tfY''FQJk IP5t cC d ' Two Americans Soon f?J.ftT m A-H yrya to Undertake to Duplicate Captain -erp pj - vz? Assists- ts-tws? m y,, t wcHi TWO Americans, George Kietler, of Philadelphia. and William J. Glover, of Blkton, Maryland, are now preparing for an attempt at the blue ribbon feat of natation, swimming the English Channel, an undertaking fit for & Leander. and which, although many have tried, has been only once accom plished. They are not working together. In fact their ventures are entirely separate. Klstler is getting ready In Philadelphia, the funds for his trip are being raised by the University of Pennsylvania students, at which Institution he is instructor in swimming. Glover, accompanied by Carlisle D. Gra ham, will get ready by practicing in the strong currents of the St. Lawrence River, where he thinks are more nearly duplicated than anywhere in the world the conditions that prevail in the narrow stretch of water that separates England from France. . These two men are undoubtedly the best distance swimmers in the United States, and both have the endurance and courage which are requisite to the great task. , 9 It is only about 20 miles across the channel, and a good swimmer could navi gate the distance without difficulty but for the perverse currents, which put it out of question for even a big ship to pursue an absolutely straight course. When Captain Matthew Webb won un dying fame by swimming the channel way back in 187S, it was estimated that he had covered not less than 40 miles in his trip between Dover and Calais. Klstler Is now 43 years old, but he is still a magnificent athlete, tall and blest with a chest that can be the reservoir for an Immense supply of air. His best known feat was his swim on the Delaware River, between Philadelphia and Chester and return. He accomplished this In 11 hours, a distance of 32 miles, on the day that Czolgosz shot President Mc Klnley. He can swim with his hands and Crr -f C:-4. AA OUI IO Ul I rection of the "Provincial" of St. Louis. Thu selection of Archbishop Ryan to officiate at his ordination was made before he entered the order of Jesus by his mother, who was a close friend of the archbishop when he was acting as bishop coadjutor to Archbishop Ken rick, of St. Louis. Mrs. Sherman's ef forts for the advancement of the Ro man Church in the United States, es pecially among the Indians, were so noteworthy as to draw a special com mendation from Pope Leo XIII., who conferred a decoration of great signifi cance upon her. At 52 Father Tom Sherman suggests his fighting father in figure, In gesture and in facial expression. He has no parish and holds no prPerty the lat ter is true of all Jesuit priests and do votes a good deal of his time to hold ing special services in various cities. In March of the present year, only a few weeks before he began to retrace his father's footsteps over the route of the famous "March to the Sea," he ad dressed such a series of meetings held In St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. The sermons in that series were re markable addresses, full of spiritual power. The first one was an appeal for belief in the Deity: Its quality was al most purely Intellectual, and so com pletely without a tinge of the creed of bis own church that, as one auditor said, it could have been listened to with approval by Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, or the members of any of the Protestant denominations. His voice is a high baritone, and though, from the sise and characteris tics of that structure, the cathedral is a difficult place to speak in, he filled it completely every evening during his tay. Hig auditors included many non Catholics nightly, and the size of his audiences increased to the last, though little mention of the meetings was made In the public press. General Sherman's son, P. Teeumseh. is a lawyer of standing in New York. Sons of Writing Men. Few sons of famous literary men have sought to follow in their father's footsteps, and still fewer have trod the path that leads to success in letters. The son of William Cullen Bryant, the poet, bearing the same name as his Illustrious father, is a successful news paper man, but entirely without liter ary aspirations. The son of Oliver Wendell Holmes has shown that blood will tell by winning a place on the bench of the United States Supreme Court, and his ieRal opinions are said to indicate unusual literary skill as well as legal acumen, but he has never offered either prose or poetry to the reading public. Justice Holmes was a fighting man In the Civil War and w wounded three times, pretty good evidence that he is not feet tied for 10 miles, so there is no danger that cramp will ever Incapacitate him. Klstler is going to make his start from the Admiralty Pier, Dover, whence Webb plunged into the sea 31 years ago. Klstler has Invented a head mask, with which he will protect himself from the effects of the sun and salt water. He will also plentifully anoint himself with oil to reduce the friction. Glover has performed some notable feats, including his race through the Niagara Rapids with Carlisle D. Graham, whom he defeated. He is a younger man than JClstler, and like the Philadelphian. has a deep chest and is powerfully muscled. Should either of these .men succeed be will not only win the $5000 offered by an English paper for anyone accomplishing the performance, but he will come in for fame and popularity such as has been the portion so far of but one man. When Webb accomplished the bridging of the channel he aroused such en thusiasm that the people of London promptly subscribed 1200 pounds for him. It was Captain Webb's desire to emu, late and surpass Johnson that led to the first conquest of the channel-.--Johnson made the effort In 1872. and failed signal ly. Then Webb, who had learned the art of swimming in the Severn, and was at that time 26 years of age, announced his Intention of succeeding where Johnson had failed. This attracted to England an American named Paul Boynton, who had a queer rubber contrivance with paddles. In it he succeeded in making the transit, though his trip was not considered un aided swimming. " Webb was forced to abandon his first effort to swim the channel at the time Boynton crossed, by reason of the extra strong current and bad weather, but 12 days later, August 1A, 1875, he plunged oft the Admiralty Pier, Dover. He was 22 hours in the water, and suffered little I 1111 1L v lacking In physical courage. After his third hurt the father went South from Boston to take the younger man home. The latter recqvered sufficiently to travel before the father could reach him, and the pursuit of the younger by the elder Holmes extended over hundreds of miles of railroad and led in and out of half a dozen cities. When the poet finally overtook the soldier at Harrlsburg their meeting was simple and their greeting as commonplace as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. "How are you, boy?" asked the father, reaching out his hand for a shake. "How are you, dad?" retorted the son. Later the elder Holmes turned a com fortable penny by writing an article about it all, a real human document, which was published in the Atlantic Monthly. . .Henry, the son of Charles -Dickens, like the younger Holmes, turned his attention to law, in spite of the merciless ridicule his father poured upon the profession, and today is a Kings' counsel, which means that he may practice in all the British courts. His reputation among King's counsels ia very high indeed. Dr. Sigurd Ibsen, son of the lamented Norwegian poet and dramatist, now 47 years old, is a highly educated man who has had a try at letters. Journalism, poll tics and diplomacy, without having yet made the great success he hopes for and which his friends predict will yet be his. He was educated In Munich and Rome, and his degree is Doctor in Administrative and Political sciences. He entered the diplomatic service in 1SS4. He served for a time as Secretary of Legation at Wash ington and abandoned It In 190. He was professor of sociology at the University of Christianla for a year, but he was pat out because the Commissioner of Ed ucation objected to his theories. THen with BJornstJerne Bjomson he founded a weekly review, the Ringeven, which lasted only two years. During all this time he had been a factor in politics, acting always with the "lefts" or extreme radicals, but in 1903 he turned to the "rights." or extreme con servatives. Change of political front is extremely rare in Norway, and the radi cals were highly indignant with him and said many picturesque things about him. He was quite recently offered the post of Minister to Germany, but declined it, though he is said to be in complete har mony with the new King Haakon VII and his grov eminent. It is understood that In his declining years the venerable dramatist of the com monplace was proud of his son, but there was a time when relations between the two were very much strained. That was because the son fell in love with and in sisted on taking for his wife the daugh ter of BJornstJerne Bjomson. next to Ibsen the greatest writer' in Norway. Ibsen the elder had nothing against the young woman, but he was so jealous of her ifather that the bare idea of a mar THE STJKDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, during the night hours, but emerged from the terrific test of strength, courage and endurance in excellent condition. On the trip he wore an American and an English flag intertwined. - Webb's subsequent career was full of pathos. His funds were soon exhausted, and to maintain himself he was forced to give exhibitions of swimming. So great was the popularity that for a two days' exhibition he could get $1000. Coming to the United States he de veloped the ambition to swim across the Niagara Rapids, and lost his life there July 24, 1882. Cavill, a pupil of Webb, claimed to have made the swim across the Channel, but was never credited, and 20 years later an American, Davis Dalton, said he had been over the roue traversed by Webb, but he was never believed. x In J904 Frank Holmes, of Birmingham, a daring amateur swimmer, gave up after going about two-thirds of the way. This was the fourth attempt which Mr. Holmes w-J Continued From S1 I Page Forty-four riage between an Ibeen and a Bjornsen was unthinkable to him. The younger Ibsem is a keen diplomat and a thorough scholar: also a radical ink politics. Radi calism In Norway wouldn't be called radi calism in some countries: he was in favor of separation, but he preferred and worked for the establishment of a con stitutional monarchy when Norway parted with Sweden rather than a republic Dr. Sigurd Ibsen is so little physically that he was known generally in Sweden dur ing his father's life as "little Dr. Ibsen," but diplomatically his supporters declare that he is bound to be- one of the biggest men in the kingdom if he lives. Several of Leo Tolstoy's 13 children are sons, but only one of .them, Leo Tolstoy, Jr., has ever shown any desire to write. His ambition has found vent in the pro duction of two or three plays, in which his father says he discerns some talent; though nobody seems to agree with him. One of the sons is, or recently was, in the service of the Russian Government. The other three married the daughters of rich noblemen and are not obliged -to work for a living. All three are great hunters of big game. Lord Hallam Tennyson, son of ' the poet laureate who ruled the world of British, poetry before the days of Alfred Austin, though not a poet of great merit, has written some verses and is a worthy man of the title-hearing type, a thorough English gentleman, old-fashioned and conservative. Physically, there ia much about him to suggest the elder Tennyson, but his personality is by no means so vig orous. Those who are familiar with the Tenny son family history will remember that Lionel, aeeond son, was drowned while crossing the Red Sea on his way home from India. After that bereavement the poet could not bear to be separated from Hallam, and during all the father's later years the son rarely left his side. Lord Hallam is as devoted to the memory of his poet father as General F. D. Grant is to the memory of hto warlike sire, and considers little poetry written by any hand but Tennyson's worth reading. "In Memoriam" is Hallam Tennyson's favor ite among his father's writings, perhaps because it was inspired by the death of Arthur Hallam, his father's closest friend and for whom the son was named. You may have read the story of the christen ing. Lord TennyBon and Hallam were walk ing together to the font, when the latter asked what the boy's name was to be. "We had thought." answered the Laure ate., "of calling him Hallam." "Why not name him Alfred?" "suggested the godfather modestly. ' "But suppose he should turn out to be a fool?" replied the poet a retort which might perhaps be included among the "Things One Would Rather Not Have Bald." Hallam Tennyson turned out to be no had made to cross the Channel, covering a period of. five years. It has remained for Montagu Holbein to come nearer . than any present-day swimmer ( to succeeding. On .August 27, 1902, he started from Cape Grlsnes and managed to get to within two miles of Dover. He was in the sea for 224 hours, and would- have succeeded but for his mis fortune In striking a perverse current when be was only a short distance from land. " Earlier In the swim he might have man aged to breast it, but at that late time, when his energies had been flagged by the long effort, he lacked the power, and had not his ' friends Interfered and pulled him from the water, - he would have drowned.. . On September 1, 1903, Holbein tried It again, and this time he progressed, to within seven miles of the French coast before, being forced to give up. Holbein swims a great deal on his back, taking advantage of a powerful leg stroke. fool, even if he never has written any great poetry. He has a good business head and served for some time as Gover nor of South Australia, later, in 1902, be ing, appointed temporary Governor-General of the entire island to Bucceed Lord Hopetoun on the resignation - of the lat ter. It is said'that the temporary nature of the appointment was due to his own stipulation that he should be asked to serve for one year only. Lord Hallam Is a Cambridge man. In 1897 he Issued a life of his father, and a good one," too. He also has written a metrical version of "Jack and the Bean stalk" which has never been widely read. Sons From Statesmen's Families. Two Senators sons now well to the front are General Rockwood Hoar, . a Representative In Congress, son of the lamented Senator George Frisbie Hoar, and the son of Redfield Proctor, Fletcher D. Proctor, who is making the run for the Governorship of the Green Mountain State. He was the only candidate before the convention, and . his nomination is equivalent to election, of course. Repre sentative Hoar was named for his uncle, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, who was a member of the House 30 years ago and served with distinction as a member of the joint high commission which passed on our claims against Great Britain be cause of the Alabama's depredations dur ing the Civil War. Oren Root, Jr., manager of the surface railway lines in New York City, is not the son of a statesman, but he is the son of the present head of Hamilton College's mathematical department, the grandson of that Oren Root who made fame for himself by his solid' achievements in Hamebon's days, and a nephew of Elihu Root, Secretary of State since the death of John Hay. It Is true that young Root got his chance to go into the street rail road business through his uncle's intro duction to President Vreeland, but after that introduction, the youngster, now 32, did all the rest. "Vreeland told him that he could begin in either one of two ways. He might take a clerical job and keep clean at low wages, or he might "learn railroading" from the bottom, but it would be "a dusty Job." In the first instance he would probably he getting about as much when he came to quit the job as when be be gan, in the latter it would depend upon himself whether he Bhould win promo tion. The boy, who wasn't very far along in his 20s, and was recently out of college, took the "dusty Job," beginning the next day shoveling dirt, digging up cobble stones and the like. His first promotion was to be timekeeper. On -the day he first ran an electric car all by himself he wrote an enthusiastic letter to his father "Square Root." as the Hamilton stu dents affectionately know him. The lat ter wasn't so enthusiastic, but has since become so, his enthusiasm beginning some time before that March day in 1903 when his- son was made general manager. There is one class of "sons" who in variably follow, the life to which they have .been born, unless they are too care less with their money, as they some JULY 22, 1906. "During his .efforts Mrs. Holbein has al ways been close to him In the accompany ing boat, and has personally prepared his meals of raw eggsr hot milk and coffee. All this he has to eat from a bottle..-. Holbein is an enthusiast on the subject of swlrnmlng, and next to crossing the Channel himself, his greatest desire, is to see someone else make the trip. He has offered to give to either Kistler or Glover all possible advice, and he may even swim with them. If the three men could be brought into a race across the Channel. It would be one of the most Interesting Bporting events ever planned. It was notruntll 1900 that any woman became ambitious to swim the Channel, and then an attempt was made by Mad ame Walburga yon Isacesu, a "Viennese swimmer. She swam 20 miles from. Calais in a rough sea before being forced to give In. ' The next woman to seek fame in the same direction was Miss Annette Keller- times are ' They are the sons of. the multi-millionaires. Neither Harry Payne Whitney, who married Gertrude Vanderbilt. i nor his younger brother, Payne Whitney, who married Helen Hay, the daughter of a statesman millionaire, is likely to lose his money, for while they are neither stingy nor great money-getters, they are under stood to know how to keep within their incomes. Considering their fortunes, this ought not to he hard to" do, for their' father left nearly 122.000.000 and both their wives were well dowered. One of the first notable events in the Whitney world, which includes the world of sport as well, after the late William C. Whitney's death was the sale of many of; the father's racing horses. It was held in Madison-Square Garden, where all the big New York horse sale's are held, and it continued two nights, the attendance being the largest and the most remark able of the sort on record. The great Garden wae positively crowded with peo ple, many of such quality that one New York paper which makes a specialty of printing lists of the social elect on all possible occasions gave up columns of its space to their names. Harry Payne Whitney bought In some of the horses Hamburg for $70,000 among them but for the most part the sale was unreserved. All the horses sold were ot high grade, and' some hundreds of thousands of dol lars were realised, quite enough to be considered a fortune by the ordinary man. William C. Whitney was by no means lacking In affection for his younger son. but there is no doubt that there was a peculiar bond between the father and the older eon. William C. had great ambi tions for Harry Payne, being desirous that he should follow In his own foot steps as far as they went, and go fur ther. Harry Payne Whitney was there fore subjected to special training. Like his father like the Whltneys of that family ever since Revolutionary days he was sent o Yale. Eli Whitney,- the inventor of the cotton gin. was an ances tor of Harry Payne Whitney, by the way, and he earned bis way through Yale mak ing wrought nails by hand and by teach ing. , Harry Payne Whitney, like his father, too, was a member of Skull and Bones, one of the two or three most ex clusive secret societies at Yale. Like his father also, the young man studied law after taking his collegiate degree, and later was admitted to the bar, though he has never practiced. Neither has he ever taken an active part in politics, much as his father evi dently desired it, though he Joined the Democratic Club before his father's death. Eight years -after. William C. Whitney was graduated from Yale he was in poli tics up to hts shoulders, and it was through his activities in public life quite as much as his legal practice that he laid the foundation of his fortune of millions. William C. Whitney's elder son is. how ever, very much Interested In racing, as his father hoped he would be, though by no means the figure on the turf that his father was. Payne Whitney, the younger son, has signalized himself more by buying up the eld Long Island village of Mannaesett in order to create a great estate than by anything else. He began In 1903, and had a- hard time getting all the property he wanted, but he finally succeeded, and his country seat is now one' of the show places among the magnificent estates of Long Island. For a time he was some what unpopular with the villagers and his other rural neighbors, but he has since overcome most of the antagonism shown toward him at the first. His treatment of the village boys was perhaps the strongest card he played while trying to win the good will of their fathers and mothers. Soon after his pur chases had included the field on which the boys were in the habit of playing ball on Saturday afternoons, the boys, unmindful of the change of ownership, rallied as usual to have a game, when young Whitney's superintendent ordered them off. They went, but they were sore. As they were going they met Whitney In an auto mobile. Forming themselves In a line which reached entirely across the street, they brought him to a halt. "What's up, boys?" the . proprietor asked. "We've been playing on those grounds for many years ever since I was a kid," replied the 14-year-old captain, "and we don't like to be ordered off." Whitney looked at the matter through the boys' eyes and saw to if that they were allowed to use the grounds as before. Later he bought new uniforms for them. Fonder hopes are built upon no son of a millionaire than those which are found ed upon Roland Harriman, son of E. H. Harrlman, now a sturdy, wholesome lad in his early 'teens. This boy is clean-cut and alert," and as keen a lover of horses as his railroad em peror father. He has his own hunger, of which he is inordinately fond and un der his-father's direction is becoming a thorough horseman. It is said to be his father's ambition, and that of the boy as well, that he shall by and by be master of the -fox hounds in some .of the swell and famous hunt clubs near New York. It is likely that the father also hopes to train up the son to take charge of the Harriman interestsln time, but the. date of his succession as ruler of the Southern Pacific and allied roads is necessarily; far away. ,, Waldorf Astor, latest scion of. the enor mously rich family founded by the Ger man fur dealer who landed on American soil about a century and a quarter aaro to occupy a place in the eye of the world. Is devoted neither to sports nor business. He owes most of his recent -prominence to his marriage with the sister-in-law of Charles Dana Gibson, the Illustrator, which displeased his ' father mightily. However, young Astor seems a fairly good sort. At all events, he has refused to follow " his father In renouncing hts American citizenship. John Jacob Astor's son of the same name is only a lad. Some of the big publishers' sons have done well, others not; The younger Dodd. of Dodd, Mead & Co.. is now at the head of the business. Charles Scribner's sons are carrying on the publishing house founded by their father. Edward L. Bur Hngame, editor of Scribner's Magazine. Is the' son of Anson Burlingame, whe was the first United States Minister to China, 43 man, the Australian long-distance swim mer,, who, though only a girl of 20, ia one of the greatest swimmers in the world today; male or female. She leaped . into the turbulent waters Just about one year ago, July 25, 1905; and was accompanied by Edward Heaton. of Liverpool. After six hours of the hardest kind of swimming, and a record of one-third of the distance covered, Hoaton collapsed, but Miss Kellermart refused to yields' and maintained her battle with the waves. Finally she too was forced to' give up. but not until she had gone a mile further than her companion. . Miss Kellerman already has a record swim of 20 miles between Ramsgate and Dover, covering it In four hours and 28 minutes. ' J Glover is counting on the aid of a new preparation he has Invented, which,' ap plied to the skin, will prevent' the Irrita tion, that comes from the long immersion In ealt water. ; He also has a new set of goggles that keeps the .-water absolutely out, of! ther eyes. ' ' In his long swim to Chester, Pa.,1 fiver years ago, Kistler was very poorly guided, and had to swim pretty nearly double the distance. In that test he "displayed the kind of grit that marks the successful long-distance swimmer. . ; He is confident of success. So Is Glover. I With Holbein still a candidate, the laurels that Webb has so long worn seem tp be In danger for sure this Summer. ' -i Robert J. Collier, son of P. F. Collier,, the publisher, figured quite recently in the news through a report that one of his eyes had been knocked out by Harry Payne Whitney in a game of polo. Youngi Collier did suffer a mighty whack, but; he didn't lose an eye. He is a good deaLj of a polo-player and ioxhunter, but by no means the equal of his father In these sports. Robert J. Collier is a grandson-a in-law . of Mrs. Astor, having marrledil Sarah ' Stewarty Van Alen, daughter of James J. Van Alen, some four or ' flve4 years ago. He is very active In the pub- lishlng business, and it was on his initial, tive that the recent crusade against Colo nel Mann's notorious Town Topics, whlcht. was followed by the Mann libel suit and. the proceedings to oust Justice Deuel tromw the bench, was begun. Town Topics, however, is still being issued repularly. , DEXTER MARSHALL. . ,- ! Wbea Nature LnoKhg la WalloWa. f Chieftain. - ' V How exquisitely lovely Is this vernal season! The trees are heavy with verdure. Mrs. Terra FIrma's bosom is richly car peted with green, the roosters blow their trumpets from morn till night, the feath ered vocalists carol their little solos upon, every bough. All nature grins. Including you and us. The Cowpuncher's Elegy. Tt ridden nigh a thousand league -upon two bands of steel, , And It takes a grizzled Westerner to know Just how I fel; The ranches dot the strongholds of the old-time saddle men, , And the slory of the cattle days can ne'er come hack again. Oh, the creak of saddle leather! Oh, the sting of upland weather! When the cowmen roamed the foothills and drove in ten thousand steers; Through the years, back in rthe dreaming. I can see the camp fires gleaming. And the lowing of the night herd sound!, all faintly, In my earn.' ; There's a checkerboard of fences oh the vast and windswept range. And the haystacks and the -windmills make - the landscape new and strange; And the plains are full of farmers, with. their harrows and their plows; On the roadsides loiter kidlets who are "driving home the cows!" Oh, the quickly faded glory Of the cowboy's brief, brief ntoryl How the old range beckons vainly in the sunshine and the rain. Oh, the reek of round-up battle, And the thund'Hng hoofs of cattle I But why dream a useless day dream that can only give one pain? Where have gone those trails historic, -where the herders sought the mart? Where have gone the saucy cow town, where " - the gun man played his- part? Where has gone -tne Cattle Kingdom with. Us armed, heroic strife? Each hss vanished like a bubble that has lived Its little life. Oh, the spurs we set a-Jlngling, And the blood that went a-tlngllng. When we rode forth in the morning, chaps clad knights in cavalcade; And the menVrles that come trooping. And the spirits, sad and drooping, When the cowman looks about him at the havoc Time harf made. -Daavar '7"- .