Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-24
GUARDPORTSFOR PAIR
Florence EIopers Said to Be
HomeWard Bound.
RELATIVES ARE ELUDED
Seventeen Year-Old Fayetta Morgan
and Sweetheart Board Liner.
SUPPOSED NOT YET Welded
Father Sailed Saturday and May
Have Passed Them on Ocean.
Girl Fled Art School.
SUPPOSED NOT YET Welded

NEW YORK, October 24.-Miss Fay
eta Morgan. the seventeen-year-old
daughter of J. L. Morgan of Marion. N.
c.. one of the richest men in that state.
| has succeeded In eluding her chaperon
and elder sister. Miss Edna Morgan. in
| England. and is now thought to be on the
ocean. bound for America.
| With her is w. P. Craig, with whom
she Travelled from Florence to London in
vain effort to find some one to perform
a marriage ceremony. Her father sailed
for England last Saturday to prevent the
marriage. IL possible, and capture the
runaway girl.
The younger Miss Morgan, after elud-
ing the espionage OF the two older women
In the Florence art school and Joining
her sweetheart. outwitted her chaperons
at every point in the chase across Eu-
rope, and. still with the man Of her
choice. caught a steamship for this
country. 1t is said, leaving the elder
women to break the news of her escape
to her father.
Keeping Watch for Arrival.
DR.. Thomas Simmons. president of
Shorter Female College of Marion. who
hurried to this city to join Mr. Morgan
as soon as he heard OF his friends dis
tress. has been at the Hotel Marlborough
ever since to keep watch on this side of
the ocean. He received cablegram
Thursday from one of the chaperons, 1t
Is said, telling him that the girl and
Craig could not be found anywhere over
there. and were though, to have sailed.
Dr. Simmons was requested to have
every incoming ship watched by detec-
tives to intercept the young couple.
Whether his instructions were to have
6afQinod he
learned, but 1t is understood that a close
watch Is being kept on the ports Of New
York. Philadelphia, Boston and Montreal.
So far as could be learned the cable
message to DR.. Simmons did not state
that Miss Morgan and Craig had been
married. and 1t is supposed that they are
coming home to wed, because they could
not find a priest or clergyman in all
Italy. France or England who would
perform the ceremony in the face Of
warnings flashed all over Europe by the
chaperon.
Declaring he was at his wits ends what
| to do Mr. Morgan sailed for Europe Sat
urday on the st. Louis. He had hopes
when he sailed that the chaperon and his
elder daughter had by that time overtak-
en- the young pair in England. An hour
before he sailed he received a cable mes
sage from Paris saying that Craig and
the girl were on their way to England,
| with the chaperon in hot pursuit. The
pretty good start.
Father on Way Home.
After a conference with DR.. Simmons
| the father decided to go on over anyway.
| leaving DR.. Simmons in charge at this
| end. 1t Is up to DR.. Simmons, therefore,
it turns out, to guard all the American
| coasts to prevent the sweethearts from
slipping into some port and getting mar
ried before he knows they are here and
| II they left England last Saturday, as Is
supposed, they must now be nearing
| America.
Mr.. Craig and Miss Morgan, who is
barely out of short dresses. have been
sweethearts for some time, though Mr..
| Morgan objected seriously to Craig's at
| tentions to his daughter because of her
tender age. The young man Is said to be
poor. but he is twenty-seven years old
and IS said to be determined in his suit.
| He didn't have much money, and when
the father sent his daughters to the Flor
| ence art school for an indefinite period
| the case looked a bit hopeless for Craig
However. he received $1,000 from his
| fathers estate the very day his sweet
heart was to sail for Europe and when
she reached Florence he was there too
Then 1t was easy for love to find way.