The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09

The most beautiful girl in the state
Of California has finally been selected
But what a hard Job il was. Over two
thousand Of California s most beautiful
girls submitted their photos TO the eX-
ecutlve committee of the Portola Fes-
tiyal IL San Francisco for Judgment.
The staid business mcn OF the city
laborcd days over deciding upon the
most beautiful girl. /; was no easy
task. Now these men are ready to an
nouncc thCir Judgment TO the whole
world
Miss Versiiia Bogue. resident of
San Francisco. is the honored young
woman. She occupies high social po-
sition IN the metropolis, her father be;
ing Virgil l}ogGc, Vicc-prosidcnt and
chief engineer of the Western Pacific
Railway company. and one of the most
eminent r:cp in h:s work IL The world
The sc.ccjirn ut Miss Boguc vii! do
credit TO ,hc state of California, and
every loca: son and daughter should
feel ,Irald ot tho splendid representa-
tiVr ;hC executive committee has chosen
Miss Epgno has had n most interest
irg career. and while only Just out OF
hcr teens has Travelled the world over
,ycya times. Her family is one of
he most buc bloodcd in this country
today
Miss Bogue was born in Auburn, Cal,
September 20, 1856. She Is the daughter
of Sybil Russell and Virgil Gay Rogue.
she is descendant of the Norman
house of de Russell, de Grasse, de Law
renee and Bogue. Baron Charles de
Russell went 90 England with the Con
lueror in 1866. and his son, Sir Charles
Russell. WIS made n baroGet. The fam.
ily was one Of Royalists. but turned
% Cromwell. and most Of the family
fed to America during the wars. They
settled in Branford. Conn, and in South
uadley, Mass. The Rev. John Russell,
still true 20 the cause of Cromwell,
concealed in his house at South Hadlcy
three regjcides of Charles 1.-THE men
who had signed his death warrant. The
remains are still in the Russell! cellar.
His son, Rev. Samuel Russell of Bran
ford. was instrumental III organizing
the new University Of Connecticut. be-
ing a graduate Of Harvard and it was
in his parlors in Branford that Yale
university was founded
Miss Bogue's mother was the young
est Of large family OF children who
have since become famous. Her broth
er. Leslie w. Russell, became Judge Of
the supreme court Of New York, aud
her eldest sister was called the queen
of northern New York by reason of her
beauty 1t is from her undoubtedly that
Miss Bogue gets her queenly looks.
Many of the Bogues fought in the
Revolution and are entirely New
York family. The de Grasses settled
in Massachusetts in the latter part of
the eighteenth century and unfortu-
nately lost their old Norman name by
changing il to Weed. Tho Lawrences
were also New York settlers.
Both Miss Bogue' s father and mother
were born in Ogdensburg, n. Y. Her
father was educated at Troy Polytechnic
and has since became ore Of the most
distinguished engineers in the world.
His greatest work probably was the
building of the Aroya road In Peru,
that much advertised road that runs
above the clouds, from Lima over the
Andes. After six years residence III
South America, Mr.. Bogue undertook
the building of the Northern Pacific in
Washington and the Baltimore and
Maryland, and is at present directing
the engineering work of the Western
Pacific railway,
Miss Bogue was educated in San
Francisco and Portland. Or, in her
childhood; but her real education began
at the Parker institute, Brooklyn, n.
Y, where she graduated at the age Of
IL. She then went to Boxwood Finish