Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — BUY PRIVATE CARS [ARTICLE]

BUY PRIVATE CARS

Railroad Men Say That the Number Sold Sets a Record. $30,000 COST Of VAGABONDS Never In History of Overland Railroads Have Women Dealt So Extensively In Chartering and Purchase of Conveyances. Mrs. George de Long, the former Mrs. Richard Lounsberry, and one of the wealthy children of the late James B. Haggin, has bought for $30,000 the new private car, Vagabondla, in which she and her husband and former private secretary, George de Long, are finishing their honeymoon, San Francisco Bulletin states. A payment by checks of De Long through the local Haggin people for a bill of repairs gave the first inkling of the purchase, and gift, all of which is causing railroad officials to voice this interesting opinion: “Never in the history of the overland railroads have women dealt so extensively in chartering and buying private cars as is the case right now.” And they are pointing out that of 38 private cars on the three roads in this state during a recent week almost half of them are either chartered or owne<jl by women. Mrs. M. H. de Young of San Francisco, who is not in good health, has been Quietly traveling over the state in thQuprivate car Mlshowake, which she chartered from its owner, Mrs. Jennie Whitman of New York and'San Francisco. Mrs. J. A. Edson of Kansas City, Mrs. E. 8. Moore of Boston, Mrs. J. Hobart Moore of Chicago, Mrs. George Widener of New.. York and Philadelphia. Mrs. H. E. Huntington of New York and Los Angeles and Mrs. R. E. Hopkins of Boston are other women using private cars In the state, Mrs. Edson, who is the wife of the

president of the Kansas City Southern railroad, owns her car. So does Mrs. H. E. Huntington and Mrs. George Widener, whose mother, Mrs. Sloane, is a daughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt, the head of the second generation of that New York family, a Both Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Huntington have private cars which are equipped with motors. Another California woman who owns this kind of car is Mrs. A. K. Macomber of Burlingame, heiress to a Standard Oil fortune. Mrs. Francis Caroian of Burlingame, a daughter of the house of Pullman of Chicago, and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. Jr., of New York, almost head the list; of women tn this country who pay out tpuch money in chartering privates cars. , Mrs. Caroian enjoys the unique distinction of being the only person in the country who refused a gift of one of the cars. She was once offered her pick of several of them by George M. Pullman, her father.