Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-19

ST. LOUIS. Dec ia romance
amid wreckage, darkness and disaster
attended the bet7othaI Of Finley j..
Shepard and Miss Helen Miller Could,
the famous New York heiress
The warm admiration that each had
felt for the other ripened into love that
could no longer be repressed when the
loved heiress OF the Gould millions saw
her escort leave, after he knew she was
safe, and bend his tremendous energies
to saving others whose lives were en-
dangered by a terrific railroad wreck.
And when the man, after his work
was done, and order had been restored,
found the woman who has aroused the
admiration and love OF the nation
quietly and uuostentatiously minister
Ing to helpless women and children who
knew her not, the emotions that he in
the past had been able to repress forced
his lips TO speak tine dictates of his
heart
And Mis- Gould did not say him nay.
Fate, in more ways than one mani
| Tested its mysterious workings i'm bring
ing about the engagement of Alr. Shep-
ard and Miss Gould. Before that rail-
| road wreck on the West Shore, when
the train Was unuing a 81 miles an
hour Miss Could and President Bushs
assistant had for "a long time been in
te.ested in The same affairs, and in
many ways tlcir tast, We're i'm hag-
mouy
Both were Interested deeply in the
! Y. VI. Q. a work. and it had been MI
/ Shcpard's privilege to attend to many
/ little commissions FOR Miss Gould tend
ing to advance the vorl, OF the railroad
| branches,
She noted his unootrusive earnest
ness his clear reasoning. his thought
| lessness of self. mis- quickness OF per-
oeptiou. his manly bearing and his high
character. And from his close associa-
ton he had come to know Miss Gould.
How Bush Aided Romance.
President Bush, of the Missouri Pa
cific. whose assistant Mt Shepard is,
had his hand in the romance. but he
does not to this day know of it. MI.
Shepard was i'm Chicago on his way to
s. Louis. when Zee received "a telegram
! Otli Illn ape lFl tf-'l ~lillS llilll w
lctucn 10 New York and escort Miss
Gould to Chicago, whittier she was go
ing with a party of her friends to at
tend convention Of the Railroad Y. NJ.
|C. A.
M. shepard returned to New York
and had q conference with Miss Gould.
She was to attend a banquet in the
Illinois metropolis and she had re-
quested Nj. Shepard to arrange the
details Of a little luncheon that she
wanted TO give on a Saturday after
noon She wanted to devote just as
much time to the cause as was possible
in Chicago and yet she desired to re-
main In New York as long a S she could.
The details Of the railroad journey
were left to M. Shepard, f. Z, Pryor
one of the receivers of the Wabash
was in New York with his private car
and he placed this at the disposal OF
Miss Could and her party. Il was at
tached to the Chicago train and the
start was made
The train was fast one, ana 1t was
running over the New York Central
tracks at high rate of speed. It was
a congenial party, and the evening was
well spent before the ladies retired to
the staterooms in the front end of the
car and Mr.. Pryor and Nj. Shepard
occupied the coaches In the rear
Fate again interested itself in be-
half of the romance, when at Syracuse
another coach was added to the train.
The receivers car had been the last on
the train, but it was explained the
added coach was to be dropped at Buff
faIo early in the morning, and It would
not interfere with the pleasure Of the
trip
Wreck Without Warning