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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-16

A Camanetti. commissioner general
Of migration Of Washington. was a
visitor IN Charleston last week and
held conference with J. H. Nightin.
gale, state commissioner of labor,
In the interest of the United States
employment service. He announced
his intention Of establishing branch
Office Of this division Of his bureau In
Charleston.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-16

A movement is on foot in Parkers-
burg to build large auditorium and
armory. The Board OF Commerce Is
conducting referendum vote to as.
certain the sentiment Of the business
,eople.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-02

who died in 1907, and who built up the
huge refinery near New York which has
been pouring millions ever since into the
pockets of the family. But, although lucky
in money making, he and his family have
been unlucky in everything else. The
series of tragedies which have come with
the curse that hangs over the sugar mil
lions is well nigh Incredible
The first of the evils that befell the
family occurred after Henry O. Have
meyer divorced his first wife, who had
been his sweetheart since boyhood, and
married her niece and namesake. The
first wife died Of a broken heart.
Next, Henry Havemeyer, Jr., oldest
son and principal heir Of old H. o. Have
meyer, ran through his fortune and was
killed mysteriously in Paris. 1t is be-
lieved that he was shot in a fight over
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an actress, upon whom he had wasted
most of his wealth.
Then George Havemeyer, the second
and favorite son of the sugar king. was
ground to death in the machinery at the
sugar refinery.
The blight extends even to persons
marrying into the Havemeyer family,
however remotely. This is illustrated in
the case of Clara Sutton Stevens, the
actress, who was married to William
Havemeyer, cousin and business associate
of the sugar master. She divorced him
almost Immediately and was married to
Jack Bloodgood, who died suddenly i'm
mediately afterward. She then became
the bride of W. NJ. Laimbeer and shortly
afterward killed herself. Laimbeer mar
ried again and was killed in an "Utomo-
bile accident in which his second wife
was disfgured for life.
In the same year. 1918. Harry Blood
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good, brother-in-law OF Clara Blood
good, quarreled with his wife and at
tempted suicide: William F Havemeyer
died suddenly and mysteriously, and Ted
dy Havemeyer, son of the unhappy Char
ley Havemeyer, and Doris Bispham broke
their engagement just before the wedding
day.
Thomas Havemeyer, the third brother
Of H. o. Havemeyer, made a marriage
which disgraCed his family and estranged
him until his death. Immediately after
ward Theodore A. Havemeyer. the sec
Ond brother of Henry O., died a disap-
pointed man after spending more than
half of his fortune in an unsuccessful eff
fort to elect a president who would ap-
point him minister to Austria.
When Sarah Havemeyer, mother OF
the sugar king, died, Charles Havemeyer,
her fourth son, long an outcast from the
family, contested her will and fought his
brothers in n action that was filled with
the most scarlet of scandals. Following
this, Charley Havemeyer, son of Theo-
dore and nephew of the sugar king,
killed himself in his Long Island home.
In one year Mrs. John Mayer. who was
Nathalie Havemeyer, oldest daughter OF
Theodore, committed suicide by shooting.
two hours later her younger sister. Mrs.
Cameron WinslOw, gave birth to q dauch-
ter under the same roof; Mrs. Theodore
Havemeyer, the widowed and broken
hearted mother, eXiled herself in Austria,
where she has since lived, and young
Theodore Havemeyer was almost killed
by his pony falling on him.
Next, Frederick Havemeyer, the fourth
son of Theodore, married the divorced,
wife of William Travers, Of Baltimore.
and Travers committed suicide when told
Of the marriage. In the same month,
Marie, a daughter of Theodore, divorced
Perry Tiffany.
In 1912 officials Of the sugar trust
were indicted by the United States gov
eminent for shortage in weight and con-
spiracy. Henry o. Havemeyer was blamed
by the trust officials for all the wickedness
uncovered and Horace Havemeyer, his
only remaining son, began suit against
the trust for 100000 in reprisal to
clear his fathers name
Later in the same year Mrs Fred
Beach, the widow of Charley Havemever
was nearly murdered by one of her negro
house servants at Aiken, S. c. Her throat
was cut and the jugUlar vein barely
missed. Still later in the same year Mrs
Beeckman LOrillard, connected bv mar
riage with the Henry o. Havermeyers-
killed herself by hanging.
Such are the high lights in the horrors
of the Havemeyers. And perhaps IL is
just as well after all, says London. that
the Earl Of Euston found war BRIDE
in his own country.
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not offset by his ranking third among the
dukes at all royal functions AS the
Duchess of Euston she would take prece-
dence over all other American women
who have married British dukes and
would thereby have the pas" of the
Duchess of Marlborough, nee Consuelo
Vanderbilt; the Duchess of Manchester,
Helen Zimmerman; the Duchess of Rox-
burghe, May Goelet, and the Dowager
Duchess of Manchester, Conseulo Yznaga
de Vale. For, whereas these dukedoms
date from the early part of the eighteenth
century, that of Euston was created by
Charles II, in 1915, in favor of his ille-
Ultimate son by the lovely whitley wan
ton"
In sober truth, Miss Havemeyer's
abandonment of the debonair old earl
broke off in its first flush what promised
to be one of the most interesting of mod
ern international alliances To do the
present Earl of Euston justice one must
go back a few centuries to the reign Of
the merry monarch and his affairs with
Barbara Villiers. This fascinating and
versatile woman was, among some other
famous beauties, a favorite of Charles,
who had a muniicient way with his loves,
and created her the Duchess of Cleveland,
and then married her to the Earl of
Castlemaine shortly before her child was
born.
From this time forward history chron-
icles no deliberate, cold-blooded campaign
Of subtle, feminine Establishment en-
ployed by a woman to influence a man
that is at all in the running with the
department of this remarkable woman to
inveigle the merry monarch into creating
his son a duke-which in due time came
to pass. And so was founded the Earl
dom of Euston. And every succeeding
earl from the first to the present one has
been as gay blade as his kingly an
cestor.
Henry James Fitz Roy, uncle of the
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present earl, was party to romance that
the high world Of British royalty Of any
participated in by any other member of
his ducal house. Kate Cook, or, more
properly, Kitty Walsh, a beauty and a
charmer, was the party of the second
part. Kitty was the daughter of a Lon
don usurer, had been a circus girl, had
played in burlesque, but was, when Fitz
Roy met her. engaged in no calling which
can be given a polite name.
In her own sphere she was the pre-
eminent allurer, another "whttely
wanton," and her charms made short
shrift of the lordling. In the midst of a
revelry one night he was married to her,
and the British peerage faced the likeli-
hood of having the circus girl and
usurer's daughter third in its list of
duchesses, for Fitz Roy was heir ap-
parent to the title.
The charm net of his mesalliance held
Fitz fast for several years. Finally, how
ever, pressure from above forced him to
come to life and he gave his wife $4,000
to secure a divorce for him. She took the
money, but obtained only a separation,
and steadfastly refused for the rest of
her life to divorce him. Both she and
Fitz Roy died, however, before he sue
ceeded to the title.
Though the fortune of the ducal house
was founded by Barbara Villiers, the
motto Of the family, curiously enough,
is EFT decus ct pretium recti' (the
adornment and recompense of virtue).
And to have this pass from one "whitely
Wanton" to another was the sardonic
eVentuality which fate for a long time
seemed to have in store for it,
1t was into this interesting family that
Miss Havemeyer was to have married,
and it was to this title, threatened by
Kitty Cook, that she was to have sue
ceeded. But woe! and alas! for the
romance
The horrors Of the Havemeyers, to
which society first ascribed her break
from the earl, would fill book. Miss
Edythe was the niece of the great Amer
lean sugar king. Henry o. Havemeyer.
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OF the House OF EuStOn mas
prepared London society more
or less for the romantic ma
neuvers of the present earl, last de-
scendant of Charles lis WHITLEY wanton"
Barbara Villiers.
The philandering adventures of the
present IordHng began with the Frst rum
blings of battle when he announced that
he was about to wed the American sugar
kings millions by making Miss Edythe
Hnyemeyer, Of New York, his war
bride" Though of course he scarcely put
it that way
This was followed shortly afterward
by a supplemental announcement that his
engagement to the sugared gold had
been broken almost at the altar. And
now he has wed, instead, the Lady OF
Borthwick. widow of the twenty-frst
Baron Borthwick and daughter of Sir
Mark John McTaggart Stewart, etc, a
wealthy Scotchman.
No reason was given for his break
from Miss HavemeyeI, wherefore the
expert whisperers of society Immediate
- !uLApGu " lLLC COuCluSLOu ludI IuS
blight which has been cast over the
tainted Havemeyer millions was to blame.
They pointed out that the earl is of a
nervous and superstitious disposition and
feared to ally himself with a family that
has suffered the most amazing series of
tragedies in modern history, even though
Miss Havemeyer's great wealth was sadly
needed to bolster his Golfers.
This explanation, however, now goes by
the board, and the Stars and Stripes once
more float proudly over the Uniou Jack;
for it is now made known that it was
Miss Havemeyer and not the earl at all
who declined at the eleventh hour to go
to the altar. 1t is even said that the
dukes quick marriage was made to
pique Miss Hayemeyer by way, as it were,
Of revenge
This development is distinctly discon-
certing to London's elite 1t is annoying
really! mere American girl scorn-
ing to be an English duchess? The
idea
London does not believe It. OF course
the earl is in his late sixties, more than
twice as old as Miss Havemeyer, which
might be a reasonable motive for her TAX
ing such an unheard of course, if it were
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Mss EayZH
H6veweYeC
Philandering Lord
ling, Scorned by
Miss Edythe
HaUemeyer, Seeks
Revenge by Rushing
Headlong Into
Another Marriage.

ME spicy history of the amours
of the House of Euston has
prepared London society more
or less for the rnrna ntic M
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20

ing alone in a Rotterdam restaurant
She's studying music in Berlin. "I've
just run over TO Holland to spend a
week eating" she says.
Here's Spanish woman with three
little children. Il brought the baby
down to get him some milk He is
tired of carrots, spinach and apples
No wonder, he is only seven months"
And here are Germans-rich, elder
ly, retired Germans-who haunt the
doorways Of the hotel restaurants.
waiting for the American plan dinner
bell to ring, and who seem always to
be eating, even at the hated English
tea hour They are here a week Then
they go back to Germany.
Germany, civilian Germany, is hun
cry Not hungry for victuals, be-
cause victuals are anything a. human
being can eat and digest, but for de-
cent food like meat and wheat and
milk and animal and vegetable fats.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20
Carrots, Apples and Spinach
is Food of German Babies

best hotels. They return with stories
of plenty and excellent food. Berlin
is the wartime show place Of Ger
many and the hotels where writer's
go are the wartime show places Of
Berlin. What the American writer's
have said of the plentifulness and the
excellence of the food, is not neces-
sarily true.
Here in Rotterdam you get the
truth. straight from the dining rooms
and kitchens of civilians in every part
of Germany. 1t indicates that life in
Germany is uncomfortable. highly so,
for civilian who is keeping house.
Here's Swedish mechanic from
Germany, running around Rotterdam
filling his arms with packages of ba-
con, bottles of olive oil and rice. Per
Eaps the Hollanders will refuse him
permission to take these things across
the border but, I'm going to make a
try of it," he says.
Here's a pretty American girl din
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20
ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD
ORDERED INTO CAMP

hand to assist the adjutant general
and the arrangement for the Chicago
regiments were quickly completed.
Separate orders were sent to down
state regiments, but owing to poor
train facilities, it is probable the last
of the down state regiments Will not
arrive here until tomorrow night or
Thursday morning. Because the IN
spection of horses for the cavalry IN
Chicago is slow, the cavalry has been
ordered to report at Camp Lincoln
without their mounts If necessary.
Brig. Gen. D. Jack Foster OF the
first brigade, Brigadier General Hill
of the second brigade and Ad1utant
General Dickson inspected the camp
this afternoon and announced all Is
in readiness for the troops
Secretary of the State Board Oh
Health Drake, Surgeon General jacob
Frank and Surgeon Buell. S. Rodgers
of the medical department, maze q
final inspection of the two camps
this afternoon and announced the
sanitary conditions excellent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20
OF IOWA
GUARD HAS BEEN ORDERED

jutant general, received bids for tons
of food sufficient to sustain $500 men
for thirty days. As soon as the mob.
ilization order is received contracts
will be signed and the supplies de.
livered to Camp Dodge, northwest OF
this, city.
Companies at Armorles.
DIES MONIES. Iowa, June 20.-Ths
necessity of recruiting the Iowa ma
tional guard to peace strength of
sixty-five men to each company before
m utilization, may delay the assem-
bling of Iowa's $500 men at Camp
Dodge, north of here, for two or
three days. The orders calling out
the troops were sent out by Adiutant
General Logan to company command
ers this morning and the delay was
caused by the Postal Telegraph COM
pany which did not deliver the order
from President Wilson to Governor
Clarke, calling out the troops. untf-
twenty-four hours after its receipt.
In each company station in Iowa
the men assembled at the armories
today and awaited the filing of tho
ranks and the orders to entrain for
Des Moines. Special trains will run
from the corners Of the state carry
ing the guardsmen as soon as conu-
pany commanders fill the ranks. Sup
plies for $500 men for thirty days
have been ordered ready for delivery
at Camp Dodge at once,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20
Governor Clarke Issues Edict
But Definite Time is
Not Set.

DIES MONIES, Ia, June 2O.-Gover-
nor Clarke last night issued an order
to Adjutant General Guy e. Logan of
the state guards for their immediate
mobilization in Des Moines. No def
mite time was set for the assembling
of the troops. but it is probable they
will be called within FIVE days. The
companies, it is believed. will be re-
cruited to full war strength before be-
ing sent to the border. General Logan
and his aides worked all night in pre-
pairing plans for the mobilization.
orders will be issued to the different
companies to report.
Plans All Made.
DIES MONIES. June 20.-Prepara-
lions for the mobilization of the Iowa
National Guard were completed to-
day by Adjutant General Guy Logan
Railroad agents were in communi-
cation with the war department and
assured it that all arrangements had
been completed for the transporta-
ton of troops.
Colonel w. e. Lucas, assistant ad,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20
Carranza is Also Told That if He Attacks Gu
Soldiers, the Gravest Consequences
Will Follow.
MEXICO IS TOTO HOW ROTTEN she IS
Long Note in Reply to Withdrawal Demand is
an Indictment of Country Lacking
inLaw and Order.

WASHINGTON. June 2o.-rhe
American government today threat
ened General Carranza with 'the
gravest consequence" II he attacks
American troops now IN Mexico.
This threat was contained in long
note replying to his last withdrawal
demand. Full of short-arm diplomatic
jabs. the note positively declines to
take the American forces out OF
Mexico. 1t excoriated Carranza for
his failure to cooperate and resented
his bruskness and his intimations Of
bad faith.
1.-THE defacto government Is
pleased to ignore this obligation to
protect American rights and chase
bandits)." said the note, land to be.
lieve that in case of refusal to re-
tire these troops there is no further
recourse than to defend Its territory
by an appeal to arms, for the govern
ment of the United States would
surely be lacking in sincerity and
friendship If 1t did not frankly Inn
press upon the defacto government
that the execution Of this threat will
lead to the gravest consequences"
Bluntly the note told Carranza that
this government cannot recede from
it's settled determination to maintain
its national rights and to prevent
further raids across the boundary.
The high lights Of the note were:
Resentment Of Carranza's discourse
Gus tone and temper in his last note.
Charges that bandits have gone un-
hampered and unpublished in attacking
Americans.
Recitation OF a score Of instances
of banditry.
Charges that the Carranza regime
had been Indifferent to atrocities and
even encouraged and aided some of
the leaders of some Of these.
Charges that Carranza cid not take
proper steps to apprehend Villa and
others.
The Note.
1.-THE secretary of state to the sec
rotary of foreign relations Of the de-
facto government of Mexico.
Department of State.
Washington. June 20, 1916.
Sir: I have read your communica-
ton, which was delivered me on Nav
%, 1916, under instructions Of the
chief executive Of the defacto govern
ment of Mexico and I would be want
ing in candor if I did not before max
ing answer to the alleged facts and
constructions referred to BIZ your gov
eminent, express the surprise and
rel ret which have been caused this
government by the discourteous tone
and temper Of this last communica-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20
Reinforcements Hurried by Motor Truck to
Del Rio to Defend the Place from
Raid by the Greasers.
.CARRANzA'S THREAT HAS Been DEF|E|
American Troops Trample Over the dead
Lines" in Search for Bandits in Region
Of Namiquipa.

Der reach as high as 1000 men, WON.
ZEN and children. Twelve hundred are
| said to be In Mexico City, are reported
to be unable to reach the seaport OF
Vera Cruz because OF numerous ban
dts operating along the railway
| Wrecks of Mexican passenger trains
with large loss Of life are reported.
The Colonia Juarez district holds
about hve thousand American Nor
mon colonists. There are said to be
eight hundred Americans in Tampico
and several hundred In Sonora, Goa
hula and other Mexican states.
Confiscation Of food stuffs for Car
ranza's army In the face Of nation
al shortage has forced Mextcans OF all
classes to emigrate to the United
States. Approximately 1000 have
crossed into "A Pasos within the past
ten days.
One thousand refugees from the La
guna district were admitted yester'
day. American refugees reaching here
say they passed seven troop trains
sidetracked near Montezuma. They
estimated the trains carried 1000 Car
rama soldiers. It is believed they are
reinforcements for villa Ahumida.
near General Pershings communities
ton lines.
Another motor truck train heaped
with ammunition and supplies for
Pershing's forces left the Columbus.
N. M. base at dawn today, guarded by
troops with machine guns.
Built a earrleadc.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, June 20
Mexicans who began repairing 400
feet of railroad leading to the Inter
national bridge after Major Anderson
had withdrawn his expedition from
Mexican territory near here Sunday,
again tore up. the track and built a
barricade OF steel rails at the south
end of the bridge, on receipt OF the
news that President Wilson had call
ed out the rational guard.
The population Of Matalnoras today
is still celeb1 ating the retreat OF the
gringoes." The belief Is general on
the other side Of the river that An
derson's column was forced to retreat
by the Carranza garrison. Two Mexi-
cans wounded in the rear guard &C.
ton as Anderson withdrew, died Ill
the Matamoras hospital last night,
bringing the total Mexican dead as
a result Of the engagement to four.
Bridge Was Burned.
LAREDO, Texas, June 2O.-M1htary
authorities today are Investigating the
report that small bridge on the In
ternational and Great Northern rail-
way thirty miles east OF here, which
was burned last night, was set on fire
by Mexicans. All traffic has been
held up pending reconstruction of the
bridge.
All business places in Neuvo La
redo, opposite this city, which were
closed late yesterday by official
orders, remained shut today. The
population Of the Mexican city was
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-20

ton Of the defacto government Of
Mexico.
"The government Of the O. s. has
viewed with deep concern and increas-
ing disappointment the progress Of
revolution In Mexico. Continuous
! bloodshed and disorders have marked
it's progress. For three years the
Mexican republic has bcon torn With
civil strife; the lives OF Americans
and other aliens have been sacrificed
vast properties developed by Ameri-i
can capital have been DESTROYED and
rendered non-productive- Bandits have
been permitted to roam at will
through territory contiguous to the,
United States and to seize, without
punishment or without effective at
tempt at punishment. the property Of
! Americans, while the lives OF citizens
| Of the United States who ventured to
remain in Mexican territory or to re-
turn there to protect their interests,
have been taken and in some cases,
barbarously taken, and the murderers
have neither been apprehended nor
| brought to justice.
"It would be difficult to ind In tho
annals of the history of Mexico con-
ditions more deplorable than those
which have existed there during
luoSe TeCSlL yedIS I'll civil Wal.
The note frankly states ''it would
be tedious to recount instance after
instance, outrage after outrage, afro
city after atrocity."
1t does not mention, however, 'spe-
cific cases.
Details Of attacks on Brownsville,
Redhouse, Ferry, Progresso postof1ce
and Las Peladas, "all occurring dur
ing last September" are cited.
Soldiers Took Part
TN these attacks" the note CON-
tinues, "Carranzista adherents and
even Carranzista soldiers took part
in the looting, burning and killing.
Not only were these murders charac-
terized by ruthless brutality, but I'M
civilized acts of mutilatioa were per-
petrated. notwithstanding represen-
tations to General Carranza and the
promise of General Naffarette to pre-
vent attacks along the international
boundary, in the following month OF
October a passenger train was wreck
ed by bandits and several persons
killed, seven miles north of Browns
vile, and at attack was made uoon
United States troops at the same
place several days later. Since these
attacks, leaders of the bandits. well
known to both the Mexican civil and
military authorities, as we'll as to
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Continued on page ~
GERMANY

BERLIN, June 2o.-RepuIse Of
strong Russian attacks southeast Of
Logishin, north Of the Pripet marshes,
was reported by the war office this
afternoon. The SIavs suffered heavy
losses. Other Russian attacks along
the river Styr and near koIkl were
unsuccessful.
On the northern end Of the Russian
battle front, German troops attacked
successfully south Of Smorson in the
region OF Tanoczyn, capturing ia
Russians, four machine guns and four
mine throWers.