The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-29
Kindly Uncle Steps Out Of Usual Role to Engineer
Vanderbilt ElQnement
ny GENE COIN
NEA Service Writer

New York, July %. One OF the
vreatest engineers in the world the
profession SAYS of Col. Henry Howell
Armstead.
"Ripht." a certain celebrated par
Of honeymooners would agree she
who was Grace Vanderbilt, sought
bv some of Europe fanclest titles.
and Henry Gassaway Davis Bra,
student Of mining whose family Tor
tunes were extracted from the earth
Of West Virginia.
The role OF Cupid's engineer is Just
n little out Of the ColoncFs usual
line. The richest bachelor in Man
haitian. he has been kept pretty busy
pursuny great and hazardous
achievements.
Driving one OF the longest tunnels
i'm the world ut Taiache, Idaho now
| that's something he can talk about.
Organizing the stevedores Of Amer
dcan docks during the world war
figuring out the presence OF
one of the worlds richest goid
streaks ut Guanajuato, Mexico.
pioneering in the great northwest
delivering an Idaho poiitica!
| delegation for his friend. General
Leonard Wood these things are the
| Colonel's idea of something to do.
Then, suddenly he was thrust into
an experience 10 which could be APP
piled only PHILOSOPHY drawn ou'
| If contacts with human nature.
On the one hand there was giri
Her name happened to be Vanderbilt
and such were the circumstances o.
life that she was heiress to one OF the
great fortunes. There was the addi
tional circums lance that her parents
had expected for her nothing sh0r'
Of royalty.
On the other hand was a lad whom
the colonel loved as Il son. A bach
elor. he had turned a fatherly devo
ton to his nephew, Henry DAVIS
The man of thousand TYPICAL!
American adventures would take M
nephew upon his knee and give hin
the benefit of sound advice on lif'
and its codes.
"Well," remarked the Colonel, VIII
is n little tongue-tied on this partlc
Mar subject, lit was just the SAM
to me as though Mary Smith an
John Jones wanted to get married
You know how we look at thos
things in the West. The lad cam
to me with everything.
: and of course knew he was in love
< So | met the girl and ! never wan
: to meet finer girl. And it was Ger
O tain they loved each other. And
o said to myself that if these young
o sters want each other and there
: ANYTHING I can do about it Gel
0 tainly will.
"You see that boy is the apple Q
nv eye. though please don't CIV
the impressio ion that ! am sentimental
| It isn't that know him and
! know what's in him. and anyboc
should be happy and proud to HAY
him in the family. I've made him a
official in one of the mines, and
!. going to send him into the nortl
= west He's going to work hes q
- ing to work like the devil and lear
+" for himself what it's all about. Al
IL don't mind saying that if | ev'
:. had ANYTHING to do with engineerii
:, things. its one Of the best JOBS
i know Of
n Now in the story books, if you r
=, member. there was generally nj
y old uncle or an aunt to aeIp
L.. young folks smooth out the cour
-. of true love.
=. The Colonel it was, who appear
a q" ut the GA Hall license bureau !
:, the runaways in one Of New Yorl
most romantic marriages. 1t was
!. Colonel who stood up as best ma
:. It was the Colonel who started I
= honeymooners off to Canada VIII
=. Father and Mother Vanderbilt
,. General Cornelius Vanderbilts. if y
~ please-became Jelly silent and
accessible upon hearing the big ne'
es Now an old timer told me this:
III "There have been two men in I
nIs world who could smell gold. Fl
." there was Cecil Rhodes. He smell
90 one of the richest mines at Guar
49, 1uato. But he stayed in South AT
al ca. The other is Col. Armstead.
-. figured out the Mexican lind sci'
- tifically, but he smelled gold thu
net first.
80 "The Colonel mined it and m.
his fortune. When an insurrect
,aa came he got out and made money
IN it. A lot stayed in and lost. Tn:
nm the way with the Colonel, he's seld
az wrong. He has nose for gold. do
an forget that"
e. But in the Colonels code there
mo faith in a spiritual alchemy by VIII
ordinary mortal emotions can
transmitted.
, Perhaps that is why he was a
0 to engineer so successfully a mat