The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-15
Pretty Story, With Utah Tinge,
Comes From New York
City.
SEARCHED FOR FORTUNE
WHILE LOVED ONE WAITED
Bride OF Energetic Young Man
Is Coming to Live in
Salt Lake.

Tho following pretty story Is taken
from the New York World OF July 10
and Will be read with interest by all
Western people-Salt Lake people in
particular:
When Louis D. Gordon. who struck
March, was packing trunks at the Ho-
tel Imperial for his wedding trip yes
terday, telegram came with this la
comic message. - |
Dave Waddell, has Jumped your
townsite with a placer claim. Better
come back quick
Mr.. Gordon, who is only % years old
and whose marriage TO Miss Cornelia
NJ. Windsor is to be solemnized In Holy
Cross Episcopal church, Plainfield. n.
j, today, by Dean Redman. sent back
this brief telegram:
'"Foo busy to return Immediately. Tell
Dayt I'll attend TO him In three weeks"
Then Mr. Gordon resumed his pack
ing and passed tho booming town Of
Gordon to the back Of his mind tenn
porarlly, He went to Plain6eld last
night, where his bride-to-be lives with
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Smith at No.
128 Grove street
After the wedding today there will
be q honeymoon trip of two weeks In
Maine and then Mr.. Gordon will es-
tablish his bride at Salt Lake City and
assume charge again of GordontoWns
which has increased an size from two
tents to place of 600 population since
gold was discovered three months ago
In such paying quantities. that Mr.. Cor
don's claim was ca PltaR ized at $1,000 900.
Around the Wedding today hangs as
pretty a romance asreNer surrounded
pair of young lovers It dates back to
ha pf yzg
don, whose father before him had al
ways spent his summers at Pleasant
Point, ". J., went there to get the
elkaH dust OF the Nevada desert coun-
try out of him. o.
Love Sent Hun Back Again.
His laet previous year Ia Nevada had
been spent as cashier of the bank In
Austin, and when he came East IL was
with a firm resolve to get position In
some brokers' office In Philadelphia or
New York and wear launderedi linen
every day. But the little god cupid
disposed otherwise.
At the Hotel Carrollton, where the
| tall. 1.-THE young Westerner stayed, was
| q little woman with blue eyes and
brown hair and gentle ways. who was
unlike anything he had ever seen OF
dreamed OF in the Western country.
| MISC Windsor had been reared In the
homo Of wealthy parents, surrounded
| by every luxury and every advantage
| that money and refinement could COM
mand He fell in love with her promptly
and, to his surprise. she surrendered her
| heart to him
His proposal Of marriage was about
| like this: Il love you, and l shall
never love and never marry any other
woman but you; but I'm too much OF
a. man to ask you to share the lot !
can offer you now. III go back to Ne
vada, which is no ut country for
white man toslive In, but where man
can make monew1f he has patience and
pluck. and I'll stay there till I've made
enough to support a wife In the way
Won have lived and ought to live And
If you'll walt long enough I'll come back
| with nv fortune and offer you my
heart and hand. And If you get tired
OF waiting L won't blame you but
please, dear, wait for me.
| The answer must have been satlsfao-
tory. because for two years Gordon bat
tied with fate and hard luck and alkali
dust and life In tent, and always Kept
cheerful.
Fortune at Last
He took the management Of q mine
on Round Mountain for a Plttsourg
syndicate and then 1t was decided to
abandon operations, He owed S2OOO and
had not q cent. He had done some
prospecting himself on the soutn sloe
Of the mountain and he had just about
paid off his debts when wonderful
surface deposit turned up on his own
claim and Round Mountain began to
attract prospectors from all over the
mining country.
Then a rival claimant appeared and
for a time 1t wes a toss-up whether
the Round Mountain country was TO
see some sensational shooting or tedl-
ious and bitterly contested lawsuit.
'I wouldn't have been hanged or any
thing like that" said Mr., Gordon re-
. nectiyelv Yesterday. land II 1t hadn't
been for this little woman back East
| probably would have done what men
usually do In Nevada when they be-
lIeye come one has jumped theil
claims unlawfully, But l f1gured that
after all. the easiest ways the best
and 80 I compromised. Then laid Out
the town and had 1t accepted by the
/ county Commlssloners-and I guess
8 that's ALL
"But about the brtde-to-ber was
4 "Well" said Mr. Gordon, modestly
: at think she's the most wonderfu
woman I'm the world; but l suppos'
: every man thinks that, doesn't he
about the woman he loyes7 shes hae
wonderful influence on my life Bu
o. bor ia probably be waiting tria