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with and he proved less amenable 70
''reason' than the girl. There was
great commott0u AT court The en-
EaErment was broken. and finally. in
desperation. the young counts father
sent him IN America. But even with
the ocean between. the young man.
although ne cared not a whit for Che
girl could not bring himself 10 aban-
don her OF even consent To pension
ing her He had come 20 NeU York
with letters TO many prominent per-
sons. and among several be was pu-
up AZ the Metropolitan Club there
He stayed al the Empire Hotel. at
Sjxty-sixth street and Broadway.
At last he threw away the pseudouvm
"Nr. Graf" which he had taken IN
this country and rlEhtfuuv called him
self Ferdinand won Hoehb@rg. Ard
he sought employment Through The
influence OF his attorney. George C.
Harrison. or 30 BroadWay- he oh
tanned a position as chauffeur with
the MaNwell-Bri =coa Company. auto
m6oile manufacturers. Of Tarryt0un.
To the astonishmeut of }he few who
knew his real identity he succeeded
in th7 work that he did not know. and.
at last. confident that he could make
living here In America, he cabIed
Louise Carow. the shop girl, and soId
he 10 come to him.
She escaped the country with dIC-
fculty and when the police in Berlin
discovered she had gone they cabIed
the German consul here to prevent her
landing at Ellis Island on the ground
that she was an immoral woman. But
the warning came too late. The count
and the shopEirl had met
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Old Matrimonial Records.

ment, had been married 20 no fewer
than three members OF her own sex,
whom in turn she robbed and deserted: /:
and at the same time two women were
keeping public house AT Poplar as
man and wife. and 1t was only on her
death bed that the wife" revealed tha
secret which had been successfully kept
for rhTty-siN years
About ten years aso Or. Mary Spencer
was married at Meath to her eleventh
husband, her first appearance at the
altar being at The age cf fifteen. and
her latest at forty-four A Mexican
lady. Sonora RCy Castillo. buried seven
husbands between 1850 and 1895. each OF
them dying q violent death. a man 8f
Bordeaux only Welded up the ghost in
lll- after he had welded his sixteenth
BRIDE Jerome tells or a widow who had
buried tWelty-cne husbands before she
was united ta a man who had already
survived twenty wives. and Evelyn
beats this amazing record with the case
az woman who. when be saw her was
married 10 her twenJy-ftth husband
Tit-Bits.
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Bright Eyes Versus Nobility.

81 N4 u Jus -fnpAAAA
That night at the tavern tables they
toasted the life OF the young count.
Helath, wealth and happlness-that
and more they wished him. strangely
enough. for little OF any had they
themselves. But they were satisfied
with their lot, trusting IN what little
the morrow might bring. They had
been born to Il. why should they
Erudge an innocent child IT'S luxury?
So they filled their pewter mugs again
and drank through the night and until
tEe sun or another day had mounted
high IN the heavens
That night. too. a courier rode ont
across the drawbridge, striking across
the country to Berlin 10 carry TO His
Imperial Majesty the Kaiser news Of
the birth OF the Rohnstock heir. And
within a week he returned with the
Imperial congratulations for the
father.
Twenty-Five years later the young
Count Won HoChberg str0Hed into a
Berlin shop 20 buy a pair Of gloves
and Louise Carow waited on him. Her
bright eyes and winning smiles at
tracted him and he sought her ac-
quainJance- She had seen this dashinz
young officer as he led his company
every morning past the shop whrre
she was employed and was nattered
by his advances.
Louise Carow was one Of a Thousand
IN Berlin. There was nothing remark
able about her looks She was unedu-
Gated. unknown. but Count Ferdinand
met her frequently. although later he
forgot her and she dropped out OF his
life for q time
Louise Carow, however. remem-
bered- She had been born on June IL
1888, in obscurity. She had no earIv
opportunities. Her public school edu-
cation lasted until she was eight years
old, wien she was taken away and
sent 10 earn her living
And Louise, destined to be the fu-
ture Countess Won Hoch5erg. found
employment in a glove factory.
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WELL ARMED

''WeIl-uh. now Nustah Lazzenberrn
If yo' please, sah." said a small but
determined-Iooking coI7red man. who
was disCTeetly carrying something con-
Ceaied behind his back upon ua-ffs---
I'm the high road a broad &
who bore himself with OF
leuce. ''des gimme y0- su
tention. and don't dulge IT
sary transpIavicati0n tive
nun p0- and humble spec
heen told. sab. dat de n 20
had de pleasure Of kotchin' me handy
80 was uh-gdine to lick me. for suthfn'
OF nudder. Il don't specially matter
what, twell muh lady friend would hat.
ter puhduce one O. muh old tin-types
To see how 7 used 20 look Uh-weu.
sab, as a membuh IN good standiB' Of
de Ebenezer Chapel, has taken dfs
mattah 10 de Lawd IN pra'r, ana I has
armed muhse'f wild de helmet O. right.
eousness and de breastplate o. faith.
and. sides all dat I has trimmed uu
dis yuh able-bodied ellum club. which
Ise been mOdestly wearin' behind nun
back, and 81 yo' nggers on stahtin'
anything wld me. Is wild yo' sab. Ia
plumb wild yo' fun de beginnin' 70 ds
sndin Puck.
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- HAT the days of romantic mar
hiazes are by no means AZ an end
is proved BY the fact that within
few davs recently the Lady Su-
pcriar Of a Budapest convent who had
for twenty wears worn the veil Of a nun,
became the wife of a stonemason young
enough To be heI son. a wealthy widow
OF washington gave her hand ana heart
20 "a blind street singer a German count
n long descent led a washerwoman' =
daughter TO the altar. and a Russian
countess eIoped with her footman.
But cupid has played pranks fat
stranger than any OF these A good
many years ago a bridegroom of eighty
yeaTs-a hopeless bachelor. II ever there
was one-was carr1ed 10 the altar in
Scotland on mems shoulders. His legs. '
says the chronicler, were drawn up 20
his ears. his arms were twisted back
ward. and almost every member was
Que Of Joint
Yet this senIle, p,rahle caricatuTe Of
a man had won for his bride one Of the
falrest and sweetest maids IN all the
country round. a girl who had only just
reached her twentieth birthday And IN
New York only a few months ago. a
handsome Young doctor took 10 wife a
lady who had been a school fellow of
his grandmother. and who for twenty
years had been not only blind. but a
helpless invalid.
AZ Worcester a blacksmith OF ninety
u-aS once mated to child af hfteen; IN
berkshire a blind woman Of ninety was
welded to her ploWmau, youth or
twenty. and a little later a girl OF six
rapn became the bride of a man who
v-as nearly eighty when she was
rradIed Almost more remarkable still
vsas Berkshire wedding. of many
years ago. in which bridegroom and
bride numbered 16S years between them
-he was eighty-tive and she bat two
Years Younger; the two bridesmaids
had celebrated their seventeen birthday.
and the path 10 the altar was strew
with flowers by six OF the bridegroom s
granddaughteTs.
Still more mysterious are the cases IN
which a woman has successfully played
the role OF bridegroom. and has actual
ly lived for years with her wife" with
out arousiug any suspicion In her neigh
bors In the eighteenth century a Wo-
man. who was pilloried in Cheapside
and sentenced to six months imprison-
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The two took up their reS!derce in
Ossining. \. Y. on Waller avenue
in little boarding house. and there
they were known as Mr. and Mrs
Graf"
Everything was dropped when The
relationship between Ferdinand and
Louise vas learned His father Is
furious. his mother unreconcned. his
friends frantic. Only the military
court Of honor is unheard from. Next
month this court viii Sill and its DE-
cision VIII be handed down by the
Kaiser himself.
on Monday, September s. "A daugb.
ter was born to Louise Carow. II has
been named Johanna Louise-and by
right OF the marriage which was sol
em1ized between the count and the
ship glrl the child VIII be entitled to
bear. with all that it may bring her,
the title of Johanna Louise, Countess
Won HocEberg.
And Louise. the little shop girie
Young Ferdinand now calls her his
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1 ZIG Chosen for HIm.

His whole life had been planned for
him, 50 why not his marriage Early
In life a military career had been map
ped out for Won Hnrh5erg. He had
been sent 10 the Bleen Military Col
lega where the Crown Prince William
was one Of his fellow-stu5eats and one
Of his intimate friends. They were In
separable. and AT his marriage the
crown price appointed the young Count
Won HoChberg chief usher. shortly
after his graduation no was appointed
a Lieutenant ~ the FIRST Regiment Of
German Foot. and became attached 90
the Kalsers personal bodyEuard. He
was continually at court whether at
Berlin or Potsdam-
The Couut had been IN the army
two years when the choice was made
for him. He was then young man
OF twenfy-four and "a wcll-known fix
ure at court When liS marriage with
the princess was arranged the be-
trothaI was announced with great
ceremony In the palace. and the count
and his brldC-to-be were both pre-
seuted 10 the Kaiser.
The day of his wedding drew close
at hand, when It was discovered that
Louise Carow. a shopgirl whom the
count had met In "a glove store. was
in delicate health He told his father
Of this fact and of bis decision to
marry her BUT this the former tried
70 Illustrate. Offering the girl q life
compensation.
Speaking Of this phase of the af-
fair. tho Countess Won Hochbers, she
that was Louise Carow said:
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Then baF7n wears of drudRery. which
lasted until a brutal employer forced
her inro the street by his objection
able attentions She returned 10 her
home and Was beaten for her virtue.
and fhe following dag sent Qua again
-1 look once more for work She was
unsuccessful that day and for nany
days afterWErd. blt AT last. by her
previous knowledge gained ln the fac
tory. she secured position in the
glove store. where fate threw the
count Ferdinand across her path
The rest is simple. as the girl her
self tells the story He came 20 buy
"a pair OF gloves, and I served him,
and when ne came a second time I
served him again We became ac-
gualnred On that way. and so my love
story began. for 7 lowed him from
that FIRST time
They were married morganatically.
But that as a rule means nothing
when Sc comes 90 the serious affairs OF
life The Kaiser would set that aside
when the time came. And apparently
it would come soon.
Count Ferdinand no longer visited
the glove shop Louise. The shopglrI,
had passed out Of bis life and her
memory was only recalled by the ban
ter Of his comrades AT the barracks.
AS the -ouuE Count Won Hochberg
grew 20 manhood. HIS father and
mother began planning his future and
his marriage Here was one % the
greatest of all questions 20 he consid-
ered-not only in the interest OF the
count. but also in that of the house
Won H0chberg- 1t was a duty that was
not shirked or delayed. Diplomacy dc
tated a union with one 0f the foremost
aC the r-lsnIng families. and father
and mother began % cast around for
the most advantageous match. Louise
Carow. the l0WIy born. was eating out
her heart in the glove shop.
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marriage. is Iegitlmatized. So when
she ia twenty-oue years Of age she viii
come into her title as Countess Johan-
ma Louise Won HUchberg.
Thus might Louise Carow nave eX-
pected 70 marry. with no music, no
-heir. nothing but the rattle OF dishes
as dinner was being laid I'm the next
room. But IL was nor at all such q
setting a= might have been expected
for the marriage OF Count Hans Won
Hochberg. the d1nce of princess or
one Of the reigning families. an officer
In The First Regiment of German Foot
the KaIscr's bodyguard, and as such
in daily attendance al the Imperial
nal.na--
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ana great crowd Of peasants
thronEed the Vide courtyard Of an
cient Roh1stock castle Old men I'm
homespun coats and bast boots. young
men fn new cloth. brlght-coIore6 belts
and shoes; old women in somber slo-
venly attire. young women with red
'kerChlefs tied around their heads. and
even dressed-up children with oiled
hsir-au were gathered solemnly. sl-
lent. YET 5ostliHg and pushing one an
other almost vlciously. Most Of them
had been there since dawn. many from
the day before some from the dav he
fore that. and again even the day be-
fore that Yet, strangely. no one spoke.
There was expectation iu the alr. An
heir or Rohustock was hoped for
Would q be a male chalds
An hour-tWo hourz-uasse The
sun crawled higher and higher into
the heavens. so that one had 90 tIt
ones head 90 see IT, II had risen al
most 20 the meridian. when suddenly
from the batued keep or the Old castle
sCams the reVeTbeTuting boom or a
cannon.
Instantly all were attention. every
eve trained ON the fading smoke cloud
that the cannon vom,ted They
watched and counted silently. hold
ing their breath. One. two. three,
four. they told on on their fingers and
20 on untl the reyerberatlons reach
Cd tWCnty-Oue-
AS the last echo died away In the
green hills beyond a mighty cheer
went up. The transformation was
magical Instantly al were delirlous
with delight and the cheer of the
peasantry rolled back and forth over
the strange assembIaee In a Wild well
come "a the pink and blinking boy
baby heir 10 the castle Of Rohnstock
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princess. The coming of the little
child has awakened in him "A love for
the msther that he never felt before.
He is happy at last.
Occasionally he thinks Of the Faith
erIand and the imperial palace, The
throne that he might have had. of ali
the estate that could have been his
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y ~
/ Striking contrast.

IN striking contrast to this obscure
informal wedding of Won Hochoerg
two weeks ago was the ostennuous
display on the occasion of the young
counts birth some twenty-seven years
veras ago-an event that stirred the
tenants of the great estates Of Rohn-
stock.
1t was the Hst of November 1873.
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Hor Rennnciaflon.

All were Intensely lna.s..ant when
Count Won T0ChbCrg declared he
would marry me They tried every
conceivable plan to embiJter him.
But he remained true. always saying
he would marry me And ] knew in
nav heart he would, although some
times ] would get respondent and
would be filed W-lh fears.
And then by degrees ] came 20
understand all that he was giving up.
Imagine II! The sacrifice OF Rohn-
stock. the disgrace in the army, the
disloyaIty 10 the princess he would
have married. So when they asked
me II / would accent 500 a month
for three years and s12. 900 az the end
of that time I said yes"
But the count was yet 10 be dealt
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and all its wide domains. only son Of
fits reigning head. Count Bolko Won
Hochberg. who had just been born into
the world
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Z TST two weeks ago today in a
dingy little boarding house at
Ossinlng. N Y. there were
married Louise Carow. shop
~ girl and daughter of a work
ing man. and Count Hans
Ferdinand Rolk Won Hochbers. heir
10 the duchv of Rohustoos, playmate
and companion of the German Crown
Prince nephew Of Princess Marie Won
SaNe-Weimar, and cousin of the Grand
Duke Michael OF Saxe-Weimar
And it was not TO an overmasterlng
passion chat The man sacrificed name
AMI fame, family and fortune. bur To
supreme sense Of duty. high stand
ard of honor.
The ceremony was performed j0
Miss Helen Evers' boarding house an
Waller avenue, where Count Ferdinand
has a small hall bedroom. The Rev,
Dr. McWullams, of the Osslning Pres
byterian Church. omciated. and none
was there save the two witnesses.
And when IL was over they chrlsrer-
ed the baby Her mother chose fbe
name II is Johanna Louise. ana b,-
the domestic relations law of the STATE
OF Nes York the child. through the
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@Nfr. and Mrs. Graf.-

- -
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23

Steel and stone and iron will be the
composition chiefly used in the recon
struction of San Francisco Stone
quarried in nearly every State in the
Union. steel and iron melted. cast and
welded here. Foremost in the work is
the Bay City Iron Works, whose great
plant at Main, between Mission and
Howard streets, was destroyed by the
great fire, but whose new works, larger
and better equipped than ever before,
have been erected at 1243 and 1245 Har-
rison street. Not only does the Bay
City plant carry contracts for great
part of the work in this city, but the
manufacture Of materials for construc-
ton work throughout the State is being
undertaken by them
The iron works. which are the oldest
in san Francisco, were rejuNenated six
years ago by the skill and abilities of
Thomas Mirk and William d. Halket,
under whose partnership the Bay City
has arisen to enviable place among the
States enterprises Shortly after the
destruction of tie plant last April, the
Harrison street location was built upon
and a two-stOry building covering hun
dreds Of square feet between Eighth
and Ninth streets was put up. This
building, with a frontage of sixty feet
and Of great capacity houses from
sixty TO seventy-fiVe men, who handle
ne latest improved machinery.
"a The modern machinery set up under
n he plants r wn engineers is built of
Nheet iron, tank boiler and structural
iron Blacksmithing work is a spe-
cIalty. and the manufacture of all kinds
Of steel and pipe work is & speciality.
Among the great structures that are
being repaired by the Bay City Iron
Works is the Ca4l building and its an
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23

With surprising rapidity, considering
the magnitude of the work the gaunt
and defaced skyscrapers of the city
that came Clipped and SCARED through
the blasts of last April, are again
growing a new coat of stone and soon
will leave no traces of the disaster. In
the work of rehabilitating the build
fngs the McPhee Company Oncorporat-
ed) plays conspicuous and foremost
part.
AT the present time the ironwork
of the Call building on the north side
is receiving its coating of stone quar-
ried, drilled, cut and put up by the
McPhee Company. which is supplying
the stone for the rehabilitation of the
cityss noble landmark. The Fairmont
Hotel, which will soon be ready for
occupancy, received all its stone from
the same firm. as do the Aronson
Building, the Crossley Building the
Emerson Building, the Buckingham
Hotel and many residences throughout
the city, including the residence of
William G. Irwin.
In addition TO the stone work the
McPhee Company is doing a general
contracting business. taking contracts
for new buildings for work from foun-
dation to roof. Daniel McPhee Is the
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23

nex together with contracts for iron
work on all of the principal steel and
iron buildings, including stone and
steel sidewalks. Huge gas generators
were built by the works for the seven
mile house plant of the California Gas
and Electric Company and two large
generators for the Potrero plant Large
tanks the high smokestack and other
sheet iron work is now being done by
the works in connection with the in
stallation of the boiler-room plant in
the Kohl building.
The Bay City Iron Works, in addition
to other manufactures, makes par
ticular exploitation of the Day marine
filter, which is extensively used in the
larger power plants of the Paclfc
Coast Hundreds of smaller inventions
and patents by the organizers of the
works are in use by them and improve
ment and advance are watchwords of
the plant
AS an Illustration of the range of
work done at the Harrison street plant,
1t would be well to show the following
examples taken at random: Boilers,
great and small, short and long; tanks,
high and low, wide and lengthy
structural iron and steel. gas genera
! tors and holders, water and oil tanks
of special construction, cyanide tanks
of particular make, air receivers, con-
crete cars. ore cars and skips and all
kinds of steel cars made to suit con-
ditions; rock sore n and ore bin CRATES,
steel wheelbarrows of all descriptions
/ turned out in great quantities; black
smithing and iange work, both heavy
and light requiring the highest and
best labor Repair work OF. all kinds
and a speciality ship repair shop re-
ceive the careful consideration of the
| best engineers of the plant.
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Majestic Call Building Stands Supreme Test Of Elements
Great Structure Unimpaired
and Is Now Retenanted

were assembled from parts of the old
On May % these presses were started.
The entire force of The Call mechanical
and editorial departments were moved
into the great building. which through
its resistance to the elements gave to
San Francisco it's first paper issued
after the fire from the building IT had
occupied before the catastrophe.
At the present time four presses of
the greatest capacity are installed The
composing and stereotyping rooms are
complete. and as at present constituted
the mechanical department of The Call
ranks with the best in the country.
The elevator machinery is again run
Ming The editorial rooms of The Call
will be permanently housed on the
second floor, where they are now tenn
porarily The business office of the
paper occupies the ground and mez-
canine floors of the building. The third,
fourth and fifth floors will be ready for
occupancy January IS, and the remain
ing floors will be finished in order up
ward as soon as possible.
In this work, under the supervision
of Superintendent Wolters, will be en-
Francisco in their lines of work. The
reconstruction of sidewalks and inte-
rior ironwork is being done by the
Bay City Iron Company. The tremen-
dous work of stripping and rehabili-
tating the Clipped stonework of the
exterior and the fittings of the interior
is in the hands of the McPhee Con-
struction Company Hundreds of men
have been at work on the building for
several months, and the result of their
work is daily becoming more apparent.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-23

president and Grant Fee the superin-
tendent of the company. Daniel Nc
Phee came to San Francisco In 1905.
starting the firm of McPhee and
Goliere.
In 1896 they Incorporated and eStao
lished their works at sixteenth ana
Carolina streets on an immense scale
The plant is equipped with the best and
! latest apparatus for stonecutting, saw
ing, drilling and the like. In addition
to the apparatus for trimming the
stone. the plant is furnished with dli
pIicate 140-hersepower boilers that
generate electricity for the works for
overhead and travelling cranes that
have a runway of $50 feet. These i'm
mense grappIers effectively handle the
masses of stone shipped by the drm
from Arizona. Kansas. Wyoming, Utah
and Washington quarries.
Equipped with such facilities for the
proper dressing OF the stonework, the
rebuilding of the city is accelerated.
the rough stone. unwieldy and unpol-
ished. is cut and smoothed SO as to be
of immediate use TO the stonemason
working on the buildings As the saw
ing of time in the work is of vital Inn
portance, the usefulness of the modern
stoneworks can readily be seen