Water Valley progress., June 16, 1906, Image 7

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MILLIONAIRES WHO
ARE MANAGED BY
THEIR DAUGHTERS
In Affairs of the Heart, Wealthy Papas Seem to Have
Very Little to Say.
GENERALLY SURRENDER WITH GOOD GRACE
Cases of Wilhelmfna Busch, Helena Zimmerman and Mrs.
Burke Roche Among the Many Thai Might Be
Ciied— How James Van Alen was
forced to Give In.
f If millionaires are managed by no
pne else in the worl 1, they are at least
managed by their daughters. In an
analysis which turns the limelight
upon all the ways of the extremely
rich man, from his early beginnings,
to his eating and drinking, his dress
and appearance his work and recrea
tion, his words and probable thoughts,
there is probably only one person of
all those to whom he is a continual
show and study, to whom he is not for
midable.
This person is his daughter.
When it was said ihal ‘‘a little child
shall lead thorn'’ it should have been
said that a beruffled and befurbelowed
grown-up daughter, with pink tinted
finders, shining and waving tresses,
and all the comp'exities that go to
make up the daughters as well as the
little sisters of the rich, shall lead
them. *
The millionaire may guard himself
with his millions, may iintrench him
self from the long arm of the law,
may be silent, unapproachable, and
impervious to questioning, investiga
tion or attack, but all of a sudden
some day he will be turned into a soft
hearted creature who does not what
he would, but what he must, and does
it with the best grace possible. All
this is because his pretty daughter, at
some particular crisis in her life, sud
denly has taken it into her pretty
head to do as she pleases, either with
or without Papa Millionaire’s consent,
as the case may be.
The way he stands for her and what
she does or plays the opposite part is
a final test of his character in the
hearts of many people, and one which
throws a revealing light upon his true
seir, although it is one which seems
to be lost sight of by G. R. Clarke,
Owen Swett Marsden, and other mil
lionaire students and experts.
Case of Wilhelmina Busch.
Whatever may have been the eccen
tricities covered either in herself cr
her lover by the arrangements which
Papa Millionaire Busch made in order
to wed Miss Wilhelmina Busch proper
ly and conventionally to Lieut. Schar
rer, nobody could doubt that in every
thing he showed first, last, and alto
gether, that the love he bore his daugh
ter was the kind which makes her mis
fortunes into triumphs—the only kind
worth while to woman.
At first Papa Bu3"h frowned on the
young German officer—as a suitor, that
is. But in the role of an indulgent
father he did not object to his coming
to the house, and from there they went
riding and driving every day. Then
came the attempted elopement and its
fiasco, after which the Busch mansion
was called up by telephone. In the
face of so flagrant disregard of his
wishes and the failure of his little
scheme of letting the matter wear it
self out, what does Papa Busch do?
He quickly capitulates.
“If you intend to be married, come
back and be married at home. I have
bo objections to Mr. Scharrer as a son
in-law,” he says by telegraph. And
he Is as good and belter than his word.
He advises them to wait until things
quiet down a little, and then gives J
his daughter a wedding at beautiful
Pasadena. More than this, he starts
them off on their wedding trip In his
private car Adolphus, which they only
left at New York to take the trip to
Europe. This and much more was pro
vided by Papa Busch’s generosity.
Kept Papa Zimmerman Guessing.
So with the few exceptions that
prove the rule, it always has been in
the history of American millionaires.
Not long ago the world held its breath
at the rashness of Helen Zimmerman.
Was she married? Papa Zimmerman
said "No.” He also said that he
would know something about it if any
body would, provided such a thing had
happened, and yet cablegrams kept
coming that she was.
“You cannot make my denial too
explicit,’’ he said, “for there is abso
lutely nothing in the report. If there
had been I certainly would have heard
of it, and not a word have I received.
Why, my daughter is on the ocean this
minute on the steamship Campania,
which Is expected to arrive at New
York on Wednesday. She will be ac
companied by her aunt, Miss Evans,
and by no one else. Now that she has
sailed to this country, will you tell me
how she could have bean married?"
It was suggested that the marriage
took place on the Wednesday before,
which the millionaire denied, but
which, It turned out, was just what
had happened. The young people had
decided to get married, but to keep the
ceremony a secret urtll the bride could
go to Cincinnati. But the suddenness
of the ceremony and the secrecy had
been decided upon because of the wild
and unsettled affairs of the duke, and
the ceremony was performed with the
consent of the bride’s aunt, Miss Ef
fie Evans. She and the bride expect
ed to sail on Wednesday, and had so
cabled Papa Zimmerman. A necessary
trip on the part of the bride to Paris,
however, to get her wardrobe and close
her apartment there made an unfore
seen delay, and the sailing bad to be
postponed until Saturday. She was
detained in Paris and missed the boat,
and when she arrived in London the
duke insisted on going to Tanderagee
castle. This was not according to the
l agreement, but the girl was again
persuaded, the aunt and guardian
again going along. Of course, the
Tanderagee trip made the announce
ment of the wedding necessary, anti
then it was that the messages were
cabled back and forth, the newspapers
asserting and Papa Zimmerman deny
ing. The next thing Papa Zimmerman
received was a cable saying that It was
all true, and asking his blessing.
A pretty predicament this was, and
a pretty position put a millionaire
in—and multimillionaire at that—es
pecially one who has been accus
tomed to carrying things with a high
hand.
Get Blessing and Welcome.
Interviewers and many other men
had found that, for all Eugene Zim
merman was considered bluff and
hearty, he could give a man a bad ten
seconds who asked him questions or
took any attitude which he regarded
a3 an impertinence. Before that last
cablegram arrived, and while the mil
lionaire still was denying, bets were
exchanged freely that it would go hard
with Helena and with the duke if the
news turned out to be true.
But no. Without any possible way
of knowing bow the mistake had all
come about, Papa Zimmerman refused
to make any harsh judgment of his
little girl who always had been all
and all to him. Ho proceeded to do
all, and more, to justify the sublime
faith that she had put in him. He
answered xne caDiegram Dy caDimg nis
blessing. He was one of the first to go
up the side of the St. Louis when the
vessel arrived. He entered the state
room, in the cenetr of which stood
his daughter with the duke by her
side. He kissed her with a certain
apparent dimness and moisture in his
eyes, and then shook hands with the
duke.
“Congratulations, sincere congratula
tions,” he said, "and welcome home.”
Everybody knows how he has taken
hold of the task laid out for him
since; how he has tried to make a
business man out of his son-in-law;
how he has turned over millions to
redeem the duke’s estate; how every
thing that is in his power is done for
the happiness of his daughter; and
how he is working night and day that
her boy, little Lord Mandeville, shall
one day inherit greater wealth.
Frank Work and His Daughter.
It was years ago when the million
aire, Fr^nk Work, began to play the
same role for his adughter and Eng
lish son-in-law. It was in 1881 that a
tall, handsome young man visited New
York and laid siege to his beautiful
daughter. The father opposed the
match with all his might, but they
were married and went to London. It
was only a little while after that
Mr. Work was sending them 97,000 a
year to live on. A little later he In
creased it to 912,000. Then he cut off
all allowances. He said his daughter
had married a man who never could
or never would make a living, and that
he was tired of furnishing allowances
and paying bills at (he same time.
With the “wherewithal” cut off, Mrs.
Burke Roche soon ieturned^with her
children. She weut straight to the
house on Twenty-sixth street. In
1891 she obtained a divorce from her
husband in Delaware, and ever since
has been living at her father’s house
as Its beautiful mistress. As has late
ly come forth, she has had little spoiled
ways of her own ever since which
were not exactly In accord with the
fussy notions of an old man. He has
flown Into a rage fat her more than
once, which is not anything remark
able when It Is considered that he is
87 years old. But she is her father’s
daughter, and, moreover, she is not in
the least afraid that he means it, and
she knows exactly how to manage
him. So, when he reprimanded her
for having her luncheon served on a
little tray In the parlor, she ordered
her maid to pack up her trunks and
remove to the Buckingham. A pretty
bluff, wasn’t It, whan it is considered
that all his daughter’s means of liv
ing is the 160,0000 which he allows her
a year.
But she knew exactly how to man
age her father, who is given to imag
ining things—so say her sons—and It
was only a short time until he was
denying the rumors that were flying
about that he had diisinherited her,
and was sending for her to come home.
It has been said, though, that he has
put It in his will in the form of a re
quest that his granddaughter, Cynthia
Burke Roche, shall not marry a for
eigner, as her mother did.
Miss Van Alen’s Victory.
In the late notoriety of young Rob
ert Collier it was remembered what
a strenuous opposition was put up
against him as a son-in-law by James
Van Alen. Mrs. Van Alen was the
daughter of Mrs. William Astor, and
It has been said that Mr. James Van
Alen is one of the most snobbish men
in America. He retused the offer of
Grover Cleveland to send him as min
although he had some wealth and posi
tion in the western state, had only re
cently acquired it.
Miss Lily, who ia a beautiful blonds
announced from the first that she in
tended to marry Mr. Martin, but her
parents tried the same tactics of freez
ing out that had prevailed at Papa Van
Alen’s. Three times the engagement
was announced, and twice the wed
ding day was set, and then it was
postponed, and young Mr. Martin
returned to California. But at last
they had to give in to Miss Lily, and
the ceremony, postponed once more
for a week, finally came off. But
through it all Charles Oelrichs never
acted ugly.
Romances Without Opposition.
Of course when Miss Frederica Webb
married Ralph Pulitzer, and when Miss
Caroline Phelps Stokes married Rob
ert Hunter they did not at first re
ceive much opposition, as they had dif
ferent parental mateiial to deal with.
Dr. Steward Webb always has been
noted for his progressiveness, and he
and his daughter Frederica always
have held the same ideas as to the
uses of money in the world, so that
marrying a fortune was not consid
ered a great point with them.
With Mrs. Hunter it was the same.
She always had done as she pleased,
having given away $500,000 of her
patrimony to Harvard when she first
came of age, and it was all without
any opposition from her father. She
was the apple of his eye, and what
ever she did was right with him.
The same it was with her marriage.
Andrew Carnegie is another whose
little girl, if she grows up to be a
willful young lady, will not lack for
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lster to Italy, and, like William Wal
dorf Astor, he has decided that Eng
land is the only place to live in and
bring up his family. When his young
est daughter, Sara, fell in love with
Robert Collier, his only objection to
the young man was because he was
Irish. The rumor of their engagement
was at first scornfudy denied by the
Van Alens.
Mr. Van Alen was obdurate, and, al
though his daughter declared she
would marry him ar.a nobody else, she
was whisked off to Europe in the hope
that she would forget him. Instead,
he followed, and she laid such a siege
to her father that he looked on it
with a* little more favor. She returned
home, where she exercised the grand
coup, and won over her grandmother,
Mrs. William Astor. She also joined
the Roman church. Finally, one day,
with a bad grace and perhaps because
he had to, but none the less because
he was managed, James Van Alen cap
itulated.
It was not, however, until the day
of the marriage, when he reluctantly
gave the bride away at a civil mar
riage in the drawing-room of a hotel.
None of Mr. Collier's family was pres
ent, and immediately afterwards a sec
ond marriage took piace at St. Mary’s
Roman Catholic church, at which Mr.
Collier’s parents were present and Mr.
Van Alen remained away.
Charles Oelrichs' Surrender.
Charles Oelrichs was forced to give
in in much the same way to his daugh
ter Lily when she became Mrs. Peter
D. Martin. Hs, contrary to the other
papas, had marked her out for a titled
Englishman. But she took a desperate
fancy to the younj; Californian, who.
the support of the man with millions,
let her do what she will—or at least
so all would believe who remember
how loyally he came to the support of
his favorite niece, Miss Nancy Car
negie, when everybody in her family
was against her.
HAS GOVERNMENT ORDER.
Nebraska Woman Receives Contract
from War Department to
Make Harness.
Omaha.—Mrs. Mary D. Lydick of
Huntington enjoys the unique distinc
tion of being the only woman harness
maker in the nation, if not in the
world, and she is proud of the distinc
tion and Huntington is proud of Mrs.
Lydick.
Mrs. Lydick made and presented to
Mr. Longworth and to his bride, Miss
Alice Roosevelt, each a handsome
leather belt, and she prizes highly the
note of thanks written by the presi
dent’s daughter. S'le also has an au
tograph letter from the president writ
ten to thank her for the o* a
beautiful hand-made bridle which she
presented to the president when he vis
ited the Trans-Mississippi exposition
at Omaha in 1898.
Mrs. Lydick has just received a con
tract from the war department at
Washington to make harnesses and
parts of harnesses for the western
forts, Mrs. Lydick believing that the
contract comes as a compliment from
President Roosevelt. ‘‘I thank the war
department for their part of the giving
of the contract, however,” says Mrs.
Lydick, “and I will do my best to
please by doing good work.” s
AILING WOMEN.
Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kid
neys Will Keep You Well.
Sick, suffering, languid women are
learning the true cause of bad backs
and how to cure
them. Mrs. w. u.
Davis, of Groeabeck,
Texas, says: “Back
aches hurt me so f
could hardly stand.
Spells of dizziness
and sick headache
i were frequent and
the action cf the
1 kidneys was irreg
ular. Soon after I began taking
Doan’s Kidney Pills I passed several
gravel stones. I got well and tha
trouble has not returned. My back
Is good and strong and my general
health better.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Mllbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
PERHAPS IT CURED HIM.
Maybe the Wife Had Been Out, May
be Not, the Effect Was
the Same.
Capt. Mark Casto was being congrat
ulated on his gift of $1,500 from tha
Carnegie here fund for bravery In the
wreck of the Cherokee, relates tha
New York Tribune.
“The gift was unexpected,” said
Capt. Casto with a modest smile. “It
was as unexpected, though by no
means as unpleasant, as the retort
tuat a wife made to her husband when
he came home at three o’clock In tha
morning.
“The man came home very quietly.
In fact, he took off his shoes on tha
front doorstep. Then he unlocked tha
door and went cautiousiy and slowly
upstairs on his tiptoe, holding his
breath.
“But light was streaming through
the kephole of the door of the bed
room. With a sigh he paused. Then
he opened the door and entered.
“Hi3 wife stood by the bureau fully
dressed. .
“I didn’t expect you’d be sitting up
for me, my dear,’ he said.
“ ‘I haven’t been,’ she said. 'I ju3t
came in myself.’ ”
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Willing to Oblige.
"Give me the city hall, please,” said
the lady to the conductor of the street
car.
"I should be glad to do so, madam,”
replied the conductor, who was a new
man and had been greatly impressed
by the rules of the company, which
insisted upon employes being courte
ous and obliging. “I should, indeed,
be glad to do so, but the lady over
there with the green feather in her
hat asked for the city hall before yon
got on the car. Is there any other
building that would suit you just as
well?”—Detroit Free Press.
Ethics.
"Do you think we will ever be able
to communicate with Mars?”
"My dear sir,” answered the astron
omer, "you surely do not think I
wou! ’^ppoil pages of magazine articles
yet towoe written by endeavoring to
prove the contrary. It would be very
unprofessional.”—Washington Star.
KNIFED.
Coffee Knifed an Old Soldier.
An old soldier, released from cof
fee at 72, recovered his health and telle
about it as follows:
“I stuck to coffee for years, although
it knifed me again and again.
“About eight years ago (as a result
of coffee drinking which congested my
liver), I was taken with a very severe
attack of malarial fever.
“I would apparently recover and
■tart about my usual work only to suf
fer a relapse. After this had been
repeated several times during the year
I was again taken violently ill.
“The Doctor said he had carefully
studied my case, and it was either ‘quit
coffee or die,’ advising me to take Pos
tum in its place. I had always thought
coffee one of my dearest friends, and
especially when sick, and I was very
much taken back by the Doctor’s deci
sion, for I hadn’t suspected the coffee
I drank could possibly cause my trou
ble.
I thought It over for a few minutes,
and finally told the Doctor I would
make the change. Postum was pro
cured for me the same day and made
according to directions; well, I liked
it and stuck to it, and since then I
have been a new man. The change in
health began in a few days and sur
prised me, and now, although I am
seventy-two years of age, 1 do lots of
hard work, and for the past month
have been teaming, driving sixteen
miles a day besides loading and un
loading the wagon. That’s what Pos
tum in the place of coffee has dona
for me. I now like the Postum as well
as I did coffee.
“I have known people who did not
care for Postum at first, but after hav
ing learned to make it properly accord
ing to directions they have come to
like it as well as coffee. I never mis*
a chance to praise it.” Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look for the little book, “The P.oaA
to ’Wellvllle,” in tks*.