Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-06-04
|NGERS0LLS CLOSE
HEARTS TO NIECE,
CHAUFFEUR'S BRIDE
AS They Announce Time Limit
for Her Return, Word Comes
That the Elopers Have
Gone to Vermont.

Now York. May 2s-"We have told
her tGat we would sit up till mid
night tonight. that we would keep
our doors and our hearts open for her
tin that hour. But if we do not hear
from her, or II she does not como back
TO us by than, we will consider that
we have lost her forever We will
have nothing to do with her after
that"
So said Mr.. and Mrs. Robert II. In
gersoll in their country home, Cedar
Crest--a beautiful monument to thou
sands OF dollar watches--in Oyster
Bay, to T. reporter for The World. last
night They we're spCakiSg of their
niece. until recently Miss Naomi Clare
holland now Mrs. Arthur Henry Lali.
Der, wife of their fGrmor chauffeur.
known to his friends as Liberty"
WORD FROM ELOPERs COMES
Hardly had Mr.. ond Mrs Ingersoll
said this than the telephone beiI rang
Mr. Ingersoll picked up the receiver.
listened moment and then said:
"It is Ellis A. holland Jr., Naomrs
brother. He has Just called up from
New York to say that Naomi and LIB
erty have left for the Liberty home in
St Johnsbury, Vt.-that nothing could
stop her from going"
Almost at that same moment a re.
porter for The World was being told
at No 1873 West Gath street, where
Liberty had lived for two years, that
that he and his wife had taken train
for st. Johnsbury shortly after five
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
At No. 1873 they refer to Liberty as
a perfect gentleman, every bit as good
as these millionaire persons who are
forever interfering with love affairs
between two honest. ardent young
people"
PLEADED VAINLY WITH HER NIECE
why" said Mrs Ingersoll to the
reporter last night. "Mr. IngersolI and
took Naomi to New York with us
yesterday morning. Mr.. Ingersoll
went to his office and ] went with
Naomi to No 447 West End avenue.
the home of Miss Susan and Miss
Kathryn Bissell, where Naomi has
been living
Il pleaded with her for hours I Of
fered her trip to Europe. I told her
that everything that money could buy
and that love could provide were hers
for the asking-f she would only come
back to us for a few months and try
to forget this Liberty
II showed her what she was giving IN
in music. She has a beautiful contralto
voice. which was being trained under
Walter Damrosch. told her that if she
chose Liberty instead of u.s. il meant the
end of her career-it meant the end Of
everything as far As Mr.. X. Ineersoll and
l are concerned.
REFUSED TO WE'D FOUR ELIGIBLES
why, ! know Of at least four Very
eligible young men whose offers of mar
riage Naomi has refused in the past
two years. She was practically engaged
to very estimable young man from
Vermont. l can't understand it-that she
should think of throwing away every
thing worth while for this man"
The fact that Ingersols niece, whose
iather Is passenger engineer of St
Mares Idaho. had given up music for
a chauffeur. hadn't been generally known
till yesterday. The Ingersolls themselves
only learned it Monday.
Mrs, Ingersoll said the marriage had
been performed by Mr.. Steen. an Epis-
copal minister in West Ard street, on
May Ia. The World had made several
unsuccessful efforts TO reach the Rev.
John F. Steen. pastor of the Ascension
Memorial Church, No. o53 West 43rd
street
TO ADOPT EIGHT OR TEN OTHERS
Mr. lngersoll, in typewriter state
ment most unhattering to Liberty, In
which he stated that although "sha
(Mrs Liberty has bllghted his life and
practically ruined her prospects shs
may yet redeem herself" announced yes.
terday that he and Mrs Ingersoll wifi
adopt mot one, but a whole household
or children-boys and girls We shall
take in not less than eight or ten"