The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1898, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 1898 SUNDAY. UGUST 21, GREATEST DISTINCTION EVER WON ABROAD BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN. A Chicago Girl Who Is Going to India as Vicereine; She Will Take Rank Next to Queen Victoria. House for the same reason that he was unpopular in Oxford. He was too im- portant a “person. But he overcame N American girl, Mrs. George N. Curzon, will shortly occupy a rank | to Queen Victoria in the British empire, as her husband, George 2n appointed Viceroy to all India. This is the first ne Curzon, has just b : ! | his defects. He trained himself until time the e has been conferred on a commoner since the | o' wag recognized as being the most great Warren Hastings held it. | effective debater next to Mr. Chamber- Pour ago Mrs. Curzon was Miss Mary Leiter of Chicago and | lain. While he was at Eton he Her brother, Jo eph Leiter, is the young man who recently 0 for the family in trying to corner wheat in Chicago. travel and he has been all over the| band will rule over 300,000,000 subjects of the British crown in | World. ~The East attracted him par- 2d il vocelvs & salary (of SIMD.000 ' year and $200000 af e same WM IC Les e R : E s views and three or four books which ime for expens: The cost of malntaining the viceroyal establishment | v’ given him a permanent li is something enormous, and former Viceroys have sometimes found that His “Problems in the E | they had to dip into their own private purses to help pay for malntaining accepted as a volume of great value. the offictal splendor of their positicn. The salary and expense money re- Miss Mary Victoria = Leiter and ceived by Mr. Curzon is six times more than the President of the United |George Curzon were married in Wash- April 18 They went rtly afterward. The life can’ girl there has been ington on 22 to England of the Ame: a triumph. | band’s political life with enth | She helped him make the canv. he stood for election. She ente States receives. Mr. Curzon will undoubtedly be raised to the peerage, possibly to an 1dom, before he takes office, and his wife will join in his honor: This is the fi time in history that an American woman has risen to such a high station in the British emp! Many believe the appointment is furnished as an augury of the much-talked-of Anglo-American alliance. % in London. He found her an invalua- HE Right Honorable George Na- | schooling. Blo aia Yo Riz amBitton: thaniel Curzon, Under Secretary | Then it was said long before her mar- | As has been said George Curzon was as been ap- | riage that Miss Mary Leiter was de- | looking forward to the day when he of Forelgn Affairs, pointed Viceroy and General of India and in conse- quence his wife shares In his sem! termined to marry a foreigner and usu- ally it was added that he must have a title. The result has shown that she | did not want a tit she might become Premier of England. As he is only 39, a mere infant in politics according to the British idea, he would have to wait a dozen years at Governor royal honors. Four years ago she wanted power. And her ing has | Jeast. plain Mary Leiter of Chicago. Now she «iz;r‘nrrrxluls:alrg rlh‘:‘“;h” ;:;v;v;ml;:i\l the| Now Mrs. Curzon is = Amelriloan. s officiz i British empire | advantage of a well-trained o and she doesn’t believe in long delays. nolagom ]l.l :mguf:.nm\?im,m_ = T have spent much time|she has the audacity which is the first B o e et v Leiter took ad-| American characteristic. She quickly e, fcupsencii Sl oR0 Bos B X opportunities. She be- | jegrned that women play an important beauty, ,000,000 as dowry and a me proficient in the continental lan- | part in English politic: She entered young husband who is already one of | guages. nation. She is | | Into it and became one of those powe: ful unrecognized forces that the. great men of h 1 g unseen, e i Enal Mary r made in Washington was | gupr, RSTEE tall, dark and majestic. Her hair and | = BCORI gve 48 | surround Parliament. : = = beautiful. | With Mr: C. Whitney, and through | When the greate! ft of the British ancingly 1 are ent complex her the young woman became an inti- | Government was offered Mr. Curzon it She is brilliantly accomplished and has | mate friend of Mrs. Cleveland. She | wag not belleved that he would accept. been gifted by nature with a ready Wit. | was an everyday visitor at the White | Many people thought that the office This is reputed to take a severe turn at | House when she was in Washington. | had not been placed at his disposal, for There isn't any doubt that the eld- | jt'is the first instance in which a vics 4 esf ghter | tellectus ember | rovalty 5 Curzoh will appear as a great | &St 1‘1}“_“1'” il ‘{;i“‘J‘““Ih““l mbET | royalty has been offered to a com- i ¥tora the imillons, jof. no | onone fammily, oung Josep! Leiter | 1y oner. ut the announcement made | ign before the mil went to Harvard and became immense- | . . Sh 3 A auti illla and talented in the House of Commons last Thurs- \ beautiful, brilllant and talented | 1y popular. He s a deal of money | day by Me Balfour has set all di can girl, she is peculiarly fitted | and did particular. sion at rest, and the Ma to teach the benighted Hindus how | Miss Mr. Curzon first| Guardjan, a high authority, great a power a woman may wield. The | ab T en e much of ST it is an open secret that Mr. Curzon | i y of India has splendid palaces ;“”,;(’.‘Fm‘“r‘fi;”z‘.m[”-l ‘\_‘:K‘jz‘ trequently | gocepted the place because his wife at Calcutta and §imla. The Caleutta | “Tppe 0 50 B0 00 Bl v in Eng- | Wanted him to : hecin as Government House, | |, . g an i The position is more splendid, more palace Is LrOWREs OVEIED land than the Curzons, and never Was|ymportant and more powerful than the and is the largest official residence in | there a harder-working or more ambi- [ wife of the President of the United the British Empire, exceeding in tious young man. It isn’t said any-| giates. M Curzon preferred real | 1y of Queen Victoria's palaces. > that It was a love match, which | pover over miillions of subjects to the > is a large and beautiful very ellent reason for believing 1 pal: of a great Parli quiet hono mentary pos 1onious than that of England. ng that indefinable thing called | yngia is law the ruler, but it is the ary in order to | 'style,” and with fine skill in gowning |3 jvcroy really who o i the and the semi-in- | herself. Many men fell in.love WIth | s aor s reatnrels pontrols things. It nt princes, who still form a|her and many more with her prospect- | is always referred to as the busieor important element in the Indian | ive millions. mehLACARIR And (Generaill i re ke ot When the Viceroy receives at| Mr. Curzon fell in love with her. |sidered the most important. He can svernment House he wears a uniform | No doubt both father and daugh- |dc preity much as he pleases. He con. neavy with gold lace and sits upon a|ter saw that the time was com- |trols the enormous civil service ma- ‘hrone. His wife, beside him, on an- |ing when George Curzon would be |chine. He can make the : of 200,000 Sther throne, wears royal robe a great man. To be sure he would | men move about as he pleas When- sred with diamonds and pric succeed to the title of Lord Scarsdale s at a_post parades a i wn upon her head. some day if he lived, but he was not s honor. He is wined and of the house of Leiter | content with that. The young man p! made much of by soldiers have been published, but they do not ferred to carve his own name. His is|ci s and natives. k / | much space. There are brief biog- | one of the great historical families .in s of the father, longer accounts | England. The original Curzon smote social triumphs of the mother | the blonde-haired Britons with a dou- daughters, and a vast deal about | ble-edged battle ax at the side of Will- Joseph Leiter and his wheat | jam the Conqueror, and he w made hich ended so di: : . | Lord of the Manor of Lockinge, Berks, | So far as the blographies go the|and Fishead, Oxon. Giraline de Curzon | head of the family was Joseph Leiter, | was a nobleman in Normandy. i lived wh rick ho in a plain, old-fashioned : in the town of Leiterst he followed the busin To give an idea of the ramifications of | on family would be like read- | ing pages out of Burke's Peerage. There sho gied \IL ha);u"hnlfi‘r:r-:ufid. i | are so many lords and earls and honor- jves in old homestead, and Levi Z. | Xanha];, ‘i\:(’; Sflq‘:r.hr: e :“(’f: “llém ‘ ,r\ ‘l‘:;ll\ th father of the future vicerine | T tes, ot e e el el long names | Levi Leiter took to trade with the cer- | ainty of a man confident of his future. | _The futur Viceroy of India was born | He was f employed as a clerk in a | In the family home of Kedleston. Over tle country store. Then he went to | the door is a motto, cut there years and Jlumbus, O., where he sold calico and | years ago: “Waste not, want not.” He was little more than a | Possibly the able Mr. Leiter heard of From there he traveled to | this motto and it impressed him. George Curzon distinguished himself o entered the dry | in Eton, carrying off nearly every prize goods house of Cooley, Wadsworth & |and honor. He went to Oxford, where R0. Marshall Field was a clerk there|he continued his prize-taking career. it the time. A very excellent salesman | He was a rather arrogant young man, | was Levi Lefter and he was advanced | very haughty and very studious. There pidly. He was a saving man as well. | is a couplet which he has never been It was not long before he stepped |able to live down which shows how sver the counter into the office and be- | his fellow students regarded him. It 5 ‘ame a bookkeeper-at about $20 a we runs: carried on to only a small extent, so it He married early. As bookkeeper h i “There's George Nathanfel Curzon, | 1s most apparent that the whisky is :alents began to show themselves. He| Who's a perfectly respectable perzon.” | muggled into the country. And a most came an expert judge of its.” | Entering politics he was returned | €XCiting and profitable business this is. Zhicago. It was in 1856 that h ELLING whisky in Alaska is a violation of the law. But there is alwa plenty of whisky to be had by any oaxe who has the price. Illicit distilling is After a time the firm was reorganized | , - 'SUNE PRIICS 8, WAg T Aaron H. Brown, who has just re- nd Marshall Field became partner. In | ffom Southport and he has been in the |/ neq to San Francisco from Alaska, | fanuary, 1865, the firm of Fleld, Palmer | 5 3(*0 CGRMIPR €0 BIES e | had an experience of this kind while & Leiter was organized. The Palmers, | | in the north last winter. He did not Potter and Milton 7 retired two years| 000000000000 QOO0 Oiknow what kind of a venture he was . and Leiter became the credit | mber of the firm of Field, Leiter & 0. No man in the West ever made a began to| She entered into her hus-| in the mountains, intended for | that it was. Undoubtedly Miss Leiter | aarecr for her husband, with a I'rime the s when life | could have married a title had she | Ministership in the distance. So Mr, alcutta becomes arable. chosen. Her father was worth $25,000,- | curzon takes himself out of the line of . court of India over which Mrs. | 000. She is very beautiful, a tall, dark | promotion o that great place. )n will rule is far more splendid | young woman, quisitely graceful, Of course the Secretary of State for | GEORGE CURZON - THE NEW ROY OF INDIA™ VICE ——— THE VICEROYAL PALACE ‘CALCUTTA | He must hold court in Calcutta when | falls short in the slightest degree it that place is livable and entertain in | will make her place uncomfortable. Simla and other places when it is not. By right of her sex she enters homes The wife of the Viceroy holds a place | which are barred even to a King of alinost as important as his. She is the | England. And that is one thing she head of Anglo-Indian society She has | must alwa; remember. to perform legal functions. She will receive the native princes, who demand that the most punctillous forms be fol They are wise in the niceti uette, and if this'American girl, | whose early life was passed in Chicago, One of the most beautiful sights in the world is the annual migration of | butterflies across the Isthmus of Pan- |ama. Where they come from or whither QCOCCOC000000000C0O0N00O0CO000000000O0C0 000000000000 0000D WHISKEY SMUGGLING THE WILDS OF ALASKA Dangerous Adventures on One Expedition Even When Every- thing Was “Understood.” By One of the Smugglers. the fire in our cabin Windy Bill, the bartender at Herrington’s, came rush- ing in and yelled ocut: ‘Hello, Jim! Hello, Tom! ¢ Brown, do you want | engaging in until it avas almost carried |out. A man simply hired him to go | with him from Circle City to Fort Yu- kon and bring back a load of goods. He did not know until they were piling the goods on the sleigh that he was engag- ed in smuggling and if caught would | | be sent to prison in Sitka. c 7} I've hired old Surruski’s ng to get a load of the morning? dogs and am gc ned meat.” In telling of his experience Mr. Brown | The boys knew just as well as said: Whisky was getting low in Cir- | Holmes, the custom house man, did cle City. The saloon stock had been | just what kind of a load of ‘canned watered over and over again until | meat’” Windy was going after. I was innocent about the kind of goods meant .| and took Bill at his word “The next morning at about half-past there was hardly any taste to it. Some- thing had to be done. | *“One night as we were sitting round | greater reputation as a judge of cred- ts than Levi Leiter. He has a genius tor finance. The firm prospered to a remarkable degree. Meanwhile Levi Leiter saw the future of Chicago. He peran investing in real estate. He sought unimproved lots and gobbled up susiness property. He devoted his life to the accumula :lon of mon In those days he was 1 rough, somewhat uncouth man, mak- ng a god of his integrity, unforgiving, ievoid of all tact, without popularity and singularly reticent. But he had the Midas touch. When Mr. Leiter and Marshall Field juarreled in 1881 and Leiter withdrew ‘rom the firm he received about $3.000.- 100 for his interest. This he carefully 3 | on record that Levi Leiter was | y ambitious, but his wife was. | The microbe of the pink tea and the sotillon entered her brain when money flowing into her husband's socket. She made assault after assault upon he exclusive garrisons of Chicago so- sjety, and was forced to withdraw with jonor and slight loss. In fact, her vic- ories were Spanish .on Now Mrs. Leiter probably djdn’t care nuch anyway, because sherealized that he entrance to Chicago society didn’t ‘arry with it a sesame to the other lircles where she wished to rule. Mrs, Leiter decided to »o to Wash- ngton, and it was a very wise move. Chere are many ways of getting into | ociety in Washington. A combination | f wealth and politics makes a very | fective lever. And when one can | sreak into the diplomatic set it in-| ures a certain standing abroad. The Leiters first lived in the old | 31aine marsion and afterward built a | nagnificent house fronting on Dupont | “ircie. It is one of the show places of | he capital. Meanwhile the children were being | \ducated Miss Mary Leiter and her ister werc not projected into a board- | ng school and then ypoiished off in a | inishing school, where young women \re taught how to enter and leave a | -rawing-room, and to make small con- tersation in a perfectly polite way. The dder daughter studied seriously. She vas sert abroad to complete her IN AN INSTANT BILL WHIPPED OUT HIS PISTOL AND POINTED IT AT THE FIGURE IN THE DOORWAY. to go down to Fort Yuken with me in| they go no one knows and though | many distinguished naturalists have attempted to solve the problem, it is still as strange a mystery as it was to the first European traveler who ob- served it. Toward the end of June a few scattered specimens are discovered flitting out to sea, and as the days go by the numbers increase, until about July 14 or 15 the sky occasionally almost obscured by myriads of these frail insec C00LO000OO00CO000 door was kicked he freezing cold air 2 o'clock the cabin open and in yushed t and a gruff voice y “Turn out and come over to break I slipped on heavy coat and moccasins, grabbed a bundle of extra footwear and then went over to a steaming breakfast of beans, hot cakes and coffee. Then we put the dogs in their collars and fas- tened the belly bands. With a chirp to the leader Windy led off at a trot and we got safely down the bank and en- tered the river trail. The dogs were fresh, and now and then gave plaintive little whines. “About 4 o'clock we came to the Twenty-five Mile cabin. Here we in- tended to stay for a couple of hours. Windy ordered me to get out the grub box and get a ‘bang-up square.” We let the dogs out of their harness and Windy started a big camp fire. Three hours after our stop we were on the road again. The men and dogs were all pretty tired, so we settled down to that last stretch of twenty-five miles of moonlight trail. ““About midnight we began to pass dark, gloomy looking cabins, clearly outlined against the white, gleaming light. “Soon we came to.the squaw-man’s cabin, where we were to stay until we | got our return load. Windy kicked and | banged on the door, and at last they let | us in and Martha, Joe's squaw, lit the | fire and got us something to eat. I| slept until 10 o’clock, and when I tried to get up I found every muscle about me stiffened out as though it had an fron rod run through it. But a warm breakfast fixed me up so I could stag- ger along. “It wasn't every one who could get whisky at the North Alaska Trading Co.’s store and Bill had to use all his eloquence to get his load, but I knefv | it was all right when I heard old Booge saying, ‘You see it’s against the law for 1 us to break the seals. The stuff is bond- ed through to Dawson so I can't really sell it to you, Bill.’ Then he gave Bill a very knowing look and continued. ‘You know we are going to move the whisky out of that old warehouse. And | may be the men might leave about elght of those ten-gallon kegs outside | to-night. But T say, Bill, you'd better | leave that $1600 sack of dust with me if you're afraid of carrying it back to Cir- cle City." “Bill passed over the sa turned and gave wink. “That’s all there was to the transac- tion. Both men were 6n their honor. “Bill and I were up at two the next | morning, and by the time the squaw. had breakfast ready we had driven the dog team round to the store and had tied on the eight kegs of whisky. A little later we were on the trail again, | but now the dogs had a heavy load | to pull and we did not travel very fast. | “In the evening we reached the cabin, where we were to spend the night. All night long a wind-storm raged round | the house, and in the morning when we | were ready to start there was not a | sign of the old trail left. Bill sent me | on ahead of the dogs to find the trail | and then he came along shouting and | cursing. Every once in a while I could hear his heavy whip snap on some shirking dog, and then the whole five would let out the most dismal howls, which would be answered by Bill's| yells. But the worst experience of all was when we hit the rough ice where | the trail went over big chunks and sid- led round others, and here Windy could not keep the sleds right side up, no matter how hardhe tugged and strained at the gee-pole. It took all of our unit- ed strength to set a sled on its runners, and this we had to do a dozen times be- fore we reached camp that night. ‘At last we came to where the stove and tent had been cached and here we ck, and then me a long serious JOSEPH LEITER. The Central Figure in the Late Big Wheat Deal in Chicago in Which He Lost $5,000,000. C000CQ0000CO0000000 about fifty below zero, and we nearly froze before we got the tent up and boughs laid on the snow. In about two hours we had everything comfortable, the dogs had been fed, Windy was cooking supper and I had just finished cutting enough wood to last all night. After eating we lay back on our blank- ets and talked and smoked. Bill was telling me stories of how they had run whisky mills in Circle, and of smug- gling in the outside whisky. He got out his pistol and began cleaning it. The old six-shooter had seen service with him as a cowboy and stage driver. ‘“‘Officer Holmes,” he said, ‘has de- clared that if he ever catches me with | a load of whisky he’ll send me to Sitka sure, and he swears he’'ll shoot Metley too (this was Bill's favorite dog), but I guess he won't be any teo anxious to meet us when we get in,” and Bill squinted along the barrel of his gun, the candle light flickering on his harsh, strong features. “Bill gave a low chuckle and then with a broad smile at me, he said, ‘You see, Brownie, we'll leave here at about noon to-morrow, and get to Circle City about one next morning. HRverything will be quiet then and we’'ll land the stuff safe and sound. “Next morning we were awakened by a long dog train passing by the tent and headed for Fort Yukon. The team had broken the trail for us all the way from Circle, so the rest of our trip was comparatively easy. Along about twelve that night the first log cabins of the western end of the town began to appear. Here Bill stopped the team and carefully tied up all the bells on the dogs’ collars, and then he strapped the big six-shooter to his belt. Soon we were pulling up the road cut in the steep bank of the river. “Bill had quit swearing at t now, and I had hold of thze le\d:-lf"%d:(!)zli lar, guiding him along past the cabins. We moved in perfect silence, except for tife slight crunching noise made by the runners of the sled passing over the frozen snow. Now we were just about to pass the custom-house, and then on down to the saloon. “The noise of the steel runners seemed ll;(;; (h}gmgrlnd!;‘\_c of a sawmill in my s. 's right han, e = }‘ns R e honE d fondled the butt “When nearly opposite the custom house suddenly the door opened. Bill's fatal pistol showed up black and om- Inous in the darkness, and then—a low chuckle from Bill, a guilty little laugh from a small figure that darted swiftly past me and—the door closed. ‘We drove on softly down to the sa- loon, and behind me I could hear Bill muttering, ‘Durned if I didn't nearly plug a _i‘xole right through that little stopped. It was a very cold night, squaw.’