The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-03-23

child sent to the public schools. She
was graduated from the high school
after extended work in astronomy and
in French and German.
tlnued against the neighboring towns
But evidently precautions were taken
too late. Marie Doughty, shopping in
the squalid little Mexican city across
tn eriver from Brownsville, fingered to
watch the games of roulette, and the
bale" (Mexican dance), and was
bitten by the stegomyia transmitting
agent in yellow fever).
She was raging with fever when DR..
Gorgas, who had reached the post but
fe wdays before and was getting his
first glimpse of yellow jack, was sent
for at 4 o'clock one morning. Marie
bought ytook the fan from her brothers
hand and commando 9TH eyoung doctor
to fan her, which saw the beginning of
her reign on William Gorgas' home.
A few days later DIR. Gorgas was
himself striker and had a severe case.
The swift disease, however, which
either kills in eight days, or has burned
itself out, found the doctor tough
proposition-with a score to even up.
He was shortly convalescing and SO
1t came to pass that the young northern
visitor and yellow jacks implacable
enemy were recovering at the same
time, when their romance budded.
But it was sometime before it BIOS
somed and bloomed.
The doctor remained at Fort Brown
two years, keeping bachelor mess with
Lieut.. EnOch CrOwder. He visited Miss
Doughty whenever he could get leave.
The doctors first love letter is
commentary o nthe billet doux of today
an dthe lack of romance in the present
conduct of courtships.
First Love Letter
1.-The greatest object have just now
is to stand well with you," wrote the
man who made the building Of the
Panama canal possible. Every night
before going to sleep, I think of you
in some association of the past or some
possible connection in the future.
Our relations have not been such
that / feel at liberty to obtrude my
feelings upon you in writing unless your
letters gave me some opportunity. Amy
change in them, you must be aware, is
trespassed in this matter, please par
don me.
"Allolw me to close tonight by send
dare say, as lover ever sent.
In the fall of 1854 Miss Doughty
accepted an invitation from DIR. Cor
gas mother-daughter of former Gov.
John Gayle of Alabama, to visit her
at Tuscaloosa, Ala. On arrival she was
surprised to find DR.. Gorgas at the
train to meet her-sudden orders hay
ing providentially come at this time to
proceed to Fort Randall, 8. ID.
They drove out to the University
home, where his mother was then liv.
ing, and Marie Doughty declares that
''her gracious manner, as she came
from the dear old portico to greet her,
captured in one second. the obdurate
heart that had withstOod for two years
the siege of her handsome son. ] then
and there capitulated and have always
maintained that / fell in love with
Mrs. Gorgas befor ell did with the
doctor"
They were married in Cincinnati and
went Immediately to station at Fort
Randall, where, for four years, they
endured the hardships of frontier life
thta no longer exists for the army.
The Gorgas' next station was Fort
Barrancas, Fla. BY this tim ca little
daughter-Aileen Lyster Gorgas-had
come to join the Gorgas family. She
was their only child and is now Mrs
w. d. Wrightson, wife of a public
health sanitary officer, with three
children of her own.
From Barrancas the Gorgases went
west to Fort Reno, Okla. back again
to Barrancas, and from there to New
York.
When the Standardization war
broke out, he was ordered to the hos
pital ship Relief, and he and Mrs. Cor
gas were separated for the first time
During his fatal illness in London,
the King came to the hospital to dec
crate him wit hthe highest order of HIS
kingdom. On his death-as during his
a -honors were shown him such as
yer before nor snice have been shown
an American.
And now honors are being conferred
on his widow.
Mrs. GOrgas expects to sail March 3.
accom-. anied by Mrs. David dul5ose
! Gaillard. widow of the Panama engi-
neer who cut his name to fame and
with whom the Gorgascs had such close
association. Mrs. Gorgas and Mrs.
! Gaillard will be guests of Brigadier
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