Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-02-03

fsk for Mr. Rraydon. ana II mes out
see II Mr.. Mash is waiting for him or
Miss Edith Truwbridge Tell what
you know To any one OF those people
and say sou came from Iames- thats
me and see what happens"
went 20 MIR BraydOns office. lie
was out. Mr. Nasl had been there and
mad gone Miss 1'rowbridge was wait
ing IN the inwser's private room. to
which upon her invitation. ! was ad.
mitted
The young lady WAS OF very attrac-
tive appearance. youthful sweetness
mingIing with considerable firmness OF
character to make up the general i'm
preston which she gave at the first
glance.
II should attempt TO tell her story
in her own words aud TO give pie
ture OF her In the net OF telling II
should merely fail. so must offer only
the facts rs ! obtained them.
Miss Trowbridse was the daughter
of Leonard H. Trowbridge, who was
once in fairly prosperous way OF
business in Johnstown. Pa. He was
drowned IN the great food OF 1850
Ills wife and his two sons also perish
ed-ihe whole family except Edith.
who was then four years old. She was
rescued from the food through most
extraordinary display Of heroism and
endurance by a fourteen-year-old boy
named Arthur Lynn. This youth also
was orphaned by the disaster. His
relatives were In England. but he pre-
ferred to 20 70 Minneapolis. Mimi.
where he knew some one who would
give him work
Edith's sole surviving relative was
an aunt who lived in Sterling. which
is near Minneapolis The Johnstown
relief committee sent her there In
charge OF woman. and Arthur Lynn
made the journey with them. The
identity of the woman IL lost
Young Lynn had taken a great fan
cy 10 the little girl and she TO him.
lie often went 10 her aunt's house In
Sterling during the next ten years. and
then the two were separated by n very
remarkable occurrence no less than
the elevation OF Arthur Lynn TO be
Earl OF Denborough.
The estate of Edith's father yielded
her few hundred dollars. which was
spent upon her education. Later she
Inherited pittance from her aunt.
4 few days before the Johnstown
catastrophe Leonard Trowbridge went
10 New York and borrowed $1,000 OF
Julian Edlingcr & Co. with which firm
he had had some previous dealings.
He put up as collateral for this loan
10000 shares Of stock In the Yellow
Eagle gold mine OF California. which
stock was then quoted around 80.
| Thus the 10000 shares were worth
about $4,000.
by the terms of the transaction Ed
inger * Co. were authorized TO sell the
mining shares: II the note was not paid
Mt maturity. pay II and place the bal
ance 10 the account Of Trowbridge. II
any OF Trowbrldges friends knew OF
| this transaction or Of his ownership OF
that stock they persisted In the food.
During the four moghs In which the
note was maturing there occurred
bonanza ''ilud" In the Yellow Eagle
mine. The 10000 shares were eventual
| Is sold by Edlnger 4 Co. NJ Sli a
share They actually obtained 100000
net. Originally the transaction may
have been honest. at least In sem
| blance. for the account OF Leonard
| Trowbridge was duly credited with the
surprising balance 10 which il was en-
| titled. but subsequently this money
was juggled over into the personal ac-
count Of Julian Edlinger
These facts were discovered by an
aged clerk "a Edllnger x Co.'S employ
man named Wilbur Nash He seems
TO have had an old fashioned honesty.
for he went TO Julian Edlinger and in
| quired whether any attempt had ever
| been made to find Trowbridge's heirs
| The result WIS that Edlinger turned
Nash ont upon the street. not knowing
| that the old man had obtained evil
dence legally valuable. OF the Trow-
| bridge transaction.
Nash Immediately began a search for
an heir to the Trowbridge fortune. ac-
iuatcd chiefly hy motives of common
honesty. bn' partly perhaps by resent
mcni and the hope ~ reward He
found Edith TrowbrIdec In New York.
where she WAS earning her living as "A
stenographcr. The discovery WAS due
more 10 accident than good work. for
| Nash's Investigations at Johnstown
had revealed only hint that daugh.
ter OF Trowhridge bad survived him.
In the confusion incident 70 that APP
palling disaster identifications were
necessarily hasty. and nobody really
knew whether the little girl sent west
was actually Trowbridge's daughter
The only discoverable witness who
had known her before and after the
catastrophe was Arthur Lynn. now
Earl OF Peterborough. and be was in In
| dia In the service Of his government.