The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03


 wooer should he intensified thous and fold. or that he should become an international figure over night.
 SuJh Is the ease ei Finley ] Shep- ard. a rising railroad man oi St. Louis. who. in an incredibly short space Of time. won the heart hand and millions of Miss Helen Miller Gould. eldes' daughter ei the la;e Jay Gould
 The Gould shepard romance reads like bit O, fiction and those who have seen the newly married couple together lssort that are as violently i'll love with each other as the tra. ditioual school hoy and girl after their first meeting
 Miss Gould has had little 10 intimates assert that she is just as happy as any debutante would be after landing" the most desirable and wary bachelor in her set Mr shepard is more yoluble.
 h fact h. just bubbles over with protes'at1eHs Of andyug affection, 10 say nothing ef the good fortune that has betallen him.
 Helen Goulds romance and TO nance # Is m every essential is less than three months old Fe& know that while the bulk of her aor tune is invested i'll railroad securi ties, and that George ] Gould. her eldest brother. is custodian of tn, railroad interests left Ay their father that Miss Gouil takes d lively inter est ill these affairs and frequently makes inspection trtas oTer the lines linked iii the Gould Chain.
 She is Il keen observer and HftIe 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 eu route Many radical reforms introduced in the Gould system within the past decade had their inception with the daugh- ter of the house.
 | was oa October h last. tha, Cupid shot the dart which sFeared the hearts of Helen Gould and Finlel Shepard Miss Gould was then OH one of her tours Mr Shepard. whil, in Chicago. received a telegram rom his chief President Brush. Of the Union Pacific Railroad company in, structina him 10 hurry 10 New York and take charge Of Miss Gould's party which was about 10 leave New York in private car via the Lake Shore Line
 II was Miss Gould's intention to proceed direct 10 Chicago and there join d party of friends and attend convention of the Railroad Young Mems Christian Association, an in stitution which she is not only deeply interested ill but one 10 which she has devoted years of time and thous- ands of dollars.
 Mir Shepard hurried 10 New York and then met Miss Gould for the first time. He took luncheon with her upon his arrival and then dis cussed all arrangements for the tour
 Mr. F.. Pryor, one of the receivers tho WahaSb ;,, York al the time and from him Mr. Shepard procured the loan of his private car which was placed al Miss Gould's disposal.
 The journey from New York to Chicago was begun. the private car occupied by Miss Gould being the last on the train. At Syracuse an other private car was added and this was hitched to the rear of Miss Goulds car The added car was to have been dropped at Buffalo the next day. The addition of this car railroad men assert. 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 train on which Miss Gould was travelin gand the freight which hit it was demolished.
 MT Shepard was in one of the for ward sleepers anr his first thought was for his charges in the private car. Although considerably bruised and shaken he sroped his way through the twisted mass of wreck age and when he came to the pri- vate car he was overjoyed to be greeted by Miss Gould, who told him that beyond the 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 forward cars she insisted upon Mir. Shepard leaving her and going where he could do the most good.
 This Shepard did with alacrity. but he was surprised to turn and find standing by his side the woman whose safety had benn entrusted to his keeping. The locomotive had