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that George ]. Gould. her eldest
brother, is custodian of the raiIroad
interests left by their father. that
Hiss Gould takes a lively interest in
I these affairs and frequently makes IN
spection trips over the lines linked
in the Gould chain. She is a
keen observer and little escapes
her eye. When she has completed one
OF these observation tours she seeks
her brother and they go over all the
copious notes she may have made en-
route Many radical reforms intro
duced In the Gould system within the
past decade had their inception with
the daughter of the house.
1t was on October 10 last, that Gu
pid shot the dart which speared the
hearts of Helen Gould and Finley
Shepard. Miss Gould was then on one
of her tours. Mr.. Shepard. while in
Chicago. received telegram from his
chief. President Brush. of the Union
Pacific abroad Company. instructing
him to hurry TO New York and take
charge of Miss Gould's party which
was about to leave New York in a pri-
vate car via the Lake Shore road. 1t
was Miss Gould's intention to proceed
direct to Chicago and there join a
party of friends and attend conven-
ton of the Railroad Young Mems
Christian Association. an institution
which she IS not only deeply Inter
ested in but one to which she has de-
voted years of time and thousands of
dollars.
Mr.. Shepard hurried to New York
and then met Miss Gould for the first
time. He took luncheon with her
upon his arrival and then discussed
ali arrangements for the tour. Mr. E.
B. Pryor. one of the receivers OF the
Wabash road, was in New York at the
time and from him Mr. Shepard pro-
cured the loan of his private car
which was placed at Miss Gould's dis
posal.
The tourney from New York to Chi
cago was begun. the private car oc-
cupied by Miss Gould being the last
on the train. At Syracuse another
private car was added and this was
hitched 10 the rear of Miss Gould's
car. The added car was to have been
dropped at Buffalo the next day The
addition of this car. railroad men as
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worked with the feverlsh haste of the
man who has task to perform and
accomplish 1t regardless of almost in
surmountable obstacles confronting
him.
After iaboring thus for two hours.
and when word was passed that the
last unfortunate had been liberated,
the young assistant again betnought
him of his wards in the private car.
Grimy and mud despatched the once
dapper railroad official presented him
self at the door of Miss Gould's state
room and asked if there was anything
he could do 10 add to the comfort of
her and her guests.
He was usiered into the compart-
ment and Miss Gould and the women
OF her party at once busted them
selves in ministering to the man
whose hands were cruelty bruised and
slashed by their contact with the
heavy tinbers he had been wrestling
with In order to save the lives of
those pinned under them. His face
was black with the CRIME of charred
wood and an ugly cash across his
forehead told It's own tale.
It is said that no professional nurse
knows better how to render first aid
than Miss Gould. Clad in the BUSH
ness suit of gray which she habituaIly
affects. she soon had her courier
swathed in bandages. and when the
relief train bearing physicians and
nurses arrived there was naugnt for
them TO do as far as ministering to
Afr. Shepard was concerned.
II may be mentioned that after see
ing Mr. Shepard set TO work on his
errand OF mercy Miss Gould did not
return at once to her private car as
ar. Shepard had supposed. Instead
i she went through every car of the
I train and many women and children
aboard them will testify that the
I calm. determined woman in gray did
] much TO alleviate their suffering. as
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relieve each other when It is neces-
sary to go to harbor for coal and sup
plies but sometimes, as was the case
last year. both vessels remain in the
channel and supplies are carried to
them by the harbor engineers tug.
Cruising on an ice-breaker is not as
exciting as one might think. 1t Is
not nearly as interesting as lighting
out a gale There are no heavy seas. no
rolling. pitching or plunging of the
vessel. There is nothing but fiat,
white surface ahead and the only re-
lief over the monotony is specializing
whether the field is field or pack ice.
Field and pack ice are similar. any
how. although the former Is Ice that
has recently formed whereas pack ice
is made up of blocks and sheets
TANNED together by the wind.
The greatest thickness to which ice
naturally forms on the Chesapeake
Bay is Is to 20 inches. but great sheets
OF this ice will overlap end make UP
three to five feet of almost solid ice
and when this mass drifts into the
ship channels 1t is no easy work to
break 1t up.
During zero weather the ice-break-
ers cruise about day and night. Each
vessel carries crew of rs men. which
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sert. in reality was responsible for
Miss Gould's escape from death and
the means by which her heart was
given over to the keeping OF the
courier of her tour
That night the crash came. A rear
end collision completely wrecked the
j train on which Miss Gould was travel
ing and the freight train which hit it
was demolished.
AIR. Shepard was in one of the for
ward sleepers and his first thought
was for mis- charges in the private car.
Although considerably bruised and
shaken he CROPPED his way through the
twisted mass of wreckage and when
he came TO the private car he was
overjoyed to be greeted by Miss
Gould who told him that beyond
shock she was none the worse for the
mishap. Her chief concern was for
] those more seriously injured about
her and when told that the brunt of
the crash had been borne by the for
ward cars she insisted upon Mr.. Shep-
ard leaving her and going where he
could do the most good.
This Shepard did with aiacrity, but
he was surprised TO turn and find
standing At his side the woman whose
safety had been entrusted to his keep
ing. The locomotive had been flung
! from the track and all about them
was chaos and confusion. The groans
OF the injured filed the air and the
sturdy young assistant TO the presi-
dent gave no further heed to the
woman at his side. but with axe and
crowbar set to work to llberate the
victims who were hemmed in by
crumbled timbers through which
flames already Were creeping.
After working heroically for half
an hour he succeeded in extricating the
engineer of the express train who was
pinned beneath the engine tender.
/ There we're others in equally perilous
/ plIghts and these. too. he aided He
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well as their anguish OF mind She
did not return to her stateroom until
she convinced herself that everything
possible had been done to relieve the
distressed.
Nit. Shepard was aghast when he
learned that Miss Gould had busted
herself within the cars as Industrious
" and successfully as he had without.
1t was not until they compared notes
when the journey was resumed that all
this came out and hours were spent
by the two who had been so strangely
drawn together through misfortune.
| Discussing the events of that night
on the evening her brother George
announced her engagement. Miss
Gould said:
4 think It was the masterfui man
ner in which Mr.. Shepard essayed to
aid the stricken that first aroused my
interest In him. I knew that night
that he was man in million, and
lin our talks that followed / knew j
had met my master--the one man in
the world who would willingly en-
trust my future to-"
Mr. Shepard also discussed this
events of that night but what he had to
say was not as circumscribed. fos
there was more of the note of exulta-
ton dominating his remarks than thai
of repression as was the case with
Miss Gould.
Miss Gould is an angel" he said
II knew at Il glance after seeing her
at my side in the gloom pervading the
wreck that she was there to act and
not to give way to the hysterical out
burst so many women would have
fallen back upon under similar cir
cumstances. The quiet and self-com.
posed manner in which she Offered
/ her suggestions to me convinced ms
that she was one woman in a million
and further there was tenderness II
all she did. said md looked that pene.
| trated to the innermost recesses OF m,
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boats began pulling. Even this power
with the Sif's engine. estimated 5000
horsepower. failed to move the
stranded vessel and 1t was necessary
to tighten her by the removal Of sew
cral hundred tons of her cargo.
OF course. all of the tug boats that
ply on the Chesapeake fit out for
fighting their way through the Ice and
they arm themselves with an odd
looking plough of strong timbers Gov
cred with sheets of steel. These
ploughs are of but little use In fighting
through solid ice. but they suffice Id
running through very thin Ice OF
through fields that have been broken
up by the big ice-breakers.
But the ice breakers, as staunch al
they are. do not get through winter
season unscathed and when spring
comes they go on the railway 10 DC
thoroughly overhauled, new plates put
in at the waterline and even the ois
paddle wheels, built of timbers -
inches square and capped with slee'
bars. have to be replaced, SO terriho
is the punishment they receive.
OF all of the countries of the Easl-
ern Hemisphere, Russia is the onis
one that makes an attempt to keep hei
harbors open in winter and even a.
that her efforts are confined TO lho
Gulf of Riga Several years ago ths
Russian Government built the Yer
max. a huge craft that was desiehea
by naval officer. and which. II "as
claimed, could smash her way throusi,
is feet of solid ice. When the vesse'
was completed a Russian admirai ue-
clared that with two vessels oil ".
Yermak,s type he could fight his "a'
to the North Pole. Actual demonsuas
tons with the vessel, however proNes
that she could not force her wa
through six feet Of new and soiiu Nv.
However. the Yermak proved Vei,
useful in keeping open the harpor =
Reveal and last year the Chamber y
Commerce OF Riga ordered an
breaker for their port. This Vesset
named Peter the Great. was pun
Gothenburg. Sweden, and Is the me-
type of ice-breaker ever built,
bodying all modern features one
of 1880 tons register, 1Sl feet ioAs
so feet wide and draws Il fees
water. She has three engines.
of these, of 1900 horsepower, orr
stern propellers. while the thiTu,
same power, drives propeller uii H..
the bow. She Is lighted with e,s ~.
tricity and has powerful searchilgh.a
The vessel cost s240,3So. ana
meet the interest, cost Of opera.ins.
repairs, etc, the port authorities mad
instituted winter tax on vessels ~ ,y
also increased by SO per cent. the ~ ~
on merchandise passing through "
port
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LII the world loves lover. And
when that lover woos and
wins one OF the weaithiest
spinsters in the world it is only
natural that interest in this ardent
and successful wocer should be inten-
SHED a thousand fold. or that he
should become an international figure
over night.
Such is the case OF Finley J. shep-
ard. rising railroad man of st.
Louis. who. In an incredibly short
space of time. won the heart, hand
and millions of Miss Helen Miller
Gould. eldest daughter of the late Jay
Gould.
The Gouid-shepard romance reads
like bit OF fiction and those who
have seen the newly engaged couple
together assert that they are as vio-
ientiy in love with each other as the
traditional school boy and girl after
their first meeting. Miss Gould, so
far. has little TO say regarding her ro-
nance. but her intinnates assert that
she is just as happy as any debutante
would be after landing the most de-
sirable and wary bachelor in her set
NJ. Shepard is more voluble. In fact
he just bubbles ever with protesta-
tions of undying affection, to saynoth-
Ing of the good fortune that has be-
fallen him.
1t seems right and proper that the
daughter Of the man who made his
millions in railroads. after forging the
links that formed one of the greatest
railroad systems in the world. should
meet her fate in railroad environ
ment. Neither IS it surprising. after
all interested in her believed she
would end her days in spinsterhood,
that she should exercise woman's
prerogatiye and change her mind.
And then, too. after -rcising her
right to change her mind. that she
should select for her future lord and
master man who had elected the
railroad field as one in which to ex-
ercise his talents and endeavor to
climb the ladder of promotion until
he reaches the topmost rung.
Helen Gould's romance-and ro-
nance It is in every essentials less
than three months old. Few know
that while the bulk of her big fortune
Is Invested in railroad securities. and
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also esta blished chain of cooking
and sewing schools for girls in the
lower East Side OF New York and
nearly all the members of these
classes have been entertained at Miss
Goulds magnificent country estate
near Tarrytown where she has John
d. Rockefeller and others equally
prominent in the world of finance and
society for close neighbors. Miss
Gould, however. cares little for society
in the general and accepted sense OF
the term for her time and fortune
have ever been dedicated to higher
attachments.
Mr.. Shepard Is a native of Connecti-
cut. He entered railroad service In
the employ of the Northern Pacific at
st. Paul He rose steadily in the ranks
until he became assistant general
manager and in 1901 went to the
Santa Fe, with offices in Chicago. He
was transferred to Los Angeles where
he was made general superintendent
of all the coast lines and there re-
NAMED for three years when he re-
tired from railroading to embark In
business for himself which had rail-
road Affiliations. In 1911 he returned
to his earlier field and Joined the OPP
Grating department of the Missouri
Pacific-Iron Mountain system. When
Mr.. Bush was chosen to head that
com bination. which included the Den
yer and Rio Grande. Mr.. Shepard was
! made his assistant.
He is the son of an Episcopal
clergyman and like his father has al
ways manifested a keen interest in
| philanthropy. Mr.. Shepard's mother
is blind and the inmate of hospital
in Connecticut. There her son spent
his Christmas with her. returning to
New York the following day to join
his fiance.
OF the match Mrs. Shepard said:
!"I know Miss Gould Is a splendid
I woman. I have heard of her good
deeds for many years, and have al
] ways admired her extravagantly. But
since she has given her heart into the
/ keeping of my boy j am more than
ever convinced of her rare good
/ Judgment. and know she will Be
/ happy to the end of her days"
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now and then the vessel trembles as
she strikes an extra large piece. while
an occasional cake is snapped up by
the wheel house to pound ITSELF to
pieces.
In any other kind of boat but an
!cebreaker the hitting of i. heavy field
OF Ice would probably mean crushed
! in bow, but the ice-breakers are built
for just such collisions. They have
forward bottoms rounded like a spool
tand when they strike the bow lifts and
the huh begins to slide out of the
water All the time the paddle wheels
are kept revolving ahead at full speed.
This. in a few minutes. stirs UP the
water under the ice. Presently, from
the weight of the steamer, the ice
gives way and the steamer gently
drops to level keel.
In fghting through field of heavy
/. ice the iee-breakers will hardly aver
age a mile an hour. for each attack
means the backing off OF 100 or so
yards and the charging at full speed.
Each time perhaps SO or rs feet of
Roadway is made.
Unless the other Ice breaker IS near
neither vessel will ram heavy field
for there have been occasions when
they have done so single-handed and
have been stranded for hours. being
unable to get off. Working together,
however, no field is too heavy to with
stand their assaults.
But in spite of the concerted efforts
! of both boats the channel sometimes
! becomes SO clogged with ice that navi-
4 cation is closed for days at time.
Last winter, for instance. was the
/ worst In 25 years, and the only ves-
! sells that made their way to and from
4 the ocean were the largest steamers.
Even at that many got into trouble
/ and at one time there were four that
4 We're forced aground by the ice.
1t is difficult to appreciate the power
4 of moving ice. II is such that no
4 steamer. no matter how powerful her
4 engines, can get out of the pack IL
1 she is caught. AS an illustration. the
Norwegian steamer Sif was caught by
Ice that was not more than FIVE inches
thick. She broke into the field and
: not until she had gone in SO far that
4 i was not possible to back out did she
find It impossible to make any further
headway. AT the time there was a
brisk wind and this caused the field
to move townrd shallow water.
/ Despite every effort OF the crew the
Sf was irresistibly carried along and
although she was drawing 21 feet of
water she was pushed up on the shoai
INTO IL feet of water OF course. as
soon as her plight was discovered.
both sce-bnats. revenue cutter and a
Sea-Eoing tlYboaf wnnf m -.
ifawsers were made fest and the four
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heart. Before that night was over
knew | loved her. although In my
widest dreams it never occurred TO
me that she would ever give me sec
ond thought. / am the happiest man
in the world. for none can take from
me the light that dawned upon me
that night.
II was not until his arrival In New
York to visit his fiance just before
Christmas. and his first visit to her
following the announcement of their
engagement. that Mr.. Shepard adj
mitted that he had won the heart of
Miss Gould before their journey to
Chicago was completed and that he
had had her answer TO the question
nearest his heart before she left Chi
cago at the conclusion of the Y. M.
G. A. convention. It was an awaken
Ing for the two of them that came In
night and less than orty-eight
hours after knowing that he loved her.
Finley Shepard. the assistant to a
railroad president. knew that he was
the affianced of one of the wealthiest
heiresses in the world and that his
fiance was perhaps one of the most
universally respected and widely loved
women in America.
The name OF Helen Miller Gould
and Charity have been synonymous
for many years. There is not q rail-
road man in the United States. or a
sailor who makes port within their
confines, who has not had occasion to
bless her for the manifold reforms she
! has brought about through her own
efforts. Miss Gould was born in June,
1868. Therefore she was nearly forty
five years old when romance crept
into her life she had vowed to devote
to assuaging the sufferings and dis
comforts of mankind. Soon after her
fathers death in December, 1892,
Miss Gould appeared before the public
/ in the role of benefactor of institu-
/ tons organized primarily for the edu-
cation and moral upiift Of the very
/ young and the middle aged of both
sexes
Her largest gifts have been to the
Young Mems Christian Association,
ESPECIALLY among the men of the army
and navy and railroad employees. She
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city Of Baltimore combine IN a siren
uons fight against the efforts OF Jack
frost and in this work aid IL given By
the United States Government, a rev.
enue cutter being assigned to the dis
'rlct to aid in any way possible.
In 1897 the State of Maryland built
the steamer Annapolis to be the off,
ciai ice-breaker. She is 200 feet long,
80 teet Wide and has engines Of 100
horsepower. Each engine operates a
huge, ron-shod paddle wheel and the
engines are so arranged that 1t fs pos
sibie TO operate them independent.
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IlGAa II1Lv Ice


n when the hardy nayigators Of
W the Chesapeake Fay conduct
their annual fight against ice.
theT greatest Zoe, for the huge ard
Almost tideless sea that DIVIDES the
state of Maryland and washes me
shores of Virginia is held tightly
within the grasp of the Frost King
only by special and almost ceaseless
effort IS the snip channel kept open
10 the commerce of the world.
Unlike any of the other estuartes
OF the Atlantic the Chesapeake Bay
freezes over more quickly. This Is
largely due to the upper part OF the
bay being practically fresh water with
put little tide. In Boston and New
York bays and on the Delaware river
there is ample ice, it is true, but the
rushing tide breaks 1t up almost as
quickly as it forms and whereas or
those bodies of water there is mitch
heating ice there is not the solid sheet
OF frozen water to be encountered a,
tnere is on the upper Chesapeake.
On the Great Lakes, those Inland
fresh-water seas that separate tn,
United States from Canada, the use
lessness of fighting the ice has Ion,
been recognized and on the first toucl
Of frost the gigantic fleet OF steamer
and sailing craft make pcrls and la
UP until spring
Not so on the Chesapeake Bay
lnere the state of Maryland and tn
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This enables the steamer to vancouver
easily and quickly. AS her paddle
boxes are each Is feet wide the steam
er breaks a channel nearly 100 feet
wide. Her forward -dy is built some
thing on the scow model so that she
can be driven up on the ice and break
through by her enormous weight.
After the Annapolis had been In
service 10 years the business or the
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upper Chesapeake demanded better
service. SO the city Of Baltimore built
the f. G. Latrobe. sister ship to the
Annapolis. and now these craft. with
the revenue cutter and the steam tug
belonging TO the harbor engineer.
carry on the fight.
These vessels go into commission
with the first heavy frost and remain
on duty day and night. Usually they
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make up three shifts and they change
off every four hours. Most of the time
the steamers are kept running up and
down the main ship channel. crushing
through the film Ice as fast as it forms
and keeping the particles of drift Ice
broken up.
II Is noisy cruising. too. for as the
steamer makes her way the particles
Of ice roar past her steel sides. every
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MISSIONARY WOMEN
TO MEET IN BRYAN
Navasota District Missionary Confer.
ence Opens Tonight at the First
Methodist Church.
A. w. BUCHANAN.

The annual meeting of the Metho-
dist Woman's Missionary Societies of
the Navasota District, will be in ses-
sion at the First Methodist church to-
night and all day tomorrow. A num-
Der of delegates arrived in the city
on this afternoons trains and are be-
ing entertained by the women of the
First Methodist church, An attractive
program has been prepared for the
conference and all the meetings are
open to the women of Bryan. The first
session of the conference will be at
the Methodist church tonight at 1880
o'clock. Other sessions will be held
Thursday morning, afternoon and ev-
ening. The Methodist women of Bry-
an are especially urged to attend
these meetings.
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AMERICANS KILLED IN
BATTLE WITH REBELS
r. 3. Ellis Brought News to FL Paso
Of Brothers Death While Party
Was Leaving Torren.

Ell Paso, Tex, Oct. 15.-F. B. Ellis
of Cripple Creek, Colo, arrived in
Juarez yesterday from Torreon. He
said his brother Joseph was killed BY
Mexicans last Tuesday while party
of Americans was leaving Torreon for
the border. F. B. Ellis was shot in the
arm. Three others of the party are
missing. They are ). NJ. Parsons,
Wichita, Kan; L. M. White. Butte,
Mont, and A. T. Stevens, Sacramento.
Cal.
The party was about half way be-
tween Torreon and FL Orc when Mex
leans in uniform, who claimed to be
rebels, attacked the Americans. Joe
Ellis was killed at the first fire. After
making a brief stand the Americans
fled.
F. B. Ellis said he became separated
from the others and he-was unable to
trace them after the fighting. He
thinks they we're overtaken by the
Mexicans and killed.