have been the eccen-
tricities covered either in herself or
her lover by the arrangements which
Papa Millionaire Busch made in order
to wed Miss Wilhelmina Busch proper
ly and conventionaliy to Lieut.. Schar-
rer, nobody could doubt thaI in every
thing he showed first, last, and alto
gether, that the love he bore his daugh-
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Diplomatic Subject.

Italy's king recently paid visit to
Vesuvius. On the occasion of a pre-
vious visit an Italian newspaper an
nounced that the eruption had the
honor of being witnessed by his mai
esty." 1t was a German paper that
once stated that certain royal prince
twas graciously pleased to be born
yesterday" Equally courtierlike was
an army officer in attendance ON the
king of Spain not long ago. The king
asked him what was the time The
courtier fumbled for his watch, but
could not find it, then respectfully re-
piled: Whatever time your majesty
pleases."
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seen delay, and the sailing had to be
postponed uEtil Saturday. She was
detained in Pars and missed the boat,
and when she arrived in London the
duke insisted on going to Tanderagee
castle. This was not according to the
agreement, but the girl was again
persuaded, the aunt and guardian
again going along. OF course, the
Tanderagee trip made the announce
ment of the wedding necessary, and
then it was that the messages were
cabled back and forth, the newspapers
asserting and Papa Zimmerman deny
ing. The next thing Papa Zimmerman
received was cable saying that it was
all true, and asking his blessing.
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OUR DEVASTATING
FOREST FIRES

es-Careessnes Largely Annual
Loss-Eforts to Cope With Problem.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-05-11
OUR UNGRAC.
IOUS PRESIDENT.

The presidents message telling
about foreign offers of aid to the Cali
fornia sufferers by earthquake and
fire, and why he refused them, has
escaped general attention in the
presence of his other message of far
greater moment, but it is just as well
that the world is too busy to notice,
for it does not edo him proud" In
fact, it adds to the long record of un-
gracious and harsh things said and
done by our impulsive chief execu-
tive.
Over and over again the United
States has assisted the people of other
nations when in distress. Now, when
with generous impulse they would re-
turn the kindness, it was an ungrac-
ious thing for our president to take it
upon himself to say no, even though
he added thank you. He might at
least, have referred these kindly offers
to Congress for further thanks and
final action.
Of course, this great and rich ma
ton is able to take care of its own
distressed, but that is not the ques-
ton. A rich man who aids his
neighbors in distress and wins their
gratitude, would be little thought of
if he should proudly refuse the shelter
of their humble homes when driven
from his own by fire, or otherwise the
victim of misfortune. Are we, who
have so generously aided others, too
proud to accept help from them?
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-05-11
Planting Electric Light Poles.

A force of men under Electrician
Jones began the planting of poles for
the electric light extension ON Walnut
street yesterday and will finish the
work today. Eight poles in all will
be needed. The extension will be car
ried from Lower Mulberry street up
the first alley east of Church street,
thence out along Walnut street, where
the section occurs that is to be lighted
up.
The material needed has been order
ed and will probably arrive in few
days, after which it will only be a
short time until the additional lamps
will be installed and portion of the
town that has always been in darkness
will have the benefit of electric light
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-05-11

and others congregated about her to
behold the circus she made of herself,
and for sometime she was thus de-
layed until trolley arrived and
transported her to her home, which
she said was beyond Grovania. What
do you think home, with such an
over-ruling power, must be? or imagine
the modification the children and
husband must bear on the return of
this degenerate. Isn't this Il sad
case? ? and yet someone in our city
must have provided the serpent with
its sting and damning influence to
this depraved specimen of fallen man
kind.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-05-11
A Grave CHARGE.

We sincerely hope that there is no
foundation in fact for the charge in
ferentially made by Senator Tillman
of South Carolina to the effect that
President Roosevelt has been reward.
ing men with public office for partici-
patton in a disgraceful scene in the
White House that occurred some
weeks ago. In other words the Sena-
tor form South Carolina introduced a
resolution in the body of which he is
a conspicuous member, the other day,
reciting the particulars of the brutal
arrest Of a woman in the President s
waiting room and asking for a Con-
gressional inquiry to ascertain whether
participants in that affair "have since
received recognition by the appoint
ment of near relatives to office"
Unhappily there are some grounds
for suspicion in the matter. 1t is
known that the instigator of the crime
against common decency was Benjam-
in f. Barnes, Assistant Secretary to
the President who has since been ap-
pointed Postmaster of Washington,
though he is not an "inhabitant" of
the city in legal sense, and there is
no other conceivable reason for his
promotion. 1t is now asserted that
sons of Major Sylvester and Elmer Z.
Payne, who took conspicuous part
in the outrage have been appointed as
cadets to West Point for the same
reason. Senator Tillman wants IL
thorough investigation of the matter
with the view no doubt of exculpating
the President from the charge and re.
moving the suspicion.
If the President is thus misusing
the patronage of his great office he
ought to be exposed. He has offend
ed grievously, in this particular in the
past, for it is notorious that four years
ago he allowed the late Senator Quay
to openly trade official commissions
for votes in the convention that nomi-
mated Pennypacker for Governor. 1t
is equally well known that he freely
offered official patronage for votes in
Congress against Congressional in
vestigation of the postal scandals two
years ago. But it is inconceivable
that he would prostitute the public
service to the base use which Senator
Tillm ms resolution implies.