Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-10-12


Philadelphia Lawyers.
NJ. Jules Dupree, artist and ro-
manifest Of Paris and he whole wide
world. has ended his quest Tor his Ideal
girl. says the Philadelphia Press.
After a year of travelling in all parts
of the globe, from the gay b1ulevardS
10 the pyramids. from ,he prosaic
streets of philadelphia 10 the bound
less plains of the far northwest. all the
while carrying with him tiny snap
shot photograph as his only clew, he
has found her.
Better yet. he has married her They
recently sailed on transatlantic
steamer for the French capital Tie
living. smiling woman has replaced the
snapshot in Dupree's glad heart, ana
he is proud and happy beyond words
at the wonderful end of an almost
hopeless search.
The girl was Miss Constance Mo
GUARD Leaning. The artist found her
at last in the doorway of her fathers
ranch house outside of the little town
of Wolf, in Wyoming, just over the
border line of Montana among the Big
Horn mountains Two Philadelphians
who had sc1ffed with every one else
when Dupree's story became known in
Philadelphia three months ago were
the means 10 his end-the well known
lawyers Joseph Z. Rogers and John H.
X. Scott, who We're roughing it at
Wolf and met him by chance
Things like that don't happen now
adays," said those who read of the
Frenchman's love quest when he was
in Philadelphia in July. THE age of
romance is over He'd best give up
and go back to Paris"
But it seems things like that do hap
pen, and here and there IA Struggling
glimmer of romance remains.
1t was on July when IL tall, shapely
Partisan, with exquisite raiment and
black vandyke beard, registered at the
st. James hotel as Jules Dupree. Par
Is" That evening he called Manager
Miller OF the hotel into Il quiet corner
and showed him n photograph. Had
Miller ever seen the original? lie asked.
Perhaps at dinner, at a dance or func-
ton in the hotel. She had been there
once? No?
One October day in the previous year,
NJ. Dupree told Mr.. Miller he was
standing in front of the tomb of Napo-
leon, in his native city PariS) when
party of American tourists CHANGED
along Among them was young girl
just entering womanhood. When the
artists gaze rested upon her he real
lied that here was the ideal he had
been dreaming of all his life. He made
a quick sketch of her from memory as
her party passed on.
\ week later he again encountered
the tourists. They We're at drinking
fountain on one of the boulevards in
the cty's suburbs. This time Dupree
had a camera. He snapped the girls
head as she was raising il cup to her
lips The next moment she entered a
big motor car and was whired from
sight
AS the days passed the girls image
proved more and more alluring to Du-
pree. He made a resolve to find her
and meet her if it took him all the
rest of his life. He got upon the track
of the party and followed them to
Cairo. But he arrived there just three
days after they had left for parts un.
known.
Then he returned to Paris disheart-
ened, but he met several Americans
there, among them Julian Story, the
artist, and his wife. Nine. Emma
Games, the opera singer, who told him
that the little snapshot resembled a
Philadelphia girl whom they had met,
but whose name they could not recall
And hence Dupree was in Philadelphia
at the St James, looking for her. But
several persons who know all the So
ciety girls Of Philadelphia said that
this girl was a stranger. Dupree spent
day or two in Atlantic City in an
other vain search and then went to
Chicago, where cold avarice tried to
take advantage of his sentimentaism
A couple of bunko steerers told him
they knew the girl and would divulge
her name and address for Il large con
sideration. But Cupid took care Of the
artist, and he scaped with his well
filled wallet
1t was late in August when one day
Rogers and Scott, the Philadelphia
lawyers, came galloping across country
some forty miles from Wolf, Wyo
They saw a lonely figure sitting on a
rock. With wild yell Intended to
scare the man they rode directly at
him and pulled their horses back on
their launches, but the man did not
scare. He merely looked up with a
tired expression upon his black beard
ed face.
Recognizing him as gentleman, the
young men apologlzed They talked
with him for a couple of hours, and
then he made himself known as Jules
Dupree and showed them the picture.
THAT girl" said Rogers after close
scrutiny Of the snapshot sis Miss Con
stance Leaning or her double! She
lives over the border line here-a good
gallOp-in Wyoming"
They were then in Montana Dupree
eXcitedly jumped to his feet and i'm
plored his acquaintances to get him Il
horse, to take him at once to the girls
home.
81 got pony for him." said Ro-prs.
telling the story at his home the o'her
day. And you never saw II mar ride
as he did. He had Paul Revere and
those chaps beaten a mile. He was
wild, and he never quit beating that
horse for hours We got to the Lean.
Ing place, and there stood Miss Con-
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