The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1906, Page 13

ay Hi ra) : Ftnas Hace ROOSEVELT Sec Rep LONGWORTH Sasa hata Rerrerenee TAF T pted) TA TCHI NG DECK SPORTS on their RECENT TRIP Frost Sterecysraph, Copmrigh LIDS By Ureter wood 6 Unde rurosd. ROOSEVELT ARRIVING AT TONEKIN, Chine He was in a race which was only for the quick and the found his mother, the social arbiter of Cincin- nati, with a house in Washington. The entertainments of Mrs. Longworth were the principal cvents of the season, They were stocratic; they had tone; they e those who were received by Mrs. Longworth a tone. The dipiomatic sec had one of its own in the household, for Mrs, Long- “worth’s youngest daughter had married the Count de Chambrun, whose brother, the Viscount de Chambrun, was Charge d’Affaires in the French Legation. If Alice Roosevelt had unconsciously laid siege to the heart of the Ameri¢an people, “Nick” Longworth had with malice aforethought laid a counter-aiege to win hers. While that New Yeur's Day in the Blue Room of the White House had been Miss Roosevelt's forinal introduction to her fellow-citiZens, the nation claiméd her for its own in February, at Shooter's Island. On that ¢ with her eighteenth birthday only a half a month behind her, she was a picture in her own favorite blue, as she sent crashing against the bows of a poten- tate’s craft a bottle of sparkkling wine and exclaimed, “In the name of His Majesty the German Emperor | christen this yacht Meteor.” She Einerges from the Girl to the Nation's Woman in a Flash. in a moment, one might say, this naive American had stepped forth from the obscurity of a schoolroom 4 girl and become a woman of inter- national prominence. She was a figure with which the game of world poli tics saw it would have to count, England frowned at this bid of Germany ruler for American {mendship through the person of the President's daugh- ter. To offset it a message came from acrcss the seus inviting her to attend King Edward's coronation. ‘ ‘At Eastertide, 1903, it was whispered in quarters Where there should have been means of I noWing that “Nick” Longworth had proposed to (Miss Roosevelt and had been promptly given the mitten. This added zest to the situation ana again gossip gave to titled men and citizens of distinc- tion the honor of “right of y."" But gossip didn’t know the stuff of which “Nick” Léngworth was made. His was no faint heart. Instead of stepping aside he renewed the siege for Miss Alice's hand. Newport greeted Miss Roosevelt that summer and it also made a White House. brave, The winter of 19 “Nick Longworth’s Aneestor and His Modest Home. THE HOME O, CROWES. Longworth Foug ger Ferre 7y- GY He \ Ce tow Archie Gave Qut News of the Seeret Engagement. QF course it was natural to. ox- poet that there \would be secrecy About the engagemeht of Miss Roose- velt and Mr. Longworth, but some- knew. ‘The morning the formal announce- ment of the marriage to be ap- Peared” In thé newspapers Archie Roosevelt said to his principal: “Did you see the papers this morn- ing about Alice's engagement?” “Yeu, Arohie, Why?" “Oh, nothing: only Alice thought she Was sa smart, She was engaged fone months before she told us ‘any- €thing about it,’ * ON THE ROAD TO GYAYAIZA pretty bow to Mr. Longworth. As long as the daughter of the White House tarried with the R. Fulton Cuttings he found interest in the seaside. The Fatetul Trip to the Philippines— and “Nick’’ Was Also There. It was soon after President Roosevelt's inauguration last year that Secretary Taft's Philippine trip began to be planned. As the weeks wore on the names of those who were to accompany the Administration's repre- sentative to the Orient were given out, and among them was Miss Alice's. Here was a precious morsel for gossip. Why wasn't “Nick” Longworth’s name in the Tist? Before the spring was over the word went round that Miss Roosevelt was going to visit Mr. Longworth’s mother and the old Longworth home in Cincinnati. This brought forth an official denial and just as surely followed the unofficial going of Miss Roosevelt to Ohio. Again was there report of an engagement. Mrs. Longworth denied it, and three days before Miss Roosevelt reached Cincinnati the Congressman’s mother started for Paris to visit the Countess Chambrun. Close on the heels of her visit to Cincinnati came the Philippines trip, and once more “authoritative sources” had to take a back seat. Nicholas Longworth was a most important member of Secretary Taft's official! party. If one would find anything to which to,liken the triumphal tour‘of Miss Roosevelt to the Orient he must go back in history to the time when con- quering queens rode up and down the highways of the Old World and re- ceived the adulation of loyal nations, Yet this was only a sweet, simple American girl who went out through the Golden eon July 8 last to have the Far East's old nations call her ‘the Princess” and receive her in that splendor which they accord to their emperors and empresses. This was an astounded nation the days the cables told the news of the greeting which Japan had extended to Miss Roosevelt. Throughout the Orient's Island empire ran the stories, the day of her arrival marked the beginning of a fete, inspired by the spontaneous enthusiasm of the Japan- ese people to do honor to “The Princess.” That “The Princess” did not appear in flowing robes of emblazoned gold and _ silken art was strange to them. A young woman in the every-day garb of Western civilization, topped off with a stiff sailor, *1rred on the sensibili- ties of the Japanese momentarily. but they accepted her gladly and called her “The Princess,” and took Pictures of her, which they sent here on postal cards. The Mikado and his Empress received "or and showed her attentions that no one before had ever known. A garden which no foot outside of the royal family ever trod was opened to her, The greatest men of the Japanese Empire waited upon her, Manila and the Philippines were tLe next to fall in worship of Miss Alice. Thence in triumphal progress “The Princess” passed on to Sulu, and to decline marriage with its fuler, to Korea, to China and to Japan before she turned homeward. “Nich’’ Was Ever Near Her Side, And again where was tho Hon. Nicholas all this time? Dancing at- tendance alt-the while on the slight- est whim of the woman he adored. Between these audiences with Em- Derors and Empresses, Sultans and Princess and great folk, he had fedtid the opportunities to press his @ult. It _ Was while the party was in, Mindanag that those who make report-of this one day soticed a strange ting on ‘Miss Roosevelt's lett hand. It was not a bawble of Oriental art, but « sapphire in a setting such as ‘one wirs Comes gergss in a grandmother's col- lection of personal ‘ornaments, or in an an It told of the subjugation of Alice Roosevelt. I9S ROOSEVELT BOARDING TRAIN at TONEKALD, Tis ROOSEVELT axct. IZARCHIONE SS OZAMA Here Is Longworths’ Family History—It Gelis of Quick Wealth. ONGRESSMAN NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, of Cincinnati, called by some branches of his family “Young Nick,” and by others “Nicholas III.,” came into this world with a golden spoon in his mouth, trans- mitted by his sturdy old pioneer of a great-grandfather, Nicholas Longworth, I., who went into the Ohio Valley and-ettled in the Queen City when it was no more than a river landing. A marvellous man in many ways was this “Old Nick,” as his neighbors used to call him, and as even the old- timers to-day speak of him. Originally the Longworths wore Jersey folk, The founder of the line in this country, and a Nicholas, too, was a Jersey Justice of the Peace. His son Thomas married Apphia Vanderpoel, a young Dutch woman, and on Jan, 16, 1783, in Newark, there was born to them the son whom the Ohio Valley was to know as “Old Nick.” Thomas Longworth was a Tory, which he had a right to be, but which wasn’t popular in the days when the ink on the Declaration of Independence was still wet. His property was confiscated. The result was that Thomas did not have an easy row to hoe. He and his son Nicholas had to werk hard to scratch out a living. Joseph Longwortli, a son of “Old Nick,” who grew up to be a lawyer of reputation aad o Justice of the &tpreme Court of Ohio, was the srand- father of the present Congressman, Joseph was rich. He founded the Cincinnati Academy of Art, presented it with his famous Meissonier collec- tion and endowed the institution with grounds, rentals and investment securities to the tue of $400,000. To his son, Nicholas II., passed the estate, and thence to the Nichol«s of to-day. Of “Old Nick” and how he laid up the Longworth riches a chrenicl: of iSSl says: How His Forefather Grew to Be Wealthy in Cincinnatts “He followed his law practice until 1819, when he left the legal profes- sion to newer and younger members, His earnings and savings had been invested in lands and lots in and adjacent to Cincinnati, under the convic- tion tha! no other investment of his fund# would prove so profitable. This may seem insufficient to account for the amount of property he has since accumulated from these investments, but it should be remembered that prop- erty here was held at low values in early days, many of his city lot pur- chases having been made for $10 or less each. The unique chronicler of these interesting facts of “Old Nick” tells this story about him: “During the war with Mexico one of our eity dailies stated that Mr. “Longworth had offered a contribution of $10,000 as advance pay and equip- ment of the Ohfo yolunteers, 0 large number of whom were from Cincin- hau, a difficulty having arisen as to the State of Ohio furnishing the nec- essary advances, I was somewhat surprised at this, bolieving Mr. Long- worth no friend to the war with Mexteo, and when | next met him con- gratulated him on ‘his public spirit, referring to the statement in the jour- nals which told of his generosity im offering to equip the troops from the State of his adoption, He Was te Pick the Troops if Hé Furntshed the CafA for Them. “Not a word of it te true,’ observed Mr, Longworth. ‘I might have gaid, and I believe I did say, that I would give $10,000 as a contribution to a regiment of volunteers, but it was on one condition—on the express tingenoy that I should have the picking out of who among our citizens should ge, and I believe I would make money by the offer yet, but recolleci, Tam to have the say as to who are to go,’" “Old Nick” called the kind of peopte he liked to help “the devil's poor,” On one occasion when an appeal was made to him to help a deserving widow and, her six children, he declared that never a cent would she get from When Was Fateful ‘ Question Popped? : A Query Unanswered. } QF course It 's none of the business of general run of pevole. for by every ish! Oupid's secrets are inviolate but ev ne would like to know just at what period of the courtship she ansvered ‘“yes."* Was it while they were sailing in the soft radiance Oriental seas, was it during the flying trip ac the United States from th ington was reac ous beauty found in retrospect that her well born and good natured young Americaon suitor was the best type of man she had seen after ali! If they were betrothed on the trip while abroad Miss Alice told some enurely excusable fibs when she re- turned. Oe i ‘fn THOMAS 2D o “end ALICE BG him. “I shall assist none," said he, “but the idle, drunken, worthless vaga- bonds that nobody else will heip. There are always plenty to relieve the necessities of women like tha widow and her children.” When “Old Nick" died in 1863 he left an estate valued at $15,000,000, which has grown in size with the times. In 1850 his taxes were §17,000, the largest sum paid by any otber individual in the United States, with the exception of William Waldorf Astor, who paid that year $23,116. The Longworth Homestead tn the Heart of the Soctety Section. Nicholas I. set up his homestead on an estate which is now in the heart of Cincinnati's most fashionable residence section. It is called Rookwaod, because of the large number of rooks and crows which used to flock around the spot, The mansion fronts on Grandin road, in grounds whose natural beauty has been preserved down the years. Adjoining Rookwood fs am other estate of a hundred acres belonging to other descendants of Nich- olas I, Congressman Nicholas Longworth received hit preliminary education in Franklin School, Cincinnati, and was graduated from Harvard tn 1892 He spent one year in the Harvard Law School, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1894, in which year he was also admitted to the var. In 1898 his political career begin with his election, on the Republican ticket, as a member of the School Hoard of Cincinnati. The following year he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, and two. years later to the Ohio Senate, He was elected a member of the Fifty-eighth Congress’ in 1902 and re-elected in 1904 to represent the First District of Cimcinnath Enthastastic at Golf, He Makes a Wager on a Lorg Play. Longworth was a champion golfer before he began to Rake politics seriously and once, on a $500 wager, drove a golf ball from the front of the Hotel St. Nicholas, in Cincinnati, to Covington in a given number of strokes. How much it cost Longworth for broken windows he has never confessed. Politically Longworth has always conducted himself according to the lights of his party leaders. He succeeded Gen. Shattuc, a veteran, “m Congress, and his youth made kim a butt for the wit of the old-timers in the House. Th? first thing that happened to him when he went to Wash= ington officially was a siege of ch’cken-pox, During the time he was in hed he received by express a box containing a Noah's ark, a rattle, some lead soldiers, a jumping-Jack and a doll. With the toys was this note: “Dear Longworth—We have heard with great regret that you are suffering with the chicken-pox. Having every reason to suppose that the mumps, measles and whooping-cough will follow in their regular order, we send you a few of the things usually provided for the amusement of patients suffering from these disorders. We trust they will help to pleas- antly while away the mamy hours you will be farced to spend indoors.” Nicholas Longworth III. has inherited the business instinct of his great- grandfather*to a great extent. He has not let his money lle idle, but put it into investment channels of good returns. Success has attended ventures in the South in coal and iron and oil, as it has in investments of Jolnt account with the Fleischmanns, of Cincinnati, in Ohio railroads and Inter urban tractions-