New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-27
Phone Reveals Elopement
of Kin to Founder of Big
Watch Concern.
GIRL WIFE BACK
AT OYSTER BAY
Romance Began with the Young
Woman's Arrival Here for
Musical Career.

Somebody in the Borough OF Mah-
haitian telephoned yesterday to Robert
II. Ingersoll, founder and president OF
the dollar Matchmaking concern, who
is at his summer home in oyster Bay.
The maid thought she could take any
message for Mr.. Ingersoll the some
body didn't Mr. Ingersoll took the re-
ceiver and heard this:
Say, Mr.. Ingersoll. this may interest
Won. Your niece, Miss Naomi Clare
Noland. is married to Arthur, who used
to he your chauffeur
"W-w-what's that" Mr.. 1ngersoil
exclaimed, forming a more perfect
union between his ear and the receiver
II said" the voice repeated, and on
It went as before
why. when did all this happen!
asked the matchmaker.
Eloped on May IS.
"On Nav Is. and that's all I'm going
TO tell YOU" and the conversation was
closed.
Mr.. Ingersolrs talk had drawn Mrs.
Ingersoll to his side. and when II
ceased the Ingersolls decided TO motor
at once to this city and gather up the
details.
Meanwhile the young woman was
taken back to oyster Bay last even
ing by her aunt and uncle.
Two years ago Mr.. lngersoll' VINO
has three cars. engaged as chauheur
Arthur Henry Laliberte, then twenty
five years old, and recently come from
st. Johnsbury. VI. Here, to save
trouble all around. the chauffeur shor-
tened his name to Liberty.
In town the Ingersolls live AT the
Apthorp, Broadway and 18th ST. Early
each May they go 10 their summer
home. When they went in May, 1913.
Liberty went with them.
Miss Noland was their favorite niece.
She is the eighteen year-old daughter
OF Ellis A. holland. of st. Marie's, Ida
bo. who is passenger engineer on
the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railroad. Her mother is a sister OF
/ Mrs. Ingersoll Another sister is Mrs.
= q. Lineauist, wife Of the Represen-
tative in Congress from Michigan.
For the last five years Mrs. lngersoIl
has had more than the usual interest
in the career OF the girl, for she showed
remarkable ability in music. Last
summer Mrs. Ingersol decided it was
time to take Miss Naomi from the re-
stricted musical centre Of 81. Maries
and bring her ere to develop her tai
ent. Wherefore, early last July, The
Ingersolls received word that the girl
was on her way to oyster Bay, and
would arrive there on a certain day.
Romance with Chauffeur.
Liberty was assigned to drive the al
tomobile to the station to meet the
young woman from Idaho. Arthur is
no dreamer, and into his mind came no
thought OF impending romance as the
six-cylinder breezed toward the depot.
He thought romance had called il A
day when his friend Jack" Gerdghty.
romped away to Central Village from
Newport with Miss Julia French.
But he fooled himself. When he as
sisted Miss Noland into the machine
he convinced himself that he was faith
oms deep in love. And from what he
told his intimates later, Miss holland
confessed to him that from that day
he was the original Robert W. Cham
bers hero.
Mrs. Ingersoll didn't have any idea
Mr.. Ingersoll didn't have any idea
between them they didn't have any
idea-that Arthur Henry LaliDerte and
Miss Naomi Clare Noland were d-woO-
ing going constantly from that time.
Whenever the Ingersolls didn't want 10
use the automobiles themselves, Miss
Noland was sized with strange de-
sire TO go forth and view natures
charms from the seat OF "A car. Arthur.
OF course, always being at the wheel.
Arthur was Regarded as almost as
much an Ingersoll as a dollar watch
itself, and he was INDUCED TO the full,
so in what attentions he paid 10 Miss
Noland he was looked upon as a proxy
for the family. Folks around oyster
BAY thought il was a nice, enviabl
thing for family 10 be so fortunate as
TO select a kindly. polite chauffeur. who
went singing about his work and never
complaining, no matter how much
work he had 10 do.
on the return Of the Ingersolls TO this
city late last fall Mr.. and Mrs. Inger-
soil resumed their apartment in the
Apthorp, Miss Noland-so that she
could concentrate on her music-took
an apartment in the home OF the Misses
Kathryn and Susan Bissell. at Az West
End aV.. and Liberty chose as his resi-
dence ij3 West Gath st.
After that Arthur never drove Miss
holland unless the Ingersolls were in
the party. He saw her frequently
almost every day-but did not call on
her at the West End av house. He
did. once or twice. go riding with her
in a friends machine. Mostly, though.
he called her on the telephone. and