THE DREADFUL
OF TOO MANY
WOOERS
NEW YORK. Pity tho sor
rows of poor Mrs. Hnrt
McKco, who Is rich nnd
benutlful. Sympathize with
poor Mrs. William II.
Chapman, Jr., who Is
beautiful and rich. Those of us who
,nro homely and impecunious nro not
called upon to face their trials and
'tribulations wo nro not pestered to
death, at least, with hordes of suitors.
Love notes bring no terrors; nn or
dent wooer might oven vary tho mo
notony of things.
But not so for Mrs. McKco; not so
for Mrs. Chapman. For them nny
eplstlo couched In amatory terms Is a
pest. A man who says anything more
than "tho carriage waits" or "What
can wo show lmulnmo to-day?" Is
taboo. If men would only Btop pro
posing how happy both would be!
But men won't.
So these two ladles young, hand
.some, unattached, dowered with mil
lions have taken matters Into their
own hands, sayB a writer In the Now
"York World. Mrs. McKco lins called
upon n committee of gentlemen to
protect her from over-ardent suitors.
Ttfrs. Chapman has fled from London
.10 ncw xont in me nopo or stopping
further proposals from titled English
men nnd Tlusslan generals nnd others,
whoso eyes are Just as much taken
with her dollars 03 with her good
looks.
It would be almost pathetic woro It
not so amusing. Imagine tho situation
If you can. These two very Btnart,
chic, rich young American matrons
dry goods business. When ho retired,
20 years ago, ho was n millionaire,
known ns n confirmed bachelor, whoso
affections were centered upon good
dinners, good horses and good friends.
He liked society, nnd ho was never
happier than when ho was giving a
pnrty for some debutante to whom ho
might have been a grandfather. HIb
chums In those days wero William II.
Vnnderbllt nnd Roswoll P. Flower.
His homo ho mndo nt the old Wind
sor hotel, Now York, burned down ten
years ago.
Ihit his resolutions to remain n
bachelor nil his dayB wero llko chaff
before tho winds, when Mrs. Leo Ag
new, wlfo of tho inventor, confided
her troubles to him. Her llfo was
miserable, she told him, and ho tried
to console her. Tho 'Agnews lived nt
tho Manhattan hotel and he at tho
Plaza, New York. To make tho story
abort, the day Mra. Agnow got her
divorce and tho custody of her little
girl of thrco Mrs. Chapman mnrrlcd.
Not n soul was let Into the secret and
the pair the bridegroom of 7C nnd
the brldo of less than 30 hurried off
to Europe for their honeymoon.
Few Months of Joy.
Thero tho llttlo secret got out
many a bumper was drained to "the
good old boy" who had at last fallen
n victim to shafts of tho god of lovo
after three-quarters of n century of
bachelorhood. Mr. and Mrs. Chupmau
camo back to this country to Hvo and
took a sulto at the Plaza hotel. Thero
Mr. Chapman died, 18 months after
man went nbroad to cscapo tho atcn
tlons of tho impoverished, when she
got into It deeper than over. Then
on tho scene .came young Lord Robert
Keith-Falconer, who did his wooing
by proxy. Tho spokesman was tho
cnrl of Klntore, his father. That
elderly noblomnn met the stunning
Mrs. Chapman at AIx-le-Bnlns. whero
eho was "taking tho euro." He be
gan by showing her a portrait of his
son. Then ho told her that ho was
tho best partridge shot In all Eng
land, thinking that would appeal to
tho lady. Ho urged that she would
bo tho eleventh countess of Kintoro
nnd ndded If she became tho wlfo of
hie son slio would become one of the
court ladles of Alexandra, queen of
England. And so Lord Robert was In
troduced. Things went nlong swimmingly. It
turned out that tho young nobleman
had debts amounting to $1,600,000
nnd that ho was bndly in need of
someone to Bavo tho family estates.
The engagement was reported, only
to bo denied vigorously by young
Mrs. Chapmnn, when she learned thnt
her money figured In the affair quite
ns much as she did.
"Why can't thoy leave mo as I nm?"
said she, almost plaintively.
Then It camo out that It Is almost
u manln with her thnt every man who
pnys her court docs so through deslro
to obtain possession of her fortune.
It is her ono besotting fear thnt her
suitors chiefly deslro her for her great
wealth.
Her Life One of Worry.
And so Gen. Tchcrcp-Splrldovltch
cot his dismissal perhaps Mrs. Chap
man feared for her wealth. Ho met
the rich young widow in New York
nnd wns very very nrdent in his BUlt.
New Yorkers henrd that ho was vory
closo to tho czar and the youngest
general In tho Russian army. When
Mrs. Chapman went abroad to cscapo
Mittors In America ho followed. Then
cr.ino tho roport of tho engagement,
are actually forced to guard them
selves from unwelcomo attention; to
keep on denying this matrimonial nl
llanco and that; to shut tho door dally
to men of titlo and position who fall
head over heels In lovo with them
to say nothing of their wealth. Poor
Mrs. McKco; poor Mrs. Chapman!
Galaxy of Suitors.
Just listen to Mrs. Chapman, who,
just beforo Balling for Now York on
tho Maurotanla a week ago, in flight
from her swarm of suitors, said:
"I'm not engaged to nny ono. Thero
Jsn't any prospect of my being en
gaged to nny ono, either, though I
have been besieged with suitors on
every Bide. Gossip has had mo en
gaged to Lord Robert Kolth-Falconer
that is not bo. Now I nm Informed
that I am engaged to Gen. A. do
Tchcrcp-Splrldovltch of tho Russian
army. No Buch engagement exists.
Count Splridovltch has repeatedly
asked mo to becomo his wlfo; ho pnid
UBslduous court to mo In Paris, but
that is all there is to it."
If theso wero tho only two reports
of her engagement Mrs. Chapman
might havo laughed at them nnd let
It go at that. ..But there wero dozens
of suitors before theso two tho lat
est. Her troubles began, to quote
her owns words, "almost beforo my
husband was cold In tho grave."
You see, William Hayes Chapman
was 70 years old, and had somewhere
about 18,000,000. Ho began llfo In a
modefit way In Norwich, N. Y., In tho
his marriage. And from that day to
this his beautiful widow has known
not n single day's peace of mind.
Five dnya after her husband's death
sho received this letter:
Ilobolccn, N. J., Oct. 22, 1907. Dear Lady:
I read In the newspapers of your misfor
tune, und I take, tho liberty to writo you,
because I want ask you If you like got
murrled again with me. I am n young
noblu Italian gentleman of 32 yoars of
age, speaking a llttlo KukIIbIi and will
you plcaso try my personality. Waiting
for a kind answer, believe mo to be, Very
Truly Yours,
MARQUIS LOUIS LANCELOTTI,
Iloboken.
As sho said then:
"It was not alone letters of proposal
that I received, but letters of all sorts.
Detectives seemed to make me their
particular prey, writing mo scores of
letters requesting positions nnd ap
pointments to look after my Interests.
"Then I was hounded by tho nlmost
incessant ringing of the telophono.
One evening I was called from my
dinner flvo times to answer tho
'phone, and in only one instance did
I know tho party talking. It became
so terrible that I nsked tho manage
ment of tho Hotel St. Regis to cut
off by telephone, and for two months
I had pcacb from that direction.
Worse Abroad Than at Home.
"Then I received letters from a so
ciety in Paris which looks out for 'tho
Interests of Impoverished noblemen.
Thoy want money, and send ono ovor
here, and It Is up to him to mako n
hit."
Hut this was not all. Mrs. Chap-
ing his nnmo with thnt of Mrs. Ltuv
reuco E. Phlpps of Denver, whoso do
niustlc troubles wero. also . In . tho
courts, 4
Everybody thought that tho beauti
ful Mrs. Tovls was happily and safe
ly mnrrlcd at last, hut not eo fast.
Thoy quarreled. Mr. McKco thought
thnt Mrs. McKco was still receiving
other suitors nnd went so far as to
sny so In court. Mrs. McKco came
back with charges of cruolty and do
innnded the custody of her two sons,
Hugh Tovls nud Andro McKco. Sho
even declared that her husband had
spent her money and hnd forced her
to live on pickles nnd sardines!
Well, tho enso came to court Tho
French Judge, with Gallic Impartiality,
dismissed ull Mrs. McKco's 20
charges tigahiBt her husband and then
denounced hltn for using her letters
in court
Then camo more suitors, onco tho
divorce wns filled. First It was Mar
quis Gugltclml, tho Italian nobleman
of whom Mr. McKco was so Jealous.
Onco more nn engagement wns de
nied. Nobody could uco what the "la
belle Amerlcalno" could see In a per
fumed fortuno hunter.
"Theso French people," exclaimed
Mrs. TovlB-McKee, "can't seem to tin
dcrutnnd an honost American woman
wanting to got rid of n brutal hus
band to Hvo quietly with hor chil
dren." For n year things went smoothly
and the suitors word easily Btood off.
Then enmo Count Apponyl, son of
Count Apponyl, tho elder, nttncho of
tho Austro-Hungnrlait legation nt
DrtlBHl'lB.
Mrs. McKce's Error.
Tho young Magyar waB all atten
tion. He was good looking, of unim
peachable Boclnl standing nnd charm
Ing manners. Thoy hoenmo engaged.
Mrs. Tcvls-McKeo wrote him mnny
letters, ns often fiancees write to tho
idols of their hearts. Iu them sho
cnlled her count her "Cher Cliou-
only to bo denied ns so mnny others
beforo hnd been, And thero tho case
rests now Mrs. Chapmnn, fleeing
from America to Europe to escape
ono train of suitors, has hurried back
to America again to escape unother
Irnin. ,
Mrs. McKco hns taken another
course. Instead of trying to escape
them by fleeing from Europe she has
called upon hor American friends to
como thero to her rescue. They have
formed themselves into n vigilance
committee to protect her nnd hor for
tune. Thoso who read tho newspapers
must bo familiar with tho romance
that scorns to cling closo to tho life
of the beautiful Cornolla Baxter that
was. It Is a story of Denver, San
Francisco, Now York, Pittsburg, Pnrla.
Everybody remembers how the
beautiful Miss Baxter Jilted rich Ger
ald Hughes of Donver to mnrry richer
Hugh Tevis of San Francisco, Mr.
Tovls died In Jnpan on their honey
moon, leaving everything to his bcnu
tlful wlfo.
Mrs. Tovls went first to New York
and then to London. Thero alio met
Earl Rosslyn, who bocamo smitten
with hor beauty to say nothing of
her dollars. Tho actor-earl was very
fascinating nnd of good family and
nil that sort of thing, but when Mrs.
Tevis heard thnt his family thought
moro of hor $50,000 a year than thoy
did of hor n brlof cnblo message went
under tho water. It rend! "Engage
ment off." Tho earl, who had been
revelling in congratulations at his
great match, was naturally very peev
ish. Then the McKee Case.
Meanwhllo thore was n great to-do
In tho courts of Pittsburg, Pa. A.
Hart McKee and his wlfo, Miss Lydln
Sutton that was, woro ulrlng their
matrimonial infelicities. Mr. McKeo
fettled $300,000 upon Mrs. McKeo and
sho got the divorce and tho custody
of tho children. This settled, Mr,
McKeo wna free and ho promptly mar
rlcd tho young widow of Hugh Tovls,
when all tho time folks hnd boon link-
Chou" and her "petit lapln" nnd her
"pnilvre petit dndn." meaning that ho
wns her donr cabbago head and her
llttlo rabbit and her poor llttlo Billy.
When things got this far tho count's
credllorH thought It wns time for n
settlement So thoy mentioned tho
matter to him.
"Ccrtnlnly," snld Apponyl.
Then ho broached tho" mutter to his
licit young fiancee, nsklng for a loan
against their marriage.
"So It Is my money you wanted,
after all," cried Mrs. McKeo, or In
words to thnt effect, nnd Apponyl got
his conge.
But ho still held tho high trump. It
ho was to be dismissed, then ho would
phow those llttlo lovo loiters to a
laughing world. What was a poor
rich, beautiful young woman to do?
Sho cabled to her father, Col. O. M.
Baxter of IxMtlsvllle, Ky to como
right nway to Paris. Mennwhllo sho
called upon n trio of friends to act
as a committee to protect hor, and
Messrs. John M. Rusk of Toxns,
Joshua Brown of Tennessoe and Wil
liam 11. Wheeler of Now York snld
thoy would.
And hero the matter stands now.
Tho persistent Apponyl Is hold nt
arm's length by theso husky Ameri
cans from being Mrs. McKce'a third
hushnnd, willy-nilly.
It'a very hard this being beautiful,
and rich!
YOUTHFUL FINANCIAL KING
i33
Germany's Potato Crop,
Tho potato crop of Germany Is near
ly nlno times larger than that of tho
United States, bolng over 45,000,000
tons, some four-fifths cf which nro
used ns food or for Industrial pur
poses. Nearly ono-flfth aro roqulrod
for Bccdlng. In tho manufacture nf
starch nnd Its by-products about four
per cont, of the totnl crop Is used, nnd
for distillation nbout olght per cent
In Germany thoro aro hundreds of
small concerns In tho potato districts
manufacturing potato starch and dox
trine. Theso manufacturers obtain po
tatoes at from 90 to 123 pfcnnlgn
(21.42 to 29.75 cents) per unit of 50
kilos, or 110 pounds.
Comparatively young men have beon coming
to tho front lir Wall street In the last few years,
taking tho place of men vho have been leader
Hi" tho streetV affairs.4, 'Ahibng- iM young V'Whgs
of finance" whoso power httB been felt Is Frank
A. Vnnderllp, former Chicago newspaper .report
er. Ho has mndo good "with a 'vengeance
Before Mr. Vnnderllp went to Wall street, two
acta In his career had already riveted nttcntlon to
him his part In averting n Chicago panic and
his handling of tho Sapnlsh-Ainerlcan war loan.
But, boforo thoso two big chnncos, ho hnd not
by nny means been missing opportunities. Born
near Aurora, 111., on November 17, 186-1, he soon
decided that his nntlvo town wur too Bmnll for
him, mil moved to Chicago, whero ho got n Job
in nn investor's ngency. Later ho tried nowspnpor
work, bocomlng, in courso of time, flnuncinl editor of tho Chicago tribune
After that ho started n paper of his own, tho Economist.
In 189Q came tho Moorq Brothers failure. 3dr. Vandorllp heard of it at
tho housq.of P, 1). Armour, to which ho had been cnlled. Nothing whatever
hnd lenkod out, yet tho public wan bound to know of It A panic was feared.
Mr. Vnnderllp whb nsked to tnko charge of publishing tho nows. HIb conserv
ative way of handling It doubtless saved tho city from n panic.
When Lymnn .1. Gngo becamo President McKlnioy's Bocrotnry of tho
treasury ho made Mr. Vandorllp his privitto secretary. But tho man wns too
big for tho Job; soon ho was assistant secretary of tho treasury.
The Spnnleh-Amerlcnn wnr loan of 1898 gave Mr. Vandorllp his llfo' op
portunity. Congress had voted n popular loan of $200,000,000. Ho was in
trusted with tho floating of tho bond Ibsucs. The bill wns passed on Juno 11,
1S98. Here is how ho has described tho handling of tho loan:
"I put 500 men to work, Within n day tho mails were taking our printed
matter to every national, state, nnd private bank In tho country, to overy
postmaster, to every express ofllce, und to 24,000 editors of newspapers.
"The subscription closed at thrco o'clock on tho afternoon of July 14.
Thero woro 320,000 subscribers, nntl thoy asked for $1,400,000,000 in bonds.
During tho last two days wo received 50,000 letters."
Mr. Vnnderllp resigned from his government position iu 1901 to becomo
vico-presldent of tho National City bank in Now York city, Turning his at
tention to extending tho bank's connections in Europe, ho soon mndo It n
great International Institution, nnd last spring succeeded James Stlllmnn nu
president.
DEEP WATERWAY HIS AIM
When tho deep waterway Is dug and tho
ships of tho ocean steam up nnd down tho Mis
sissippi river nnd Its tributary cannls, from tho
gulf to tho lakes, tho peoplo will not forget tho
great work done by William K. KaVannugh of St.
Louis. Mr, Knvanaugluis president of tho Lakes-to-the-Gulf
Deep Waterway association, nnd no
man has dono moro than ho to bring the great
project up to ita present atatus. Tho talks of
President Tuft and Speaker Cannon on tho re
cent trip down tho "Fathor of Waters" indicate
that tho chances nro good for completion of tho
scheme, nnd thnt Mr. Knvannugh's work Anally is
to bo crowned with success.
Mr. Kuvnnnugh has fought an uphill buttle. It
is a welt known fact that tho great railroads do
not want a deep waterway. It would take freight
nway from them It need only bo left to the imagination of tho reader to de
cide how hard Mr. Kavunnugh'H labors havo been. Tho railroads aro power
ful at the national capital and Mr. Knvanaugh has had to fight hard to mnko
somo of tho members of congross see tho light That they nro beginning to
open their oyen Is certain.
"Tho history of tho Mississippi river hns been n story of inaction and of
niggardly appropriations, which liavo been fought through tho rivers and har
bors commltteo und through congress without rhyme or reason," snld Mr. Knv
annugh in opening tho association's convention nt New Orleans,
'The whole valley Is sjclc with the congestion of Its transportation sys
tem, und only this deep waterway enn relievo it Tho peoplo of tho Missis
sippi valley must have definite assurance thnt this carrier Is to bo completed
at a certain ditto, and thnt date must not bo much moro remote than tho com
pletion of tho Panama, canal."
CLEVELAND'S NEW MAYOR
Had Herman C. Baohr, tho now mayor of
Clovolaud, O., ncvar dono anything elso In his life,
ho could fli:d sufficient honor in tho fact that ho
defeated Tom Johnson. Othors beforo him havo
tried In vain to oust "Mayor Tom" nnd his trac
tion Ideas from tho throno in tho Ohio metropolis,
but foiled, so it wns left to tho Gcrmnns to pro
duce n man who could tako tho mcasuro of tho
3-cunt fare ndvocato.
But Mayor Bachr has dono other things. Ho
Is ono of Clovolnnd'a substantial citizens, nnd has
dono much for tho wolfnro of tho big town on tho
lake. Ho has held olllco boforo and fulfilled hit;
duties with such success that his friends boo thd
possibility of a good administration with him as
the city's chief executive.
Tho now Clovelnnd mnyor Is a brewer. Ho waB
born March lfi, 18CC, In Keokuk, Iowa, but camo to Cleveland whon n boy. Ho
was educated In tho Cloveland schools nnd lntor In Lehman's Scientific acad
emy, WormB ou-tho-Rhlnc, whero ho took a degreo of M. B. Ho was gradu
ated from tho first scientific station of Now York In 1887 nnd soon after took
charge of tho Bachr Browing Company, ns manager.
This browcry afterward consolidated with tho Clovolaud nnd Sandusky
Brewing Company, known in northern Ohio as tho brewery trust Mr. Baehr
acted as secretary and treasurer of tho trust organization for many years.
Ho Is associated with tho Forest City Savings and Trust Company, and in
1904 wits olected county recorder, bolng re-elected in 1900 and In 1908.
In his campaign ho never hnd the opposition of n strong Dompcrnt, Mayor
Johnson nppnrcntly falling purposoly to nomlunto any ono of strength against
Baohr.
WORKS FOR FREE IRELAND
"Ireland will bo froo in threo or four years."
This Is tho prediction of Thomas Power
O'Connor, Irish Journalist, and member of parlia
ment, who has been vl8tng the largo cities of tho
United States, appealing for financial aid In tho
battle to liberate Old Erin.
In Chicago $10,000 was pledged to "Tay
Pay" nt a dlnnor given for him on tho day of his
nrrivnl, nud boforoJio left tho city ho had a groat
doal moro,
"Tho history of Ireland is a talo or mlsory
wrlltnn In lottnrs nf nntrlnltp. Iilnnil " unlil Hi .
J Irish londoi In a Chicago speech. "It tolls an nl
Vwfoh nsSSpHl Mx' I mo8t- unbellovablo story of oppression and misuse,
ignornnco nnd want. But of late tho story has
beon changing. Wo havo begun to como into our
own. Wo aro getting back somo of our schools to
do away with tho darknesa of Ignornnco; wo nro slowly gaining eomo of our
own land from tho oppressive landlords and wo aro coming into a powor tuft
is going to glvo us homo rule within four years.
"If any of you bollovo In tho ofllcncy of prayer, pray ovory night that tho
houso of lords will reject tho present budgot. It will bo their death warrant.
It will bring un election In January und In that election wo shall, win our
freedom from tho land pirates that havo long preyed upon us,
"To do so wo may havo to crcnto COO now lords, but wo will keep at It If
wo havo to mnko a lord out of ovory man In tho United Kingdom, Thero
mny then bo n chnnce for aonui of our C'oltlo frlem'e 111 VtICa6n t' brenk Into
tho peerage." " ,