New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06

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lHyGGSTSj ranching IN Wyoming, was hun
R13ESS9I4 CRY Tor news of the men and women
tA5sAs.ss@ of Eastern civilization. " Who was
the lucky WOmanC"
American beauty female girl as Kipng
SAYS Most romantic thing YOU ever heard" re-
turned Admission
Seeming a story. The table woke up
Who's your Barney Frere,-not the Frere who
built the Swakindar hrilgel" queried Dayton.
Same fellow "
Man that does things, or gets them done,' in
terposed Winters the fourth member Of our festive
quartet, who prides himself on knowing everything
and everybody
Il should say SOL" calculated Admission Does
things and sees things too, by all accounts He's
tToaded,-the gueercsC compound of sense and
sensbilty ever met
We htched our chairs closer I his IS the story OF
barnaby Frere and Barbara FELTON,, whom L have
named The Lady Of Dreams"
RARNABY FRERE. Ike Young Lochinvar came
out OF the Ne-- some ten years prior to the time
Of which l am telling. being then about twenty-fO
Years Old. In physique he embodied the traditional
Western type: SIS feet Of stature and generous in
shoulder gr1h. muscle, and Drawn; reddish haired,
smooth shaver, and gray eyed, favOring the Scot
tlSh ancestors from whom he was only two or three
generations removed
graduate OF q fresh water school of technology,
nc landed II New ork with less than fifty dollars
L us wallet, looked over the ground presented one
u y"o letters ~ Introduction, and a result went
- bethlehem, Penn sylvania where he entered the
employment Of one Of the largest structural steel
concerns IN the country. In the next few years he
ee hand II some Of he most remarkable engineer
AS enterprises IN The United States.
G When the British bidders defaulted the
o~akndaT bridge c.nrract Frere's firm stepped IN
99llSked hun off to Bombay with a gang of ten or
80 ~en white mechanics, a shipload Of steel beams,
S.le1S and trusses and a few tons Of rvets, gave
vi d SIX months time limit, and turned to other
&Tc1se1S' confident that he would win.
-uC Ba--rtH- ed the task would
.e make a story. But here we are concerned
So So something infinitely more romantic than
-fillg The component parts OF a mere Insensate
- u ron and steel nothing less than the draw
together from the ends Of the earth of two loving
~ beating each for the other. That's how
11.:ey fTeTe described Il; for some Of the more
1eJalis iatterEard secured from his own lips.
f DuSy and Strenuous life he found little time
- thoughts Of women. But tucked away some
NJ; u MS subjective consciousness was the vivid
hs5s Y d certain lar countenanCe that he SAID
ir-5 ways been with him, which he often con-
d. W q wall lie could. and frequently did,
s15 faithful likeness Of this girl of his dreams,
oellg hrn believer IN the theory OF re-
4 -,eel'h' possessed doubt whatever that III
SOM Us state 81 existence he and she had met
eyer -'SIe' somehow, cons ago. That he should
'ee her IN this. life never entered his head
II ssI\O a few days leisure when he crossed the
The Tor the first time, he over to Paris
psry al 81, mace brief halt at Rouen, and in com
s1;gi. %'A some Others OF the passengers FTere
sued TO stretch his LEGS
~ walked up and down, blowing clouds from
Rornssr ne suddenly encountered young
treas1, the living image of her whose features he
tborct IL ms memory. She was tall, slenderly
KonSes3 4asllely formed, and pulsating with that
4 NJ 0l magnetism which we call nervous energy.
bes]t-111oa ~ golden brown hair was her browning
pnJ-,5. 9eI complexion was Of delicate rose leaf
chm =. = iul and generous mouth and fine, firm
gtrkino " decisive character. But the most
Eas fIe feature III altogether striking ensemble
eyes, large and luminous, sometimes gray.
s.ToraI- almost blue, surlnounted by dark,